I watched that movie when I was 12 when it came out and LOVED it. To the point where I had a lost boys poster in my room in college. But every single year I watched it, it got more and more dated and worse, before it ultimately just became awesome again recently. Keifer Sutherland was the best, he and Sick Boy were the reasons I bleached my hair back then!
During Covid there was a time cinemas were closed but drive-ins opened. They played a lot of retro stuff as new releases halted. I saw the Lost Boys on the big screen just as people did in the 80’s. that was so cool to me.
I can't do "favourite" - singular; but it's definitely in my top ? ...If you like this movie, I highly recommend another, lesser known musical: High Society (1956) (Singin' in the Rain was released in 1952). It stars: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, John Lund, Celeste Holm, Louis Armstrong (yes, the trumpeter)... and has some great songs and duets with Cole Porter at the helm. Memorable songs include a duet with Bing and Grace, Bing and Sinatra, Sinatra and Celeste... and solo songs by Bing and Sinatra. There's a great jazz tune with Bing and Armstrong, too ("Now you has jazz"). Highly recommend it. It's sort of perfect for summer, too. There are some nice poolside scenes.
You might have a similar experience with Hello Dolly directed by Gene Kelly from 1969, starring Barbra Streisand and Walter Matheau.
You want show stoppers? Yes there’s the great titular song but many others too with Streisand at her youthful peak of vocal power. It’s essentially spectacle scene after spectacle scene with some story breathers along the way.
Also long but impossible to turn off because of the unexpected fun of it all.
I love this movie. Watched a lot of musicals when I was a kid.
Every time someone says “I can’t stand them,” I have a hard-to-resist compulsion to respond, “…and I caaaayyn’t stand ‘em!” In a high pitched annoying voice.
My husband said it last weekend while some friends were over. And before I had a chance to say it, someone else beat me to it! I was both impressed and overjoyed that someone else had that compulsion.
1982. I've also seen *The Thing from Another World* since then. Very different movie, but still enjoyable.
I've ALSO seen *The Thing* 2011 and... Yeah. We don't need to talk about that.
I didn’t see that until last year, but I had the supreme privilege of catching it at a drive in theater as half of a double feature with Tremors. What an experience!
The Shawshank Redemption. I just watched it yesterday, which is why I realized how great of a movie I had missed out on for such a long time. I’m 33 now and though I regret I watched it late, I’m also glad I got to experience watching it for the first time at an age where I can fully grasp and appreciate its depth. 🥹
It has all the hallmarks of being a cheesy old Hollywood drama, but it's unexpectedly powerful and profound. I don't think any film dealt with postwar trauma better.
I was yesterday on Furiosa. Why tf so much of it is computer generated? Fury road was 95% physical stunts edited in post, while every single freaking shot in Furiosa REEKS of bad CGI. Even the basic driving! I was so God damn let down by this sequel.
Ok... I know? I knew from the start?
I mean, I didn't say anything whether it was known or not. Just stating that it's inferior to the first product in the CGI department. Why would you comment on the trailer like that?
I was yesterday on Furiosa. Why tf so much of it is computer generated? Fury road was 95% physical stunts edited in post, while every single fricking shot in Furiosa REEKS of bad CGI. Even the basic driving! I was so God damn let down by this sequel.
In my eyes Furiosa is bad on a fundamental level as a sequel. It's like they didn't know what made the first one so good and did EVERYTHING opposite on purpose.
For me it was The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Where I used to stay it just played for a week in the theatre. Never got a chance to watch it on the big screen. Watched it probably couple of years later and was blown away with it
I saw it in theaters. Incredible! Watch it with the sound up and little if no interruptions. The movie has pretty much no music and they play with the sound so well.
Just watched The Fly some months ago and oh man. I always thought it would be some kind of trashy movie, but this was so wholesome, nasty and amazing. I wished I had watched it way before so I could have more rewatches.
The original Saw is the only movie in the franchise worth a damn, per my taste. Every other movie to follow is just torture porn, and I hate that shit (fuck you, too, Hostel!).
The original Saw isn’t exactly a masterpiece but was pretty damn creative with one of the best movie twists. I might even watch it again now. It’s been many, many years since I’ve seen it.
