• strypey@lemmy.nz
    1·
    1 day ago

    Can’t believe nobody has mentioned Wag the Dog (1997), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), or Sorry to Bother You (2018).

  • kubok@fedia.io
    361·
    10 days ago

    I find it inconceivable that no one has mentioned ‘The Princess Bride’ yet.

  • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
    20·
    10 days ago

    “12 Angry Men” (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.

    The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels “small”. The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    18·
    10 days ago

    Since my movie taste is a bit of everything here is my colourful list:

    • Pans Labyrinth
    • Princess Mononoke
    • 12 Monkeys
    • Her
    • Parasite
    • Persepolis
    • The man from earth
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    12·
    10 days ago

    We’re gonna get a lot of the more standard “Perfect movies” so I’m going to stick with some of the ones that may not be “perfect movies” but I found personally always enjoy

    • Ex Machina - Fucks with your mind through the entire movie, and leaves you bewildered at the end

    • Ocean’s 11, the Clooney version personally, I watch this regularly and is my favorite heist movie

    • Seeking a friend for the end of the world - Tears, but it’s a movie that’s worth a watch - but I can never rewatch it.

    • The Whale - just last year, another amazing movie that has to be watched, but you will probably never be able to rewatch it.

    • The Theory of Everything - Personally this movie is what started me out from “Movies are cool action things I go with friends to see” to “Maybe movies can evoke emotions that I didn’t know I could fully appreciate”, and for those here who have seen me comment on movies before, this is where Felicity Jones became my favorite actress. You forget your watching a movie, and she became Jane Hawking in it, and it’s the first movie I legit cried to. It hurt me deep. Eddie Redmayne did a wonderful job, fully embodying Steven as well, to the point that again you forget you are watching a movie.

    And one more because what the hell

    • Imitation Game - Bendlydoodle Cuddlefish and Kiera Knightley tell the story of Alan Turing. I say it should be mandatory watching for any computer/IT/programmer nerd out there, and I won’t say why it’s 100% worth a watch, but it’s there.

    None of these would I nominate as best movie of all time, I just went through my list of most watched movies and these stuck out

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
      3·
      9 days ago

      I saw Oppenheimer in theaters and spent the entire time going: “this is just imitation game but everyone sucks and instead of saving millions of lives and being punished by your government for it… The man kills millions of people and then gets awarded for it…”

      I definitely need to rewatch it.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    121·
    10 days ago

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Not really the most profound or insightful, but it’s just a good fun film.

    • Venicon@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 days ago

      I freaking love that movie but actually think it has a lot of depth. It shows a cgi cartoon character dealing with inevitability of death, fragility of life and mortality and value of what’s truly important. Side storylines about families, adoption, forgiveness etc but man does that wolf kill it.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.

    My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

    Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.

    On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.

    Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.

    I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.