• kubok@fedia.io
    492·
    7 days ago

    I find it inconceivable that no one has mentioned ‘The Princess Bride’ yet.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    161·
    6 days ago

    Spirited Away. In my opinion the most Miyazaki movie. It’s also just amazing. I’ve probably seen it a dozen times now.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    17·
    6 days ago

    I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.

    My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

    Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.

    On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.

    Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.

    I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.

  • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
    29·
    7 days ago

    “12 Angry Men” (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.

    The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels “small”. The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      In the beginning of 12 Angry Men everything is shot from above eye-level with wide-angle lenses, giving everything the feel of more space, but as the film progresses it transitions to tighter shots with telephoto lenses from lower angles. The film gives the viewer more and more of a subconscious sense of tension and claustrophobia as the story progresses.

      At least one stage adaptation of the story gave a similar effect over the course of the show by slowly tightening the lighting and having the walls of the set physically move inward, too slow for the audience to take notice but enough to subtly affect the entire atmosphere and really drive that feeling home.

      • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
        2·
        6 days ago

        That’s so neat; I’d never noticed that before. And the walls closing in on the stage adaptation is really clever

    • Eleyson@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      I’ve seen this movie 3 times, each viewing several years apart. Each viewing solidified this movie as my personal favorite, I would go in thinking I’ve already seen this, it can’t have the same wow factor. Nope, I would end up loving it even more. Can’t recommend this enough!

  • rainynight65@feddit.orgEnglish
    121·
    6 days ago

    Lucky Number Slevin

    Man On Fire

    Syriana

    Equilibrium

    And for some solid Australian cinema: Mystery Road

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    11·
    6 days ago

    They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.

    • Lenny@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 days ago

      This movie is the epitome of #mood for me. I love almost every scene as a standalone artwork. Must’ve watched it 20 times.

        • Lenny@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 days ago

          I did a uni paper on it! I don’t like it as much, it’s a little too whimsical in comparison, but Gondry has a style that just settles my bones.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      3·
      7 days ago

      I loved this movie and if I was to read a summary I would think it’s boring as hell. But it’s not. It’s on my Made Me Cry list, has an amazing female main character and a solid romance that is not cliche, and I typically cringe at movies with too much romance. This one is good. I +1 your recommendation.

  • gimsy@feddit.it
    151·
    7 days ago

    Many good ones were already mentioned

    But from memory:

    • The snatch
    • The big Lebowsky
    • Clerks
    • American Psycho
    • 2001 a space odissey
    • Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
    • Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
    • Full metal jacket
    • The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
    • Fight club
    • Alien
    • The Truman show
    • In the mouth of madness
    • They live
    • The terminator (first 2)
    • Animal house
    • the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
    • Once upon a time in America
    • pulp fiction
    • reservoir dogs
    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      That movie is damn near perfect.

      In a way I’m glad we didn’t get a sequel, because the execs would have diluted it down to a PG rating in order to maximise the merch sales.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 days ago

    These are not feel good movies at all but I think really send important messages. Not for kids, but at 16+ would be good. There’s very important takeaway messages in both.

    Grave of the Fireflies

    Requiem for a Dream

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
      4·
      6 days ago

      Requiem for A dream is a very good film. Its quite similar to the much older German film “Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo” (We children from the station zoo). The original version has a quite weird style in terms of how it tells the story but its still a very good film. Can only recommend it to everybody. Heroin one hell of A drug that can quite easily ruin everything.

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I saw Grave of the Fireflies once.

      Once.

      Could never bring myself to go through it again, despite how utterly beautiful it is.

      But my favourite thing about it is that it was originally a double bill with My Neighbour Totoro. Imagine seeing those two back to back. You’d get some serious emotional whiplash.