100% true. The Godfather was the first movie that I instantly rewatched after watching it the first time! And it's a 3 hour movie, so that's saying something 😄 Middle of the day, I'm setting up my first surround sound system, and did not expect that at all. I sat down on the end of my bed with my pup and was glued to the screen. Took the pup out after, finished the setup, got some snacks and boom- personal rewatch party 🤯
No shit! 😄 I did that the next day. So glad btw that they're basically 1 speaker now. Seemed great having literal surround sound but retrospect, it's a pain when you're renting the place running all those cords and whatnot.
I read the book first and was pretty disappointed by it, but the film adaption was absolutely superb and rightfully considered one of the best films of all time!!
The Coen Brothers did a tremendous job of adapting the source material and utilising unique elements to induce suspense (no music at all which is pretty notable) along with Roger Deakins’ brilliant photography showing the desolate landscape where the story takes place.
Great acting all round including Bardem’s iconic performance as Anton Chigurh and Tommy Lee Jones playing Sheriff Bell (love the narration at the start and his arc becoming an apathetic man disillusioned with the world).
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Mulholland Drive, Being John Malcovich, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Interstellar, Good Bye Lenin, The Green Mile. All instant 5/5 for me because I found them all such fantastically paced, emotionally and/or visually immersive films that don't waste a second of screen time.
It took me so long to come around on Being John Malcovich, I think in large part that I just didn’t understand Malcovich as an actor at the time and could for the life of me figure out why he would be such a central figure to such an odd movie. I’ve been a fan of Cusack sine all the way back to Better Off Dead and love the bulk of his work and thought he was great in it regardless but was so stuck on the Malcovich of it all
My friend saw it when it came out at the Hoyts Cinema at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia and she said it was an incredible and shocking cinema experience, the audience was dead silent afterwards.
Goodfellas the easiest I think, the only movie I've wanted to rewatch straight away after finishing it for the first time. I don't give a lot of 5 stars though, probably only 40-50 out of over 5000 movies watched
Yes, it's one of them, but it took me a few watches to get to 10/10 bc I was young when I first saw it and was more into action and comedy movies as a teen. Now, it's easy.
That's good and the way it should be. I only have about 15 full score ratings out of 1000s. Many of my favorite films I have as 9/10. It's not enough to be a favorite for me to go full score. It has to be perfect or super close.
I appreciate your first point there about being too young lol once you get older and understand more plot points & references etc., you really get why they rate them the way they do. At 14 or w/e, you're not understanding what the adults are fully talking about, especially in a movie like Goodfellas.
Exactly. Lol like what's he talking about "no evidence he existed, fake social, never having a license, never paying his taxes, the house in his wife's name, they owned everything, paid off the cops, judges..." while looking at the camera 😆. And "Paulie was for protection for guys who couldn't go to the cops.." etc etc. The big whopper was finding out the Lufthansa heist was a real event...Even Tommy taking offense to shining shoes, younger you might not fully get why he's upset since young people need jobs, but it's respect he's after. Then, I got to a point where the whole thing is basically a dark comedy and mirror of most American Dream careers and family life. When I was younger, I knew it was good, but I didn't realize how good. Now, it's easily in my top 5, maybe top 3.
Oh yeah, they don't play it every year on repeat during the holidays for nothin! 😄 You said it, I remember when I found out it was a true story too lol also, love the narration, 4th wall breaking, and that intro; with a story like that- was either unprecedented or at least very uncommon back then. There was so much info thrown at you without wasting 1 word or moment.
LoTR (entire trilogy)
Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl
Mississippi Burning
No country for old men
Avengers (the original)
A beautiful mind
Up
Finding Nemo
Nice with Up and Finding Nemo
At in Wall-E and you have peak Pixar.
Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 3 came out in 4 straight years. As good of a run as any studio has ever had. Three 5 star movies and one 4 star or better.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Don't even have to finish the movie, by time you are watching the air plane scene you realize this is a damn good movie that holds your attention 100%.
