Banter RDT 153 - RDTier List

[DanWCE]

I'm sure I've put out the call before, but always looking for new thriller/suspense type movies if anyone's got recommendations. I reckon NCFOM appeared in almost all of my generic search results over the course of the years but the movie name, and it's description as a Western both put me off ever watching it. I think I've learnt a lot by committing to the watch instead of judging it unfairly and prematurely based on some ideals I'd created for myself.

Who knows, maybe I'd even like Sci Fi these days?

 

[squashface]

I'm sure I've put out the call before, but always looking for new thriller/suspense type movies if anyone's got recommendations. I reckon NCFOM appeared in almost all of my generic search results over the course of the years but the movie name, and it's description as a Western both put me off ever watching it. I think I've learnt a lot by committing to the watch instead of judging it unfairly and prematurely based on some ideals I'd created for myself.

Who knows, maybe I'd even like Sci Fi these days?

Shutter Island is pretty elite if you don’t already know the twist

 

[Ishmael_]

I'm sure I've put out the call before, but always looking for new thriller/suspense type movies if anyone's got recommendations. I reckon NCFOM appeared in almost all of my generic search results over the course of the years but the movie name, and it's description as a Western both put me off ever watching it. I think I've learnt a lot by committing to the watch instead of judging it unfairly and prematurely based on some ideals I'd created for myself.

Who knows, maybe I'd even like Sci Fi these days?

I finally got around to watching Green Room the other day, it's a great low budget thriller, with a really hard edge. I'd recommend anything by Jeremy Saulnier - Blue Ruin, Hold the Dark...

Also, another one I liked called 'Standoff at Sparrow Creek', which is another great lower budget US militia themed thriller, lots of tension.

Or anything by the Safie Brothers is great, Good Time, Uncut Gems - are both heart-attack inducing.

 

[DanWCE]

Shutter Island is pretty elite if you don’t already know the twist

Have watched several times. Has Leo ever done a bad movie? I find myself liking pretty much anything he's in.

I finally got around to watching Green Room the other day, it's a great low budget thriller, with a really hard edge. I'd recommend anything by Jeremy Saulnier - Blue Ruin, Hold the Dark...

Also, another one I liked called 'Standoff at Sparrow Creek', which is another great lower budget US militia themed thriller, lots of tension.

Or anything by the Safie Brothers is great, Good Time, Uncut Gems - are both heart-attack inducing.

Cheers! Good Time and Uncut Gems are both on my list after last night's research. Do I have to watch one to watch the other? I couldn't work that out from googling last night.

 

[Bender_]

Cheers! Good Time and Uncut Gems are both on my list after last night's research. Do I have to watch one to watch the other? I couldn't work that out from googling last night.

They're not related in any way, just same directors and shot in New York.

 

[Dazzler9]

I've heard good reviews about Uncut Gems. It's on my list.

NCFOM Spoiler ahead, be warned!

Is Anton Chigurh meant to be death incarnate? Is his coin flip representative of taking a risk in life? Win, you get to play on, lose, it's all over? My first watch, I felt like he was the Terminator. But Death is obviously a better metaphor.

Edit: Is the Terminator meant to be death incarnate?

 

[THE A5]

Pfft, I'm chronically single so will be able to do whatever I want grand final day. Suckers.

hey you must be new around here.

 

[WCErevival]

Shutter Island is pretty elite if you don’t already know the twist

I liked Shutter Island but the ending actually annoyed me. The movie felt a bit pointless in the end

 

[squashface]

Have watched several times. Has Leo ever done a bad movie? I find myself liking pretty much anything he's in.



Cheers! Good Time and Uncut Gems are both on my list after last night's research. Do I have to watch one to watch the other? I couldn't work that out from googling last night.

I reckon when it’s all said and done, Leo will go down as one of if not the best actor of all time

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Is anyone playing Among Us?

Given the explosion of werewolf popularity on the board this year, I figure there’d be a few people giving it a crack. Free on mobile and works well enough, otherwise it’s in PC.

Basically interactive werewolf, where you and your crew work on a ship to complete tasks, while an unknown imposter sabotages the tasks and kills crew members. Voting rounds interspersed where you try to convince everyone who the imposter is and shoot people out of the airlock until you do.

 

[squashface]

Is anyone playing Among Us?

