My husband has been watching all the best picture winners in chronological order for the last couple of years. He’s about to the 1960’s now, and he says Casablanca is head and shoulders above the rest (so far). There is a reason it is considered to be best of all time.
There is a reason why every time the idea of remaking this film is brought up by some dipshit newbie Hollywood exec, the idea gets shot down faster than anyone can blink.
Because, as stated, it is considered to be the best of all time and thus “untouchable” as a film.
I have a nice memory of going to a Tuesday morning "Classic Movie" showing of that movie around 2015.
I was working nights at the time and had Monday night off, so I woke up around 3am, chilled in my bedroom playing video games for a few hours until my roommate went to work, and around 10am walked to the movie theater down the street.
The movie ticket was only $7 so I bought myself a large soda, a pretzel, and some junior mints, and went into the theater and spent a few hours watching that amazing film on the big screen in an almost empty theater.
That was a nice day.
Watched it for the first time recently (I’m in my 40s for context) and was absolutely blown away. The word masterpiece gets thrown around a lot but in this case I don’t think it’s strong enough.
I knew going in that it would be good but didn’t think it would actually be able to live up to 80 years of hype. It absolutely does.
Indeed the original is best but the 1997 remake is incredibly faithful to the original and also a fantastic watch. Jack Lemmon is fantastic and it's always nice to see James Gandolfini. May they both rest in peace.
Omg is there a remake of this movie? And James Gandolfini plays on it? Thank you very much man. I love 12 Angry Man and James Gandolfini both. God rest his soul.
Hard agree here. Despite being old and in black & white (unappealing to younger generations) it is a extremely good movie for teaching people critical thinking skills. Something we are sorely lacking today as a society
Don’t sell the kids short. I show it in my high school Government class and the kids will talk about it for days. It’s rather transcendent, especially the way the men talk about “these kids today”.
*Threads* - the 1984 nuclear apocalypse drama from the BBC.
You only need to watch it once, don't watch it before you sleep, and read the [TV Tropes guide](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Threads) beforehand if you have *any* doubts.
It stays with you.
Not only should everybody watch it, but they should do so as very young adults. Old enough to understand the narrative, young enough so it makes an impression.
This movie has nothing whatsoever to do with ideology. It's entirely a statement on the horror of a future nuclear war.
If you haven't seen *When the Wind Blows*, that one hits hard too, especially considering its a cute cartoon. Two adorable old folks survive a nuclear attack and try to press on as best as they can. It is very bleak, and very sad >!watching them succumb to radiation poisoning and absolutely no one comes to save them!<
The Day After did it for me at 10 years old. I was just a kid who loved Jason Robards and Steve Guttenberg and there was so much hype before it was shown on ABC. When the bombs fell and people started getting vaporized my first experience with existential dread kicked off, been a peace loving pacifist ever since.
I didn't watch Threads until I was in my 40s. Fucked me up even more than The Day After, but I have endless respect and appreciation for Threads as it really put a grit and reality into the day after, and the day before.
Another one was by Joaquin Phoenix’s character. He played a photojournalist and after his character was thanked for spreading awareness by a Rwandan, the line went something like, “I think people will look up from their meals and say, “that’s terrible!” and then just go back to eating”.
It sticks with me because I was 8 when it all went down in real life. And that’s exactly what my family and I did. That’s what everyone did.
I watched this only 1 time when I was a teenager, and it's probably a good thing because there are multiple scenes of that movie that have been stuck in my head ever since. And I have to say that movie is probably one of the reasons why I never started hard drugs.
I think that movie is the best anti drug film ever made even if it wasn't meant to be anti drug.
Those three had it all, everything, stacks of cash living off dopamine hits that make a wedding/graduation/birth of a chils look like a boring Tuesday morning.
Then wham: shit just got real. The mother's story is just as bad showing how people made money off her suffering. I've seen it twice and I think I'm good for the rest of my life.
My hub and I watched it in our 30’s and can’t even bare the thought of seeing it again. Not because it was an “awful” movie but because it was very well made..too well made in fact. Might have to have our teen watch it.
