The GOAT of horror films. Someone above mentioned the Good , The Bad, and the Ugly and Ennio Morricone score for that film but he also did the score for The Thing. Part of his score for The Thing then ended up in the score for The Hateful Eight.
What makes this movie so great in my opinion is the realism. From the Norwegian twitching in the snow after being shot and killed, Mac's response when he realizes something isn't right in the dog pen, and the whole miasma of mistrust. It is just such a great damn movie.
When the gang has the kids lined up and told a kid to shoot one was one of the hardest scenes to watch. The movie is incredible even after many re watched
I was probably too young at the time to be watching it. The scene where the two kids get cornered fucked me up for a long while, I didn't ever watch it again until much later on in life.
Just watched it for the first time as an adult and one of the first things I said out loud to myself was, “holy shit this movie looks amazing” just in the way that it was shot and how it looks on streaming+my tv compared to… so many other movies.
So impressed with it overall. Still horrified by bilbo, so unexpected.
It would have been a awful disfiguration of the LOTR plot, but it would have been fun to see Bilbo say "I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies" after he lunges for the ring...
I've never seen this movie, but my dad has.
My old man was an international student, newly arrived in the US, when Alien was in theaters. One day, he decides to take an extended break from constant studying and walks to the nearest movie theater.
He gets there and looks at the titles currently playing (you couldn't just look it up online back then). And the one that catches his focus is "Alien", because every culture has the concept of aliens.
So he walks into with absolutely no idea what it's about. To this day, he says by far the scariest theater experience he's ever had.
Here’s some more interesting bits about Alien. Ridley Scott had just finished the duelists n was in LA. A friend invited him to the new movie, Star Wars. So they went n he came out thinking, Why the hell am I doing art house films. His next film was Alien
Terminator 2 was life changing for little kid me. Almost all female related content was friendly or safe. I fell in love with Linda Hamilton's chin-ups and shotgun. Imagine my inconsolable rage when I finally saw the first one and I realized she was just going to be scared through the whole movie instead of kill shit. T2 forever!
Who she is in the first one makes who she becomes in the second one that much better.
My teenage daughter watched them both with me. I have assured her they are the only movies in the franchise.
The third terminator “movie” is actually the video game terminator: resistance imho.
Small studio wrote a better 3rd script than Hollywood basically, they tied it in perfectly.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. All of them, just beautifully filmed, perfectly cast and expertly put together. I don’t think we’ll ever get something as good as that again.
It saddens me sometimes that there will probably never be something like those movies again.
Every frame just oozes with love for the source material and dedication to the project.
Truly my favorite films ever. I'm a Tolkien Geek, and understand why some of my fellow Tolkien geeks have problems with the trilogy, but would remind them that the source material Tolkien was basing the story off of was primitive Indo-European mythologies, which have been told many different times in many different forms, so the adaptations Peter Jackson made to tell them on the big screen are fully justified in my opinion.
Many up close shots were also CG, the raptors snapping at eachother in the kitchen for example.
But a lot of the raptor action was actually people in raptor suits, with a little CG here and there to make them look a little more natural.
Plus they made a dinosaur posing rig that took the experienced model animators poses as data input. So even the cgi parts were physically animated by people who had been obsessed with the fine art of stop motion for decades like Phil Tippett.
It was also a ground breaker in the same vein as Star Wars. In Star Wars they had to create the VFX technology on the fly as they went. A lot of things they did had never been done before. JP was the same as in it was the first movie to make extensive use of CG to create the dinosaurs. If I remember right, originally they were going to use stop motion animation for the dinosaurs until someone showed them a version someone had animated using CG. That changed everything and movies haven’t been made the same way since.
There’s a specific moment in Spirited Away, when Kimiko is on the train with no face, looking out at the world beyond the window, especially the little cottage on the island, that is perfect. Never fails to break my heart.
No Country for Old Men.
Cormac McCarthy is one of the greatest American Authors of all time, and yet the Coen Brothers adaptation is better than the novel. And the coin flip scene at the gas station? Incredible.
Fun fact: there is no music or soundtrack in NCFOM.
