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 >>/54669/
Mayb I'll watch this movie on my off day. 

Mayb

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Lots of great movie recommendations in here, has anyone seen the 1979 movie "Border Cop" with Telly Savalas? It's a good film but kinda hard to find on the internet, wondering if this film was purposely memory holed due to 'woke' cancel culture?? The only video I ever found was a 480p VHS rip lol and I doubt the source is still available today.

 >>/46059/
Svengoolie aired this movie last weekend. A classic, would recommend.
 >>/48692/
Cute as a kid, hot as fuck when she grew up.

 >>/71075/
Torrent sites aren't giving you anything anon?

I always forget about this thread. Anon should bump it more often.

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The Omega Man (1971). Based four years later in 1975 after the Sino-Soviet border conflict escalated into full-scale biological warfare that ends up destroying most of the human race and turns most survivors into a hostile dreaded inhuman plague, US Army Col. Robert Neville is fighting to survive in post-apocalyptic LA. He spends his days patrolling now-desolate LA, salvaging basic necessities and fuel, killing members of a cult of hostile plague victims and searching for other normal humans like himself who are still alive. When Neville discovers he has a cure for the plague he bands together with other normal survivors in attempt to rebuild human society and kill off the hostile mutant plagues.

I watched the Royal Hotel (2023) last night and it was OK, entertaining enough to watch once but not enough to be a big hit or anywhere near among my favorites. It had the potential to end a lot more suspenseful which I think the script writer and director blew a good opportunity to make this movie better than it was.

What I did like about the film was it's realistic dark gritty environment, special effects were not overused or abused, unique personalities and characters, overall good acting and story.  5/10.

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Testament (1983). A normal suburban family living in a small town 60 miles from the San Francisco Bay Area is living their typical lives when all the sudden the Emergency Broadcast System interrupts the television and radio stations all over America warning of an imminent nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. Their lives are forever disrupted and change dramatically as San Francisco, among other populated cities, go silent and everything goes dark. No more television. No more radio. No more power grid. Cold food spoils. Grocery stores run out of food. Luxuries of modern civilization are all gone. The father of the family who worked in San Francisco is dead. Now the mother has to take care of her three children in darkness, rationing resources and dealing with radiation sickness plaguing the surrounding community.

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Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk], also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski[2] and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner.[3] It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments.[4] Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland.

Exhibited in its entirety at the 46th Venice International Film Festival,[citation needed] the series, Kieślowski's most acclaimed work,[5] was said in 2002 to be "the best dramatic work ever done specifically for television"[6] and has won numerous international awards, though it did not receive wide release outside Europe until the late 1990s.[7] It is one of fifteen films listed in the category "Values" on the Vatican film list. In 1991, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick wrote an admiring foreword to the published screenplay,[8] wherein he stated that Dekalog was the only film masterpiece he could think of.[9]

 >>/71577/
This film is currently the highest rated film in Metacritic FYI

 >>/54102/
That sequel was really getting good mid-way into it but the ending was a bit disappointing, I think it had potential to be better than it was.

 >>/71819/
Maybe the 3rd movie / threequal will be better

 >>/72152/
Hell no. Just keep it as is, like most movies, let it become a staple not a nuisance with a ruined reputation.

---72lopit

 >>/72157/
You're probably right

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Only The Valiant (1951). Following the American civil war, a despised cavalry commander is unfairly blamed by his troops for the death of a beloved officer and tries to redeem himself before an Indian attack on their fort in New Mexico. In a last ditch effort of desperation, the cavalry commander assembles a group of misfits and rowdy drunks to hold off the rampaging Apache after cutting the main water supply to the fort. Things start to sour after the drunks secretly exchange limited water reserves for booze without the cavalry commander knowing about it.

--lo8

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Well it's that time of year again, and Christmas movies are being watched by many families. I was blessed to find a modern Christmas movie that wasn't complete retarded shit and to the contrary, very witty and entertaining!

