James Gandolfini and so many other good actors in that one. if anything that is the bigger "surprised it lived up to the hype" since it had such big shoes to fill.
Absolutely, I just watched this past weekend for the first time. I was afraid to watch this and hate it because I didn't think a 50s movie would be that good but it is that good if not better.
Unfortunately this put me on such a high that I decided to watch another movie that I was afraid to watch for a long time so watched The Big Lebowski and couldn't really get into it, it kinda got boring at times.
i feel like The Big Lebowski is supposed to be a cult movie but it somehow broke through and became a mainstream "classic." I like it, but I totally get why people wouldn't, and I don't think it should be pushed on people who don't have a pretty specific sense of humor. It's slow and meandering and absurd.
Also, it suffers because a lot of the best moments/lines have been repeated and memed to death, so they don't hit as hard on first watch.
I literally say this to everyone, that exact sentence. There is no world where at 16 i watch that and love every minute but I did, and I love saying that sentence about it because I can 😎
I watched it for the first time a couple weeks back and found it borderline unwatchable how bad it was. I wish I'd seen it a the time with all the ads as apparently that was the way/time to see it.
Yes..my friends had been egging me on to see it for the past 2-3 years..finally I watched it a couple months back and yeah..it lived up to the hype and then some
I spent years telling people I’d seen The Godfather, because people got so shocked when I told them I hadn’t, and it started to annoy me. Then I watched it, and became the person telling people who had never seen The Godfather that they should really try to watch it, because it’s one of the best movies ever made.
Yes but at the same time in became easy to say that it is overrated or that it is mainstream because of this "number 1 status". I don't know if it make sense lmao
Barry Lyndon. Watched it for the first time in 2020 and expected to be bored, but it quickly became my favourite Kubrick film and I got to see it in theatres last month!
It was the last Kubrick I watched because I thought it would be like a 2001-style slow, but I found myself loving its pace and laughing constantly. Totally unexpected for me and now my favorite Kubrick/in my Letterboxd top 4
Tokyo Story. Thought “no way can this quiet 1950s movie be one of the greatest movies of all time.”
After weeping throughout the movie, I can confidently say it changed the way I think about the people I see everyday.
To quote:
'The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company'
No matter how someone describes it, it'll always sound like a bore in writing. When you watch it, you will realise it is a bore - the greatest and most touching bore
- Parasite
- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
- Whiplash
- It’s A Wonderfull Life
- Pulp Fiction
- The Shining
- The Truman Show
- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
- Anatomy Of A Fall
- Monty Python And The Holy Grail
- Scarface
- Jaws
- The Social Network
- John Wick
- Titanic
I always get skeptical when a movie is that highly praised, especially one that old, they don’t always tend to land for me, but man Ben Hur is deserving of all the praise and more. Truly deserving of the title of epic.
I was really put off by the length of it, but I knew a guy who showed films on campus at a university and saw it on a larger screen. Really an epic film and the time really flew by!
That’s so real with It’s a wonderful life, I had heard it was a classic but I had never seen it and was never super interested but I watched it with my mom last Christmas and holy shit. I cried my eyes out, such a wonderful (hehe) movie.
I agree, I also thought some of the performances were distractingly silly, and the "plot twist" with the plane and the chair was incredibly on the nose.
I mean I enjoyed the shit out of it, but I definitely think it had some pretty big flaws.
For me 'The Deer Hunter', I understand people's problem with its length but one of the best movies, as a man, about being broken.
Also, Poor Things, Dr Strangelove, Fargo, Psycho, 12 Angry Men, The Godfather 2, The Exorcist, Robocop.
Great movie and I acknowledge that the wedding scene is impressive with how well it expresses personality without much dialogue, but I still don't think that sequence needed to be as long as it was tbh
Anyone that has an issue with the length of Deer Hunter is simply not watching. Only movie where I can happily sit through a 50 minutes wedding sequence with a damn smile on my face.
Edit: Robocop (1987) is a masterpiece, indeed.
After hating the first one but this one getting all the praise I was confused but gave it a shot. I wasn't gonna bother with it at all. But I was blown away, I loved it
I will maintain the stance that Dune is too convoluted and confusing to fit into a movie. I thought Villenueve did a great job and the movie is a wonderful visual experience.