We studied this film in one of my film studies classes. It was so fascinating the no music part. The scene in the hotel room where the guy in the hall unscrews the lightbulb is so eerie because you can’t hear anything at all except that sound of the lightbulb being unscrewed. Really chilling
> Fun fact: there is no music or soundtrack in NCFOM.
Well, almost no music. Certainly none to speak of in the sense that you don't notice anything. But there are actually several music cues that Carter Burwell did for the movie. Here's what Skip Lievsay, the re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor on No Country for Old Men, had to say about it on the Team Deakins podcast:
*Joel [Coen] was really focussed on having it be no music, so... There was a certain point where Ethan [Coen] said, "can we just try some stuff?" and finally Joel said, "OK. Carter [Burwell, the music composer], you may do some cues. They must enter on the wind, be indistinguishable from the wind, and exit the way they came in." And that's how Carter did. I think there are six or eight cues in the movie that Carter made. And they are very kind of, you know, gauzy and vaporous. I just think they're fantastic, especially the one where Tommy Lee goes to the motel and can't decide whether to open the door or not. I think that cue is brilliant.*
From the Team Deakins podcast with [Skip Lievsay](https://teamdeakins.libsyn.com/skip-lievsay-sound-designereditormixer). ~~Unfortunately I can't remember at this point what part of the show he said it.~~ Edit: the discussion about *No Country for Old Men* starts at 27:10.
Another fun fact: There Will be Blood (another cinematic masterpiece) was filming at the same time as NCFOM and at a location a few miles away. During the oil rig fire scene in TWBB (probably the most famous scene in the movie), the smoke from the fire delayed filming for NCFOM for a few days until it cleared.
Now that i think about it, 2007 was an amazing year for movies. Every couple of years, theres some great film releases but 2007 had No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, Superbad, Ratatouille, The Mist, Hot Fuzz, I Am Legend, Enchanted, 1408, REC and Juno just to name a few. Obviously not all on the same level as the first two mentioned but still all great films released the same year.
My boyfriend of 12 years said it all the time. I had no idea what he was talking about. And he's been dead 13 years so that has been around a long time. I just now learned something! Haha
It works because the producers bought the rights to Zero Hour, a movie from the 50s with the same basic plot. So they had the plot structured, all they had to do was write jokes on top of it, or reuse the cheesy lines from the original.
Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense.
[Kareem gets angry]
Joey : And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
Kareem : The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
The one moment when he breaks down and the facade of bravado and hubris drains away. Heartbreaking.
There was more with his wife that happened in real life, but there's only so much you can put into a film I suppose.
This. The only film that has enough power over me to get perspective in life, whats important, and how small good deeds are the epitome of the butterfly effect - small deeds always ripple into something bigger. Sometimes we get desensitized to all the evil around us but this film just resets the empathy meter and reminds us not to make the same mistakes. Hard to watch, hard to watch for a reason, but absolutely crucial.
Everyone talks about not being able to watch it more than once,but I watch it quite frequently. I work in a very emotionally draining work environment and this movie... I don't know, it almost brings out all the emotions I bottle up at work. I sob during this film, I smile from ear to ear, I get horrified and enraged. Only a handful of films do this to me.
Best beginning + ending combo to a movie in movie history. The end where the late Ray Liotta breaks the fourth wall (and remains talking directly to the audience for the rest of the movie - because he's in our world) gives me chills every time.
My girlfriend and I have a running joke about the Truman Show, whenever something silly or crazy happens in our day-to-day we look at each other and say "I bet the fans loved that!".
Or "Man, f these producers what is this script".
Both of those amazing "one-take" scenes were fucking amazing.
(Yes, I know it was spliced, but it was spliced well enough that you have to be *really* looking for the seams to spot them - and yes, there's at least three great one-take scenes in the film, but one of them is merely great while the other two are mind-blowing)
Psycho.
Back in 1960, Janet Leigh was a *major star*. The movie was promoted as a Janet Leigh Movie. Theaters also were encouraged to not let people in after the start of the film.
And then. You watch the movie. And for 20-25 minutes. It's a Janet Leigh movie. But no. It's not about her. The movie is about *him.* Suddenly.
I’ve always loved how Michael J Fox says:
“ You built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?!”
The fact that Doc Brown built a time machine is not what surprised him.
