For me, personally, It would be Snatch. It’s such a great movie that I could watch again and again. So many interesting characters and a unique style that sets it apart from so many other movies. There’s just that extra something in that movie
What about you, fellow Lemmites? What is your favourite movie?
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the rings fellowship, two towers, and return of the king extended editions.
This is my comfort movie series. When I’m tired of dealing with the real world for a while, I’ll watch it in 40 minute stretches for a couple weeks like a TV series
It takes me 11hrs to do my hair and this is my go to series to watch while doing it.
lotr trilogy very good.
The cinematic masterpiece form 1999 starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz “The Mummy”
He was handsome, she was hot, great story, action, comedy and a great villain. Classic action/adventure/comedy mix.
My favorite is The Fifth Element. Love it. Another great movie is The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
Ooh I just watched The Apartment on Criterion and I loved it. Jack Lemmon is special.
It would have to be Back to the Future. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve rewatched those movies. I also just saw the broadway musical version of it as well. If I had to choose between the three, then it would have to be the second one. There is so much iconic imagery from those movies, and I loved getting to see parts of the first from from different POVs. It has a great mix of many things that people can enjoy.
It’s practically a flawless trilogy in my opinion. It definitely still holds really well and always fun to rewatch!
In Bruges.
The first Matrix!
This was mine for about 9 years until it was made into a tie with The Dark Knight
It’s a tough call between Fight Club and the Matrix. But id have to give it to the Matrix. That was groundbreaking and it still holds up.
I watched The Matrix pretty recently, and was like… oh there is a lot of stuff happening right now that starts to fit with this vision of the future (or at least the explanation Morphus gives about the past: https://youtu.be/O5b0ZxUWNf0?si=mw-vVyaziZ0ADjyp&t=115).
We have ChatGPT an every company possible falling all over themselves to make the most advanced AI, Boston Dynamics robots are terrifying, Neuralink to plug in and be the interface between a human mind and a computer, the desperate search for new and better energy source, the metaverse, unreal engine 5 getting us ever closer to lifelike simulations, and governments looking for more and more ways to exercise controls over populations…
I watched the Matrix 9 times in the theater. It was groundbreaking. I really wish they skipped the 4th one.
Aliens. Ripley and Vasquez are some of the best female action characters (with the alien queen coming in a distant third). The corporate claptrap from Burke and the setup of the mission is solid 80s cyberpunk. Every character has a great arc (except Burke - fuck that guy). Effects are amazing. The soundtrack is perfect.
It’s an incredible action movie.
Give Burke a break, man - he just made a bad call. No need to nail him to the wall or anything.
This one’s also mine. I’ve held off rewatching it for a while, waiting for what seems like forever on the 4K version to be released at which time I have a movie night locked in with my eldest daughter. Can’t wait!
At nearly 40 years old it has held up incredibly well.
I’m going to admit to some movie watcher crimes, i haven’t seen any of the godfather movies or the older classics like clockwork orange. However, of the movies I’ve seen it’s gotta be Shawshank Redemption for me. Beautiful movie everything about it hits so well.
No list of movies is complete without someone mentioning it.
And that’s the way it should be.
Snatch is such a great movie. For me it’s too close to call between Snatch and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. It took me a long time to realize that John Turturro was even in the movie because his acting is so out of character and well performed.
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5th Element. Multipass. Super Green.
I got to see it as a double feature with Blade Runner.
Oh yeah. Watched it as a kid, it ignited my love for sci-fi. Flying cars and endless skyscrapers in all directions.
Hot Fuzz. Every time you watch it, you discover some new joke or callback.
Yarp!
The first half of Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Back to the future
It must be no. 1.
It’s perfect as it is.
I’m really surprised no one has mentioned Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels because I think it’s actually the better of the Guy Ritchie movies in this style. It’s stylish, perfectly-paced, and has the perfect “I think we…won?” type resolution at the end.
Lock Stock is one of my favorite movies
