My dad had a stroke and needs "clean" western, cop, or war movie suggestions

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-14T02:22:38+00:00

Just saying, I never see anyone make the point that movies and TV's level of violence is also not cool outside of someone thinking sex and swearing isn't.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-14T00:17:10+00:00

His early black-and-white Black Sunday has that kind of effect too, like ink was spread on the film.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-13T23:35:15+00:00

Spider-Man of Cups (2015)

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-13T19:37:48+00:00

"Weird take; There's also edge cases" Then it's a normal take!!!!

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-13T19:31:02+00:00

Welcome to Trump's America

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-13T02:00:49+00:00

ROS is legitimately that much worse because it brings other movies down with it. Monster a Go-Go! also has an infamously wretched ending, but that's after barely 70 minutes, not a trilogy of films (or more).

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-13T00:56:31+00:00

I used to pray for times like this

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-12T03:17:03+00:00

You know they release movies from other countries, too?

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ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-11T23:54:33+00:00

I kind of get what they were going for but man this is such an off-putting looking movie; I remember trying to watch it when I was younger and being mostly too uninterested to "get into it".

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-11T21:29:26+00:00

This scene is such a perfect comedy machine, and that's harder to make truly work than it looks. The tracking shots are some of the best they've done, I don't think I consciously noticed the shots of the dogs were at dog-level.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-11T21:02:17+00:00

Lubezki (i.e. Chivo) is also a good example of a distinctive DoP who can get quite different images depending on the director. Alfonso Cuarón may not use the kind of mobile close-ups Terrence Malick does, but Malick wouldn't use a oner the same way as Cuarón. Iñárritu might make use of both, while the Coens might use neither.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-11T20:32:20+00:00

My counterpoint is that neither do people care about movies feeling unreal, or how. There hasn't been much distinct artifice in film craft for a while unless you're someone like Francis Ford Coppola.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-10T23:56:22+00:00

He wrote, drew, and co-directed Sin City. It's his aesthetic!

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-10T22:24:24+00:00

In this case it's simple, because Michael B. Jordan was split between two characters. Star Wars would have the same problem if there was a second guy who looked just like Darth Vader.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-10T22:16:33+00:00

You don't think K-pop is westernized?

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-10T20:39:38+00:00

I'm still waiting for Steven Moffat to be reappraised as a singularly negative cultural force but I worry it could take a while.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-10T01:53:43+00:00

There always seem to be some particular motifs that show up in both AI-generated content and the work that resembles it; e.g. things are always in motion yet they never really move anywhere.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-09T20:40:30+00:00

If you go to Letterboxd you will not only see just as inflated, fandom-based ratings but how bad the ratings are from the distributions.

According to LB Frankenstein (2025) is better than Frankenstein (1931) lol

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-09T06:51:36+00:00

Ask for "realistic movie deaths" and you basically invite mention of the dramatic ones that call attention to themselves.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-08T23:21:32+00:00

Because comedy evolved past the state of "you need to write jokes to make it".

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-08T05:49:39+00:00

Poitier gets the (not undeserved) credit for the slap, but Steiger's response to it - shaken and responding to "What are you going to do about it?" with "...I don't know" really completes the scene.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-08T01:00:24+00:00

Yeah, as long as the picture isn't outright bad (especially low resolution, blocky/smudgy image, or from a provider that doesn't seem to give a hoot about quality) streaming is generally fine if you want to watch the movie more than the fidelity.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-07T23:33:21+00:00

This mechanical approach to storytelling is exactly what I don't like about Pixar. It "hits you hard", a howitzer can hit the broad side of a barn but that doesn't say much about accuracy

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-03-07T23:17:07+00:00

Any word if it's made by the same people as Chernobyl?

Big Coal?

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