Beasts of No Nation is a Netflix original film. It might not be available on Amazon?
I thought it was great, but extremely depressing.
You're missing out on a truly great story. At least read the novella the movie was based on. The book is Different Seasons, by Stephen King, a collection of four stories. Three of them got turned into movies, two of them were some of the best movies ever made, including "Stand by me".
p.s. two of my fav action movies:
Predator
Léon: The Professional
Well, half the time I'm watching movies that aren't particularly realistic, in which case I think there's no problem having super strong, badass women fighters. Comic book movies are a great example. If we've got people with literal superpowers running around, then there's no reason more of those people can't be women.
Even in action movies where things are supposed to be realistic (in a Hollywood sort of way) there are lots of stock characters with different skill sets that could easily be played by women. Hackers, snipers, drivers, thieves, demolitions experts -- not gendered, not reliant on absolute strength, and yet a sizeable majority are men. Hell, a lot of the top villains in these things aren't fighters themselves; they just have a lot of people to do the fighting for them.
Why do I want to see more women? I dunno, how would you feel if men were massively outnumbered and hardly ever got to do anything interesting in the kind of movies you liked best?
I a way too pretty for prison, but I seem to like quit a few films that take place in prison. i think it may be that that backdrop realistically eliminates all the fluff from the characters' lives.
I often catch myself wondering how the average film character actually pays their bills, but it is believable that Andy Dufresne can spend all his night chipping away at a concrete wall and not get fired the next day. Gang raped maybe, but not fired.
Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, and The Green Mile have so much in the way of great social commentary and character studies that I think come across better because of the backdrop than they would in a different setting. So many great one liners too.
One of my favorite movies is "Hope and Glory" - a film about an 8 year old boy and his family living through the London Blitz. Pretty funny, but then again I'm half British. My uncle was the same age as the character, and he used to tell tales about the mischief he got into in the bomb ruins. The grandfather in the movie is pure comedy gold.
Like any genre, there are high quality (Winter Soldier, Avengers, Ultron, X-Men 1,2, First Class and DOFP, Iron Man 1, 300, Watchmen, Burton’s Batman, etc.) and lesser (Wolverine 1,2, Iron Man 2,3, Hulk movies, Nolan’s humorless Batman, Man of Steel, Green Lantern, FF 1,2, etc.) examples. Condemnation of the entire class of movies, or their fans, is preposterous, as it would be for action, horror, western, drama, comedy, sci-fi.
The demo that drives these movies, and is courted every year at San Diego Comic Con and other venues by the creators and actors, tends to be highly culturally-aware, artistic, intelligent and analytical crowd, the “creative class”, if you will. Probably the smartest group of fans out there, though I guess not your crowd Alcon.
Wife and I saw Hateful Eight 70mm Roadshow last night in Austin. Stunning visuals, perfect acting and great writing, obviously a tremendous cast. Catch the 70mm Roadshow if you can. It is a rare treat and you may not see another Ultra Panavision 70 movie in your lifetime. Also it is an extended version of the general release. Not to be missed by movie-heads.
Hurling, I understand the anger with the politics of artists, but if you let that stop you, it rules out enjoying about 90% of art.