If you like Dirt for the heaviness, I highly recommend listening to the entirety of their first album; Facelift.
I'm in the minority, but it's my favorite album by them. It's very heavy and more on the rock side compared to their other albums. Basically no non-rock songs on the album, save for maybe one.
But sea of sorrow, Sunshine, Bleed the Freak, are some highlights, but the whole album is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EcqOR5gt_M&list=PLrcrQrQ6GVEyQtO3Ih65cE991SgEUU0Ty
I like the first album, Bleach I think it's called.
I love Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots.
Heck I even like Pearl Jam and Creed, and you get mocked endlessly for liking Creed on the interent, but I believe they make amazing music and had the misfortune of coming out when the genre was seen as lame the way hair metal was seen in the early 90s. Had Creed had their big songs come out in 1995, instead of the late 90s and early 2000s, I don't think there'd be this "Creed is the worst band ever" thing.
NIckelback deserves their hate. They're garbage, but Creed writes incredible songs.
But yeah when Grunge gets too mopey, I'm not into it, as a lot of Nirvana is hard to listen to, especially because I associate it with my cringe middle school years, but Grunge at it's best is just a very unique and pretty awesome style of rock. A lot of grunge is more metal than metal in ways.
Like I get way more pumped up listening to Outshined by Soundgarden than most actual "metal bands". Same with dozens of Alice in Chains songs, and even their "mopey" songs are often works of art like Nutshell and Down in a Hole. When Grunge goes hard, it's got such a heavier, cooler feel than traditional metal in my opinion.
I like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, most of the traditional metal bands as much as the next guy...not as much as metalheads, but as much as the next guy who's into rock, but if I had a wrestler song intro, I'd pick Man in the Box or something like that by Alice in Chains over those bands any day of the week.
TL;DR
Grunge comes in two flavors, mopey which can be beautiful music in it's own right, but when it sucks, it really sucks
and rock your face off, out metalling metal. So point is, I'd put myself in the category of grunge fan.
Thanks, I'll look into that complete theme thing. Looks pretty sweet
I have a 2K monitor and I wanted to make the wallpaper sort of nostalgic and I assumed somebody would have taken something like the above image and created a wallpaper fit for modern screens, but google searching has yielded me no good results.
Any of you guys' have a link to a picture like this in good resolution?
I put Transporter because it was like the Jean-Claude 90s films in a way, and was one of the last times you saw a movie that "simple" get a theatrical release. Action movies had to be like Bourne from then on out as you mentioned. And agreed about Bourne. The first one is the only one I kind of like, but I don't love it. The others are unwatchable to me.
The first one had some of that early 2000s style, complete with Moby in the soundtrack.
The rest were shaky cam, constant quick cuts even in dialogue scenes, and devoid of charm.
I really dislike Hateful Eight. But I like Reservoir Dogs.
Great movie, I agree
It has that, but it's also not politically correct. In the hands of any other director it would have been preachy.
But Tarantino actually goes comedic where no other directors would dare, such as the scene with Don Johnson's character whose a slave owner. That's a scene played for laughs where any other director would have used similar dialogue to show how "evil and bad you should feel".
It's more akin to pulpy grindhouse blaxploitation movie than it is to something like 12 years a slave or any of the other of the hundred white guilt movies out there.
Django Unchained is just a fun movie, that would be completely unwatchable in the hands of any other director.
Yeah, Excalibur is one I intend to watch because I've only seen the trailer for it, but it looks like my sort of thing.
I saw them in theaters. I'm 32. I didn't really like them then and that never changed for me upon rewatches.
I also enjoyed Birdman. Saw it in theaters.
I'd say Django Unchained was the last great and memorable cinema experience for me.
I saw it twice in theaters because I liked it so much.
Tarantinos best movie in my opinion.
Also saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in theaters and that was great too, but not as good as Django.
Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Conan the Barbarian, Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Krull, some of the Harry Potter movies.
LotR, the dialogue and acting just is so off for me. It almost feels like the Star Wars prequels to me. Overly melodramatic, overly serious yet somehow corny performances with dialogue and writing that doesn't grab me.
It just isn't my thing.
While I am biased in terms of preferring weird fantasy over high fantasy, there are high fantasy (orcs, elves, wizards) that I enjoy such as Harry Potter (first two in particular) and others that I've forgotten about. I kind of put Conan the Barbarian in the high fantasy category as it's much more dungeons and dragon-y and more traditional in terms of fantasy and it's one of my favorite movies.
But there's something about LotR where I can't connect with it. There's a stuffiness to it and it presents itself as incredibly epic, but I don't resonate with the "epic grand scale" of it as much as I can tell the movie wants me to.
It's hard to explain. It's like trying to explain an intangible. I like all sorts of movies. I'm pretty wide in terms of my tastes and all that, but as much as I dislike all the Marvel MCU crap, I at least get it and see what the audience sees more than the LotR trilogy.
Sort of like the millennials love for the Star wars prequels. I'll never understand why those movies are still talked about and most video games Star wars mods for games anymore are of the prequel movies and not the originals for some reason.
It's a fundamental difference in taste.
I've tried many times to get into the LOTR movies. I go "surely THIS time I'll see what everyone else sees in them".
I just don't get it.
I like Fantasy movies, same as any genre if it's good, but LOTR's appeal alludes me.
A lot of fan edits use deleted scenes, and if possible even scenes from other movies in some cases.
As Anthony Cumia says....there isn't going to be a race war in this country.
There IS a race war in this country, only one side realizes it.
People might say that 23.976 fps is objectively an imperfection, but those that have seen 60 fps film footage knows it utterly destroys that movie magic feel. It turns movies into gaudy soap opera effect garbage even though 60 fps is closer to what our eyes can see.
Likewise when I see a movie shot on certain film stocks like what Logan's run was shot on, it's beautiful and has an intangible quality to it that I've never experienced with digital movies. I think digital is completely charmless. If I were a movie star in the modern age, I'd never really feel like a movie star because of the way modern movies look. Even modern movies that are shot on film have an almost digital look to them because the film stocks don't have interesting characteristics and the characteristics they do have are probably destroyed in the post process so it looks like every other modern movie.
I don't want a grainy film noise ridden picture, but being shot on film which has film grain doesn't necessarily mean the film is grainy looking. Many movies shot on film are pristine.
Take the difference between Goodfellas and Casino. Both shot on film, but Goodfellas is grainy and Casino is pristine.
But both look far better than modern movies because there's charm and style in how the picture looks that modern movies lack.
Bingo, you explained what I was trying to get across more precisely and eloquently than I did.
It's fascinating and baffling how people accept retconning.
Like people will watch the original star wars and go "wow this scene has so much more meaning when you realize -insert something that happened in the prequels here-
No, that's a complete misunderstanding of how time works and shows an inability to think critically. This is one of the reasons why I hate every prequel.
The only prequel I like is Temple of Doom and that's because the only reason you'd even know it's a prequel is if you paid close attention to the date or read about it.
Better Call Saul does the same thing with Breaking Bad where people go "this scene really hits different knowing X from Better Call Saul".
Its like, no you moron, a retcon later that doesn't count. People treat fiction like whatever anybody does is canon, when I've always said the viewer determines canon and the viewers head canon is the only canon when it comes to fiction, not some top down dictation.
To me the only canon Star Wars is the OT without the retarded changes and some expanded universe stuff like Shadows of the Empire or thawn trilogy.
But it seems most people need top down dictation of canon like "well George Lucas says" or "Well those are now part of legends and are no longer canon"
Im already pretty much sticking to games from the past anyways. I hardly play a modern game now, so I doubt I will at that point either.
But either way you're correct.
How can it be argued that the actors of ancient times were simultaneously the lowest rungs of society while also being part of the pedophile elite?
Im 32. This was common knowledge my whole life.
If you've ever seen the movie Gladiator, the orginal, movies like that would have a scene implying some sort of relationship like that.
Ancient Greek and Rome, it's a known thing. Is this like a zoomer thing not knowing this?
I'm going out on a limb and saying you're a Norm Macdonald fan with that quisling word choice haha
Get bent fed
Pedophilia was common and accepted in Rome so degeneracy would not have been the issue.
By the way, in the case someone thinks I'm saying "Hey it was accepted back then, so it's normal" like they do for homosexuality being common in Rome, know that I'm just stating a fact, and it's also a fact that homosexuality and pedophilia and all sexual immorality is as much as an affront to God whether it's 400 BC or 2024 AD
The best Stone Temple Pilots song in my opinion is Big Empty. Before the chorus it sounds like the song is going to be slow and mopey, but stick around for the chorus.
Some other great STP songs are Wicked Garden, Plush, Dead and Bloated, and Creep.
Dead and Bloated is the most AIC sounding song, where it's got more of a heaviness to it.
Some other good grunge type bands are Kyuss, check out the song Demon Cleaner by Kyuss, and another one you'll love is the band Silverchair. The two songs you have to listen to are Tomorrow and Israel's Son. What's crazy is they're a New Zealand band and those two songs are performed when they were like 15 I think, and the guy wrote the songs when he was 14. Yet when you hear his voice he sounds like a 30 year old. Shows how much soy-ness there is today.
Now our 30 year old men sing and write like 14 year olds.