i will watch another Korean movie maybe tomorrow because i feel like 1.5 stars i gave “The Handmaiden” on MovieLens is not representative of Korean Movies in general …
as i wrote in my review the only reason i gave “The Handmaiden” a low rating is over the top misandry …
anyway it’s not your fault i was going to watch “The Handmaiden” anyway …
hope i will have better luck with the next Korean movie hopefully tomorrow …
EDIT: 4 stars
watched 25 minutes and had to stop because i was too scared !
it was 2 AM and i have to go to gym at 5 AM ( when it opens ) and i realized if i finish the movie i will go to gym with so much adrenal fatigue i will drop the bar on my head while Olympic lifting and fucking end up disabled …
the movie was just so fucking stressful to watch i knew i would have nothing left for the gym if i kept watching it …
lifting isn’t just muscular - it’s psychological too … you can’t go in there emotionally wrecked and expect to have a good workout …
well, i can do an easy machines-only workout on a shit day but i have already had like 3 days off from training and today isn’t supposed to be an easy workout day …
i will finish watching it but not today …
EDIT: finished watching. 4 stars.
watched 25 minutes and had to stop because i was too scared !
I didn’t know Russians got scared too!
“unsane” ( 2018 ) surprised me in a good way so i moved it to this thread.
i was expecting it to be quite bad but i really enjoyed it.
sure it was improbable at times but it’s a fucking movie. overall i feel this movie is under-rated. it felt like a high class film to me. maybe it’s just me personally that this movie speaks to for whatever reason.
don’t want to go into what it was about in case you decide to watch it.
as for Russians not getting scared … we’re only human bro ! anyway i wasn’t scared in the sense of having to suck on my thumb but i could feel stress hormones building up in my body and i know from experience once this happens your workout is fucked.
a lot of mentally ill people with roid rage in the gym and sometimes they get in your face and you get this release of stress hormones and after that you can san goodbye to the pump and all your timing on all the technical lifts and on butterfly will be whack as well.
you need to start a workout after a good night’s sleep, a good meal, having given it enough time to digest, you must feel comfortable and relaxed and slowly build up intensity such that your body’s energy levels are raised evenly and everything remains in balance and proper tune …
on the other hand if your muscles are cold but but your stress hormones are through the roof - forget it - you’re out of balance.
even worse is if the stress hormones deplete all your energy before you even make it to the gym. then you’re out of balance and out of energy too. can’t get a pump, can’t coordinate any movements and can’t lift anything either.
only thing you can do at this point is just go through the motions with easy machine exercises to clear the remaining stress out of your system but that just gets you back to square zero of feeling normal. the workout is basically wasted.
sometimes that’s unavoidable and it’s fine because not every workout needs to be good. Poliquin had this down to a science but basically some workouts are great, some are shit and most are just fine and that’s just how it is - no need to stress over this.
but if you can avoid having a shit workout obviously you do what you can towards that end.
anyway i was able to avoid that fate - workout was great. so was the movie.
Hesher ( 2010 )
just finished watching - i loved it LOL
this movie was supposed to be retarded - i watched it because it has Natalie Portman in it …
well, that was a good call.
it is not a completely serious movie ( duh ) but it’s a lot more serious than i expected … with a healthy dose of retardation as well 
overall a good mix of comedy and drama, good vibes and darkness …
just really well made. little boy’s acting was great.
4 stars.
Walkabout ( 1971 )
4 stars
i expected a cheesy movie about how aboriginals are better than white people and only wanted to watch it because the girl was pretty and nude in multiple scenes.
the movie exceeded my expectations - surprisingly it was neither cheesy nor anti-white, instead it’s an art film that is moderately romantic / erotic but never soppy or vulgar. very tasteful.
this movie contrasts tradition with modernity, nature with cities, reality with fantasy, beauty with ugliness, cruelty with kindness and so on …
apparently it won the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 and i think that’s well deserved.
