What is your favorite movie of all time?

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To me, nothing will EVER top the magic of Smokey and the Bandit.

Literally one of Hal Needham's and Burt Reynolds's greatest works to date. The plot is very simple: The Bandit accepts a challenge set by Big and Little Enos, which is to travel down to Texarkana, TX to illegally bootleg 400 cases of Coors, and deliver them back to Atlanta, GA, all within a 28 hour time limit. This film's plot actually makes a lot of sense when you think about US laws of the time. Bootlegging laws were much more stricter back then, especially in Texas. Taking beer east of Texas was considered as bootlegging, and it would have severe consequences for anyone who was caught doing it. So, this film's plot is actually based off of the real US laws of the late 70s. It only adds to the authenticity. Laws since then have gotten much more leniant, but they are still made to keep people in check from time to time. It's almost interesting to see the changes from the late 70s to now. It was like a completely different world entirely, and that authenticity only made the film more special, since we got to see the relics of a by-gone era of the United States. I mean, just look at the set comparisons on YouTube. It's like it became a whole different world overnight.

Then, you also have the AMAZING and WONDERFUL country soundtrack composed by the one and only Jerry Reed. He actually stated himself that the film, originally, did not have a music score when he was pulled in as the composer, and the film was nearly ready to be released. So, within a short time span, Jerry Reed composed an entire film soundtrack in such a short timespan, and gave us one of the most legendary pieces of country music in the form of "Eastbound and Down". But that's not it. Jerry would also make "Westbound and Down" as well, which would prove to be quintessential to the film's plot. You see, in the film, when they are heading down to Texas to get the beer, they are going westbound, and you hear "Westbound and Down" playing as a result. This is during the very beginning of the journey. And when they are on the freeway passing by a truck convoy, they are heading back to Georgia, which means they're going eastbound, and that's why you hear "Eastbound and Down", which plays MUCH later into the journey. It shows which direction they are traveling across the US at that time; "Eastbound and Down" playing signals they are nearing the end of their journey, and "Westbound and Down" means the journey has just begun. All in all, that is some truly EXCELLENT soundtrack continuity. It really goes to show how much of a blast they were having making this. He did a wonderful job composing the soundtrack.

But, of course, the star of the movie, is of COURSE Jackie Gleason, who plays as Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Oh man, he was SO FUNNY in this film. In fact, most of his dialogue was completely improvised and wasn't even actually in the script. The things he said during the movie? That was all him doing that on the fly, off the top of his head. His improv in this film was truly off the charts. He made that movie very special. In fact, you know that entire scene where Buford T. Justice and The Bandit run into a restaurant and have a nice, friendly chat, all the while Buford doesn't even realize he's talking to the very person he is after? Guess what? That was Jackie's idea. That entire scene wasn't even supposed to be in the movie. He came up with the idea himself, and as such, it was added to the film on Jackie's request and he made that scene entirely his own. Well, lemme tell ya, that scene became one of the most important scenes of the film, and quite frankly, one of the funniest as well. If it weren't for Jackie Gleason with his incredible improv, this film would have just been a mediocre 'modern-day Western'. But, Jackie's funny dialogue made the movie, he quite literally stole the show. His incredible talent in this film will never be matched. Ever. His improv was literally incredible. God, I miss him and his energy...

This is an absolute must-watch for any car/truck lover. You will absolutely love this film and have a good laugh!

Agree 100%
When i was a kid, we did not have a tv, for many years. But my uncle did. And he had 2 movies on vhs? Smokey and the bandit. And the sting.
If there was bad weather we siblings and cousins often went there to watch one of those 2. Have probably seen the sting 20-30 times. But i would not be suprised if we saw the bandit a hundred times ;D

The Princess Bride, with In Bruges being a fairly close second. But I think The Princess Bride stays permanently at number 1 for me.

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

My ex used to fall asleep to this movie. I’ve seen up to the sword fight scene more time than I can count. Still love it.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, followed by Life of Brian.

