Average Lemmy enjoyer:

[The Silence of the Lambs] stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. ...

The Silence of the Lambs was a sleeper hit that gradually gained widespread success and critical acclaim.[63] Foster, Hopkins, and Levine garnered much acclaim for their performances. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 95% of 153 film critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 8.80/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Director Jonathan Demme's smart, taut thriller teeters on the edge between psychological study and all-out horror, and benefits greatly from stellar performances by Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster."[64] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, based on 20 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[65] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[66] ...

The film won the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Demme), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally), making it only the third film in history to accomplish that feat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)

This movie's got a minimal plot and theme, it's mostly just a series of fight scenes. And the fight scenes have good and bad points. On the good side, the main actors are legit traditional karate experts so their movements and attacks all look good. On the meh side, the fight scenes are the sort where the bad guys attack one at a time and a single hit from a skinny schoolgirl will knock them out for several minutes. On the bad side, the movie does this thing where every so often an "instant replay" will show the most recent hit again. It's not even from a different angle ~~or in slow motion~~, it's just... the same thing again.

Overall, it's worth watching if you're into karate or low-budget martial arts films. It's available in a couple different languages:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOkt1cEPGPE (Japanese dub, English subs, 1080p) this is the link from above
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCjev8Ta_vs (Japanese dub, no subs, 240p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrhRCjYRcI (Japanese dub, Indonesian subs, 1080p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCyHhmud7JY (Russian voice-over, 360p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGPFxEh3CI (Hindi dub, 360p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBTQlNAZVjw (another Hindi dub, 480p)

More info:

• replace “www.youtube.com” with “redirect.invidious.io” to find an Invidious interface
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1406157/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Kick_Girl!

The Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is a 2002 English-language French action film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.

The film was inspired by the short film series The Hire. It is the first installment in the Transporter franchise and stars Jason Statham, alongside Shu Qi, François Berléand, Matt Schulze, and Ric Young.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transporter

This is a war film about an operation gone wrong, leading to an urban battle between US forces and Somali militia fighters. The version above has subtitles in what looks like Arabic.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej71wB5GDWU (English dub, Arabic subs 360p) this is the version from above
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPv4FNrflg8 (French dub, 360p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnrJA-ZkMw8 (Spanish dub, 720p)

More info:

• replace "www.youtube.com" with "redirect.invidious.io" to find an Invidious interface
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_Down_(film)

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This movie went straight-to-DVD, and... yeah, it's pretty bad. The acting is terrible, the fight scenes suck, and the special effects are very limited. But it does have a couple 80s New Wave musicians, like Martin Kemp (bassist from Spandau Ballet), Adam Ant, and Grace Jones. Also, Robert "Airplane!" Hays is the bad guy, James Hong (Mr Ping from Kung Fu Panda) has a role, and there are rebels that use Mac Pluses and those enormous IBM Model M keyboards. So if you expect something cheesy, it can be entertaining.

• find an Invidious interface: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=kdYo_W4G3Hw
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112761/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Bandits

This is the Spanish version of Hard Times, one of the best films of 70s tough-guy movie star Charles Bronson. No English version available, sorry!

Hard Times es una película protagonizada por Charles Bronson y James Coburn. Fue dirigida por Walter Hill y estrenada en el año 1975.

Son los años de la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos, y un experto en peleas a puño limpio llega a la ciudad de Nueva Orleans. Su nombre es Chaney (Bronson), y a pesar de su apariencia avejentada y su personalidad enigmática, derrota a cualquier rival que se le ponga en enfrente, aunque con el apoyo de Speedy (Coburn), un oportunista promotor de luchadores callejeros. Sin embargo, Speedy llega a meterse en problemas debido a deudas pasadas...

La película tiene una calificación reciente del 92% en el sitio web de agregación de reseñas de películas Rotten Tomatoes basado en 12 reseñas de críticos.

Pauline Kael calificó el escenario de Tiempos difíciles como "recreaciones de época elaboradas que casi parecen estar allí por su propio bien". La película trata sobre las personalidades de los luchadores callejeros y sus agentes, personas al margen de la sociedad. Por otro lado, poner la película en la Depresión podría haber sido una forma de que Hill hiciera de Chaney un personaje más comprensivo. Kael explica: "Ponle [a Charles Bronson] con ropa moderna y es un tipo duro y duro, pero con esa gorra es uno de los desposeídos, un hombre honesto que conoce el hambre".

Roger Ebert, en su reseña de Hard Times del 14 de octubre de 1975 en el Chicago Sun-Times, la consideró "una película poderosa y brutal que contiene una interpretación definitiva de Charles Bronson".

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(pel%C3%ADcula_de_1975)

5 Years after the events of College Life Atlanta, Zach, Wood, and Sam are all 5th year seniors for different reasons. Obstacles stand in each friends way, but they do their best to band together so they can all walk across the graduation stage together.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16380036/

Space Command is Marc Zicree's hopeful vision of the future, an epic space-going saga featuring Walking Dead's Ethan McDowell, Star Trek Discovery's Doug Jones, Star Trek Voyager's Robert Picardo, and Babylon 5's Mira Furlan, Bruce Boxleitner and Bill Mumy.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/space_command_redemption

33% of Rotten Tomatoes

Jumanji: The Next Level is a 2019 American adventure comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg.

The film is the fourth installment in the Jumanji film series and the sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Ser'Darius Blain, and Madison Iseman reprise their roles from the previous film while Awkwafina, Danny Glover, and Danny DeVito join the cast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji%3A_The_Next_Level

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Big Trouble in Little China (also in known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American fantasy martial arts action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong.

