Looking for recommendations
Last weekend, we watched the movie her and liked it very much. If you missed it, too, it was from 2013, very successful and was recommended to me by someone in an AI forum because it is eerily reminiscent of 2026 AI and, in particular, the ChatGPT experience. I won’t offer any spoilers, but it contained no cliches and went to places we didn’t expect.
We try to watch a movie on Saturday nights, but it’s really hard to find ones we like. Uncle B is allergic to superheroes, explosions and dragons. I’m not a fan of romance. Leaving those aside, can you recommend anything you’ve seen lately and enjoyed? We will rent or buy the DVD on Ebay.
Forget ‘lately’ – we’ve missed a lot of good films over the years because we’re not plugged into those circles.
Yes, my life is still a swirl of construction site chaos. Looking for a little escapism.
Posted: September 9th, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 6
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Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: September 10, 2026, 12:27 am
How about “the money pit”.
Mr Blandings builds his dream house?
Maybe not at this time? 😋
Comment from aelf
Time: September 10, 2026, 2:20 am
“The Lion in Winter” (1968, drama, Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn).
“Simon” (1980, comedy, Alan Arkin)
“The In-Laws” (1979, comedy, Alan Arkin)
“Hopscotch” (1980, comedy, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson)
“House Calls” (1978, comedy, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson)
“Going in Style” (1979, comedy, George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg)
Comment from steve
Time: September 10, 2026, 12:43 pm
Wag the dog
Crazy people
Quick change
Going berserk
Comment from Joe A
Time: September 10, 2026, 10:06 pm
Some recent movies I really loved that have no superheroes etc.:
Project Hail Mary (and The Martian if you haven’t seen it, same writer.)
Disclosure Day
Sketch
Coyote V Acme was also a lot of fun, although it’s still making hay in the theaters. Sorry, “Cinemas”.
All of them big and fun and remarkably low in cynism.
Comment from steve
Time: September 10, 2026, 10:14 pm
Idiocracy is a fun dystopia future movie.
And, were you wish to curl up with a fun dystopian novel, I recommend “Travels in Nihilion” by Allan Silitoe.
An attempt to research a travel guide to a completely nihilistic country, vaguely located somewhere in the Balkans
Comment from aelf
Time: September 11, 2026, 2:34 am
“Coyote V Acme was also a lot of fun […]”
It’s been running for 2 weeks now locally. It boggles the mind that Warner Brothers was never going to release it.
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