I’m trying to get a gauge of what people here are interested in.
Favorite movie is The Princess Bride, second is Life Is Beautiful.
Favorite genre is “space western”.
I like psychologically interesting movies, though my favorites aren’t necessarily all like that. Some big ones for me:
Spirited Away - Miyazaki film about a girl who stops off at an abandoned amusement park while driving to a new house with her parents, who eat food meant for spirits and become pigs. She is unable to escape and ends up in the spirit world, enslaved by a witch who controls a spirit bathhouse as the protagonist attempts to rescue her parents and escape
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - a man and woman break up in a very lightly sci fi world where it’s possible to erase people’s memories, and they choose to erase each other and inevitably the man regrets it as it’s happening in his mind
Perfect Blue - animated Japanese film about an Idol who tries to escape Idol life by becoming an actress, which is an incredibly difficult and stressful process as she deals with a stalker and the film/TV industry at the same time. As the movie continues she becomes so stressed and tired that the lines between reality and the films she’s in begin to blur together and she starts to lose grip on reality.
21 and 22 Jump Street - FUCK they’re just well written and well executed comedy.
I’ve been building my all time favorite 100 list but my number 1 has been constantly Casino Royale. The list: https://boxd.it/jQWau
I usually don’t have a specific genre of choice but I love to dig into micro genres for a stretch. Lately my favorite micro genre is “people in a room talking”. The obvious ones here are 12 Angry Men, Rear Window and My Dinner with Andre. Long Days Journey into Night, Buried, Locke, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Rope , Tape. “Before” series works well here too. A really good one I saw recently was Big Kahuna.
This also pairs well with tiny budget Sci-Fi. Like Man from Earth, Coherence, Another Earth, Moon, Vast of Night.
If you like people in a room talking, have you seen Coffee and Cigarettes?
Yes! I loved it
Awesome!
If you haven’t seen it yet, try Death and the Maiden (1994)
Added to the watchlist!
Psychological thrillers, especially those from the late twentieth century. Think Suspiria and Possession.
Depending on the day, my favorite movie is either The Big Lebowski, Hot Fuzz, or Knives Out.
My favorite movie is Kingpin
My favorite movie is the Matrix (the first one). Gutted by what they did in the sequels.
Favorite genre is definitely Fantasy, love the world building in these movies.
Hope you’ve seen the Animatrix, those shorts are worth it. Especially the first 6 of the 9.
I like a variety of genres, I guess two of my easy favourites are Jurassic Park and The Lion King. I’m interested in good stories, with a preference for action and/or animation/ and/or special FX.
My least preferred genres are rom coms as they tend to be cheesy and lack both action and vfx. Also not a fan of gore horror.
If the plot and characters are lame I’ll still watch it for the visuals or for the action. But nothing beats a good story.
Ghostbusters.
My favourite film has gotta be 1986 “Aliens”
Some tension, some horror, some action.
And Ripley was both pretty and a good asskicker of xenos.
Big fan of long-form science fiction. Bladerunner 2049 is fantastic, as is Stalker by Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky in particular has brilliant works.
Sci Fi top 6 ‐ focusing a bit on the soft sci-fi
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir: Stanley Kubrick
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Arrival (2016) dir: Denis Villeneuve
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Her (2013) dir: Spike Jonze
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BladeRunner (1982) dir: Ridley Scott
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Children of Men (2006) dir: Alfonso Cuarón
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GATTACA (1997) dir: Andrew Niccol
If you haven’t seen it, Ex Machina (2014) fits the vibe of your list. It’s one of my favorites.
I’ve seen it. I enjoyed it very much.
I picked Her for my A.I. entry because it was so much simpler, more understated, and close to our everyday experiences.
I also skipped Primer (2004) because I steered clear of time travel.
I can recognize 2001 as being incredible and inspiring for its time, but it doesn’t hold up very well. By modern standards, it is painfully boring and tedious.
Disagree, I think 2001 is perfect. Yes it’s slow, but that’s intentional, it’s part of the feeling of the film.
Modern standards don’t really apply, because I don’t think anyone nowadays is trying to do what Kubrick was, nor (obviously) was he trying to live up to any standards of future movie making.
Each to their own of course, but wanted to put a friendly counterpoint :-)
2001 is timeless.
Political intrigue, technological advancement, piercing the unknown, all drawn on the backdrop of an innocuous, normal exploration mission.
Until things go awry.
As directly inspired by 2001, I’d count a bunch of modern classics: Children of Men (2006), Sunshine (2007), Passengers (2016), the Expanse (TV series), and more.
What Kubrick did write the story with Arthur C. Clarke, slow the pace to reflect the long-haul nature of the mission — let alone the slow pace of human development — and focus on the sheer scale of progress needed to achieve such exploration. He also ensured that the conflict was truly tangible and high-stakes. Simple and human in its genesis, but devastating in its execution. Then, confronting ET intelligence as truly “other.”
Perfect.
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Actually, I’m wondering now what you thought of the 2002 Solaris remake. I’ve not seen the Tarkovsky version, and I’m assuming you have. Of his other films, I’ve heard of Stalker. Recommend any others specifically?
Haven’t seen either of Solaris, but the big deal here is that the US version loses a lot of Tarkovsky’s specific, drawn out and contemplative styling in favor of a more active and dynamic version for the US.
Andrei Rublev and Mirror are standouts, to my knowledge, and are generally seen as better than Solaris but not quite as great as Stalker.
Favourite film: The Magic Sword (1962). It’s on YouTube and it’s very good.
Fave Movie: The Darjeeling Limited
I just like it, that’s all.
My mom used to say I had the taste of a teenage boy because I like sci fi and fantasy and comics so much.
LOTR trilogy is my favorite.
Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly is one we can watch over and over, as are Hot Fuzz and Into the Spiderverse. Those 3 are so good too but my favorite still is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
This got me paranoid for a whole week, but I still like the plot.
