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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If I could get away with a miniseries, James Burke's Connections.

Or Cunk on Earth. It's a toss-up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just came here to upvote every "Idiocracy" comment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Obviously the greatest documentary ever committed to film: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Literally telling aliens that we will fuck shit up.

Stalker (1979) - You can leave your garbage and we'll think it's treasure.

Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) - Humanity is really just a bunch of idiots, stumbling through everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Napoleon dynamite pretty much sums it up. I intensely dislike the film but it's pretty indicative of the human condition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Letting them know what mankind is all about seems like a terrible idea. We're jerks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Double Feature: Ender's Game (2013) and Starship Troopers (1997) - then we serve them a sumptuous shellfish tower to discuss their surrender over dinner.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Full Metal Jacket.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wall-E. Sums it up pretty well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hellraiser II

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

β€œThe Final Member”

It’s a documentary about the worlds first penis museum in Iceland trying to finally secure a human specimen

https://youtu.be/sZMaheZ_Iy0?si=SCIxh2weymwp3AOk

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Earth Girls Are Easy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shawshank Redemption

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: I have watched none of the movies listed here in the comments

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

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

Schindler's list. Yeah aliens. It's like that. Go ahead and end us thx.

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

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

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

Requiem for a dream

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

A youtube compliation of high tension powerlines exploding.

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

Rocco's Animal Trainer #3.

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

End of ze world.

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

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody has mentioned porn. We try and say things in our great works of art but maybe they'd learn more from what we make when we're trying to say nothing at all.

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

The House of Spirits or Melancholia

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