We mods are in this subreddit daily and know the users feel like the same movies are talked about way too often. The most popular movies on Reddit are certainly some great ones, but every week we're going to recommend what we think are good movies and aren't discussed much in this subreddit. These recommendations aren't all pretentious film school meditations on human verisimilitude, we swear they're watchable :)January 1, 2021 is Rules of Attraction - 2002. That's the best trailer I can find on YT, even with the wrong aspect ratio. Like so many other 90s/00s movies, the trailers are trash.The basic premise: The incredibly spoiled and over-privileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.Roger Avary, the other guy to win an Oscar writing Pulp Fiction, directs this film written by Bret Easton Ellis (author of American Psycho.) What you get is the most nihilistic, chaotic film ever made about college. James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, Jay Baruchel, Ian Somerhalder - hell, even Faye Dunaway is in this movie. It's likely one of those ensembles where they just grabbed any actor from the agencies who were poised to be famous, if they could just get out in front of more people.It takes a special kind of cynicism and storytelling to make horrible people and horrible events be so entertaining. Mark Millar has that gift sometimes; the Coen brothers and the Fargo TV show as well. This movie ranks, imo. I love the soundtrack as well, this weird nightmarish Christmas-season dreariness. The 80s tracks. The music that would work well for a strip club.Most people who remember it do so for some very notable scenes - the fact that Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is canonically the brother of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. The Europe trip. I won't say the others, the surprises are worth it.Where you can watch it onlineTangentially related: Milla Jovovich, the Ukrainian multi-pass supermodel - was also a singer, and one of her songs is on the soundtrack to Rules of Attraction.Also, it wouldn't make its own recommended post but I do recommend a movie I consider a spiritual side-quel in the Bret Easton Ellis cinematic universe - The Informers. There's far more doom and gloom and it's not as tightly weaved, but it's very solid and keeps that weird 80s fairy tale vibe.Please use spoiler tags in the discussion below, as this is a recommendation thread for people who haven't seen the movie yet. If you have a suggestion for a future recommendation, please post here with it!The MovieModsRecommend Archive via /r/movies https://ift.tt/353kIHD
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