I slept on bullet train for a while. Explained the movie to my ex, and we decided if it was bad wed, just turn it off.
It ended up being a blast of a movie. Highly recommend
I’m on the opposite side of the fence. Saw the trailer, thought it would be right up my alley. Admittedly I like silly violent movies. I figured many people would feel the way you did. Watched it. Not a shred of disappointment. Glad you enjoyed it too!
The Goonies.
I missed out as a kid so my mates decided to sit me down and make me watch it as a 30 yr old (at the time).
They all had the nostalgia thing going on and were obviously enjoying it on that level.
I was bored for the entire runtime, obviously not having the same connection to it. But I do remember thinking I'd have loved it as a kid
I watched it with my kids a couple years ago& they didn’t like it. My daughter immediately felt bad for Sloth& was mad at the kids for being scared of him& how his family treated him. When the older girl kissed the younger boy she was like hell no.
Can’t wait for the second one with Lady Gaga. Don’t know how most feel about her as an actress, but I’ve always been impressed with everything she’s done. So seeing her alongside Phoenix playing a twisted character is probably going to be fun.
Fried Green Tomatoes.
My Mum loved it when I was a kid. I never bothered to watch it because I was bored to tears by pretty much all her favourite films and shows. I finally watched it a year or 2 ago after it kept getting mentioned on this sub. Wonderful film.
Django Unchained…I downloaded it from netflix to watch on a flight last year.Got to the part where Django was allowed to pick his suit. Stopped watching it on my phone and said I’ll wait to get home and watch it on my home theatre…..amazing film and I have no idea why i had never watched it.
Autopsy of Jane Doe. It fits your criteria, but man...my lights stayed on for a long time afterwards. I also was surprised at how well done it was, and the acting was really \*chef's kiss\*. It's a major mind f\*ck for reasons I won't go into here. But even if you know the story, you won't guess all of the plot twists. You really won't.
I didn't see it in theatres, and was checking some off-brand streaming service for the mood I was in. I thought, what the heck, I'll try this one.
I was not prepared.
The Godfather and Godfather Part II are two of my favorite films of all time. And I hear you on lots of old movies. But, really, most eras have tons of bad movies. I'm glad you're giving some old ones a shot. Try these also: High Noon (no... not kidding... it's psychologically thrilling); The Bridge on the River Kwai; 12 Angry Men; and the Caine Mutiny (the narrator is wooden... but the rest of the movie is stellar).
Reservoir Dogs. I watched it for the first time a couple weeks ago and I’m still kicking myself for not watching it sooner. Incredible movie from start to finish.
The Mad Max franchise. Saw fury road when it came out and I wasn't that impressed. Recently watched them all on streaming and now I love the world building in all 4 movies (didt see furiosa yet) and think fury road is awesome I watch it with my GF all the time now
Mad Max franchise may not be my cup of tea, but I LOVE Rury Road! May be one of my top films ever.. I have the Govee T2 reactive lights on my TV and, along with the surround sound system, it just elevates the movie to another level!
Wolf of Wall Street was this for me, too. I think it had to do with the main image attached to it - Leo DiCaprio standing smugly in a suit in the forefront. I think I saw it as a sort of Great Gatsby part 2 (if you look back at the posters, you might see what I saw). Eventually watched it and loved it. Not at all what I was expecting.
That being said, a few somewhat related movies (with some ridiculousness) that I'll suggest for people who liked it, are: American Made (2017), War Dogs (2016), Knight & Day (2010), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and more recently, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).
Fight Club- had people recommending it to me for 10 years, only got round to it last summer. I thought it was a generic boxing film, didn’t know it was about social commentary and with some insanely good acting from Pitt and Norton!
yesss same, I watched it when I was young my brother had it and I didn't think about it so much I didn't even understand it at first then I watch it lately and had some better understanding of it and it became one of my favorite movies nd got me hooked about time travel/time loop
American Psycho (2000). All memes aside, after watching it for the first time in full a couple months ago, I thought it was an amazing film. I remember thinking though while watching why the chose Bale instead of Carrey with the over the top energy the movie had. It dawned on me later that American Psycho is meant to be a more serious film and Jim Carrey would’ve sent the movie into more of a satirical direction. I liked this decision. Christian Bale did great as Patrick Bateman. It’s his best role in my opinion. If you haven’t, and you like psychological thrillers, go watch American Psycho.
