I’ve got a three-way tie and I’ve never been able to promote any one:
The NeverEnding Story
Wall•E
WatchmenI consider Watchmen one of the most perfect movies ever made.
People often hate on the watchmen, i love it. The worst part about it that it has a graphic novel that is way better.
I read the comics I don’t really see them as better. It’s a different experience.
Which cut?
Ultimate or Director’s. I don’t mind the extra Black Ship comics scenes but I also recognize they really don’t add much of value. But I enjoy them.
I pulled up the ultimate cut a while back because I wanted to watch the movie, but I didn’t look at the timestamp before I started. I really like it, as a more thought-provoking, and loyal adaptation of the comic, but it seemed like it was running a bit long until I realized it was getting light outside again.
Heh. Well, yeah you have to be in the mood to watch a very long film but I think it’s worth the experience. It’s not a movie you just sort of watch while folding laundry; it’s immersive and it is legendary and deserves your undivided attention.
E.T.
I am absolutely charmed by the characters, the story, the optimism, and the connection to the unknown.
Lots of great picks here! I could go with a dozen that have already been mentioned, but I will throw out Blade Runner. The look, the feel, the sound, the ideas… Rutger Hauer’s classic monologue, Sean Young at peak compelling…
It’s a tie between The Motorcycle Diaries and Howl’s Moving Castle.
The first I found extremely touching, the second is just incredibly magical and charming.
Cinema Paradiso
Honorable mentions for Galaxy Quest and Heist.
Withnail and I.
Don’t threaten me with a dead fish!
Favorite good movie: Shawshank Redemption
Favorite bad movie: Hackers
Interstellar.
I’ve watched it so many times, yet I still ugly cry at least twice every time I do.
I first saw it in a completely empty theater as a teen. The visuals are obviously amazing, and I really liked the story, until the last bit - back then I was annoyed that they suddenly jumped from scientific accuracy towards feelings and emotions.
It took me a long time to properly understand the metaphor and message, but now I love it all the more!
That stupid love shit they shoehorned in was sickening. But, Hollywood must always sit in every chair at the table. I’m sure that was the suits insistence and not the writers.
That pulled me out of the movie like a black hole. I loved the visuals, the music and everything. The fact that the guy sat alone in a spaceship for years really messed with me. Then there was the love dimension stuff and i was just like: alright, do i have dishes to wash or something?
What do you mean with “love dimension”? Are you talking about the inside of the black hole? That was explained with the future humans constructing a space that Cooper could understand, navigate, and use to transmit the data necessary for human survival to his daughter. Love is what made his daughter believe in him and attempt to decode the message, but the space itself had nothing to do with love.
What is your interpretation of the second half?
Nothing that happened in the movie could have been successful without love, it allowed humanity to do what shouldn’t have been possible.
To start off, I believe there was a very narrow path that led to humanities survival - kinda like that Doctor Strange scene in Infinity War. Had things happened differently (Cooper wasn’t the pilot, they didn’t go to the ice planet, Cooper didn’t sacrifice himself) humanity would have been doomed, and all those things happened due to love.
And only love is what allowed Cooper and his daughter to actually bridge time and space, because if she didn’t love him so much, she wouldn’t have attempted to decode the gravitational messages - she wouldn’t have believed this to be possible. But she did believe in him, and she did believe that he would still be out there and trying to save them.
None of the things they attempted would have worked without love, and none of them would have meant anything without love. In the end, the story is all about human connections driving us to attempt the impossible, and that’s a lot more powerful than some scientific MacGuffin could ever be.
Yeah, I guess. I can follow you on that walk, but I feel like that kind of a plot left-turn is better suited, or at least, more expected in the realm of anime or something similar. I think it threw a lot of people off given that it went to the wonderful scientific accuracy of recreating accurate physics of a black hole inside of a supercomputer to generate the CGI, and explains relativistic time dilation to normies, and then just Deus ex machinas the whole problem with the “Power of Love” right at the end without even hinting that it was coming.
I’m not sure if you’re interested, but I believe they’re rereleasing it this weekend for theaters. At least in the US.
Update: they pushed it to December 6th
My pick too. The docking scene is fantastic, and the slingshot around Gargantua always gets me.
“We agreed Amelia; nighty percent.”
I’m convinced that movie is a masterpiece. The score is amazing too!
It’s a tie between Goodfellas and The Big Lebowski.
This comment really ties the thread together, man.
Clerks, because when I was 22 years before I ever saw that movie I to ran my convince store just like that. Also totally relate to the crap customers you deal with in that setting.
Did you see Clerks 3? It is no way up to the original, but it was enjoyable for me. It seemed more like a therapy sess/love letter from the cast. Depending on your age, it might be a nice ending.
I loved Clerks 3. I feel like people who set higher expectations for it (and for Reboot) did themselves a disservice.
I’m a fan of most of the movies listed, but didn’t notice anyone mention one of my favorites, Moneyball. Don’t let the baseball fool you. I don’t even like baseball. To me it’s not about baseball, it’s about trying to succeed in a flawed system.
it’s hard to pick, but i really like Possessor (2020), it’s a cool dystopian science fiction horror-ish movie that scratches a lot of my itches
i also rate some of the Andy Kaufman movies really high, like Synechdoche, New York (2008) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
most of my favourite movies are just mindfucks about identity or memory, because that’s the flavour of my mental illnesses, lol
Brazil (1985)
The prince of egypt. I’m not even religious, but the musics, the story and the visuals stayed in my heart. I will also say:
-Léon / the professionnal
-Interstellar (i am basic)
-Nausicaä and the valley of wind
-Inside out, wall-E and Up
and a ton of others…
yellow submarine (1968?)
I loved having the movie run in the background at parties. That sounds like an insult but tuning into a scene every now and again while blazed is a wonderful experience I do enjoy watching it properly from time to time too.
