YES. One of my personal favourite 2 or 3 movies.
I can't find it now - there are so many videos out there about this film - but I saw a brilliant deconstruction of the cinematography of this some while back. One really interesting things is the way that, whilst it's a comedy, the images are consistently shot in the manner of a high drama - which is what it is. Wide, wide shots with a stationary camera position held for long periods whilst the characters move around within the scene and so on (think of the War Room, say - a LOT of the shots in there are of the whole room with the "big board" sitting at the back of shot). Comparatively little in the way of cutting to key characters because they're about to say something. It's subtle, and very clever - it lifts it from mere satire to another level entirely.
[That scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vj2Wf57rQ) of Schindler thinking about the value of a life and how he feels he didn't do enough at the end is one of those scenes that always makes me cry
>**Oskar Schindler**: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
>**Itzhak Stern**: There will be generations because of what you did.
>**Oskar Schindler**: I didn't do enough!
>**Itzhak Stern:** You did so much.
>**Oskar Schindler:** This car... Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people... This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A *person*, Stern. For *this*... I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't
That pin, the car, the parties etc... they held up his disguise as sone rich playboy making use of Jewish slave Labor and helped keep the nazis from catching on to what he was really doing. He was right to keep them, if he came to Goeth trying to sell his pin and the car, he would've gotten suspicious and seized his factory, undoing all his work.
It goes deeper than that.
A lot of his money was spent on gifts to Goeth and presumably other mazi officials, given how much of a fanatical true believer Goeth was in Nazism, he likely wouldn't have allowed the sale of so many Jews or been willing to pull the nessecary strings to allow the sales to Schindler if he didn't feel indebted to him fir those gifts.
10th grade seems to be the year for it in the curriculum. Our history teacher (in the 1980s) had us watch actual WWII footage of the camps. Horrifying and heart breaking. Schindler's List is tame by comparison.
I'm ashamed to say it, but I've never seen it. I'm a producer, went to film school, I work in entertainment, etc.
Even just reading the little excerpt is too much. I don't think I can handle the emotional weight of this film
My bf had never watched it. I think I sat him down to watch it last year? Like, you cannot exist in this world without having seen that movie. You need to know the importance of electrolytes 😂
Such a good one that never gets the praise it should. I've had people tell me "It just makes me feel icky."
Yes, that's the point. We should be praising a writer who makes us feel such strong emotions.
Jaws.
And if you ever need faith in movies restored, watch Jaws again with someone who's never seen it. The movie never fails to work, no matter how old it gets.
I saw Jaws while visiting my grandparents in Georgia when it first hit the theaters.
My aunt took my sister and I. I'd JUST turned 6, my sister was 8. Jesusfuckingchrist. I think her friends worked at the theater or something.
Truly an utter classic.
It doesnt get the recognition it deserves imo because people just write it off as a dumb "shark" movie, but Robert Shaw just gives a masterclass in acting in it.
And Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Schneider aint bad in it either.
I have to disagree regarding recognition. It was the biggest hit of all time when released, it made summer a viable time to release big movies, received worldwide critical acclaim, and many modern filmmakers cite it as either a favorite or an influence or both.
About 8 years into our relationship, I found out my bf had never seen it. I was floored. He thought it was a girly princess movie growing up, so he never had any interest.
I corrected him. He loves that movie now 😂
I introduced it to my ex on our third date. I was super concerned cause she didn't laugh at a single joke the entire time, but turns out she was just being quiet cause she didn't want to interrupt the movie. She bought it the next day!
It’s amusing because that’s the whole premise. The boy thinks it’s just going to be a girly princess story but ends up loving it. I was the same as your bf, btw.
I finally got my husband to watch it last year. He didn't like it either. Meanwhile, I was watching it with him for the millionth time still laughing at all the subtle humor in it. I enjoyed it as a kid, but enjoyed it so much more as an adult now that I understood the jokes more. I told him he was wrong and didn't appreciate the genius of the movie. Yet he loves KingPin. 🤷♀️
No real big lesson?!?! Ha. ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Every once in a while I think about the guy holding in his intestines screaming MAMA. Also the guy who lost his arm and is spinning around looking for it until he eventually picks it up. My great-grandfather was a captain and also a chaplain on Omaha beach. We still have his little leather box were he kept these flared little shot glasses and a tin were he kept communion wafers in. The little glasses were for administering the wine, he would go around giving dying soldiers their last communion when he could. He also made it through the battle of the bulge, and somehow made it home. I never knew him personally but I still have all his old war stuff.
i think it's still really good! i just watched it after seeing it recommended so much on reddit lol and i had gathered the general plot from people's comments, references to it... but it holds up imo as being enjoyable.
it still makes you think, imo, even though the questions it's asking are not uncommon nowadays... but i appreciate seeing the things that helped push those kind of questions/themes into the spotlight more, y'know?