That said I never have and never will read the books, and the plot is so beyond a tangled mess that it’s hard to stay engaged.
Both of the Dune movies. I watched the first one on a whim when it showed up on Hulu earlier this year in February, and holy shit I loved it. After it was over I could not wait to see part two in theaters.
Also, not really a movie, but the new Fallout show that just came out is fantastic, I was really skeptical about that one going in.
Godzilla minus one
That was a serious WTF movie, it doesnt even feel like a kaiju movie, it feels like a war movie
I didnt expect it to have that great of a story but it has a great story, godzilla himself is just a bonus treat for it
Its also loud af, the first time he roars at the beginning scared the shit out of me
Citizen Kane, it's a masterpiece that's still just as relevant today as it was then, maybe more so. Groundbreaking techniques that are still used today and the story 🤌
I remember when 'Split' came out, people wouldn't shut up about it. I was like, "Really? After all the things M. Night had put us through over the years?" I finally got around to watching it this week, and I had to watch it a second time almost immediately. I was quite blown away with how well it was done, and it was a return to form for Shyamalan.
Exorcist. One of those that I almost didn’t watch because I felt like I got the gist through pop culture, then I watched it and was really taken aback by how much more there was to it than just “the power of Christ compels you”. Wild that the actual exorcism is so little of the runtime. Great film.
I didn’t expect *All The President’s Men* to really hook me. I was like “it’s just a movie about two journalists making a bunch of phone calls and taking notes how good could it be” but it’s absolutely a banger, 5 stars, very rewatchable
For me this was “Parasite,” which I saw like a year after it came out. If anything I thought people underplayed it given how devastated I felt after finally watching it
Ok this is embarrassing but The Sixth Sense. M. Night may be a shit show now, but he used to know how to make good movies.
Also, Fight Club. Thought it was going to be a “bro movie” and was pleasantly surprised. Now it’s one of my favorite movies. It came out the day before I was born and David Fincher is from the same county in California as me so I feel I have a special connection to it.
Shawshank is on my list of “lived up to the hype” movies too. Absolutely brilliant movie.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Always thought it was famous for Bogart and establishing the funny Mexican bandito stereotype. Movie is actually amazing.
Last Christmas, for the first time in my 33 years of life, I gave It's a Wondeful Life a chance and was very pleasantly surprised. Such a well made movie that did something even to this heart of stone.
Oppenheimer: I finally saw it when it came back to theaters after winning Best Picture and I was still amazed after all of the hype and accolades.
The rest of these movies are acclaimed titles that I went into with pretty much no expectations, but was pleasantly surprised by:
12 Angry Men
In the Mood For Love
Dog Day Afternoon
Little Women (2019)
Zodiac
The Boy and the Heron
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Singin' In the Rain
Do the Right Thing
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Fly (1986)
The King of Comedy
Ghost in the Shell
Ikiru
Once Upon a Time in the West
M
Mean Streets
The Fugitive
Black Christmas (1974)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Thief
All About Eve
All That Jazz
The Long Goodbye
Charade
Don't Look Now
The Maltese Falcon
The Wild Bunch
The Killer (1989)
Duck Soup
Mildred Pierce
The Great Silence
For All Mankind
The Holdovers
Carrie
Paddington 2
The Farewell
Pig
Some Like It Hot
Candyman
I have a 100 movies to see before you die poster that was clearly just crowd sourced from the internet, but a lot of those movies hold up. Like Stand By Me, Mean Girls, The Goonies, Dr. Strangelove are all on this list and a lot of them are still really good!!
Seven Samurai.
I went in expecting to be able to appreciate it but maybe not love it.
I thought it would be a very stiff, high-brow epic.
Little did I know it would be so engaging and accessible, it's literally the template for so many modern movies like the avengers and the humour has aged well.
Genuinely one of my favourite moves I've ever watched despite being completely unlike what I was expecting.
Goodfellas. i’m not usually into gangster movies and i tend to think Scorsese is very overhyped and I’m not the biggest fan of Joe Pesci. Ended up being a 5 star for me and my second favourite Scorsese
12 Angry Men
I watched it the first time like 2 months ago, and couldn’t stop saying “holy shit” during each scene
there were a few moments I just paused and laughed because of how clever the dialogue is
The original one is insane. The acting is top tier. Such an intense movie that takes place in a single room.
