What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?

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.

5th Element

Hot Fuzz. It's just hilarious and fairly well done and people I know generally appreciate the style.

For those that don't, maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year-Old_Man_Who_Climbed_Out_of_the_Window_and_Disappeared_(film)

The Big Lebowski

Is gonna be the best movie you've ever seen once you see it twice

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.

First rule is, I can't talk about it. Second rule is, I can't talk about it.

I have lost count of how many times I watched that movie. So many great details.

And I think most people take away the wrong message. It is critic and not encouragement.

Snatch. Such an absolutely quotable movie with interesting characters, and the great mix of storylines that Guy Ritchie films are know for. The dialogue is just phenomenal!

Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

It's such a gem of a movie, hits all the right notes

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.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... by like a lot.

I watched the Dollars Trilogy in order and I love all those movies. A Fistful of Dollars feels very low budget at certain points, including one of the worst day for night edits I've ever seen, but overall it's a damn good 9/10 Yojimbo ripoff.

For a Few Dollars More is straigt up one of the best movies I have ever seen, an easy 10/10. It's a full blown high budget movie that just shocked me when I saw it for the first time, I was amazed how good it was, and it confused me too since EVERYONE said that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best of the bunch, like how could something be better than this???

Well, how is it...? When I first saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I almost went catatonic. If For a Few Dollars More is 10/10 then this movie is 11/10, or 12/10 or even 13/10. EVERYTHING about this movie is amazing, if the previous one was made with an A24 budget then this one was made with the same production level as fucking Oppenheimer. Everything is bigger, the scale of the movie is breathtaking, the Morricone music is the best of all time, the characters are amazing, the action is amazing, the climax of the movie is the best ever put on screen, I just fucking love this movie so SO fucking much.

So yeah... watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you haven't.

(Shout out to Duck, You Sucker. A movie that also blew my socks off, made by the same director.)

The Blues Brothers. For years people had been telling me how good it was but I hadn’t got around to watching it. Now I get it.

I'm always telling people to REALLY watch Napoleon Dynamite. I think it got quoted and proto-memed to death when it came out, leading to most people having an unfair idea in their head of what the movie is.

The soundtrack is phenomenal. The acting is (mostly) way better than you may have thought it was. Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) was nominated for an Independent Spirit award and he absolutely deserved that nomination. The cinematography is excellent, especially knowing how much it cost to make + how much experience the crew had. Though it's not explicitly said, I think it's ultimately a story about neurodivergent people finding friendship, solidarity, and happiness in a world not made for them.

Also, the scene where Uncle Rico throws a steak at Napoleon is still funny.

Has to be The Matrix. Was 13 or 14 at the time of release, marketing around it was very mysterious. Obviously my childmind was blown during opening scene!

I love most of Wes Anderson's body of work, but my absolute favourite of his is The Life Aquatic

The Grand Budapest Hotel - visually beautiful, the story never slows, altime favorite

For action movie fans, I'll always recommend The Raid: Redemption. It's a good gateway to martial arts movies, which can lead to a whole slew of other more esoteric recommendations

My favorite movie of all time is Lord of the Rings, but most people have already seen that.

I find that I recommend Warrior a whole lot. It is an awesome movie and most people haven't seen it.

Cube (1997) It's a great little film and a bit of a mindfuck.

Here is my top 3 list:

• Lord of the Rings
• Back to the Future
• Terminator 2

A Scanner Darkly

Ratatouille.

I don't think there's a movie that loves food more, or pays more respect to food. It's an actual masterpiece, from every strand of hair rendered on Remy's body, to each note played in the score. I will never get tired of watching this movie.

Grave of the Fireflies.

If I can't be happy, no one will.

The Matrix (1999). The one existential movie for all. Then, it's probably "Serenity" (2005). Then, probably Galaxy Quest (1999).

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

City of God

Baby Driver was the first movie I saw 3 times at the theater. Gets me hooked beginning to end.

Apocalypse Now. Damn, what a movie.

Dark City

Storks

Inside out

Idiocracy

Popstar: Never stop never stopping.

Screamers (camp sci-fi horror)

Along with the rest mentioned here.

Recommendation depends on the audience

As they pop in my head:

Everything everywhere all at once.

Her

Groundhog Day

I saw the devil

Patch Adams

Memento

Prisoners

Fight club

Good will hunting

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.

Adding another. Children of Men. Brilliantly made, disturbing premise, very plausible sci-fi. Quite violent, though.

Coherence, it's like 85 minutes long and came out a decade or so ago. No script, the actors ad-libed their lines with only minor directions.

