I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie so far this year, and I’m looking for suggestions. What’s a movie that you really love?

    • BougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      John Carpenter gives a lot of good recommendations, many of my favorite movies. Here’s a few more:

      The Thing

      They Live

      In the Mouth of Madness

      Halloween

    • Davel23@fedia.io
      5·
      4 days ago

      Showed this to my GF a few months ago, and she didn’t fall asleep watching it. That’s really saying something.

    • kindenough@kbin.earth
      2·
      4 days ago

      First time I rented it on VHS back in the 80s, watch, rewind and watch again, next day same thing.

      • BougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        25·
        4 days ago

        It takes place in Chinatown.

        It’s similar to Little Italy. But Chinese.

        Really great movie TBH, especially when you view Kurt Russel as the dumb white sidekick

        • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, it really turns tropes on their head.

          All the Chinese characters are the smart ones and the real heroes. And are played by actual Chinese actors.

          The white guy is a dumbass who’s in the right place at the right time and gets lucky.

          • BougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            He checks all the right boxes for a sidekick too.

            He’s comic relief. He’s a flamboyant character. He chokes at almost every critical moment. He requires additional exposition so the rest of the team can explain things to the audience.

            The camera follows him, and he thinks he’s the main guy. But we know he’s not.

            “I’m starting to feel a bit like an outsider here.”

            “You are!”

        • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          I love the fact that it’s an entire movie where the side-kick is treated as the main character, while the actual main character is treated as the side-kick. It’s brilliant.

          It’s also responsible for by-far my most used line. "It’s like I told my ex-wife. “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. And besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.”

          • BougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            3 days ago

            “You remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: ‘Have ya paid your dues, Jack?’ ‘Yessir, the cheque is in the mail.’”

            Jack talking tough on the radio sends me, he’s just such a wannabe tough guy clown.

            So many adventure movies have the white saviour action hero protagonist with a sidekick who’s an (often racist) ethnic caricature. Jack is a caricature of an American tough guy, and it works so well. I wish we saw it in more movies.

      • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        3 days ago

        Try reading about the movie before passing judgment.

        In the U.S., “little (place)” is simply a neighborhood with a large population from some other country.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    4 days ago

    The Fifth Element

    Don’t even need to watch it ever again, it just plays on a loop in my mind.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    My favorite three movies are Toy Story 3 (for nostalgia reasons), Spirited away and City of god.

    I’m willing to concede that Toy Story 3 isn’t that good but the other 2 are amazing movies IMO.

    • Teh@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      This is absolutely in my top 5. Hard to pick amongst that rarified air, but it’s so well done in EVERY category. Costuming, acting, casting, direction, writing, pacing, editing, directing. It’s an absolute masterpiece of a film and hilarious to boot.

    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
      4·
      4 days ago

      This is my absolute favourite movie of all time but I gave up recommending it to people.

      The Coen brothers are too weird and nobody gets it but me, apparently 😭

      • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 days ago

        Pretty sure there are others who love the Coen bros, though my personal favorite of theirs is The Hudsucker Proxy. Haven’t seen all of their films yet, though

    • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      4 days ago

      It works as a comedic dialog on the values of our society shifting away from science. It’s also incredibly ironic due to the number of people that point to it as if it has any basis in facts. I could barely watch it because there is nothing in that movie that makes sense, yet is referenced as if it does.

      • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        I could barely watch it because there is nothing in that movie that makes sense, yet is referenced as if it does.

        Well… the nebulous idea of society decaying on its current trajectory is true, i think we’ll all agree (good thing we have time to course correct). As with most movies, the nebulous idea/the combined set of ideas presented is/are the most important consideration to viewers in general.

        If we’re getting down to technical specifics, there are some things that don’t make sense, I’ll concede:

        • If they don’t use water for stuff, there are innumerable things that shouldn’t work and everyone should have disease or st the very least be dying from some sort of malnutrition.
        • How has society not collapsed if people are that stupid? Who sustains the vast agricultural systems and the water infrastructure that now supplies soda to everyone?
        • The soda corporation is taking over america. For such devious plans, someone running the corporation must be smart. Why don’t they just fix everything? Or does President Terry Crews just execute anyone who proposes good ideas?
        • All the judges being intellectually disabled doesn’t actually make sense, assuming they still maintain testing/career performance standards. Also makes it seem like all the intellectually disabled citizens gravitate towards that job. Also, isn’t everyone intellectually disabled in the movie? So when they say “all the judges are r-words” they’re actually saying they’re straight-up insane.
        • this one is probably just a middle finger to modern day judges though. Lol.
        • What about the rest of the world? (Outside of the scope of the movie tbf, but come on… the whole world is that stupid? Or just America? I know which one is my headcanon)

        I love the powertrip element of the movie, great to watch when you fedl bad about yourself. “Yeah I just need to freeze myself and wake up in the future so i can be the smartest person on Earth.” But then i guess the moral is that you just need to apply yourself - protagonist, being perfectly average, was letting himself down by getting comfortable in that mediocrity.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    Someone else mentioned Hot Fuzz, which is mine. Another I love is Tucker & Dale vs Evil. It’s an excellent satire about conflict borne from nothing but preconceptions. Also a rare movie in which the “jock”-type characters are the good guys.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    That is an impossible question because it depends on so many factors of what’s going on on the particular day that I’m asked.

    So instead I’ll give you the three that most often rotate into top spot:

    1. Children of Men

    2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    3. LA Confidential

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Wreck it Ralph is made with such a love for (classic) gaming and in general being a really good animated movie I love it.

    Also The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Is great and can be rewatched endlessly.

    Then again, Idiocracy. Getting less and less funny and more scary as we come closer to that future.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    16·
    4 days ago

    Primer

    Insanely low budget, very realistic depiction of engineers. Super complicated plot which gives it great replay value.

    If you watch it for the first time, the audio sync issues are not part of the plot. They had to re-dub a lot of the movie and they didn’t do a great job.