Thread 214003332

This is the most underrated film of all time.
It's so damn incredible. There are other neat films that haven't garnered enough attention, but they are not cinema. Not like this.

>>214003332 (OP)
Fuck off Nicolas.

Wages of Fear renders it redundant.

>>214003385
wages is fear is so far superior in every way its fucking absurd

>>214003332 (OP)
dishonest title, there was no magic or crystal balls or magic staves to be seen, only a fucking truck that was magically fixed

>>214003332 (OP)
It’s a good, fun movie, but this is such a film bro take. It’s really not that special. A good watch, but not a forgotten masterpiece that you film fuckers make it out to be.

>>214003474
based 80iq or 150 iq take chad

Even Wages of Fear is not that great.

>>214003385
LOVE Friedkin, but Wages is better in some parts for sure.

>>214003385
Wages of Fear has better characters but Sorcerer has better setpieces. The bridge scene is one of the finest sequences ever committed to cinema.

>>214003603
Hogwash. Wages is better shot, has better pacing, it feels more dire, real, desperate, the climax is gruesome, it's fucking French? No comparison.

>>214003588
I never got into Friedkin, seemed like one of the plainer, more generic New Hollywood guys. Then again I've only seen like four of his films

>>214003332 (OP)
what a gay thread
>no this version of its better
but i suppose thats what you get for making your OP so pretensious
>THE GREATEST UNKNOWN GEM OF ALL TIME
bruh its fucking sorcerer, everyone here has seent it. just post fucking movies u like and say why u liked it, no need to take it further than that like a retard

>>214003670
>it's fucking French
That alone sets it back on all accounts. Everyone knows God made American the language of Cinema.

>>214003725
Praise be to Michael Bay, amen.

The characters in wages are straight up called mario and luigi kek

>>214003332 (OP)
The video game equivalent would be mudrunner/snowrunner except the only fear is wasting 3 hours on what you thought would be a shortcut.

>>214003332 (OP)
based. i had the exact same feeling after watching it. its one of the coolest movies ever made

>>214003332 (OP)
>>he saw the youtube video
getting your cultural cues from communists gamma squirts, incredible.

>>214003756
And may he also be with you, Bayrother

>>214003332 (OP)
Wages of Fear is trash. /tv/ has terrible taste. I am much better than all of you.

>>214003491
Spoken like a true contrarian

>>214003332 (OP)
true

>>214003474
also has no cunts! (except one for a few seconds in the beginning)
I remember a thread from a few months ago on /tv/ and after like a hundred posts the conclusion was that all movies without women are top notch..... really drives some points home.........

>>214003449
pic rel, CATCH

>>214003702
most directors never make a good movie.
from the rest 95% make good movie.
Friedkin has 2 good movies (Sorcerer & To Live and Die in L.A.)

>>214004158
>from the rest 95% make good movie.
I mean they make ONE good movie

>>214003332 (OP)
>referenced in the Simpsons but not family guy so zoomers dont know it exists

>>214003332 (OP)
The driving part is fantastic. Everything before and after that isn’t very special.

>>214003332 (OP)
At one point, it was probably underrated and on the cusp of being forgotten. Now it's probably the most overused way for film dilletantes to signal to others their impeccable taste in movies. If it shows up in anybody's lists of favorites, I know to immediately disregard their opinions about anything.

>>214004602
>Now it's probably the most overused way for film dilletantes to signal to others their impeccable taste in movies. If it shows up in anybody's lists of favorites, I know to immediately disregard their opinions about anything.
Nicely put. What other movies would you red flag?

>>214003332 (OP)
>Four men from different parts of the globe are trying to hide from the law. They are offered ten thousand dollars and legal citizenship to transport a shipment of dangerously unstable nitroglycerine.

>>214003385
yeah, i think so too. i love friedkin and roy scheider, but i find wages of fear just the superior film; it is so tense and tighltly shot and directed. could also be because i saw wages of fear before sorcerer that i like it better

>>214004602
>Forgotten film has suddenly became more popular...so it's bad now, because I don't feel special anymore for talking about it
Fuck off, nerd gatekeeping faggot

>>214003332 (OP)
Not very good though, is it.

