Natural Born Killers
For the few people who didn’t already watch it, and the best movie of all time :
Mad Max: Fury road (2015 ) by Miller .
This is what film story telling is about: having an entire weird universe told through visual medium. The 1st half hour has mad max gagged and incapable of talking, and it is amazing. Preferably on big screen.
A gem from the past:
Taboo(1999), by Nagisa Ôshima,
a samurai movie with hint of homosexuality. and an ending that can only be understood by paying close attention to the sound off screen.
A classic:
Seven samurai(1954), Kurosawa.
Just enjoy the black and white shot , and immerse in old Japanese culture
Apocalypto
The Hunger Games
Many good ones were already mentioned
But from memory:
- The snatch
- The big Lebowsky
- Clerks
- American Psycho
- 2001 a space odissey
- Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
- Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
- Full metal jacket
- The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
- Fight club
- Alien
- The Truman show
- In the mouth of madness
- They live
- The terminator (first 2)
- Animal house
- the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
- Once upon a time in America
- pulp fiction
- reservoir dogs
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
If you want to add non English movies to the list, then I have two to suggest:
- Children of Heaven
- Cinema Paradiso
I’ll throw RRR onto the international pile since it’s the kinda film that feels like the greatest movie ever while you’re watching it.
Predestination [2014]
Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece
The Matrix
Some you need to see to get the references:
- Soylent green
- 1984 (or read the book of course)
- Inception
- Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino
For something (more) crazy:
- The Holy Mountain
Mary and Max.
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
The Prestige
Memento
The Shining
Gangs of New York
Aliens
The Machinist
Full Metal Jacket
Arrival
I find it inconceivable that no one has mentioned ‘The Princess Bride’ yet.
That word… I think it means exactly what you think it means.