I’m not a huge movie fan, but I want to broaden my horizons a bit. I’ll offer my list (that I’ve rewatched so many times I’m a bit tired of them):

  • Young Poisoner’s Handbook

  • Full Metal Jacket

  • Life of Brian

  • Holy Grail

  • Sunset Boulevard

  • Curse of the Golden Flower

  • The Nightingale

  • Downfall

  • Amadeus

  • Once Were Warriors

  • Dusk to Dawn

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I’m more into just about anything animated, so my list is absolutely biased against most any live action film:

    • Prince of Egypt ( Pixar’s last good film before they started flying off a cliff, in my opinion )

    • An American Tail ( Fivek Goes West as well, but the first one is definitely better )

    • The Land Before Time ( specifically movies 1 & 5 since they’re my favorites of the overdone franchise )

    • Secret of NIMH

    I can’t think of any others off the top of my head that aren’t your standard 1970s animated Robin Hood ( the dosney one ) or Zootopia, but I can’t say I’d put them up there despite how much I adore those movies.

  • Vupware@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is a masterful film in every aspect. See also:

    The Lighthouse Pulp Fiction

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I am not sure if its exactly what you are lookomg for by some random movie recs. Some of these may not be great but are just movies I enjoy for one reason or another.

    • True Lies
    • Varsity Blues
    • Scott Pilgrim vs the World
    • Coraline
    • Shawshang Redemption
    • Jurassic Park
    • The Princess Diaries
    • Speed Racer
    • Das Boot
    • Maverick
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    • Lost in Translation
  • shreyan@lemmy.cif.su
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    9 months ago

    Looking at these lists really makes me glad that I don’t share tastes with the average person at this point.

    • Citizen Kane

    • Paprika

    • Forrest Gump

    • Synecdoche, New York

    All that monty python shit tells me that I’m in curated reddit-land where white mediocrity rules.

    • groet@infosec.pub
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      9 months ago

      I dont think citizen kane is worth watching just as a movie today. It was a pioneer in its day but what was revolutionary then is just standard now.

      If you watch it now it’s just a realy old movie unless you are a film historian and know the context from which it was made.

    • Grimm665@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Pleasantly surprised to see Paprika in someone’s list, no one i know has ever even heard of it. Such a good weird movie.

      • shreyan@lemmy.cif.su
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        9 months ago

        “How dare he call out my low standards!? Doesn’t he realize we’re only allowed to approve of people’s taste, that way nobody is critical about what they waste their money on!? Now let’s watch Frozen!”

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      I haven’t seen Synecdoche in ages. Such a good movie. Mentally I have it in a category with Schizopolis, Happiness, and Magnolia because I watched them all around the same time and are are very much not the usual stories told.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m saving this thread to make a watch list, but I’ll add a comedy I haven’t seen mentioned: The Blues Brothers

  • andrewkfb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Here ya go!

    • Ghost in the Shell 1998
    • Hard Boiled
    • Inception
    • Aladdin 1992
    • It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
    • The Raid
    • Coco
    • It’s a Wonderful Life
    • Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
    • Godzilla Minus One
    • The Lord of the Rings trilogy
    • Mask of Zorro
    • Searching 2018
    • Carnival of Souls
    • Casino Royale
    • The Dark Knight
    • The Social Network
    • Angel’s Egg
    • Wicker Man 1975
    • Wild Robot
    • Idiocracy
    • Arrival

    This list is in no particular order. And it’s admittedly all over the place in time and genre. Feel free to use it as a grab bag rather than a checklist.

    • adhocfungus@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Make sure you get the original version of Ghost in the Shell. I recently decided to rewatch and could only find my 2008 remaster DVD, where they replaced some scenes with CGI. It was absolute trash, and my DVD didn’t seem to have the unaltered version available.

  • Omni rizzler@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Doonie darko American physco
    Primer
    The Odaysee Interstellar

    A guy who becomes a reporter and muder his friend to shoot the shot for money

    The mask
    Matrix
    Robocop The minecraft

    Mr robot style hacker movie but every character was made by the guy

    A guy who goes in the dream to make a businessman understand something with his friends

    A girl who is a physicotic lover for the guy who dies at the end

    I forgot but their are more 😃

  • Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Adding in some documentaries, I’d highly recommending watching these climbing docs as a trilogy to understand the scope of what’s being achieved as well as understanding the different approaches to the sport:

    The Dawn Wall: Introduces you to climbing legends such as Tommy Caldwell and the difficulty of the sport, with the main focus being one climb in Yosemite.

    Free Solo: Takes the dawn wall and makes it look entry level, focuses on Alex Honnold who climbs ‘free solo’ meaning without ropes or a partner.

    The Alpinist: Difficult to put into words, focuses on an almost completely unknown climber called Marc-André Leclerc who is to climbing as Michael Phelps is to swimming. This guy completes climbs even the greatest in the sport consider far from humanly achievable, with part of the doc being a battle to even find the guy to film as he doesn’t care for media attention or fame for his climbs.

    The docs all contribute to the understanding of what drives the people pushing the bar of what’s considered possible, and in the subsequent docs the previous climbers appear frequently in interviews that adds a kind of continuum which is why I love these 3 together rather than as individual pieces.