Yeah, his movie analyses are usually done through the lens of psychoanalysis akin to Freud/Jung. Which is great if that’s your thing, but isn’t great if it’s not haha.
I actually just read how to read lacan a few weeks ago who’s a major influence in his work. Infact I’d go so far as to say zizek gave lacan the relevance he never had by reworking many of his ideas.
Jizzmaster you have to watch that movie, it’s one of the trippiest movie i’ve ever seen. And it’s particularly charming with subs instead of the dubbed version.
Iron Sky from 2012. It doesn’t have good ratings but the first time I watched it with my father, it was hilarious. Granted, the humour is quite dark but the cultural differences that you will come to see are so funny. I liked it, personally, but of course it’s not for everyone.
Blackbeard’s Ghost. Watchable on Disney+ right now. Family friendly, great performances and some epic physical comedy from Peter Ustinov (voice of Prince John in Disney’s Robin Hood).
Deathgasm. It’s about a bunch of metalheads that find some sort of old hymn. When played, it summons hoards of demons/zombies. So then they start fucking up the zombies. I vaguely remember one of them being impaled with a dildo? Either way, it was an entertaining “turning your brain off” watch that’s pretty unknown afaik.
Swiss Army Man (idk Daniel Radcliff is a farting, talking corpse. Movie about self acceptance? An elderly couple walked out of the theater after the opening credits when i saw it lol)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Robert Downy Jr & Val Kilmer detective/noire)
The Naked Gun Trilogy (Leslie Nielson as a cop, idk how old you are but maybe you haven’t heard of these)
Sci-Fi
Upgrade (quadriplegic man puts AI in his head)
Turbo Kid (Mad Max type dystopian future, one of my favorite movies ever but I’ve only been able to find it on YouTube or “free streaming”. It’s Canadian and their blu-rays don’t work in the U.S.)
In Bruges is incredibly funny, and demonstrates perfectly why Colin Farrell deserves his place on the A list. Especially when he teams up with Brendan Gleeson.
Edit: just remembered I still haven’t watched Banshees of Inisherin. That’s tonight sorted!
Wings of Honneamise is an anime from the 80s that I rarely see mentioned that has a special place in my heart. It’s about the first space program in some foreign world, with conflict and war that captures the frontier spirit.
Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia, is not exactly some small indie movie but I never see it mentioned anywhere. I would describe it as a fish out of water story with two American cops going to Osaka. I love the movie and the soundtrack.
Colossus: The Forbin Project from 1970 is a sci-fi classic that I think really holds up.
A Taxing Woman from 1987, co-incidentally the same year as Wings of Honneamise, is a Japanese movie about a tax collector going after a criminal who is hiding his income really well. I caught this late at night on TV 30 years or so ago and just enjoyed it a lot.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is a French movie, bringing a comic of the same name to the screen. I really liked the comics already and the movie was fun as well. Early 20th century Paris, some fantasy elements.
Forbidden Planet, 1956, is also a sci-fi classic, starring a young Leslie Nielsen in a serious role.
The 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is my favorite version of the story. It stars Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum. You might have seen Sutherland from this movie as a meme.
La Haine is another French movie, starring Vincent Cassel, Very intense, very good.
Ladyhawke is a fantasy movie starring Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick. I wish there were more movies like this. Just telling a nice story. A cursed couple, a thief and a lot of adventure.
The Name of the Rose, with Sean Connery, Christian Slater and Ron Perlman, is a lovely version of Umberto Eco’s book of the same name, that tells the story in an actually entertaining way.
The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp is another book adaptation that I think is better than the book. Fantasy and mystery and suspense.
Oxygen is a French sci-fi movie with a really minimalistic set and cast that I was pleasantly surprised by.
The Patlabor movies are among my favorite anime movies. Mostly calm and mature characters and nice stories.
The Prophecy with Christopher Walken and Elias Koteas was an indie success in the 90s. Angels, the Devil and mortals caught in between.
Shin Godzilla (2016) is my favorite Godzilla movie of all time. I can see why people might not like it, but it just tickled me in all the right places.
Strange Days is one of the best cyberpunk movies out there.
Top Secret! is brought to you by Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, who brought us, amongst other movies, The Naked Gun trilogy and Hot Shots. It’s equally silly and funny.
Have you not been in the internet long? Anytime Galaxy Quest is mentioned it gets universal praise. It’s known as the “best Star Trek movie” despite not being Star Trek.
For animated sci-fi, I’d go with A Scanner Darkly. It is about a future LA deep in a drug war that uses rotoscoping to lean into the feeling that not everything is right.
It’s such a great movie. That rotoscoping effect definitely gives it this weird uneasiness the whole time. Also shout out to the weird Alex Jones cameo. That was certainly a…choice.
Best Polish SF movie is a comedy from the 80s abut two guys who are hibernated and wake up in a world without men. It was filmed during communism and it’s full of hidden jabs at the system. It’s actually a good SF movie.
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