Top films (with equal votes) are:
- 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.
But please see the voting post for the full list of films nominated, you may find something new and interesting there).
If I were forced to break the tie I'd select Lynch's Lost Highway just because it's likely confirmed recently we'll never see a new Lynch film and it feels appropriate to revisit one of his works that many of us have probably not seen.
But having a "popular winner" is antithetical to the spirit of this club, instead these are all likely worth watching!
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Please watch as you wish, provide any tips on where to find these films if you can, and discuss how you found the films in the community!
Compared to the "popcorn theatre" I don't think it makes as much sense to have any live watch sessions, in part because getting more niche films can be trickier but also because I'm the kind of person that likes to watch niche films when I'm in the mood. But maybe that's just me! Let me know if you have any thoughts/feedback!
Dredd (2012) is our winning film this month (see voting post here).
Please treat this as discussion thread for the film ... or if you like, write up your own posts about it in the community!
Also, if you have any tips on where to get it, please feel free to share (I'll probably add them to the top post).
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Personally, I've seen this one a few times, I even saw it on my birthday the year it came out as a present to myself!
And if you don't know, it was written by Alex Garland (and partly directed by him too) ... right before he did Ex Machina and Annihilation, and of course the same person behind Civil War. But sadly, it didn't perform well at the box office, though it probably should have ... very well done lower budget action IMO.
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As with last month, I'll put up "live watch" threads here, scheduled for 7pm Sunday, 1st July, in
- CT "Central Time" (USA), and
- CEST "Central Euro Summer Time",
It's still a bit of an experiment, so do please check in if you can or provide any feedback on the whole live watch thing.
The basic idea is to start the film at 7pm as well as you can and casually chat, while avoiding the hassle of any synchronized stream. For which Lemmy's "chat" view now works (since v 19.3 or 19.5)
That being said, if anyone else would like to run a synchronized live stream, please go ahead and advertise in this community!
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Honourable Mentions
only one real honourable mention this time, and it is truly a classic film too IMO:
Sneakers
- It got nearly as many votes as Dredd.
- And it is a classic ... if you haven't seen it, do you self a favour and check it out. It's technically a hacking film from 1992, but the parts of hacking that it focuses one have aged very well.
Ha.
It’s funny, I like wheel of time. The show got me to read the books … and I noped out of them half way through book 4 … but will happily continue to watch the show.
Yea … probably more hyped for this than I ever was for rings of power.
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
Upvote the film you'd like to watch the most in the comments below!
Nominations are in for August's Fedi Film Club - Fringe Threatre (see nominations post here).
This was a bit of an experiment and it was very cool to see all of these suggestions! Plenty of films I don't know anything about!
Given that fringe (or arthouse or whatever) films have a different feel and aren't as conducive to a popularity vote and an online live watch session, I say we play this by ear. At the least I'm happy to treat this as a running list of recommendations which those of us that are interested can work through, discussing as we go, and at the most we work through it together with a live watch session.
Either way ... please vote if you like and share any thoughts or further suggestions you have about these films.
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Each one in is a separate comment below, which you can upvote.
And, for clarity, they're also in the list below, in alphabetical order.
If you have any handy tips on the best way to get a hold of any of these, please share! Note though that the high seas in general are likely are well known option.
- Hermit: Monster Killer (2016) IMDB
- Johnny got his gun.
- La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia
- Lost Highway (1997) wikipedia
- Meet the Feebles (wikipedia)
- The Cremaster Cycle (wikipedia)
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And of course, the main point of all this is to crowd-source human curated film recommendations. I'll definitely want to watch more than one of these and encourage the same!
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EDIT: As for watching together at the end of the month:
- If anyone is up to setting up one of those online live watch things ... please feel free to run it and we'll promote it here.
- Otherwise, I'll keep going with what I tried last month: Live discussion threads in three different timezones scheduled for a weekend watch, or any other time people would find more convenient ... where you can start the film yourself at home, at the scheduled time and engage in live-discussion in the thread.