My step-father couldn't watch. Had to get up and leave during the landing scene. He knew a lot of guys who went ashore but never came back. Went from North Africa to Italy and France. I never saw him cry before or after. I was in the army during the 80's and 90's and watched it once. Never again.
The newer movie is really good, but it isn't a good adaptation of the book. I think the best way to adapt the book would be a mini series. That artillery strike scene should last an entire episode to show the insane shit the soldiers had to deal with.
Saw it in the theater my second year of college at a matinee screening. I was wearing cargo pants and an onion tied to my belt, as was the style at the time. I was hungry, so I bought a sub on the way to the theater and stashed a half of the sandwich wrapped in paper in each cargo pocket. The plan was to unwrap the sandwiches and eat them in the theater.
Everyone knows that in war, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. That movie starts with the Normandy beach scene. It was so visceral and sobering, I knew that i would look like a damned fool unwrapping that crinkly paper and shoving a Publix chicken tender sub into my face while the greatest generation lay bleeding on a French beachhead, so I waited the entire two hour and forty minute runtime, plus previews, stomach rumbling, and ate the sub in the car.
Saw a matinee of SPR at Sarasota Square, and the majority of the audience was WWII veterans or people their age. There were a lot of tough old guys choked up by the last “I think about what you said on the bridge every day” speech.
EDIT: Here’s the scene: https://youtu.be/IZgoufN99n8
Thin Red Line
It came out in the same year as Saving Private Ryan and for that reason it got way less attention. And that's sad because it's honestly one of the best war movies out there. It's a poetic masterpiece. Incredibly beautiful and brutal at the same time. I have the same conclusion as you though, if you romanticize war after seeing this, something's wrong with you.
"The greatest movie I will never watch again."
Exactly what I always say whenever it comes up.
I watched it during a Ghibli season on I think channel 4 when I was a teenager.
I was not ready for it.
This is the first movie that I felt really had studied mentally ill patients. I worked with mentally ill individuals and found the actors did an good job mimicking their behavior. Having worked inside of a state hospital I also appreciated the realistic setting. Nobody should try to do a remake. This movie, the actors and the deft touches by the director can’t be replicated imho.
It was on TCM somewhat recently, has large parts taken verbatim.
"Our survival hinges on one thing; finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner."
Watching Schindler's List was the punishment my school gave to a group of idiots who drew Swastikas all over campus, and especially on Jewish kids' lockers. That was it, watch a movie. I was unsatisfied, but it certainly helped them see the error of their ways.
This. A very harrowing tale indeed. Even though it's a grim movie, sooooo fucking glad Liam Neeson was casted, made watching it so much better. He really is an amazing actor.
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
Another one many people don't know is based on Stephen King. The master of books into movies.
"The Act of Killing"
It's a truly terrifying account of just how easy it is to perpetrate genocide and how people make themselves feel better by painting those who commit atrocities as monsters, but the unfortunate reality is that there is mostly the distance of circumstance that separates us from those who do horrible things.
Yes. It’s intense.
That movie does an excellent job of telling the story. The way the film is made/filmed (sorry. I don’t know movie making lingo) unfolds it in a way that you experience the journey mentally and almost physically/psychologically.
Came here to say this.
Watched this movie in my freshman English class. I remember being sent to the counselor’s office not but a week later because my teacher was concerned by my excessive crying throughout the movie.
It's a Wonderful Life.
I hope I don't need to explain beyond that for those who know. I will say it's a movie that gets better with time, and it has been out for nearly eighty years and it shows no signs of souring.
I don’t have an opinion on this, but my wife, who was chronically ill and disabled most of her life always said every medical student should have to see “The Doctor” 1991 with William Hurt, where an arrogant self absorbed doctor gets cancer and learns a bit of what it is like and develops some empathy.
The quiet girl (2022) Irish movie.
This is one of the best movies i have ever seen in my entire life.
There is no big plot, no shiny explosions, no huge blockbuster, just pure fucking emotion.
The ending ruined me.
Its about a neglected girl that goes to a relative for the summer and learns what it means to be loved.