Blues Brothers. It's damn near perfect.

And I still hate Illinois Nazis.

My dad had The Blues Brothers on VHS. I used to watch it ALL the time. I've seen it upwards of 100 times. It is still one of my favorite movies of all time. When I was a kid 95% of it went over my head, but as an adult, it's just so good.

Same, when blues brothers 2000 came out, i was really excited, because back then, i had no idea how sequels work and that they are often just shit. Even tho i was the target audience for that movie, i really hated it.

Favorite is difficult and changes over time. But it's gonna be one of these:

  • The Big Lebowski
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Clerks
  • Tron
  • Airplane!
  • Die Hard
  • Escape From New York

Now I think The Pianist is the best movie of all time, which is a different thing, but that newer movie 1917 sure competes.

Have no idea why 1917 was less commented than Dunkirk. The former is a masterpiece and the latter is just bad

Aliens

I just quote it constantly so it has to be ... or Dune part 2, probably needs a bit more time to breath before I can call it my favorite though.

Awesone movie. Aliens, terminator 2 and the abyss are just a goldmine of things that became culture backbone.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?"

No, no, no…Death is…not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not being. You can't not-be on a boat.

(Apropos user name!)

Interstellar. I so sincerely regret not seeing it on the big screen.

It was a very intense experience in the cinema. Some sequences -docking, waves, tesseract...- were absolutely spectacular

The scene where he read the poem was really memorable for me. I found out afterwards it's a well-known poem irl, but I'll probably always associate it with that movie. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.

yea ! for some reason I initially thought it was composed for the movie as well. Maybe because it was so fitting

I’m not sure if you live in the US, but they’re releasing it for theaters on December 6th. I missed out on it the first time too, so I’m making sure I’m there.

I can't shake off the Nolan when I see Nolan films. I see the same tired tropes of affluent people grandstanding each other against the stakes of the world, to the absolute non-consent of anyone in it. Ample nepotism in the sense that the "greatness" is inherited, and then tacking on over-the-top artistic prose with the intent of swaying the audience into believing that these are respectable people. All his characters scream of narcissism.

And as always: Eat a dick, Murphy. You're an adult now, you know exactly why your dad had to leave, and you still choose to hate him? Jesus, kid.

Same here, didn't see it on the big screen because I kept hearing negative things about the film but man... it's the best sci-fi movie I've ever seen!

Matrix

Thoughts on the sequils?

Better to watch the original 4 times in a row.

I need to watch the new one a couple more times before I can solidify an opinion on it, but I celebrate all the rest of them on an equal footing. My basic thought, is that the original was amazing, but it was also meant to sell the movie as a new concept. The other two are meant to be watched at a different level, which a lot of moviegoers don't want to, but could only be made because of the success of the first one. That includes the animatrix. There are just too many wide open questions that the first one brushes off as movie logic unless you watch the other two, like how could the Oracle be a good guy, or tell the future, when she's obviously a computer program, and how is one guy with completely unexplained to superpowers supposed to bring down the whole system.

Velocipastor.

It is a goddamn masterpiece and the perfect movie for all occasions.

I never heard of the movie and the plot summary is almost exactly what i expected somehow

I highly recommend giving it a watch!

Interstellar.

I've watched it so many times, yet I still ugly cry at least twice every time I do.

I first saw it in a completely empty theater as a teen. The visuals are obviously amazing, and I really liked the story, until the last bit - back then I was annoyed that they suddenly jumped from scientific accuracy towards feelings and emotions.

It took me a long time to properly understand the metaphor and message, but now I love it all the more!

That stupid love shit they shoehorned in was sickening. But, Hollywood must always sit in every chair at the table. I'm sure that was the suits insistence and not the writers.

That pulled me out of the movie like a black hole. I loved the visuals, the music and everything. The fact that the guy sat alone in a spaceship for years really messed with me. Then there was the love dimension stuff and i was just like: alright, do i have dishes to wash or something?