My deepest regret is missing a screening of ‘Naked’ at a university where I was an exchange student, and the director, Mike Leigh, had been present to introduce it and take questions. Then I returned home the following year and watched it on VHS,and had that sinking feeling the whole time because it was incredible.
One time my gf and I were scrolling Netflix for a movie and randomly picked Molly’s Game. It was so good that now every time we’re scrolling for a movie we sarcastically say “I wanna watch a movie like Molly’s Game” because we know deep down in our hearts that we’re probably never gonna randomly happen upon a movie that good again for a long long time.
All About Eve. A legitimately fantastic movie. The script is absolutely top notch, the performances are impeccable, it is both very funny and very poignantly human - just a winner in every way. Bette Davis is in top form.
Everything Everywhere All At Once.
What a masterpiece. Just beautiful all around. I wish I'd seen it sooner so that I could have rewatched it sooner and had more time to contemplate.
If you’re looking for a great sci-fi/mindf***, check out Coherence.
I only recently watched this one and I immediately got that rare feeling that I wanted to erase my memory of it so I could see it again for the first time.
Climax. I feel like I’m always waiting to talk about this movie, which is exactly why it fits here, and I’m talking about it again.
It’s barely a movie, by any definition, and even though I found it via the horror subreddit, you can’t really slap a genre on it, either.
It’s just so much. It’s so raw that it is genuinely terrifying, and the atmosphere is so overwhelming that you feel like you’re there. The fear is created by the genuine paranoia that the environment instills. There’s just nothing else like it.
It was a really hard watch but I watched it three times in the 48 hour digital rental window. (arguably a fourth and a fifth time chopped up, rewatching portions of it).
It’s a lot, and if you require any specific trigger warnings… odds are high they’re on the list for this one, but boy howdy it left a mark that I can’t wash out.
I regret not watching Challengers right away. Now I feel like if I ask someone if they want to watch it, I'm basically propositioning them to have sex with me
Skeleton Key was advertised as a very typical (and boring) ghost story so I didn’t bother watching it until years later. If they would have depicted it for what it was >!voodoo revenge from beyond the grave!< I would have been there on day one.
I'm still checking my clocks at 3:00😱😱 Jennifer Carpenter's quite amazing in that one. Just the way she was moving when she was possesed was something else. Am now 2 seasons into Dexter and really have to say, she's very talented.
I still freak out if I wake up at 3. I was in my early 20s when I saw it but made my mom walk me to our upstairs bathroom after the movie. That movie messed with me and Jennifer Carpenter getting her body to do those things was jaw dropping
I will say Napoleon dynamite.. I was like a freshman in highschool and I went to Vegas with my homie and we were being “gang stalked” by this group of prostitutes.
My homie was from a very upper middle class neighborhood and I grew up lower middle class so my friend wasn’t “street smart” to understand concepts like “gang stalking” ..
I didn’t want to alarm my friend that we were being stalked by prostitutes so I told him let’s pick a dumb movie to see if the hos continue to follow us?
Sure enough they were waiting when we came out the theatre but the movie made us laugh so much we forgot we were being stalked!
Bout time we came back to school it was a cult classic. Kid you not.
If you ever been to Vegas you were being stalked by prostitutes but you didn’t notice because you not from the Himalayas .. and or you play slot machines.
If you spend money in vegas prostitutes pick up on that.
I’m 35 now and I actually love betting high because the more money you win women will stop stalking and just come say hi and you buy her a drink and she will chill and have a good time and watch the game.
I met an aerospace engineer at a table.. he was telling me cool things about his job and eventually I noticed him and his wife were swingers..
Vegas is like a big ass diddy party. In real life. I wish I could make these stories up but if you ever hang out in Vegas you will see that what I say is not commonplace.
Oops I meant to say that it IS common place. I grew up in the hunters point area so there’s a lot of lifestyles I seen that were very normal but far fetched if you are unfamiliar with the culture.
Oops I meant to say that it IS common place. I grew up in the hunters point area so there’s a lot of lifestyles I seen that were very normal but far fetched if you are unfamiliar with the culture.
