Alright Sabre foregoing lightning wielding sith who throw their Sabres strategically then!
Hermit: Monster Killer (2016) IMDB
A hilarious monster flick made on Sweden. With incredible special effects and a great performance by Borje Lundberg.
It’s in Swedish, so you need to find the subtitles in English.
Haven’t watched it in years but it’s a classic everyone should watch, absolutely gut wrenching. Some of it was later used in a Metallica music video bringing it back to notoriety somewhat.
La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia
The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death.
Lost Highway (1997) wikipedia
A David Lynch film. I’ve not seen his 90s films but always meant to. After hearing of his illness, I figure now is as good a time as any
Meet the Feebles (wikipedia)
Released in 1989, this is an early-ish Peter Jackson movie (yes, the LOTR guy).
It’s a lurid and disturbing backstage comedy of a troupe similar to The Muppet Show.
I watched it with one friend in the mid 90s who, when it ended, stood, turned to me, and said “It is possible to go too far” before leaving the room.
The Cremaster Cycle (wikipedia)
This is probably as pretentiously art house as you can get … I’ve never seen it but always meant to. It’s probably hard to get a hold of … but I’m putting it here anyway
Blade (1998)
Various things have reminded me of this … it came up in a community episode, the MCU version in development hell etc … thought it might be interesting to revisit as a flavour that the MCU has definitely not explored
Dredd (2012)
“One of my favorite action movies”
Sneakers
A ‘hacking’ movie that holds up brilliantly despite outdated technology. Excellent cast, characters, story, and pacing IMO.
Excellent suggestion!!
Thanks so much for the suggestions! I was worried no one would be into this “fringe” idea!!
2013 and 2017 seemed particularly bad …
From box office mojo, the listings were (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2013/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses)
2017
2013
Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.
entering data is beautiful mode …
It’s not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.
It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that’d probably work too, but it wouldn’t be as aesthetically pleasing.
Furiosa
Maybe controversial, depending on who you talk to I suppose. It’s no Fury Road, at all. But it’s in the same world and it’s a good film. I’d imagine following with Fury Road directly after works quite well as a pairing
I didn’t know Scott teased about the directors cut, but watching it I could quickly tell there would be one and Scott also knew there’d be one while he was editing the main release. The feel of the film had a “fine, well cut it short“ vibe all over it.