What do you mean with "love dimension"? Are you talking about the inside of the black hole? That was explained with the future humans constructing a space that Cooper could understand, navigate, and use to transmit the data necessary for human survival to his daughter. Love is what made his daughter believe in him and attempt to decode the message, but the space itself had nothing to do with love.

Especially because they tried to shoehorn it in as some kind of scientifically unexplained phenomenon. It’s not unexplained; we have a fairly good understanding of both the genetic predisposition to form families and care for them, as well as the chemistry of oxytocin dopamine and serotonin, and although we don’t know exactly how they work, we know that they facilitate emotional bonds. This doesn’t make love any less precious, but it’s not some trans-dimensional thing that can connect us.

If only they would have just used quantum locking instead lol.

What is your interpretation of the second half?

Nothing that happened in the movie could have been successful without love, it allowed humanity to do what shouldn't have been possible.

To start off, I believe there was a very narrow path that led to humanities survival - kinda like that Doctor Strange scene in Infinity War. Had things happened differently (Cooper wasn't the pilot, they didn't go to the ice planet, Cooper didn't sacrifice himself) humanity would have been doomed, and all those things happened due to love.

And only love is what allowed Cooper and his daughter to actually bridge time and space, because if she didn't love him so much, she wouldn't have attempted to decode the gravitational messages - she wouldn't have believed this to be possible. But she did believe in him, and she did believe that he would still be out there and trying to save them.

None of the things they attempted would have worked without love, and none of them would have meant anything without love. In the end, the story is all about human connections driving us to attempt the impossible, and that's a lot more powerful than some scientific MacGuffin could ever be.

Yeah, I guess. I can follow you on that walk, but I feel like that kind of a plot left-turn is better suited, or at least, more expected in the realm of anime or something similar. I think it threw a lot of people off given that it went to the wonderful scientific accuracy of recreating accurate physics of a black hole inside of a supercomputer to generate the CGI, and explains relativistic time dilation to normies, and then just Deus ex machinas the whole problem with the "Power of Love" right at the end without even hinting that it was coming.

I see where you're coming from, I used to hold the same perspective. But there were already a couple of "unrealistic" plot elements before that - like the gravitational anomalies in their house, or the conveniently-placed-and-magically-kept-open-and-large-enough wormhole, which doesn't seem much less Deus ex machina than the tesseract at the end.

Maybe the biggest difference in perspective is in the "power of love" - I don't think the plot is using that as a solution, that's just Coopers interpretation. The solution is the tesseract created by the future humans, which isn't that much more unrealistic than the wormhole. It was a unique and visually incredibly interesting interpretation of the supposed singularity at the center of a black hole, and sadly there's probably no way we could ever even form theories on what that might look like.

In the end, I'm not sure there's anything less unrealistic that could finish the plot, and I'm fine with the sci-fi elements. But that doesn't make your view any less valid!

I’m not sure if you’re interested, but I believe they’re rereleasing it this weekend for theaters. At least in the US.

Update: they pushed it to December 6th

My pick too. The docking scene is fantastic, and the slingshot around Gargantua always gets me.

"We agreed Amelia; nighty percent."

Ahhh!!! I can't choose one. It would be a toss up between these:

The Birdcage, Death to Smoochy, Soapdish, Drop Dead Gorgeous, or Clue

Death to Smoochy

I don't think I've ever seen anyone else reference this film, ever. I watched it far too young, my parents got it in a pile of cheap DVD's thinking it was a typical Robin Williams kid friendly comedy, and it scarred me.. 😂

One of my favorite dark comedies. Ridiculous yet hilarious. RIP Robin Williams.

Death to Smoochy is so underappreciated. Fantastic movie.

+1 for drop dead gorgeous, my favorite comedy along with muppets from space.

Just so many great lines, great characters, awesome cast. Between its age and non-mainstream release, it is one of those gems that easily gets overlooked.

I was just mentioning Britanny Murphy’s performance to my husband the other day, she was such an island of (hilarious) sincerity in a perfect river of satire.