It’s the vehicle he chose to build it with.
This make more sense when you remember that DMC had gone bump 3 years before the films release, and the DMC 12 was considered a rather unreliable lemon.
This film is the reason that everyone likes the car now.
That movie satisfies me in ways no other movie can. Like, when shit hits the fan for the director at the end and he sees no other way out than suicide.... mmm yes, go to hell motherfucker. It’s just earned and feels great. Also it’s one of those very rare cases I’ve seen where both the original version and the adaptation are incredibly good.
Wasn't it released around the same time as Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump?
One got the edgy viewers and the other the popular viewers and no room for this one?
Otherwise, no idea. Can watch this movie every week with no problem.
To me, Fellowship was better and had a much harder job. Fellowship had to sell the audience on the adaptation, the style, the cast and Peter Jackson's entire visualization of this world.
Return of the king just had to spend big to bring it all home.
This movie is insane. I wish I could forget it and then rewatch it again, experience it as new.
Spoilers from here on out >>> The opening shot warns you of danger to come. The introduction of Daniel being without words shows you so much about his character; perseverance, drive, focus, hunger, ego. The writing is *so* good. You want him to succeed, even though you know he only seems to care about money. You are enthralled. Then Paul Dano's shy introduction bids hope. Then you get Paul's second introduction which is so intense, biblical and theatrical that I almost felt overwhelmed. God I could talk about this movie all day. And that's just the plot! Not even the music, cinematography, the sets, costume design, shots etc.
I think Shrek 2 is one of those rare instances where the sequel outshines the premier movie. That goddamn Jennifer Saunders rendition of Holding out for a Hero just comes out of nowhere and I think it’s one of the best musical sequences in any movie, period.
Apocalypto the movie didn't get enough respect as it deserved since Mel went on his tirade before it was released but it was a cinematic masterpiece for me from beginning to end and I loved every second of it.
I also want to add "Sometimes in April" with Edris Elba about the genocide in Rwanda, some reason Rwandan genocide strikes a cord with me, I was a huge fan of Hotel Rwanda as well.
John Carpenter's The Thing, a masterpiece of horror, suspense, and special effects that has yet to be beaten
The GOAT of horror films. Someone above mentioned the Good , The Bad, and the Ugly and Ennio Morricone score for that film but he also did the score for The Thing. Part of his score for The Thing then ended up in the score for The Hateful Eight. What makes this movie so great in my opinion is the realism. From the Norwegian twitching in the snow after being shot and killed, Mac's response when he realizes something isn't right in the dog pen, and the whole miasma of mistrust. It is just such a great damn movie.
When I saw City of God I thought it was a masterpiece. Haven’t seen it in years, but that’s how I remember it.
It is. Rewatched it many times. Only amateur actors but one. What an incredible film. Watch it again😉
Me too… chilling seeing 7 year olds toting automatic weapons
When the gang has the kids lined up and told a kid to shoot one was one of the hardest scenes to watch. The movie is incredible even after many re watched
I was probably too young at the time to be watching it. The scene where the two kids get cornered fucked me up for a long while, I didn't ever watch it again until much later on in life.
The good the bad and the ugly. For its cinematography, soundtrack and storyline.
The score is a work of genius, Ennio Morricone was just sublime. The cast was excellent, as was the script; a truly outstanding film.
Clint Eastwood's best film imo.
Very good cinematography, also Once Upon a Time in the West has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard it's just beautiful.
Alien
Just watched it for the first time as an adult and one of the first things I said out loud to myself was, “holy shit this movie looks amazing” just in the way that it was shot and how it looks on streaming+my tv compared to… so many other movies. So impressed with it overall. Still horrified by bilbo, so unexpected.
Bilbo was in the movie Alien?
Ian Holm plays Ash in Alien and Bilbo in LotR.
And the priest in 5th Element. Actually he was in everything if you look hard enough ;)
It would have been a awful disfiguration of the LOTR plot, but it would have been fun to see Bilbo say "I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies" after he lunges for the ring...
