Topic: Your All Time Favourite Movies?

Everyone's movies are awful, except mine. 😉

Behold!!
The Fifth Element
Young Frankenstein (it's hard to sit through the whole thing, but I still love it)
Star Wars
Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor (It's kinda like a movie?)
Harry Potter
Doctor Strange
Aquaman
Miracle on 34th Street(1947)
2010 Space Odyssey
Dune

I go back and forth on what my number 1 movie is, but as for right now, it's The Empire Strikes Back. It's just a masterpiece and easily the best thing Star Wars related, at least in my book.

@MarioLover92 I haven't seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit in years. I love Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks The Internet, hope you get to see the sequel. I have the first on DVD, and the sequel on DVD/Blu-Ray.

@StarPoint Of all the Star Wars movies I've seen, The Empire Strikes Back still remains my favorite one.

Yokai Watch movie with mixture of animated cartoon and real peoples.

@Sunsy Yeah, it's a good movie for sure. It's super impressive how they can have cartoon characters interact with live actors. I've heard of it for years, though I wouldn't see the entire movie for myself until quite a bit later. Good to know you liked the sequel - then again, I love both Frozen I and II as well.

While I don't remember walking out of that film (I don't think I've ever walked out of a film) I really don't think I watched all of that movie. I had no prior knowledge of the IP, but the first third of the film didn't do anything for me and I seem to have blanked the rest of it from my memory.

Is this a sequel I've not heard about?

@Ralizah Rear Window is just a perfect classic. Always love it when stories can remain exciting despite almost entirely playing out in a room. 12 Angry men is another one like that
@Rambler Seeing Bunuell movies here are really cool, i only ever saw the exterminating angel, but that one alone really impressed me!

Since i saw anime movies, i would also add everything Satoshi Kon to the mix ranked by my personal preference:
Perfect Blue
Tokyo Godfathers
Millenium Actress
Paprika

If anyone hasn't seen that Arrival movie from 2016, starring Amy Adams.. It's about a linguistics professor trying to figure out an alien language, it's pretty darn cool. Which is why I'm avoiding saying anything more, because spoilers.

@gcunit I meant 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the direct sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey.

@WoomyNNYes Wow, I have no idea whether you're joking or not. On the one hand, that could be a perfectly good film and even worthy of a place on someone's GOAT list, but on the other hand I've legit never heard or seen anything of it in my life and that just seems implausible if it's a good movie and a follow-up to 2001.

PS. Arrival has been on my 'watch imminently' list for a few weeks so I'd better get to it, but games keep getting in the way...

@gcunit Nah, not joking. I don't want to oversell it, but I thought the sequel 2010 had a cool twist that always stuck with me. I don't think it sits high on the re-watchablity scale. It's not the artistic masterpiece that 2001, but it's definiltey the sequel.

@WoomyNNYes Yeah I liked Arrival too, to me it's like someone watched Contact and got annoyed with it so they made a smarter, better version of it.

@gcunit Not remembering it is more surprising than hating it or not getting "it" as it's kinda obnoxious. I remember when I first saw it, I was at a music festival and trying to get home but all the trains were delayed so rather than waiting at the stations for hours my group just went to cinema to kill time which happened to be showing it. Now after partying for 4 days in a field I was bloody knackered but Scott Pilgrim's over the top energy completely rejuvenated me. Although Michael Cera being (intentionally) bland isn't the most memorable protagonist.

Just visually you've got Edgar Wright's typical quick editing, a colour palette to remind you of anime/comics/16 bit games and the action never repeats itself with each fight being different but still be excellent in it's own right. But really, it's taken the visual language of comics/manga and translated it into film as well as well as nicking the narrative from a video game with different levels and bosses into it as well.

It also wears it's inspiration on it's sleeve organically (unlike Ready Player One which just shouts references at you) with endless video game easter eggs on top of more easter eggs like hearing the Mortal Kombat "finish him" at the end of a fight or hearing a Zelda sound affect when you discover something or places being named from games such as Earthbound's Chaos Theatre or a mysterious character being called G-Man like in Half Life etc.

I loved the soundtrack too. They got a bunch of indie darlings like Beck, Broken Social Scene, Metric et to do the movie's music. Whilst Black Sheep with a young Brie Larson was a big breakout from the film I found the below 5 second song just stupidly funny.

It's just the mix of having an upbeat sense of humour whilst also having a jaded cynicism tone combined with comics/manga, video games and indie/alt rock music trapping made me love it.

@jump Yeah, now you mention it, 'obnoxious' does ring a bell, and I don't think I warmed to Cera as the lead in that one. I'll try and give it another chance someday, but my movie watchlist is nearly as long as my gaming backlog.

@gcunit to be honest I’ve never really liked Cera in anything even in Arrest Development.

The movie was basically young Hollywood at the time but if you switch in say Chris Evans, Brandon Routh or Jason Schwartzman instead you them have a lead who is too cool, likeable or funny when Scott is meant to be a snivelling and pathetic loser who grows up during the movie which Cera does come off as.

@FroZtedFlakerZz Speaking of Doctor Strange, were you aware there's a new one coming in May? I just saw a trailer in the past 1-2 days.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/doctor_strange_in_the_multiv...

@WoomyNNYes Yep, I'm super excited, he's my second favorite character in the MCU right now (Spider-Man being the first) and Scarlet Witch is super cool too. Ready for some Multiverse Madness, it's supposed to be a little bit of horror too...

Really liking those Vinterberg movies so far, although i only watched Festen, Jagten and Druk. Matts Mikkelsen is really often used in those "Family-Father" roles and plays it great. It is the same in Death Stranding actually

@FroZtedFlakerZz They have got Sam Raim to direct to it, his first film in almost 10 years too. Best known as the director of the OG Spider Man & Evil Dead films but he was also behind the Xena & Hercules shows, wrote Hudsucker Proxy which is rare for the Coen Brothers to let others write for them and has some made some underappreciated genre gems in The Quick And The Dead, Darkman and Drag Me To Hell.

To be honest it's bit of a waste since he's not done anything in so long to just make another Marvel film rather than something from his own mind (although after directing the original Spider Man films he likes the idea of Marvel managing things so he doesn't have to) but add in a Bruce Campbell cameo as variant Iron Man and I'll be happy.

I watched Arrival last night. The opening act reminded me a lot of the Michael Crichton book, 'Sphere' (1987), that I read (and didn't particularly like, ultimately) a year or two ago, so much so that I was kinda distracted thinking about the similarities between the two and was curious/suspicious about the provenance of the Arrival story. The novella that Arrival was based on was published in the same year (1998 I think) a movie based on Sphere released, coincidentally or otherwise...

Anyway, I thought Arrival was ok, but (here comes that word) I think it's a bit overrated. Kinda feels like they decided to cut a fair amount of content to make it a more digestible length for a mainstream audience, 'cos a couple of key aspects felt a bit undercooked and the film didn't really deliver on those themes for me. Still, it had an interesting angle to it, and is certainly worth watching, but I don't expect to feel inclined to ever rewatch it as it just wasn't impactful enough.

@jump I know I absolutely love Sam Raimi, I was also kind of disappointed this was his comeback and Marvel is kinda micromanaging it but ah well, if he's happy. It's rumored that Tom Cruise is actually going to be the variant Iron Man, Bruce Campbell would be awesome though now that you mention it...

Edit: Hated the Xena and Hercules shows though