I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie so far this year, and I’m looking for suggestions. What’s a movie that you really love?
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Event Horizon.
Someone else mentioned Hot Fuzz, which is mine. Another I love is Tucker & Dale vs Evil. It’s an excellent satire about conflict borne from nothing but preconceptions. Also a rare movie in which the “jock”-type characters are the good guys.
Agree, but I wonder if you need to have seen a bunch of other horror films first to really appreciate Tucker and Dale?
No, not really. It stands well on its own.
Knowing about the tropes add to the movie, but I think it’s good on its own
Everything everywhere all at once is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Pays a bunch of homages to action films and tropes. One of the few times in my life where I ugly cried and laughed at the same time.
Came to say this… so upvote
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once would definitely also be my recommendation. Because a kung fu comedy that’s also a sci fi thriller, a bilingual family drama that can switch languages multiple times per sentence, a Ratatouille parody, and a 10 minute silent shot of two rocks in a desert, that just SHOULD NOT WORK. The fact it does, and does brilliantly, with ten new directing ideas every minute and a climax that leaves me in tears every time, borders on genius.
I just saw a post in a different thread where someone called it the worst thing they’d ever watched.
I loved it, but I could definitely see both sides. It was a weird movie. But great. And fun.
If not for the papercuts, big agree. It could’ve been anything improbable. Why that. It did the job of making the audience uncomfortable but at what cost.
It was unexpectedly very wholesome and philosophical.
There is no way I can pick one.
There are really good recomendations here. But there are very few recomendations for films around the world, while I like American films a lot I’m going with my favorites from other countries.
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Korea
- Memories of a Murder (2003)
- The Handmaiden (2016)
- A Taxi Driver (2017)
- My sassy Girl (2001)
- Ajeossi (2010)
- Whatever Chan-wook Park did, especilly the vengeance trilogy
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Hong Kong
- Comrades almost a love story (1996)
- Infernal Affairs (2002)
- In the mood for love (2000)
- Exiled (2006)
- Fallen Angels (1995)
- A better Tomorrow (1986)
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Japan
- Seppuku (1962)
- All the old Zatoichi films (epecially the ones directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda)
- Hana-bi (1997)
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Of course Seven Samurais, Yojimbo (everything Kurosawa made), GITS, Ghibli, etc…
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Italy
- Sergio Leone, everyhting
- Cinema Paradiso (1988)
- Suburra (2015)
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Spain
- La Isla minima (2014)
- Que Dios nos perdone (2016)
- As bestas (2022)
- El milagro de P. Tinto (1998)
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Argentina
- Relatos Salvajes (2014)
- El secreto de sus ojos (2009)
- Un oso rojo (2002)
- 9 Reinas (2000)
I’m going to stop here, there are a lot of countries I didn’t mention, this comment is already long enough. Don’t stop yourself because the film is in another language, there are fantastic films out there.
Haha! Fuck My Sassy Girl. It’s been a long time since I watched it, but my memory is that she’s an utter bitch to him the entire film, and it’s all romantic when he learns to take it so they can be together? Dude should’ve walked.
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The Blues Brothers
Its 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigerettes, its dark and were wearing sunglasses.
Hit it
That is an impossible question because it depends on so many factors of what’s going on on the particular day that I’m asked.
So instead I’ll give you the three that most often rotate into top spot:
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Children of Men
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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LA Confidential
Eternal sunshine 🥲
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My favorite three movies are Toy Story 3 (for nostalgia reasons), Spirited away and City of god.
I’m willing to concede that Toy Story 3 isn’t that good but the other 2 are amazing movies IMO.
The Matrix. Sometimes I’ll get the urge to watch it like 3 times in a week. Only movie I can do that with.
Thank goodness they never made any sequels.
Indeed. Got some bad news though lol.
Man, that is terrible news. Thanks, I hate it.
The Death of Stalin is hands down my favorite movie. I have seen it about once every 6 months give or take since covid.
Wreck it Ralph is made with such a love for (classic) gaming and in general being a really good animated movie I love it.
Also The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Is great and can be rewatched endlessly.
Then again, Idiocracy. Getting less and less funny and more scary as we come closer to that future.
Idiocracy is my favorite accidental documentary.
The Prestige
True Romance
Nice try recovery questions phisher. You will never find out that it’s the 1966 Thunderbirds are go! Film.
Ask me again tomorrow and I’m sure it’ll be different, I can never pick a firm favorite for any media or genre.
But the one that sprang to my mind this time was Clue. Just a fantastic cast, and far more charming than its source material gives it any right to be.
I used to always automatically answer Apocalypse Now for this question. I’m not sure anymore, but it’s still a great movie.
Don’t watch the director’s cut. It’s longer and adds nothing of value.
Blade Runner is also up there. Do watch the director’s cut with no narration.
