Ones I haven’t seen mentioned so far:
Geez everyone's got a list! I got just one movie I watch over and over.
FIGHT CLUB
I cant talk about it.
A few nobody has mentioned:
Casablanca
Young Frankenstein Labyrinth Last Unicorn Reservoir Dogs The Crow Hard Boiled
Seconding Young Frankenstein! It's still one of the funniest films I've ever watched.
Heist (2001)
I like all of Mamet's films, but Heist is head and shoulders above the rest, IMO. Besides being a well written heist film with a great cast, it rewards rewatching. I've watched it so many times, but the last time I watched it, I caught a new detail I hadn't noticed before.
Heist (2001)
Just saw this today, it was pretty great.
As for me, Groundhog Day, every year, on the day. I can rarely stay awake through the whole thing but I won't let that stop me.
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.
Edit: All the people with low standards get upset when called out.
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.
I watched it for the first time recently. It was enjoyable still. I don't mind the glacial pace of old movies.
You could share your movies without being condescending, FYI.
Pleasantly surprised to see Paprika in someone's list, no one i know has ever even heard of it. Such a good weird movie.
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.
Poor things
Everything Everywhere All At Once
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Black Swan
All I can think of right now.
Rush is probably one of the best motorsports movies out there, definitely better than whatever the fuck the F1 movie was trying to be.
Also try Ford Vs Ferrari that one's good too.
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.
Brazil
Wings of Desire
Blade Runner: Original Theatrical Cut
Others too obvious to mention... see the rest of the thread.
There's a lot of movies I really like. But I believe these to be my all time favorites:
Master and Commander
Rogue One
Tron: Legacy
Arrival
gattaca
matrix
the mask
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