I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie so far this year, and I’m looking for suggestions. What’s a movie that you really love?

  • attycus@lemmy.zip
    2·
    1 hour ago

    House of Flying Daggers is one of the most phenomenally made story’s of love, surprise, action, heartache, and betrayal ever made.

  • eightpix@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Give us a few to go on, OP.

    i.e. Sci-Fi

    • Arrival

    • 2001

    • Dune (2021)

    i.e. Crime

    • Heat

    • Sicario

    • Brick

    i.e. Non-Blockbuster Comic Book

    • Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    • Comic Book Villains

    • Dredd (2012)

    i.e. Beautiful/Painful international

    • Dancer in the Dark

    • Incendies

    • La Vita e Bella

  • Sheridan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Safety Last (1923) starring Harold Lloyd. I think it’s one of the funniest movies ever. Seen it dozens of times.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I don’t deal in absolutes, but one move I watched recently that I really enjoyed was Predator: Badlands (2025).

    Like a Verhoeven move from the 80s, Predator sneaks in genuine and interesting themes into an ostensibly crappy sci-fi movie. The Thia character is good feminism that reminds me of Lewis in Robocop (1987). That is to say she’s powerful without being coded masculine. And her relationship with Dax is as a partner and eventually a mirror. Dax’s character arc can be summed up as overcoming toxic masculinity. Just delightful, I watched it twice in two days.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    That is an impossible question because it depends on so many factors of what’s going on on the particular day that I’m asked.

    So instead I’ll give you the three that most often rotate into top spot:

    1. Children of Men

    2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    3. LA Confidential

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Fight Club (1999). If you don’t know the twist, don’t read anything about it, just watch it. I really like David Fincher’s films but this is definitely my favorite.

    Honorable mentions: Poor Things (2023) Parasite (2019) Midsommer (2019) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Oldboy (2003)

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
    5·
    6 hours ago

    In the 40s & 50s, Alfred Hitchcock made a series of incredible thrillers that hold up to this day. Some were B&W, some were color, but ALL of them were at least 4 star movies, and many are 5 stars, and some are absolute CLASSICS.

    My favorites:

    • Lifeboat (1944)
    • Notorious (1946)
    • Rope (1948)
    • Strangers on a Train (1951)
    • Dial M For Murder (1954)
    • Rear Window (1954)
    • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
    • The Wrong Man (1956)
    • Vertigo (1958)
    • North By Northwest (1959)
    • Psycho (1960)

    He made a lot more than these, and like I said, they’re all terrific, but these are my personal favorites. Rear Window is my favorite film of all time, a PERFECT movie. Also, in Rear Window, Grace Kelly was the most beautiful woman who has ever appeared on screen. Watch it, and tell me I’m wrong.

    Hitchcock is addicting.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    6 hours ago

    The Thing, one of the most suspenseful and terrifying movies ever

    Duck Soup, comedy mostly a satire on politics, society, government, and military

    Die Hard, classic 80s action, lots of guns and explosions and jumping off things. Terminator 2 for the 90s version.

  • Gremour@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Not the favorite, but quite good I’ve watched recently:

    • Time Trap (2014);
    • The Man From Earth (2007);
    • Judge Dredd (2012) – surprisingly good and has little in common with the original.

    Also some movies that left a trace:

    • Education of Frederick Fitzell;
    • Reincarnation (2018, horror);
    • Weapons (2025, horror);
    • Two, Three, Demon, Come (horror). (Yes, I love good horrors).