Casablanca
Takes a little while longer since it is a slower moving movie. But the longer it goes on the more you can appreciate it and the brilliant writing.
Some Like It Hot
By time you get the scene with Jack Lemmon on the date with the rich guy you realize this is one of the greatest comedies of all time (I'd say the greatest)
Star Wars
From the moment the lights go down? Or at least within a minute or two of the opening space battle. Imagine seeing this in 1977 before a few thousand other movies tried to copy the formula.
**Coherence.**
A small indie sci-fi quantum physics mystery, made in 5 nights, with no shooting script. Utterly original story, with no (obvious) visual effects, full of 'wtf is happening' moments, and yet relatively easy to follow.
**The Usual Suspects.**
Every detail of this film is perfect, from the casting, to the story, to the execution, even down to the marketing (Not many movies will be brave enough to spoil the movie in the poster and do it so well that nobody realises : >!One set of posters featured the tag 'It's always the last person you suspect' and Verbal Kimt is the last person in the lineup.!<). I've seen it 20+ times and I *still* get goosebumps when Keyser Söze is finally revealed.
Star Wars obviously as a kid haha, that was the bomb!!
As an adult, Taxi Driver left an immediate impression on me watching it at 1am in the morning, what a picture!!!
I saw a gigantic poster of this on a friend's wall one day- it took up the entire wall. Never having watched it but seeing it everywhere for years, I figured it was time. It's a wild feeling you get after watching a movie like Taxi Driver, realizing there was this masterpiece just sitting there all this time.
Tropic Thunder was an instant favorite of mine. Wasn't expecting much going in and was blown away throughout the whole movie. From the opening trailers to the credit cut scene with dancing Les Grossman. It was so out of left field for me and caught me off guard.
MAN I just recently watched this and it’s absolutely nuts.
The scene outside where one of the girls asks if the other is okay and then -that- shit happened? I was watching it with headphones at 3 am while high and nearly had a heart attack
Princess bride
Casino royal
Life aquatic
Rushmore
Grand Budapest hotel
Blade runner
Blade runner 2049
Drive
Sicario
Arrival
Dune
Interstellar
Dunkirk
Spinal tap
Rogue 1 (has some flaws, but best of star wars)
Inglorious basterds
Spiderman into the spiderverse
12 angry men
LOTR 2 towers
Monty pythons holy grail
I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
Lost In Translation. I was holding my breath for the last 20 minutes or so hoping they didn't fuck it up, and they didn't. Instant five stars, instant love, still one of my all time favourite films.
OK so I have a preteen daughter, and we can finally now watch some more adult movies. I just watched Titanic with her tonight and while the movie got SO MUCH hype at the time of its release, when you set that all aside and watch it it’s fantastic. It has over hype, but the set design, the historical accuracy of the ship itself and so many true to life background characters, and the writing was a love story that’s hard not to like.
I went in with low expectations because of hype and how long it’s been. Turns out it’s a great movie
True Romance, I know it's got some cheese on it but the cast and acting thereof is exceptional.
I had it recommended to me by a friend many, many years ago with no description of what actually happens and I'm so glad as it is a fantastic film.
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It’s the best film I’ve ever seen and gives me the same feeling even I had when I first saw it even though I’ve now watched it countless times.
Interestingly, whilst I enjoy the rest of the ‘trilogy’ I don’t hold them in the same stead as the first.
Jurassic Park! I went in 1993 when I was 7, it was my first time going to the cinema. Popcorn, the theatre, my first big screen and an amazing introduction to the big screen.
- Blade Runner 2049
- Mission Impossible: Fallout.
- Master and Commander
- The Social Network
- Godfather 2
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Gladiator
To name a few
Baby Driver. I saw it on a plane in terrible screen, bad conditions, I jumped on the bluray the day it was available.
Hot Fuzz
Matrix
The Neverending Story
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of *Ga*'*Hoole* I went blind and I wasn't expecting a proper fantasy movie at all...
