I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie so far this year, and I’m looking for suggestions. What’s a movie that you really love?
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Big Trouble in Little China
John Carpenter gives a lot of good recommendations, many of my favorite movies. Here’s a few more:
The Thing
They Live
In the Mouth of Madness
Halloween
In the mouth of madness is great
Showed this to my GF a few months ago, and she didn’t fall asleep watching it. That’s really saying something.
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It takes place in Chinatown.
It’s similar to Little Italy. But Chinese.
Really great movie TBH, especially when you view Kurt Russel as the dumb white sidekick
Yeah, it really turns tropes on their head.
All the Chinese characters are the smart ones and the real heroes. And are played by actual Chinese actors.
The white guy is a dumbass who’s in the right place at the right time and gets lucky.
He checks all the right boxes for a sidekick too.
He’s comic relief. He’s a flamboyant character. He chokes at almost every critical moment. He requires additional exposition so the rest of the team can explain things to the audience.
The camera follows him, and he thinks he’s the main guy. But we know he’s not.
“I’m starting to feel a bit like an outsider here.”
“You are!”
I love the fact that it’s an entire movie where the side-kick is treated as the main character, while the actual main character is treated as the side-kick. It’s brilliant.
It’s also responsible for by-far my most used line. "It’s like I told my ex-wife. “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. And besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.”
“You remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: ‘Have ya paid your dues, Jack?’ ‘Yessir, the cheque is in the mail.’”
Jack talking tough on the radio sends me, he’s just such a wannabe tough guy clown.
So many adventure movies have the white saviour action hero protagonist with a sidekick who’s an (often racist) ethnic caricature. Jack is a caricature of an American tough guy, and it works so well. I wish we saw it in more movies.
Try reading about the movie before passing judgment.
In the U.S., “little (place)” is simply a neighborhood with a large population from some other country.
The Fifth Element
Don’t even need to watch it ever again, it just plays on a loop in my mind.
Multipass
It’s really got it all.
Hot hot hot!
BzzzZZZzzzzz! 🤚
Someone else mentioned Hot Fuzz, which is mine. Another I love is Tucker & Dale vs Evil. It’s an excellent satire about conflict borne from nothing but preconceptions. Also a rare movie in which the “jock”-type characters are the good guys.
Agree, but I wonder if you need to have seen a bunch of other horror films first to really appreciate Tucker and Dale?
No, not really. It stands well on its own.
Knowing about the tropes add to the movie, but I think it’s good on its own
Everything everywhere all at once is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Pays a bunch of homages to action films and tropes. One of the few times in my life where I ugly cried and laughed at the same time.
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once would definitely also be my recommendation. Because a kung fu comedy that’s also a sci fi thriller, a bilingual family drama that can switch languages multiple times per sentence, a Ratatouille parody, and a 10 minute silent shot of two rocks in a desert, that just SHOULD NOT WORK. The fact it does, and does brilliantly, with ten new directing ideas every minute and a climax that leaves me in tears every time, borders on genius.
Came to say this… so upvote
If not for the papercuts, big agree. It could’ve been anything improbable. Why that. It did the job of making the audience uncomfortable but at what cost.
It was unexpectedly very wholesome and philosophical.
The Big Lebowski
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, uh, your opinion, man.
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.
This is absolutely in my top 5. Hard to pick amongst that rarified air, but it’s so well done in EVERY category. Costuming, acting, casting, direction, writing, pacing, editing, directing. It’s an absolute masterpiece of a film and hilarious to boot.
This is my absolute favourite movie of all time but I gave up recommending it to people.
The Coen brothers are too weird and nobody gets it but me, apparently 😭
Pretty sure there are others who love the Coen bros, though my personal favorite of theirs is The Hudsucker Proxy. Haven’t seen all of their films yet, though
Primer
Insanely low budget, very realistic depiction of engineers. Super complicated plot which gives it great replay value.
If you watch it for the first time, the audio sync issues are not part of the plot. They had to re-dub a lot of the movie and they didn’t do a great job.
Don’t sleep on Upstream Color. That director is crazy af and makes crazy movies well.
Have you seen Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Pi’ from 1998?
Love it. Yes.
I wish the producer had a bit more budget. The last act needs more scenes. This may be one of the few cases where I want AI to augment an existing film.
The Blues Brothers
Its 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigerettes, its dark and were wearing sunglasses.
Hit it
The Princess Bride
Penguins (of Madagascar): the Movie
Hot Fuzz
Penguins??? The other two are classics and the penguins of Madagascar??
That feels like incredibly high praise!
It’s a standalone, and it is hands-down the funniest movie I’ve ever seen.
My dad still makes Dave references to every Dave he meets. Plus classic lines like
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Nicholas, cage them! And kevin, bake on! Were still gonna need that victory cake.
I’m glad that movie has also affected other people.
“Hugh! Jack! Man the battlestations!”
I enjoyed reading Cary Elwes’ book on TPB
That is an impossible question because it depends on so many factors of what’s going on on the particular day that I’m asked.
So instead I’ll give you the three that most often rotate into top spot:
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Children of Men
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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LA Confidential
Eternal sunshine 🥲
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Wall E
The Matrix. Sometimes I’ll get the urge to watch it like 3 times in a week. Only movie I can do that with.
Thank goodness they never made any sequels.
Indeed. Got some bad news though lol.
Man, that is terrible news. Thanks, I hate it.
There is no way I can pick one.
There are really good recomendations here. But there are very few recomendations for films around the world, while I like American films a lot I’m going with my favorites from other countries.
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Korea
- Memories of a Murder (2003)
- The Handmaiden (2016)
- A Taxi Driver (2017)
- My sassy Girl (2001)
- Ajeossi (2010)
- Whatever Chan-wook Park did, especilly the vengeance trilogy
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Hong Kong
- Comrades almost a love story (1996)
- Infernal Affairs (2002)
- In the mood for love (2000)
- Exiled (2006)
- Fallen Angels (1995)
- A better Tomorrow (1986)
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Japan
- Seppuku (1962)
- All the old Zatoichi films (epecially the ones directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda)
- Hana-bi (1997)
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Of course Seven Samurais, Yojimbo (everything Kurosawa made), GITS, Ghibli, etc…
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Italy
- Sergio Leone, everyhting
- Cinema Paradiso (1988)
- Suburra (2015)
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Spain
- La Isla minima (2014)
- Que Dios nos perdone (2016)
- As bestas (2022)
- El milagro de P. Tinto (1998)
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Argentina
- Relatos Salvajes (2014)
- El secreto de sus ojos (2009)
- Un oso rojo (2002)
- 9 Reinas (2000)
I’m going to stop here, there are a lot of countries I didn’t mention, this comment is already long enough. Don’t stop yourself because the film is in another language, there are fantastic films out there.
Haha! Fuck My Sassy Girl. It’s been a long time since I watched it, but my memory is that she’s an utter bitch to him the entire film, and it’s all romantic when he learns to take it so they can be together? Dude should’ve walked.
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Children of Men
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Agreed. It’s not my highest-rated 10, but I still gave it a very rare 10… it is my favorite even though I think there are better movies, if that makes sense?
The Prestige
True Romance