Also I think I say “it’d be real easy” like … once a week?

“Drive me home?”

“Don’t let her fool you, she lives two trailers down!”

“So? It’d be real easy!”

I didn't realize until years later that Amy Adams was the cheerleader.

One is not enough, and a lot of great movies where already named, still, some great movies are missing:

  • Heat (Michael Mann) Every single time I see it, it is brilliant and I discover something new
  • Jin Roh (The original animation movie), awesome atmosphere and only after the 2nd viewing one can really appreciate it
  • Near Dark (1987) Why the hell did nobody ever produce something like this ever again?
  • Miami Vice (Michael Mann), 'Style over substance', in a great way, although I have the shaky camera
  • Seven Samurai
  • Casablanca
  • Strange Days
  • Point Break
  • XXX (Nobody understood that it was a parody back in the days :-P)
  • What we do in the shadows
  • Brazil
  • Rocky
  • Eternal Sunshine ...
  • The city of lost children
  • Leon the professional
  • Dolls
  • The Killer (The original of course)
  • The last unicorn
  • Dark City
  • The thing
  • The Lost Boys
  • Spirited Away
  • Donnie Darko
  • Rashomon
  • Brother (2000)
  • Parasite
  • Hatsukoi (First Love)

... from the top of my mind. :-P

The prince of egypt. I'm not even religious, but the musics, the story and the visuals stayed in my heart. I will also say:

-Léon / the professionnal

-Interstellar (i am basic)

-Nausicaä and the valley of wind

-Inside out, wall-E and Up

and a ton of others...

Casablanca

Great pick!

So many quotes from Casablanca are part of our everyday culture... and AFAIK it is the first movie ever to feature a flashback in a flashback. Combined with the awesome cast of actors this is a masterpiece. :-)

I've got a three-way tie and I've never been able to promote any one:

The NeverEnding Story
Wall•E
Watchmen

I consider Watchmen one of the most perfect movies ever made.

People often hate on the watchmen, i love it. The worst part about it that it has a graphic novel that is way better.

I read the comics I don’t really see them as better. It’s a different experience.

Which cut?

Ultimate or Director’s. I don’t mind the extra Black Ship comics scenes but I also recognize they really don’t add much of value. But I enjoy them.

I pulled up the ultimate cut a while back because I wanted to watch the movie, but I didn't look at the timestamp before I started. I really like it, as a more thought-provoking, and loyal adaptation of the comic, but it seemed like it was running a bit long until I realized it was getting light outside again.

Heh. Well, yeah you have to be in the mood to watch a very long film but I think it’s worth the experience. It’s not a movie you just sort of watch while folding laundry; it’s immersive and it is legendary and deserves your undivided attention.

Jurassic Park hands down.

yea me too. Saw it very young and it stuck with me

I got to see it opening weekend with my mom and stepdad who took me to see it because I wasn't 13 yet but was absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs to a more academic extent than your average 9 year old even has any business being. The box office had a giant hand sculpted pterodactyl in a nest on top of it which was one of the coolest things ever.

You should also definitely read the books, there is a much stronger emphasis on how capitalism makes everything shittier and endangers workers and compromises scientific integrity, which makes it especially shameful that toward the end of his life Crichton turned into a fuckin climate change denying right wing crank.

I'll consider reading the books then. I wish I had seen it in the cinema but I must have been 4 or 5 when it released so I may have been a bit young. Although I did watch it on vhs at home like one year later, so...

Well that changes weekly, but if I had to pick just one to be stranded on a desert island with it would be the original Robocop(1987) - just so much nostalgia personally but a really great satire ahead of it’s time.

Although next week, I might could say the hilarious meta mindfuck Adaptation. Peak Nic Cage, Spike Jonez and Charlie Kaufman - a really fun and wild ride and I love how self indulgent it is.

so one thing I never got when. I was watching robocop was the danger of having mega corporations owning public services. I never gave it a second thought, and liked robocop cause hey robot cop action 😃

now we are living in a reality where billionaires and mega corporations own public services. it's scary

Robo Cop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers are sometimes seen as an unofficial trilogy of bad capitalism. They have the same director and some overlapping themes.