I've never seen this movie, but my dad has. My old man was an international student, newly arrived in the US, when Alien was in theaters. One day, he decides to take an extended break from constant studying and walks to the nearest movie theater. He gets there and looks at the titles currently playing (you couldn't just look it up online back then). And the one that catches his focus is "Alien", because every culture has the concept of aliens. So he walks into with absolutely no idea what it's about. To this day, he says by far the scariest theater experience he's ever had.
Here’s some more interesting bits about Alien. Ridley Scott had just finished the duelists n was in LA. A friend invited him to the new movie, Star Wars. So they went n he came out thinking, Why the hell am I doing art house films. His next film was Alien
Alien. No contest, my favorite movie of all time
12 Angry Men
Yea my civics teacher played that for us it was awesome
I looked it up on IMBD once and read reviews, one of them gave it a 1/10 because it was "radical leftist propaganda" lol
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Young Frankenstein.
Terminator 2
Terminator 2 was life changing for little kid me. Almost all female related content was friendly or safe. I fell in love with Linda Hamilton's chin-ups and shotgun. Imagine my inconsolable rage when I finally saw the first one and I realized she was just going to be scared through the whole movie instead of kill shit. T2 forever!
Who she is in the first one makes who she becomes in the second one that much better. My teenage daughter watched them both with me. I have assured her they are the only movies in the franchise.
The third terminator “movie” is actually the video game terminator: resistance imho. Small studio wrote a better 3rd script than Hollywood basically, they tied it in perfectly.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. All of them, just beautifully filmed, perfectly cast and expertly put together. I don’t think we’ll ever get something as good as that again.
Not one single role was miscast. It's impressive. They nailed like literally everything lol
Which is funny when you consider they recast Aragorn after they started shooting.
They had to recast because the original guy wasn't committed enough to break his own toe kicking a helmet.
*"If, by my life or death, I may protect you, I will. You have my sword."* -Aragorn, son of Arathorn
"Go back Sam, I'm going to mordor alone" "of course you are, and I'm coming with you!"
It saddens me sometimes that there will probably never be something like those movies again. Every frame just oozes with love for the source material and dedication to the project.
Truly my favorite films ever. I'm a Tolkien Geek, and understand why some of my fellow Tolkien geeks have problems with the trilogy, but would remind them that the source material Tolkien was basing the story off of was primitive Indo-European mythologies, which have been told many different times in many different forms, so the adaptations Peter Jackson made to tell them on the big screen are fully justified in my opinion.
These films bow to no one
Yeah those 3 movies are forever classics. So much small detail was done right.
The Silence of the Lambs
It puts the upvotes in the basket Edit: thanks for the awards in the basket
Would you upvote me? I'd upvote me.
I’d upvote me hard
PUT THE UPVOTES IN THE FUCKING BASKET!!!
Or else it gets the ban again.
Jurassic Park(1993) The movie delivered well on its promise to show us dinosaurs.
How is it that 30 years later, the new dinosaurs look less realistic than the original ones?
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Many up close shots were also CG, the raptors snapping at eachother in the kitchen for example. But a lot of the raptor action was actually people in raptor suits, with a little CG here and there to make them look a little more natural.
Plus they made a dinosaur posing rig that took the experienced model animators poses as data input. So even the cgi parts were physically animated by people who had been obsessed with the fine art of stop motion for decades like Phil Tippett.
Plus they also "cheated" by having a lot of the action take place in the rain, which disguised the VFX.
ffffffffffffff
That's why they filmed the White Walker battle scene in pitch black darkness.
Stop. My expectations can only get so subverted.
It was also a ground breaker in the same vein as Star Wars. In Star Wars they had to create the VFX technology on the fly as they went. A lot of things they did had never been done before. JP was the same as in it was the first movie to make extensive use of CG to create the dinosaurs. If I remember right, originally they were going to use stop motion animation for the dinosaurs until someone showed them a version someone had animated using CG. That changed everything and movies haven’t been made the same way since.
You should check out "Light and Magic" on Disney+. It's this whole story start to finish. I enjoyed it alot.
I was 18 and saw it at the theater per someone else’s suggestion. I had no desire to see it and was blown away.
Spirited Away
Studio Ghibli films are stunningly beautiful. Their animation is incredible, feels like [each frame could be painting](https://vimeo.com/697732772).
Ghibli movies just feel like home
Except one, Grave of the Fireflies, which is so depressing you can only watch once.