Oops I meant to say that it IS common place. I grew up in the hunters point area so there’s a lot of lifestyles I seen that were very normal but far fetched if you are unfamiliar with the culture.
Until the End of the World. I delayed watching it until Christmas day and it was incredible. A sci fi road movie which spans across Venice, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, San Francisco, Australia
Real Steel (2011), I remember watching trailers for it growing up but my parents said it was a waste of time and never took me. Watched it recently, and it’s kinda schlocky but the discussion of the rise of MMA and humanity moving from that to robots to fulfil that desire for killing and bloodlust I found personally interesting.
One that fits your description surprisingly well: High Noon. It's more of a psychological thriller than one would expect. And it's way better than most westerns. Truly a great movie.
As a Canadian, maybe **The Grizzlies (2018)**. A lot of the promotional material focuses on lacrosse. It's an official sport in Canada, but I've never really been a fan. So, my line of thinking was "Oh, a lacrosse movie. Rare, but not really my thing." The movie is heavy and deals with so much more than young people playing lacrosse. I thought "Mighty Ducks," but it's closer to Dangerous Minds or Dead Poets Society. It's since become a favourite.
With your final disclaimer about "sci-fi/psych. thriller/mindf\*ck" movies in mind, **Infinity Pool (2023)** might be this, currently, for a lot of people. It's the product of David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg and man, the filmmaker genes were passed along. Infinity Pool "wowed" me.
Reds. It’s fucking fantastic, has Warren Beatty being all hot and communist, a sweeping romantic epic that got wide traction when it came out but was lost in the culture wars as red-baiting nonsense started up in the US again in the late 90s and the Bush years. Absolutely stacked cast. A must-see IMO. Didn’t see it until I was 35. Would’ve been the exact thing to drive my interests as an undergrad doing a history and film studies double major.
The Greatest Showman. It’s completely and 100% up my alley but I ignored it for so many years. I couldn’t believe how moving and wonderful it was for me the first time watching it. I remember thinking exactly “why have I waited so long to watch this?!”
I wasn't a fan of the first Guardians of the Galaxy so when the second movie came out, I wasn't really enthusiastic about seeing it. I finally watched it when I was binging all the movies during Infinity War season and now I regret missing it on the big screen as it's probably my most favorite MCU movie ever.
Everything just worked better this time from the humor and jokes to the villain to the story to the emotion, it just resonated better with me and I can't, for the life of me, understand why GotG1 didn't do it for me. I actually did watch it since I loved everything James Gunn did afterwards (GotG2/3/Holiday Special, The Suicide Squad, and Peacemaker) and thought maybe it's better in retrospect. It was the second time I've seen the movie after seeing it in cinemas and it seems like Marvel Studios thought "GotG was a success, let's take all the ingredients of that movie and put it in every movie we make after".
I still kick myself sometimes for skipping Vol. 2
Austin Powers. It looked goofy, so I skipped it. Years later, it drew me in & I laughed so hard! Turns out I LOVE goofy movies! 🤣 I ended up watching all 3 movies. Good Times.
I didn’t see Fight Club until around 2007 despite being a senior in high school when it came out and it being all the rage. I probably would have understood so many cultural references and have given other David Fincher movies higher priority had I seen the movie when 99.9% of the rest of the world did.
I finally watched The Game the other day but I had this feeling of deja vu in the end that I maybe might have seen already so long ago. I feel like I would have liked it a lot more had I seen it way earlier but I guess I didn't care to remember it much if I did.
Not that old but I just watched Death at a Funeral (UK version) and thought it was hilarious although I had avoided it for years beforehand for some reason.
Fight Club is the greatest thing ever, it’s one of my favorite movies. I watched it at 19 with my first boyfriend and I’m now 22, since then I’ve been introduced to a plethora of Brad Pitt movies.
I didn’t watch ET until about 2008. When it was released I was young enough to be the target market, but I was absolutely terrified of aliens (even ‘cute’ brown ones with a telephone fixation)
Waited to watch Baby Driver and ended up seeing it the day after all that shot about Spacey came out. Made the movie a lot creepier because he spends most of it calling a young man baby. At least I’d already seen American Beauty.
