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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Wolfwalkers
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
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.
If you don’t include Clint Eastwood: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Spirited Away, My Cousin Vinny.
If you include Clint Eastwood: The Good the bad the ugly, just a few more dollars, the man with no name and gran Torino.
TV shows: Star Trek: TNG, House MD (specifically season 4), Gilmore Girls.
I can’t stress enough how good season 4 of house is.
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.
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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3 Days of The Condor.
It’s a 70’s paranoid thriller with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, just an awesome film.
Lord of the Rings trilogy, John Wick, Spiderman 1, 2, 3 and the ones with Andrew Garfield. Train to Busan, Shutter Island, Sixth Sense, Back to the Future, Terminator: Judgement Day, The Dark Knight, Joker, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal, Pirates of the Caribbean, Now you see me films
Not movie, but shows: Breaking Bad, Barry, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead (up until around season 5), Lost (up until season 3)
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.
Ikiru and High and low by Akira Kurosawa.
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…
💀
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
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.
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!”
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.
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Off the top of my head (after scanning the thread):
- About Time
- Looper
- Nightcrawler
- Dark Knight trilogy
- Your Name (Kimi no Na Wa)
- Suzume
Did you also not like Weathering With You?
Yeah I liked it, all of Shinkai’s work is beautiful! I found I enjoyed it less than Your Name or Suzume Suzume though, as it didn’t hit me the same way in terms of the writing.
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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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! 🤚
