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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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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Hot hot hot!
The Princess Bride
Penguins (of Madagascar): the Movie
Hot Fuzz
Penguins??? The other two are classics and the penguins of Madagascar??
That feels like incredibly high praise!
It’s a standalone, and it is hands-down the funniest movie I’ve ever seen.
My dad still makes Dave references to every Dave he meets. Plus classic lines like
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Nicholas, cage them! And kevin, bake on! Were still gonna need that victory cake.
I’m glad that movie has also affected other people.
“Hugh! Jack! Man the battlestations!”
I enjoyed reading Cary Elwes’ book on TPB
Repo Man (1984)
Honorable mentions:
- Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
- Megamind (2010)
- Tremors (1990)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
I count Buckaroo Banzai (or o 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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My favorite capsule description of (The Adventures of) Buckaroo Banzai (Across the Eighth Dimension) is “A stupid movie for smart people.”
It was actually my number 1 for a long, but somehow, over the years, Repo Man just crept up the list until it took its place.
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Wall E
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)
Carol the waitress, Simon the f–
Said so matter-of-factly
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
Bruh, Wtf is this movie name?
“Little China”?
China used to call Imperialist Japan “Little Japan” as a deogratory term…
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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
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!”
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.
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.
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.
- The Princess Bride
- In Bruges
mawwiage
“Well, you’re fooking elephants, ain’t ye?”
Watch those two movies, two nights in a row, and every movie you watch for the next year will suck.
Bugonia was very good just make sure you go in blind.
Great movie. Emma Stone is on fire at the moment and Jessie Plemons needs to be in more movies.
My favorites are the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Went to see them re-released in theaters earlier this year for the 25th anniversary.
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 NowThe Grand Budapest Hotel
Thank you for reminding me of that one. It’s one of those movies that I mentally put on my “to watch” list when it came out, and I just realized that somehow I never got around to it.
edit: Oh dang, I never watched Her either. That is like, the most relevant movie of all time right now, lol. Need to get on that.
Jurassic Park
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.
Have you seen Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Pi’ from 1998?
Salome’s Last Dance, one of my favorite’s in the weird category. I saw it on TV a long time ago.
What are the 3 you watched last year?
There was a terrible fucking movie called Warriors of Virtue with people in horrifying kangaroo suits, some Russian Christianity propaganda film (same friend was responsible for both), and I had fun watching Death Becomes Her.
Warriors of Virtue sounds amazing (like in a so good it’s bad way)
Tough to generate suggestions based on one liked movie but I think (at least the first) Beetlejuice is a dark comedy that shares a lot of DNA with Death Becomes Her
Alternatively, The Devil Wears Prada is an extremely popular movie that also has frenemy female leads but maybe I Love Boosters is an even better match if you’re willing to either wait for streaming or see it in theaters
