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Primer, if you like hard sci-fi. It’s an indie movie about time travel, and it’s got perhaps the most fleshed out time travel mechanic out of all movies I’ve seen. Last I checked, the director posted the full movie on YouTube for free
For some thing new, I loved Common Side Effects.
- Kevin Spencer
- Bromwell High
Letterkenny! The humour takes a few episodes for you to understand, but it’s absurd sort of in the Seinfeld way but way more subtle.
What We Do In The Shadows is HILARIOUS.
Spaceballs
Firefly - warning, only one season, 1 movie, and a short stack of comics.
Young Justice - The side kicks form their own team. Starts off strong but by season four it’s kind of meh.
Fubar - cia spy show starring Arnold S.
Invincible - Violent cartoon, good writing.
Severance - It’s a weird mind fuck.
X-Men 97 - Far better than the original series.
Brooklyn Nine Nine if you want a comedy cop show.
Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirits):
A spear-wielding badass protects a young prince after being hired by his mother to be his bodyguard. It’s a beautiful character-driven fantasy anime that really delivers on the dramatic punches.
Monkey Man:
Dev Patel’s modern down to earth retelling of the Hanuman myths. Folks dismiss it as a John Wick clone, but it really is so much more than that.
Farscape.
The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Great Bill Murray movie that I never see anyone talk about.
Twelve Angry Men. I like the original black and white version, haven’t watched the remake.
Speed Racer
Good Place
I saw Speed Racer after someone recommended it here on Lemmy. They said it was the best movie ever.
I thought it freaking sucked ass. Took me like five attempts to finish it. I got bored and watched something else 4 times before I could finish it.
It was so weird. The plot was just much too basic. Old story, told a thousand times, predictable and boring af. Special effects were (intentionally) poor and too zoomed in and shaky.
They made everything in focus, nothing was out of focus. I think this was a choice of the Wachowskis’, but it made for some weird-looking things sometimes.
All the racing was too busy, with camera switches that were much too frequent. Gave me a headache. And I’m used to watching quick switching content. There was just too much color and nothing on focus and too quick. It was a bold choice but it backfired in my opinion.
My two cents, I’m ready for the down votes. 😅
Devil’s plan
Mr. Robot
These are all contemporary turn-of-the-century comedy TV series where each pairing shares at least one cast member:
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Spaced - You’d probably want to be reasonably familiar with UK pop culture of the time to truly appreciate it, but it’s still somewhat entertaining even without that.
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Black Books - Sister series to Spaced. Probably not in the same universe, but shares some of the same cast. A bit more surreal and doesn’t require so much pop culture knowledge.
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Green Wing - Turn the surrealism up yet another notch, add in a teaspoon of darkness, then set it in a hospital.
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JAM - Turn the surrealism dial fully around to the black setting, to the point of being outright disturbing and wrong.
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Big Train - Turn that dial back into silly and relatively light hearted… though you can tell there’s something a bit troubling going on at the same time.
Outside that stable, but you may have watched:
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Babylon 5 - Top rated sci-fi. Some episodes can be a bit meh, but the ones that aren’t are amazing.
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The Animatrix - Apocryphal short animations of various stories set in the universe of The Matrix, which you might want to rewatch first.
Yes, I have been under a rock since the turn of the century. I like it under here.
Jam is a great shout (as are the others!). Such a messed up show.
Could maybe throw in The Day Today and BrassEye as well.
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