Glengarry Glen Ross, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Jupiter Ascending
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The Grand Budapest Hotel. I seem to be an outlier in that I don't love or hate Wes Anderson uniformly. There are a few films of his I really like, and many that I don't care for. But I think that Grand Budapest is his best work. It is quite fun, entertaining, and has a lot of rewatch value as a swashbuckling romp. But I also really appreciate all the details about how it is reflecting Stefan Zweig's work and his sense of loss after the breakup of the multi-cultural empires after WW1 into ethnostates and the seeming end of the cultural output and meltingpot of Austria-Hungary. It is trying to cover the tragedies of Eastern Europe in the interwar period, though it stays mostly in the background and not addressed directly. Even if it is a bit reactionary in its idolization of the aristocracy and their supposed past sophistication and urbanity.
Cloud Atlas, The Matrix, LOTR trilogy, sometimes some Bond films, and various others. Around the holidays Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story are required watching in my family.
I try not to watch the same movies too frequently because I'll burn myself out on them, but the ones I watch the most are the first 6 Star wars movies. I'm in my 30s so I grew up watching the OT on VHS and saw the prequels in theaters.
Pacific Rim is one, and 2046 is another. I’m fucking insufferable
Never seen 2046 but Pacific Rim is a banger
I unironically love the Star Wars Holiday Special. Every single scene is fascinatingly terrible, from Luke and Leia's coke eyes to Chewbacca's dad jerking it to be porn in the middle of the living room, and every time it hits me with a scene I had completely forgotten about and get to reanalyse. I don't watch it every Christmas, but most of them.
utterly bizarre
I watched a bunch of the other 'special' features like the one about Ewoks too
worth a look for a similar vein, though no, nothing will ever beat Chewies dad on the VR pornbox in the living room.
Lmao, sounds like something to watch stoned
The Lord of the Rings. I've watched the extended trilogy 92 times all the way through.
Have you ever tried to binge them all the way through?
Proba ly 20-25 of the times, yeah.
They Live! My favorite movie of all time. Last I saw it was on blorptube with their gang.
Never seen it, what do you like about it?
It's an over the top b scifi action movie that's a critique of 80's Reagan era capitalism. The hero of the movie is named John Nada and he's a homeless man that gets swept up in a conspiracy to enslave the human race by aliens. I won't spoil anything more than that, watch it, you'll probably be pleasantly surprised.
Chew bubble gum and kick ass.
That sounds awesome lmao, definitely gonna give it a watch
Let me know what you think, if you like action and scifi and anti-capitalism, it will be a fun ride.
goodfellas, casino, and zodiac i like to revisit once in a while
Highlander
Groundhog Day.
Terminator 2.
Winnie the Pooh movies never fail to make me happy