Movie Recommendation Thread

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Not a movie, but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" series (10 episodes) that aired this summer.

Always been a sci-fi buff, and while I prefer hardcore sci-fi, the lighthearted style of Star Trek (TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9... I guess ENT works too) is very entertaining to me. Much like how I loved the oftentimes even sillier Stargate series (SG-1, Atlantis)... That's before the Stargate people tried to make a serious, dramatic soap opera of it all with SG Universe... It had its moments, but that was mostly because of Robert Carlyle.  

The recent Star Trek series "Discovery" followed the same pattern, had its moments but was ultimately quite annoying. Too much contrived personal drama, too much decidedly non-Trek-like atmosphere, characters act like children throwing hissy fits half the time. Too much "wokeness" forcibly injected into it all as well. Very tiring. Not to mention the timeline issues.

Universally panned by fans, too. Obviously. Kinda like how "Rings of Power" was thrashed by actual LotR fans, as it was plagued by the same defects.

Anyway, people were saying that "Strange New Worlds" had gone back to the classical recipe, including the episodic nature that I love in these types of series. I was skeptical at first but as the positive reviews by actual Trek fans started piling up I decided to give it a try.

And yep, it works. There is interpersonal drama of course, but it's not childish and "woke", thank god. It feels like actual Star Trek for once, a wee bit silly but fun and surprisingly clever.

Now they're working on the 2nd season, which I guess will air next summer. Not gonna spoil anything in case anyone's actually interested in it, but since it takes place shortly before TOS and several key characters have already shown up, I wonder if Pavel Chekov will pop up in the 2nd season, and what they'll do with that now that everything even remotely "Russian" is toxic.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Not a movie, but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" series (10 episodes) that aired this summer.

Well, I think you should pay attention to "Orville" and "Star Trek: Lower Decks" if you still haven't done it. In addition, the first season of the TV show "Dark Matters" is very good (but only the first season, because the next two seasons could not keep the bar, and the first as a whole can be considered as an independent finished story).

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"Once upon a time in the desert"

"Its own war"

Russian horror anthology based on the works of Russian writers

So, Cyberslaw is already in 2024!

For those who have forgotten or not seen it before:

pseudo-historical fantasy "Others"

The year is 2015. The young writer Nikolai Ryabinin lives in the capital, spends evenings in fashionable establishments and is not particularly interested in the agenda until he learns from his parents that his brother, with whom he had quarreled for a long time, has gone missing in Donbas. Nikolai goes on a quest, unaware that this mission will change his life forever.

Do you remember the Russian comic book movie "Major Grom"?


The second film is coming out at the end of May: