Upvote the film you’d like to watch the most in the comments below!
Nominations are in for July’s Fedi Film Club (see nominations post here).
Each one in is a separate comment below, which you can upvote.
And, for clarity, they’re also in the list below, in alphabetical order.
If you have any handy tips on the best way to get a hold of any of these, please share! Note though that the high seas in general are likely are well known option.
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
- Soylent Green
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- The Apartment (1960)
- The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
- Underwater (2020)
- Wacko (1982)
And of course, the point of all this is to crowd-source human curated film recommendations. This is definitely a diverse bunch of films, some of which I didn’t know about and others I’d never seen. I’ll definitely want to watch more than one of these!
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Based on the novel by Jurasic Park’s and Westworld’s author Michael Crichton. Scientists were called to inspect and contain a deadly virus of an unknown origin. Movie is very slow (130 mins) and it goes out of it’s way to show how characters stick to the code of entering the facility and working in labs. Somewhere in here, behind sealed doors, elevators and a system of self-destruction in case there’s a risk it gets away, there’s a sence of dread and stress that shows in the team in spite of their strict procedures and proffesionalism when their fate is decided by their analyzis and the blinking of these cold war-era computers carrying the results.
I enjoyed it all a couple of times. It’s slow but it also feel very tight. Sure, many folks would have a better time watching it on 2x speed nowadays, although it may hurt the suspense of the movie.