Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!
Idiocracy. It was funny when it came out. Now it hurts.
That might explain why I didn’t like it too much. I saw it last year, it probably hits too close to home :/
I can’t believe no one has said Tucker and Dale vs Evil yet. It’s best if you watch it without knowing anything about it beforehand.
Because I haven’t seen it mentioned:
They Live
I grew up with Duke Nukem and later found a lot of his quotes were from that movie.
- The Thing Carpenter’s version
- Shawshank Redemption
- Yojimbo
- The Seventh Seal
- Duck Soup
- No Country For Old Men
- The Naked Gun
- Back to the Future
- The Guest
- Shrek
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Blues Brothers
- Dark City
- The rifftrax version of Jaws
- Double Indemnity
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Hot Fuzz
- The Dead Don’t Die
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Free Solo
- In the Loop
- Evil Dead original
- Office Space
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Clue
- North by Northwest
- Brick
- The Sting
- Return of the Jedi
- Casablanca
- The Third Man
I fucking love In the Loop, but it took me a few viewings to understand what the hell was going on. I should watch it again.
The TV show was really good too, but the movie captures the absurdity so well.
Movie was more accessible, Thick of It series was blacker, crueller humour
Shoutout for mentioning Brick. Modern noir masterpiece I never see mentioned online. Great, eclectic list overall!
The Road, so people should know what to expect in a decade or so.
- Lord of The rings Trilogy
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Princess Bride
I haven’t seen it posted here yet so I’d like to add one of my favorites, Big Fish.
Secretary (2002)
Think what you want, this movie has layers of depth to it. Every time I watch it I feel like I learn something new about a character and why they are the way they are.
A bunch of other people have mentioned Ghibli movies and since I’m in the middle of a binge through every Ghibli movie I think I’ll recommend one that I hadn’t seen before a few days ago: Only Yesterday or Omoide Poroporo.
It’s Isao Takahata, not Miyazaki, but it’s easily my favorite Ghibli movie and one of my favorite movies of all time. It feels so real and relatable, the whole movie is essentially a really slow-paced series of flashbacks to the main character’s 10-year-old self and every detail is so well-thought-out and interesting.
Very worth watching, although I’ll mention as a disclaimer that all the friends I was watching it with thought it was super pointless and boring.Dr. Strangelove
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Big Lebowski
- Inception
Edit: Can’t believe I left these out:
- High Fidelity
- Princess Bride
ALRIGHT!
We’re throwing rocks tonight!
Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- The Fifth Element
- Big Trouble in Little China
- LOtR
- Akira
- Up
Office Space - the message was ahead of it’s time 12 Angry Men – reactionaries vs rationality
- Perfect Blue
- The End of Evangelion
- Love & Pop
Love & Pop the Hideaki Anno movie? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody else mention it online before
Yup, the Hideaki Anno movie! I think it’s one of the greatest movies I’ve seen. There’s a chapter of the book called Sexography that discusses the movie very well. It kind of helped me understand the issue a bit more.
Hell yeah! Ritual by him is also wonderful.
I haven’t seen Ritual yet but it’s on my watch list!