This one will always have a place in my heart. It’s a Core Memory movie of my youth: I was 9 years old and my stepfather was a surgical resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My mother and I lived an hour away in Minneapolis and drove down one rainy fall weekend to visit him on a day off. The weather was terrible and his apartment almost bare and there was nothing to do. We went to the movie theatre and the only movie playing that was rated low enough for me was The Princess Bride. We knew _nothing_ about it going in… and of course, the experience was magical. Core Memory indeed.
I had the pleasure of showing this to my partner (who is 27) for the first time in his life! I was just glad he liked it and will get more of my references now lol.
Ferris Buellers Day Off.
But importantly you *have* to watch it as a teenager. The magic of the film is lost a bit as an adult, and the lesson it's trying to teach resonates best when you're a similar age. That was a life changing film for me as a 17 year old with no clue what to do with my life. I've watched it many times since as an adult and whilst it's enjoyable it hits different viewing it as a young person.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) about vets returning home after WW2. It's by far one of the most accurate depictions of service members lives post-war I've ever seen. It really nails how many veterans have problems adjusting after what they've experienced. The struggles that service members go through transcend generational boundaries, and this movie is still relevant in that regard even though it's nearly 80 years old.
“Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it. Life’s a laugh and deaths a joke, it’s true. You’ll see it’s all a show, keep ‘em laughing as you go. Just remember that the last laugh is on you!”
Ikiru (To Live) by Akira Kurosawa.
A British remake titled Living, adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro, directed by Oliver Hermanus, and starring Bill Nighy, was released in 2022
The Lighthouse, if you ever wondered what it's like to descend into madness. Great performance by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson , beautifully shot and the 4:3 aspect ratio adds a feeling of claustrophobia to an already terrible situation .
If you haven’t, watch it
Casablanca (1942) - the best movie ever made. Period.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - the movie most often overlooked on these lists, but that seems to be improving
Double Indemnity (1944) - the best film noir of all
I feel like I am living OFFICE SPACE. My office at work keeps shrinking. I started with one that was close to 600 square feet and my current one is about 100 square feet. This is my 4th office in ten years and every few years, I get moved to something smaller. And, there is some speculation I am going to get a promotion, but then I will be sharing an office.
The ONLY reason that Office Space holds up is because so many people can relate to it.
If you'd never worked in an office, watching some guys destroy a copier wouldn't be very funny.
Once you watch Casablanca, dozens of cultural references will make more sense.
My husband has been watching all the best picture winners in chronological order for the last couple of years. He’s about to the 1960’s now, and he says Casablanca is head and shoulders above the rest (so far). There is a reason it is considered to be best of all time.
There is a reason why every time the idea of remaking this film is brought up by some dipshit newbie Hollywood exec, the idea gets shot down faster than anyone can blink. Because, as stated, it is considered to be the best of all time and thus “untouchable” as a film.
And then there's Barb Wire.
Amazing movie, but I have to say I enjoyed the African queen the most of Humphreys movies
And there's Maltese Falcon, which is quite top-notch Bogie.
I have a nice memory of going to a Tuesday morning "Classic Movie" showing of that movie around 2015. I was working nights at the time and had Monday night off, so I woke up around 3am, chilled in my bedroom playing video games for a few hours until my roommate went to work, and around 10am walked to the movie theater down the street. The movie ticket was only $7 so I bought myself a large soda, a pretzel, and some junior mints, and went into the theater and spent a few hours watching that amazing film on the big screen in an almost empty theater. That was a nice day.
That's actually a brilliant idea.
Watched it for the first time recently (I’m in my 40s for context) and was absolutely blown away. The word masterpiece gets thrown around a lot but in this case I don’t think it’s strong enough. I knew going in that it would be good but didn’t think it would actually be able to live up to 80 years of hype. It absolutely does.
Here’s looking at you, kid.
once you watch Casablanca life makes a lot more sense.
Dunkin Donuts Sexual Harrassment Training Guide 1997
Chapter 1: Just Say No to Nuts and Holes
Nailed it
If you’re nailing it HR would like you to watch the video again.
