2001: A Space Odyssey

How many movies that are considered some of the greatest of all time have you seen

> Yes but not everyone likes action so not everyone is going to consider an action/sci-fi movie

The 3rd most acclaimed movie of all time is pure sci fi

Welles plays either the protagonist or the villain (usually the villain) in all of his completed features except 2 or 3

Wild Strawberries stars Victor Sjostrom, Sweden's most notable director before Bergman

Orson Welles has a number of acting credits in other peoples' movies. I think the oddest one is in Pasolini's short satirical film La Ricotta, where he plays an arrogant American director and his voice is dubbed over completely in Italian (probably as satire of the practice, which was common in Italian movies at the time).

Todd Fields, who played Nick Nightingale, also ended up being a director

The first half of Psycho is incredible, but the 2nd half of is just so uninteresting to me, just scenes upon scenes of characters who weren't even in the movie before disseminating the plot

Go for it then, it's a great movie

Mulholland Drive

Barton Fink

Sunset Boulevard

Hail Caesar

White Hunter, Black Heart (not set in Hollywood, but about Hollywood people travelling to Africa based largely on a real story)

In a Lonely Place (maybe only the setting of Hollywood rather than about it though)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Boogie Nights (Hollywood adjacent)

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a movie I went into thinking it was fun and crazy but in sort of a half good half bad sorta way.

Turns out it's just amazing

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Hour of the Wolf

Repulsion

Rosemary's Baby

The Thing

That's mainstream too lol

To answer your question, I don't think superhero movies are worth your time or anybody's, but stuff like The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park (only the first one) definitely are. You don't have to like blockbusters though, you can just look for other kinds of movies.

What are movies you like?

Great movies about people living in real facism/authoritarianism that I can think of:

The Spirit of the Beehive

Day of Wrath

Jojo Rabbit

Men Behind the Sun is generally not well regarded, while Come and See is considered widely one of the best war movies ever

This is gonna sound weird, but Mr Woodcock always struck me as a concept for a movie that could have been really great

Honestly the #1 answer is probably The King of Comedy. It's just too real

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Bateman is literally a sadistic psychopath, he has no desire to interact with people in any way beyond demonstrating power over them. He is upset because society is so uncaring and shallow, his own personal depravity doesn't even make a dent.

Yes, you're right about everything, there is nothing notable about it besides the famous twist, and the twist unravels on rewatch (it's literally not foreshadowed or set up in any way, the movie makes you think it is by cutting to stuff you never saw at the end).

Not sure if these are exactly what you're looking for, but these movies are all about a characters refusal to succumb to seemingly inevitable/inescapable circumstances:

On the Waterfront

The Trial (1967)

The Big Heat

Pans Labyrinth

High Noon

Michael Clayton

Yasujiro Ozu movies

Michelangelo Antonioni movies (not a fan myself, but he's extremely well regarded and sounds like what you're looking for)

The most correct answer. After you know the twist it's junk

That's fair, I could probably cut the "with edgyness" part out and it would communicate what I mean better

You're assuming a lot from one word lol

Se7en is not edgy from a filmmaking perspective, it pushes no envelopes in terms of form, narrative, or even content really. It doesn't really engage with the violence in the movie, it just suggests. It gives flashes of convoluted violent scenarios, but with no interest in actually intimating the viewer with the violence -- it justs suggests it to try to impress the viewer with edgyness.

Why do we make depraved random violence interesting and exciting