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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.

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)

The Big Lebowski

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

Bladerunner.

Me and a friend watched it in a cinema on release aged 13. I'm very tall and my friend looked about 40. (Now he's over 50 and looks under 40.) You could get away with it in those days.

On VCR release, our friend got his dad to buy a copy and we watched it on repeat at every opportunity. I've watched the Final Cut release many times, which I think is even better, and it's one of the very few films I will happily watch at any time.

The documentary about the making of it is great to watch as well. Watch the film first though. I started reading Dick's books aged about 11 or 12 and was already hooked before the film. I think that prepared me a bit, along with other sci-fi I was reading by then.

It's still my favourite film.

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.

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!

Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

It's such a gem of a movie, hits all the right notes

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 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 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.

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!

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 love most of Wes Anderson's body of work, but my absolute favourite of his is The Life Aquatic

The Grand Budapest Hotel - visually beautiful, the story never slows, altime favorite

Ratatouille.

I don't think there's a movie that loves food more, or pays more respect to food. It's an actual masterpiece, from every strand of hair rendered on Remy's body, to each note played in the score. I will never get tired of watching this 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.

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

Grave of the Fireflies.

If I can't be happy, no one will.

A Scanner Darkly

Here is my top 3 list:

• Lord of the Rings
• Back to the Future
• Terminator 2

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

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

Triangle.

The Void.

The Endless.

Moon.

Upgrade.

Delicatessen

Baby Driver was the first movie I saw 3 times at the theater. Gets me hooked beginning to end.

City of God

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

The Matrix (1999). The one existential movie for all. Then, it's probably "Serenity" (2005). Then, probably Galaxy Quest (1999).

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

Apocalypse Now. Damn, what a movie.

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

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

Into the Spiderverse is a perfect movie.

Hot Fuzz is so funny every time.

The LOTR trilogy is my favorite but the two above are my recommendations.

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

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.

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.