10 Cloverfield Lane ( 2016 )
the movie was HOT. it genuinely felt like a nightmare.
sexy, creepy, bipolar …
not particularly realistic - but what nightmares are ?
a movie like this will never be accepted by critics but it’s a work of art in an “it’s so bad it’s good” kind of way.
this is a PG-13 movie but it feels like it is meant for an R audience. they simply edited it to be PG-13 because it has to fit in with the rest of the “Cloverfield” franchise which is PG-13 … but this particular “chapter” really would have been better off as an R movie if it was stand alone.
i have no intention of watching the other “Cloverfield” movies at this time as they are supposed to be not as good, done by different directors, have a completely different subject etc …
but i do recommend this one.
i have to note there is strong similarity between “Unsane” ( 2018 ) and “10 Cloverfield Lane” ( 2016 ) and i think it has a lot to do with the fact that they came just 2 years apart …
nobody will ever care about either of these two movies yet they are better than pretty much any movie from the 20th century …
even though these two movies were never supposed to be good they are 3-dimensional in a sense whereas 20th century movies are flat … and this is simply due to them being modern. same as modern video games are 3D while classic video games are 2D. what i mean by that is that the plot and characters and acting all have more depth in modern films, yet nobody wants to admit this.
there is a huge bias where people glorify old movies simply because more people had a chance to appreciate them while nobody cares about new movies since old farts would rather keep re-watching old films due to their dementia …
you have to be conscious of this bias … it also exists in all other areas not just film
to give you the ultimate example - Bible - it is objectively not a very good book. but it’s really old and a lot of people know about it so it’s considered great. older movie classics are like that too.
movies like “Unsane” ( 2018 ) and “10 Cloverfield Lane” ( 2016 ) are the opposite. they are good but will never matter because they came out in a period of time where other films are better.
we judge greatness of a film by comparing it to other films of its era - that’s grading on a curve. you have to be aware of this curve.
old movies suck. OBJECTIVELY. the only old movies i respect are ones which correctly predicted the future.
Really?..I just moved so I haven’t watched anything yet.
I envy you…so many films watched!!
But what of stuff like the Godfather? You don’t think that holds up?
I do agree we grade films…hell, life itself…on a curve.
We judge the 80’s by our 80’s self, looking back with nostalgia.
And so with every age.
For films, acting has improved astronomically.
I don’t know if you’ve watched the first big screen efforts of Paul Newman and Gregory Peck…monotone…looking at the camera…not responding to their costars with the right timing. Bad, bad, bad…yet both improved enough to later win Academy Awards. If they started now they would be stuck on TV.
Cosmopolis and Unsane are on my list…but then that list is a noose…you’ve watched so many! (Ok…no more envy…)
haven’t seen it.
i hope you’re not just going by my reviews and are using Movielens to check the odds of enjoying a movie.
i was wondering where you been LOL
Haven’t looked at movielens lately…got a huge backlog in terms of films it already recommended to me…
I wouldn’t have watched Aniara or Dogville based on Movielens so only a gain for me so far.
well i’m just warning you that half the time for me the difference between movie i like and the movie i don’t like is whether or not i think the chick is hot …
that’s more or less how i decide what to watch LOL
An honest man… 
Disturbing.
That’s the word I would use to describe Unsane.
EDIT: @Dissident moved the body of the post here:
Overall, intense.
ah yes a movie that not only deals with my favorite subjects but also the girl has AMAZING TITS and is doing a really bad job of keeping them covered up ! the cameraman never fails to frame her nipples perfectly !
i was expecting a boring movie that would make me wish it was over already instead i found myself jerking off and wishing the movie was longer.
do not watch this movie with your family members.