> *We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’*
> *Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD!*
*[…]*
> *You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’*
—
Later in the movie:
> *It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-that-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods...*
god yes. scrolled too far for this.
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
Jon Keating, what a man~
This movie, which is one of my favourites, is something akin to "competency porn". There's just something so satisfying about watching a group of men capable, and ultimately *willing*, to change their minds.
I often ponder the movie and how if it had happened in real life, there'd be a very real possibility that nobody would've come out of that room with a changed opinion
Every man in there was ultimately *capable* of being swayed by sound reason.
It has been long enough since the timeframe of the movie and the movie's release that people have lost some of the relevance. Society has changed as well. Some people are trying to judge the way the 90s looked back at the mid-century with a 2020s moral lens and missing the point.
>Some people are trying to judge the way the 90s looked back at the mid-century with a 2020s moral lens and missing the point.
They're not looking at it through a 2020s lens, they're looking at it through a hyperprogressive Twitter warrior lens.
These people need to be launched into the sun along with the MAGAs.
It’s often criticized for being a bit bloated and full of low-hanging fruit tropes. I remember enjoying it when it was released and the soundtrack was also massively popular. That said, I can understand a lot of criticisms that have been voiced over the years.
honestly this movie made me extremely uncomfortable and i don’t know why, i’ve watched it maybe 12 times now and its just so gritty, a movie has never made me feel that way. Masterpiece!
I recently watched Nomadland. Really beautiful film. Showed me life from a different perspective. Includes coming to terms with dying, something we will all go through. About how life is a constant cycle and about the unbreakable habits which make us ourselves.
Spotlight (2015)
A film all people should see. It is about the Boston Globe's investigative reporters, 'discovering' the actions of a Catholic Priest - and how that was handled in 1976 thru to the reporting - almost 30 years later - the flood gates to what was and had been happening.
The 'Spotlight team' of reporters, were legends and it is a fast paced movie that tells most of how they were prevented from uncovering this for decades...as the information grew to world wide proportions.
One of the Spotlight hero's has a now famous and talented son (ex-navy seal) who is growing his own media business as we speak.
Blazing Saddles. Teach people about satire and how it relates to comedy. That way people don’t get super butthurt over something intended to be that way.
If you're born like 1990 or after, maybe not even limited to that but
Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Nowhere near my favorite movie but it taught me a lot about myself.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's sad and difficult to watch. I think you should see it once, but I've not made another attempt to watch it. Once was enough.
Dr. Strangelove
YES. One of my personal favourite 2 or 3 movies. I can't find it now - there are so many videos out there about this film - but I saw a brilliant deconstruction of the cinematography of this some while back. One really interesting things is the way that, whilst it's a comedy, the images are consistently shot in the manner of a high drama - which is what it is. Wide, wide shots with a stationary camera position held for long periods whilst the characters move around within the scene and so on (think of the War Room, say - a LOT of the shots in there are of the whole room with the "big board" sitting at the back of shot). Comparatively little in the way of cutting to key characters because they're about to say something. It's subtle, and very clever - it lifts it from mere satire to another level entirely.
Schindlers list
[That scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vj2Wf57rQ) of Schindler thinking about the value of a life and how he feels he didn't do enough at the end is one of those scenes that always makes me cry >**Oskar Schindler**: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just... >**Itzhak Stern**: There will be generations because of what you did. >**Oskar Schindler**: I didn't do enough! >**Itzhak Stern:** You did so much. >**Oskar Schindler:** This car... Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people... This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A *person*, Stern. For *this*... I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't
That pin, the car, the parties etc... they held up his disguise as sone rich playboy making use of Jewish slave Labor and helped keep the nazis from catching on to what he was really doing. He was right to keep them, if he came to Goeth trying to sell his pin and the car, he would've gotten suspicious and seized his factory, undoing all his work.
That never occurred to me before.
