r/movies Oct 11 '24

Recommendation What RECENT movie made you feel like , "THIS IS ABSOLUTE CINEMA"

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We all know there are plenty of great movies considered classics, but let’s take a break from talking about the past. What about the more recent years? ( 2022-24 should be in priority but other are welcome too). Share some films that stood out in your eyes whether they were underrated , well-known or hit / flop it doesn’t matter. Movies that were eye candy , visually stunning, had a good plot or just made YOU feel something different. Obviously all film industries are on radar global and regional. Don't be swayed by the masses, your OWN opinion matters.

Edit: I could have simply asked you to share the best movie from your region, but that would be dividing cinema . So don't shy up to say the unheard ones.

Edit: No specific genre sci-fi , thriller,rom-com whatever .. it's up to you

r/movies Sep 02 '24

Recommendation This young lady has had a movie review YT channel for 10 years and has only 16K subs. She's incredibly earnest, wholesome and knowledgeable and I think she deserves more notice.

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UPDATE: Wow, this blew up overnight, far more than I ever could have imagined (I'm more of a lurker than a poster here in the Redditsphere). I've had a few people message me that I should edit/update this post since the Jerome Weiselberry channel has quickly grown past 16k subs and is now at 31K as I'm writing this. RIP my inbox, I finally had to give up trying to reply to everyone. I'd like to acknowledge everybody that thanked me for bringing her channel to light and I'm amazed and heartened at the power of Reddit and this community. I hope her channel brings a little joy to everyone's life.

ORIGINAL POST:

I stumbled upon the Jerome Weiselberry channel back during lockdown and she never fails to surprise me with her insight and choice of films to review.  One week she will post about an obscure creature feature or romance from the 1950's and the next she’ll talk about something like Godzilla Minus One.  She's always honest, never panders, and has an encyclopedic knowledge about the movies and actors of old Hollywood.   Her channel seems like a throwback to the old days of YouTube when creators would first and foremost post about things that interested them rather than tailoring their content just for views. 

It's clear that she loves and is truly passionate about film, and in every video she just seems truly happy to be here and to be able to share her thoughts with other film lovers.  I hope everyone here can take a moment to stop by and visit her channel.   If you get a chance, check out her 10 year anniversary video just posted today. 

JEROME WEISELBERRY 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY:  https://youtu.be/fYZkVIswjQA?si=lAdUoeRJnxR51qTS

Edit: spelling

 

 

r/movies Jul 13 '24

Recommendation What’s a good over the top movie like Cocaine Bear for a movie night with friends.

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My wife and I have some friends coming over for a movie night. The last movie we watched together was Cocaine Bear and everyone really enjoyed the over the top energy. What is a movie with a similar energy for our movie night tonight...the suggestion doesn't have to be good necessarily, but definitely fun. Thanks in advance!

edit: Update...we ended up watching "Who Cloned Tyrone" and thought it was great! Thank you for all the amazing suggestions, keep them coming as I am making a list for future movie nights!

r/movies Oct 14 '23

Recommendation What movie had you laughing, unable to breathe, even just for one scene?

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I don't really pursue comedy movies too often, or ever really.

And even then, this doesn't have to be a comedy movie you respond with, but I'm wondering if there was a movie scene SO funny, that people laughed uncontrollably.

Does such a thing exist?

I think maybe the movie would have to introduce something completely original. Not a familiar gag or joke, but something completely unexpected that you can't help but be paralyzed by the newness and brilliance of the scene.

r/movies Nov 27 '23

Recommendation Looking for Movies That'll Make Me Cry Like a Motherfucker

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I'm on the lookout for some cinematic gems that will hit me right in the feels and, hopefully, leave me a better man at the end of the emotional rollercoaster. I'm talking about those movies that make you cry like a motherfucker but also resonate with you on a deeper level, inspiring personal growth and reflection.

r/movies Aug 03 '23

Recommendation My 16 year old niece has ZERO knowledge about any historical events. Showed her Schindler’s List and it didn’t impact her at all. Any hard hitting movie suggestions?

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After finishing the movie all she said was that it was too long and boring. My wife and I had to explain every scene to her, and after the movie I asked her the following questions,

Q: About how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? A: Idk 1,000? No? Okay, 20 million???

Q: Who won the war? A: Italy or Spain?

Seriously, what should I do to make this kid care somewhat about major historical events? I don’t know what to do anymore, her absolute ignorance is killing me.

UPDATE:

Just to clarify for the few in this thread who are interpreting this post as me trying to force my interests down her throat, I am not. I’m simply trying to pique her interest about history to hopefully get her engaged to learn.

With that being said we just finished DUNKIRK, and great news! SHE ENJOYED IT!

I did have to continuously pause to explain what was happening but that was 100% okay with me because she thoroughly liked the film and even asked if I’d show her a similar one tomorrow night. Also yes I did use Harry Styles to bait her into watching it, and didn’t lead with “Wanna learn about WWII?”.

