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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

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.

Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

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

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.

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.)

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

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

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

City of God

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

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

Triangle.

The Void.

The Endless.

Moon.

Upgrade.

Delicatessen

Here is my top 3 list:

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

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

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

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don't laugh every time.

Apocalypse Now. Damn, what a movie.

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

A Scanner Darkly

Django Unchained is my favourite! 🙌

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

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

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.

Interstellar.

Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch.

I am by no means a Johnny Depp fan but he provides a top tier performance alongside Gary Farmer.

An acid western buddy movie about death, dying, and belief. Beautiful film with a beautiful score.

Probably Cloud Atlas

It was a commercial failure so it's usually one that people haven't already seen.

Talented cast and directors passionate about the project.

It's extremely divisive, most people either love it or think it was a waste of time.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My favorite movie is probably Brazil (1985). It's a dystopian movie, but the population is suppressed by absurd amounts a bureaucracy (also the state surveiling and killing it's people). You need to fill out a form to fill out a form, and every screen is tiny, but magnified by a lens to be small instead.

But what I really love about it is the the "terrorist" Archibald Tuttle (who, very much, is not the protagonist); a repair man, who risks execution by the state, zip lining around the city fixing things like the protagonist's air condition.

I think we should all strive to be more like Tuttle in our daily lives.

I don't "love" to recommend anything to anyone, but I's say, 2001 is by far my most favorite movie. It's in perfect balance between science, fiction, and philosophy and was waaay ahead of it's time. And even nowadays it looks spectacularly good and has a timeless storyline.

I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just "modernized" Tetris music).

Tampopo, by Itami Juso. Fair warning: get ahold of a reservation to the nearest Japanese restaurant, you're going to need it afterwards.

Also, it's a western. About food. And an initiatic quest, the everlasting quest for perfection (in noodle-soup making).