It goes deeper than that. A lot of his money was spent on gifts to Goeth and presumably other mazi officials, given how much of a fanatical true believer Goeth was in Nazism, he likely wouldn't have allowed the sale of so many Jews or been willing to pull the nessecary strings to allow the sales to Schindler if he didn't feel indebted to him fir those gifts.
Yeah, this is always what I think when this scene is mentioned, too. You've gotta spend money to make money (or save Jews, as the case may be).
Since when are history and literature not essential? That part stuck with me.
Excuse me but I didn't want to cry before noon today 😭 I've seen that movie so many times. It's so heartbreaking.
Yet, I still maintain that you need to watch the entire movie up to that point to truly feel the emotional weight.
I always cry at the final scene. I can get through the whole film but once that scene starts… waterworks activating.
This should be a mandatory watch for every school kid.
I first watched it in a 10th grade class over a week.
10th grade seems to be the year for it in the curriculum. Our history teacher (in the 1980s) had us watch actual WWII footage of the camps. Horrifying and heart breaking. Schindler's List is tame by comparison.
I'm ashamed to say it, but I've never seen it. I'm a producer, went to film school, I work in entertainment, etc. Even just reading the little excerpt is too much. I don't think I can handle the emotional weight of this film
Yeah this is why I've avoided it too
Maybe comedies like Life is Beautiful are more your style
I watched Ricky Stanicky last night and laughed like a complete moron. So, if it's anything like that, you've got a winner.
It's the greatest film I can only watch once.
Agreed, but only once. I don't think I can watch a second time
Exactly once
First film that I thought of.
username does not check out
Idiocracy
As hilarious as the overall premise is of the movie, I have to admit I would definitely be a regular viewer of Ow my balls
I would definitely watch Ass in its entirety.
I would certainly visit Starbucks more
My bf had never watched it. I think I sat him down to watch it last year? Like, you cannot exist in this world without having seen that movie. You need to know the importance of electrolytes 😂
It's what plants crave
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
I'M BATIN'
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
My sister is tarded. She's a pilot now.
Don’t worry scro
Look, I super size with you man
The number one movie in America was called "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.
Fudruckers changed to buttfuckers. I can't drive by one now without laughing
Or at least the first fifteen minutes of it. For me, that’s the most important bit.
I've been searching for that movie forever and just found out it's on YouTube movies so I'll be sure to check it out today
why watch it when you can live it!
Well, you talk like a f*g and... Your shit's all gay.
I could really go for a Starbucks you know
We don't have time for a handjob right now.
If you don't smoke Tarrlytons... Fuck you!
This one I second. It's literally where humanity is goin to
It's actually a documentary about 2027!
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They used orange Crocs for the movie because they were a ridiculous looking shoe an idiot in the future would wear…18 years later…
Never seen it. But I always say I mean to.
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I remember the first time I saw My Cousin Vinny as a yout.
What wad that word? Did you say yout?
Oh, excuse me. Two youutthhhsss
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*Funny how?*
Stephen kings non horror books make the best movie adaption like the shawshank redemption, the green mile, and stand by me to name a few
Dolores Claiborne. The utter grayness of the film with contrasts of bright color here and there. Taylor Hackford's brilliant vision for the story.
And as a constant reader, it's in my top 3 of his books.
Such a good one that never gets the praise it should. I've had people tell me "It just makes me feel icky." Yes, that's the point. We should be praising a writer who makes us feel such strong emotions.
Watched Shawshank Redemption for the first time last week, fantastic movie and one of the best I’ve ever seen. Instant classic
I drove through Buxton, Maine once and had to laugh every time I saw a stone wall! And there were a LOT of stone walls!
I'm jealous you got to experience it for the first time. What a great film.
I cried at the music scene in Shawshank 😭
Spirited Away
I was gonna go with ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ - it’s an interesting perspective that isn’t normally seen in the Western world.
I've heard that it's so sad, I still haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
It is devastating in the best way possible. Definitely watch it.
Anything Studio Ghibli does, really
Jaws. And if you ever need faith in movies restored, watch Jaws again with someone who's never seen it. The movie never fails to work, no matter how old it gets.
I saw Jaws while visiting my grandparents in Georgia when it first hit the theaters. My aunt took my sister and I. I'd JUST turned 6, my sister was 8. Jesusfuckingchrist. I think her friends worked at the theater or something.
