For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
Probably Cloud Atlas
It was a commercial failure so it’s usually one that people haven’t already seen.
Talented cast and directors passionate about the project.
It’s extremely divisive, most people either love it or think it was a waste of time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t “love” to recommend anything to anyone, but I’s say, 2001 is by far my most favorite movie. It’s in perfect balance between science, fiction, and philosophy and was waaay ahead of it’s time. And even nowadays it looks spectacularly good and has a timeless storyline.
I don’t usually recommend movies in situations where the solution space isn’t already limited significantly by the context, but 2001 is the one I thought of first upon reading the title, so I suppose there’s at least two of us!
The Blues Brothers. For years people had been telling me how good it was but I hadn’t got around to watching it. Now I get it.
One of my top 3 movies!
“we’re on a mission from God”
Aliens.
Great story. Excellent pacing. Fantastic characters. Awesome music. I’m running out of adjectives, so I’ll add that I really liked: dialog, acting, special effects, lore, and setting.
First rule is, I can’t talk about it. Second rule is, I can’t talk about it.
I have lost count of how many times I watched that movie. So many great details.
And I think most people take away the wrong message. It is critic and not encouragement.
Ah, the Care Bears movie. Yeah I was deeply ashamed too, but you love what you love.
It’s a philosophical movie about breaking yourself apart and rebuilding yourself consciously.
Not hard to understand why so many people don’t get that part of it. It’s a deeply introspective movie, not just about sweaty guys fighting each other.
There’s also sweaty boobs
A high school friend of mine said it romanticized mental health disorders, which I can’t really disagree with.
Seems like a general theme around Palahniuk’s stories… I feel like his type of shock went out of style in the 00s. Probably for the best.
A friend of mine mentioned ‘Contact’ was the perfect film. I thought about it for some time and found that I agree. The plot, casting, filmography, and score are all top notch.
Beyond favorite there are quite a few films I consider ‘done’ we don’t need sequels or remakes. Most recently the original ‘Willy Wonka’ came to mind.
I love the line “They should have sent a poet”
Great movie. If you haven’t, you should check out Arrival (2016).
I like it, but it’s also a movie where world leaders act in the most unrealistically stupid way possible. It’s where emotions take more precedence than any actual pretense of diplomacy. Humans being gaslit into allies by future-seeing aliens is also a bit too deterministic to be seen as any kind of moral victory either. I dunno, not a movie for me
There’s a video by a designer talking about some of the symbolism of Ellie’s journey (Full talk video here – SPOILERS for the film in both).
And also an insightful YouTube comment(!) someone made in response describing their interpretation:
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"This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I’ve ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities.
- The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber.
- The chair may not be an electric chair but rather a means for Ellie to assume a modified fetal position while in the capsule. This would mimic the position of a baby of in a womb prior to its own birth.
- The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her.
- The periodic updates given by the mission control staff as to the status of the machine (10%, 20%, 30%, etc.) mirror the increasing dilation of women in labor (1 cm dilated, 2cm dilated, 3cm dilated, etc.).
- The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal.
- The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe.
- After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father.
- This rebirth scene is enhanced by considering Ellie’s mother died from complications of childbirth when Ellie was born. This backstory enhances Ellie’s natural reluctance to be reborn as her initial birth killed her mother, and permanently altered her life.
There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism."
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Hot Fuzz. It’s just hilarious and fairly well done and people I know generally appreciate the style.
For those that don’t, maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year-Old_Man_Who_Climbed_Out_of_the_Window_and_Disappeared_(film)
Seconded. This truly is a masterpiece of a movie
John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing. The themes of paranoia and isolation are so perfectly explored; it launched the career of Keith David, who is just a treasure; the performances are all immaculate; and those effects. My god, the effects.
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That’s a great one as well. That alleyway fight scene is so fucking cool. Carpenter is easily one of the most creative, most fun artists of his generation.
Do you have any bubblegum?
My god, the effects.
My god, the soundtrack. He’s a fantastic musician. I really liked his Lost Themes, especially Wraith:
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Absolutely amazing movie, the effects were so ahead of their time!
Right? I can’t watch it with people anymore, because I keep pausing to explain how certain effects were achieved. It’s a monumental achievement.
Damn, that movie really messed me up as a kid, watching it alone.
I can imagine; I wouldn’t recommend it for kids. Way too much gore and tension.
Love that one too. What do you (or anybody with a theory or the answer) think is the meaning of the ending?
I think it’s intentionally ambiguous. For me, the point is the paranoia and distrust. I might be wrong, of course, but my interpretation is that we are supposed to leave the experience with questions.
I don’t have a single favorite, but generally it’s going to go something like:
Triangle.
The Void.
The Endless.
Moon.
Upgrade.
Delicatessen
I just recently saw Triangle. Definitely an under-appreciated movie. That one shot after she chases the girl to the top of the ship is S tier horror. Great ending too.
I watched it last night after Helix’s comment piqued my curiosity. I’d previously never heard of it before, and it’s one of those movies where it’s even better on the second viewing. Enjoyed the mystery and the eeriness! Was not expecting that ending at all
Upgrade was fantastic! So glad I caught that under the radar. Such a great action sci-fi with a dystopian flavour. “Black Mirror” meets “John Wick”. And what an ending.
It it, IMO, the best cyberpunk movie that’s hit theaters. So under rated.
God yes I love The Void. It really hits those Lovecraftian themes extremely well imo. The practical effects are fantastic as well.
Have you seen Vivarium or Color Out of Space?
I haven’t seen Vivarium, although it looked like it would be good. My wife loved it.
I enjoyed The Color Out of Space for what it was; Dagon was another pretty solid Lovecraft adaptation. Oh, and for older horror, there’s The Re-Animator, and From Beyond. I think a lot of Lovecraft doesn’t translate to film very well; cosmic horror as a fiction genre just isn’t quite the same as cosmic horror in film. Adaptations of books and stories to screen always have to make compromises that can cost some of the punch, and showing something–like the screaming bear in Annihilation–can give you more punch than trying to set the same scene up in a book. Neither is ‘better’ than the other, they’re just different art forms.
If you’re into these movies, I’d recommend Necronomicon, a 1994 anthology Lovecraft horror film. It’s been out of print, but that link will take you to the full movie hosted on archive.org
It’s weird and interesting
I’ll check it out!
Moon! Definitely one I recommend.
Repo: The Genetic Opera.
It’s definitely not for everyone, but it hits all the right buttons in my moody theatre kid heart, and “I Didn’t Know I’d Love You So Much” will always get the tears going for me.
And even if someone bounces off it, I’ve gotten a terrifying number of them hooked on Zydrate Anatomy. Might be the only song they remember from the whole thing, but it stays stuck.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial
If you’re 40 to 60 years old, definitely Hot Tub Time Machine.
It’d still be a great movie if you’re out of that age zone, but if you were around to remember the 80’s it just hits that much better. It’s a fantastic comedy from beginning to end.
The Big Lebowski
Is gonna be the best movie you’ve ever seen once you see it twice
Never seen it, I actually started watching it this week, so far so good!
The dude is like my spirit animal.
!achievers@lebowski.social beckons
Damn, now I have to watch it again haha
Really? I tried watching it but I couldn’t get through it.
It has a really messy plot with fast paced dialogue and subtle details that you can miss, I also remember my first time seeing it and being like “wtf is going on?”
As I said, the second time I saw it years later, I already knew the general direction of the movie so I could focus on the single characters and let me tell you: there’s a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic
there’s a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic
You just described the writing in everything the Coen Brothers have ever made.
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
American Astronaut
The black and white one with the billy nayer show?
The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don’t laugh every time.
