• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 days ago

    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - The quintessential 80s movie. Everything you need to know about the 80s is contained in this film.

    Also Mr. Krabs is in it.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    17·
    7 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.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    162·
    7 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.

  • rainynight65@feddit.orgEnglish
    141·
    7 days ago

    Lucky Number Slevin

    Man On Fire

    Syriana

    Equilibrium

    And for some solid Australian cinema: Mystery Road

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    10·
    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
      7·
      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
      4·
      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.

      • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        I think that stuff (those in power manipulating public opinion for their own ends by whatever means necessary) has always happened, but the access to and use of technology has definitely upped the game significantly, so yeah, I agree.

        Edit to add: I watched it for the first time in my teens, and I think it had a deep impact on how I view politics and the media, and the relationship between them.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    11·
    7 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.

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      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.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    6 days ago
    • The Blues Brothers (1980)
    • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
    • The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) <- The best film version of “A Christmas Carol”. I will die on this hill.
    • Blazing Saddles (1974)
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
    5·
    6 days ago

    I would like to add 2 absolute masterpieces of German cinematic creations.

    First: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo(W children from station zoo)

    Devinetively not ab easy or joyfully film. So far I only watched the original version which isn’t great in terms of story telling but it displays the reality of drug abuse(in this case heroin) in a very good way. This film is devinetively capable of ruining your day.

    Werner - Beinhart( Werner and the wizard of booze)

    A quite old(1990) animated film. It is funny as hell but you can clearly see, that it was made in a different time/society. However, its still funny as hell(at least in my opinion).

    • viking@infosec.pub
      3·
      7 days ago

      One of my all time favorites. I usually recommend it along with I Origins. They hit differently, but scratch the same itch for me.