What are your "must-watch" movies?

[brkdncr@lemmy.world]

Alien, Aliens, Alien 3. Two different movies that are great, then how to make a movie bad.

[nchiwana76@lemmy.world]

Young Frankenstein
Labyrinth
Last Unicorn
Reservoir Dogs
The Crow
Hard Boiled

[bmpvy@feddit.org]

I'll recommend Letterboxd for this: amazing lists and reviews of movies so you'll always know what to watch next
I really love tracking the movies I've watched too. It has a free plan btw

(is there a non commercial version of Letterboxd, does anyone know?)

[pat_riot@lemmy.today]

Big Trouble in Little China

Tank Girl

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Princess Bride

Labyrinth

[jeffw@lemmy.world]

Memento is shockingly left off most lists. Idk why it isn’t remembered as one of the best films of its decade.

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

You see, most movie critics have this condition...

[unknown@piefed.social]

Flow - if you like cats and beautiful animation.

Dave Made A Maze - is a fun watch with good writing.

Death Of Stalin - will be funny to you if you like British comedy.

Prospect - interesting scifi with Pedro Pascal (who I mistook for Nathan Fillion till I looked the cast up, lmao)

Triangle - well done time travel fuckery

Arq - more time travel fuckery

Primer - yet more time travel fuckery

Edit: pretty sure the title of the post has changed, or I somehow just didn't notice it fully before? Idk, none of the movies I've listed are 'must watch' they're just fun watches. I don't think any film is really a must watch.

[jordanlund@lemmy.world]

Brazil
Wings of Desire
Blade Runner: Original Theatrical Cut

Others too obvious to mention... see the rest of the thread.

[snoons@lemmy.ca]

Poor things

Everything Everywhere All At Once

K-Pop Demon Hunters

Black Swan

All I can think of right now.

[rhynoplaz@lemmy.world]

Most of mine are already mentioned, but I don't think anyone said:

The Big Lebowski

[maiq@piefed.social]

Time Bandits

[theminions@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Gah, I’ve tried to sit down and watch Flow on like 3 occasions. The lack of dialogue is a dealbreaker for my wife and kids. I got about halfway through it once and really enjoyed it!

[tal@lemmy.today]

• Lawrence of Arabia.

[theminions@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I’d add Saving Private Ryan to the list.

The opening sequence is just abhorrent and showcases the reality of war far better than any other war movie I have seen.

[unknown@piefed.social]

Watch it alone at some point.

The lack of dialogue was one of the best things about Flow for me, after the cat, so much was 'said' without ever needing words and the acting of all the animals was captivatingly well done.

[theminions@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That’s the plan! I’m just never alone! Part of the problem is that I want to watch it all in one sitting, which is extra difficult.

[aboubenadhem@lemmy.world]

Ones I haven’t seen mentioned so far:

• Rashomon
• Dr. Strangelove
• Princess Mononoke
• Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
• Ran

[hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org]

the thirteenth floor

back to the future

[maiq@piefed.social]

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

[kelpie_returns@lemmy.world]

In no particular order:

• The Thing
• In The Mouth Of Madness
• Pulp Fiction
• Kill Bill (both volumes)
• The Princess Bride
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Thelma and Louise
• Secondhand Lions
• I ️ Huckabees
• Amadeus
• The Big Lebowski
• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away
• Red Line
• Summer Wars
• Evil Dead 2 *~
• Hellboy: The Crooked Man **
• John Wick 2 ***

*~ not a sequel, but a reimagining, if anyone's curious. No need to have seen the first to enjoy this.

** also not a sequel. By far the best live action piece to come out of this franchise. The only one worth watching tbh

*** direct sequel. They're all pretty good, but this one is, visually, as nice as the genre gets imo. The choreography and cinematography, both, are simply beautiful.

Edit: Fargo and Akira belong on this list too