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Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Forrest Gump The Blues Brothers Jurassic Park Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Interstellar

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Unironically: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

A lot of movies already mentioned, so I'll add two movies which I feel are essential to watch:

  • Ex Machina (2014)
  • Into the Wild (2007)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If we're ever going to see eye to eye, you must be familiar with a Goofy Movie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The original Jumanji. The first Jurassic Park. Rush Hour. The Sound of Music. Spirited Away. Alien. The Dead Poet's Society. The Matrix. Happy as Lazaro. The Dark Knight. The Godfather. 2001: A Space Odyssey The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy). Seven Samurai. The Terminator. The Lion King.

Such classics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

A bunch of other people have mentioned Ghibli movies and since I'm in the middle of a binge through every Ghibli movie I think I'll recommend one that I hadn't seen before a few days ago: Only Yesterday or Omoide Poroporo.
It's Isao Takahata, not Miyazaki, but it's easily my favorite Ghibli movie and one of my favorite movies of all time. It feels so real and relatable, the whole movie is essentially a really slow-paced series of flashbacks to the main character's 10-year-old self and every detail is so well-thought-out and interesting.
Very worth watching, although I'll mention as a disclaimer that all the friends I was watching it with thought it was super pointless and boring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  • The fool
  • The platform
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Interstate 60

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Some I haven't seen mentioned: -The Best of Youth -Enter the Void -Call Me by Your Name -Nocturnal Animals -The Secret Life of Walter Mitty -The Hunt -Moonrise Kingdom -Mother (Korean movie) -The Baader Meinhoff Complex -City of God -Snatch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Day of the Wacko

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Predestination

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Everyone going the biggest and best....

I suggest:

Both versions of House on Haunted Hill (evolution of the campy horror genre)

Both versions of Black Christmas (see horror tropes become them and the retelling)

Jason X (Jason the undying killer but in space!)

Teeth (if you needed a movie to really drive home that SA is bad)

Trainspotting (if you needed a movie to really drive home that drug addiction is bad)

The Room (a detailed instructional of how not to write a movie)

Super Mario Bros 1993 (watch as both the main characters appear to become more drunk as the story goes on because their actors actually were) .... And the new one I guess. It's ok but not as entertaining on a meta level

DOA Dead or Alive (possibly the most true to source video game movie and a fun martial arts movie)

Patch Adams (if you can watch the whole thing twice, you're better than me. That third act is brutal emotionally for me)

Slaxx (do not read anything about it. Go in blind. Enjoy the layers of what the actual fuck is going on)

Dungeons and Dragons 2000 (about as accurate a oneshot as I've ever seen. Also, Jeremy Irons being peak Jeremy Irons)

What the bleep do we know (Science! Physics! Learning!)

Wicker man (Cage version during the height of him taking literally any role to pay off debts. Watch him overact and punch a woman in a bear suit)

Romeo and Juliet (decaprio version. Shakespeare but in modern day Miami. They do not update the language to current English.)

I've got more but that should be good for a few days worth of watching.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) - not entirely faithful to the novel, but this version is brutal in its depiction of the war. I do think removing Paul's short return to his village hurt the story. It's interesting to compare this one to the 1930 version

Spaceballs (1987) - Mel Brooks doing what he does best.

Blindness (2008)

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Mary and Max

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sorry, Im more of a Face Off guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Cinema Paradiso Gaslight Arsenic and Old Lace North by Northwest The Mummy (Brenden Fraser) Gladiator Saving Private Ryan Up Finding Nemo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

American Movie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Good responses! I couldn't think of anything that wasn't already there!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It hasn't been mentioned.

Primer

It's simply the BEST time travel movie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A few I don't see getting mentioned much:

  • 3-Iron
  • The Seventh Continent
  • Hausu
  • The Lives of Others
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
  • Spoorloos
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In all my years as a fan of movies I have never heard anyone ever mention SSFWS! I feel like I just found a kindred spirit. It is a movie that sticks with you forever. One of my favorites for sure. You might enjoy The Best of Youth based off your list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Haha, I have no idea why it is so unheard of. Absolutely floored me the first time I saw it years ago and I've come back to it at various times in my life and gotten different things out of it each time. Such a gem of a film.

Haven't seen The Best of Youth but I'll put it on my list right next to Satantango 😉.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Gremlins (The only Christmas movie worth watching).

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