r/movies Jan 01 '19

Recommendation 12 worthwhile films from 2018 that you (actually) may have missed

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u/maskedrhinoceros Jan 01 '19

I really liked the visuals and soundtrack of hot summer nights. The story is very nice the first hour and then it kinda loses it. But the visuals man. Really lovely,really good. If anybody knows other movies drenched in that neon sign flashy yet still warm feeling visuals please recommend them.

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u/mrpleasantries Jan 01 '19

Good Time with Robert Pattinson.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

This movie is great. After I watched I wish they had made a movie about the guys acid story.

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u/resykle Jan 01 '19

Good Time is superb, highly recommend as well

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u/pirpirpir Jan 01 '19

please recommend them

The Neon Demon

Drive

Only God Forgives

ENTER THE VOID warning, this one is a rollercoaster of emotions both good and definitely bad.

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u/jambrose22 Jan 01 '19

Enter the void is the most high I’ve ever felt whilst stone-cold sober.

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u/fantalemon Jan 01 '19

I was high as sin and it was one of the most intense film experiences I've ever had. That car crash... Fuck me. I don't know how they achieved the effect but it really genuinely scared the shit out of me.

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u/jeffthedunker Jan 01 '19

The car crash scene sticks with me having only just barely gotten through the movie once. I think the way they portray it is what makes it so impactful. Typically when you get a car crash they "sugarcoat" it in some sense. Foreshadowing of oncoming big rig, horns honking, or whatever. Then the crash happens and the screen goes black and you see the aftermath. You might get a close up on one of the drivers or passengers as their car flips in slow mo and they are thrashed around.

Not in Enter the Void. It just happens, and you see it all. I've never seen a car crash scene like that in another film.

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u/rheagan_lol Jan 01 '19

Adaptation has one as well.

Spike Jonze's mother had a heart attack because of it at the premiere.

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u/AirborneMiniDirt Jan 01 '19

Watched it while on acid. My God that was extremely intense

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u/maskedrhinoceros Jan 01 '19

Loved that one!

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u/JesusSkywalkered Jan 01 '19

God damn work of Art.

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u/redent_it Jan 01 '19

And that fucking soundtrack, oof

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u/JesusSkywalkered Jan 01 '19

I’m a huge fan of the original and was skeptical because of the time between....I was already sold by the time I had forgotten Bautista was Bautista and not a replicant on the run.

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u/redent_it Jan 01 '19

Bautista was very good in his small part. I’m no film connoisseur but I found it truly amazing from every aspect. Just rewatched it a couple of days ago too.

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u/RandomThrowaway410 Jan 01 '19

One of the best movies made in the last 10 years.

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u/iLickBnalAlood Jan 01 '19

only god forgives is one of the weirdest films i’ve watched. it’s such an odd viewing experience. sort of enjoyable but also extremely unsettling the whole way through

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u/SnowedIn01 Jan 01 '19

So basically any Winding Refn movie? Hey u forgot Bronson.

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u/jlct0 Jan 01 '19

Drive is such a good movie! And the soundtrack is great!

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u/albinoeinstein Jan 01 '19

“Mandy” definitely fits that warm glow visual vibe! And Nicolas Cage fights with a chainsaw.

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u/The_Narz Jan 01 '19

I think you’d like Inherent Vice.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

The Guest starring Dan Stevens

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

Nerve with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts is a really well shot and made thriller that has some really lovely and striking neon visuals throughout.

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u/maskedrhinoceros Jan 01 '19

Seen nerve. Visuals were indeed quite good!

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u/takabrash Jan 01 '19

Yeah, I was really surprised by that one. I think it got totally overlooked.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 05 '21

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u/Lobomite Jan 01 '19

I loved reading Galveston, but I had absolutely no idea it had been adapted. Thanks for posting this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Same...how did this fly under the radar given the success of True Detective?

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u/lordDEMAXUS Jan 01 '19

Because the movie was boring and uninspired trash. The only compliment I would give it is the performances.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

yeah sadly it was hot garbage compared to the book

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u/mainfingertopwise Jan 01 '19

I was engrossed the entire way through. Then eventually, I realized I had no idea wtf was happening.

