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What's your favorite movie?

25d 22h ago by crazypeople.online/u/toomanypancakes in asklemmy

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?

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

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.

The Fifth Element

Don't even need to watch it ever again, it just plays on a loop in my mind.

Multipass

Hot hot hot!

BzzzZZZzzzzz! 🤚

The Big Lebowski

Shut the fuck up, Donnie.

Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.

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 😭

Pretty sure there are others who love the Coen bros, though my personal favorite of theirs is The Hudsucker Proxy. Haven't seen all of their films yet, though

This is absolutely in my top 5. Hard to pick amongst that rarified air, but it’s so well done in EVERY category. Costuming, acting, casting, direction, writing, pacing, editing, directing. It’s an absolute masterpiece of a film and hilarious to boot.

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

spoiler

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

Idiocracy

It's slowly becoming a documentary...

Slowly?

It works as a comedic dialog on the values of our society shifting away from science. It's also incredibly ironic due to the number of people that point to it as if it has any basis in facts. I could barely watch it because there is nothing in that movie that makes sense, yet is referenced as if it does.

I could barely watch it because there is nothing in that movie that makes sense, yet is referenced as if it does.

Well... the nebulous idea of society decaying on its current trajectory is true, i think we'll all agree (good thing we have time to course correct). As with most movies, the nebulous idea/the combined set of ideas presented is/are the most important consideration to viewers in general.

If we're getting down to technical specifics, there are some things that don't make sense, I'll concede:

  • If they don't use water for stuff, there are innumerable things that shouldn't work and everyone should have disease or st the very least be dying from some sort of malnutrition.
  • How has society not collapsed if people are that stupid? Who sustains the vast agricultural systems and the water infrastructure that now supplies soda to everyone?
  • The soda corporation is taking over america. For such devious plans, someone running the corporation must be smart. Why don't they just fix everything? Or does President Terry Crews just execute anyone who proposes good ideas?
  • All the judges being intellectually disabled doesn't actually make sense, assuming they still maintain testing/career performance standards. Also makes it seem like all the intellectually disabled citizens gravitate towards that job. Also, isn't everyone intellectually disabled in the movie? So when they say "all the judges are r-words" they're actually saying they're straight-up insane.
  • this one is probably just a middle finger to modern day judges though. Lol.
  • What about the rest of the world? (Outside of the scope of the movie tbf, but come on... the whole world is that stupid? Or just America? I know which one is my headcanon)

I love the powertrip element of the movie, great to watch when you fedl bad about yourself. "Yeah I just need to freeze myself and wake up in the future so i can be the smartest person on Earth." But then i guess the moral is that you just need to apply yourself - protagonist, being perfectly average, was letting himself down by getting comfortable in that mediocrity.

Crocs got really popular

Wall E

  1. The Princess Bride
  2. In Bruges

Watch those two movies, two nights in a row, and every movie you watch for the next year will suck.

mawwiage

"Well, you're fooking elephants, ain't ye?"

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.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084989/

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.

Have you seen Darren Aronofsky's 'Pi' from 1998?

Love it. Yes.

Children of Men

One of my top time travel movies for sure

Agreed. It’s not my highest-rated 10, but I still gave it a very rare 10… it is my favorite even though I think there are better movies, if that makes sense?

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.

Came to say this.. so upvote

I just saw a post in a different thread where someone called it the worst thing they'd ever watched.

I loved it, but I could definitely see both sides. It was a weird movie. But great. And fun.

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once would definitely also be my recommendation. Because a kung fu comedy that's also a sci fi thriller, a bilingual family drama that can switch languages multiple times per sentence, a Ratatouille parody, and a 10 minute silent shot of two rocks in a desert, that just SHOULD NOT WORK. The fact it does, and does brilliantly, with ten new directing ideas every minute and a climax that leaves me in tears every time, borders on genius.

If not for the papercuts, big agree. It could’ve been anything improbable. Why that. It did the job of making the audience uncomfortable but at what cost.

It was unexpectedly very wholesome and philosophical.

Casablanca

Yeah, let's go classic : Casablanca, Singing in the rain, Vertigo

The Blues Brothers

Its 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigerettes, its dark and were wearing sunglasses.

Hit it

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.

Agree, but I wonder if you need to have seen a bunch of other horror films first to really appreciate Tucker and Dale?

No, not really. It stands well on its own.

Knowing about the tropes add to the movie, but I think it's good on its own

My favorites are the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Went to see them re-released in theaters earlier this year for the 25th anniversary.

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.

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.

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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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

If I had to choose one, it might be Short Term 12. I like some of these more than others, but all mean something to me and there's a pretty broad spread of genres here.