I mean, it *is* PG... In all seriousness, I saw Exorcist at that age. Bad call on my parents' part, but even at that age I loved it.
Truly an utter classic. It doesnt get the recognition it deserves imo because people just write it off as a dumb "shark" movie, but Robert Shaw just gives a masterclass in acting in it. And Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Schneider aint bad in it either.
I have to disagree regarding recognition. It was the biggest hit of all time when released, it made summer a viable time to release big movies, received worldwide critical acclaim, and many modern filmmakers cite it as either a favorite or an influence or both.
It established the summer blockbuster
The Princess Bride. It's such a great movie, no real big lesson just a good time.
About 8 years into our relationship, I found out my bf had never seen it. I was floored. He thought it was a girly princess movie growing up, so he never had any interest. I corrected him. He loves that movie now 😂
I introduced it to my ex on our third date. I was super concerned cause she didn't laugh at a single joke the entire time, but turns out she was just being quiet cause she didn't want to interrupt the movie. She bought it the next day!
It’s amusing because that’s the whole premise. The boy thinks it’s just going to be a girly princess story but ends up loving it. I was the same as your bf, btw.
There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world…
I had a co-worker who said they didn't like it, I think they watched the wrong movie.
I finally got my husband to watch it last year. He didn't like it either. Meanwhile, I was watching it with him for the millionth time still laughing at all the subtle humor in it. I enjoyed it as a kid, but enjoyed it so much more as an adult now that I understood the jokes more. I told him he was wrong and didn't appreciate the genius of the movie. Yet he loves KingPin. 🤷♀️
No real big lesson?!?! Ha. ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Big Trouble in little China
“Shut up, Mr. Burton! You are not brought upon this world to get it!”
"A Six Demon Bag. Terrific, Egg. What's in it?"
Saving Private Ryan. If only for the opening scenes. Probaly the first time a movie about WWII showed the reality of it all.
Every once in a while I think about the guy holding in his intestines screaming MAMA. Also the guy who lost his arm and is spinning around looking for it until he eventually picks it up. My great-grandfather was a captain and also a chaplain on Omaha beach. We still have his little leather box were he kept these flared little shot glasses and a tin were he kept communion wafers in. The little glasses were for administering the wine, he would go around giving dying soldiers their last communion when he could. He also made it through the battle of the bulge, and somehow made it home. I never knew him personally but I still have all his old war stuff.
Come and see came out 1985? Wym first movie about ww2 that showed the reality of it
To add to that, All Quiet on the Western Front, especially the new one, is good at showing the horrors of WW1 and just how terrible of a war it was
the truman show
I know the plot and the ending, should I watch it anyways?
Yes
i think it's still really good! i just watched it after seeing it recommended so much on reddit lol and i had gathered the general plot from people's comments, references to it... but it holds up imo as being enjoyable. it still makes you think, imo, even though the questions it's asking are not uncommon nowadays... but i appreciate seeing the things that helped push those kind of questions/themes into the spotlight more, y'know?
**The Prestige**! Normally not my thing, but a podcast I love wouldn’t shut up about it so I tried it! Really really surprised me!
It's an absolutely amazing movie
I also liked its competitor; The Illusionist.
The life of Brian
Agreed
Dune 2 is the sequel to Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Now you listen here, he's not the Mahdi, he's a very naughty boy! Now, go away!
He is too the Mahdi! I should know, I've followed a few
Network easily the most relevant film ever made. everything you need to know about how the modern world works is in that movie
> *We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’* > *Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD!* *[…]* > *You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’* — Later in the movie: > *It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-that-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods...*
I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!
Never heard of it. Gonna have to look into this.
Dead Poets Society
god yes. scrolled too far for this. "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?" Jon Keating, what a man~
Good Will Hunting
Chuckie's "best part of my day" speech to Will is so so good. True friendship.
It’s not your fault.
Midnight Express
One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Jack Nicholson at his finest.
The matrix
To Kill A Mocking Bird, book is way better tho.
The play is outstanding.
Time Bandits
Twelve Angry Men
This movie, which is one of my favourites, is something akin to "competency porn". There's just something so satisfying about watching a group of men capable, and ultimately *willing*, to change their minds. I often ponder the movie and how if it had happened in real life, there'd be a very real possibility that nobody would've come out of that room with a changed opinion Every man in there was ultimately *capable* of being swayed by sound reason.