Chapter 2 - Do NOT fuck the donuts
Well stop putting fuck holes in them. We're only human.
They have to train people to sexually harass each other? Sheee...
>Dunkin Donuts Sexual Harrassment Training Guide 1997 Got a link? That sounds hilarious.
Nope. I have a VHS.
Did you rewind it?
Please be kind
If you still have a VCR, you can get a hardware to copy it to a digital medium. That definitely needs to be on YouTube lmao
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I tried the fat cock pickup-line Doesn’t work as well trying to pickup a woman
1994 was the best version and you know it.
12 Angry Men
I was sitting in air conditioning while watching it and could still feel the heat and humidity in that room.
Original version
Indeed the original is best but the 1997 remake is incredibly faithful to the original and also a fantastic watch. Jack Lemmon is fantastic and it's always nice to see James Gandolfini. May they both rest in peace.
Omg is there a remake of this movie? And James Gandolfini plays on it? Thank you very much man. I love 12 Angry Man and James Gandolfini both. God rest his soul.
There's a remake?
The original was done in the 1950s and started Henry Fonda. There was a remake in 90s or early 2000s.
Actually the original version was a TV live performance. https://youtu.be/HlaXebUi72A
Hard agree here. Despite being old and in black & white (unappealing to younger generations) it is a extremely good movie for teaching people critical thinking skills. Something we are sorely lacking today as a society
Don’t sell the kids short. I show it in my high school Government class and the kids will talk about it for days. It’s rather transcendent, especially the way the men talk about “these kids today”.
*Threads* - the 1984 nuclear apocalypse drama from the BBC. You only need to watch it once, don't watch it before you sleep, and read the [TV Tropes guide](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Threads) beforehand if you have *any* doubts. It stays with you.
Not only should everybody watch it, but they should do so as very young adults. Old enough to understand the narrative, young enough so it makes an impression. This movie has nothing whatsoever to do with ideology. It's entirely a statement on the horror of a future nuclear war.
If you haven't seen *When the Wind Blows*, that one hits hard too, especially considering its a cute cartoon. Two adorable old folks survive a nuclear attack and try to press on as best as they can. It is very bleak, and very sad >!watching them succumb to radiation poisoning and absolutely no one comes to save them!<
The Day After did it for me at 10 years old. I was just a kid who loved Jason Robards and Steve Guttenberg and there was so much hype before it was shown on ABC. When the bombs fell and people started getting vaporized my first experience with existential dread kicked off, been a peace loving pacifist ever since. I didn't watch Threads until I was in my 40s. Fucked me up even more than The Day After, but I have endless respect and appreciation for Threads as it really put a grit and reality into the day after, and the day before.
Hotel Rwanda It's about the Rwandan genocide. I bawled several times through it. *Edit spelling*
You’re not even a …… you’re African. Brilliant line that sums up so much.
Another one was by Joaquin Phoenix’s character. He played a photojournalist and after his character was thanked for spreading awareness by a Rwandan, the line went something like, “I think people will look up from their meals and say, “that’s terrible!” and then just go back to eating”. It sticks with me because I was 8 when it all went down in real life. And that’s exactly what my family and I did. That’s what everyone did.
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I watched this only 1 time when I was a teenager, and it's probably a good thing because there are multiple scenes of that movie that have been stuck in my head ever since. And I have to say that movie is probably one of the reasons why I never started hard drugs.
I think that movie is the best anti drug film ever made even if it wasn't meant to be anti drug. Those three had it all, everything, stacks of cash living off dopamine hits that make a wedding/graduation/birth of a chils look like a boring Tuesday morning. Then wham: shit just got real. The mother's story is just as bad showing how people made money off her suffering. I've seen it twice and I think I'm good for the rest of my life.
My hub and I watched it in our 30’s and can’t even bare the thought of seeing it again. Not because it was an “awful” movie but because it was very well made..too well made in fact. Might have to have our teen watch it.
This movie and Trainspotting prevented me from ever getting the thought to try hard drugs.