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan, Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Heat, Fellowship of the Ring, Spider-man and Spider-man2, The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Avengers Infinity War
Midsommar
The Witch
District 9
The Matrix
Interstellar
Inception
Both parts of Dune
Pan’s Labyrinth
Hot Fuzz
Jurassic Park
2001 (especially after watching the 4K remaster)
Ex Machina
Annihilation
I’m sure there are more but that’s off the top of my head.
Toy Story 3. One of those most you have no idea how it topped an already near perfect sequel and ended a trilogy with such an emotional gut punch. It just doesnt make sense how good it turned out and is in my pantheon of perfect trilogys with the Before series and LotR.
I'm 74 yo. Like SF. The best SF movie for me evolves. Right now, after looking at the tenth/eleventh incarnation of a plot, I really would like to see a new plot. In the past, the best original movie plots led the pack for the most plots repeated in movies. Of course 2001 and Star Wars lead the list. Stargate is right behind. 5th Element. Predator/Alien/Enemy Mine. Right now, Mortal Engines geta a two thumbs up for best new plot for me.
blade runner 2049 and mad max fury road pretty much instantly became some of my favorite movies of all time. other than that just a lot of tje big classics like the shining, lord of the rings 1-3, godfather 1&2, seven samurai and so on
Ahh man, sorry they took this down. I specifically thought it fit the criteria to stay up too. I passed out before writing my entry. Anyways:
The Hateful Eight- this became my yearly winter commencement tradition! Every year, on the first **real** snow of the year- I mean like a blizzard with at least a foot on the ground after, I'd watch this.
Some others- Inside Man, The Whole Nine Yards
Rogue One: Still my favourite Star Wars movie out there. I can watch it over and over again and never get bored. I wish I could see the third act in theatres again. So many amazing set pieces caped off by the Vader scene. It’s everything you could hope for from modern Star Wars.
Top Gun Maverick: On top of being a surprisingly good movie, it’s the exact type of movie you want to see in IMAX. Just fun from start to finish. And basically feeling the Jets when they took off? Way too fun. Still one of my favourite movies. Who doesn’t love fighter Jets?
For me, movies are entertainment at the end of the day. I don’t need something crazy artsy or deep, I just want to be entertained. When I go to the theatres to see a movie, I want something like those two. Just take me away and entertain the hell out of me.
Gladiator was the first film in theaters that had this effect on me. Prior to it I’d only seen much older epics and Braveheart. The production design, the score, the scope and scale of the film really came alive to me and I was so wrapped up in the story of this general who became a slave who became a gladiator… it was maybe the first time I went beyond enjoying movies and just relishing cinema, if you will.
The most recent examples I can cite that I saw and just knew they’d all have their place on the upper echelons of my favorite films were Mad Max Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049 (which is my favorite film of the decade), and Dune.
Knives Out for me, my dad watched it and could not stop talking about it. He told me I had to watch it so we met up and I watched it and he was right. And then we both pressured my sister into watching it. And then my mother. She was most resistant because she thought it was Get Out. Basically I ended up watching it more than four times in a two week period when all was said and done.
Good list. Which was the easiest? Meaning like right when it ended, there wasn't even a question at all it was a 10/10 or 5/5, depending on which scale?
cliche but the godfather. you hear about it all the time and you think it’s probably overrated but it truly lives up to its hype.
Godfather II as well. Both movies are just timeless.
Glad they stopped there. It’s nice to see a story that is easily contained to 2 films without feeling the need for a trilogy
Agreed, but trilogy's just weren't common back then. I'm more worried about a legacy sequel coming out that gets the gang back together again.
II was just brilliant!!! I wonder how many other pre/sequels there are...
100% true. The Godfather was the first movie that I instantly rewatched after watching it the first time! And it's a 3 hour movie, so that's saying something 😄 Middle of the day, I'm setting up my first surround sound system, and did not expect that at all. I sat down on the end of my bed with my pup and was glued to the screen. Took the pup out after, finished the setup, got some snacks and boom- personal rewatch party 🤯
I did the same thing! My very first sound system. But I went right into Godfather Part 2 instead of the rewatch.