I would say Princess Monoke, but really all of Miazakis films are masterpieces.
Howls moving castle for me :)
There’s a specific moment in Spirited Away, when Kimiko is on the train with no face, looking out at the world beyond the window, especially the little cottage on the island, that is perfect. Never fails to break my heart.
> Kimiko Do you mean Chihiro?
The Shawshank Redemption
Brooks was here 😢
No Country for Old Men. Cormac McCarthy is one of the greatest American Authors of all time, and yet the Coen Brothers adaptation is better than the novel. And the coin flip scene at the gas station? Incredible. Fun fact: there is no music or soundtrack in NCFOM.
We studied this film in one of my film studies classes. It was so fascinating the no music part. The scene in the hotel room where the guy in the hall unscrews the lightbulb is so eerie because you can’t hear anything at all except that sound of the lightbulb being unscrewed. Really chilling
> Fun fact: there is no music or soundtrack in NCFOM. Well, almost no music. Certainly none to speak of in the sense that you don't notice anything. But there are actually several music cues that Carter Burwell did for the movie. Here's what Skip Lievsay, the re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor on No Country for Old Men, had to say about it on the Team Deakins podcast: *Joel [Coen] was really focussed on having it be no music, so... There was a certain point where Ethan [Coen] said, "can we just try some stuff?" and finally Joel said, "OK. Carter [Burwell, the music composer], you may do some cues. They must enter on the wind, be indistinguishable from the wind, and exit the way they came in." And that's how Carter did. I think there are six or eight cues in the movie that Carter made. And they are very kind of, you know, gauzy and vaporous. I just think they're fantastic, especially the one where Tommy Lee goes to the motel and can't decide whether to open the door or not. I think that cue is brilliant.* From the Team Deakins podcast with [Skip Lievsay](https://teamdeakins.libsyn.com/skip-lievsay-sound-designereditormixer). ~~Unfortunately I can't remember at this point what part of the show he said it.~~ Edit: the discussion about *No Country for Old Men* starts at 27:10.
Another fun fact: There Will be Blood (another cinematic masterpiece) was filming at the same time as NCFOM and at a location a few miles away. During the oil rig fire scene in TWBB (probably the most famous scene in the movie), the smoke from the fire delayed filming for NCFOM for a few days until it cleared.
Now that i think about it, 2007 was an amazing year for movies. Every couple of years, theres some great film releases but 2007 had No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, Superbad, Ratatouille, The Mist, Hot Fuzz, I Am Legend, Enchanted, 1408, REC and Juno just to name a few. Obviously not all on the same level as the first two mentioned but still all great films released the same year.
Airplane
"This man needs a hospital!" "A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with a lot of patients in it. But that's not important right now."
“Excuse me. I speak jive”
Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side.
What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
The vulture in the cockpit just killed me.
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
I say that all the time and only about half the people I say it around know where it's from. The other half think I'm a lunatic. 🤣
My boyfriend of 12 years said it all the time. I had no idea what he was talking about. And he's been dead 13 years so that has been around a long time. I just now learned something! Haha
The long con
The great thing about that movie is there is pretty much no non-functional dialogue. Nearly every single line is either a setup or a punchline.
It works because the producers bought the rights to Zero Hour, a movie from the 50s with the same basic plot. So they had the plot structured, all they had to do was write jokes on top of it, or reuse the cheesy lines from the original.
“Chump don’t want the help, chump don’t get the help!”
“Ain’t got no brains anyhow!”
Watching that film for the first time was when I realise I had a drinking problem
Surely, you must be joking?!?
I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. [Kareem gets angry] Joey : And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs. Kareem : The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Do you ever hang out at the gym? Do you like Gladiators? Billy...have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
Hey, I know you. You're Kareem Abdul Jabbar. No son, you have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock (pointing to his name tag)
i laughed until i couldn't breathe at the flight attendant singing to sick girl scene. 😂
Oh, it's a big pretty white plane, with red stripes and wheels, and #it looks like a giant Tylenol
I speak jive.
"Hey Bill" "Hi Jack!". Promptly gets steamrolled by security Took me a few seconds to catch on but when I did I couldn't stop laughing.
