For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
- Maerman ( @Maerman@lemmy.ml ) 37•2 months ago
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.
- ianovic69 ( @ianovic69@feddit.uk ) English8•2 months ago
Brilliant film, I love John Carpenter. My favourite is They Live.
- Maerman ( @Maerman@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 months ago
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.
Absolutely amazing movie, the effects were so ahead of their time!
- Maerman ( @Maerman@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months ago
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.
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.de ) 3•2 months ago
Love that one too. What do you (or anybody with a theory or the answer) think is the meaning of the ending?
- Maerman ( @Maerman@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
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.
- Wiz ( @Wiz@midwest.social ) English2•2 months ago
Damn, that movie really messed me up as a kid, watching it alone.
- Maerman ( @Maerman@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago
I can imagine; I wouldn’t recommend it for kids. Way too much gore and tension.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
My god, the effects.
My god, the soundtrack. He’s a fantastic musician. I really liked his Lost Themes, especially Wraith:
- XTL ( @XTL@sopuli.xyz ) 28•2 months ago
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)
- fossphi ( @fossphi@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
Seconded. This truly is a masterpiece of a movie
- etchinghillside ( @etchinghillside@reddthat.com ) 28•2 months ago
5th Element
- cheesymoonshadow ( @cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ) 11•2 months ago
This is one of my favorites. Also Shawshank Redemption and The Birdcage. Although I learned recently that a lot of humor in The Birdcage goes over the heads of younger people.
Edit: Sharing this here in case you haven’t seen it…
- Ixoid ( @Ixoid@lemm.ee ) English6•2 months ago
My fav movie! The perfect blend of sci-fi, action, comedy, and fashion model catwalk.
- kindenough ( @kindenough@kbin.social ) 6•2 months ago
Multipass!
- Railison ( @Railison@aussie.zone ) English1•2 months ago
Perfect.
- ianovic69 ( @ianovic69@feddit.uk ) English23•2 months ago
Bladerunner.
Me and a friend watched it in a cinema on release aged 13. I’m very tall and my friend looked about 40. (Now he’s over 50 and looks under 40.) You could get away with it in those days.
On VCR release, our friend got his dad to buy a copy and we watched it on repeat at every opportunity. I’ve watched the Final Cut release many times, which I think is even better, and it’s one of the very few films I will happily watch at any time.
The documentary about the making of it is great to watch as well. Watch the film first though. I started reading Dick’s books aged about 11 or 12 and was already hooked before the film. I think that prepared me a bit, along with other sci-fi I was reading by then.
It’s still my favourite film.
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 2•2 months ago
Just watched both bladerunner movies (idk which versions of them) and was rather underwhelmed. The cinematic grand setpieces i can apprechiate and see how they can be captivating for some but the story (or bith of them rather) wasnt very good imo. The worldbuilding is ambitious but the logic behind everything is lacking. Its just not “realistic” enough for me. I get thats sci-fi but for me it feels more like a fantasy movie like idk avatar or harry potter, rather than sci-fi which is supposed to play in our world/universe but with advanced tech. Things like not being able to distinguish replicants (first movie I just didnt buy. And then in the second one there is a gadget that can do just that.
And also Ryan Gosling played pretty badly (maybe it was the script), no emotions, (almost) no storytelling in his mimic, emotions, in his character at all. He is almost like a wax figure, during watching I multiple times had to pause and complain to my co-watcher about his performance, as it too was unrealistic and too stoic for my taste
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago
I feel like I’m the only person I know who really enjoyed the sheer visual masterpiece that was the second movie. Gosling is supposed to under-react here, and that he does well, right until the point that he breaks.
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 3•2 months ago
I mean, I get both. Sometimes it felt more like a documentary whith grand and cinematic images of the city and few spoken words, I can apprechiate that, altho its not what I am looking for in a movie.
I suspected that he is supposed to not really show emotions, to show how he is trained/at the “baseline” and how he is not quite human. But I couldn’t see a gradual/fine development nor “hidden” or suppressed emotions behind his cold pokerface. (Apart from the one moment at the memory girl’s)
- pH3ra ( @pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 22•2 months ago
The Big Lebowski
Is gonna be the best movie you’ve ever seen once you see it twice
- Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 11•2 months ago
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
- Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English4•2 months ago
!achievers@lebowski.social beckons
- Sunny' 🌻 ( @Sunny@slrpnk.net ) 2•2 months ago
Damn, now I have to watch it again haha
- Railison ( @Railison@aussie.zone ) English1•2 months ago
Ya don’t mess with tha Jesus
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.de ) 18•2 months ago
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.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago
Ah, the Care Bears movie. Yeah I was deeply ashamed too, but you love what you love.
