For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
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.
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.
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.
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.
My god, the effects.
My god, the soundtrack. He’s a fantastic musician. I really liked his Lost Themes, especially Wraith:
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
5th Element
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…
Multipass!
My fav movie! The perfect blend of sci-fi, action, comedy, and fashion model catwalk.
Perfect.
The Big Lebowski
Is gonna be the best movie you’ve ever seen once you see it twice
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
!achievers@lebowski.social beckons
Damn, now I have to watch it again haha
Ya don’t mess with tha Jesus
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.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
It’s such a gem of a movie, hits all the right notes
We’ve had a doozy of a day!
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.
“we’re on a mission from God”
One of my top 3 movies!
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.)
They are all great movies! Do you also think highly about What about Once Upon a Time in the West?
Absolutely! Both Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America are pure masterpieces too!
The Bruce Willis movie, Last Man Standing, is a good Fistful of Dollars redo set in 1920s I believe.
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
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
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.
Cube (1997) It’s a great little film and a bit of a mindfuck.
I love most of Wes Anderson’s body of work, but my absolute favourite of his is The Life Aquatic
Really? I love of Wes Anderson movies, but The Life Aquatic was the only one I couldn’t finish.
That’s too bad. I found it to be just a really beautiful movie top to bottom with a great story and clever humour.
Baby Driver was the first movie I saw 3 times at the theater. Gets me hooked beginning to end.
Here is my top 3 list:
- Lord of the Rings
- Back to the Future
- Terminator 2
I don’t have a single favorite, but generally it’s going to go something like:
Triangle.
The Void.
The Endless.
Moon.
Upgrade.
Delicatessen
Moon! Definitely one I recommend.
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.
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
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!