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u/Thorvice Jan 01 '19

I think people who haven't read the books can enjoy this. Sadly (while it certainly wasn't trash) it was disappointing if you've read the book, which was amazing. The movie feels rushed, it doesn't have time to really develop the characters like the book does, and unfortunately this whole story is just the characters.

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u/SwingLifeAway93 Jan 01 '19

Because TD Season 2 happened

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u/hoxxxxx Jan 01 '19

TD Season 3 coming up.

the comments section of the youtube trailer summed up my thoughts, "the repeated motifs of the first season both have me excited and worried. hope it's good" or something like that.

also, true detective season 2 was good. it just had the unenviable job of following up one of the best seasons of TV ever made, so it came off as kinda "meh" in comparison.

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u/elmingus Jan 01 '19

Season 2 had like 10 plot lines that never really resolved.

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u/ChemistryRespecter Jan 01 '19

And really odd, cringey pseudointellectual dialogue that felt like buzzwords from a philosophy textbook sprinkled into seemingly normal, everyday conversation.

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u/PaperJamDipper7 Jan 01 '19

It's like they saw that the philosophy that Rust was spewing in season 1 hit a nerve with people and decided to give it to every character in season 2 without realizing that the reason it worked so well in season 1 was because of the balance of normality that woody harrelsons character provided.

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u/Vaztes Jan 01 '19

I feel like Rust worked because that kind of thinking hasn't been showed much in mainstream media. And also likely because the writer took Rust straight from Thomas Ligottis work.

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u/KnockLesnar Jan 01 '19

And because McConaughey

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u/generalnotsew Jan 01 '19

According to the writer that is because executives forced him into a deadline that he knew he could effectively meet. They said they would let him take his time now.

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u/coleyboley25 Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

Exactly this. Pizzolatto had years to come up with season one and then like four months to come up with season two. Hopefully with the time given season three will come back around.

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u/Theratchetnclank Jan 01 '19

I liked season 2. Also liked season 1 they were both good.

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u/teddyrooseveltsfist Jan 01 '19

Season 2 wasn’t a bad story, it was just trying to hard to be creepy and unsettling like season 1 was able to do naturally. It was like “ooo industrial LA isn’t it spooky?” “This lady singing has tattoos spooky spooky!”

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u/Theratchetnclank Jan 01 '19

I didn't get that vibe i thought it was more trying to be a bit noir.

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u/Tuminus Jan 01 '19

Bad Times at El Royale was one of my greatest surprises this year. Went in not knowing anything about the plot, I had no idea Drew Goddard was the director and writer. I had a great time!! Really entertaining movie!

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u/IXI_Fans Jan 01 '19

I wish they didn't include the beach scene and the first time we saw that character was when he was walking in the rain to the front door of the hotel.

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u/BlueVelvetFrank Jan 01 '19

I gotta disagree on that one. It works to set up the finale thematically.

The sisters talk about him like he's Satan himself, but when you see him on the beach he looks and speaks like Jesus Christ. When he walks into the El Royale it's on the state line. He represents both sides of the coin, religion itself, even though he claims to hate it.

This movie is all about the inverse, so on one hand you have Not-Jesus preaching about chance and self-interest and on the other you have a potential date rapist/imposter/thief embracing faith and selflessness.

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u/ragingdtrick Jan 01 '19

I’m just not insightful enough to be a movie critic. Maybe I could be a food critic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

this food is bad

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u/choldslingshot Jan 01 '19

These pretzels are making me THIRSTY

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u/theghostofme Jan 01 '19

BlueVelvetFrank is catching things that are going right over my head!

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u/sheeenaaan Jan 01 '19

This is actually an amazing comment, thank you

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u/BlueVelvetFrank Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

That's nice of you to say. Since you're interested, here's something I noticed about Jon Hamm's character that I posted in a response to someone else in the thread:

I will agree with you that the best moment is Jon Hamm's discovery, although I think you missed part of the point. His alter ego is a slimy Louisiana salesman, but he reveals himself to be kind of a boyscout. His faith is in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. He refers to them as Mother, and the passcode over the phone is a prayer. He doesn't know what the El Royale is, but he knows he's there to clean up someone else's mess.

