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[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Tremors (1990)

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Moooulllttteeee Paaassss~ssss~

The Fifth Element

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[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The Big Lebowski. Simultaneously ridiculous and incredibly sophisticated. People who think its "just" a stoner comedy may have some more viewings to go 🙂

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never realized it was considered a stoner comedy! It's quite a bit better than one I've seen in that category!

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It gets the stoner comedy reputation as the dude is stoned throughout. He's a character in the movie though, not then full tone. That's probably why it's so good. It blends so many genres with an interesting interweaving plot and wonderful dialogue.

It's a deserved reputation as it's great to watch stoned. Especially when the dude is confused and so are you. Or the psychedelic sequences. However it's also not deserved as it's so much cleverer than that with differen levels. A stoner comedy doesn't normally have a coherent plot and levels.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Interesting. When my husband suggested we watch it, ages ago really early on in our relationship, I had asked him what category it was. I also asked him just now. Just now he went "Oh that's difficult but broadly speaking it's a comedy". I said "I asked that question of you when you showed it to me like 15 years ago. So you know what you said then?" "No, what did I say then?" "You called it a dark comedy because someone died" (because I was and am sensitive to that) He nodded and said "Makes sense"

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

I could set the building on fire....

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's wild how relatable it still is nearly 30 years later.

[–] sobanto@feddit.org 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I raise you The Holy Grail.

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[–] BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Groundhog Day

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Megamind

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)

The Princess Bride

[–] PurplePixie@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The thing about Groundhog Day is that you only have to watch it once to have seen it several times.

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[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Idiocracy

There’s something about that close-to-home dystopian outlook that calms me. Now go away, I’m batin’!

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The good old Blues Brothers boys.

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[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 36 points 1 week ago

Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hackers. Yes, it's corny - cheesy, even - but it had a great cast with awesome chemistry, and it did a great job at capturing the zeitgeist of hacker/punk culture. Plus so many memorable quotes...

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[–] 10MeterFeldweg@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago

Lord of the Rings

Die Hard

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Alien

Aliens

Too bad they didn't make any more of them.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago

Big Trouble In Little China.

Marathon Man [Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier] seems to have been designed for multiple viewings. A character seen briefly in one scene turns up later in the movie. A quick telephone call becomes incredibly important but you have to be paying close attention to every minute.

[–] PurplePixie@midwest.social 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clue.

Sometimes my friends and I just sit around quoting it until we've made it through the entire movie, so maybe there's no point in rewatching it, but we do anyway.

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[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Princess Bride

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Hot Fuzz

The Big Lebowski

[–] Flagg76@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy,The big lebowski, Dogma, Pulp fiction, Conspiracy,

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

For me it's The Matrix.

I never like to retread old ground, but this one's an exception. It's hard to overstate how much it blew our minds 26 years ago. I might have a soft spot for it too because I was raised sheltered and it was the first rated R movie I saw.

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Liar, liar.

Nearly every single line in that movie that Jim Carrey delivers is not only funny but his delivery and antics are a work of art. It's like watching Messi dribble the soccer ball. Cary ewles gets an honorary mention for playing the straightman and absolutely killing it.

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 week ago

The Princess Bride

Shawshank Redemption

Hot Fuzz

Penguins (of Madagascar): The Movie

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

My Neighbour Totoro

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The Thing (1982)

It’s my favorite movie of all time and I watch it every October.

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[–] apotheosical@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Super troopers

Harold and Kumar go to white castle

Ghost busters

[–] pcrazee@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Evolution.

It knows what it is, and nobody in it is under some illusion that they're making some masterpiece of cinema. That is not at all a criticism or even backhanded compliment. I like when the actors have fun with the things they're working on. I mean, who doesn't love seen behind the scenes of Ian Mckellen slapping a dummy of Sean Aston around.

It's fun, it's ridiculous, and it leans into it a bit.

Plus they came up with the Thanos Weakness a long time before the avengers fans.

spoiler(it's the butthole, they attacked a giant alien anus with soap to save the day)

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] M137@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Blade Runner

I'm surprised this hasn't been said already and would expect it to be one of the top comments.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rear Window

The Princess Bride

Joe vs the Volcano

Idiocracy

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The greatest cinematic masterpiece of the 21st century, of course: Shrek

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Hot Fuzz.
Pride and Prejudice (the one with Kiera Knightley).

[–] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Super cliche answer but:

The Shawshank Redemption

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

Mad Max: Fury Road

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The Blues Brothers

Rat Race

Airplane!

The Big Lebowski

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It sucks that people take the movie the wrong way and think it glorifies male toxicity. Now there’s nazi fight clubs happening all around the world.

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • A Knights Tale
  • Scott Pilgrim vs The World
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Matrix
  • The Big Lebowski
[–] a_person@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

Mel brooks the history of the world part one
That and spaceballs

[–] dennisnedry@feddit.nu 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Big Lebowski

Station Agent

LOTR Triology

Office Space

Jurassic Park

UHF

[–] TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lord of the Rings (whole trilogy)

Jurassic Park

Tropic Thunder

Escape from New York

Zombieland

The Crow

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[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For me is the Back to the Future trilogy but I usually watch just the first one..every year

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[–] nanlux_user@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

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