It's a lot like Primer meets the Man from Earth

Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch.

I am by no means a Johnny Depp fan but he provides a top tier performance alongside Gary Farmer.

An acid western buddy movie about death, dying, and belief. Beautiful film with a beautiful score.

Django Unchained is my favourite! 🙌

Into the Spiderverse is a perfect movie.

Hot Fuzz is so funny every time.

The LOTR trilogy is my favorite but the two above are my recommendations.

Interstellar.

The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don't laugh every time.

My favorite movie is probably Brazil (1985). It's a dystopian movie, but the population is suppressed by absurd amounts a bureaucracy (also the state surveiling and killing it's people). You need to fill out a form to fill out a form, and every screen is tiny, but magnified by a lens to be small instead.

But what I really love about it is the the "terrorist" Archibald Tuttle (who, very much, is not the protagonist); a repair man, who risks execution by the state, zip lining around the city fixing things like the protagonist's air condition.

I think we should all strive to be more like Tuttle in our daily lives.

Running with Scissors. It’s a weird movie, and most people probably wouldn’t enjoy it, but I want more people to use the word “masturbatorium”.

Probably Cloud Atlas

It was a commercial failure so it's usually one that people haven't already seen.

Talented cast and directors passionate about the project.

It's extremely divisive, most people either love it or think it was a waste of time.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Synechdoche, New York

Mostly because I like to recommend things that are likely new to whoever I’m recommending to, and my experience has been that this isn’t a very widely appreciated or even known flick. And I also happen to love it personally, so it just became my go-to recommendation.

I do preface the recommendation with a “After watching it yearly for over a decade, I still don’t really really get it”. Its great.

I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just "modernized" Tetris music).

Warrior - chock-full of powerful emotions at just the right points, and a really, really good "underdog rises to the top" storyline.

Tampopo, by Itami Juso. Fair warning: get ahold of a reservation to the nearest Japanese restaurant, you're going to need it afterwards.

Also, it's a western. About food. And an initiatic quest, the everlasting quest for perfection (in noodle-soup making).

I don't "love" to recommend anything to anyone, but I's say, 2001 is by far my most favorite movie. It's in perfect balance between science, fiction, and philosophy and was waaay ahead of it's time. And even nowadays it looks spectacularly good and has a timeless storyline.

Muppet Treasure Island.

Ghostbusters. Perfect in every respect, and endlessly quotable.

Sneakers had got to be one of my all-time favorite movies. Definitely still relevant.

I don't know about favorite of all time, but I recently watched "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and it was incredible. An instant classic in my mind and I'd somehow never heard of it. It's about Ireland in the 1920s and stars Cillian Murphy and Liam Cunningham (most people will know him as Davos from Game of Thrones). Beautifully shot and acted.

Scent of a woman.

It is Pacino at his best (arguably at least, he has done some great work)

Dersu Uzala.

Fun and Fancy Free

It's basically two Disney stories stitched into one feature film, released all the way back in 1947, featuring Jiminy Cricket as a major character. I think it's also the last Disney production where Mickey Mouse is voiced by Walt Disney himself (the info is according to the special features of my DVD copy).

Baraka

This french classic for me: The Toy

Mon Oncle. Making fun of modern impracticalities always makes me laugh.

Ok I literally saw this tonight, but I think it's going to be one of my all time favorites:

Hundreds of Beavers

Not a recommendation per se, but if you like to ugly cry watch "Dear Evan Hanson"

Ace ventura 2.
Hardly needs recommending but i would be lying if i said it wasnt my favorite.

A Knights Tale would be a close second.

Amelie. It is by far my favorite movie that isn't animated.

How to train your dragon (1, 2, and 3). These are my favorite American animated films.

My Neighbor Totoro. Favorite Japanese animated film.

Secondhand lions, the pursuit of happiness, and the good neighbor (2016)

The whole to the future franchise

Magnolia.

Not my favorite, but my favorite to recommend to people: Special Bulletin. And Without Warning is a close second.

I'm really surprised nobody already took out some distopian movie like matrix ,1982 ... So here I am ,my old time favorite movie is V for Vengeance

Jupiter Ascending

Synecdoche.

Also, three movies

Face/Off

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Paddington 2

The Fountain. I was just in the right place in the right time in my life when I first saw it, left an unforgottable memory.

Tron , maybe Total Recall

Interstellar or Pacific Rim

Interstellar for the story
Pacific Rim for the action and pacing.

Not exactly my favorite movie, but one I regularly recommend: Mind Game (2004)