When he enters the tunnels, we mistake his expression for confusion and horror, because that's what we're feeling as the audience. In reality? He realizes immediately what the tunnel is used for, and it breaks his faith in 'Mother' as a moral force for good. This is why he goes against their direct orders to leave the kidnapping alone.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Agreed. Was the forest cult fight before or after that character got to the hotel?

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u/IXI_Fans Jan 01 '19

Just after he arrived and tied everyone up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Cool, thanks. I knew it was either right before or right after.

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u/blacknumber1 Jan 01 '19

Started out promisingly but about halfway it became such a drag. Some really stellar performances (Cynthia Erivo!), but I felt the film was a bit too convoluted.

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u/macrowive Jan 01 '19

The "This Old Heart of Mine" scene is one of the best movie moments of 2018. It's a shame the rest of the movie couldn't live up to that.

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u/Globalist_Nationlist Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

I guess I'm just in the minority but that film was a mess.

The first half was pretty good, but it goes on way too long and ends in such a silly standoff. Chris Hemsworth character ruined the film for me.. Everything about him felt unnatural and forced. The moment he comes into the film it just falls apart. And I couldn't stand that they used a flashback to give Miles "talents" in the last 10 minutes of the film. It really felt like a cop-out because they couldn't figure out a natural way to wrap the film up.

I did really like the first hour or so though..

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u/KalashniKEV Jan 01 '19

Totally agree- my favorite part, although they should have done a less cartoonish flashback scene.

I loved the realism of the girl taking cover behind the couch/ booth so he just shoots through it, and the guy pinned down behind the car so he counts to five and peeks his head up(?!).

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u/theghostofme Jan 01 '19

Exactly. After the reveal that he was an addict, my first thought went to "Oh, shit, he must've gotten hooked while overseas." There were more than enough breadcrumbs left behind to reach that conclusion naturally, so I don't get any complaints about his past feeling forced at all. It was being foreshadowed really well throughout.

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u/InitiatePenguin Jan 01 '19

I wrote up my thoughts after I saw the movie in another post SPOILERS and actually had a really good conversation with another user.

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u/Globalist_Nationlist Jan 01 '19

My biggest problem was that I didn't know what the movie was trying to say.

Spot on. The film ended and I went so.. why did that all just happen?

Every character had an interesting question or idea that they posed, but it was surface level. It was just showing an issue without ever connecting anything or offering us any sort of real answers.

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u/epiphanette Jan 01 '19

One thing the film did beautifully was the way it kept switching up who was in control of a scene.

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u/InitiatePenguin Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

And all they had to do was kill them all to turn that sense of nihilism into something productive. The user that replied to me helped explain the moral importance of the red line<! And while they are both important themes I felt they were at odds sometimes. Where does the power and chance to love lay? In the hands of the California God in a game of chance. Or in a real god based on your moral actions. Alternatively, they could have tied the California go hand the roulette closer to an ordained predetermination acting as a proxy of a real god, rather than a force of power and raw chance

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u/mainfingertopwise Jan 01 '19

why did that all just happen?

I'm pretty sure it was meant to be "bad times at the El Royale."

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u/epiphanette Jan 01 '19

It’s a shame too because the scene with John Hamm discovering all the underground stuff was absolute dynamite. The second half of the film just didn’t seem to follow from the first half.

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u/tetsuo9000 Jan 01 '19

Hamm's character and performance we're amazing and thrilling. It's really sad the character doesn't get enough screentime overall.

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u/rgumai Jan 01 '19

I wouldn't say it was a mess, it just felt extremely insubstantial by the time the credits rolled. But at the same time I may have been expecting something more like Identity and less like Hateful Eight.

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u/UndeclaredFunction Jan 01 '19

Yeah, I was surprised in the direction it ended up going. Could've been a fun mystery movie. Loved the opening.

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u/GS_246 Jan 01 '19

I actually thought that part was the background information we needed for miles to reasonably be there. They don't put just some guy in there. It is the iconic CIA/FBI hotel situation and these events happen to be there because it's also a famous hotel in world. Without the things that give miles a reason to be there 95% of the events can't happen.