No shit! 😄 I did that the next day. So glad btw that they're basically 1 speaker now. Seemed great having literal surround sound but retrospect, it's a pain when you're renting the place running all those cords and whatnot.
Heat in theaters. Independence Day was like 4 months after for me. Both couldn’t be matched
Heat, believe it or not, is probably the second or third easiest full score rating fmt.
Ohh arrival too. Couldn’t find a flaw
ID4 is still the standard for summer popcorn blockbuster movie. Prototypical crowd pleaser Too bad they never made a sequel
No country for old men, even though I didn’t fully understand it first time round I felt it
I saw it, went out to my car, thought about it, then got out and bought another ticket and watched the next showing. Only time I’ve ever done that.
I read the book first and was pretty disappointed by it, but the film adaption was absolutely superb and rightfully considered one of the best films of all time!! The Coen Brothers did a tremendous job of adapting the source material and utilising unique elements to induce suspense (no music at all which is pretty notable) along with Roger Deakins’ brilliant photography showing the desolate landscape where the story takes place. Great acting all round including Bardem’s iconic performance as Anton Chigurh and Tommy Lee Jones playing Sheriff Bell (love the narration at the start and his arc becoming an apathetic man disillusioned with the world).
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Mulholland Drive, Being John Malcovich, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Interstellar, Good Bye Lenin, The Green Mile. All instant 5/5 for me because I found them all such fantastically paced, emotionally and/or visually immersive films that don't waste a second of screen time.
Kill Bill Volume 1 I also saw in theaters opening weekend, and yes, right when it ended I immediately gave it a full score.
It took me so long to come around on Being John Malcovich, I think in large part that I just didn’t understand Malcovich as an actor at the time and could for the life of me figure out why he would be such a central figure to such an odd movie. I’ve been a fan of Cusack sine all the way back to Better Off Dead and love the bulk of his work and thought he was great in it regardless but was so stuck on the Malcovich of it all
Fargo Pulp Fiction There Will Be Blood
Seven. Still been waiting for anything to come close to that theater experience.
Not just the theater experience. The pervasive feeling of dread stayed with me days after I'd seen it.
My friend saw it when it came out at the Hoyts Cinema at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia and she said it was an incredible and shocking cinema experience, the audience was dead silent afterwards.
I have seen very few movies in the theater==Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
I think that is one of the most re-watchable movies ever. Could watch it every few months and never get tired of it.
How long was it until you realized Barry's mom is Ralphie's mom?
Goodfellas the easiest I think, the only movie I've wanted to rewatch straight away after finishing it for the first time. I don't give a lot of 5 stars though, probably only 40-50 out of over 5000 movies watched
Yes, it's one of them, but it took me a few watches to get to 10/10 bc I was young when I first saw it and was more into action and comedy movies as a teen. Now, it's easy. That's good and the way it should be. I only have about 15 full score ratings out of 1000s. Many of my favorite films I have as 9/10. It's not enough to be a favorite for me to go full score. It has to be perfect or super close.
I appreciate your first point there about being too young lol once you get older and understand more plot points & references etc., you really get why they rate them the way they do. At 14 or w/e, you're not understanding what the adults are fully talking about, especially in a movie like Goodfellas.
Exactly. Lol like what's he talking about "no evidence he existed, fake social, never having a license, never paying his taxes, the house in his wife's name, they owned everything, paid off the cops, judges..." while looking at the camera 😆. And "Paulie was for protection for guys who couldn't go to the cops.." etc etc. The big whopper was finding out the Lufthansa heist was a real event...Even Tommy taking offense to shining shoes, younger you might not fully get why he's upset since young people need jobs, but it's respect he's after. Then, I got to a point where the whole thing is basically a dark comedy and mirror of most American Dream careers and family life. When I was younger, I knew it was good, but I didn't realize how good. Now, it's easily in my top 5, maybe top 3.
Oh yeah, they don't play it every year on repeat during the holidays for nothin! 😄 You said it, I remember when I found out it was a true story too lol also, love the narration, 4th wall breaking, and that intro; with a story like that- was either unprecedented or at least very uncommon back then. There was so much info thrown at you without wasting 1 word or moment.
