Grave of the Fireflies by Studio Ghibli. I love Ghibli movies, and this one was very moving, but if you’ve seen it you know why I won’t watch it again. Very powerful.
The Fountain, it’s one of those movies that just absolutely blew me away and I had to have it but I’m just never quite in the emotional state to revisit yet I still recommend. It’s breathtakingly beautiful and devastating. What Dreams May Come is a very close second, but I feel like after Robin Williams’ death it’s even more so, but the movie itself is just so beautifully done and heart wrenching.
I loved the fountain, too. It is so incredibly beautiful, and I’m glad to own it for the same reasons. I also can’t imagine when I’ll want to watch it again…
The Fountain is one of my all time favorite movies.
The most intense movie I’ve ever seen
The animated LotR
I’ve got a solid one. Source code (2011), with Jake Gyllenhaal. And there’s a really specific reason for it. Because I really do love that movie and definitely crack a smile when I see it in my libary. It’s that I just end up watching Inception instead.
How often do you need to watch the same movies for ‘dont really watch’ to be a category?
I never watch a movie more than once unless it’s just happens to be already playing, and even then it depends if it’s actually worth watching a second time.
If it’s easier. You can think of the scenario being when browsing you have this reaction. “Yup! That’s a good ass movie” Skips to the next one everytime you see it.
in therms of a physical shelf, i have the back to the future trilogy i picked up for like 5€ in a yard sale. also the only movies i own on disk.
on my NAS, there are a lot of funky movies. i’m proud of all the shitty movies i watched just for fun, many of them will continue gathering dust on my hard drive.
maybe i’ll watch mortal engines again.
Dogma (1999). It’s a silly movie with a rubber poop monster.
But I’m a fucking demon. Love Jason Lee in that…and Alan Rickman RIP
Empire of The Sun and Fiddler on The Roof. Two classics, one with young Christian Bale, stupidity of war when people stop being humans, and second about dark Europe history but also love, family, getting older.
Two absolute essentials.
Black Dynamite.
It’s one of the funniest movies of all time, but I don’t have a DVD player.
HA! I THREW THAT BEFORE I LEFT THE MOON!
Have you ever seen the Dolomite movies? They’re CLASSIC blaxsploitation and are definitely a big inspiration for Black Dynamite. I’m deeply in love with all of them.
I never saw them but I’ll look them up. Which is the best one?
There’s 4 generally that are the big ones. The Human Tornado is a sequel to Dolomite but otherwise they can be watched in any order that you feel like.
Dolemite - An absolute classic but can be hard to watch given how extremely cheap it is. Some of the funniest moments of the whole series though they’re mostly unintentional.
The Human Tornado - Basically Dolemite if it had a good budget. The jokes hit so good on purpose this time. Notably, both Dolemite movies are also a critique on how racist cops are, including commentary on planting drugs and assuming every black guy with money got it illegally.
Petey Wheetstraw: The Devil’s Son in Law - A straight up comedy through and through. Absolutely nothing deeper on this one. Petey Wheetstraw makes a deal with the devil and spends the 2nd half of the movie trying to get out of it. Purely stupid fun.
Disco Godfather - A weirdly intense yet still funny breakdown on inner city drug problems and how rich people will poison local cities with drugs for their own benefit.
One really funny thing about all of these movies is that the main actor Rudy Ray Moore owns a night club in every single one and half of them include multiple minutes of his actual stand up routines.
Schindler’s List.
Saw it one time. It’s a helluva film. I have no desire to watch it again. Same with Saving Private Ryan. Own it, seen it maybe twice, but both the films had enough impact that I don’t feel the need to watch them.
Schindler’s List - incredible movie, beautiful case, no way I want to rewatch it any time soon.
Requiem for a dream
Pi
Memento
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The “Over There” short series.
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Outrageous Fortune
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Snakes on a plane. I still haven’t watched it but I had to get it just for XKCD…