The 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.

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.

Indeed. Got some bad news though lol.

Man, that is terrible news. Thanks, I hate it.

Nice try recovery questions phisher. You will never find out that it's the 1966 Thunderbirds are go! Film.

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.

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.

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:

  1. Children of Men

  2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  3. LA Confidential

Eternal sunshine 🥲

Back to the Future.

II then I then III?

O’ Brother Where Art Thou

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.

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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....

  • Italy

    • Sergio Leone, everyhting
    • Cinema Paradiso (1988)
    • Suburra (2015)

  • Spain

    • La Isla minima (2014)
    • Que Dios nos perdone (2016)
    • As bestas (2022)
    • El milagro de P. Tinto (1998)

  • 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.

My tastes are almost exclusively sci fi, horror, and cosmic horror, but I'll give excellent and obscure recommendations for each, not necessarily my favs because you might have seen them already.

Aniara

The Void

green room

All of these are very good and hold up to a second watch.

What? No event horizon?

I'd be surprised if the OP hasn't already seen it, I tried to suggest more obscure movies. But yes, event horizon is very good.

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

The Prestige

True Romance

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.

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.

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

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.

70s Pacino -Serpico

Arthouse Christina Ricci and some weird dude who used to hang out with Basquate -Buffalo 66

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.

In the 40s & 50s, Alfred Hitchcock made a series of incredible thrillers that hold up to this day. Some were B&W, some were color, but ALL of them were at least 4 star movies, and many are 5 stars, and some are absolute CLASSICS.

My favorites:

  • Lifeboat (1944)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • Rope (1948)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • Dial M For Murder (1954)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  • The Wrong Man (1956)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • North By Northwest (1959)
  • Psycho (1960)

He made a lot more than these, and like I said, they're all terrific, but these are my personal favorites. Rear Window is my favorite film of all time, a PERFECT movie. Also, in Rear Window, Grace Kelly was the most beautiful woman who has ever appeared on screen. Watch it, and tell me I'm wrong.

Hitchcock is addicting.

Shadow of a Doubt is worth a watch! Was on youtube last time I checked

Heat, Alien, Groundhog Day

project hail mary

everything everywhere all at once

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

little miss sunshine

If I’m in the mood for something slow and meticulously well crafted, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Even though it was released in 1968(!), the special effects hold up better than they do in many films made decades later.

If I want well-written action with excellent character development, then it’s Heat (1995) hands down. If something in that film doesn’t strike an emotional chord with you, even a little, then there’s a good chance you’re a sociopath.

Leon: the professional

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.

The Wicker Man (1973)

Give us a few to go on, OP.

i.e. Sci-Fi

  • Arrival

  • 2001

  • Dune (2021)

i.e. Crime

  • Heat

  • Sicario

  • Brick

i.e. Non-Blockbuster Comic Book

  • Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

  • Comic Book Villains

  • Dredd (2012)

i.e. Beautiful/Painful international

  • Dancer in the Dark

  • Incendies

  • La Vita e Bella

Incendies... can never forget that one.

Salome's Last Dance, one of my favorite's in the weird category. I saw it on TV a long time ago.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/70842-salome-s-last-dance

The Death of Stalin is hands down my favorite movie. I have seen it about once every 6 months give or take since covid.

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.

Definitely agree that it is the weakest of the three.

Jurassic Park

The Tin Drum

Heavy Metal

moves my top is the lotr trilogy for series its firefly. still.

  • Lost Highway
  • Cure
  • Pulse
  • Blade Runner
  • Session 9

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

My actual personal favorite is Back to the Future Part 2, but if you’re looking for something you might not have seen, I’ll hit you with 3:

Baby Driver - A thrill a minute heist movie to a killer soundtrack and stellar cast

Everything Everywhere All At Once - An emotional rollercoaster as the title implies, go in blind

Ex Machina - Absolute masterclass in cinematography and storytelling about a billionaire and his invention

The Thing, one of the most suspenseful and terrifying movies ever

Duck Soup, comedy mostly a satire on politics, society, government, and military

Die Hard, classic 80s action, lots of guns and explosions and jumping off things. Terminator 2 for the 90s version.

The thing about "The Thing" for me, is that it's one of the only monster horror movies where the cast pretty much makes the smart, rational decisions the whole time, and still get their asses handed to them.

Fight Club (1999). If you don't know the twist, don't read anything about it, just watch it. I really like David Fincher's films but this is definitely my favorite.

Honorable mentions: Poor Things (2023) Parasite (2019) Midsommer (2019) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Oldboy (2003)

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.