- Bizarroland ( @Bizarroland@kbin.social ) 16•2 months ago
Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
It’s such a gem of a movie, hits all the right notes
- __init__ ( @__init__@programming.dev ) 2•2 months ago
We’ve had a doozy of a day!
- DirigibleProtein ( @DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ) 15•2 months ago
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.
- elbowgrease ( @elbowgrease@lemm.ee ) 4•2 months ago
“we’re on a mission from God”
- Wiz ( @Wiz@midwest.social ) English3•2 months ago
One of my top 3 movies!
- AceQuorthon ( @AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 12•2 months ago
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly… by like a lot.
I watched the Dollars Trilogy in order and I love all those movies. A Fistful of Dollars feels very low budget at certain points, including one of the worst day for night edits I’ve ever seen, but overall it’s a damn good 9/10 Yojimbo ripoff.
For a Few Dollars More is straigt up one of the best movies I have ever seen, an easy 10/10. It’s a full blown high budget movie that just shocked me when I saw it for the first time, I was amazed how good it was, and it confused me too since EVERYONE said that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best of the bunch, like how could something be better than this???
Well, how is it…? When I first saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I almost went catatonic. If For a Few Dollars More is 10/10 then this movie is 11/10, or 12/10 or even 13/10. EVERYTHING about this movie is amazing, if the previous one was made with an A24 budget then this one was made with the same production level as fucking Oppenheimer. Everything is bigger, the scale of the movie is breathtaking, the Morricone music is the best of all time, the characters are amazing, the action is amazing, the climax of the movie is the best ever put on screen, I just fucking love this movie so SO fucking much.
So yeah… watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you haven’t.
(Shout out to Duck, You Sucker. A movie that also blew my socks off, made by the same director.)
- obsolete ( @obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•2 months ago
They are all great movies! Do you also think highly about What about Once Upon a Time in the West?
- AceQuorthon ( @AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•2 months ago
Absolutely! Both Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America are pure masterpieces too!
- Tiltinyall ( @Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
The Bruce Willis movie, Last Man Standing, is a good Fistful of Dollars redo set in 1920s I believe.
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 11•2 months ago
For action movie fans, I’ll always recommend The Raid: Redemption. It’s a good gateway to martial arts movies, which can lead to a whole slew of other more esoteric recommendations
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 2•2 months ago
yea it’s amazing. Seconding that. Curious what those other recommendations would be? because aside from some old Jackie Chan flicks and a couple others, I’m a rookie in the martial arts flicks biz
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 2•2 months ago
I’d consider myself a rookie as well. Other than the classic Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan stuff, there’s Oldboy, Ip Man, chocolate.
Checking what else those performers have been in can be a good way to branch out to other titles.
- Feydaikin ( @Faydaikin@beehaw.org ) 11•2 months ago
Cube (1997) It’s a great little film and a bit of a mindfuck.
- thequickben ( @thequickben@beehaw.org ) 10•2 months ago
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 10•2 months ago
I love most of Wes Anderson’s body of work, but my absolute favourite of his is The Life Aquatic
- Rusty ( @Rusty@lemmy.ca ) English1•2 months ago
Really? I love of Wes Anderson movies, but The Life Aquatic was the only one I couldn’t finish.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 2•2 months ago
That’s too bad. I found it to be just a really beautiful movie top to bottom with a great story and clever humour.
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 9•2 months ago
I don’t have a single favorite, but generally it’s going to go something like:
Triangle.
The Void.
The Endless.
Moon.
Upgrade.
Delicatessen
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@midwest.social ) 6•2 months ago
Moon! Definitely one I recommend.
- BurningnnTree ( @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one ) English5•2 months ago
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
- anton2492 ( @anton2492@lemmy.nz ) 5•2 months ago
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.
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
It it, IMO, the best cyberpunk movie that’s hit theaters. So under rated.
Have you seen Vivarium or Color Out of Space?
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
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.
- androogee (they/she) ( @androogee@midwest.social ) English3•2 months ago
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
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
I’ll check it out!
- otacon239 ( @otacon239@feddit.de ) 9•2 months ago
Baby Driver was the first movie I saw 3 times at the theater. Gets me hooked beginning to end.