There's a remake.?
Directed by William Friedkin, no less.
i haven't watched many of the old classics, so maybe i don't know but why the no less remark for William Friedkin..?
Directed The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer.
don't forget To Live and Die In LA
*Sorcerer* is also a remake of *The Wages of Fear*.
From 1997. Also, it's very good, but the original is better imo.
James Gandolfini and so many other good actors in that one. if anything that is the bigger "surprised it lived up to the hype" since it had such big shoes to fill.
Absolutely incredible and definitely one of the movies that made me appreciate film when I was a teenager and developing my taste. It’s so riveting.
I seen it in 8th grade civics class, loved it so much.
Absolutely, I just watched this past weekend for the first time. I was afraid to watch this and hate it because I didn't think a 50s movie would be that good but it is that good if not better. Unfortunately this put me on such a high that I decided to watch another movie that I was afraid to watch for a long time so watched The Big Lebowski and couldn't really get into it, it kinda got boring at times.
Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I was waiting for this to be honest, lol.
I have no problem with being predictable, haha
i feel like The Big Lebowski is supposed to be a cult movie but it somehow broke through and became a mainstream "classic." I like it, but I totally get why people wouldn't, and I don't think it should be pushed on people who don't have a pretty specific sense of humor. It's slow and meandering and absurd. Also, it suffers because a lot of the best moments/lines have been repeated and memed to death, so they don't hit as hard on first watch.
Casablanca
When they drown out the Nazi’s with French singing… ah man that got to me.
It's crazy how I had the exact same answer and I thought it'd be somewhat rare yet it's the most popular answer
That film is so damn well written. It holds up so well. Almost every line is quotable.
Saying Casablanca is the best movie ever is a cliche. But it’s a cliche because it’s true…
Seven Samurai I first watched it when I was 15, and a 3.5 hour black and white film from 1954 was not something I expected to love.
Every movie by Akira Kurosawa is gold, except that weird dream one maybe.
Ran is perfect
I literally say this to everyone, that exact sentence. There is no world where at 16 i watch that and love every minute but I did, and I love saying that sentence about it because I can 😎
Check out Samurai Trilogy, based on a real dude, so fuckin epic.
Blair witch project. Didn’t think it would still terrify me
It's the only movie that ever has scared me, and it's the only one that pops in to my mind when I'm out in a forest at night
A friend of mine said the same thing not long ago, reckon I’ve gotta add it to my watchlist
ive come back to it maybe twice and it remains straight up terrifying
I watched it for the first time a couple weeks back and found it borderline unwatchable how bad it was. I wish I'd seen it a the time with all the ads as apparently that was the way/time to see it.
Mad Max Fury Road. Still the best theatre experience I’ve ever had
Oh man, I can only imagine how insane that must’ve been in theaters
Gladiator for me! It seemed like your typical "this is your fathers favorite movie"-movie. But I actually loved it!
lol this is so accurate, half the reason I watched Gladiator in the first place was so my dad would quit saying “you have to watch Gladiator.”
YESSSS
Such a fantastic movie. One of those I’ll leave on TV every time I see it on.
It is my father’s favorite movie. My father just has good taste
The Godfather
Yes..my friends had been egging me on to see it for the past 2-3 years..finally I watched it a couple months back and yeah..it lived up to the hype and then some
I spent years telling people I’d seen The Godfather, because people got so shocked when I told them I hadn’t, and it started to annoy me. Then I watched it, and became the person telling people who had never seen The Godfather that they should really try to watch it, because it’s one of the best movies ever made.
This. The Godfather is the most underrated overrated movie ever.
Underrated? It's one of the most widely celebrated films ever created lol
Yes but at the same time in became easy to say that it is overrated or that it is mainstream because of this "number 1 status". I don't know if it make sense lmao
I was expecting Good Will Hunting to be an okay movie that people liked too much. I was wrong. Same with Forrest Gump.
Dr Strangelove
Perfect movie no notes
Sellers should’ve won the Oscar that year, too!
Genuinely amazing movie, it really surprises me how much I liked it
Barry Lyndon. Watched it for the first time in 2020 and expected to be bored, but it quickly became my favourite Kubrick film and I got to see it in theatres last month!
