When you think of Reacher, you tend to think of an action series, a twisty thriller, a massive bloke beating people up, and so on. But one thing I don’t see discussed all that often is the show’s relationship with music, and the way it uses it.

I haven’t read the books, so I’ve no idea whether this comes from the source material, but Reacher always seems to be going to see a band or catching some live music, and there’s constantly some genuinely good music playing throughout the episodes.

Is that something you’d noticed as well?

Over the past few weeks, I’ve really enjoyed watching a bunch of random movies that I’d describe as “dad movies,” such as Marshall, Tombstone, Rebel Ridge, The Postman, Unstoppable, Only the Brave, Dredd...

I’m looking for more to watch this summer! If you have any recommendations, I’d love to hear them.

Edit:
Alphabetical list of the 320 films mentioned (updated today)

0–9

12 Monkeys ; 13 Assassins ; The 13th Warrior ; 2001: A Space Odyssey ; 3:10 to Yuma

A

About Time ; The Abyss ; The Accountant ; The Accountant 2 ; The Adventures of Robin Hood ; Air Force One ; Alien ; Aliens ; Alita: Battle Angel ; American Graffiti ; The Angels’ Share ; Angels with Dirty Faces ; Apocalypse Now ; Apollo 13 ; Argo ; Armageddon ; The Assignment

B

Baby Driver ; The Battle of Britain ; Battleship ; Ben-Hur ; Beverly Hills Cop ; The Big Chill ; Big Fish ; The Big Lebowski ; Big Trouble in Little China ; Billy Jack ; Black Hawk Down ; Blade Runner: The Final Cut ; Blockers ; Bloodsport ; The Boondock Saints ; The Born Losers ; The Bourne Identity ; Braveheart ; The Breadwinner ; Bridge of Spies ; The Bridge on the River Kwai ; A Bridge Too Far ; Buckaroo Banzai ; Bullet Train ; Bullitt ; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

C

Caddyshack ; Cadence ; The Captain ; Captain Ron ; Children of Men ; City Slickers ; Clear and Present Danger ; Cliffhanger ; Cobra ; Collateral ; Commando ; Con Air ; Contact ; Cool Hand Luke ; Crazy Heart ; Creed ; Creed II ; Creed III ; Crime 101 ; Crimson Tide

D

Dad ; Daddy Day Care ; Dances with Wolves ; Dangal ; Dante’s Peak ; Das Boot ; The Day of the Jackal ; Days of Thunder ; Dead Man’s Wire ; Death Race ; Deliverance ; Demolition Man ; Den of Thieves ; Den of Thieves 2 ; The Departed ; Der Untergang ; Die Hard ; Dirty Harry ; District 9 ; Django Unchained ; Donnie Darko ; Draft Day ; Dredd ; Drive ; Duel ; Dunkirk

E

The Eagle Has Landed ; The Edge ; Edge of Tomorrow ; Enter the Dragon ; Escape from Alcatraz ; Ex Machina ; Extreme Prejudice

F

F1 ; Face/Off ; Fackham Hall ; Falling Down ; The Family Man ; Field of Dreams ; Fight Club ; Fighting Back ; Firefox ; First Blood ; Five Easy Pieces ; Flags of Our Fathers ; For a Few Dollars More ; Force 10 from Navarone ; Ford v Ferrari ; Frequency ; The Fugitive ; Full Metal Jacket ; The Furious

G

The Gentlemen ; Gettysburg ; Gladiator ; Glengarry Glen Ross ; Glory ; God of Gamblers ; The Godfather ; The Godfather Part II ; Gone in Sixty Seconds ; The Great Escape ; The Great Outdoors ; The Green Mile ; The Grey ; Greyhound ; Grosse Pointe Blank ; Groundhog Day ; Grown Ups ; Grumpier Old Men ; Grumpy Old Men ; The Guns of Navarone

H

Hard Boiled ; Hatari! ; Heat ; Hell or High Water ; Hero ; Highlander ; The Highwaymen ; Hopscotch ; The Hunt for Red October

I

In Bruges ; In the Line of Fire ; In the Name of the Rose ; Inception ; Independence Day ; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ; Inglourious Basterds ; Inside Man ; Interstellar ; The Island ; It’s a Wonderful Life ; The Italian Job

J

Jack Reacher ; Jackie Brown ; Jaws ; Jeremiah Johnson ; John Wick ; Journey to the Center of the Earth ; Jurassic Park

K

Kelly’s Heroes ; Kickboxer ; Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ; Kill Bill: Vol. 2 ; The Killer ; Kingsman ; Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ; Knock Knock

L

The Last King of Scotland ; The Last of the Mohicans ; Lawrence of Arabia ; Layer Cake ; Legends of the Fall ; Léon: The Professional ; Lethal Weapon ; Letters from Iwo Jima ; Local Hero ; The Longest Day ; Looper ; The Lost Bus ; Lucky Number Slevin

M

Mad Max: Fury Road ; Major League ; The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ; Man on Fire ; The Man Who Would Be King ; The Martian ; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ; The Matrix ; Memento ; Men of Honor ; Michael Clayton ; Midnight Run ; Midway ; The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare ; Miracle ; Mission: Impossible ; The Monuments Men ; Mr. Mom ; Mr. Right ; My Cousin Vinny