Mad Max: Fury Road. As soon as I got outta the theater, I had the strongest urge to go back and see it again.
LoTR (entire trilogy) Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl Mississippi Burning No country for old men Avengers (the original) A beautiful mind Up Finding Nemo
Nice with Up and Finding Nemo At in Wall-E and you have peak Pixar. Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 3 came out in 4 straight years. As good of a run as any studio has ever had. Three 5 star movies and one 4 star or better.
No love for Monsters Inc.?
That was 6 years earlier. Plus I wouldn't call it 5 star. Good movie though.
The Thing Hereditary Hot Fuzz Terminator 2 Aliens Jaws
Good list. Jaws is also one of mine. It's my favorite movie of all time.
The Matrix
There it is. Went in blind to this film and was utterly blown away by both the concept and the visuals.
Yeah, I think I saw it 8 times in the theatre. I was obsessed
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Don't even have to finish the movie, by time you are watching the air plane scene you realize this is a damn good movie that holds your attention 100%. Casablanca Takes a little while longer since it is a slower moving movie. But the longer it goes on the more you can appreciate it and the brilliant writing. Some Like It Hot By time you get the scene with Jack Lemmon on the date with the rich guy you realize this is one of the greatest comedies of all time (I'd say the greatest) Star Wars From the moment the lights go down? Or at least within a minute or two of the opening space battle. Imagine seeing this in 1977 before a few thousand other movies tried to copy the formula.
Pretty damn good choices!
Infernal Affairs Your Name Inception
Interstellar
Black Swan I saw it in theaters and haven't seen it since. I loved every minute, and I don't need to see it again.
The Dark Knight Walk Hard Children of Men Deja Vu
Stardust Howl's Moving Castle
Parasite probably. But American Beauty is a close second for me.
Shawshank Redemption I remember being in the middle of the movie and thinking "This is a good fucking movie." It only got better after that.
**Coherence.** A small indie sci-fi quantum physics mystery, made in 5 nights, with no shooting script. Utterly original story, with no (obvious) visual effects, full of 'wtf is happening' moments, and yet relatively easy to follow. **The Usual Suspects.** Every detail of this film is perfect, from the casting, to the story, to the execution, even down to the marketing (Not many movies will be brave enough to spoil the movie in the poster and do it so well that nobody realises : >!One set of posters featured the tag 'It's always the last person you suspect' and Verbal Kimt is the last person in the lineup.!<). I've seen it 20+ times and I *still* get goosebumps when Keyser Söze is finally revealed.
Jurassic Park. Twelve year old me was mind blown.
Star Wars obviously as a kid haha, that was the bomb!! As an adult, Taxi Driver left an immediate impression on me watching it at 1am in the morning, what a picture!!!
I saw a gigantic poster of this on a friend's wall one day- it took up the entire wall. Never having watched it but seeing it everywhere for years, I figured it was time. It's a wild feeling you get after watching a movie like Taxi Driver, realizing there was this masterpiece just sitting there all this time.
Oh it was a phenomenal and very disturbing film, it was my first Scorsese film I watched that made me love all his other films!
Tropic Thunder was an instant favorite of mine. Wasn't expecting much going in and was blown away throughout the whole movie. From the opening trailers to the credit cut scene with dancing Les Grossman. It was so out of left field for me and caught me off guard.
Parasites.
Parasite, Relatos salvajes, Spirited Away.
No Country for old men, The Dark Knight, Joker, Oppenheimer
Serenity The Dark Knight Oppenheimer Return of the King
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
MAN I just recently watched this and it’s absolutely nuts. The scene outside where one of the girls asks if the other is okay and then -that- shit happened? I was watching it with headphones at 3 am while high and nearly had a heart attack
Off the top of my head: 1. The Departed (2006) 2. District 9 (2009) 3. A River Runs Through it (1992) 4. The Martian (2015) 5. Bridesmaids (2011)
The Martian was perfect. \*Also Departed
Parasite
It’s newer, but Fury has really stuck with me. Fantastic cast, fantastic story.
Avatar 2 on acid in 3d has stuck with me so yeah 5/5
Princess bride Casino royal Life aquatic Rushmore Grand Budapest hotel Blade runner Blade runner 2049 Drive Sicario Arrival Dune Interstellar Dunkirk Spinal tap Rogue 1 (has some flaws, but best of star wars) Inglorious basterds Spiderman into the spiderverse 12 angry men LOTR 2 towers Monty pythons holy grail I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
Tropic Thunder Jaws Halloween Fear of a Black Hat The Little Mermaid
The Conversation.
Lost In Translation. I was holding my breath for the last 20 minutes or so hoping they didn't fuck it up, and they didn't. Instant five stars, instant love, still one of my all time favourite films.
The Thing. You know when you’re watching it that you’re watching a masterwork
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Man, Hell or High Water does not get as much attention as it should.
No country for old men, Pulp fiction, Blade runner, 2049
Dune: Part Two (2024) I was totally submerged in that movie, visually perfect and Hans Zimmer’s score was on another level.
OK so I have a preteen daughter, and we can finally now watch some more adult movies. I just watched Titanic with her tonight and while the movie got SO MUCH hype at the time of its release, when you set that all aside and watch it it’s fantastic. It has over hype, but the set design, the historical accuracy of the ship itself and so many true to life background characters, and the writing was a love story that’s hard not to like. I went in with low expectations because of hype and how long it’s been. Turns out it’s a great movie
Hope you saw it in a big screen. Really is a movie made for theaters. And certain worth of all the praise it got.
Schindler’s List. When the credits rolled not one person moved from their seat. Just awestruck. Never seen that before or since.
The Prestige Interstellar Arrival Dune 2 The Dark Knight
All good but the prestige, arrival, and interstellar all came to mind immediately
The Green Mile The Prestige The Salesman
For me, I'd say Superbad, Manchester by the Sea, & Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Parasite, one of the best things i have ever seen in a cinema
that i’ve watched this year for me are Trainspotting, Cinema Paradiso, Casablanca and Godzilla Minus One to name a few
The Eight Mountains - Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Godfather,12 angry men , cinema Paradiso , Taxi driver , Jurassic world , Rashomon ,yojimbo, incendies ,inception ,arrival,interstellar etc
Jurassic world or Jurassic Park?
Oh shit it's park always park
The Departed, The Dark Knight, Baby Driver, Godzilla : KOTM, Spotlight, La La Land... Just off the top..
Pan's Labyrinth
Stranger Than Fiction with Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
True Romance, I know it's got some cheese on it but the cast and acting thereof is exceptional. I had it recommended to me by a friend many, many years ago with no description of what actually happens and I'm so glad as it is a fantastic film.
The first 2 Lotr movies. Dune part 2.
Tom Cruise Maverick
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It’s the best film I’ve ever seen and gives me the same feeling even I had when I first saw it even though I’ve now watched it countless times. Interestingly, whilst I enjoy the rest of the ‘trilogy’ I don’t hold them in the same stead as the first.
Arrival, Inception, Shawshank, Good Will Hunting, The Martian.
Unforgiven.
Jurassic Park! I went in 1993 when I was 7, it was my first time going to the cinema. Popcorn, the theatre, my first big screen and an amazing introduction to the big screen.
How To Train Your Dragon. The film itself is maybe a 7 or 8, but then the soundtrack hits. 10/10.
The original Matrix. Blew my 9 year old mind in the theater, and still does on every viewing to this day.
Wind River
- Blade Runner 2049 - Mission Impossible: Fallout. - Master and Commander - The Social Network - Godfather 2 - Lawrence of Arabia - Gladiator To name a few
The Father (2020)
LotR
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Nuff SAID
Baby Driver. I saw it on a plane in terrible screen, bad conditions, I jumped on the bluray the day it was available. Hot Fuzz Matrix The Neverending Story Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of *Ga*'*Hoole* I went blind and I wasn't expecting a proper fantasy movie at all...
