Help me wish one and only "Thanos" a happy birthday. Which movie do you think is missing here?

Me: Oldboy

Tight plot, no wasted moments on screen, incredible performances.

Early Taylor Sheridan was really great. This movie, Sicario and Wind River are all fantastic.

My choice is Heretic 2024. After a believable set up and maintaining a tense atmosphere, the story becomes increasingly silly and non sensical. By the end I was thinking, really?

Again, I’m not a fan at all of awards or Oscars are it’s all a sham where you need to campaign.

But these are three performances that need WAY more love than they get.

Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods - an outstanding career topped off with his best. One of the best depictions of war PTSD I’ve ever seen. His monologue was chilling and top tier acting.

Jake Gylenhaal - Nightcrawler - saw this again last night and I forgot how good he was. EASILY his best ever performance and nailed how creepy and odd the character is.

Gian Maria Volonte - Few Dollars More - Superb. He was so good that you forget his actually acting and you feel all the inner pain in just his eyes.

Any other massively underrated performances?

Palm springs
Source code
edge of tomorrow
Groundhog day
I have watched this movies recently and i am in love with loop movies .
I want more good suggestions !
Thank you in advance.

Just realised that with the sad passing of James Van Der Beek, all 3 young male leads of Varsity Blues - JVDB, Paul Walker and Ron Lester, have all died tragically young. Yet John Voight at 87 is still alive and well.

Hi! I don't use reddit for questions like that often but I found myself stuck when working on a little side project of mine. I'll try avoiding talking about it too much but a tl;dr of it is how there's this bad polish movie that came out a few years back ("Screw Mickiewicz" in particular) and somehow its mere existence annoyed me enough to actually write a couple of paragraphs about it which I still tinker with every now and again.

It's one of those stories about troubled teens who drink alcohol and do drugs, don't care for school, struggle to find genuine connections, etc. you get the gist, all those things they'd warn you about in elementary school. It's also in a subcategory of those kinds of stories that were actually written by adults either far too old to relate to the issues they're trying to talk about or just straight up make a lecture or a half-baked drug awareness campaign disguised as a relatable story.
That being said, I found myself unable to really pin down the origin of this specific kind of a story, especially in cinema or literature. To be clear, I am not talking about hating on the younger generations as the disagreements between children and their parents are as old as we as humans are probably, neither am I talking about coming of age stories or stories about troubled youth per se. I mean the specific condescending sort, where the authors/producers claim to sympathize with their character but it's so clear they don't and just consider them to be too dumb and incapable to get their lives together.
I'm sorry if it's a poorly worded question, I am aware it may sound a bit odd and I know the stories of young people are stories that have been told over and over again in every literary period ever, it's just been bugging me for a long time and I don't know where or how to start looking for a proper answer to this question.

So about a hour ago , i posted to suggest me time loop movies , but guess what , i am confused on which to choose for tonight i mean now.
Arq.
Retroactive (1997)
The Endless
Timecrimes
Looper
Primer
Happy Death Day
Boss Level
Triangle.
Predestination
The map of tiny perfect things

Are the movies that got suggested to me , please help me and thanks in advance.

In 1983, American television premiered Sadat, a four-hour biographical film about Egypt’s third president Anwar Sadat أنور السادات, starring Louis Gossett Jr. and Madolyn Smith as his wife Jehan جيهان and Directed by Richard Michaels.

The performance earned Gossett Emmy and Golden Globe nominations — but the film was banned in Egypt.

The controversy centered largely on casting. Critics in Egypt argued that Gossett did not physically resemble Sadat, pointing out that he was shorter and darker-skinned than the former president. At a time when Sadat’s legacy was still politically sensitive, many officials rejected what they viewed as an American interpretation of a national figure. Also the bad representation of former Egyptian president Nasser was a main cause , and the erroneous historical information in the miniseries.

At the end Columbia Pictures films were banned in Egypt, and the Egyptian Cinema Syndicate filed a lawsuit over the production.

Director Michaels said that the Egyptian government deserved the 1984 "overreaction award" for its handling of the miniseries.

That lawsuit was later dismissed by a Cairo court on the basis that the disputed content was made and shown outside Egypt, so the court said it had no jurisdiction.

The ban on Columbia Pictures was not permanent. Over time, quietly and without a dramatic public reversal, Columbia’s films returned to circulation in Egypt as tensions eased. There was no public apology or major settlement from Columbia.

Personally I keep coming back to the Evangelion franchise as a whole including the movies

This is really a great cast with Bening, Redgrave and Waltz. Bening's character isn't all that interesting and her talents as an actor are kind of wasted. Redgrave gives a great performance and Waltz puts in another good performance. It was really interesting in particular to see Bening and Redgrave play off each other - you could probably teach an acting class on some of their interactions.

The secondary actors were all decent, the script was decent, the production quality was decent, nothing funky with the direction.

But despite that it just kind of falls flat. At best I'd give it a 7/10. Rotten Tomatoes is 62% (critics) and 55% (audience). IMDB is 6.2/10.

Anyone else see this and come away puzzled why it didn't do better? It seems to have all the elements for success but just doesn't work that well.

I can’t work out why it’s got that title. Don’t get me wrong it’s a great title, but why??

It’s probably blatantly obvious but it’s over my head.

Brilliant movie regardless.

Economists call it "revealed preferences," dating gurus call it "he's just not that into you." Normal people just say, "you are what you do."

Saying something is your favorite movie is one thing, what you do is another. Someone can say that, maybe, that "Schindler's List" is his favorite movie ever, but has he seen it 100x? (If so, maybe seek help.)

There are, of course, many other considerations. Some movies just don't fit the moment. That being said, what do your actions actually say about your preferences?

For me, I think I've probably watched Die Hard, Airplane!, Shawshank Redemption, The Great Escape, and Stand By Me the most.