I’m not a huge movie fan, but I want to broaden my horizons a bit. I’ll offer my list (that I’ve rewatched so many times I’m a bit tired of them):
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Young Poisoner’s Handbook
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Full Metal Jacket
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Life of Brian
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Holy Grail
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Sunset Boulevard
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Curse of the Golden Flower
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The Nightingale
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Downfall
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Amadeus
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Once Were Warriors
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Dusk to Dawn
Goodfellas
- Castle in the Sky (for the beautiful hand-drawn art) (also known as Laputa: Castle in the Sky)
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (for the memes)
- Lost Highway
- Session 9
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- Speed Racer
- Constantine
- Total Recall (1990)
- Sin City
- Atomic Blonde
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- The Blair Witch Project
- Paranormal Activity
- Strange Darling
- Postal (I know it sucks, but I love it)
- Superbad
I’m saving this thread to make a watch list, but I’ll add a comedy I haven’t seen mentioned: The Blues Brothers
I am not sure if its exactly what you are lookomg for by some random movie recs. Some of these may not be great but are just movies I enjoy for one reason or another.
- True Lies
- Varsity Blues
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- Coraline
- Shawshang Redemption
- Jurassic Park
- The Princess Diaries
- Speed Racer
- Das Boot
- Maverick
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Lost in Translation
I checked that no one has posted these yet:
- Dallas Buyers Club
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- The Prestige
The last unicorn
Here ya go!
- Ghost in the Shell 1998
- Hard Boiled
- Inception
- Aladdin 1992
- It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
- The Raid
- Coco
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
- Godzilla Minus One
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Mask of Zorro
- Searching 2018
- Carnival of Souls
- Casino Royale
- The Dark Knight
- The Social Network
- Angel’s Egg
- Wicker Man 1975
- Wild Robot
- Idiocracy
- Arrival
This list is in no particular order. And it’s admittedly all over the place in time and genre. Feel free to use it as a grab bag rather than a checklist.
Make sure you get the original version of Ghost in the Shell. I recently decided to rewatch and could only find my 2008 remaster DVD, where they replaced some scenes with CGI. It was absolute trash, and my DVD didn’t seem to have the unaltered version available.
- LA Confidential
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
- Chinatown
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Alien
- Wrath of Khan (Director’s Cut)
- Moulin Rouge
- Children of Men
- Gattaca
- The Usual Suspects
- Fight Club
- The Thirteenth Floor
And probably a thousand more I’m not thinking of off the top of my head.
Gattaca and Children of Men are still my top two. Absolute masterpieces that should be seen by everyone.
Jurassic Park
deleted by creator
- Airplane
- Shawshank Redemption
- Shrek
- Secretary
- Dead Poets Society
- Bo Burnham: Inside
I’d watched Dead Poets Society years and years ago, then watched it again yesterday. Very powerful movie that touched on themes I’d missed the first time around (probably too young). Thanks for the suggestion!
China Town
Young Guns 1&2
Naked Gun 1,2& 33 1/3
Repo Men
Everything Terry Gilliam ever made.
Ferris Buellers day off
Legend
Kung Pao Enter the Fist
Kung Fu Hustle
Tucker & Dale VS Evil
Evil Dead 1&2
Army of Darkness
American Werewolf in London
Spaceballs
Plains Trains and Automobiles
The Jerk
Beverly Hills Cop 1&2
Lucky Number Sleven
Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Event Horizon
Shane
Ghost in the Shell - everything
Akira
Vampire Hinter D
Spirited Away
The Irishman
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Real Genius
Tombstone
My Cousin Vinny
High Plains Drifter
Outlaw Josey Wales
Big
LA Story
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Burbs
True Romance
Pump Up the Volume
Heathers
Beetlejuice
Multiplicity
This is a remarkably good list. I know you’re getting a ton of recommendations OP, but this is really a very comprehensive one with an absolutely excellent balance of “real good quality” combined with “easy and rewarding to watch.”
Thanks for the complement!
As much as I love Kung Pao, I would replace it with Airplane because Kung Pao is just so dumb and divisive. I know people who love that movie and I know people who absolutely hated it. You have to be a certain age (under 12 imo) to really appreciate it.
Airplane however, is timeless regardless of how old you are when you first watch it.
Airplane didn’t make my list only because I forgot/didn’t think about it but defiantly should be there.
Really this list is only a small selection of movies I love and could think of right off the bat. I missed a huge portion of great recommendations. Ill leave them for others to fill in as there are a ton of great comments filled with great movies already and im sure there are more to come.
Im bookmarking this thread so I can get some ideas of things I haven’t seen yet or things I must have in my collection.
defiantly
I decided not to comment on “complement”, but now I think you’re doing this on purpose.
One of us only tells lies and the other only truths… Truth be told I’m a shit speller for sure and my unmedicated adhd defiantly doesn’t play nice with dyslexia nor proofreading. If it is something important like legal docs or code documentation i send that shit off to a family member or friend so they can have a good laugh at my expense before they tell me to fuck off and figure it out on my own.
my unmedicated adhd defiantly doesn’t play nice with dyslexia nor proofreading
You know what, I’m going to say that’s the right word in this context.
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is a masterful film in every aspect. See also:
The Lighthouse Pulp Fiction
- Joe vs the Volcano
- The Princess Bride
- Monty Python and the holy grail
- Inception
- the matrix
- UHF
- Knives Out
- Groundhog Day
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Various Studio Ghibli movies (spirited away, Howl’s Moving Castle, etc.)
(I’m definitely forgetting some)
UHF is underrated as hell. I really liked Knives Out as well. Groundhog Day is a fucking classic.
-Boondock saints
