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Running out of things to watch on "movie night." What are some of your favorites of the last, say, 10 years?
I'll start with a few that I liked in no particular order
Interstellar
Argo
Inception
Limitless
Jack Reacher 1 (didn't see 2)
The Wedding Ringer
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Argo was good. "Sicario" was friggin' super.
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Several good ones mentioned here. I heard somebody mention "The Town" the other day. I need to re-watch that one, as it was pretty good too. 13 Hours was pretty awesome, and it is still fairly new.
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The US in the last 40 years:
Socialism for big corporations and military industrial complex
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Rugged individualism for the individual.
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Based on what you listed, here are some more "intelligent" movies of that genre:
Blade Runner 2049 - when compared to the original it feels too derivative and falls a bit short but it's still a good movie in its own right
The Planet of the Apes movies - the most recent trilogy are all pretty good.
The Martian - a well done movie based on actual science, unless you just hate Matt Damon
Life of Pi - visually stunning and has a neat story.
10 Cloverfield Lane - suspense movie more than sci-fi, it's more of a slow burn than dramatic action but with great acting
Man From Earth - a little indie type film from 2007 available on Amazon and maybe elsewhere. No action or blood or sex, all character based. I found the subject and story intriguing and well done, some others may find it offensive. There is a sequel done 10 years later, "Man from Earth: Holocene", don't waste your time on that one.
Edge of Tomorrow - Tom Cruise learns to fight aliens by living the same day over and over.
Avatar - "Dances with Wolves" meets "Pocahontas" on "The Planet of the Cliches", but if you ignore all of that it's also visually well done albeit with a pretty cliched story and somewhat one dimensional characters.
A couple outside the above:
Fury - good battle scenes even if the last battle is a bit unrealistic. (hopefully without giving away any spoilers it should have been a chip shot for the Germans)
Deadpool - not particularly intelligent, in fact it's extremely profane but funny as hell
Not movies but if you get Netflix then "Black Mirror" is an outstanding sci-fi anthology series. Set in the near future or parallel present times, it shows the dangers and quirks inherent in modern technology. Each episode is about an hour long, basically it's a dark "Twilight Zone" on steroids.
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No Netflix I assume?
10 bucks a month and more good series than I can mention.
6 seasons of House of Cards.
Several seasons of Breaking Bad.
5 seasons of Peaky Blinders,
Several Viking series,
One Season of the Ozarks,( a true sleeper)
thats just for starters.........
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I just finished re-watching "The Winds of War" on Youtube. I'm starting "War and Remembrance" now and just finished part 2 which shows the atrocities at Auschwitz. Very disturbing.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Sully X2 ........ and The King's Speech The Imitation Game The Railway Man The Way Back Into the White
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Hell or High Water
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The Town
Gone Baby Gone
The Revenant
Blood Diamond
The Departed
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The Bourne movies
Gladiator
Taken
Lord of the Rings (All)
Solomon Kane
Just a few
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Sit back an watch the old twilight zone one after .another..I have 100 of them on my DVR.... Real good ones ...and acting...
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