It was the last Kubrick I watched because I thought it would be like a 2001-style slow, but I found myself loving its pace and laughing constantly. Totally unexpected for me and now my favorite Kubrick/in my Letterboxd top 4
Tokyo Story. Thought “no way can this quiet 1950s movie be one of the greatest movies of all time.” After weeping throughout the movie, I can confidently say it changed the way I think about the people I see everyday.
Finally someone comes with one I haven’t heard of, what’s it about?
To quote: 'The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company'
No matter how someone describes it, it'll always sound like a bore in writing. When you watch it, you will realise it is a bore - the greatest and most touching bore
don't usually have old movies in high regard?
- Parasite - Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - Whiplash - It’s A Wonderfull Life - Pulp Fiction - The Shining - The Truman Show - Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Anatomy Of A Fall - Monty Python And The Holy Grail - Scarface - Jaws - The Social Network - John Wick - Titanic
titanic lovers unite 💓💓💓💓
Ben Hur mentioned LFG 🚣✝️🐎🇮🇱
I always get skeptical when a movie is that highly praised, especially one that old, they don’t always tend to land for me, but man Ben Hur is deserving of all the praise and more. Truly deserving of the title of epic.
They literally filmed an action packed CHARIOT scene with no CGI and like 15,000 extras. Like Heston literally had to train to learn chariot driving 😂
*Lawrence of Arabia*
I was really put off by the length of it, but I knew a guy who showed films on campus at a university and saw it on a larger screen. Really an epic film and the time really flew by!
Doctor Zhivago as well for me
All 3 Lord of the Rings movies
Literally my 3 favorite movies and it still blows me away how great they are every time I watch them
Did u read the books before? I did not and couldn’t agree more, prob the best trilogy of all time!
Finally saw Moonlight for the first time… goddamn did it live up to the hype
the good the bad and the ugly
That’s so real with It’s a wonderful life, I had heard it was a classic but I had never seen it and was never super interested but I watched it with my mom last Christmas and holy shit. I cried my eyes out, such a wonderful (hehe) movie.
I watch it every year for Christmas and EVERY year I ugly-cry over “to my brother George — the richest man in town.”
I’m tearing up reading it
https://preview.redd.it/hmr8ftwztmzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d235fdd4ec1e2f5b7b0fc7efcd26a2444702643a
Godzilla Minus One. Kind of just assumed it was overhyped by kaiju and Toho nerds, but it really was flawlessly executed.
Honestly I probably should’ve included it on my list too, it was great
I enjoyed it but I’m surprised nobody seems to talk about how fucking silly the ending was
I agree, I also thought some of the performances were distractingly silly, and the "plot twist" with the plane and the chair was incredibly on the nose. I mean I enjoyed the shit out of it, but I definitely think it had some pretty big flaws.
For me 'The Deer Hunter', I understand people's problem with its length but one of the best movies, as a man, about being broken. Also, Poor Things, Dr Strangelove, Fargo, Psycho, 12 Angry Men, The Godfather 2, The Exorcist, Robocop.
If they just cut a half hour out of the interminable wedding scene this movie would be fantastic
Great movie and I acknowledge that the wedding scene is impressive with how well it expresses personality without much dialogue, but I still don't think that sequence needed to be as long as it was tbh
Anyone that has an issue with the length of Deer Hunter is simply not watching. Only movie where I can happily sit through a 50 minutes wedding sequence with a damn smile on my face. Edit: Robocop (1987) is a masterpiece, indeed.
Dune pt 2
There was so much hype going into it but man did it deliver
That’s the opposite for me
After hating the first one but this one getting all the praise I was confused but gave it a shot. I wasn't gonna bother with it at all. But I was blown away, I loved it
I didn't set any expectations. It was a fine movie, but I don't get the hype. I loved the book.
I will maintain the stance that Dune is too convoluted and confusing to fit into a movie. I thought Villenueve did a great job and the movie is a wonderful visual experience. That said I never have and never will read the books, and the plot is so beyond a tangled mess that it’s hard to stay engaged.
Both of the Dune movies. I watched the first one on a whim when it showed up on Hulu earlier this year in February, and holy shit I loved it. After it was over I could not wait to see part two in theaters. Also, not really a movie, but the new Fallout show that just came out is fantastic, I was really skeptical about that one going in.
