Tampopo! nice. another western for the list. Girlfriends is also nice
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Consider seeing it before May 31st
The cowboy stole the show despite being his only ever acting gig
I kept quoting it 24/7 even to people who didn’t know where Manchester was, nevermind its scene
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Freakdance - 2011
Sword of Doom - 1966
After the Thin Man - 1936
Dr. Strangelove - 1964
The Thing - 1982
The Lady from Shanghai - 1947
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - 2007
The Hudsucker Proxy - 1994
Deep Cover - 1992
The Wild Bunch - 1969
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not gonna look at the old one, but I’ll try to pick ones I think I didn’t pick before:
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Missing (1982)
Nowhere (1997)
Babe (1995)
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Bee Movie (2007)
Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat (2024)
Robocop (1987)
La Flor (2018)
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1988)
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And fall victim to recency bias? No thank you!
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[feeling uncomfortable but keeping calm] “It is a bit like Scooby Doo, yes.”
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Phenomenal name for a film
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Its a comedy musical about breakdancers. If you like Upright Citizens Brigade (the sketch show or the improv group) I highly reccomend it. It’s the best kind of stupid.
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oooh heck yeah this seems fun
Broadcast News (1987)
Little Women (1993)
Clueless (1994)
Speed Racer (2008)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Throne of Blood (1957)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Alien (1979)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
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wait what’s that Rivette one with the lady in the leather jacket who runs around and does roundhouse kicks?
Top 10’s an ever-shifting thing, but I’d be real happy with a shelf containing:
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Yojimbo (1961)
Invasion of the Astro-Monster (1965)
Emperor of the North (1973)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Akira (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Delicatessen (1991)
Hard Boiled (1992)
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- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Whisper of the Heart (1995)
- It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- War & Peace (1966-67) (the Mosfilm series)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- The Great Gatsby (2013)
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Top 5 are movies I’ve seen so many times that I inexplicably cry during relatively mundane scenes because I have just developed such a deep emotional connection to the whole thing.
Bottom 4 are movies that tread the line of amazing and ridiculous, both in terms of performance and direction.
Middle 1 is just a great adaptation of a great book.
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Gosh It’s a Wonderful Life is so dang good
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I’ve watched it every year around New Years/Christmastime since I was twelve years old. So, approaching twenty times now. I find it helps me orient myself toward the year to come by reminding me of what I consider important. It’s also just a ton of fun, especially since I can recite most scenes verbatim at this point.
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Please share when you figure it out
Patch notes to make my list slightly cooler:
- Replaced Jurassic Park (1993) with Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Replaced The Big Lebowski with The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008)
I kinda want to make my list even cooler. Still thinking about how.
Also added a Western, which is the cool thing to do apparently, and also doubled the movies with Uncle Song Kang Ho in a starring role.
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Wondering how many more contemplative piano montages I can post before this poll ends
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I haven’t been much of a movie-watcher in many years, so it was honestly a bit of a struggle getting to ten, but here’s ten, as they came to me:
- Labyrinth (1986)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- The End of Evangelion (1997)
- The Hobbit (1977)
- Zoolander (2001)
- Gladiator (2000)
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition (2001)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- Wicked (2024)
And, because this thread keeps reminding me of other movies I love just as much as these:
Runners-Up
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- The Secret of NIMH (1982)
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I think I need to rewatch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) before the poll ends to decide whether I can fit it in somewhere or not. I watched it to cap the end of a night shift that I was hardly staying awake for so my way of understanding how good it was was kinda based on how it kept me awake with how good it is. It’s also a real movie for the dads out there.
Also seeing @wickedcestus include Johnny Mnemonic, a totally badass movie that I’m not sure is good but man is it a lot of fun, makes me think I should find a way to include The Devil’s Advocate (1997), both for Keanu’s really bad Just’a-lil’-ol’-humbl’-pae’*-eatin’-cunntry-low-ya-gowin’-own-dowwn-to-tha-big-city apparently Floridian accent, but also how hilarious and horny and hilariously horny Pacino was every second he’s on screen. I will never forget that one scene where he does a sluttly little tongue flick. between his front teeth. One of the single most inspired moments in physical comedy history.
* - pie but in that accent
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