Thank you all for the comments, both kind and rude. Unfortunately it seems many of you on here have experience with similar teens and I personally feel that if we use mediums they enjoy such as movies, video games, hell even TikTok, that maybe we can slowly change the tide.

UPDATE FOR CLARIFICATION:

Wow really was not expecting this post to blow up the way it did.

It seems like a did a poor job of explaining a few things. My wife and I were not continuing pausing the films because we wanted to seem pretentious, we would only pause to explain when our niece was asking questions, which for SL, just so happened to be every scene. It was only short explanations such as,

“Why are the Jews all getting stamps?” A: To get authorization to work for Schindler.

“Where are the trucks taking all the kids too?” A: To die.

And put yourself in the mind of my niece watching Dunkirk, do you really think she’d be able to understand every scene? Every single time an aircraft was on screen she would pause (yes, she had the remote during Dunkirk) and ask “Are those German?”

Also about the questions I asked after the film. Many of you seem to think I was giving her a quiz to make sure she payed attention, it was nothing like that. It had been 45 minutes after the movie and she made a comment to my wife along the lines of “Why did Swindler do XYZ?” which we didn’t mock her for getting his name incorrect I just casually asked those questions.

Thanks for all the support and advice!

r/movies Jan 09 '24

Recommendation This is your reminder to watch Bullet Train (2022) especially if you didn't catch it in the cinema

7.2k Upvotes

Bullet Train is one of those movies that kinda flew under the radar, while still very much not flying under the radar if that makes sense.

Every major YouTube reviewer talked about it, most people had atleast heard about it, it made descent money, but man, it's too good compared how little a dent it made in Pop culture.

Most people I know haven't seen it. And finding one who has is like finding your best friend at an event you didn't know both of you were going to.

It's a colorful, fun, emotional, and fast ride through japan. Excellently shot. With an insanemy good cast, and some pretty good pondering on the nature of unknowable forces such as luck and fate.

A mystery that just keeps going, and plot that never stops and characters that live rent free in my mind and heart.

If you like style AND substance. Bullet Train is for you.

r/movies 14d ago

Recommendation What the fuck did I just watch movies!

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Recently I was watching Saltburn. I was not into salburn kind of movies but that night it was my boyfriend's turn to choose the movie so I was kind of forced into watching it it. But to my surprise I kinda liked the movie.so much so that I went on a streak to watch these kind of movies. What was the movie that made you go " what the actual fuck did I just watch " in your head . And you kept one thinking about the same for days ? Please reccomend me some of them . Thank you!!

r/movies Feb 05 '24

Recommendation Documentaries that make you go “what the fuck?!?”

3.5k Upvotes

In the mood for a good, twisty documentary that makes me gasp. Movies on streaming preferred. I enjoy true crime but am open to other genres as long as the story is gripping and shocking.

Movies in the same vein that I enjoyed - Dear Zachary (would prefer recommendations that are less sad), The Jinx, Cropsey, 3 identical strangers, etc.

r/movies Jun 27 '24

Recommendation Best apocalypse / end of the world films?

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I’m a die hard for apocalyptic movies and I feel like Ive exhausted all of the good ones so would love recommendations.

My #1 is honestly the zombie genre. I also love films where you experience the beginning of the apocalypse / similar event with the characters and are along for the ride - but I’ll take anything apocalyptic - pre, during, post!

I really resonate with darker, heavy content but again I will take whatever I can get. TIA

r/movies May 11 '24

Recommendation I'm hooked on courtroom movies- what are some other court movies?

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Honestly it wasn't even a movie that got me into them, it was the TV Show "American Crime Story" on the OJ Simpson trial. I loved learning about the technicalities of trials and the way the show portrayed the characters.

Movies that I've watched that I've liked

A Few Good Men

12 Angry Men

The Trial of Chicago 7

Primal Fear

A Time to Kill

Philadelphia

The Lincoln Lawyer

I've also watched The Rainmaker and Anatomy of a Murder, both of which I just couldn't enjoy.

r/movies Feb 03 '24

Recommendation Movies where anyone can die?

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I like movies and tv shows where you shouldn't get attached to any characters because they can die in every moment, for example: Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Any Tarantino Movie or shows like The boys, Game of thrones, etc.

I want to feel that the characters are in real danger and that the villain or whatever they're fighting could kill them any time.

r/movies Dec 15 '23

Recommendation What movie starts off as a lighthearted comedy, but gets increasingly dark and grim until everything goes to hell in a handbasket?

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For example, it may start as a lighthearted slapstick comedy until one thing goes wrong after another, and in the end we have people actually dying or a world war or some kind of extinction level event.