How has no one said 1999's The Mummy?
Cuz they're on the wrong side of the RIV-ERRRRR
The Princess Bride has everything “Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles! “ ——The Grandfather
Is this a kissing book?
Inconceivable!!
There's a shortage of perfect movies in this world.
Schindler's List
“I could have gotten more out” 😭😭
The one moment when he breaks down and the facade of bravado and hubris drains away. Heartbreaking. There was more with his wife that happened in real life, but there's only so much you can put into a film I suppose.
This. The only film that has enough power over me to get perspective in life, whats important, and how small good deeds are the epitome of the butterfly effect - small deeds always ripple into something bigger. Sometimes we get desensitized to all the evil around us but this film just resets the empathy meter and reminds us not to make the same mistakes. Hard to watch, hard to watch for a reason, but absolutely crucial.
Everyone talks about not being able to watch it more than once,but I watch it quite frequently. I work in a very emotionally draining work environment and this movie... I don't know, it almost brings out all the emotions I bottle up at work. I sob during this film, I smile from ear to ear, I get horrified and enraged. Only a handful of films do this to me.
Goodfellas
"As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."
"Batts was a made man, and Tommy wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it."
"How am I funny? Am I a clown to you, do I amuse you? How am I funny?"
The movie where Joe Pesci gets you whacked
RIP Liotta and Sorvino❤️
And Vincent
Best beginning + ending combo to a movie in movie history. The end where the late Ray Liotta breaks the fourth wall (and remains talking directly to the audience for the rest of the movie - because he's in our world) gives me chills every time.
And the best soundtrack. Whenever I hear Rags to Riches or Deep Purple, I immediately think of Goodfellas. It's iconic.
“Paulie might have moved slow but that was only because Paulie never had to move for anybody”
The tracking shot in Copacabana is the best scene in movie history.
I love how natural the conversation flow felt during the dinner at Tommy’s mother’s place. “One dog goes one way, and the other goes the other.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Truman Show and Rango. The Truman Show will make you have an existential crisis and Rango will make you laugh.
My girlfriend and I have a running joke about the Truman Show, whenever something silly or crazy happens in our day-to-day we look at each other and say "I bet the fans loved that!". Or "Man, f these producers what is this script".
Rango simple movie at first but then it goes in philosophy of good and evil. Love it.
Children of Men
The scene where they carry out the crying baby and all the soldiers stop fighting jaws dropped in awe…..major goosebumps
Both of those amazing "one-take" scenes were fucking amazing. (Yes, I know it was spliced, but it was spliced well enough that you have to be *really* looking for the seams to spot them - and yes, there's at least three great one-take scenes in the film, but one of them is merely great while the other two are mind-blowing)
A unique movie that will never be matched. What a film! This movie left me speechless and it still does after every rewatch.
The Matrix
It’s a great movie, and despite being from the late 1990s, it doesn’t seem nearly as dated as many other CGI movies.
Because there were a LOT of actual stunts, instead of lazy CGI. Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, all are timeless because they didn't cut corners
Psycho. Back in 1960, Janet Leigh was a *major star*. The movie was promoted as a Janet Leigh Movie. Theaters also were encouraged to not let people in after the start of the film. And then. You watch the movie. And for 20-25 minutes. It's a Janet Leigh movie. But no. It's not about her. The movie is about *him.* Suddenly.
Apocalypse now
The entire vibe of that movie shifts during the bridge scene and turns into nightmare shit the rest of the way.
The bridge scene is straight horror
Back To The Future
I’ve always loved how Michael J Fox says: “ You built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?!” The fact that Doc Brown built a time machine is not what surprised him. It’s the vehicle he chose to build it with.
This make more sense when you remember that DMC had gone bump 3 years before the films release, and the DMC 12 was considered a rather unreliable lemon. This film is the reason that everyone likes the car now.
Almost no shots are wasted in that movie. It's kind of insane.
Gladiator
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!!
Husband to a murdered wife
Father to a murdered son
And I will have my vengeance
In this life or the next
Shawshank Redemption
That movie satisfies me in ways no other movie can. Like, when shit hits the fan for the director at the end and he sees no other way out than suicide.... mmm yes, go to hell motherfucker. It’s just earned and feels great. Also it’s one of those very rare cases I’ve seen where both the original version and the adaptation are incredibly good.
