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Cancerslug t1_j6by0jk wrote

Tremors. It's super cozy, nearly perfect, and fun for all levels of horror fans. I've loved it most of my life. I'd watch it whenever it came on tv. And still watch it often.

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I_DRINK_ANARCHY t1_j6bzaek wrote

Tremors is absolutely one of my favorites. It's hard to get that balance of terror and humor, but man that first one got it perfect.

I mean, I have a love for all the Temor movies, but the first one was goddamn awesome.

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herewego199209 t1_j6c4ujn wrote

Tremors is one of those movies that really only could've found success in the era it came out. That's a movie that absolutely bombed at the box offie but made most of its money through the home video market and through TV appearances. If it wasn't for that movie getting replayed constantly on TV I would've never known it existed or become a huge fan.

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wildadragon t1_j6bxarj wrote

Superman 1978, just the purest form that the character Superman should be.

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Hufflepuff_Baseball t1_j6bxh5k wrote

I recently watched the Reeve Superman movies for the first time and although I enjoyed the first one, I loved the second one.

As for the last two...not so much.

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wildadragon t1_j6bxrm5 wrote

2nd one has 2 versions BTW the theatrical version and then the Richard Donner version.

3rd one was fun and like a lot of people say a Richard Pryor comedy with Superman. Plus without Superman 3 could we have had Office Space since it pulls a plot from Superman 3.

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Hufflepuff_Baseball t1_j6bxwm4 wrote

I saw the theatrical version.

3 was okay (I gave it an enjoyability score of 73 which is my defaut "meh" score) but 4 got a 63.

Office Space is on my "to-watch" list.

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greenerpickings t1_j6bxt35 wrote

Does Secret Life of Walter Mitty count? The remake with Stiller. It's been my go to since it came out. Cliche, but I identify with the protagonist. I havent gone around the world, but I live a lot in my head.

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ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN t1_j6byviy wrote

I'm very much someone who has wanderlust, and the film connects with me on a very deep level. I love it.

Annoyingly there are two versions of the film. One slightly longer version where all the pieces slot together nicely. There's also the British theatrical version was pre-cut during post-production to secure a PG rating. This version was the one released worldwide - and it doesn't make a lot of sense. Some key scenes are missing.

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Hufflepuff_Baseball t1_j6by631 wrote

"Identifying with the protagonist" is why Tom Holland is my favorite Spider-Man. (to clarify I'm an 18-year old college freshman)

A lot of my most favorite movies are due to either that, or just something extra that really sucks me in (nostalgia, or something else indescribable). Most of the "great" movies that I've seen (Dark Knight, Forrest Gump, Back to The Future) are somewhere in the #25-35 range on my list.

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SocialObeserver797 t1_j6bzvcy wrote

Arrival(2016). I loved the flow of non linear storytelling in it. The subtle tension and the unfolding of events captivated me.

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Hufflepuff_Baseball t1_j6c0gk5 wrote

Definitely need to rewatch that one. The first time I watched was in a science fiction class, in 20-minute intervals which were days apart, so the whole thing felt a bit clunky.

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Duel_Option t1_j6c4hcj wrote

Tree of Life.

It’s a spiritual successor to 2001 and it made me remember what it was like to be a child again.

The ending…amazing

It’s Malick, so people either love or loathe this movie, There is no in between and i find that amusing as well

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Gunslinger1148 t1_j6bymmd wrote

Big Trouble in Little China (1986) is my favorite film of all time. It's 1hr 36mins of pure bonkers genre-mixing fun with a kickass sound track, awesome action, and fantastic characters. It moves and flows so well.

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ThatIowanGuy t1_j6by5i4 wrote

Reign Over Me. My first introduction to Adam Sandler’s ability to do drama, and a really good reminder how important it is to maintain those friendships during hard times of mental turbulence.

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fri98 t1_j6byed2 wrote

Once were warriors (1994), a NZ movie of pure domestic violence. I fund it in an old blockbuster store and watched several times since, the first time I did hated the movie's bad guy.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6bzbrm wrote

Beetlejuice.

First concert I saw was Harry Belafonte in 1988 for the Paradise in Gazankulu tour. I guess the VHS for Beetlejuice came out a few months later. I was hooked and fascinated by the humor,.and Beetlejuice acted like Bugs Bunny, my idol. I think we played it for my birthday party that year.

It had great acting, great directing, a perfect script, an awesome score, but it is still just nostalgia that makes it my favorite. The humor holds up 35 years later.

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LeafBoatCaptain t1_j6bzbvq wrote

My most favorite Hollywood film is Baby's Day Out.