Lie With Me ( 2005 )
thank you MovieLens !
just 5.2 out of 10 on IMDB but MovieLens predicted 3.8 out of 5 for me …
it’s actually a 5 star movie for me and my new benchmark for an erotic movie …
you must understand, however, that erotic movies are subjective … i was actually supposed to watch another erotic movie that night but after scrolling through it i realized it wasn’t going to do it for me that night, then i started scrolling through “Lie With Me” and i didn’t get very far into it before realizing i was already getting a boner … so i knew right away that was the movie to watch !
the girl was hot obviously but i’m not exaggerating that the film isn’t about her looks. it’s literally about the relationship and is carried by her acting rather than looks.
in the entire movie i was never once not convinced by her acting. whether she was acting drunk or stoned, passionate or emotionless, having an orgasm or a fit / tantrum - it all looked real. i have never seen this level of acting in an erotic movie.
and it is an erotic movie. you feel the passion of the characters. and you get to look at their skin A LOT including the cocks, which for some reason never seem erect though … maybe that’s where they draw the line between erotica and porn.
the movie is so well made you could watch it with a girl and not get accused of watching pornography simply due to how believable the characters are, even if the plot is basically non-existent and typical of erotic movies and even if half the screen time is occupied by somebody’s skin.
i will be lowering the ratings of other erotic and wannabe-erotic movies on MovieLens because none of them come close to “Lie With Me” and i previously gave some of them pretty high ratings because i wanted to get more erotic recommendations.
i will be altogether deleting my review of “Live Nude Girls” because it has now in comparison dropped in my eyes below the threshold of being worthy of a review whereas it had 3.5 stars from me just yesterday, which was a full star more than the 2.5 stars i gave to Top Gun Maverick …
It’s that good?!
I’ll try to watch it soon.
like i said it’s an erotic movie. whether you’re in it or not is entirely up to the viewer. start watching and you will know if you’re in it or not pretty quickly.
with regular movies you don’t know if it was good or not until the very last minute when everything is revealed and you realize either the 2 hours were all worth it or it was a giant ripoff.
but with erotic movies you know if it’s good or not ( for you subjectively ) from basically the beginning, because it’s not about the plot but whether the characters do it for you or not.
in case of “Lie with me” you will need literally the first 5 minutes of the movie and you will know whether to watch it or not. if you’re not hooked in 5 minutes - don’t watch it.
i read somewhere once that it takes a man something like one second after seeing a woman to know if he wants her or not. it could very well be.
in future erotic movie reviews instead of giving them star ratings i will probably just say how many minutes of it you need to watch to know whether to keep watching or not as some may start off slower than others. but “Lie with Me” is quick off the blocks ! the very first shot of the film is the lips and open mouth of the female protagonist masturbating to porn topless. 5 minutes from that and you will know if it’s for you.
i will add that it starts out in a slightly more vulgar fashion and ends in a more sentimental romantic fashion because the director is trying to help you decide whether the movie is for you or not as quickly as possible. it would be pretty bad if you started watching a romantic movie with your family that turned into a porno halfway through, but when it’s the other way it’s not as bad.
typically with movies like this i quickly fast forward through about half of the movie to see if i will like it but in this case you don’t need to do that - just watch the first 5 minutes WITHOUT fast forwarding.
this is key - do NOT fast forward. watch the first 5 minutes and 30 seconds ( including opening credits before the first shot ) or 5 minutes flat starting from the opening shot.
Pretty Baby ( 1978 )
5 stars. Exceeded all expectations.
best i can explain this movie is it’s “Lolita” ( 1997 )
and “House of Tolerance” ( 2011 )
in one movie …
except it precedes those movies by decades and is completely it’s own thing
the movie is less sensationalist than “Lolita” or “Tirza” ( 2010 )
but despite trying to be light hearted bordering on comedy in the end it is equally soul crushing …
by the end of the movie i had completely forgotten that 12 year old Brooke Shields was completely nude in multiple scenes because honestly that isn’t the disturbing part - the disturbing part is just the sheer nihilism of the world painted by the film …
in that sense it is almost like Aniara ( 2018 )
in fact i can definitely see similarity between these films …
needless to say i recommend “pretty baby” …
a more descriptive title would have been “absolute soul crushing horror masquerading as child porn masquerading as a comedy” …
i already feel bad for making @marlon watch it LOL
You already converted me from regular films with Tirza and Dogville.
Damn you! 
I’ll definitely find the time for Pretty Baby.