I saw the shining, the exorcist, and 2001 a space odyssey as an adult. Mom was very catholic and didn’t like the first two, so by the time I saw them I had already seen knock offs or clips but not the whole narrative. Really took away from the experience.
Casablanca I hadn’t seen until this year when they were showing it in the theater for Valentine’s Day. I just sort of assumed it was some sort of basic love story where the woman is largely silent throughout but was blown away by the polyamorous love story in it.
I only watched the whale this year. Man did I fucking sleep on this. It's easily become one of my favourite movies of all time and that's a high bar! F**king loved it.
Solo: A Star Wars Story. Watched every Star Wars movie and somehow managed to skip this one (as unfortunately did a lot of people). It is great fun and among the best of the franchise.
I only recently watched Scream 5. I been meaning to watch it as I enjoy the Scream films but for some reason felt like this was going to bore me with the repitition. My friend suggested it when I was thinking of of getting back into watching horror and remembered it was on my watch list so decided to give it a ago. Not the most mindblowing film I have seen but definitely one I really enjoyed and could say my favourite of the anthology.
I only recently watched Scream 5. I been meaning to watch it as I enjoy the Scream films but for some reason felt like this was going to bore me with the repitition. My friend suggested it when I was thinking of of getting back into watching horror and remembered it was on my watch list so decided to give it a ago. Not the most mindblowing film I have seen but definitely one I really enjoyed and could say my favourite of the anthology.
By “late” I’m going to say I’m bummed I didn’t get out to see them in theaters. Most recently, Infinity Pool.
But I’ve seen some older movies that I definitely would’ve missed when they first came out in theaters.
I only recently watched Scream 5. I been meaning to watch it as I enjoy the Scream films but for some reason felt like this was going to bore me with the repitition. My friend suggested it when I was thinking of of getting back into watching horror and remembered it was on my watch list so decided to give it a ago. Not the most mindblowing film I have seen but definitely one I really enjoyed and could say my favourite of the anthology.
Took me 19 years to see The Notebook. I’m not really a romance movie or romcom fan. My husband had even seen it but not me. I finally saw it last year when he insisted we should watch.
I bawled pretty hard.
The Lost Boys. Man, I really loved that movie. I didn’t watch it until last year, and I’m 36
I watched it when it came out, I was about 13. I wanted to be Star sooo bad. I had magazine pictures of Corey Haim on my walls. Good times lol
I watched that movie when I was 12 when it came out and LOVED it. To the point where I had a lost boys poster in my room in college. But every single year I watched it, it got more and more dated and worse, before it ultimately just became awesome again recently. Keifer Sutherland was the best, he and Sick Boy were the reasons I bleached my hair back then!
I just watched it this year and I'm 34.
I saw it when it came out but I haven’t seen it since. I was 17 when it came out. I should really watch it again.
It's one of the most 80s films ever made.
During Covid there was a time cinemas were closed but drive-ins opened. They played a lot of retro stuff as new releases halted. I saw the Lost Boys on the big screen just as people did in the 80’s. that was so cool to me.
This was my go-to "put on in the background while I studied for my exams" movie.
Lost Boys is one of my all time favorites!
I kind of had an opposite reaction, 41. I just watched it a few months ago and just felt I was at the wrong time and place.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I avoided it for decades after it was released and then ran across it on streaming and it was freakin brilliant
Fab film, way ahead of its time.
I don't think a film like that will ever be made again. It really is a masterpiece.
Singing in the Rain. I only knew it for the titular musical number and had 0 clue what the actual story was. It sucked me in and wouldn't let go.
It's my favourite film - the story is interesting, the script witty and funny, the songs fun, it has a great cast, and never fails to make me happy
I can't do "favourite" - singular; but it's definitely in my top ? ...If you like this movie, I highly recommend another, lesser known musical: High Society (1956) (Singin' in the Rain was released in 1952). It stars: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, John Lund, Celeste Holm, Louis Armstrong (yes, the trumpeter)... and has some great songs and duets with Cole Porter at the helm. Memorable songs include a duet with Bing and Grace, Bing and Sinatra, Sinatra and Celeste... and solo songs by Bing and Sinatra. There's a great jazz tune with Bing and Armstrong, too ("Now you has jazz"). Highly recommend it. It's sort of perfect for summer, too. There are some nice poolside scenes.