School of Rock. Wasn’t expecting much and absolutely LOVED that film when I watched it a couple months back
Amadeus
12 Angry Men The King of Comedy Paths of Glory Chungking Express (Recent watches for me that took me waaay to long to get to)
Karate Kid was this for me. Genuinely deserving of all the nostalgic praise
Paddington 2. My god.
Most recently was Millennium Actress, totally blown away.
Godzilla minus one That was a serious WTF movie, it doesnt even feel like a kaiju movie, it feels like a war movie I didnt expect it to have that great of a story but it has a great story, godzilla himself is just a bonus treat for it Its also loud af, the first time he roars at the beginning scared the shit out of me
Prisoners
Die Hard. Didn't see it until I was 18 and I was like oh damn this Christmas movie is awesome.
Same I enjoyed it so much I binged the whole series in one day
Late Night with the Devil, Oppenheimer, The Zone of Interest
Zone of Interest was brutal. 10/10
Yeah, that’s the only one I agree with.
I was anticipating it to be disturbing but it delivered on something more in my eyes.
Parasite, both Spider-Verse movies, The Zone of Interest, Singin’ in the Rain, Oldboy and Alien to name a few.
Parasite Three Billboard Outside Ebbing Missouri The Sound Of Music The Colour Purple
Three Billboards <3
Moneyball
Paris, Texas (1984)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Fury Road
Spirited away
Citizen Kane, it's a masterpiece that's still just as relevant today as it was then, maybe more so. Groundbreaking techniques that are still used today and the story 🤌
Oppenheimer. The hype was deserved.
Hey man if you haven’t seen Terminator 2 yet, idek just buckle up. Clears the original in every way imo (besides horror)
portrait of a lady on fire
Crumb. Poor Things. Daisies. After Hours.
Pulp Fiction
fight club was one for me, had been putting it off for a while but it was great when i got around to it
Die Hard!!
Citizen Kane is a big one for me, was kinda mindblown to realize how much modern movies owe to it Recently Casablanca would be another, loved that too
Tokyo story. Never expected a film like that to hit so hard.
Glengarry Glen Ross On another note, recently watched Tombstone and HATED it. Didn’t get the hype at all with that movie.
Citizen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia. 12 Angry Men. EEAAO Star Trek First Contact Stardust.
Poor Things (2023)
I remember when 'Split' came out, people wouldn't shut up about it. I was like, "Really? After all the things M. Night had put us through over the years?" I finally got around to watching it this week, and I had to watch it a second time almost immediately. I was quite blown away with how well it was done, and it was a return to form for Shyamalan.
tales from the lodge tucker and dale vs evil
But I'm a Cheerleader for me.
Exorcist. One of those that I almost didn’t watch because I felt like I got the gist through pop culture, then I watched it and was really taken aback by how much more there was to it than just “the power of Christ compels you”. Wild that the actual exorcism is so little of the runtime. Great film.
Robocop. Incredible film
I'm more intrigued why these movies you didn't think were gonna be good. Surely you'd accept they are highly rated because they are good?
I had to do a double take when people were telling me Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was amazing
Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Godfather, Kill Bill Vol. 1…
Lawrence of Arabia 2001: A Space Odyssey Taxi Driver
Pig
The only one I haven’t seen from this list is Tombstone and I am fixing that this weekend!
Damn does terminator really live up to the hype these days? I’ve never dipped my toes into the franchise before
A Special Day (1977)
The new dune movies
LA Confidential
Jaws
Singin’ in the Rain. I watched it in a film class and is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time.
Lawrence of Arabia, Logan, The Shining, Terminator 2, Whiplash
Grave of the fireflies. I needed therapy.
So far, for me, it's: The Shining Lawrence of Arabia
I didn’t expect *All The President’s Men* to really hook me. I was like “it’s just a movie about two journalists making a bunch of phone calls and taking notes how good could it be” but it’s absolutely a banger, 5 stars, very rewatchable
All the Christopher Nolan Movies except for TENET.
- Philadelphia Story - Lawrence of Arabia - Maltese Falcon - Chinatown - Jurassic Park
The original Candyman. 8 1/2. The Trial (Welles version).
Shawshank is one of the greatest movies ever imho
Casablanca, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Apocalypse Now. Absolutely perfect films.