The Holdovers (2023). Taking place in the year 1970, it is Christmas season at an all-boy private school where wealthier parents send their teenage sons to get the best education. While most kids get to go away to visit their families during Christmas, a few are forced to remain at school under strict guidance due to unfortunate circumstances such as marital affairs. This year, a highly unpopular strict history teacher is recruited to supervise the unfortunate holdovers, except this year only one poor teenage boy cannot leave due to his mother breaking up with his father and finding another man. One arrogant troubled boy and a strict teacher with a penchant for discipline and rigorous study make one dangerous match. But with a school cook who lost her son in Vietnam, a friend of the teacher, she does her best trying to de-escalate the tension between the two. While they initially all feel alone and upset for the holidays, they form a strong bond that gets everyone into trouble.

 >>/50887/
There are a few modern gems out there but it's like digging through a mine full of dirty shit just to find the next gem. The movie above was one of those rare modern gems. Definitely adding it to my classics collection!

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A Christmas Story Christmas (2022). A sequel based on the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story" this movie takes place two decades later when the main character of the original movie, a 12 year old kid, is all grown up with his own family. Now a father and a wannabe career story writer is faced with growing financial problems, family accidents, his father who recently passed away and some promises made to his increasingly worried kids he may not be able keep due to unfortunate unintended circumstances. Meanwhile he struggles to make a writing career for himself, even to write an obituary for his deceased father. Will his family pull through? Will he make it to see a wonderful Christmas and overcome depression and failure?

bumping this classic thread

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 >>/41135/
> Wake In Fright
> A man gets stranded in an old rural town full of binge drinking drunks, and he must work hard labor to pay his way out of the mess they all get him into, 1971

There is a brand new Wake In Fright Bluray collectors edition box set in 4K out there now for all the gritty cult classic movie lovers.

https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/wake-in-fright-1971-4k-blu-ray-collectors-edition

The story revolves around a school teacher who takes a vacation to the outback of Australia where he meets up with local hard laborers who love to gamble and binge drink off work hours. The teacher gets drunk and is convinced to gamble with his new-founded "friends" and loses everything he had in one night. Now he is broke, stranded in a rural secluded town with a bunch of rowdy, obnoxious drunks who urge him into a life of alcoholism, sex, violence and hard partying.

Massive collection of old Film Noir films.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBFa2yUBFRr4ek6G4A0K0zFS_zt93kDZv

toli hoe

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Zombie (1979) (also known as "Zombi 2" in many European nations, the original "Zombi" known as the 1978 movie "Dawn of the Dead" by George A. Romero). Zombie (aka "Zombi 2") was filmed one year after "Dawn of the Dead" by Lucio Fulci. While this movie is not an actual sequel or part of Romero's "Living Dead" series, it was created as a spin-off, taking some of the original ideas and creating a completely different unique story and environment that mimics part of Romero's classic zombie films.

Plot: A doctor is experimenting on the indigenous people on the island of Matul when a strange pandemic breaks out. Natives believe it to be a voodoo curse that has awakened the dead. Despite hesitation from his colleagues, the doctor insists staying on the island to conduct more tests and researching the phenomenon of zombie reanimation. This of-course proves to be a very dangerous endeavor.

 >>/74545/

Did George Romero ever watch that movie? Did he end up liking it or hating it?

 >>/74626/
I don't know what George Romero thought about it but I am a big fan of his original "living dead" series and I loved this film to death! It almost gives the vibe of being a prequel to "Dawn of the Dead" if you want to imagine what events may have happened right before that story took place.

 >>/74161/
They do not make such gritty down to earth classics like this anymore.

 >>/74652/
> I don't know what George Romero thought about it but I am a big fan of his original "living dead" series and I loved this film to death! 

Yeah it's a pretty good movie. I really like it. It's low budget but has a lot of soul in it. I think that was Romero's first film release too.

 >>/74898/
Night of the Living Dead (1968) was Romero's first zombie movie, followed by the sequels Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). He remade a few of these over the years but the remakes got nothing on the originals, all the originals top notch classics. I would also have to say Zombie (1979) was very good too and although it was not a Romero film it still had the same vibe and genre of Romero's original series and if no one knew any better could have easily passed as a sequel too.

The most ironic thing is low budgets do not make a movie bad. I have seen million dollar productions that flopped and end up being horrible. What makes a good movie is the dedication of the actors and a really good intriguing story line that keeps the viewers in suspense. Some of my favorite movies are ones without a popular celebrity and tend to be older independent low budget films.

