I always say everyone should see requiem for a dream, but no one should watch it. That film does more for stopping drug abuse than any government program ever did.
I find it inconceivable that no one has mentioned 'The Princess Bride' yet.
That word... I think it means exactly what you think it means.
The Fifth Element.
Super green.
“Listen lady, I speak two languages: English and BAD English!”
Grave of the Fireflies
Whoa! Calm down there, Satan.
Main-lining high grade depression. It's my go-to threat when someone tells me they think anime is 'too silly' to watch.
"12 Angry Men" (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.
The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels "small". The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.
In the beginning of 12 Angry Men everything is shot from above eye-level with wide-angle lenses, giving everything the feel of more space, but as the film progresses it transitions to tighter shots with telephoto lenses from lower angles. The film gives the viewer more and more of a subconscious sense of tension and claustrophobia as the story progresses.
At least one stage adaptation of the story gave a similar effect over the course of the show by slowly tightening the lighting and having the walls of the set physically move inward, too slow for the audience to take notice but enough to subtly affect the entire atmosphere and really drive that feeling home.
Top Secret, by the same guys who did Naked Gun. I think it's somehow actually funnier on average than Naked Gun, even though that one's great, too.
Basically, I don't know if a human could watch it and not find it fucking amazingly funny. So dense with jokes, so creative with the execution, so many funny practical effects, you're constantly astounded that they created props and sets for such absurd humor, and it really works.
Wall-e
It's our future if we don't fix shit.
Bold of you to assume we'll be able to cooperate long enough to transport all of humanity off planet
They probably didn't. It's a single ship, not that big, and they only used one language on it.
Since my movie taste is a bit of everything here is my colourful list:
12 Monkeys was unexpectedly good! Not many films can tell a story in that manner and pull it off.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Not really the most profound or insightful, but it's just a good fun film.
I freaking love that movie but actually think it has a lot of depth. It shows a cgi cartoon character dealing with inevitability of death, fragility of life and mortality and value of what’s truly important. Side storylines about families, adoption, forgiveness etc but man does that wolf kill it.
We're gonna get a lot of the more standard "Perfect movies" so I'm going to stick with some of the ones that may not be "perfect movies" but I found personally always enjoy
Ex Machina - Fucks with your mind through the entire movie, and leaves you bewildered at the end
Ocean's 11, the Clooney version personally, I watch this regularly and is my favorite heist movie
Seeking a friend for the end of the world - Tears, but it's a movie that's worth a watch - but I can never rewatch it.
The Whale - just last year, another amazing movie that has to be watched, but you will probably never be able to rewatch it.
The Theory of Everything - Personally this movie is what started me out from "Movies are cool action things I go with friends to see" to "Maybe movies can evoke emotions that I didn't know I could fully appreciate", and for those here who have seen me comment on movies before, this is where Felicity Jones became my favorite actress. You forget your watching a movie, and she became Jane Hawking in it, and it's the first movie I legit cried to. It hurt me deep. Eddie Redmayne did a wonderful job, fully embodying Steven as well, to the point that again you forget you are watching a movie.
And one more because what the hell
None of these would I nominate as best movie of all time, I just went through my list of most watched movies and these stuck out
Children of Men is a madtapiece.
Everybody’s Everything. I knew nothing about Lil Peep and I absolutely loved the whole documentary.
Many good ones were already mentioned
But from memory:
I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.
My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.
On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.
Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.
I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.
The Matrix
Lucky Number Slevin
Man On Fire
Syriana
Equilibrium
And for some solid Australian cinema: Mystery Road
American History X
Dead Alive
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead
My answer to this question changes a lot, but for now I'm gonna say Heathers
They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.
Evil Dead 2
Oh one more. Contagion. Made years and years before covid - pretty spot on tho.
Arrival
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