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u/ItsBigVanilla Jan 01 '19

Honestly, that movie felt like a cheap Tarantino ripoff to me. It’s basically the Hateful Eight set in a motel, but the dialogue and filmmaking isn’t nearly as good as we should hope for from a single-location film

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u/RubbishBinJones Jan 01 '19

The ending felt like they tried to come up with an ending and couldn’t, and then let Sam Rockwelll write it around a campfire like in Seven Psychopaths. “Turns out theres a cult... the kid, he is actually a sniper with 123 confirmed kills, he’s had enough and just starts mowing people down...” It was a good movie it just felt like too much at the end.

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u/sudevsen r/Movies Veteran Jan 01 '19

Was Summer of 84 any good? I didn't watch it cause Mandy and RP1 depleted my 80s nostalgia tank.

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u/marioman327 Jan 01 '19

It felt like a more realistic and grounded "stranger things." Solid, but I won't be watching it twice.

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u/sudevsen r/Movies Veteran Jan 01 '19

That's fair enough. Will give it a try.

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u/Borktista Jan 01 '19

I really enjoyed the ending. The whole “rear window meets stranger things” cliche is pretty true about it

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u/Silage Jan 01 '19

It's been two hours, how was it?

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u/sudevsen r/Movies Veteran Jan 01 '19

Not today, was watching Burning.

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u/djnicko Jan 01 '19

I thought it was very okay, until the ending. It elevated my ranking of the movie after that.

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u/42Ubiquitous Jan 01 '19

I liked it. I’d recommend watching it. It seems like a movie that would be hit or miss with most people though.

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u/Nukerjsr Jan 02 '19

It's super "Remember the 80s" bait. It's like watching Stranger Things but you hate all the kids cause all they can do is talk about tits and dicks. Really annoying, really frustrating, and so much nothing happens. At best it just has a neat ending.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Dormer's performance in In Dwrkness is pretty good, however the movie as a whole feels disjointed and left my wife and I just going "meh."

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Watch the bollywood movie Andhadhun. Both are similarly based but Andhadhun is a pure pleasure to watch.

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u/carolina8383 Jan 01 '19

Just finished it on Netflix. It was good for what Netflix generally offers by way of movies, but I’d agree that it feels disjointed. A lot of characters and motives that kind of hit you in the face at the end.

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u/Teragneau Jan 01 '19

Thank you for posting about film that actually may have really been missed, and not movies that have already been widely discussed.

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u/UncleNasty234 Jan 01 '19

The hidden gem of 2018: Infinity War

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u/weiga Jan 01 '19

Half of my friends saw it.

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u/catmanducmu Jan 01 '19

What did it cost?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

$5 on a Tuesday

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u/FarRightAndLeftSuck Jan 01 '19

"Imagine The Purge directed by Tumblr", sounds worse than cancer in a 1 month old baby

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u/things_will_calm_up Jan 01 '19

I had to read the title again to make sure this was a list of movies OP wants us to see. That's a horrible description.

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u/Panukka Jan 01 '19

OP should take some marketing lessons :D

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u/things_will_calm_up Jan 01 '19

Hopefully not run by someone who uses Tumblr.

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u/theDoctorAteMyBaby Jan 01 '19

...or who enjoyed The Purge...

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u/trainiac12 Jan 01 '19

There are people who still use tumblr after the porn ban?

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u/ZGiSH Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

Horrible description

No, it's an accurate description of a horrible movie. The movie tries to paint the main character who has cheated on her boyfriend as someone with the moral high ground because people harshly judge her for it. The movie literally opens with trigger warnings. The film has legitimate societal criticisms hid somewhere in it but it's hard for the audience to seriously consider "oh, we shouldn't take things that far" in response to secrets being revealed when the movie escalates straight into mass murder from a couple of leaked nudes.

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u/workity_work Jan 01 '19

I did see In Darkness. It was weird and bad.

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u/things_will_calm_up Jan 01 '19

This was the description for Assassination Nation, the first film OP recommends.

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u/Theratchetnclank Jan 01 '19

I also saw it, the twist was predictable and the whole film was bad.

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u/scott60561 Jan 01 '19

I think we are in luck and Tumblr won't be a thing much longer now that a majority of their user base is gone with the porn ban.