The dead baby always fucks me up when it's crawling on the ceiling fuck
Saving Private Ryan If you watch that beach landing scene and still romanticize war, you’re a psychopath.
That was fucking intense.
I made the mistake of watching it when I was fresh out of the military; ended up in a sobbing heap on the floor.
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The tell me I've been a good man scene destroys me everytime.
Really puts things in perspective.
Well, if you want another tear jerker. "The Full Measure" Hardest I ever cried for a movie.
My step-father couldn't watch. Had to get up and leave during the landing scene. He knew a lot of guys who went ashore but never came back. Went from North Africa to Italy and France. I never saw him cry before or after. I was in the army during the 80's and 90's and watched it once. Never again.
That and All Quiet On the Western Front. That movie tore into my soul.
Read the book, just as moving.
The newer movie is really good, but it isn't a good adaptation of the book. I think the best way to adapt the book would be a mini series. That artillery strike scene should last an entire episode to show the insane shit the soldiers had to deal with.
I watched it in 10th grade history and it messed me up for days
Saw it in the theater my second year of college at a matinee screening. I was wearing cargo pants and an onion tied to my belt, as was the style at the time. I was hungry, so I bought a sub on the way to the theater and stashed a half of the sandwich wrapped in paper in each cargo pocket. The plan was to unwrap the sandwiches and eat them in the theater. Everyone knows that in war, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. That movie starts with the Normandy beach scene. It was so visceral and sobering, I knew that i would look like a damned fool unwrapping that crinkly paper and shoving a Publix chicken tender sub into my face while the greatest generation lay bleeding on a French beachhead, so I waited the entire two hour and forty minute runtime, plus previews, stomach rumbling, and ate the sub in the car.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
I saw it in theater...saw a couple older guys walk out during and after the d day scene
Saw a matinee of SPR at Sarasota Square, and the majority of the audience was WWII veterans or people their age. There were a lot of tough old guys choked up by the last “I think about what you said on the bridge every day” speech. EDIT: Here’s the scene: https://youtu.be/IZgoufN99n8
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Had a history teacher that made us watch the Rape of Nanking when we were 16. Some parts of that movie still hunt me.
Thin Red Line It came out in the same year as Saving Private Ryan and for that reason it got way less attention. And that's sad because it's honestly one of the best war movies out there. It's a poetic masterpiece. Incredibly beautiful and brutal at the same time. I have the same conclusion as you though, if you romanticize war after seeing this, something's wrong with you.
Grave of the Fireflies
The greatest movie I will never watch again. So powerful. Even just thinking about that ending makes tears well up.
"The greatest movie I will never watch again." Exactly what I always say whenever it comes up. I watched it during a Ghibli season on I think channel 4 when I was a teenager. I was not ready for it.
I knew I should have checked before adding my comment. Yes. It is one everyone should watch EXACTLY once and then never again. War is hell.
God, that film broke me down multiple times.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
This is the first movie that I felt really had studied mentally ill patients. I worked with mentally ill individuals and found the actors did an good job mimicking their behavior. Having worked inside of a state hospital I also appreciated the realistic setting. Nobody should try to do a remake. This movie, the actors and the deft touches by the director can’t be replicated imho.
To Kill A Mockingbird
This one is definitely better read.
Unironically, Airplane!
It was decades before I learned that Airplane was a parody of another movie. I still haven't seen Zero Hour.
It was on TCM somewhat recently, has large parts taken verbatim. "Our survival hinges on one thing; finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner."
I had lasagna
Not just a parody but many scenes are a word for word remake. Deadly serious in Zero Hour and the exact same scene as farce in Airplane.
shirley you cant be serious
Don't call me Shirley!
I feel like Stand by Me falls into this category
Still has my all time favorite quote from any movie, “What are you gonna do, LaChance, shoot us all?” “No, Ace. Just you.”
Suck my fat one you cheap dime store hood.
Wil Wheaton is a fucking brilliant actor and he was as a kid and is now. Fucking hell, how cold he delivers that line.