Given the explosion of werewolf popularity on the board this year, I figure there’d be a few people giving it a crack. Free on mobile and works well enough, otherwise it’s in PC.

Basically interactive werewolf, where you and your crew work on a ship to complete tasks, while an unknown imposter sabotages the tasks and kills crew members. Voting rounds interspersed where you try to convince everyone who the imposter is and shoot people out of the airlock until you do.

Do you melt hard and demand to be lynched there too?

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Do you melt hard and demand to be lynched there too?

Don't play with inept morons with no tactical nous, so no.

 

[THE A5]

What the **** was Netfilx thinking. A hole lot of yikes.

 

[Bender_]

I've heard good reviews about Uncut Gems. It's on my list.

NCFOM Spoiler ahead, be warned!

Is Anton Chigurh meant to be death incarnate? Is his coin flip representative of taking a risk in life? Win, you get to play on, lose, it's all over? My first watch, I felt like he was the Terminator. But Death is obviously a better metaphor.

Edit: Is the Terminator meant to be death incarnate?

Just makes me think of Wolfenstein as a kid:



Really I just thought he was a reptilian psychopath. But I'm not great with symbolism and such.

 

[THE A5]

This came up on my YT feed a couple days back. That face and voice don't match at all. Must be one of the deepest voices I've heard

 

[Ishmael_]

I've heard good reviews about Uncut Gems. It's on my list.

NCFOM Spoiler ahead, be warned!

Is Anton Chigurh meant to be death incarnate? Is his coin flip representative of taking a risk in life? Win, you get to play on, lose, it's all over? My first watch, I felt like he was the Terminator. But Death is obviously a better metaphor.

Edit: Is the Terminator meant to be death incarnate?

I think for sure death is a good reading of it, but McCarthy and the Coen brothers often deal in nihilism, like you can make the right decisions, do the right things and the universe is indifferent.

So for me Chigurh is a stand in for that cold indifference, he flips a coin, his victims aren't better morally one way or the other. He lives at the end and Tommy Lee Jones' character is left having a bit of an existential crisis, because he's been bested by a force that doesn't care about or follow the rules.

If you like NCFOM, I'd recommend Sicario, which deals with some of the same themes, and is perhaps my favourite modern take on the western.

 

[Bender_]

The Cohen's early nihilists:

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Can anybody recommend a good winery/restaurant for lunch along Caves Rd?

 

[Quinz]

I'm sure I've put out the call before, but always looking for new thriller/suspense type movies if anyone's got recommendations. I reckon NCFOM appeared in almost all of my generic search results over the course of the years but the movie name, and it's description as a Western both put me off ever watching it. I think I've learnt a lot by committing to the watch instead of judging it unfairly and prematurely based on some ideals I'd created for myself.

Who knows, maybe I'd even like Sci Fi these days?

Cube. And to a lesser extent Cube 2: Hypercube

 

[Quinz]

Don't play with inept morons with no tactical nous, so no.

Speaking of inept morons. Post 1045

 

[ChampRevesby]

The Cohen's early nihilists:

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Cut off your Johnson!

 

[pantskyle]

I've heard good reviews about Uncut Gems. It's on my list.

NCFOM Spoiler ahead, be warned!

Is Anton Chigurh meant to be death incarnate? Is his coin flip representative of taking a risk in life? Win, you get to play on, lose, it's all over? My first watch, I felt like he was the Terminator. But Death is obviously a better metaphor.

Edit: Is the Terminator meant to be death incarnate?

Personally thought Uncut Gems was a steaming pile of shit, incredibly boring. Really didn't get the love for it. Sandler was better in Punch Drunk Love.

 

[DanWCE]

Can anybody recommend a good winery/restaurant for lunch along Caves Rd?

Wills Domain is amazing. It's just off Caves Rd. You can't go wrong with Vasse Felix either.

How many options do you want?

 

[Dazzler9]

Wills Domain is amazing. It's just off Caves Rd. You can't go wrong with Vasse Felix either.

How many options do you want?

Do either of those have kids' playgrounds?

 

[DanWCE]

Do either of those have kids' playgrounds?

Not Will's that I recall. Couldn't say for sure about Vasse Felix. Wineries in the South seem to take themselves very seriously. If that's the vibe you're after I couldn't recommend Mandoon in the Swan Valley high enough.