The Blues Brothers (1980).
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It's our future if we don't fix shit.
Bold of you to assume we'll be able to cooperate long enough to transport all of humanity off planet
Cloud Atlas
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tora Tora Tora!
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Gone with the Wind
I’m bona fide!
Since my movie taste is a bit of everything here is my colourful list:
- Pans Labyrinth
- Princess Mononoke
- 12 Monkeys
- Her
- Parasite
- Persepolis
- The man from earth
The concept of Her is feeling more and more possible.
That's why I rewatched it. This movie has a really good sense for the future. Actually AppStores are flooted with "your AI girlfriend" bs.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Not really the most profound or insightful, but it's just a good fun film.
As much as I enjoyed Banshees, it didn’t have the snappiness and immediacy of In Bruges.
Agreed, in Bruges hits everyone.
Children of Men is a madtapiece.
Everybody’s Everything. I knew nothing about Lil Peep and I absolutely loved the whole documentary.
American History X
So many great movies listed here, but only one kiwi movie; Once Were Warriors. Unless you count Lord of the Rings, which was indeed made here, but not really exactly a kiwi movie. Here's a few I reckon are worth checking out, a mix of comedy, fantasy, sci-fi and biopic, with at least one film from each other last 5 decades;
- Goodbye Pork Pie (the 1981 original, I haven't seen the 2017 remake Pork Pie directed by his son)
- Came A Hot Friday (1985, so underrated compared to the one above)
- The Quiet Earth (1985, based on the 1981 novel of the same name)
- The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988, epically weird, in a Fisher Kind kind of way)
- Heavenly Creatures (1994, Peter Jackson's first "serious" film, after his splatter comedies Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Braindead. Trivia: I'm in this for about 3 seconds ...)
- Whale Rider (2002)
- The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
- Eagle vs. Shark (2007)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- The Dead Lands (2014, notable for being entirely in Te Reo Māori, and featuring some mean Māori martials arts)
- The Dark Horse (2014)
- Muru (2022, loosely based on the events of the 2008 Operation 8 raids)
- Ka Whawhai Tonu (2024, also has a lot of Te Reo spoken)
- pulp fiction
- before I disappear (my personal favorite film of all time)
- Donnie Darko
- Momento
Ivan's Childhood; although all of Tarkovsky's oeuvre is worth it.
Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece
Some you need to see to get the references:
- Soylent green
- 1984 (or read the book of course)
- Inception
- Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino
Food for thought:
- Free Rainer
For something (more) crazy:
- The Holy Mountain
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.