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- The Fifth Element
- The Matrix
- Dark City
- The Big Lebowski
- Burn After Reading
- Fargo
- Lost In Translation
- Snatch
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- Thor: Ragnarok
Monty Python and the holy grail
DnD movie
And all three LOTR movies. Extended of course.
Blade Runner // Apocalypse Now // Goodbye, Dragon Inn // Guardians of the Galaxy 2 // Any Bourne film
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Young Frankenstein
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The Princess Bride
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Blazing Saddles
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The Matrix
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The Shawshank Redemption
It’s a toss-up on a couple of those. The Blues Brothers could easily make the list, as could Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Alien, Interstellar, and I’m sure there are many others. I will abandon what I’m doing to watch any one of these, if they come on, probably 90% of the time.
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- There Will Be Blood
- The Fabelmans
- Gangs of New York
- Memento
- The Dark Knight
This is an incredibly difficult question for me, so I have to list my runners up:
- The Prestige
- Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Fiction
- Spirited Away
- 2001: A Space Oddysey
- Dallas Buyers Club
I’m probably an idiot for not including The Godfather but it’s been a long time since I saw it so I probably need to watch it again.
I don’t know The Fabelmans but I like everything else you mentioned so I’m adding it to my watch list. Thanks!
I’ll throw my hat in the ring and give my list in no particular order:
Seven Samurai
Borat
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
War of the Worlds (2005)
The Godfather
This means something
Yeah we could hang
Did we just become best friends?
Just as long as you don’t touch my drums
I want to know more about why you would put War of the Worlds in your top 5. I am not hating on you. Purely perplexed because I’ve never seen anyone mention this movie since it came out. I rewatched it last year, but I don’t remember much to write home about.
I was 8 years old when I first saw the film and it scared me so much it left in me a permanent fear of aliens and once I got older I grew to love the film and aliens in general.
Tbh the battle on the hill is enough to make it a great film for me because it involves the ultimate dilemma: which child do you save?
It’s a choice no parent should ever have to make and the entire scene in general shows how hopeless it was against the Tripods.
@Euraru
Those are some great choices. I haven’t seen Close Encounters yet though. And I loved War of the Worlds.Close Encounters is amazing and iirc some of the plot points were taken from reality.
- Interstellar 2-5. Napoleon dynamite, Wayne’s World, arrival, Scott pilgrim vs the world
Oh I forgot about Arrival. That was such an intense slow-burner, I loved every second. Definitely an all-time fave as well.
No way I can do all time, because my tastes change. However, I guess right now it’s:
- My neighbour Totoro
- Grave of the Fireflies, even though I can’t watch it
- into the spider verse
- knives out
- everything everywhere all at once
The top two there never really shift but the other three do all the time.
- LOTR: For staying close to the book while still being amazing.
- The Matrix: Still can’t forget walking out of the theater, everyone so silent with their minds collectively blown.
- Cinema Paradiso: For the way it shows the love for cinema.
- Life is Beautiful: For showing that only we control how we live our lives.
- Children of Heaven: For its depiction of love in its purest forms.
- Back to the Future
- Wall-E
- Into The Spider-verse
- Interstellar
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I don’t have something like that, but every time this kind of question is asked, City of God (2002) always comes to mind.
Same here. Great movie, great soundtrack.
And Children of Men. That’s my “of” favorites.
I’m a sucker for the Jerk, Strange Brew, and Hot Fuzz for comedies
Oh how could I have forgotten Children of Men. Watched it so many times and I’m still awed.
Interstellar
Inception
About Time
Arrival
The Green Mile
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Dead Man: A film by Jim Jarmusch starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer and an all-star cast. Beautiful acid western about friendship in harsh circumstances. Wonderful original soundtrack by Neil Young.
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The Fall: A film by Tarsem. This films story isn’t necessarily amazing, but this is a love letter to classic cinema. It has a plot about classic cinema, and it uses all classic techniques to achieve the effects. Tarsem famously went out of their way to ensure there wasn’t any CGI in this film. It’s one of the most vividly colorful and visually stunning films I have ever seen.
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Dreams: A film by Akira Kurosawa. A montage of short films inspired by dreams experienced by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In partnership with Lucasfilm. Almost as visually stunning as The Fall but much more cohesive stories for being inspired by dreams. Come for “The Peach Orchard,” and stay for “Village of the Watermills.”
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Brazil: A film by Terry Gilliam starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Kim Greist and Michael Palin. A treatise on dreams in a totalitarian society. The only cut worth watching is the Directors Cut. The film was famously butchered by the studios to give it a “happy ending” because the original was considered too bleak.
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Sneakers: A film by Phil Alden Robinson starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and Ben Kingsley. One of the only films that ever presented a semi-realistic portrayal of hacking. Good plot, good pacing, and arguably prescient considerations.
Sneakers was my favorite movie when I was like 12. Which is a weird age for that and yet. (my other fav was The Hunt for Red October, so I was kind of a weird tween…)
I love Brazil so much. De Niro has such a fantastic role in that film, never fails to make me smile.
And the Kafkaesque/Orwellian tone is just sublime.
The Fall is such an eye feast.
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Idk if I’d say these are the top 5, but ones that come to mind:
Team America World Police Airplane Fargo Apollo 13 Apollo 13 a second time
- Fight Club
- LOTR
- The Matrix
- V for Vendetta
- Star Wars