The Spanish Prisoner. I won’t spoil anything, but Steve Martin’s performance is remarkable!

Primer is another movie I’ve returned to over and over.

Also, Ever After for comfort.

Oh damn I haven’t watched Spanish Prisoner since college. It was one of my “you’ve never heard of this but it’s awesome” recommendations for ages!

Edit: added the actual movie I’m talking about

Pulp Fiction. Also, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. And Snatch. Also... aw man, there's so many...

Being John Malkovich

the story is just so out there and it's excellently acted and directed. chef's kiss

I never watched that movie because of the title. Watched it the first time last year. Holy shit what an amazing movie. The half floor had me dying.

Favorite good movie: Shawshank Redemption

Favorite bad movie: Hackers

Nobody's favorite bad movie should be anything other than The Room. :-)

One of my favorites that I don't often see mentioned is Upgrade. It's very nearly perfect as a near-future cyberpunk dystopia.

It sounds a lot like Limitless

Not at all actually. Limitless is a liberal wet dream and upgrade is a hardcore dig at unregulated tech

that's exactly what I feared, and actually refreshing to hear - I'll check it out!

Event Horizon. Hereditary/Midsommer may be close seconds.

Event Horizon does just the right amount of showing you the horrific monster style stuff while also leaning almost completely on the "people are the real monsters".

Agreed. Definitely gives off a good balance of both. Great cast also.

Midsommer is one of those ones I struggle to watch. I get super empathetic and start tweaking out.

That's fair, it is a bit tough. I really liked Hereditary, and Midsommer to a lesser extent. Then I watched a "complete guide" by Novum (YouTube). It's literally 6:55:24, but I watched it over about a week while working. It definitely made me appreciate it even more.

Don't know if it would help you watch it, but it was very interesting (although it dissects the whole movie, so it's just a giant spoiler).

The Hereditary one is "only" 4.5 hours, but also worth watching if you liked Hereditary.

Holy shit… I would love to watch that. I can’t over state how well done the movie actually was, so I would love to learn more about it.

You should. Hard to get through (the runtime) but very interesting. I knew there was a lot of thought that went into it, but had no clue there was that much lore and real-world comparisons.

The movie that is constantly being re-watched, and I guess has become my happy place in the last 10 years, is The Martian

If you like that, you should read the book or listen to the audiobook.

The audiobook really changed my perspective on the pandemic, wonderful book. The movie was fine but for whatever reason I didn't have the same emotional response as the audiobook.

"Project Hail Mary" is a similar vibe by the same author, not quite as good but a fun read!

I agree that the movie doesn't live up to the book, whether you read it or listen to it.

Thanks for the recommendation. I will look into that one.

Oh brother, where art thou?

Man of constant sorrow. Nuff said

This movie is a masterpiece. I've seen it more times than I'd like to admit.

I love old movies. Here are 15 great ones. Watch these and you will love old movies too! Most are available on internet archive. I could probably add another 85 to this list.

  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • The Apartment (1960)
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Laura (1944)
  • Rope (1948)
  • To Have and Have Not (1944)
  • Key Largo (1948)
  • Lifeboat (1944)
  • The Letter (1940)
  • Now Voyager (1942)

Edit: bonus movie

  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

I love so many of these, I'm gonna have to download the rest that I haven't seen.

All about Eve, Witness for the prosecution, maltese falcon, and now voyager, rear window, these are some of the best movies ever made.

Elysium

I re-watch from time to time to check where we're at.

I really like that movie, not many people talk about it. I have no idea if it did well or anything.