The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trouble_in_Little_China

This movie needs no introduction, so I'm just going to put this here:

Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_film)

I'm trying to improve my Spanish, and came across the Spanish version of Naked Lunch, which is a Cronenberg film about/adapting the book by William S Burroughs. The movie's pretty good, and the soundtrack's excellent. Couldn't find an English version, disculpe!

Naked Lunch es una película canadiense de misterio-fantástica y drama de 1991 escrita y dirigida por David Cronenberg y basada en la novela homónima de William S. Burroughs. Está protagonizada por Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands y Roy Scheider y ha sido galardonada con varios premios cinematográficos canadienses e internacionales. En la actualidad está considerada como una película de culto.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch_(pel%C3%ADcula)

Descubre un versión de Invidious: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Q2oCK1gbCQI

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17201791

John Carpenter's inspiration for Big Trouble in Little China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zu_Warriors_from_the_Magic_Mountain

Bird Box is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror thriller film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 2014 novel by Josh Malerman. The film follows the character Malorie Hayes, played by Sandra Bullock, as she tries to protect herself and two children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Box_(film)

Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. The film was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sebastian Gutierrez and follows the events of dozens of venomous snakes being released on a passenger plane in an attempt to kill a trial witness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane

Five mercenaries travel to an uncharted planet in search of a rare mineral that could replenish Earth's dying sun. They encounter a creature that is far more dangerous than anything they've ever seen before.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dawnseeker

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (titled onscreen as simply Glass Onion) is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Johnson and Ram Bergman.

It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, and the second installment in Knives Out film series.

The movie stars Daniel Craig reprising his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case revolving around tech billionaire Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton) and his closest friends. The ensemble cast also includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Onion:_A_Knives_Out_Mystery

Hey, community guidelines say we can post dailymotion videos here! Good thing too, because this is a good one.

Even if you don't like lawyers, even if you don't like the military, even if you don't like Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore, this movie is still worth watching. That's because the dialogue is solid. Probably because it started out as a play, and therefore doesn't rely on stunts or action or even great cinematography. If you've already seen it, watch it again, and try to see if you can find even one line of dialogue that you could remove, that would make things better. It's tough. Because every line belongs there. That's the truth... even if "you can't handle" it!

The plot follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men

Not the Sean Penn movie.

A contaminated man (Wings Hauser) is hired to rescue a big shot's kidnapped daughter (Pamela Ludwig) in the post-plague future.

Hamlet with beer

Such a lovely film by Kiarostami.

This movie explains the human condition with all the candor of a much-upvoted shitpost, and all the beauty of a classical painting. The final scene perfectly depicts our contemporary global situation.

[An] epic historical drama film produced, written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. ... Aguirre opened to widespread critical acclaim, and quickly developed a large international cult film following. It was given an extensive arthouse theatrical release in the United States in 1977, and remains one of the director's best-known films. Several critics have declared the film a masterpiece, and it has appeared on Time magazine's list of "All Time 100 Best Films".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God

FUN FACT: the movie was originally shot with the actors speaking in English, since it was the only language that everyone in the cast knew. But the funds to do the original post-sync were stolen, and they ended up dubbing it again in German.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOCyVeRmjo (German dub with English subtitles, 360p, this is the link from above)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2tooYxicE (English dub, 720p, lacks subtitles on the introductory German text)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3E9mPnz_Y (Spanish dub, no subtitles, 360p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqScvdIADmk (another Spanish dub, no subtitles, 360p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2iXtLQHjFU (German dub, Spanish subtitles, 720p, subtitles are timed a second too soon)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3eZtnz7Bs (German dub, no subtitles, 360p, sound is a bit low)
• to find an invidious version of any of the above, replace "www.youtube.com" with "redirect.invidious.io"

The film's reputation through the years has continued to grow. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 50 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "A haunting journey of natural wonder and tangible danger, Aguirre transcends epic genre trappings and becomes mythological by its own right."[28]

J. Hoberman has written that Aguirre "is not just a great movie but an essential one ... Herzog's third feature ... is both a landmark film and a magnificent social metaphor".[29] Danny Peary wrote, "To see Aguirre for the first time is to discover a genuine masterpiece. It is overwhelming, spellbinding; at first dreamlike, and then hallucinatory."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God

Not quite as charming as the first one, but not really terrible either.

Van Damme isn't in this one, but "Ray Jackson" is back, and many of the other actors are somewhat recognizeable from other films. (i.e. the main guy was in a John Wick and a Matrix; the wise sage character does the voice of the noodle selling bird in Kung Fu Panda, etc.) and they are joined by Pat "Mr Miyagi" Morita. Also once they get to the kumite, there are a bunch of different martial artists like kung fu and muay thai fighters, a judoka, a capoeira guy, etc. There's a framing story which is right on the line between cringe and camp, and indeed the seriousness with which you take this movie is inversely proportional to how enjoyable you'll find it. Meaning: turn your brain off and it's pretty fun.

• Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw9Vjm_S6Gg
• find an invidious instance; https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Cw9Vjm_S6Gg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodsport_II:_The_Next_Kumite

Swiss Army Man is a 2016 American surrealist comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_Man

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American gothic romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. It was produced by Burton and Denise Di Novi, written by Caroline Thompson from a story by her and Burton, and starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, and Alan Arkin.

It tells the story of an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands that is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Scissorhands