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.
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Not enough Nolan films mentioned:
- Interstellar
- Inception
Someone else mentioned Primer, which is also an amazing mind bender.
As a kid in the 80s, Flight of the Navigator and Explorers (just turn it off once they meet the aliens, lol) were awesome.
Also not a lot of Miyazaki mentioned:
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Castle in the Sky
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Spirited Away
- Porco Rosso
- Ponyo
- Lost Highway
- Cure
- Pulse
- Blade Runner
- Session 9
We gotta put series and sagas into “movies” as they’re all one long story or so to us.
- #1: Star Wars 1-6
- #2: Lord of the rings + Hobbit
- #3: Short Circuit
- #4: Interstellar
- #5: Walle
Bonus cuz funnies
Shows:
- #1: One Piece
- #2: Space Dandy
- #3: Dr.Stone
- #4: Owl House
- #5: Samurai Jack
Series (stories told over movies/shows/books/Comics/etc):
- #1: Star Wars
- #2: Alex Rider
- #3: BLAME!
- #4: Spider-Man
- #5: Metro (first book: metro 2033)
Currently we’re watching all of Yu-Gi-Oh and waiting for the next episodes of One Piece and Dr.Stone. Currently reading the Thrawn series and Thus spoke Zarathustra.
We know it’s more than just favorite movie but that’s the best we can do Anne thought it was funny +wanted to share lol.
Beyond the infinite two minutes. Quirky sci fi, one take movie, mind fuck. And adorable.
If you only watched three movies in a year and didn't like two of them, are you just not into movies? Or do you like a specific type? What kind of books do you like?
I'm not generally into movies, but I like them every once in a blue moon. I usually enjoy action, thrillers, comedies and specifically romcoms I think. Books I usually read urban fantasy, things like the Mercy Thompson series, or light sci fi (not usually space operas). I have pretty trash taste I think overall.
Do you like stories that make you think and ponder things after, I mean not necessarily solving a murder mystery but like ethical dilemmas or your perception of the world? Or do you like stories that are more like the experience of a wild ride visually and plot wise? There are no right or wrong answers, just wondering what role you want media to have?
Probably more like a wild ride would hold my interest better, but I'm not necessarily opposed to thinking.
His Girl Friday (1940)
The best screwball movie ever made. Fast, funny, but with an edge. Doesn't feel it's age to me at all.
Nice try recovery questions phisher. You will never find out that it's the 1966 Thunderbirds are go! Film.
70s Pacino -Serpico
Arthouse Christina Ricci and some weird dude who used to hang out with Basquate -Buffalo 66
Nirvana the band the show the movie
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.
O’ Brother Where Art Thou
Back to the Future.
II then I then III?
Kramer vs Kramer for some reason
The Fifth Element
Don't even need to watch it ever again, it just plays on a loop in my mind.
Multipass
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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.
It was unexpectedly very wholesome and philosophical.
Came to say this.. so upvote
The Blues Brothers
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.
Primer
Insanely low budget, very realistic depiction of engineers. Super complicated plot which gives it great replay value.
If you watch it for the first time, the audio sync issues are not part of the plot. They had to re-dub a lot of the movie and they didn’t do a great job.
Don't sleep on Upstream Color. That director is crazy af and makes crazy movies well.
I wish the producer had a bit more budget. The last act needs more scenes. This may be one of the few cases where I want AI to augment an existing film.
Man I haven’t really watched films properly myself for a long time but when I started writing I suddenly had a load of recs - but you’ve got a lot of great ones already so I’ll limit myself to two:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - this is my personal #1 but it’s a bit love it / hate it. Great performances from Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey
Soul - feel good, beautiful, clever and funny, a real shame it came out quietly during the pandemic because IMO it’s the best Pixar / Disney movie of the CG era and deserved much more fanfare
Children of Men
My favorites are the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Went to see them re-released in theaters earlier this year for the 25th anniversary.
Heat, Alien, Groundhog Day
I don't really do favourites, can never seem to decide on just one thing forever.
However, a couple of movies that I've seen recently that I've enjoyed Pixar's new animation Hoppers. Before that it was actually another animation, this time an anime, A silent voice. And one of the few movies I've ever felt the need to rewatch quite soon after watching the first time and I'm probably gonna rewatch at some point, into the wild. Went in blind and was amazing.. plus soundtrack made by Eddie Vedder that was probably my second most listened to album that year.
Salome's Last Dance, one of my favorite's in the weird category. I saw it on TV a long time ago.
The Princess Bride
Penguins (of Madagascar): the Movie
Hot Fuzz
Casablanca
Yeah, let's go classic : Casablanca, Singing in the rain, Vertigo
Sicario is my favorite movie. Villenueve is more hit than miss, and you can’t really go wrong with any of his recent films. Arrival, Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049, and the Dune films.
The Lure. It's a Polish horror musical about mermaids. I could see it being polarizing.
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