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.
The Death of Stalin is hands down my favorite movie. I have seen it about once every 6 months give or take since covid.
My favorite movie (The Big Lebowski) has already been mentioned so here are some movies ive really enjoyed:
There Will Be Blood
Project Hail Mary
Love and Monsters
Downsizing (Matt Damon)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Three Amigos
The Orphanage (Del Toro)
Rosemary’s Baby (disclaimer: This is a Roman Polanski film, and if you’re unwilling to separate art from the artist, feel free to skip it and more power to you)
Shaun of the Dead
Dr Strangelove
North by Northwest
Wolfwalkers
Big Trouble in Little China
John Carpenter gives a lot of good recommendations, many of my favorite movies. Here’s a few more:
The Thing
They Live
In the Mouth of Madness
Halloween
In the mouth of madness is great
Showed this to my GF a few months ago, and she didn’t fall asleep watching it. That’s really saying something.
First time I rented it on VHS back in the 80s, watch, rewind and watch again, next day same thing.
Bruh, Wtf is this movie name?
“Little China”?
China used to call Imperialist Japan “Little Japan” as a deogratory term…
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It takes place in Chinatown.
It’s similar to Little Italy. But Chinese.
Really great movie TBH, especially when you view Kurt Russel as the dumb white sidekick
Yeah, it really turns tropes on their head.
All the Chinese characters are the smart ones and the real heroes. And are played by actual Chinese actors.
The white guy is a dumbass who’s in the right place at the right time and gets lucky.
He checks all the right boxes for a sidekick too.
He’s comic relief. He’s a flamboyant character. He chokes at almost every critical moment. He requires additional exposition so the rest of the team can explain things to the audience.
The camera follows him, and he thinks he’s the main guy. But we know he’s not.
“I’m starting to feel a bit like an outsider here.”
“You are!”
I love the fact that it’s an entire movie where the side-kick is treated as the main character, while the actual main character is treated as the side-kick. It’s brilliant.
It’s also responsible for by-far my most used line. "It’s like I told my ex-wife. “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. And besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.”
“You remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: ‘Have ya paid your dues, Jack?’ ‘Yessir, the cheque is in the mail.’”
Jack talking tough on the radio sends me, he’s just such a wannabe tough guy clown.
So many adventure movies have the white saviour action hero protagonist with a sidekick who’s an (often racist) ethnic caricature. Jack is a caricature of an American tough guy, and it works so well. I wish we saw it in more movies.
Try reading about the movie before passing judgment.
In the U.S., “little (place)” is simply a neighborhood with a large population from some other country.
It’s refers to Chinatown in an American city
The Fifth Element
Don’t even need to watch it ever again, it just plays on a loop in my mind.
Multipass
It’s really got it all.
Hot hot hot!
BzzzZZZzzzzz! 🤚
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 Big Lebowski
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, uh, your opinion, man.
This is absolutely in my top 5. Hard to pick amongst that rarified air, but it’s so well done in EVERY category. Costuming, acting, casting, direction, writing, pacing, editing, directing. It’s an absolute masterpiece of a film and hilarious to boot.
This is my absolute favourite movie of all time but I gave up recommending it to people.
The Coen brothers are too weird and nobody gets it but me, apparently 😭
Pretty sure there are others who love the Coen bros, though my personal favorite of theirs is The Hudsucker Proxy. Haven’t seen all of their films yet, though
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.
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
The Princess Bride
Penguins (of Madagascar): the Movie
Hot Fuzz
Penguins??? The other two are classics and the penguins of Madagascar??
That feels like incredibly high praise!
It’s a standalone, and it is hands-down the funniest movie I’ve ever seen.
I enjoyed reading Cary Elwes’ book on TPB
Idiocracy
It’s slowly becoming a documentary…
Slowly?
It works as a comedic dialog on the values of our society shifting away from science. It’s also incredibly ironic due to the number of people that point to it as if it has any basis in facts. I could barely watch it because there is nothing in that movie that makes sense, yet is referenced as if it does.
I could barely watch it because there is nothing in that movie that makes sense, yet is referenced as if it does.
Well… the nebulous idea of society decaying on its current trajectory is true, i think we’ll all agree (good thing we have time to course correct). As with most movies, the nebulous idea/the combined set of ideas presented is/are the most important consideration to viewers in general.
If we’re getting down to technical specifics, there are some things that don’t make sense, I’ll concede:
- If they don’t use water for stuff, there are innumerable things that shouldn’t work and everyone should have disease or st the very least be dying from some sort of malnutrition.
- How has society not collapsed if people are that stupid? Who sustains the vast agricultural systems and the water infrastructure that now supplies soda to everyone?
- The soda corporation is taking over america. For such devious plans, someone running the corporation must be smart. Why don’t they just fix everything? Or does President Terry Crews just execute anyone who proposes good ideas?
- All the judges being intellectually disabled doesn’t actually make sense, assuming they still maintain testing/career performance standards. Also makes it seem like all the intellectually disabled citizens gravitate towards that job. Also, isn’t everyone intellectually disabled in the movie? So when they say “all the judges are r-words” they’re actually saying they’re straight-up insane.
- this one is probably just a middle finger to modern day judges though. Lol.
- What about the rest of the world? (Outside of the scope of the movie tbf, but come on… the whole world is that stupid? Or just America? I know which one is my headcanon)
I love the powertrip element of the movie, great to watch when you fedl bad about yourself. “Yeah I just need to freeze myself and wake up in the future so i can be the smartest person on Earth.” But then i guess the moral is that you just need to apply yourself - protagonist, being perfectly average, was letting himself down by getting comfortable in that mediocrity.
Crocs got really popular
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.
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.
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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