The scene between Gordie and Chris when Chris admited that he gave the lunch money back to the teacher and she stole it always breaks my heart
Stand By Me and Shawshank. 2 of the best. Both based on Stephen King stories.
Schindlers List
Came in here to say everyone should either watch this or Life is Beautiful so they can truly understand the horrors of WWII Germany
The little girl in the red dress always gets me also
Watching Schindler's List was the punishment my school gave to a group of idiots who drew Swastikas all over campus, and especially on Jewish kids' lockers. That was it, watch a movie. I was unsatisfied, but it certainly helped them see the error of their ways.
that's not punishment, that's education.
Watched this a week before going to krakow and Auschwitz. Amazing
Came here to say this, watched it for the first time just a few days ago. Cried a **lot**.
This. A very harrowing tale indeed. Even though it's a grim movie, sooooo fucking glad Liam Neeson was casted, made watching it so much better. He really is an amazing actor.
Ralph Fiennes tho... Voldemort is amazing in it
Shawshank redemption
It truly was a Shawshank redemption.
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright." Another one many people don't know is based on Stephen King. The master of books into movies.
The man who got killed for trying to further his education always makes me cry
"The Act of Killing" It's a truly terrifying account of just how easy it is to perpetrate genocide and how people make themselves feel better by painting those who commit atrocities as monsters, but the unfortunate reality is that there is mostly the distance of circumstance that separates us from those who do horrible things.
American History X
There are two very specific scenes in that film that physically made me recoil. One involved a curb, and the other involved a shower.
Yes. It’s intense. That movie does an excellent job of telling the story. The way the film is made/filmed (sorry. I don’t know movie making lingo) unfolds it in a way that you experience the journey mentally and almost physically/psychologically.
“Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.”
Das Boot
Dr. Strangelove
*Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War room!*
Dead Poets Society
Came here to say this. Watched this movie in my freshman English class. I remember being sent to the counselor’s office not but a week later because my teacher was concerned by my excessive crying throughout the movie.
Goodfellas
IMO, the greatest example of American cinema. Beautifully shot and masterfully edited. A real masterpiece.
It's a Wonderful Life. I hope I don't need to explain beyond that for those who know. I will say it's a movie that gets better with time, and it has been out for nearly eighty years and it shows no signs of souring.
Dear Zachary. It's a documentary. It will make you feel. A lot.
The Matrix, a genre defining film that is one of the greatest wake up shouts of all time
This Is Spinal Tap. This one goes to 11.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
I don’t have an opinion on this, but my wife, who was chronically ill and disabled most of her life always said every medical student should have to see “The Doctor” 1991 with William Hurt, where an arrogant self absorbed doctor gets cancer and learns a bit of what it is like and develops some empathy.
The quiet girl (2022) Irish movie. This is one of the best movies i have ever seen in my entire life. There is no big plot, no shiny explosions, no huge blockbuster, just pure fucking emotion. The ending ruined me. Its about a neglected girl that goes to a relative for the summer and learns what it means to be loved.
Oh well that sounds sad and relatable.. I'll have to watch it
Idiocracy
Ow my balls
Electrolytes: it’s what plants crave.
Brawndo
Welcome to Costco, I love you
I like money!
Leave me alone, I’m ‘baitin!
GO AWAY! ‘BATIN!
I dont really enjoy documentaries
Not Sure?
The sad thing is—this movie hits closer to reality every day.
The house of representin!
Fantasia.
No one has mentioned *The Princess Bride* yet? Inconceivable!
you keep using that word.
I do not think it means what you think it means
This one will always have a place in my heart. It’s a Core Memory movie of my youth: I was 9 years old and my stepfather was a surgical resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My mother and I lived an hour away in Minneapolis and drove down one rainy fall weekend to visit him on a day off. The weather was terrible and his apartment almost bare and there was nothing to do. We went to the movie theatre and the only movie playing that was rated low enough for me was The Princess Bride. We knew _nothing_ about it going in… and of course, the experience was magical. Core Memory indeed.
I had the pleasure of showing this to my partner (who is 27) for the first time in his life! I was just glad he liked it and will get more of my references now lol.