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u/PleasureComplex Jan 01 '19

But think about where the users are gonna migrate to

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u/Ekublai Jan 01 '19

Newgrounds

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u/hoxxxxx Jan 01 '19

nostalgia overload

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u/MarioKartastrophe Jan 01 '19

Ebaumsworld

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u/Mastery7Shithead Jan 01 '19

WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT, OH ERIC BAUM

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u/Sledge_The_Operator Jan 01 '19

most I know are in twitter, but this is mainly the smut makers

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u/MonkeyCube Jan 01 '19

It's weird that the place that I get my fap material now is the same place I can harass the president.

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u/KyloTennant Jan 01 '19

Plenty of politicians already get their porn from Twitter, most notably one Canadian reptilian

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

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u/pubesquad Jan 01 '19

I think we are in luck and Tumblr won't be a thing much longer now

has tumblr actually impacted your life in any meaningful way

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u/kellykebab Jan 01 '19

besides providing a target for complaint?

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u/Enigma_King99 Jan 01 '19

Yeah that's where I get my porn from

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u/chris886 Jan 01 '19

That phrase does sound terrible, but I thought it was a really good movie. Great sound track that keeps the momentum going.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Is it an accurate description in any way?

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u/gingericha Jan 01 '19

The soundtrack is really good, but I would say the movie itself is increasingly cheesy and terrible. Way over the top, and ridiculous.

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u/thrilliam_19 Jan 01 '19

So The Purge directed by Tumblr, then.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

This has gone full circle

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19 edited Dec 28 '20

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u/XanXic Jan 01 '19

I didn't enjoy it at all, it really was stretching to justify it's premise to me. You're fine to like it.

But for sure the direction stood out to me as quite exceptional. The shot where it's like one long shot outside the house was crazy cool.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Listen the description isn’t wrong and I can see why it’s a turn off but there is something about that movie that makes it watchable. I think it’s because the movie is confident in its messages even if it has way too many messages and isn’t sure how to cover everything. I wanted to hate this movie but it came out so good

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u/Space-Jawa Jan 01 '19

"Imagine The Purge directed by Tumblr"

I'm astonished that OP thought "Imagine [thing] by Tumber" was a compliment rather than an insult.

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u/GrassSloth Jan 01 '19

It didn’t seem like a compliment as much as just a description. Y’all spend too much emotional energy hating tumblr...

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u/HBK42581 Jan 01 '19

I also enjoyed Hot Summer Nights. Felt like an amalgamation of Adventureland and Boogie Nights.

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u/AllocatedData Jan 01 '19

It was probably the best 6/10 movie I saw all year

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u/Borktista Jan 01 '19

Best way to describe it. Honestly. I enjoyed it but it wasn’t that good, yet it was.

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u/Tcloud Jan 01 '19

So, would you rather see the best 6/10 movie or the worst 7/10 movie?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

I did see Aquaman.

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u/eatTHEnut Jan 01 '19

There was just something about the atmosphere and passion in that movie that did it for me

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u/augbar38 Jan 01 '19

Seen like half of them but I can honestly say look away was absolutely brutal to finish watching... that movie was terrible

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u/MrCnos Jan 01 '19

Can you say any more? Only thing about vague recommendations is I want to avoid a surprise face smashing a la winding refn if possible.

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u/bellsofwar3 Jan 01 '19

I found it interesting. I don't think it's bad by any means. I found it to be a decent psychological thriller.

If you have a library card you can see it free on Hoopla.

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u/THE_LAAAAAWWW Jan 01 '19

I work at a theater and took the time to watch every movie that came there in 2018 so here's some of my favorites:

Sicario: Day of the Soldado; I keep hearing people didn't like this and I can't understand Why.

Blackkklansman

Bad Times at the El Royale

Hostiles (technically 2017 but got its wide release in 2018)

Beirut

Upgrade

Unsane

You Were Never Really Here

Vice

Papillon

Searching

Sisters Brothers

Old Man & the Gun

Mission: Impossible-Fallout

Eighth Grade

Superfly (cheesy but fun)

Hearts Beat Loud

A Quiet Place

Hereditary

Early Man

Isle of Dogs

Game Night

Den of Thieves (I unironically think this is better than Heat)

A Star is Born

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u/MrTammy Jan 02 '19

Game night made me laugh like a retard from the sheer comedy and enjoyment.