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.
Upvote the film you'd like to watch the most in the comments below!
Nominations are in for August's Fedi Film Club - Popcorn Threatre (see nominations post here).
Not too many nominations this time (just 3 ... did people find the name "popcorn threatre" offensive of confusing?)
But it's a nice trio of films ... Honestly, I would enjoy watching them all on a nice Saturday marathon!
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Each one in is a separate comment below, which you can upvote.
And, for clarity, they're also in the list below, in alphabetical order.
If you have any handy tips on the best way to get a hold of any of these, please share! Note though that the high seas in general are likely are well known option.
- Blade (1998)
- Dredd (2012)
- Sneakers (1992)
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And of course, the main point of all this is to crowd-source human curated film recommendations. I'll definitely want to watch more than one of these and encourage the same!
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EDIT: As for watching together at the end of the month:
- If anyone is up to setting up one of those online live watch things ... please feel free to run it and we'll promote it here.
- Otherwise, I'll keep going with what I tried last month: Live discussion threads in three different timezones scheduled for a weekend watch, or any other time people would find more convenient ... where you can start the film yourself at home, at the scheduled time and engage in live-discussion in the thread.
And what about the people that suck at working at the office? And those that don’t get any or are not interested in a work based social life?
Reality is that there’s diversity and lots of in betweens. Thus diversity and flexibility and the value of managers in bringing it all together (like maybe they were always supposed to?)
Yea I realised a while ago that time just stopped passing for me around 2018 ... everything's just a blur since then.
Thanks so much for the suggestions! I was worried no one would be into this "fringe" idea!!
Thanks for the suggestion! I was worried no one would be into this "fringe" idea!!
Please nominate a film for August's "Fedi Film Club"!
This is the "Fringe Theater" ... for weird, niche films, unknown classics and pioneering statements. If you've got more "popcorn" or popular films in mind, you should check out the "Popcorn Theater" post.
Anything that either you'd like to watch or would recommend to the community!
Please make sure it's more than roughly two years old so that it will (hopefully) be available somewhere.
And if possible, provide a quick description for why you'd like to watch or why you suggest it.
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- See the July's Nominations and the introductory post for "Fedi Film Club".
- We'll take a vote on the suggestions in about a week's time after this. Then we can watch and discuss.
- If you're keen to host a live watch & chat, let us know and we'll help notify others.
Please nominate a film for August's "Fedi Film Club"!
This is the "Popcorn Theater" ... for fun, popular films, box office hits and blockbusters. If you've got more "fringe" films in mind, you should check out the "Fringe Theater" post.
Anything that either you'd like to watch or would recommend to the community!
Please make sure it's more than roughly two years old so that it will (hopefully) be available somewhere.
And if possible, provide a quick description for why you'd like to watch or why you suggest it.
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- See the July's Nominations and the introductory post for "Fedi Film Club".
- We'll take a vote on the suggestions in about a week's time after this. Then we can watch and discuss.
- If you're keen to host a live watch & chat, let us know and we'll help notify others.
It appears to be on Disney+ AFAICT (I'm not subscribed).
and lacks subtitles.
This I suspect is an underappreciated aspect of the dynamics at the moment. More broadly, it's about the personalisation of the watching experience. Screen size, seating/lying position, noise and brightness, subtitles and their language, audio configuration (where you can optimise your home set up to help with dialogue clarity or "epicness")
2013 and 2017 seemed particularly bad ...
From box office mojo, the listings were (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2013/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses)
2017
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
- Beauty and the Beast
- Wonder Woman
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- It
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Despicable Me 3
- Logan
- The Fate of the Furious
2013
- Iron Man 3
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Despicable Me 2
- Man of Steel
- Monsters University
- Frozen
- Gravity
- Fast & Furious 6
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- Star Trek Into Darkness
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.