My absolute favorite that I rewatch constantly is Supertroopers. If I only had 1 movie to be able to rewatch forever, it would be that one

Literally can't choose ONE. Have to be Babel, Y tú mamá tambien, Roma, and Cars (yes pixar). Even putting those out there, I feel mad not including the petrified forest, taxi driver, or Wall-E

I was about to start Roma last night but didn’t. I should watch that tonight.

No one ever mentions this movie but my favorite movie is The Fountain, with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.

It's basically a love story set in three timelines, with absolutely amazing music, dark storytelling, and an unbelievably satisfying ending. A lot of it is left up to interpretation but it's not overly complicated. Cemented me as a huge fan of Aronofsky even if he's not always a pop culture favorite.

Seven Samurai

The Magnificent Seven is way better, and predates it by 80 or 90 years. Rumour has it that John Sturges was so impressed by the Seven Samurai, that he presented Kurosawa with a Colt Single Action Army Revolver and said "You have made a great movie, but it's my movie, ya dig."

(you may crucify me now.)

...80 or 90 years? You sure 'bout that?

Pret-ty sure.

Kurosawa Akira's The Seven Samurai was released in 1954. John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven was released in 1960.

So, uh, first, The Magnificent Seven was the remake, not the other way around, and second, it comes only 6 years after the inspiration, rather than close to a century. If The Magnificent Seven had been made 80 years prior to The Seven Samurai, it would have been made in 1874. ...Which would have been before some of the firearms used in the film were even invented, and only 10 years after the US Civil War.

Pre-tty sure the magnificent seven came first. Check your sources again. Kurosawa was super nervous that people would find out about his clone of an american classic, and as we all know, the US comes first

The Magnificent Seven was released on October 12, 1960.

The Seven Samurai was released in 1954, six years prior.

A number of Kurosawa films have been remade for American audiences. Take The Hidden Fortress; it was remade as Star Wars. Meanwhile, Kurosawa did take inspiration from western playwrights, such as Shakespeare's MacBeth (Throne of Blood) and King Lear (Ran).

And, BTW, I happen to absolutely love chanbara, especially and including the schlock garbage like Sleepy Eyes of Death, Zatoichi, Lady Snowblood, Lone Wolf and Cub, and especially Hanzo the Razor. Samurai film share a lot of similarities with western films, and many of the low-budget sword-fighting films were modeled after the western genre films (only with a funk and jazz soundtrack).

I think many of those old Kurosawa films are just rip offs of many 1890s John Sturges films

Wow this is astonishingly wrong. You maybe meant John Ford who was a huge influence on Kurosawa, but he wasn’t even born until 1894 and motion pictures were not really a thing yet at that time, Trip to the Moon is 1905

Trip to the Moon can't have come out in 1905 because Wright Brothers hadn't invented NASA yet.

Right. The John Sturges that was born in 1910 was directing films in 1890, twenty years before his birth, and also pioneered color and sound films several decades prior to their patents. Cool.

You're not a very effective or amusing troll.

Finally!

Do have any idea how hard it is to make shitty joke, and then for people to take you seriously, and so you commit more to it and dig deeper with wilder and more outlandish statements, hoping that someone - anyone - would realise the farce.... only for time to tick on, and it dawns on you that people took you at face value, and that you will forever be labeled as an idiot and not as a joker.

You have redeemed my faith in others good sir, and I wholeheartedly concede that this was all nothing but a fools gambit contrived by a bored giggling moron one lazy afternoon.

I think you got that backwards. Magnificent seven came out in 1960, seven samurai in 1954. It even says magnificent seven is just an adaptation of seven samuria.

My most watched movies:
Jurassic Park
The Firm
The Verdict
Children of Men
Arrival
Lord of the Rings

But you know all of those already. Here's one you probably haven't seen: Love me some stage play adapted to movie. Doubt (2008)

If you like legal dramas, presumed innocent (the movie with harrison ford) is really good also.

E.T.

I am absolutely charmed by the characters, the story, the optimism, and the connection to the unknown.

Hard to pick just one, and it changes from time to time. For this specific post, I’ll choose Sicario.