Beyond the infinite two minutes. Quirky sci fi, one take movie, mind fuck. And adorable.

Ikiru and High and low by Akira Kurosawa.

The run down.

If you don't watch it, then you're just Wolfgang stuck then, aren't ya...

The Lure. It's a Polish horror musical about mermaids. I could see it being polarizing.

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.

Reprise

Kramer vs Kramer for some reason

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.

In that case, I would recommend the movie Gone girl for thriller that has the opportunity for thinking, and the book Daemon (and the sequel Freedom) for a page-turning sci-fi with relevance today.

Try out Brick (2005). Mystery and set in a high school with fun, noir-specific language. Same guy wrote and directed the Brothers Bloom (2013) and Knives Out (2019 and 2020), which is some fun mystery.

Nope (2022) and Get Out (2017), Parasite (2018), the Prestige (2004), and Primal Fear (1994) are all great thrillers.

You might also like Shane Black's movies. Funny, some action, The Last Boyscout (1991) and the Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) are guilty pleasures he wrote. Links are fun samples.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) and The Nice Guys (2018) are quite solid later work that he wrote and directed.

Romcom/ light sci-fi? Her (2015)

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

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

Love both of those Nolan movies.

Agree with many of the listed already, up voted many.

Personally, there is one that is just so personally beautiful and have watched many times : stranger than fiction. Can't explain why, I just know I LOVE it.

Such a good movie.

Probably The Longest Day. It was my favourite movie as a kid, because I was very into World War 2 back then. My sister can recite all lines in The Lion King, for me that’s with The Longest Day.

I like the delivery of the lines, the acting and the shots. There’s a really impressive single shot from above, where masses of Brits (I think) fight through a French town. There’s lots of explosions and a bridge which is destroyed. All one shot, really impressive especially for the time (I think). I also like that it’s not a purely English spoken film. I don’t watch movies in which ze Germans speak English, sorry. This is a really long movie though, three hours.

Another pick might be Coming out. Not a very good film I think, but I watched it quite a lot when I was younger. It’s an openly queer film made in the GDR and therefore already very special. Even more so as it had its premiere on the very night the Berlin Wall fell.

It’s about a guy who meets a girl and goes out with her, ends up moving in. Then, he randomly enters a gay bar and gets into the whole cruising thing. Then he finds a guy for real, but he still has his girlfriend. This goes wrong, of course. Interesting is that, near the end, an elder in the bar tells him that he was a loyal member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD, pre-war), but that didn’t help him as a gay guy. Now, it doesn’t matter if you’re jewish or whatever - but if you’re gay, people still hate you.

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)

Event Horizon.

3 Days of The Condor.

It's a 70's paranoid thriller with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, just an awesome film.

Nirvana the band the show the movie

The Korean version of hellboy was pretty good if you're in the mood for a mindfucking.

Synecdoche, New York or Lost in Translation

Not the favorite, but quite good I've watched recently:

  • Time Trap (2014);
  • The Man From Earth (2007);
  • Judge Dredd (2012) -- surprisingly good and has little in common with the original.

Also some movies that left a trace:

  • Education of Frederick Fitzell;
  • Reincarnation (2018, horror);
  • Weapons (2025, horror);
  • Two, Three, Demon, Come (horror). (Yes, I love good horrors).

I don't deal in absolutes, but one move I watched recently that I really enjoyed was Predator: Badlands (2025).

Like a Verhoeven move from the 80s, Predator sneaks in genuine and interesting themes into an ostensibly crappy sci-fi movie. The Thia character is good feminism that reminds me of Lewis in Robocop (1987). That is to say she's powerful without being coded masculine. And her relationship with Dax is as a partner and eventually a mirror. Dax's character arc can be summed up as overcoming toxic masculinity. Just delightful, I watched it twice in two days.

Animalympics.

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.

You can also read Dr. Stone and be disappointed with how it all ends. Get excited!

Lol we thought of that but nah we’ll wait on the anime

Safety Last (1923) starring Harold Lloyd. I think it's one of the funniest movies ever. Seen it dozens of times.

https://youtu.be/mBNKUda-s6MThis is probably the best movie mankind has ever created.

I did enjoy it, but what is he looking at?

"Oh, no! I shouldn't be driving this car!"

House of Flying Daggers is one of the most phenomenally made story’s of love, surprise, action, heartache, and betrayal ever made.

Wolfwalkers

What you think about the Road?

I'm not familiar with it at all, is it a fun watch?

If you think sleeping a bed of hot coals is fun, so is this movie.

It is very very dark and, many people say it is realistic in some aspects.