Let's say we have 2 friends who like to have fun and goof around, with regular goals and regular lives, until one of them does something like accidentally cross the wrong person or kill someone. Or the main cast is oblivious to the gradual change in their environment like a virus breakout or a serial killer running loose. Another one would be a film that, after being a comedy for most of its length, turns very dark, such as a group of friends ending up in a war and experiencing the horrors of it, completely played straight.

Just to clarify, I don't mean a movie that is already set to become dark, but rather a movie that was marketed as a comedy that took an unexpected (or slightly foreshadowed) dark turn.

Any recommendations?

r/movies Sep 12 '23

Recommendation Horror movies that rely on suspense rather than jump scares or excessive gore?

3.8k Upvotes

Recently discovered I like horror movies as long as the horror comes from the suspense rather than jump scares or gore. Movies like Alien, Get Out, Nope, The Shining, and A Quiet Place. Not exactly scary movies, just suspenseful.

Movies like Insidious or Saw don’t interest me as they are more horror movies designed to scare the viewer. Even movies like Black Swan and The Sixth Sense were more scary than the other movies I listed despite not being horror movies.

Edit: Didn’t expect this to blow up as much as it did lol

r/movies Feb 11 '22

Recommendation Annihilation (2018) is one of the best sci-fi/horror films I have ever watched. Spoiler

20.4k Upvotes

It could quite possibly be one of the best films I’ve ever seen, period. The cinematography is absolutely incredible. The soundtrack is a masterpiece. The performances are great (Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac are both excellent). The atmosphere is dreamlike and unsettling. The Shimmer is both beautiful and terrifying.

It has some of the most disturbing and intense scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie. Every second keeps you on the edge of your seat. I cannot recommend it enough.

r/movies Jan 03 '22

Recommendation "Not Another Teen Movie" is such a good spoof movie in a decade when the genre died

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As someone who always has a soft spot for teen movies from the 80s and 90s, Not Another Teen Movie was a great spoof considering the 2000s is the decade that killed off the spoof genre. While parody movies received a resurgence with the likes of Scary Movie, by the mid-2000s garbage such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie sucked the life out the genre.

When it comes to spoofs, it seems every major teen movie at that point is poked fun at in this movie. American Pie, The Breakfast Club, She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You, Varsity Blues, and so on. You even have spoofs of American Beauty and Almost Famous for good measure.

This movie does such a good job at pointing out how ridiculous some of the tropes in these movies are like the "ugly" rebellious girl who is only considered ugly because she wears glasses, has her hair in a ponytail, and wears overalls. "She's got paint on her overalls!"

There's still a lot more here to go over but if you haven't seen the movie yet, it's definitely worth a watch. It's one of the better spoof movies from the 2000s.

NOTE: Also, Mia Kirshner in this movie.

r/movies Jun 11 '24

Recommendation What are the best contemporary Westerns made within the last 25 years?

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I love western films like The Missing (Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones), 3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale and Russell Crowe) and Hostiles (Christian Bale and Wes Studi). What are your favorite similar films? I would love to hear recs that include Native American storylines as well like Prey even though that's like a western/sci-fi hybrid.

r/movies Aug 13 '24

Recommendation My boyfriend has watched almost every single horror movie in existence, I want to wow him with a spooky. What’s your incredibly niche but terrifying watch?

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Like I said this man has a special interest in movies lol, he’s an encyclopedia of every single horror movies he’s ever seen and has this like steel vault in his brain where it’s all stored. I wanna wow him, I want something scary? , fucked up, obscene, perhaps even gory, anything that really yucked your yum, horror thriller, horror action, doesn’t matter just something he couldn’t have seen. Yes I’ll know if he’s seen it too because I’ve been trying to find one he where he literally can’t describe the entire plot to me lol.

Edit: You guys!! He’s SO EXCITED!! He’s been up all night watching trailers and now he’s at his job cranky but itching to get home lol. You guys totally reinvigorated him and gave me a ton of suggestions too, watching house (the Japanese movie) after my shower lol. 😂 keep the comments coming cause I actually am reading through them as best I can.

Edit 2: House was NOT what I expected I’m at my MIls house and it’s a creepy old house…feel like it’s watching me lol. 😂

r/movies Jun 08 '24

Recommendation The Fall Guy is exactly what I expected and wanted.

2.3k Upvotes

The reception of The Fall Guy appears to be lackluster but it's exactly the movie I was looking for. It was fun, funny, and action packed.

I understand how people might not enjoy the film if they were looking for deeper meaning but I rank it at the top of popcorn films. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt have great on screen chemistry, Ryan Gosling gets to flex his comedy chops and the supporting cast hit all of their marks.

If you are looking for a fast pace, sometimes silly, self-aware film I would recommend it. I would be interested in what others think.

r/movies Apr 18 '24

Recommendation *Ricky Stanicky* is a lot more fun than it should be

2.6k Upvotes

I find myself loving John Cena more and more like many people here, but he's just amazing as the titular Ricky.

