What are your "must-watch" movies?
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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.
I watched it for the first time recently. It was enjoyable still. I don't mind the glacial pace of old movies.
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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
Finally! I Heart Huckabees mentioned! There are dozens of us! I rewatch it once a year on average.
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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
Brain Candy and Strange Days
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I'm going to restrict this list to older movies and imports since there's already most of Hollywood's best listed by other people.
- Ran (1985): Japanese take on King Lear. Kurosawa.
- 12 Angry Men (1957): Fonda has doubts about the man charged. Sidney Lumet.
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Based on actual WWI British officer T.E. Lawrence, but more story than history. David Lean.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975): Jack Nicholson leads this Milos Forman movie about what it was like in mental hospitals (based on Ken Kesey's book of same name -- see also Keroac book On the Road for more of that generation).
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975) : Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in John Houston movie based on Ruyard Kipling story. There are more famous names to pack in there, but mostly the story is great (though told from a supremely Colonial POV).
- Grand Illusion (1937): French Jean Renoir film classic about WWI.
- Beauty and the Beast (1946): French Jean Cocteau masterpiece of the fairytalke before it got Disney-fied.
- The Tin Drum (1979): German Volker Schlöndorff film of Günter Grass story about a boy who won't grow up.
- Amarcord (1973): Italian Federico Fellini film about growing up. You could sub in Nights of Cabiria or Satyricon as a starter Fellini pic.
- Kes (1970): British Ken Loach film about a boy and a bird.
- Winter Light (1963): Swedish Ingmar Bergman about a priest struggling with faith. The 7th Seal probably a better place to ease in to Bergman, though.
- A Man for All Seasons (1966): British Fred Zinnemann telling of how Sir Thomas More was stuck between his Church and his King. For an alternate take on same chunk of history, see Wolf Hall.
There's so many more. Rosselini's Open City, Jodorosky's El Topo/Santa Sangre, Errol Morris documentaries (Fog of War, etc.), Les Blank docs (from music to Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe), oh! and Herzog flicks! I should stop.
The holy mountain by Jodorowsky is also great. If this is running in a cinema somewhere by chance go for it.
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- Alien, then Aliens, then stop. If you watch Alien 3 then watch Alien: Resurrection, too, to get the taste out of your mouth, but then definitely stop.
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- House of Flying Daggers
If you watch Star Wars, then watch in this order:
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Episode 4 A New Hope
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Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back
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Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
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Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
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Episode 6 Return of the Jedi
wrote last edited by [email protected]Second India Jones sucks and does not belong on any list. Also Star wars only the first 3, maybe rogue one and andor and that's it
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Thanks. Haven't come across this one before. It's on prime for anyone interested.
Will add this to the watchlist.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352802/
Edit: Watched it just now as it's short and the house is quiet. I wouldn't have it on my must see list but it was enjoyable
That weird feeling when someone finds just ok the thing we found to be awesome >.<
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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
No movie collection is complete without Scott Pilgrim versus The World
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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.
Is it too much though? I used to think I should spend less time watching TV shows and movies but on balance it's fine. It's one of my favourite things to do!
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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
There's a lot of movies I really like. But I believe these to be my all time favorites:
Master and Commander
Rogue One
Tron: Legacy
Arrival
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Wings of Desire (and Wim Wenders in general) is AMAZING, but it requires a... sort of quiet solitude such as a theater where the length and pacing won't lead to distractions. I love that movie and the rest of the set.
It's an amazing film, which makes the sequel, Faraway, So Close even more bizarre... it's the polar opposite.
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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.
No, I think that's a common opinion. I share it.
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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
- The Godz Must be Crazy
- The Godz Must be Crazy II
- Top Secret!
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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
The wicker man (1973)
Shaun of the dead
The Shawshank redemption
The thing
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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
Heist (2001)
I like all of Mamet's films, but Heist is head and shoulders above the rest, IMO. Besides being a well written heist film with a great cast, it rewards rewatching. I've watched it so many times, but the last time I watched it, I caught a new detail I hadn't noticed before.
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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.
Ratatouille on the other hand...
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ooh, my kids are heading deep into teenager territory so this feels like my chosen, specialist subject. Avoiding OP's picks (the Python stuff would be on my list too), and in no particular order:
Bladerunner (Directors cut)
The Blues Brothers
This is Spinal Tap
Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Terminator 2
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo (+ A Fistful of Dollars)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Schindler's List
12 Angry Men
Rear Window
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Memento
Dune (the Lynch 1980's one)
The Princess Bride
The Cornetto Trilogy (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End + Baby Driver)
Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
The Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
The Usual Suspects
2001 A Space Odyssey
Platoon
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Trainspotting
My Neighbour Totoro
Do The Right Thing
The Thing (John Carpenter version)Some they've seen, most they haven't yet.
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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"
Did @[email protected] stutter? They never made any sequals.
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That weird feeling when someone finds just ok the thing we found to be awesome >.<
wrote last edited by [email protected]Haha. Sorry! I mean I really did enjoy it. But "must watch" is a high standard.
I faced similar with Aliens (my favourite movie of all time) with my 15 year old. I deliberately didn't watch it for nearly 10 years to wait on the 4k release. Got gifted a Blu-ray player between my wife and eldest son for Christmas, had a big "Aliens night" when the disc arrived and she called it "mid"
I appreciated the recommendation of something slightly obscure enough to watch it straight after your comment though for what it's worth.
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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):
-
Young Poisoner's Handbook
-
Full Metal Jacket
-
Life of Brian
-
Holy Grail
-
Sunset Boulevard
-
Curse of the Golden Flower
-
The Nightingale
-
Downfall
-
Amadeus
-
Once Were Warriors
-
Dusk to Dawn
wrote last edited by [email protected]- La Haine
- City of God
- Alien
- The Shining
- 2001 Space Odyssey
- The Exorcist
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Blue Velvet
- 12 Angry Men
Edit:
- The 39 Steps (Hitchcock original)
- The Third Man
- Some Like It Hot
- Royal Tenenbaums
Edit2:
- Shaun of the Dead
- The Act of Killing
- Nosferatu (1979)
- Yojimbo
- Rashomon
- A Serious Man
(Will stop making edits)
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Ratatouille on the other hand...
Exactly.
