Average Lemmy enjoyer:

Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers, it's Christmas in July!

Die Hard follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife.

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

One of the reasons this movie has endured is because it's so well written. Exposition is handled smoothly (through various natural conversations), minor characters are personalized briefly and efficiently, and the suspense just doesn't let up.

Another reason is Alan Rickman.

Music's got me feeling so free.

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (インターステラ5555, Intāsutera Fō Faibu, "Four Five") is a 2003 anime musical science fiction film. The film tells the story of the abduction and rescue of an extraterrestrial pop band and serves as a visual companion to Discovery, Daft Punk's second studio album. The film was produced by Toei Animation, directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi and supervised by Leiji Matsumoto. The film's audio has no dialogue, but instead consists of the entirety of Discovery with minimal sound effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of_the_5ecret_5tar_5ystem

Eraserhead is a 1977 American independent surrealist psychological body horror film[3] written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians.

Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk.

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

The film stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a cynical exorcist with the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true forms and to travel between Earth and Hell. ...

While it received mixed reviews from film critics, it has since garnered a cult following in the years following its release.[10] In 2022, a sequel was announced and is currently in development.

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

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

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

Hamlet with beer

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

The Dark Crystal is a 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It stars the voices of Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw, Percy Edwards, and Barry Dennen.

The plot revolves around Jen and Kira, two Gelflings on a quest to restore balance to the world of Thra and overthrow the evil, ruling Skeksis by restoring a powerful broken Crystal.

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

Black Belt (2007), known as Kuro-obi (黒帯) in Japan, is a Japanese martial arts drama film directed by Shunichi Nagasaki. It focuses mainly on the martial art of Karate. It is notable for excluding the usual exaggerations of the genre. The lead roles were played by karate experts, and no special effects were used.[2][3] In the film, three students of an elderly karate master decides among themselves on who deserves their master's black belt. ... The events take place in 1932 in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in which the corrupt leaders of the Japanese army are trying to take over all the Karate dojos (a kind of training hall) for their own benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(2007_film)

The link above has the Japanese dub and English subtitles, but has an annoying watermark. If you want something else, here are your choices:

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuxami9vLt9F9_kycFa1XPTTQcMZ5qoem - English subtitles, no watermark, but broken into several smaller videos.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5UGm6GLKsg - Spanish subtitles
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejxzbsL7VlQ - Japanese dub, no subtitles
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RwGX0A7N50 - another Japanese dub, no subtitles
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNmNGqza6UU - portuguese dub? / vietnamese subtitles (click on "CC")
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50v9bPkUWvw - portuguese dub but potato quality (114p)
• If you want to watch Invidious versions of any of these links, just replace the string "www.youtube.com" with "invidious.fdn.fr"

Fun fact: the actors who play the three students are each an expert in a different karate tradition: Shotokan, Goju-Ryu, and Kyokushin.

This is one of those ~~Lifetime~~ CBS TV movies about all the terrible things that can happen to your kids. In this case, a sweet n innocent young girl from smalltown Kansas moves to wicked LA in the 80s because life back home is boring and she has way too many responsibilities. Naturally she is soon partying and doing... uh... "films." This would all be just kind of campy except that it's based on a true story and it doesn't end well.

• Invidious link: https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=CmNrp3kC3fQ
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Innocence

The Signal is a full mind bender of a movie. If you haven't seen it or heard of it, go in blind. It's not a pleasant movie but any means, but a fantastic independent psychological thriller. One of my favorites.

Movie synopsis

Two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise find themselves banned in Wisconsin. They are now headed for New Jersey where they find a loophole that can get them back into heaven. The only catch is that it will destroy humanity. A group bands together to stop them.

Because Harvey Weinstein's not only a creep but a total POS, there's no way to stream this movie on any streaming services and it's beyond Kevin Smith's control at this point. But it's definitely one of his funnier films though may not be everybody's cup of tea. But, if you like Kevin Smith, definitely watch this. Probably won't be up long but, who knows?

Yojimbo (Japanese: 用心棒, Hepburn: Yōjinbō, lit. 'Bodyguard') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers.

The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.

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

Absolutely Anything is a 2015 British science fantasy comedy film directed by Terry Jones, and written by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott. It stars Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, with the nonhuman characters' voices provided by John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jones, Michael Palin and Robin Williams.

It was the first movie to feature all living Monty Python members since Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), and the first without Graham Chapman, who died in 1989.

This was the last film directed, written by and starring Terry Jones, five years before his death in 2020.[5][6] It was also the last film with Robin Williams in the main cast, released a year after his death in 2014.

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

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. It is loosely based on the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye, Joanna Cassidy, and the voices of Charles Fleischer and an uncredited Kathleen Turner.

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

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, also known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman.

It is a live-action adaptation of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard Kipling. Unlike its counterparts, the animal characters in this film do not talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(1994_film)

SLC Punk! is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James Merendino. The film centers around Steven "Stevo" Levy, a college graduate and punk living in Salt Lake City during the mid-1980s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC_Punk!

Logan's Run is a 1976 American science fiction action film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, and Peter Ustinov.

It depicts a future society, on the surface a utopia, but soon revealed as a dystopia in which the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)

Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural.

In 1973, it won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.

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

The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and Franca Bettoia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)

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