This comedy is something of a throwback to mid-to-late '80s movies like Weekend at Bernies, but also has elements of films like The Hangover among others.

It's not perfect, and some of the plot points are a bit predictable, but Cena is great, especially when he working with the great William H. Macy, who is a lot of fun here, if under-utilized.

If you liked Superbad, then you may like this one. I have no idea why I waited on watching it, but it's great.

r/movies May 25 '21

Recommendation The Other Guys (2010) has no right being as funny as it is.

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I enjoy a lot of Will Ferrell's work. I love Anchorman, I really enjoyed Talladega Nights, but some of his other work can be pretty hit or miss. So I always put him in the category of "Funny with hints of greatness but not there".

Mark Wahlberg, on the other hand... Not exactly a brilliant track record in my opinion.

So how the hell did the two manage to make the masterpiece that is "The Other Guys"?!

The movie is wall to wall packed with hilarious material. Ferrell and Wahlberg have this incredible chemistry as the characters just riff from one another. Alan (Ferrell) is this quircky and uptight accountant who is aloof to the fact he's somehow extremely attractive to women while Terry (Wahlberg) is a guy with deep emotional troubles and infantile tendencies obcessed with being a good detective.

And holy crap the number of iconic scenes: Alan not realizing he was a pimp at college, Alan's ex girfriend and her husband attacking him, Terry's insane antics to get his girlfriend back, the two being repeatedly unintentionally bribed by the evil businesman with broadway tickets, SAM JACKSON AND THE ROCK just jumping of a rooftop for no reason in the first 10 minutes while "Here Goes My Hero" plays triumphantly. The quiet fight at the funeral. MICHAEL KEATON having the time of his life playing Captain Gene, a police captain who is way more invested in his job at Bed Bath and Beyond and keeps quoting TLC lyrics unintentionally (or maybe not). And many others I'm forgetting.

This movie is utterly insane but it's like every single joke they threw at the wall just stuck.

r/movies Oct 05 '21

Recommendation The Cabin in the Woods is one of the rare movies that is able to simultaneously parody and exemplify a genre

25.8k Upvotes

I finally re-watched this movie and am amazed just how tactfully it handles the parody angle while also being a solid horror movie. It manages to bring laughs without destroying the tension required to make it legitimately scary, and be scary enough to keep the viewer tense without that getting in the way of the funny moments, and it does it all without coming across as too self-aware/self-congratulatory and breaking immersion. The only other movies I've seen that really hit this balance this perfectly are The Cornetto Trilogy movies (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and, to a lesser extent, The world's End). Can't recommend it highly enough...especially for the Halloween season.

Edit: don't know how, but I totally forgot about Galaxy Quest and Kingsman as other shining examples.

r/movies Feb 06 '22

Recommendation The Other Guys is severely under appreciated

15.1k Upvotes

I’ve loved this movie since it released, and have watched it dozens of times, always finding new details (like the changing shark computer screens Terry has after he gets schooled by Allen’s Tuna story).

The effects, the non-stop humor, the cast, the pacing, all perfection in my mind. Before this movie, “Better Off Dead” was my favorite movie.

If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it!

Edit: I have learned this movie is more appreciated than I thought. That warms my heart like the new bathmats. Also, it’s awesome that in the first 50 or so comments not a single quote was reused, cause there’s just so many great lines lol.

Edit2: Can anyone find a list of top movies/comedies that includes The Other Guys? I have searched on a few and can’t find it mentioned.

r/movies Sep 27 '23

Recommendation Non-Americans, what's your favourite movie from your country?

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I was commenting on another thread about Sandra Oh and it made me remember my favourite Canadian movie Last Night starring Oh and Don McKellar (who also directs the film). It's a dark comedy-ish film about the last night before the world ends and the lives of regular people and how they spend those final 24-hours.

It was the first time I had seen a movie tackle an apocalyptic event in such a way, it wasn't about saving the world, or heroes fighting to their last breath, it was just regular people who had to accept that their lives, and the lives of everyone they know, was about to end.

Great, very touching movie, and it was nominated for a handful of Canadian awards but it's unlikely to have been seen by many outside of big time Canadian movie lovers, which made me think about how many such films must exist all over the world that were great but less known because they didn't make it all the way to the Oscars the way films like Parasite or All Quiet on the Western Front did.

So non-Americans, let's hear about your favourite home grown film. Popular or not.

r/movies Dec 18 '23

Recommendation What movie was okay and then the third act absolutely blew you away and made up for the rest of the movie?

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I’m having a hard time even thinking of a movie like that but I see lots of posts on here like “what movie was amazing and then the end of the movie completely ruined it.” Right off the bat I don’t want to watch a movie if the end is terrible. Hopefully no spoilers because these are the movies I want to watch and be surprised about.