I'm a fan of most of the movies listed, but didn't notice anyone mention one of my favorites, Moneyball. Don't let the baseball fool you. I don't even like baseball. To me it's not about baseball, it's about trying to succeed in a flawed system.

Clerks, because when I was 22 years before I ever saw that movie I to ran my convince store just like that. Also totally relate to the crap customers you deal with in that setting.

Did you see Clerks 3? It is no way up to the original, but it was enjoyable for me. It seemed more like a therapy sess/love letter from the cast. Depending on your age, it might be a nice ending.

I loved Clerks 3. I feel like people who set higher expectations for it (and for Reboot) did themselves a disservice.

it's hard to pick, but i really like Possessor (2020), it's a cool dystopian science fiction horror-ish movie that scratches a lot of my itches

i also rate some of the Andy Kaufman movies really high, like Synechdoche, New York (2008) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

most of my favourite movies are just mindfucks about identity or memory, because that's the flavour of my mental illnesses, lol

Overall favorite: Shawshank Redemption
Watched the most times: Notting Hill and Coming to America

Aliens.

Alien is good too but Aliens is damn near perfect for me.

Idk what the heck James Cameroon is doing now but, Avatar just didn’t land in the same way to me.

Lots of great picks here! I could go with a dozen that have already been mentioned, but I will throw out Blade Runner. The look, the feel, the sound, the ideas... Rutger Hauer's classic monologue, Sean Young at peak compelling...

One older one: Disneys Atlantis A newer one: Ready Player One

yellow submarine (1968?)

I loved having the movie run in the background at parties. That sounds like an insult but tuning into a scene every now and again while blazed is a wonderful experience I do enjoy watching it properly from time to time too.

My all time favourite is god bless america, it's kind of relatable

The Bagdad Café. It's not exciting, or romantic, or tragic, or even that funny. But it's beautiful. God I love that film. It seriously has some of the best acting, directing, and writing I've ever witnessed. Second would probably be Casablanca/Lawrence of Arabia/Pulp Fiction/Eight and a Half/......

Edit: also black cat white cat Edit: Pane e Tulipani Edit: Buster Keaton's The Cameraman

For me, it's Poor Things. I watched it three times in a row, when it came out. First of all, it's a perfectly executed movie for me, the style, the acting, the storytelling, Emma Stone. What makes it special for me, is that it embodies everything I like about my sexuality and I hope that humanity is heading in that direction of norm-breaking freedom of leading your life. Yorgos Lanthimos has a way of transporting a fresh view on possible paths for society.

I’m not really a movie watcher, but at the moment I’d say Punch Drunk Love, Onward, Dune, 5th Element, and Tombstone. Oh! People Vs Larry Flynt.

I have two that flip for my favorite depending on my mood at any given time: "There Will Be Blood" and "Blade Runner 2049". They are both kinda slow and require attention to really appreciate, so probably my favorite movie to turn my brain off and have fun is "Mad Max: Fury Road".

  • inception - dreams within dreams
    • less known honourable mention: Paprika - inception if it was an anime and the main character was a therapist
  • Your Name - anime romance scifi
  • prince of eygpt (in spite of not being religious) - story of moses
    • less known honourable mention: Jesus christ superstar (because I'm not religious) - what if Jesus Christ's death was a disco musical
  • 2001 space odyssey - I'm afraid I can't let you do that dave
  • But I'm a cheerleader - young Natasha Lyonne (from oitnb) and Dante Basco (zuko from atla) go to a gay conversion camp run by rupaul
  • equillibrium - in a world where emotion is illegal, Christian bale is a gun ninja policeman
  • Castle in the sky - because I would feel bad putting every ghibli film

it's such a beautiful day

Perfect animated film Makes me feel things

I have pretty thoroughly stopped caring about movies.

The only movie in the last 15 years I've wanted to sit down and just watch. By myself, not as a thing to do with friends or family, not as something to have sound in the house while I do something else, to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and a beer and WATCH, was Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. So we'll go with that I guess.