>>214004762
eh thats not the issue. since OP presents it in such a memeish way "THIS IS THE GOAAAATTTTT, WOW REAL CINEMA"
its fair to take it as a red flag, that the perceived motivation by this is to be "welcomed" into the "ingroup" by knowing their memes, rather than actually loving this movie itself.
>>214004632
nta, but since i agree with him, similar movies that are "redflaggable". reservoir dogs... tarantino... christopher nolan. fight club...
doesnt matter how i personally feel about them too

>>214003332 (OP)

it would have been a better remembered movie if Steve McQueen had been the lead. he quit the project because Friedkin wouldn't cast Ali McGraw (his wife)

>>214003332 (OP)
This movie is fucking awful if you've seen Wages of Fear. Like it actually fucking sucks lmao.

>>214005069
Would it really have been so hard to have Ali McGraw take the role of that haggish looking maid he dances with at the end

>>214003332 (OP)
This shit and Heaven's Gate killed mainstream cinema

>>214003474
>>214003533
The movie Warlock didn't have any warlocks in it either, just some wild west faggots

>>214004949
>reservoir dogs... tarantino... christopher nolan. fight club...
those are just dudebro picks, I think he meant movies that the average normie won't be aware of but will have been completely worn out in more movie-aware circles.
for example, the lighthouse comes to mind as a tryhard pick a movie newbie would champion to seem more insightful or interesting in his tastes than they really are

A lot of samefagging ITT

>>214005486
>Heaven's Gate
I love that movie so fucking much.
And you're wrong btw. It didn't kill anything by itself, it was the studio executives who were looking for any excuse to strangle the creative-authoritarian minds that elevated the bar. Those movies, along with waterworld, were sacrificed so that greed could run rampant.

>>214005504
wasnt one of them named warlock? wish he pulled out a grimoire instead of a colt hahaha

>>214005512
dudebro is a good way to explain the phenomenon i was trying to.
so, you have a friend, a "dudebro" and you know hes just not that into deep analytical observation or whatever. he's not cerebral. but he comes to you and says "oh man i looovedd fightclub, it was so awesome how they boxed in the bar" now he enjoyed it, but not on a deeper level. theres nothing wrong with that, its just a very cliched movie and most people just take their own base level observations from it. durden is so chad. guerilla terrorism rules, etc. but really its a commentary on the emptiness of modern male living, and etc. depressing stuff.
im just rambling at this point i dont even know what im trying to say, theres nothing wrong with dudebro liking fightclub and not being an observant nerd picking up on symbolism. but the issue becomes, when i want to discuss the deep things i see and like in fightclub, im now assosciated with dudebro and i just want to punch people and blow shit up or whatever.

>>214005504
They fixed that in the remake

>>214005586
nobody was named warlock
the town was called warlock
why was a town in the old west of frontier america called warlock?
to trick goys into thinking they were going to see a movie about magicians

>>214005711
dishonest filmmaking

>>214003332 (OP)
Boring shit. I skipped through it. None of the 50 seconds was worth watching. All shit. Don't push it. Some things are just shit and people push them hard as if that will make them not shit. Force an opinon critics presented or something "common knowledge" it was good propagated like things are built off it.

It's just shit. Have standards. This movie was the best some parasite could do, and it's worthless. All the resources that went into it were misplaced. No a truck over a bridge is not entertainment.

>>214005623
dudebros are normies. actual normgroids. they're the ones who parrot pulp fiction, fight club and the like as the pinnacle of cinema.
a film dilettante is not that, think letterboxd user who rates directors such as friedkin, kurosawa and some flavorless french crap as the absolute paramount of the artform, while being surface-level in their takes and worst of all, impersonal (borrowing points made by others instead of interpreting the works through their own experience and beliefs).

>>214003332 (OP)
These ironic memes are tiresome.

>>214003385
Honestly i don't know why friedkin even bothered attempting to remake it.
The dude's arrogance is astonishing.

>>214003332 (OP)
Slaughtered by Star Wars at the box office.

>>214003385
>>214003449
I watched Sorcerer first thinking Wages of Fear would feel outdated and mediocre, but if anything Wages makes Sorcerer feel completely redundant. Henri-Georges Clouzot manages to keep the tension simmering while Friedkin's vision is much more inconsistent in tone

>>214007706
you can just say you are LGBTQQ, everybody knows it anyway, you don't need to shit in the middle of the street and shriek like an autist about their diploma

>>214008718
>>214003603
i hate simpsons but appreciate people who like simpsons

>>214005827
Low quality bait. Do better.