What are your "must-watch" movies?

[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

[unknown@piefed.social]

Ngl, that sounds exhausting to never have time to yourself.

[nemo@slrpnk.net]

The Princess Bride

Shawshank Redemption

Jesus Christ Superstar

Life Is Beautiful

[kelpie_returns@lemmy.world]

Haven't seen K-pop yet, but everything else on your list are some of my favorites. Gonna have to check this out ig

[kelpie_returns@lemmy.world]

Dave Made a Maze! I forgot about that gem

[sergio@piefed.social]

Yah, OP seems to like war movies, so I'd add:

• A Bridge Too Far - a classic, tho kinda old-fashioned moviemaking
• Apocalypse Now - another classic, still seems fresh
• Waterloo - the only good movie about Napoleon
• 1917 - some really amazing camerawork

[modern_drift@lemmy.world]

Amelie

The Fall (mainly if you have a really nice screen and can watch full HD or 4k)

What Dreams May Come

[elanoideswahl@slrpnk.net]

Speed Racer (2009) by the Wachowskis

[onyxonblack@lemmy.zip]

Geez everyone's got a list! I got just one movie I watch over and over.

FIGHT CLUB

[zwuzelmaus@feddit.org]

Modern Times

Psycho

Dark Star

WarGames

Chinatown

1984

Soylent Green

Planet of the Apes

[philipthebucket@piefed.social]

Ones I have not seen in other comments, although you probably have enough at this point:

• The Fifth Element - Yes I know the director is a sexual predator, it's still really really good. One of the most creative movies ever made
• Run Lola Run - Surreal modern-style impossible narrative movie from way before movies really did that, also very well done
• O Brother Where Art Thou - Damn, we're in a tight spot
• Schindler's List - Warning, very very very heavy obviously, but there is a reason it won all the awards
• Conan the Barbarian - You may or may not like B movies, but if you like "Sword and Sandal" B movies, this one is the king
• The Sting - Absolutely top-notch gangster movie from before your parents were born
• Office Space - If you have ever worked a crappy tech job this movie will become your spirit animal in time of need

I've also heard great things about "Highlander." Don't watch the sequels.

There are also miniseries. "Stranger Things" season 1, "Chernobyl," and "Game of Thrones" up until about season 5. Yeah, it's a shame they never made any more after that, but you can just let it be. You'll know roughly when. If the three female assassins from Dorne come on the screen, you went too far, just turn it off immediately and be sure to take a shower right away.

Edit: Additions

[theminions@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I usually stay up and read books late at night or game. Just not usually movies.

Edit: Young kids in sports just suck up a significant amount of time.

[fading_person@lemmy.zip]

Just taking this opportunity to recommend you tengers

[fondots@lemmy.world]

In no particular order, and not an exhaustive list

• The Big Lebowski
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Sin City
• Lord of The Rings Trilogy
• Star wars Original Trilogy & Rogue One
• Casablanca
• Mad Max Fury Road
• Arrival
• Pulp Fiction
• All the Studio Ghibli movies, but Especially Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited away, and Grave of the Fireflies
• Blazing Saddles
• Young Frankenstein
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Monty Python & the Holy Grail
• Jurassic Park
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Mary & Max
• Akira
• Rocky
• The Godfather 1 & 2, and at that point I guess you might as well watch 3 as well
• Rashomon
• Chinatown
• Jaws
• All quiet on the western front
• Psycho
• Kill Bill 1&2
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Forest Gump
• Fight Club
• The Matrix (just 1)
• Silence of the Lambs
• Taxi Driver
• Back to the future trilogy
• The Usual Suspects
• Apocalypse Now
• Indiana Jones Trilogy
• Dune parts 1&2
• The Shining
• Dredd
• Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Room
• A Clockwork Orange
• Gone with the Wind
• V for Vendetta
• Trainspotting
• Fargo
• Ben Hur
• Children of Men
• Shoot 'em Up
• Logan
  *The Princess Bride
• Old Yeller
• John Wick series
• Most Disney/Pixar movies
• Most Don Bluth movies

[impudentmortal@lemmy.world]

As much as I love Kung Pao, I would replace it with Airplane because Kung Pao is just so dumb and divisive. I know people who love that movie and I know people who absolutely hated it. You have to be a certain age (under 12 imo) to really appreciate it.

Airplane however, is timeless regardless of how old you are when you first watch it.

[deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works]

Damn, I haven't watched 99% of these in the comments, I think I might be too picky about what to watch.