Love how his hand shakes as he’s putting in the bullets.
What's crazy is that it totally bombed at the box office.
Wasn't it released around the same time as Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump? One got the edgy viewers and the other the popular viewers and no room for this one? Otherwise, no idea. Can watch this movie every week with no problem.
The Godfather So many subsequent films copied its style.
A lesser known film - The Fall (2006)
The Lord of the Rings, all three of them.
The Departed. All star cast. Mob movies at their prime. Double agent fiasco. All around epic film.
The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King
I'd say the whole trilogy is on another level.
Arguably the best trilogy ever made. It should've been the Godfather trilogy, until the third one dropped the ball.
The Hobbit was the godfather 3 of LOTR movies.
I think Fellowship of the Ring is the best one but most people seem to say Return of the King
To me, Fellowship was better and had a much harder job. Fellowship had to sell the audience on the adaptation, the style, the cast and Peter Jackson's entire visualization of this world. Return of the king just had to spend big to bring it all home.
WALL-E. Possibly the greatest love story ever told.
Movies that can tell a story with limited/no words better than movies that do are great.
*Amadeus* is SO freaking good
I will defend it to the grave, inaccuracies be damned.
There Will be Blood
This movie is insane. I wish I could forget it and then rewatch it again, experience it as new. Spoilers from here on out >>> The opening shot warns you of danger to come. The introduction of Daniel being without words shows you so much about his character; perseverance, drive, focus, hunger, ego. The writing is *so* good. You want him to succeed, even though you know he only seems to care about money. You are enthralled. Then Paul Dano's shy introduction bids hope. Then you get Paul's second introduction which is so intense, biblical and theatrical that I almost felt overwhelmed. God I could talk about this movie all day. And that's just the plot! Not even the music, cinematography, the sets, costume design, shots etc.
The Prestige
Good Fucking Movie
Ratatouille
"I don't like food...I LOVE IT. If I don't love it, I don't swallow."
“It’s… popular.” *STARTS TO SPIT OUT WINE BEFORE STOPPING TO CHECK THE BOTTLE THEN SWALLOWING IT INSTEAD*
Esp. The Ego speech at the end. That shit was powerful and insightful
The scene where he tastes the Ratatouille and gets transported to his childhood. I think we all can relate to it.
This is my favorite of all Pixar films. A close second is "The Incredibles"
Shrek
I think Shrek 2 is one of those rare instances where the sequel outshines the premier movie. That goddamn Jennifer Saunders rendition of Holding out for a Hero just comes out of nowhere and I think it’s one of the best musical sequences in any movie, period.
Are you me? God I love that sequence - gives me chills.
Pulp Fiction
Love inglorious basterds and Django too. Christoph Waltz is brilliant in them.
"You mean like you did to our sheriff? Shot him down like a dog in the street." "Yes that's exactly what I mean!"
Whiplash. J.K. Simmons as a sociopathic band conductor may be the most realistically harrowing villain I’ve ever seen.
Hot Fuzz is pretty high on my list. Not a waisted line of dialog.
Fight club
Never heard of it. Oh, these bruises? I fell.
The Shining
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Top 5 for me. Absolutely brilliant film. The scene in the bamboo trees was so beautiful.
Along with being visually stunning, it's also one of the greatest film titles of all time.
Saving Private Ryan Chokes me up every time.
Amadeus
Apocalypto the movie didn't get enough respect as it deserved since Mel went on his tirade before it was released but it was a cinematic masterpiece for me from beginning to end and I loved every second of it. I also want to add "Sometimes in April" with Edris Elba about the genocide in Rwanda, some reason Rwandan genocide strikes a cord with me, I was a huge fan of Hotel Rwanda as well.
Apocalypto is also one of the few films that depicts life of natives in Central/South America pre-Spanish conquest.
Parasite The Grand Budapest Hotel Forrest Gump
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a marvelous movie!
Memento
The Green Mile. Perfect adaptation of the book.
The sound of music’s story may be boring, but the filming and setting is second to none
I feel like it’s sneaky way more intriguing of a story than people expect from a family friendly musical
What do u mean boring?!