Mine is Lost Highway. It’s one of the most amazing pieces of media I’ve ever experienced. It’s dark, surreal, and I still don’t know what it’s about for sure. I have my own interpretation, as do many others. Who’s right? We’ll never know. The film is a fucking trip. I highly recommend.
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Interstate 60. Gary Oldman at his best. Highly recommend.
Boondock Saints for me. Watched it obsessively for a solid semester in college, and it helped shape my views on capital punishment, especially with the “person on the street” interviews at the end
Gut reaction. Fear and Loathing. Just a perfect movie. It is pretty faithful to the book, Depp gives an amazing performance so close to the real Hunter it is spooky and the whole thing is just perfect in every way.
can’t really go to one because the lotr trilogy is still top for me.
Lord of the Rings. It has all my heart desires. Great shots of nature, camaraderie, action, feels, swords, a message, charge of the Rohirrim… I could go on. It’s a masterpiece.
You may say it’s cheating, that’s three movies - well to that I say the books are also actually one book split into three. They shot all the movies together as well. Besides, I only ever watch them all or not at all so… one big movie as far as I’m concerned.
My Neighbor Totoro
the movie touches on many of the problems/insecurities that young americans had to deal with back in the late-80’s/early-90’s and stands in stark contrast to the world of today’s millenials & genz adults, but it’s still familiar in deeply touching and troubling ways.
every time i watch it, it never fails to remind me of an aspect of life that i lived, but had completely forgotten about in the decades since then and Araki has a way of making each one feel like an old wound that you forgot you had like it’s some sort emotional battle scar from living life.
a VERY young ethan hawke is in it and i’ve never disliked anything he’s ever done. lol
I can’t decide, but what immediately comes to mind that hasn’t been said is “Everything everywhere all at once” and “Interstellar”.
Gut reaction?
“Big Trouble In Little China.”
I know there are better movies, but this is my favorite. Magic and gangsters, a dimwit hero, cheesy dialog, really good fight scenes, and a really hot actress.
Every time I watch it I feel like I’m 14 again.
“Rubber” - It’s a (french?) movie about a car wheel that suddenly becomes aware of its own existence. It then starts rolling around, and somehow it has the ability to KILL telepathically. It starts small with squirrles or rats exploding, but at some point even the military needs to intervene.
I like trash :)
O man, I need to rewatch this. The whole “No Reason” scene with the chairs is burned in my mind. Absolute cinema
(Or lack there of if you will)
It’s hard to name my favorite with certainty, but one of my favorites is The Incredibles. The world building, the score, the action, the comedy, the relationships. It’s all great.
The stakes are very real too. Syndrome is willing to murder not just superheroes, but kids. When he orders Elasti-Girl’s plane shot down knowing it has her and Bob’s kids on board, you feel every bit of tension as Helen tries to stay calm while doing everything she can to save her kids. The scene is even more believable because the way she uses pilot jargon while speaking through the radio.
And the themes! Each main character’s power is tied to their role. Super strong Bob being weighed down with the crushing burden of mediocrity. Over functioning Helen has to stretch herself to take care of everyone. Super fast Dash has too much energy and resents being contained. Insecure Violet just wants to be invisible to the world. Even baby Jack Jack is just full of possibilities.
Honestly I could go on and on. It’s a movie that’s suitable for kids but has some very grownup themes and relationships. It hits different after you have kids, feeling what the parents are going through on a new level. To me it’s not just a great superhero movie, it’s just a great movie that most people can find something to relate to in.
Please watch all of Brad Bird’s writer-credit movies. All are fun. Only Tomorrowland is… odd.
I’m such a sucker for unreliable narrators so I’m gonna say Memories of Underdevelopment.
It’s a Cuban film following a vain, entitled, rich man in the 60s who is disgusted with what he sees as an immature country. Yet spends his life blaming all of his self inflicted personal problems on those he preyed upon.
I have never had a single favorite film. I don’t think I could list my top five favorite films of many different genres.
Is it because you have different films that fit different moods, no discernible way to objectively rate them, or some combination of the two?
Oh yeah mood is a huge part of it. It is also because the playing field is not level.
When Harry Met Sally is hilarious, silly and excellent and relies on the charisma of all the actors involved to make it great. There is no way I can level that with The Thing.
Then there is stuff like All The Presidents Men compared to The Man Who Would be King. Hoffman and Redford v Connery and Caine… good luck with that…
Then there is production values and funding.
46 years ago the answer was easy. Star Wars followed very closely by Jaws.
All about eve
Alien and Blade Runner, both by Ridley Scott. Arguably set in the same universe.
Absolute stunning set and costume designs and genre defining in there own way.