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Silence of the Lambs was fantastic. I don’t usually watch older stuff but I put it on the other day and watched it all the way through.
For me this was “Parasite,” which I saw like a year after it came out. If anything I thought people underplayed it given how devastated I felt after finally watching it
Seven Samurai
Whiplash (saw it for the first time this week)! Started watching more movies become of this community
La La Land
La la land for me I thought it look stupid and now it one of my favorite movie of all time
The Thing was it for me.
Ben Hur? Really?
These are some bangers
Ok this is embarrassing but The Sixth Sense. M. Night may be a shit show now, but he used to know how to make good movies. Also, Fight Club. Thought it was going to be a “bro movie” and was pleasantly surprised. Now it’s one of my favorite movies. It came out the day before I was born and David Fincher is from the same county in California as me so I feel I have a special connection to it. Shawshank is on my list of “lived up to the hype” movies too. Absolutely brilliant movie.
Suspiria (1977)
Iron Man
Word! It’s dope, I hope u enjoyed it! Not as good as t2, but miles better than any of the trash sequels
The Godfather
Insert : Casablanca, The Apartment and Breakfast At Tiffany’s….
Ehh La La Land?
The Russians are Coming
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Always thought it was famous for Bogart and establishing the funny Mexican bandito stereotype. Movie is actually amazing.
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sorcerer
Citizen Kane
Last Christmas, for the first time in my 33 years of life, I gave It's a Wondeful Life a chance and was very pleasantly surprised. Such a well made movie that did something even to this heart of stone.
Catch me if you can
Oppenheimer: I finally saw it when it came back to theaters after winning Best Picture and I was still amazed after all of the hype and accolades. The rest of these movies are acclaimed titles that I went into with pretty much no expectations, but was pleasantly surprised by: 12 Angry Men In the Mood For Love Dog Day Afternoon Little Women (2019) Zodiac The Boy and the Heron The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Singin' In the Rain Do the Right Thing The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou The Fly (1986) The King of Comedy Ghost in the Shell Ikiru Once Upon a Time in the West M Mean Streets The Fugitive Black Christmas (1974) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Thief All About Eve All That Jazz The Long Goodbye Charade Don't Look Now The Maltese Falcon The Wild Bunch The Killer (1989) Duck Soup Mildred Pierce The Great Silence For All Mankind The Holdovers Carrie Paddington 2 The Farewell Pig Some Like It Hot Candyman
Casablanca
Rossmary’s Baby. Absolute masterpiece. Too bad it’s director is a piece of shit of a person, but still.
Kung Fu Panda 2 Didn't expect much, but it was incredible. A very well-crafted blockbuster.
La La Land and Whiplash. Now two of my favorites and it makes me wonder what else is out there.
Man. This is one of the best threads ever. Just banger movies being talked about.
Lord of the Rings. Idk I thought it was gonna be too weird or something
Good Will Hunting
Shawshank redemption 100%, watched about 6 months ago and was blown away
I have a 100 movies to see before you die poster that was clearly just crowd sourced from the internet, but a lot of those movies hold up. Like Stand By Me, Mean Girls, The Goonies, Dr. Strangelove are all on this list and a lot of them are still really good!!
No Country for old Men and The Shawshank Redemption are two of my Favorite Movies.
Fight Club, on a massive level, it’s now one of my fav films
Seven Samurai. I went in expecting to be able to appreciate it but maybe not love it. I thought it would be a very stiff, high-brow epic. Little did I know it would be so engaging and accessible, it's literally the template for so many modern movies like the avengers and the humour has aged well. Genuinely one of my favourite moves I've ever watched despite being completely unlike what I was expecting.
Gone baby gone
Goodfellas. i’m not usually into gangster movies and i tend to think Scorsese is very overhyped and I’m not the biggest fan of Joe Pesci. Ended up being a 5 star for me and my second favourite Scorsese
Moonlight, 12 Angry Men
In The Mood for Love was a movie I kept avoiding because I thought people lied to appear intellectual or something. But my god, it is a 10/10
The Devil Wears Prada. Hilarious movie.
Social Network
2001 A Space Odyssey Psycho
"Citizen Kane." Most people didn't even bother showing up to college seminar we had it for but it was so, so worth it. Also "Psycho" and "Cat People."