The big problem we fans of the series (it's not anime!) had is that it's nothing like the series. Probably for somebody who's never watched The Legend of Aang it might be alright.
Which movies have you watched? IE': NO CAPES!
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I'm probably a harsh rater.
Those are my ratings for 2020.
You gave Raiders of the Lost Ark a measly 4/10?? That's one of my favourite films!
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Your favourite film sucks.
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Looking for recommends:
There was a time when I was really into 'small' movies, movies about people rather than events. Movies where, if someone asked you what it was about, you might almost have a hard time describing the plot. This Summer I watched Palm Springs, The Way Back, and Salmon Fishing on the Yemen and I thought, "hey, I kind of miss this type of movie." Genre doesn't matter a lot; there are dramas, comedies, romances here, and a couple are loosely sci-fi and/or fantasy. A lot of these are indies, but that's not a requirement. You can see from the list below that my binge-days were mainly during the 2000s, but the era isn't important, either (I just threw The Petrified Forest onto the list, 'cause why not). Also, I think everything here is English-language, but that's not a requirement, either (just added Comrades).
A list of the movies I've already seen and remember liking that kind of sketch out what I'm aiming for.
And a list of movies I haven't seen yet, that I think fit the mold:
p.s. If you're into these types of movies, you can take the above as a list of recommendations, but in many cases I haven't seen these movies in years, so I can't necessarily vouch for how well they hold up.
There was a time when I was really into 'small' movies, movies about people rather than events. Movies where, if someone asked you what it was about, you might almost have a hard time describing the plot. This Summer I watched Palm Springs, The Way Back, and Salmon Fishing on the Yemen and I thought, "hey, I kind of miss this type of movie." Genre doesn't matter a lot; there are dramas, comedies, romances here, and a couple are loosely sci-fi and/or fantasy. A lot of these are indies, but that's not a requirement. You can see from the list below that my binge-days were mainly during the 2000s, but the era isn't important, either (I just threw The Petrified Forest onto the list, 'cause why not). Also, I think everything here is English-language, but that's not a requirement, either (just added Comrades).
A list of the movies I've already seen and remember liking that kind of sketch out what I'm aiming for.
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And a list of movies I haven't seen yet, that I think fit the mold:
Spoiler :
p.s. If you're into these types of movies, you can take the above as a list of recommendations, but in many cases I haven't seen these movies in years, so I can't necessarily vouch for how well they hold up.
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yung.carl.jung
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Those are my ratings for 2020.
that is pretty harsh, and I dig your rating system
you have Freaks a 6/10, is that the 1932 movie? that one is great
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I wouldn't be caught dead watching a 1932 movie.
The one from 2019. It was fairly limited in scope. You might like it, maybe. Seems esoteric enough for your tastes. 
yung.carl.jung
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You might like it, maybe. Seems esoteric enough for your tastes.
the Adam B. Stein movie? I'll check it out
It has that Butterfly Effect guy, how serious can it be? ^_^
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I haven't seen some of these in years so apologies if these don't exactly match up with what you're looking for, but I think these fit the bill of being small scale character driven movies.
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)
The Informant (2009)
Marriage Story (2019)
Gattaca (1997)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
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Why is your title "Alien spiral maker" when your avatar contains neither aliens nor spirals?
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Earlier this year, during lockdown, I noticed that I had access to most of the Top 5 movies of 2019 by Metacritic score across my various streaming services. I was thinking that could be a worthwhile little film-festival-at-home, but I never got around to doing it.
Metacritic's Top 5 films of 2019:
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BenitoChavez
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Yeah 2019 was a pretty great year in movie in my opinion though my top 5 looks quite different from Metacritic.
Spoiler My top 5 :
I watched the first 15 minutes of Uncut Gems and turned it off. I can't point to anything specific about it but I just found it unsettling even though nothing really bad happened.
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I thought Pitch Black was a great movie on its own but was not a great foundation to build a universe on. Chronicles of Riddick was just dumb and failed to create a universe worth caring about. Wasn't there an animated 3rd movie or something?
I hated that movie. It felt like the kind of movie that actors make so that everyone will know how good at acting they are.
Midway was surprisingly good. Shockingly good, even. What was the most surprising thing to me was how many of the details of the story were true, like the pilot who hit 2 carriers with bombs and survived - and did this after his lungs received a nasty chemical burn. The action was great and the acting was pretty good and of course the story has lots of natural drama that pulls you in.
My only critique is that this movie looks like it was shot entirely in front of a greenscreen. It's subtle - it's not like you can see their outlines or anything - but noticeable nonetheless. I think the greenscreen is noticeable when they fail to properly account for the lighting on the actors relative to the background of the scene but I don't really know.
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There was an animated movie between the two called Dark Fury, a third one just called Riddick and a game called Escape from Butcher Bay, later remade as Assault on Dark Athena.
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The third movie, as Chukchi said, wasn't animated, but it was essentially a merging of the first two movies. When I was watching Pitch Black and Chronicles I was sure I'd seen them before because of certain scenes, but then realized that they just reminded me of aspects of the third movie. They really couldn't come up with anything except a repainted version of what they'd already done. As far as sequels go, an extremely poor effort.
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I am an outlier in that I really liked Chronicles of Riddick, but I think that was just because the because jumble of influences was everything I liked as a fifteen year old.
It's the sort of setting which I think would have worked well in a video game or a table-top RPG, where a lack of originality is the acceptable price of allowing the audience to readily orient themselves, but was too flimsy and generic to support a film franchise. I think there were actually some interesting clues in Pitch Black to a chaotic frontier setting, somewhere between cyberpunk and space western, but pivoting towards epic space-fantasy meant that most of those were lost.
I get the feeling they may have been trying to recapture something of that with the third film, but the film itself was just a less interesting re-hash of the first one, so it went nowhere.
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