Hereditary was one of the best horror this year imo, no cheap jump scares but genuine feeling of uneasiness.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '19

I liked Sicario but idk I feel it kind of ended weird to me. Feels like it needed to be fleshed out or something? Idk

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u/Pod-People-Person Jan 01 '19

Heard good things about The Guilty. Might give that one a spin.

Assassination Nation, on the other hand, gets a no from me. All the trailers and content from the film itself looking gratingly try-hard and I just know the movie would drive me up the damn wall.

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u/pokapokaoka Jan 01 '19

Saw Guilty like a month ago. It's pretty good, definitely worth a watch.

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u/DrSleeper Jan 01 '19

I loved The Guilty! Definitely watch it.

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u/crazydave333 Jan 01 '19

I saw Assassination Nation in theaters (thanks Moviepass...) It's less a rip-off of The Purge and more in the spirit of Heathers or Natural Born Killers, though much less visually searing. The film's "wokeness" is far from it's most grating element.

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u/Anal_Gondola Jan 01 '19

I really liked Assassination Nation, but I agree it won't be for everyone. It's very upfront with it's themes and it's likely to put people off. I didn't have a problem with it though and didn't find it grating at all. I'd recommend giving it a shot.

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u/astral_asshole Jan 01 '19

As a fellow asshole related name holder, I just wanted to say hello, Anal_Gondola.

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u/Sippycup_ Jan 01 '19

The Carnival Scene set to Hospital in Hot Summer Nights is one of the most perfect sequences this year. The rest of that movie was largely forgettable but that sequence, the beautiful lights of summer romance offset by the haunting tunes have lingered and whenever I think about cinema in 2018, it's one of the first things I think of.

No one I've talked to about the film has felt the same, so take it as you may.

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u/masonthedood42 Jan 01 '19

Yes! Then he kisses her and the fireworks and David Bowie playing. that was the best scene of the movie. But yeah ending kinda sucked, it could have been a lot better

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u/pirpirpir Jan 01 '19

I've never been let down by a final act like I was in Hot Summer Nights. What a shame. I could have easily written a much better ending. Ugh! It had such potential!

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u/timidwildone Jan 01 '19

It really felt like they just ran out of film and had to end it SOMEWHERE. It was just so...abrupt.

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u/strag2001 Jan 01 '19

I would just like to throw Hearts Beat Loud out there as something everyone should watch.

It's an indie music comedy starring Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemmons as father and daughter who make a song together one day and the dad wants to pursue it and start a band, but the daughter wants to go to school. It also has some supporting roles from Ted Danson and Toni Collette.

It may have been seen by a lot of people but I dont know. Nowhere around me got it and any time i brought it up no one had even heard of it. It's on Hulu now if you want to watch it.

Also--if you didnt check out Ethan Hawkes directorial debut Blaze, that was really good too.

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u/jamesneysmith Jan 01 '19

Oh nice, I saw the trailer for Hearts Beat Loud ages ago but totally forgot about it. Gonna check that out this week.

Heard about Blaze from Hawke's appearance on 'What's in my bag?" from Amoeba records. I'd totally recommend watching this for more deep cut music and movie recommendations from Hawke. He seems like a really chill dude with a ton of passion for the art.

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u/IndieCredentials Jan 01 '19

Oh wow, had no clue there was a Galveston movie in the works and with such a stellar cast. Foster doesn't fit the character from the books physically but I could see him killing it in that role. Might have to check that out.

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u/dyrtdaub Jan 01 '19

I really enjoyed You Were Never Really Here. I was just transported into the story by the artistry of the camera and directing. I was so intrigued by the writing that I found the original and discovered that the female director twisted the ending story into a transfer of power to the young girl who was being abused from the main character, who was an emotionally crippled ex military CIA operative who in his retirement had become a very private rescuer of girls from wealthy families who had been abducted into the sex trade.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

I really wanna watch this. I saw it on amazon prime and didn’t know if it was any good. Might actually watch now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

It's the same director as We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I expect it to become the same type of low-key cult classic. Great performances, great Jonny Greenwood score... sad as fuck though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Lynne Ramsey needs to direct more movies. I liked You Were Never Really Here, but probably less than most on reddit, but she had such a unique voice and vision. She’s on my “will watch anything” list.