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bobbyknight1 t1_j6bznzn wrote

Everybody Wants Some. Probably the last movie I bought because it’s never streaming

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Vertwheeliesonem t1_j6bwwes wrote

Honestly I really enjoyed Love and Thunder. The only criticism I agreed with was the overuse of the goats but other than that I think it was perfectly enjoyable

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Hufflepuff_Baseball t1_j6bx9d2 wrote

I give movies "enjoyability scores" based on how much I personally liked the movie. I went in thinking it was going to be a 70 and I gave it an 84. (73-75 is what I would consider an "average" score.)

The goats were very hit or miss for me. Sometimes I was laughing, sometimes I was cringing.

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hurricanelantern t1_j6bwx2j wrote

Stay Tuned.

Incredibly entertaining comedy 'horror' movie starring John Ritter.

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wildadragon t1_j6bx5ga wrote

Especially when they threw him back into the Three's Company set.

Edit: this year on 9/11 it'll be 20 years.

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RyzenRaider t1_j6c2su1 wrote

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Most people who've seen it like it, but

Inspired casting against type, making Jim Carrey an introvert and Kate Winslet the wild extrovert. And they both nail it.

The movie is completely bonkers, but logical within the weird rules it establishes.

Behind all the zany effects and weird scenes, it's ultimately grounded by a real, truthful emotional core.

It has a bit of every genre in it. Drama, comedy, romance, sci-fi, even a bit of horror here and there.

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herewego199209 t1_j6c50y0 wrote

Jim Carrey attempts at drama after that movie were never as good, but fuck man, Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are such good performances. That ending scene with him and Winslet is so real that now that I'm an adult and have been through relationships and drama it hits so fucking different.

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Duel_Option t1_j6c569n wrote

Agree with your thoughts here except for “against type”

Kate cusses like a foul mouth sailor and is a firecracker in real life

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magus-21 t1_j6bx5o9 wrote

I have different types of favorite movies. There are the ones I’ve loved the most, and there are the ones I’ve watched the most. I can’t watch the ones I love the most very often because the original memories are so vivid that I’d rather remember those original memories as they were, so I tend to only watch clips and highlights. Examples of these are Lord of the Rings, Avengers: Endgame, maybe a couple of others.

The ones I watch the most are often not typically very popular. Usually, the most anyone can say about them is that they are cult classics. Examples: The Mummy, the Count of Monte Cristo, Constantine, etc. There are many more of these than of the first type.

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PharmerFresh t1_j6bz16d wrote

50 First Dates, one of Adam Sandler’s movie with Drew Barrymore. It is not a amazing movie but it gets some good laughs out of me and is surprisingly heartwarming and touching at times. Overall, a good comfort movie!

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DoingStuff-ImStuff t1_j6c0e1d wrote

How is Forrest Gump and Catch Me If You Can the films you consider the best? Methinks you should watch more movies.

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Hufflepuff_Baseball t1_j6c0h60 wrote

You’re probably right, and I intend to

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Duel_Option t1_j6c4wky wrote

Hey…

Nothing wrong with those movies and I’d argue Catch me if you Can is one of DiCaprio and Tom Hanks finest.

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Galac_tacos t1_j6ce05a wrote

Catch Me If You Can is the most underrated Spielberg film imo

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T-408 t1_j6c0m0t wrote

Scream is both my all-time favorite horror film and all-time favorite comedy!

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BillMcCrearysStache t1_j6c1s7c wrote

My favourite movie is Jurassic Park so that doesnt count, but a movie that I for some reason love is Hostage with Bruce Willis lol, ive seen it probably like 50 times

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RedDirtNurse t1_j6c2pei wrote

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1975)

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joebbu t1_j6c0r9d wrote

Zack Snyders Justice. I really enjoyed this film while it won't be continued I love how the story concluded and Batman's renewed hope was a relatable plot. Plus it just looks epic lol

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Duel_Option t1_j6c521x wrote

I could barely get through the original cut and thought there’s no damn way Snyder cut would be better…

Whoo boy.

There’s a good half of that movie where I couldn’t stop grinning I was having so much fun

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fart-debris t1_j6c2bm8 wrote

Toys.

Because momma done dropped me onna head when me was babby.

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cruzclark601 t1_j6c2hdv wrote

Disturbia, starring Shia LaBeouf. Starts off with a great father son moment, turns into tragedy, a comedy, a love story, a mystery, a thriller, and ends with some more comedy.

First time I watched that movie my dad was on a fishing trip, my mother and I were much happier than normal when we saw him return.

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dunderpust t1_j6c3o7x wrote

A toss-up between Contact and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance... and I think I'll rewatch Burning again at some point and see if it transfixes me as much on repeated viewings, if so it's up the top too!

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RandomGerman t1_j6c4o19 wrote

Into The Night (1985). Just because as a teenager back in Germany I had skipped school with a friend. We walked by this theatre and it showed “Into The Night”. Had no idea what this was. The main actor was that wacky guy from that detective series. Jeff Goldblum was not known back then. I had the best time. I loved the mix between movie business and crime and Los Angeles at night. I watch it every couple of years. I now live in the country and city of the movie. Feels like I am in this movie sometimes.