N

The Negotiator ; The Nice Guys ; The Ninth Gate ; No Country for Old Men ; Nobody ; Normal ; North by Northwest ; Nuremberg

O

Oblivion ; Ocean’s Eleven ; Office Space ; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ; Only the Brave ; Open Range ; Outland ; Outlaw King

P

The Patriot ; Patriot Games ; Patton ; The Perfect Storm ; The Perfect Weapon ; The Place Beyond the Pines ; Planet of the Apes ; Platoon ; Point Break ; Predator ; Pressure

Q

The Quiet Man ; Quigley Down Under

R

The Raid 2 ; The Raid: Redemption ; Red ; Red Dawn ; Red Heat ; Remember the Titans ; Reservoir Dogs ; The Revenant ; The Right Stuff ; The Road ; Road House ; Road to Perdition ; Rob Roy ; RoboCop ; The Rock ; Rocky ; Rocky II ; Rocky III ; Rocky IV ; Ronin ; Runaway Train ; Rush Hour

S

Le Samouraï ; Saving Private Ryan ; The Searchers ; Serenity ; Seven Samurai ; The Shawshank Redemption ; Shelter ; Sicario ; Silverado ; Sin City ; Sisu ; Snatch ; Sneakers ; Snowpiercer ; The Sons of Katie Elder ; Southern Comfort ; Space Cowboys ; Space Truckers ; Speed ; Spy Game ; Stand by Me ; The Sting ; Summer Rental ; Superbad

T

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) ; Taxi Driver ; Terminator ; Terminator 2 ; There Will Be Blood ; Thief ; The Three Musketeers ; The Time Machine ; Top Gun: Maverick ; Total Recall ; The Train ; Train Dreams ; Training Day ; Tremors ; True Grit ; True Lies ; The Truman Show

U

Uncle Buck ; Under Siege ; The Unforgiven ; Unforgiven ; Unstoppable ; The Untouchables ; Upgrade

V

V for Vendetta ; Vacation ; Vertical Limit

W

War of the Worlds ; Warfare ; Warrior ; Where Eagles Dare ; The Wicker Man ; Wild Hogs ; Wind River ; Wrath of Man

Z

Zulu

Has anyone here ever watched "La Classe Américaine" (aka "The American Class")?

It's one of the funniest things ever made in France, and I honestly don't think there's anything quite like it.

It was created in 1993 by Michel Hazanavicius (years before he won the Oscar for The Artist) and Dominique Mézerette. They somehow managed to take dozens of classic Warner Bros. films starring John Wayne, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster and many others, cut them apart, and completely rewrite the dialogue into a brand new absurd comedy.

The result is a genuinely original film where every character seems to exist in the same bizarre universe, following a ridiculous detective story packed with running jokes, surreal nonsense, deadpan humour and some ridiculously clever editing.

The closest comparison I can think of is Airplane! mixed with The Kentucky Fried Movie, except every single shot comes from real classic Hollywood films, with completely rewritten dialogue.

What makes it even more convincing is that the French dub wasn't done by impersonators. They actually brought back the official French voice actors who normally dubbed those Hollywood stars, so everything sounds exactly as audiences expected. The illusion is honestly remarkable.

The crazy part is that this came out before YouTube, memes or modern remix culture. It's basically a feature-length shitpost made from Hollywood classics, except it's so well edited that after a few minutes you almost forget none of the actors ever said those lines.

Sadly, it's heavily built around French wordplay and cultural references, so it's notoriously difficult to translate. That's probably why it's almost unknown outside France, despite becoming a genuine cult classic here.

I'm curious: has anyone here actually seen it? If so, did the humour survive the subtitles?

Franchement je sais pas

Quand on lit la presse internationale, il peut arriver que les journalistes étrangers utilisent "Les Tricolores" pour parler de l'EDF plutôt que "Les Bleus" qui est le surnom traditionnellement usité.

Ça m'a toujours interpellé car je n'ai jamais entendu en France et en français quelqu'un dire "Les Tricolores".

Pourtant la page wiki de l'EDF dit que c'est un surnom utilisé...

Vous avez déjà entendu quelqu'un l'utiliser ? Ou vous l'utilisez vous-même ?

I’ve always played The Witcher 3 with both expansions installed, so I was wondering: what was the map like before then?

For Toussaint, it doesn’t really matter, since the game takes us to a completely different region. But the events of Hearts of Stone take place in the eastern part of the main map.

So before the expansion, was there just nothing there? Was it empty? Could you not go there at all? Basically, what was it like?

Je m'explique.

Est-ce qu'on a déjà eu des exemples de théories révolutionnaires acceptées par tous et présentées à l'humanité du jour au lendemain ?

Comme si, par exemple, on s'était rendu compte que la terre n'était pas plate et qu'on l'avait annoncé à tout le monde dès la réalisation de ce fait.

Pour les personnes menstruées, est-ce que vous constatez qu'elles arrivent à des heures différentes ou généralement c'est au même moment ?

Vous savez quand vous appuyez sur le bouton qui rembobine le cordon avec la prise de l'aspirateur, et bien, quel est le mécanisme qui provoque ce phénomène ?

Ce n'est pas électrique car vous avez débranché (j'espère) l'aspirateur. Du coup, comment ça marche ?