Running with Scissors. It’s a weird movie, and most people probably wouldn’t enjoy it, but I want more people to use the word “masturbatorium”.
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Django Unchained is my favourite! 🙌
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.
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Mostly because I like to recommend things that are likely new to whoever I’m recommending to, and my experience has been that this isn’t a very widely appreciated or even known flick. And I also happen to love it personally, so it just became my go-to recommendation.
I do preface the recommendation with a “After watching it yearly for over a decade, I still don’t really really get it”. Its great.
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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.
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Warrior - chock-full of powerful emotions at just the right points, and a really, really good "underdog rises to the top" storyline.
I remember really not wanting to see it when it came out in theaters. I thought it looked boring and another dumb sports movie.
My God it was so much more than that. I loved it immediately. I choked up a few times through the story, and I might have cheered a bit at the end. The trailers really did not do that movie justice.
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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).
The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don't laugh every time.
Muppet Treasure Island.
Sneakers had got to be one of my all-time favorite movies. Definitely still relevant.
I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just "modernized" Tetris music).
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I don't know about favorite of all time, but I recently watched "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and it was incredible. An instant classic in my mind and I'd somehow never heard of it. It's about Ireland in the 1920s and stars Cillian Murphy and Liam Cunningham (most people will know him as Davos from Game of Thrones). Beautifully shot and acted.
Ghostbusters. Perfect in every respect, and endlessly quotable.
Scent of a woman.
It is Pacino at his best (arguably at least, he has done some great work)