For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing. The themes of paranoia and isolation are so perfectly explored; it launched the career of Keith David, who is just a treasure; the performances are all immaculate; and those effects. My god, the effects.
Absolutely amazing movie, the effects were so ahead of their time!
Right? I can’t watch it with people anymore, because I keep pausing to explain how certain effects were achieved. It’s a monumental achievement.
Brilliant film, I love John Carpenter. My favourite is They Live.
That’s a great one as well. That alleyway fight scene is so fucking cool. Carpenter is easily one of the most creative, most fun artists of his generation.
Do you have any bubblegum?
Bladerunner.
Me and a friend watched it in a cinema on release aged 13. I’m very tall and my friend looked about 40. (Now he’s over 50 and looks under 40.) You could get away with it in those days.
On VCR release, our friend got his dad to buy a copy and we watched it on repeat at every opportunity. I’ve watched the Final Cut release many times, which I think is even better, and it’s one of the very few films I will happily watch at any time.
The documentary about the making of it is great to watch as well. Watch the film first though. I started reading Dick’s books aged about 11 or 12 and was already hooked before the film. I think that prepared me a bit, along with other sci-fi I was reading by then.
It’s still my favourite film.
The Big Lebowski
Is gonna be the best movie you’ve ever seen once you see it twice
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Really? I tried watching it but I couldn’t get through it.
Repo: The Genetic Opera.
It’s definitely not for everyone, but it hits all the right buttons in my moody theatre kid heart, and “I Didn’t Know I’d Love You So Much” will always get the tears going for me.
And even if someone bounces off it, I’ve gotten a terrifying number of them hooked on Zydrate Anatomy. Might be the only song they remember from the whole thing, but it stays stuck.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial
I don’t have a single favorite, but generally it’s going to go something like:
Triangle.
The Void.
The Endless.
Moon.
Upgrade.
Delicatessen
Moon! Definitely one I recommend.
Have you seen Vivarium or Color Out of Space?
Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
It’s such a gem of a movie, hits all the right notes
Interstellar.
If you like Christopher Nolan and playing with time, you must watch Memento.
This awesome movie is played backwards, so like the main character who lost short-term memory we don’t know what just happened.
The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don’t laugh every time.
Aliens.
Great story. Excellent pacing. Fantastic characters. Awesome music. I’m running out of adjectives, so I’ll add that I really liked: dialog, acting, special effects, lore, and setting.
A friend of mine mentioned ‘Contact’ was the perfect film. I thought about it for some time and found that I agree. The plot, casting, filmography, and score are all top notch.
Beyond favorite there are quite a few films I consider ‘done’ we don’t need sequels or remakes. Most recently the original ‘Willy Wonka’ came to mind.
Baraka
American Astronaut
The black and white one with the billy nayer show?
A Scanner Darkly
The Grand Budapest Hotel - visually beautiful, the story never slows, altime favorite