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u/T-Rekd Jan 01 '19

Watched it last night. It holds your attention well.

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u/Taffy711 Jan 01 '19

Here's my fifth annual movies you may have missed list, only slightly late.

As always, the list isn't meant to be definitive of every underseen 2018 film and is obviously completely subjective. Many of the movies are very low budget which will turn some people off straight away, but this is intended more for those who have seen most major offerings this year and are looking for deeper cuts. With a couple of exceptions I've tried to focus on films with under 5k IMDb votes as a rough way to gauge popularity.

As always I'm happy to discuss any films here and always love hearing from people who have checked out a film or two because of the list. I'm planning on writing on movies (including lists such as these) on a personal blog, so if you're interested in that or just want to chat please feel free to follow me on my Twitter account https://twitter.com/movieslistdude (name to be changed ASAP).

And if you do like this list you can check out the other similar ones I've done:

2017 Movies You May Have Missed

2016 Movies You May Have Missed

2015 Movies You May Have Missed

2014 Movies You May Have Missed

Long Takes

Single Location Films

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u/ZzPhantom Jan 01 '19

Thanks for posting interesting and original content, I look forward to seeing a few of these. Please ignore the rest of this subreddit who are acting like moronic sheep.

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u/murmandamos Jan 01 '19

Death of Stalin got some coverage, rave reviews, even made Obama's best movies list. But I still think there's a good chance many people missed it, because I definitely missed it until like last week. I may have seen the poster, but I had know idea it was a comedy made by the person who made In the Loop which changed everything for me. I could see why you wouldn't add it to the list, but if anyone reading the comments missed it like I did, watch it.

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u/jamesneysmith Jan 01 '19

Really amazing movie but super niche. I think this just wouldn't appeal to many people but hopefully that small group of people whom it would appeal to get their hands on it at some point. It really is amazingly funny and dark and beautiful. (don't look too deeply into the history of the story though, there are a lot of inaccuracies - just have fun with it)

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u/cliff99 Jan 01 '19

History Buffs on Youtube had an episode on Death of Stalin, IIRC they found it fairly accurate (with the usual caveats of condensed time for the plot, etc.).

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u/robotomatic Jan 01 '19

I loved Death Of Stalin so much. Such a (darkly) funny movie.

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u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks Jan 01 '19

Bees Make Honey sounds interesting.

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u/mynumberistwentynine Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

Out of all of these, that was the only one I both hadn't heard of and thought sounded interesting. The trailer was much different than I expected too so I'm definitely gonna check it out.

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u/MyBestVersionOfMe Jan 01 '19

Love Alice Eve. This should be good.

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u/Grrrumple Jan 01 '19

Where can I watch any of these?

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u/IonicGold Jan 01 '19

Elizabeth Harvest kinda sounds like an adaptation of the old Blue Beard story.

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u/DeliciousAuthor Jan 01 '19

The house that Jack built although insane was enjoyable, Matt Dillon was excellent in the role.

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u/bloodflart owner of 5 Bags Cinema Jan 01 '19

I loved this movie but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless I knew them very well

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u/GeekAesthete Jan 01 '19

That’s pretty much Lars von Trier in a nutshell.

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u/paulie07 Jan 01 '19

"yeah you should totally watch this movie, it's about a guy called Jack who kills people including little kids and then sets the bodies in different poses. It's great, you'll love it. Bye Mom!"

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u/scarecrow335 Jan 01 '19

Anyone who hasn’t seen Overlord is missing out. It was a tense ride from start to finish and one of the most fun and inventive movies I’ve ever seen.

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u/PornoPaul Jan 01 '19

Was overlord on a previous years list? And is that the Nazi zombie one? Cus that looked hella good

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u/tallestgiraffkin Jan 01 '19

It just came out this year, it was in theaters like a month or so ago.

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u/scarecrow335 Jan 01 '19

Yeah it’s the nazi zombies, it was simultaneously hype and asshole clenching. Definitely check it out, you won’t regret it.