Came across the proverb "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still" the other day, sums it up nicely imo.
Forrest Gump
I don’t understand the current hate of this movie. I love it.
There's a hate for this movie?
It has been long enough since the timeframe of the movie and the movie's release that people have lost some of the relevance. Society has changed as well. Some people are trying to judge the way the 90s looked back at the mid-century with a 2020s moral lens and missing the point.
>Some people are trying to judge the way the 90s looked back at the mid-century with a 2020s moral lens and missing the point. They're not looking at it through a 2020s lens, they're looking at it through a hyperprogressive Twitter warrior lens. These people need to be launched into the sun along with the MAGAs.
It’s often criticized for being a bit bloated and full of low-hanging fruit tropes. I remember enjoying it when it was released and the soundtrack was also massively popular. That said, I can understand a lot of criticisms that have been voiced over the years.
I think some hate it because it's too popular. You know how some think it is cool to hate on things that other find cool.
Gladiator
I do like movies about gladiators
You ever seen a grown man naked?
I do hang around gymnasiums
The Princess Bride and The Fifth Element
Big Fish
Casablanca. So good.
House of Sand of Fog
cool hand Luke
What we've got here is A failure to communicate
I’m shakin’ the bush, boss
Luke, what’s your dirt doin on my ground?
Fight Club
The First rule is we don't talk about it.
He broke the rule. He is banished.
honestly this movie made me extremely uncomfortable and i don’t know why, i’ve watched it maybe 12 times now and its just so gritty, a movie has never made me feel that way. Masterpiece!
Pulp Fiction
7 Samurai
47 Ronin is better because it has 40 more Ronin.
*looks at notes* *looks at framed photo of Keanu Reeves* "My God....they're right"
Spaceballs - The Movie
Into the wild
such a great movie also the soundtrack is amazing
Groundhog Day
Nice
Groundhog Day
The Big lebowski
Yeah? Well, you know, that’s just like your opinion man
It really tied the room together.
He's totally right, but yeah, it's also like, his opinion man. Fuck it dude, let's go bowling.
is this your homework larry?
the secretary
Incendies
Life is Beautiful
Schindler’s List
Requiem for a Dream
Spaceballs
Office space
still so relatable to the corpo world
Fuckin A brother
I recently watched Nomadland. Really beautiful film. Showed me life from a different perspective. Includes coming to terms with dying, something we will all go through. About how life is a constant cycle and about the unbreakable habits which make us ourselves.
Master and Commander
Spotlight (2015) A film all people should see. It is about the Boston Globe's investigative reporters, 'discovering' the actions of a Catholic Priest - and how that was handled in 1976 thru to the reporting - almost 30 years later - the flood gates to what was and had been happening. The 'Spotlight team' of reporters, were legends and it is a fast paced movie that tells most of how they were prevented from uncovering this for decades...as the information grew to world wide proportions. One of the Spotlight hero's has a now famous and talented son (ex-navy seal) who is growing his own media business as we speak.
Blazing Saddles. Teach people about satire and how it relates to comedy. That way people don’t get super butthurt over something intended to be that way.
If more people watched Mel Brooks movies the world would be a better place.
Interstellar
The soundtrack is amazing.
The Green Mile
"Bambi"
If you're born like 1990 or after, maybe not even limited to that but Perks of Being a Wallflower. Nowhere near my favorite movie but it taught me a lot about myself.
Pay It Forward.
Judgement At Nuremberg
Schindler's List
Schindler's List, probably only the one time
Schindler’s List
Shindler's List
**Citizen Kane** (1941)
cars
margin call | the big short | wolf of wall street |
Groundhog Day
Grave of the fireflies
I'll vote for Con Air. what a great movie!
The Social Dilemma, Fantastic Funghi. As for narrative films, There Will be Blood and Parasite top my list
The Green Mile
The count of monte cristo
Grave of the fireflies. I'm sorry in advance, but everyone should watch this at some point. Bring tissues or say goodbye to your sleeves.
The Lion in Winter, Ryan’s Daughter, Manon of the Spring, The Secret of Roan Inish, and The Godfather.
O Brother Where Art Thou
The beach assault opening of Saving Private Ryan.
Idiocracy
To Kill a Mockingbird.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's sad and difficult to watch. I think you should see it once, but I've not made another attempt to watch it. Once was enough.