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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Event Horizon.
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.
The Death of Stalin is hands down my favorite movie. I have seen it about once every 6 months give or take since covid.
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.
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
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.
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.
Wolfwalkers
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)
Ikiru and High and low by Akira Kurosawa.
3 Days of The Condor.
It’s a 70’s paranoid thriller with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, just an awesome film.
I have a lot of different favorites but the ones I’ve been thinking about watching lately are “Polyester” and “A Serious Man”. I really like both of those.
The Korean version of hellboy was pretty good if you’re in the mood for a mindfucking.
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.
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…
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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.
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