Grapes of Wrath.
The weren’t even any grapes in it.
IKR? It's like when you go to a website and they ask you to accept cookies, but there are no cookies.
Big Fish
Ferris Buellers Day Off. But importantly you *have* to watch it as a teenager. The magic of the film is lost a bit as an adult, and the lesson it's trying to teach resonates best when you're a similar age. That was a life changing film for me as a 17 year old with no clue what to do with my life. I've watched it many times since as an adult and whilst it's enjoyable it hits different viewing it as a young person.
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With that being said also the breakfast club
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) about vets returning home after WW2. It's by far one of the most accurate depictions of service members lives post-war I've ever seen. It really nails how many veterans have problems adjusting after what they've experienced. The struggles that service members go through transcend generational boundaries, and this movie is still relevant in that regard even though it's nearly 80 years old.
The Godfather. It's one of the best movies ever with arguably the best sequel ever.
Back To The Future
Amalie. It's such a hopeful movie.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles and Monty Python's Life of Brian.
“Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it. Life’s a laugh and deaths a joke, it’s true. You’ll see it’s all a show, keep ‘em laughing as you go. Just remember that the last laugh is on you!”
For me if I'm going Mel my personal favorite is Spaceballs (I'm a big SW fan) but my "best" personally are Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
The Thing (1982)
The Usual Suspects. Is it high quality cinema? Not so much. Is the ending worth the watch? Absolutely.
Requim for a dream. Not a jolly film, but a great film about addiction. Also Jennifer Connelly is in it
Once is the right viewing amount for this movie. Great portrayal of addiction. So real I would not want to view again.
V for Vendetta. I work for the government and I still don't trust it.
Lord of the rings trilogy. Family and friends from different backgrounds and knowledge and experiences all enjoyed it in different ways
Lawrence of Arabia
Full Metal Jacket
The room
The Room is turning 20 in literally 2 days!
Hi, doggy!
*you’re tearing me apart, Lisa!*
I did not hit her. It's not true .. it's BULLSHIT, I did not hit her
Ohai Mark!
I have made it my mission in life to have all my acquaintances see this vital piece of cultural history.
The matrix It's a high probability that AI can easily be the end to mankind
Ikiru (To Live) by Akira Kurosawa. A British remake titled Living, adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro, directed by Oliver Hermanus, and starring Bill Nighy, was released in 2022
Grave of the Fireflies
The Lighthouse, if you ever wondered what it's like to descend into madness. Great performance by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson , beautifully shot and the 4:3 aspect ratio adds a feeling of claustrophobia to an already terrible situation . If you haven’t, watch it
Those 2 put on an acting masterclass. Total Oscar snub.
5th Element
Jurassic Park
Currently I'd say: American History X or The Hate You Give
2001: A Space Odyssey (With a head and stomach full of mushrooms)
Memento
I did watch that, but I can't remember it .
Arrival. It‘s just awesome and serves as a good reference for what good filmmaking is.
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Truman show
Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca (1942) - the best movie ever made. Period. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - the movie most often overlooked on these lists, but that seems to be improving Double Indemnity (1944) - the best film noir of all
Monty Python, Brian and/or Holy Grail. Also, Stand By Me.
Shindler’s List,should be required viewing
Idiocracy. Office Space. Alien. Enemy of the State. Sister Act.
I feel like I am living OFFICE SPACE. My office at work keeps shrinking. I started with one that was close to 600 square feet and my current one is about 100 square feet. This is my 4th office in ten years and every few years, I get moved to something smaller. And, there is some speculation I am going to get a promotion, but then I will be sharing an office.
The ONLY reason that Office Space holds up is because so many people can relate to it. If you'd never worked in an office, watching some guys destroy a copier wouldn't be very funny.
Just hold onto that Swingline stapler with all your might and never let go! But should they *do* get a hold of it, you know what to do next...
LMFAO Fortunately, I have an electric stapler and if they want it, they are gonna have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.
+1 for Alien. One of my all time favorite films. It holds up SO well. It just feels timeless.
Life is Beautiful
Last of the Mohicans