What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?

John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece The Thing. The themes of paranoia and isolation are so perfectly explored; it launched the career of Keith David, who is just a treasure; the performances are all immaculate; and those effects. My god, the effects.

Love that one too. What do you (or anybody with a theory or the answer) think is the meaning of the ending?
- I think it's intentionally ambiguous. For me, the point is the paranoia and distrust. I might be wrong, of course, but my interpretation is that we are supposed to leave the experience with questions.

5th Element

Hot Fuzz. It's just hilarious and fairly well done and people I know generally appreciate the style.

For those that don't, maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year-Old_Man_Who_Climbed_Out_of_the_Window_and_Disappeared_(film)

Just watched both bladerunner movies (idk which versions of them) and was rather underwhelmed. The cinematic grand setpieces i can apprechiate and see how they can be captivating for some but the story (or bith of them rather) wasnt very good imo. The worldbuilding is ambitious but the logic behind everything is lacking. Its just not "realistic" enough for me. I get thats sci-fi but for me it feels more like a fantasy movie like idk avatar or harry potter, rather than sci-fi which is supposed to play in our world/universe but with advanced tech. Things like not being able to distinguish replicants (first movie I just didnt buy. And then in the second one there is a gadget that can do just that.
And also Ryan Gosling played pretty badly (maybe it was the script), no emotions, (almost) no storytelling in his mimic, emotions, in his character at all. He is almost like a wax figure, during watching I multiple times had to pause and complain to my co-watcher about his performance, as it too was unrealistic and too stoic for my taste

The Big Lebowski

Is gonna be the best movie you've ever seen once you see it twice

!achievers@lebowski.social beckons

A friend of mine mentioned 'Contact' was the perfect film. I thought about it for some time and found that I agree. The plot, casting, filmography, and score are all top notch.

Beyond favorite there are quite a few films I consider 'done' we don't need sequels or remakes. Most recently the original 'Willy Wonka' came to mind.

Great movie. If you haven't, you should check out Arrival (2016).

First rule is, I can't talk about it. Second rule is, I can't talk about it.

I have lost count of how many times I watched that movie. So many great details.

And I think most people take away the wrong message. It is critic and not encouragement.

Snatch. Such an absolutely quotable movie with interesting characters, and the great mix of storylines that Guy Ritchie films are know for. The dialogue is just phenomenal!

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... by like a lot.

I watched the Dollars Trilogy in order and I love all those movies. A Fistful of Dollars feels very low budget at certain points, including one of the worst day for night edits I've ever seen, but overall it's a damn good 9/10 Yojimbo ripoff.

For a Few Dollars More is straigt up one of the best movies I have ever seen, an easy 10/10. It's a full blown high budget movie that just shocked me when I saw it for the first time, I was amazed how good it was, and it confused me too since EVERYONE said that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best of the bunch, like how could something be better than this???

Well, how is it...? When I first saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I almost went catatonic. If For a Few Dollars More is 10/10 then this movie is 11/10, or 12/10 or even 13/10. EVERYTHING about this movie is amazing, if the previous one was made with an A24 budget then this one was made with the same production level as fucking Oppenheimer. Everything is bigger, the scale of the movie is breathtaking, the Morricone music is the best of all time, the characters are amazing, the action is amazing, the climax of the movie is the best ever put on screen, I just fucking love this movie so SO fucking much.

So yeah... watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you haven't.

(Shout out to Duck, You Sucker. A movie that also blew my socks off, made by the same director.)

The Bruce Willis movie, Last Man Standing, is a good Fistful of Dollars redo set in 1920s I believe.

For action movie fans, I'll always recommend The Raid: Redemption. It's a good gateway to martial arts movies, which can lead to a whole slew of other more esoteric recommendations

yea it's amazing. Seconding that. Curious what those other recommendations would be? because aside from some old Jackie Chan flicks and a couple others, I'm a rookie in the martial arts flicks biz
- I'd consider myself a rookie as well. Other than the classic Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan stuff, there's Oldboy, Ip Man, chocolate.

Aliens.

Great story. Excellent pacing. Fantastic characters. Awesome music. I'm running out of adjectives, so I'll add that I really liked: dialog, acting, special effects, lore, and setting.

The Blues Brothers. For years people had been telling me how good it was but I hadn’t got around to watching it. Now I get it.

Coherence, it's like 85 minutes long and came out a decade or so ago. No script, the actors ad-libed their lines with only minor directions.

It's a lot like Primer meets the Man from Earth

Adding another. Children of Men. Brilliantly made, disturbing premise, very plausible sci-fi. Quite violent, though.

Storks

Inside out

Idiocracy

Popstar: Never stop never stopping.

Screamers (camp sci-fi horror)

Along with the rest mentioned here.

Recommendation depends on the audience

Apocalypse Now. Damn, what a movie.

My favorite movie of all time is Lord of the Rings, but most people have already seen that.

I find that I recommend Warrior a whole lot. It is an awesome movie and most people haven't seen it.

Muppet Treasure Island.

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

Was just about to comment this. Paddy chafeyesky is a really unique but complicated figure, and how they let him, john sayles, and a few others get away with socialist themes in movies, I'll never know.

I don't have a single favorite, but generally it's going to go something like:

Triangle.

The Void.

The Endless.

Moon.

Upgrade.

Delicatessen

Upgrade was fantastic! So glad I caught that under the radar. Such a great action sci-fi with a dystopian flavour. "Black Mirror" meets "John Wick". And what an ending.
Moon! Definitely one I recommend.

Has to be The Matrix. Was 13 or 14 at the time of release, marketing around it was very mysterious. Obviously my childmind was blown during opening scene!

Django Unchained is my favourite! 🙌

Dersu Uzala.

Interstellar.

If you like Christopher Nolan and playing with time, you must watch Memento.
\ This awesome movie is played backwards, so like the main character who lost short-term memory we don't know what just happened.
- It's not really backwards, right? You have the timeline going both forwards and backwards from the middle if I remember correctly.

Dark City

As they pop in my head:

Everything everywhere all at once.

Her

Groundhog Day

I saw the devil

Patch Adams

Memento

Prisoners

Fight club

Good will hunting

I remember watching Her right after going through a big break up. That one really hit hard. Great movie, though.

Probably Cloud Atlas

It was a commercial failure so it's usually one that people haven't already seen.

Talented cast and directors passionate about the project.

It's extremely divisive, most people either love it or think it was a waste of time.

¯(ツ)/¯

If you're 40 to 60 years old, definitely Hot Tub Time Machine.

It'd still be a great movie if you're out of that age zone, but if you were around to remember the 80's it just hits that much better. It's a fantastic comedy from beginning to end.

A Scanner Darkly

Oooh. I understand people liking it. I get the film, but I do not enjoy watching it. Great plot!
- Try the book. Though as far as movie adaptations of PKD go, it's relatively faithful.

Ok I literally saw this tonight, but I think it's going to be one of my all time favorites:

Hundreds of Beavers

Cube (1997) It's a great little film and a bit of a mindfuck.

Repo: The Genetic Opera.

It's definitely not for everyone, but it hits all the right buttons in my moody theatre kid heart, and "I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much" will always get the tears going for me.

And even if someone bounces off it, I've gotten a terrifying number of them hooked on Zydrate Anatomy. Might be the only song they remember from the whole thing, but it stays stuck.

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial

I'm always telling people to REALLY watch Napoleon Dynamite. I think it got quoted and proto-memed to death when it came out, leading to most people having an unfair idea in their head of what the movie is.

The soundtrack is phenomenal. The acting is (mostly) way better than you may have thought it was. Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) was nominated for an Independent Spirit award and he absolutely deserved that nomination. The cinematography is excellent, especially knowing how much it cost to make + how much experience the crew had. Though it's not explicitly said, I think it's ultimately a story about neurodivergent people finding friendship, solidarity, and happiness in a world not made for them.

Also, the scene where Uncle Rico throws a steak at Napoleon is still funny.

I still cry laughing when I see or think about the grapefruit peg the windshield and Uncle Rico's scream.

The black and white one with the billy nayer show?