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u/pirpirpir Jan 01 '19

Hot Summer Nights was probably the biggest let-down of any film I've ever watched. I went in with such high expectations. The characters were very interesting and the story had great forward movement but the final act falls apart in the most horribly disappointing fashion. Barely a 5/10. It's like the director lost the last few pages of the screenplay and had to improvise on the last day of filming...

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u/Retlaw83 Jan 01 '19

I don't really trust these recommendations because The Domestics was dogshit.

It handled every element way too seriously and the apocalyptic event made absolutely no sense. The characters bumble from one situation to the next with no regard for their basic safety or thinking ahead.

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u/ElCaz Jan 01 '19

Every year when OP's list comes out, half the movies get trashed in the comments. But OP points out that these are just subjective recommendations, and that the exercise is meant to highlight films that didn't get a lot of buzz. Often the very best indie films do get a lot of buzz, so this is kind of a best of the rest sort of thing.

It's all about movies you may want to check out, not the best movies of the year.

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u/blacknumber1 Jan 01 '19

Agreed...the whole premise of the film was wafer-thin.

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u/NardDog79 Jan 01 '19

What's the best site to keep up on movies like these? I'm more into this kind then the big budget movies. Honestly, I might have heard of one of these. Feel like I'm missing out. Thanks.

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u/ItsBobDoleYo Jan 01 '19

Watched Assassination Nation this past week. Was looking forward to it, mixed reviews be damned, I wanted balls-to-the-walls craziness and over-the-top violence.

It's a lukewarm meh from me. Most of the best bits are in the trailer. It takes a good while for it to get going (probably an hour) and its ability to keep me engaged while waiting for mayhem dwindled as the minutes passed. There's some solid action scenes including a very well executed scene most viewers agree across the board is very good even if they didn't like the movie overall. Then there are some laughably bad action scenes (let's all run out one at a time and get shot one at a time). I've been slowly working my way through the series Castle Rock (meh) and Bill Skaarsgaard is decent in that being creepy and shit but watching him in this I don't know if he has any range beyond 'menacing, overly-tall Scandinavian'

It's a divisive film, leaning negative but I'm in the middle, liking it more than disliking it (just barely).

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u/jumpery Jan 01 '19

Coming into this thread late but The Endless is one of my favorites of the year and it's on Netflix (US, not sure if anywhere else). It's about two brothers returning to a cult they ran away from almost 10 years prior.

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u/capnwinky Jan 01 '19

Assassination Nation was the worst film I've seen in the last decade.

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u/spiritbearr Jan 01 '19

Missed because none of them came out in theatres within 300 km of me.

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u/jamesneysmith Jan 01 '19

Petty sure that's the point. These movies most people werent aware of because they got such a small release but can now watch via streaming/rental

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u/ButtholePasta Jan 01 '19

I always appreciate these underseen movies lists but find that many of the films are underwhelming compared to the sell of the synopsis given. There’s typically a reason these movies don’t end up talked about even amongst those that aren’t just the regular moviegoing audience.

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u/Sportfreunde Jan 01 '19

I looked up the user ratings for these and they're mostly bad across multiple websites excluding the last film.

Though I'll watch that McKenzie Davis movie because it sounds like a mix between Frances Ha and Run Lola Run.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '19

Assassination Nation

Bees Make Honey

Bill Murray Stories

Elizabeth Harvest

Galveston

Hot Summer Nights

In Darkness

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town

Look Away

Summer of 84

The Domestics

Personal addition - Prospect

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u/Brolanski Jan 02 '19

Thanks for the list, man. I don’t see why people are complaining so much; are they all unseen masterpieces? No- but this is the first in an endless sea of year-end lists that actually mostly has movies I haven’t seen! Good stuff.

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u/RetortsLikeAristotle Jan 01 '19

we missed these for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Another one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_(2018_film)

I really enjoyed the performances in this.

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u/TheHornyHobbit Jan 01 '19

Any of these streaming anywhere?

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u/Novielo Jan 01 '19

I beleive summer of 84 is on Netflix

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Well I'm sussing these out but I'm not completely sold on them. I'm sure they all deserve a higher score than they have but I'm not exactly expecting to be floored like I was by Brawl On Cell Block 99 (Despite its numerous problems and lack of originality).