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan, Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Heat, Fellowship of the Ring, Spider-man and Spider-man2, The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Avengers Infinity War
Midsommar The Witch District 9 The Matrix Interstellar Inception Both parts of Dune Pan’s Labyrinth Hot Fuzz Jurassic Park 2001 (especially after watching the 4K remaster) Ex Machina Annihilation I’m sure there are more but that’s off the top of my head.
Toy Story 3. One of those most you have no idea how it topped an already near perfect sequel and ended a trilogy with such an emotional gut punch. It just doesnt make sense how good it turned out and is in my pantheon of perfect trilogys with the Before series and LotR.
I came here just to type "taxi driver". Enjoy your morning!
The departed? The ending. Wow.
I'm 74 yo. Like SF. The best SF movie for me evolves. Right now, after looking at the tenth/eleventh incarnation of a plot, I really would like to see a new plot. In the past, the best original movie plots led the pack for the most plots repeated in movies. Of course 2001 and Star Wars lead the list. Stargate is right behind. 5th Element. Predator/Alien/Enemy Mine. Right now, Mortal Engines geta a two thumbs up for best new plot for me.
blade runner 2049 and mad max fury road pretty much instantly became some of my favorite movies of all time. other than that just a lot of tje big classics like the shining, lord of the rings 1-3, godfather 1&2, seven samurai and so on
Ahh man, sorry they took this down. I specifically thought it fit the criteria to stay up too. I passed out before writing my entry. Anyways: The Hateful Eight- this became my yearly winter commencement tradition! Every year, on the first **real** snow of the year- I mean like a blizzard with at least a foot on the ground after, I'd watch this. Some others- Inside Man, The Whole Nine Yards
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You were really okay with the stupid "map Gotham using mobile phones" plot device?
I loved it. He essentially became the NSA, at least accessed their tech. Amazing.
Smokey and the Bandit is stupid fun. I think everyone was in it.
Rogue One: Still my favourite Star Wars movie out there. I can watch it over and over again and never get bored. I wish I could see the third act in theatres again. So many amazing set pieces caped off by the Vader scene. It’s everything you could hope for from modern Star Wars. Top Gun Maverick: On top of being a surprisingly good movie, it’s the exact type of movie you want to see in IMAX. Just fun from start to finish. And basically feeling the Jets when they took off? Way too fun. Still one of my favourite movies. Who doesn’t love fighter Jets? For me, movies are entertainment at the end of the day. I don’t need something crazy artsy or deep, I just want to be entertained. When I go to the theatres to see a movie, I want something like those two. Just take me away and entertain the hell out of me.
Gone with the wind. There’s a reason it’s the top grossing film of all time, taking inflation in to account.
Oppenheimer
Gladiator was the first film in theaters that had this effect on me. Prior to it I’d only seen much older epics and Braveheart. The production design, the score, the scope and scale of the film really came alive to me and I was so wrapped up in the story of this general who became a slave who became a gladiator… it was maybe the first time I went beyond enjoying movies and just relishing cinema, if you will. The most recent examples I can cite that I saw and just knew they’d all have their place on the upper echelons of my favorite films were Mad Max Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049 (which is my favorite film of the decade), and Dune.
Forrest Gump
Knives Out for me, my dad watched it and could not stop talking about it. He told me I had to watch it so we met up and I watched it and he was right. And then we both pressured my sister into watching it. And then my mother. She was most resistant because she thought it was Get Out. Basically I ended up watching it more than four times in a two week period when all was said and done.
mid90s
I walked out of Interstellar and told my friend "I think that's the best movie I've ever seen"
Zodiac, No Country For Old Men, Traffic, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, The Insider, Wag The Dog, Side Effects, Fargo, The Thing Those 10 a fair start?
Good list. Which was the easiest? Meaning like right when it ended, there wasn't even a question at all it was a 10/10 or 5/5, depending on which scale?
Tough to name one over another, cuz nuanced reasons for their so-strong impact. For now, I'll toss-in Se7en and The Usual Suspects.