For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
Ratatouille.
I don’t think there’s a movie that loves food more, or pays more respect to food. It’s an actual masterpiece, from every strand of hair rendered on Remy’s body, to each note played in the score. I will never get tired of watching this movie.
I like it too, but goddamn do I hate movies that boil down an entire culture to a single city. There’s no greater French Culture than Paris! or There’s nothing more British than London! or New York is all that exists for the arts!
I like the part about rats that cook. I find the love story somewhat creepy.
Cube (1997) It’s a great little film and a bit of a mindfuck.
Snatch. Such an absolutely quotable movie with interesting characters, and the great mix of storylines that Guy Ritchie films are know for. The dialogue is just phenomenal!
Y’like dags?
Warrior - chock-full of powerful emotions at just the right points, and a really, really good “underdog rises to the top” storyline.
I remember really not wanting to see it when it came out in theaters. I thought it looked boring and another dumb sports movie.
My God it was so much more than that. I loved it immediately. I choked up a few times through the story, and I might have cheered a bit at the end. The trailers really did not do that movie justice.
I commented before I saw your comment but I said the same movie. It’s not my favorite movie ever, but it’s up there and most people haven’t seen it, so I recommend it a lot. Nick Nolte is phenomenal in it. All of the actors are actually.
Amelie. It is by far my favorite movie that isn’t animated.
How to train your dragon (1, 2, and 3). These are my favorite American animated films.
My Neighbor Totoro. Favorite Japanese animated film.
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Not a recommendation per se, but if you like to ugly cry watch “Dear Evan Hanson”
Not a recommendation per se, but if you like to ugly cry watch “Dear Evan Hanson”
Evan Hansen is just shy of a rapist. He lied to a family about their dead son/brother and then leveraged that lie to sleep with the sister.
I haven’t seen the movie, but the musical struck me wrong. It was entertaining, and the set design was remarkable, but I couldn’t shake the ick factor.
If someone said they enjoy something, why did you reply about how you think it’s bad? It’s a story that means a lot to them. I know this is the Internet where the other users don’t have feelings, but come on.
If someone said they enjoy something, why did you reply about how you think it’s bad? It’s a story that means a lot to them.
That’s a good question. It’s not like I was trying to be cruel or anything, but I can see where what I said could come off that way.
That said, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong about disagreeing with someone. The “ick factor” as I called it is genuinely something that I think doesn’t get discussed sufficiently. The musical was WILDLY popular, and I can absolutely understand. It won the Tony for best musical. The portrayal of insecurity and depression is certainly moving, if basic.
But I also think the show could’ve been better. Evan should’ve come clean before fucking the girl he’d been lying to the whole show. And I find it baffling that anyone would think otherwise.
I know this is the Internet where the other users don’t have feelings, but come on.
Again, I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone’s feelings. I don’t think I said anything that wasn’t warranted. This is a public forum, if someone doesn’t want to participate in public discussion the onus is on them, not those who respond without malice. If you make statements you open yourself to disagreement, which is a healthy part of communication. Life isn’t everyone agreeing about everything all the time, or it would be boring.
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.
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.
There’s also sweaty boobs
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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
To be fair, you have to remember that the story the that the first film was based on was published in 1968. It’s basically a form of the “Seinfeld isn’t funny” trope. Just about every work of sci-fi, about being able to (or not) tell human from machine has borrowed one thing or another from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or the first Bladerunner film in one way or another. It’s basically impossible not to.
So I wonder if your opinion of it, watching it for the first time in 2024 could be colored by that. If all of those themes have been beaten to death again and again, satirized, parodied, meme-ified, then eventually cycling around to being cool again, then maybe you’re noticing all of those things as the tropes/memes they became.
I would say like half of Rick and Morty episodes are a take on a Philip K. Dick plot point. Had I not read his novels before being exposed to that stuff, I’m sure I would have probably caught more about how poorly written his female characters were, for example. But at the time I was just too blown away by the concepts this dude had come up with that it didn’t matter to me.
Yea, me watching it so many ywars after it came out definitely colored my opinion. Its like that with many “first” movies, from Tron to Metropolis, that the original appeal decreases as the motives and filmmaking techniques arent as new anymore, because of those movies. One would have to watch “generic” movies from that year to really apprechiate the innovative parts which then got replicated over and over.
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.
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)
Sneakers had got to be one of my all-time favorite movies. Definitely still relevant.
Not exactly my favorite movie, but one I regularly recommend: Mind Game (2004)
The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don’t laugh every time.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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I don’t have a single favorite, but generally it’s going to go something like:
Triangle.
The Void.
The Endless.
Moon.
Upgrade.
Delicatessen
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
Moon! Definitely one I recommend.
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!
Ace ventura 2.
Hardly needs recommending but i would be lying if i said it wasnt my favorite.A Knights Tale would be a close second.
