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Nobody
2021 · Film · 91 min
Directed by Ilya Naishuller
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.
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I've enjoyed quite a few movies from the past 5 years, but I don't know what you like, so who knows.
Baby Assassins - japanese movie about two teenage girls who are assassins. Very weird and funny movie and the fight choreography I found fascinating. I can only describe as "floppy".
Tetris - this was on Apple TV. A fictionalized retelling of the story of getting Tetris out of the USSR and licensed to distribute in the US.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - A music biopic of Weird Al Yankovic, in true Weird Al style
Nobody - action / revenge flick with Bob Odenkirk
I could go on. No need to limit yourself to the past 5 years though. Surely you haven't seen every movie from before 2020?
Lots of great shows too, and you don't need any subscriptions on the high seas...
I liked the 2021 film "Nobody" too, it kicked ass, but I think asking an ordinary civilian to engage in symmetric warfare with the mafia in their club is perhaps asking for a lot from a person.
People in my social circle know I like cassettes and often funnel old collections my way. I just received a box with 85 vintage cassettes. Probably 50% will be unplayable from warping of the outer shell (these are often pulled out of an attic or storage with annual cold/heat cycles). A further 20% won't sound very good.
However those that are in good shape typically sound terrific. The quality of the player is key (most currently produced cassette players are truly awful) and older machines can easily be brought back to life in most cases. Sony's old high-end walkman's are also magnificent for playback.
Metal tapes are hard to find new, but i have repurposed used ones to great effect. I would like to emphasize that even the boring stalwart type 1 cassettes can sound really good. The quality of pre-recorded could be incredibly inconsistent fresh out of the wrapper back in the day and I think this gave them a bad reputation.
Some of my vintage Beetles cassettes, and Peter Gabriel cassettes had extremely high production standards and really hold up. "Peter Gabriel's "Security" was digitally mastered and sounds fantastic.
I was watching the new film "Nobody" and the main character steals a hot rod with a cassette player and rocks out while driving. The rattle of the old cassette and sound of it loading really hit a nostalgia nerve but it was plainly cool. This kind of thing appearing in new media might be one reason people are going back.
> because it's not only cheaper, it's also more "like being there".
"Being there" is an excuse Hollywood has used for ages for not training actors properly, not doing any fight choreography etc.
Marvel now spends millions of dollars on boring CGI fights because they couldn't be bothered to spend the same (or actually less) money on filming actual fights. Just look at what John Wick did with a 54-57-year old actor and Nobody did with a 57-year old actor for the fraction of the price of most modern action movies.
People still like to get out of the house and go do something
I second this, but movie theaters no longer fill that gap for me.
I can only speak for myself. I used to enjoy going to the movies. At some point, how theaters are managed changed dramatically. If people were disrupting the movie, I could have the manager remove the person. This is no longer the case. Every manager I have interacted with in the last few years was passive and hands-off. I can't even get a refund if I have a bad experience. So my options are put up with the idiots, leave the theater, walk into a near-by theater playing the same film or risk a police incident if I remove the person. I have removed people and even had the manager thank me, but that is super risky and not my responsibility. Needless to say, movie theaters are no longer an immersive or enjoyable experience for me.
Or I can watch a movie at home, as many times as I wish without interruption. I have invite as many people as I wish. I can implement any sound system I desire. I don't have to wait for what might be a boring scene to use the restroom. It is a fully immersive and enjoyable experience. I just watched "Nobody" at home, twice. Great movie btw, highly recommended if you enjoyed John Wick but wished the fight scenes were a little more realistic in terms of the main character getting hurt in every fight. Some day I will get VR and make the movie even more immersive.
I think this is why I've been struggling with finding good films to watch nowadays. Shows are doing great but movies have been suffering. Take the movie "Nobody" for instance. How the hell that movie got the ratings it did I will never know. Not only is it not good, but it was nothing what it was marketed as.
My solution to this is to watch actual films that are made with artistic intent or to see certain things that are submitted into festivals instead of just the main films shown to everyone. It's helped tremendously but it becomes a chore quick when there are a lot of "artsy" movies that tell the exact same story you've seen a million times.
The recent "Nobody" is a good twist on action, as well as "Hardcore Henry" is interesting. When the storyline takes unexpected turns, or uses clichés as bait and does not follow through on the cliché can be fresh. In general, a feature length film is too short to do many literary works justice, and serialization does a far better job relating a quality story. For example, Netflix's "Ozark" would not be called "action" in the feature film sense, but the intellectual violence in that show is far and above stupid gun/car/fist violence. Films like "The Congress", "Terminator 2", and "Tropic Thunder" represent the best the Hollywood feature film system can produce.