>essential Los Angeles films Rec me some classic LA movies.

That scifi movie was fun.

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God I hated Elliot Gould in TLG

Miracle Mile

>>83850854
whatever it is you didn't like, surely he made up for it by lighting a cigarette on a random surface in literally every shot of the movie.

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>>83850911
I'll give you that one, him doing it immediately as he woke up at the beginning did make me kek

>>83850781
On the top of my head :

San Andreas
World Invasion : Battle Los Angeles

The Driver, not the trite piece of shit that ripped it off [Drive].

Dirty Harry

boyz n the hood
blood in blood out
chinatown
menace II society

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>>83850781
Falling down

>>83850781
>PTA's Inherent Vice
How is this a classic? It came out like a year ago.

And off the top of my head in terms of actual classics:
>Mulholland Drive
>Chinatown

Terminator 2

Chinatown.

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Friday

>>83850781
LA Confidential

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>>83850781
If you ranked every film ITT, this movie is #1.

Anyone who says differently is pure pleb.

>>83850781
>>83850781
Rebel Without A Cause
Chinatown
Falling Down
They Live
Mulholland Drive
American History X
Training Day
Drive
Lala Land

>>83851410
trash
>>83851427
kino

Speed

>>83851447
That's actually a pretty decent list, though "They Live" isn't really tied to LA, it could take place anywhere.

The rest are uniquely LA, it's true.

>>83850781
Drive

>>83851461
kys, faggot memer

>>83851427
If you haven't seen it, this movie will change your life.

It's like the Dark Knight for people who hate capeshit, except (a) they did it twenty years ago, and (b) even if you like capeshit, it'll blow your fucking hair back.

Greatest shootout put to film. Ever.

Do 'Hollywood' movies count? If they do, The Player (1992) is pretty good.

anything michael mann

>>83850781
Heat

>>83850781
Repo Man
While Repo Man never really talks about its setting, it nails the griminess, 10/10

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>>83851039

>>83850781
L.A PLAYS ITSELF

>>83851427
But Mulholland Drive and Chinatown are both better.

>>83850781
Manhunter

>>83850781
First fast and furious
Boys in the hood
Are pure hard LA kino

To Live and Die in LA

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>>83850781

Collateral.
Nightcrawler.

>>83850781
Jackie Brown

>>83851985
Chinatown is arguable, since they're different genres.

>Mulholland Drive
Fuck you.

LA confidential

>>83850781
Sunset Boulevard

>>83852339
>Fuck you.
Why?

Basically all of Paul Thomas Anderson's work set in the the San Fernando Valley. Especially Boogie Nights which makes Los Angeles seem so magical.

>>83850781
>you'll never live in a house like his

fuck

Tangerine

>>83851447
op here. Chinatown is a great movie but I don't feel like the setting really plays a character.

Drive and Lala land are far from essential LA movies, more like parodies of essential LA movies.

>>83851110
this is high on my list. any more recs? I feel like 70s new hollywood shit is exactly what I'm looking for

>>83852392
If I have to explain it to you, there's no point. You can't use logic and reason to make someone have better taste.

Just like you can't use logic and reason to explain sex. Mulholland=handy over the pants / Heat = Consensual buttsex while her sister plays with your balls.

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>>83852392
If I have to explain it to you, there's no point. You can't use logic and reason to make someone have better taste.

Just like you can't use logic and reason to explain sex. Mulholland=handy over the pants / Heat = Consensual buttsex while her sister plays with your balls.

>>83852612
>I can't explain why
Ok

>>83852612
this is the most virgin thing I have ever read

Predator 2

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To Live and Die in L.A.
Ed Wood
Shampoo
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski
Body Double

>>83851787
seconding this

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>>83850854
me too
though, i really liked him in altman's MASH and california split, maybe because he has another actor to balance him out

Heat


For TV Bosch is really good. Nice noir feel to it.

>>83852521
Chinatown is a hardboiled detective story in the vein of Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep which is an essential LA-core novel and not to mention the whole mystery is about water supply which is a very LA problem.

As for Drive and Lala Land, Los Angeles is a itself a living parody so I stand by them. I suspect a lot of anons on /tv/ are turned off by them just because they're recent, successful and mainstream.

>>83850781
Rush Hour