The Fifth Element
Don't even need to watch it ever again, it just plays on a loop in my mind.
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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.
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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.
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 😭
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Wall E
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.
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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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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.
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My favorites are the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Went to see them re-released in theaters earlier this year for the 25th anniversary.
Nice try recovery questions phisher. You will never find out that it's the 1966 Thunderbirds are go! Film.
True Romance
Rocky (1976) and When Harry Met Sally (1989) are my favourite movies, and I prefer the former only a little bit more than the latter. I'm a sentimental man. 🤷
I would say the #3 spot belongs to either Arrival (2016), The Sixth Sense (1999), Se7en (1996), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), or The Secret in Their Eyes ("El Secreto de Sus Ojos", 2009). #4 is both Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2, and #5 is probably too large to enumerate here, lol.
The Matrix. Sometimes I'll get the urge to watch it like 3 times in a week. Only movie I can do that with.
Repo Man (1984)
Honorable mentions:
- Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
- Megamind (2010)
- Tremors (1990)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
I count Buckaroo Banzai (or to give it its full name, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension) as my all-time favorite film. But I realize it's not for everyone.
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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.
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O’ Brother Where Art Thou
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.
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.
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
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My favorite is As Good As It Gets (1997 rom com), but with the blatant homophobia and unlikable main character it's not for everybody.
For general watching, I'd recommend:
Get Out (horror mystery with good metaphors)
Knives Out (silly whodunnit comedy)
Eyes Wide Shut (classic psychological horror with, uh, an unforgettable premise)
Midsommar (breakup film with swedish cult horror vibes, women-coded)
Parasite (on the off chance you haven't seen it, I would vote it best film of the 2010s)
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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.
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.
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The Prestige
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Knives Out trilogy
Short Term 12
Hamilton
In The Heights
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
The Secret in Their Eyes
The Lives of Others
The Counterfeiters
The Wave
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Whiplash
The Town
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
In Bruges
The King's Speech
Inglorious Basterds
The Imitation Game
Her
Nowhere Boy
The Spectacular Now
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Salome's Last Dance, one of my favorite's in the weird category. I saw it on TV a long time ago.
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
70s Pacino -Serpico
Arthouse Christina Ricci and some weird dude who used to hang out with Basquate -Buffalo 66
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