What are your "must-watch" movies?

[memfree@piefed.social]

Thank you. I spend too much time watching movies, and there are so many more to recommend for various reasons. The above are all pretty 'serious' movies, but I figure the other lists have fun and comedic movies well covered with outstanding pics by many other people.

[shreyan@lemmy.cif.su]

Looking at these lists really makes me glad that I don't share tastes with the average person at this point.

• Citizen Kane

• Paprika

• Forrest Gump

• Synecdoche, New York

All that monty python shit tells me that I'm in curated reddit-land where white mediocrity rules.

Edit: All the people with low standards get upset when called out.

[grimm665@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Pleasantly surprised to see Paprika in someone's list, no one i know has ever even heard of it. Such a good weird movie.

[chunes@lemmy.world]

Pacific Rim. They never made any sequels though, so don't bother looking.

[stupidbrotherinlaw@lemmy.world]

"I'm so original! I'm not like other girls!"

[kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Adding in some documentaries, I'd highly recommending watching these climbing docs as a trilogy to understand the scope of what's being achieved as well as understanding the different approaches to the sport:

The Dawn Wall:
Introduces you to climbing legends such as Tommy Caldwell and the difficulty of the sport, with the main focus being one climb in Yosemite.

Free Solo:
Takes the dawn wall and makes it look entry level, focuses on Alex Honnold who climbs 'free solo' meaning without ropes or a partner.

The Alpinist:
Difficult to put into words, focuses on an almost completely unknown climber called Marc-André Leclerc who is to climbing as Michael Phelps is to swimming. This guy completes climbs even the greatest in the sport consider far from humanly achievable, with part of the doc being a battle to even find the guy to film as he doesn't care for media attention or fame for his climbs.

The docs all contribute to the understanding of what drives the people pushing the bar of what's considered possible, and in the subsequent docs the previous climbers appear frequently in interviews that adds a kind of continuum which is why I love these 3 together rather than as individual pieces.

[sergio@piefed.social]

Well you've got a lot of great recommendtions in general on this post, but while we're on the topic of war movies:

• Gettysburg (1993) has some great character studies, the book it's based on is "The Killer Angels" and also worth reading
• Zulu (1964) is another product of its times but they did an outstanding job, and it's a solid depiction of English defensive tactics of the late 1800s

[reddit_sux@lemmy.world]

Why no love for The Phantom Menace.

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

I haven't seen Synecdoche in ages. Such a good movie. Mentally I have it in a category with Schizopolis, Happiness, and Magnolia because I watched them all around the same time and are are very much not the usual stories told.

[wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk]

There is one with John Boyega portraying the son of the Marshal so based maybe 10 years or so after the original. Not quite up there with the first film but still fun, basically "Pacific Rim: Team Kids"

[wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk]

Gattaca is immense, still underrated imo.

Dark City and (the probably obvious) Arrival are my picks

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

Aliens Earth is pretty good so far.

[groet@infosec.pub]

I dont think citizen kane is worth watching just as a movie today. It was a pioneer in its day but what was revolutionary then is just standard now.

If you watch it now it's just a realy old movie unless you are a film historian and know the context from which it was made.

[barneypiccolo@lemmy.today]

I always recommend the Hitchcock movies from his middle era. My favorites:

• Lifeboat
• Rebecca
• Strangers on a Train
• Dial M for Murder
• Rope
• Rear Window
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• North By NorthWest
• Vertigo
• Psycho

Rear Window is my all-time favorite movie. It's a perfect film, where every shot and line means something. Grace Kelly's appearance is the most beautiful that any woman has ever been, in any film. The rest are all 10 out of 10s.

And look for Hitchcock's famous cameos in every movie, always close to the beginning, and usually amusing.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

"Especially basic white ones. I'll take my upvotes now. I'm glad this isn't reddit!"

[barneypiccolo@lemmy.today]

My unpopular opinion is that Up has an amazing 10/10 opening sequence, and is a 5 (at best) for the rest of the movie. Talking dogs, a weird cartoon bird, standard Disney kidschlock.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

You could share your movies without being condescending, FYI.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

My friends and I do a once a month movie night and every month someone different picks the movie. This month's was originally picked to be Gattaca, but they changed their mind. I'm going to let them know this was on someone's must watch list!

[clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works]

I watched it for the first time recently. It was enjoyable still. I don't mind the glacial pace of old movies.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Finally! I Heart Huckabees mentioned! There are dozens of us! I rewatch it once a year on average.