Baraka (1992)
Interstellar (2014)
Avatar (2009)
The Thing (1982)

 >>/50177/
Some obscure channel on Youtube uploaded this old classic TV movie in High-res 720p which is really cool because in the past we had to rely on the old shitty 480p VHS rips. Although cheesy it was an entertaining movie to watch.

Bumpin

 >>/76076/
> Some obscure channel on Youtube uploaded this old classic 
Actually yt posts old movies sometimes if you search for them.

Some have ads, but some don't. Try your luck anons.

 >>/76411/
I use an online media ripper to grab anything I desire uploaded to Youtube, one way you can simply bypass the forced site Ads. Plenty of options when it comes to open-source online media downloading software. Just make sure you have the videos encoded correctly (I choose the most common standard x264 AAC mp4 formats because those will play on almost anything today including modern and older television sets).

Lots of classic movies here, bump to keep this thread alive.

Archiving another based thread.
https://archive.ph/04RJR

 >>/77312/
Thanks
Keep archiving threads here that are good. You can make a .txt file for them and dump it here if anyone ever wants to see past threads. 

Good idea or no?

adding Project Hail Mary (2026)
reminded me a lot of Interstellar.

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I just watched the TV movie mini-series Wake In Fright (2017) based off the old movie from 1971. It was surprisingly very good, very well done.

There are a few differences with this 2017 version, it is much more drug-fueled than solely based on binge drinking unlike the original movie. Not that I wish to spoil anything, but there was an additional story line not covered in the original 1971 movie where one actor gets killed, so the script changes a lot in the second half of this new 2017 version.

Although it was a deviation from the original classic Wake In Fright movie from 1971, the 2017 version was very good, suspenseful, had good acting, no "woke" shit you often see today which was a huge relief, the Australian blokes did a superb job with this modern rendition too.

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New York Confidential (1955). A classic film noir. A crime syndicate in New York is run by a gangster who hires a notorious mobster from Chicago to work for him as a body guard and temporary hitman when needed. When the crime syndicate and their corrupt political and corporate associates fail to land a billion dollar contract with the federal government they seek to corner the market by murdering their competition. When things take a wrong turn and fail there are too many who know too much that can bring down the entire crime syndicate. The resulting struggle is a paranoia fueled cover-up that could catch up to them and bring them all down.

this aged well, bump

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Obsession (2025)

 >>/79184/
> Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
classic movie
> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
sounds gay

 >>/79193/
 >>/79193/
Yes the remake to the original was really bad tbh. Not a lot of people liked it.

 >>/79405/
Remakes are ALWAYS fake and gay because our whole modern "culture" is fake and gay today. It really is. Every damn thing about this country today REALLY IS Fake And Gay. Let it sink in. You'll yearn to go back, you'll survive going back and adopting everything that is old.

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Without Warning (1994). In a made for TV movie based in the early 1990s, news anchors over television broadcast begin documenting an end of the world scenario in real-time as multiple asteroids were detected descending to hit Earth and possibly upend human civilization. The Pentagon war plans striking them with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles before the asteroids hit planet Earth despite enormous risk.

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October Sky (1999). Based on a true story, a high school student's fascination about rockets grows after the first Soviet Union satellite was launched into space. His father runs the local coal mine in a small coal mining town in West Virginia, who expects him to one day work his way into the same position as he is but his son does not care for mining coal and instead strives to study and learn rocket science and take up practice launching smaller ones with his friends. Very few in town believe these high school kids will get anywhere or be successful.... until those kids prove them all wrong.

 >>/79414/
What rubs me the wrong way is all the modern movies today are either retarded woke super hero movies, non-sense childish animation or some dystopian mad max future where white men get enslaved and beat down. The generations today produce absolute fucking filth and garbage, I just can't watch that shit either. Luckily we have older movies which are far FAR superior.

The reason movies and television were so much better throughout the '50s - '90s eras is because our society was far better and enjoyed more artistic freedom and competition in the market place. Plus the fact producers could not rely on full blown CGI and flashy special effects alone as technology was far more limited. This means they relied on good acting, hiring professional stunt actors, had to keep the story lines suspenseful and interesting and it overall made movies feel more human.