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herewego199209 t1_j6c58sv wrote

My favorite movie of all time is a tie between Halloween and the Thing but those are pretty much universally loved. The one movie that I've seen probably no joke about a thousand times is The Faculty. Easily my favorite of the teen horror movies of the late 90s. It's so quotable, the characters are so good, and the homages are fucking spectacular. From Dusk Til Dawn is amazing and you can tell Tarantino wrote the first half because the movie gets interesting once they get into the bar and leave the silly sociopathic shit in the first half alone.

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Iogwfh t1_j6c62yd wrote

Holes, I don't know what it is about the film but it gets me in the feels🤗

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Shogun_Empyrean t1_j6ca2yw wrote

Wayne's World is my all time favourite movie. I used to watch it every day when I got home from school. It's such a random nothing movie with zero stakes and I love it. Weird finding out, years later, that Dana Carvey and Mike Meyers aren't actually BFFs

Second favourite movie of all time is Seven Psychopaths.

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eldenxlord t1_j6cbdxf wrote

Alpha dog it just has the 2000-2010 feel to it I can't explain it very well.

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sofewcharacters t1_j6cbh4w wrote

Couldn't honestly pin it down to one film. There are several I think are amazing.

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Almun_Elpuliyn t1_j6cf7oq wrote

I don't have a singular favourite movie but all my favourites either got a bunch of detractors or aren't universally known. The one exception is Lord of the Rings.

Blade Runner 2049. The plot twist is great and raises the importance of the movies themes bringing them to the forefront of the main characters inner struggle. On top the visuals are amazing. The acting is flawless, the pacing is just right for the movie to sit with you and linger on.

Nausicaä of the valley of the wind. The anime adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's Manga magnum opus. It's a unique science fantasy story set in a call post apocalypse. The world created for that movie alone elevates it to being one of my favourite movies.

The Tale of the princess Kaguya. It's the most raw animated movie I've ever seen and the first movie to get me to cry uncontrollably during a movie.

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midaswale t1_j6cftqr wrote

Miss Congeniality, because there is this actress named Sandra Bullock in it

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kiwi-66 t1_j6chn5c wrote

One of my absolute favourite historical/war epics is Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo (1970).

The movie has mind-boggling battle sequences utilising thousands of Soviet soldiers as extras, along with an entire cavalry brigade. Along with the equally epic battles in Bondarchuk's War and Peace adaptation, it's probably the closest we'll ever get to the sheer scale of Napoleonic battles. Especially considering it's all non-CGI (even Ridley Scott's upcoming Napoleon will use a lot of VFX, judging from behind the scenes shots).

However, the movie was a flop and one of the last of it's kind. Perhaps this is because the drama (and more intimate side of things) is not so good, and definitely inferior to War and Peace. Chris Plummer is outstanding as Wellington and really gives off a "pompous aristocrat" vibe. However, Rod Steiger is IMO completely awful as Napoleon and delivers some of the absolute worst lines of the movie (he also hams it up many times). Other than that, you have a relatively weak supporting cast and Orson Welles in a two-scene cameo as Louis XVIII.

Ironically, the movie's box-office failure was one of the reasons Stanley Kubrick cancelled his long-planned Napoleon project. However, the movie has since become a cult classic amongst Napoleonic era geeks and fans of historical epics in general.

For interest, it's complately available for free on YouTube, including a fan cut with stills of deleted/lost scenes (the movie was made back in the 70's when saving outtakes was almost unheard of - especially given it flopped - so the deleted footage is probably lost forever).

Interestingly, Kubrick's Napoleon project has been mooted as a HBO miniseries, with reportely Spielberg producing and the now disgraced Fukunaga directing (Spielberg himself also seems to have been named director at one point). It remains to be seen if it actually ends up being made, especially after Scott's biopic is released. Most likely though, the battles will be CGI-heavy instead of the real extras (from the Romanian army) that Kubrick envisioned.

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The_lost_Code t1_j6cjlam wrote

Best of the best. Super cool movie, great story about family, friends, yoga, kick ass action, smoking in bars etc..

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iskyled94 t1_j6cjqeb wrote

Dazed and Confused, idk of its universal standing tho

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wubrgess t1_j6cxhoo wrote

Layer Cake. I used to work continental shift and each month when I needed to switch shifts I would watch through my ripped movies and Layer Cake would end up being on the playlist more often than not. The dry British humour, the story, the dialogue, the soundtrack, the cast: it's all golden.

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higglejiggle t1_j6c3usf wrote

I find myself rewatching independence day and small soldiers monthly.

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