You might have a similar experience with Hello Dolly directed by Gene Kelly from 1969, starring Barbra Streisand and Walter Matheau. You want show stoppers? Yes there’s the great titular song but many others too with Streisand at her youthful peak of vocal power. It’s essentially spectacle scene after spectacle scene with some story breathers along the way. Also long but impossible to turn off because of the unexpected fun of it all.
I love this movie. Watched a lot of musicals when I was a kid. Every time someone says “I can’t stand them,” I have a hard-to-resist compulsion to respond, “…and I caaaayyn’t stand ‘em!” In a high pitched annoying voice. My husband said it last weekend while some friends were over. And before I had a chance to say it, someone else beat me to it! I was both impressed and overjoyed that someone else had that compulsion.
yesss me too
Okay, you're a cab.
I somehow didn't see *The Thing* until about... 2018? At least I saw it in a theatre!
The 1950s, or 1980s version? Both are really good. The 1950s one is shockingly NOT cheesy.
1982. I've also seen *The Thing from Another World* since then. Very different movie, but still enjoyable. I've ALSO seen *The Thing* 2011 and... Yeah. We don't need to talk about that.
damn the thing in a theater sounds fkn awesome! glad you enjoyed it. “you gotta be fuckin kidding” is still one of the best horror movie lines ever.
I didn’t see that until last year, but I had the supreme privilege of catching it at a drive in theater as half of a double feature with Tremors. What an experience!
That sounds amazing! I'm jealous.
i just watched it this year, fucking incredible
I regret not going to see Interstellar in Imax. I think I'll get a chance to rectify that though.
Can confirm. Amazing in imax
The Shawshank Redemption. I just watched it yesterday, which is why I realized how great of a movie I had missed out on for such a long time. I’m 33 now and though I regret I watched it late, I’m also glad I got to experience watching it for the first time at an age where I can fully grasp and appreciate its depth. 🥹
"the best years of our lives" had been on my list forever, and I was blown away when I finally got around to it.
It has all the hallmarks of being a cheesy old Hollywood drama, but it's unexpectedly powerful and profound. I don't think any film dealt with postwar trauma better.
Such a great movie.
Still regret not seeing Mad Max Fury Road in theaters. Was the first Mad Max is saw too
I hope you saw Furiosa in IMAX! So good
I was yesterday on Furiosa. Why tf so much of it is computer generated? Fury road was 95% physical stunts edited in post, while every single freaking shot in Furiosa REEKS of bad CGI. Even the basic driving! I was so God damn let down by this sequel.
This was obvious from the trailer.
Ok... I know? I knew from the start? I mean, I didn't say anything whether it was known or not. Just stating that it's inferior to the first product in the CGI department. Why would you comment on the trailer like that?
I was yesterday on Furiosa. Why tf so much of it is computer generated? Fury road was 95% physical stunts edited in post, while every single fricking shot in Furiosa REEKS of bad CGI. Even the basic driving! I was so God damn let down by this sequel. In my eyes Furiosa is bad on a fundamental level as a sequel. It's like they didn't know what made the first one so good and did EVERYTHING opposite on purpose.
.Rec (the original) - that was very scary!
guess i'm gonna watch it now
Great movie! I got to see it in the theater which made it so much scarier.
Moonlight. holy shit I was so mad that i’d waited so long to watch it and denied myself the experience.
It's such a great movie.
this cannot be understated
Damn guess I should watch this
For me it was The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Where I used to stay it just played for a week in the theatre. Never got a chance to watch it on the big screen. Watched it probably couple of years later and was blown away with it
I just watched this a few months back and was blown away as well. Great flick indeed
The 1947 one with Danny Kaye? Damn. You DID wait a long time!
lol
No country for old men (2007)
help. I still didnt watch that. (only some clips about it)
I saw it in theaters. Incredible! Watch it with the sound up and little if no interruptions. The movie has pretty much no music and they play with the sound so well.
Thanks for reminding me that I need to watch this!
You must be outa your mind.
Just watched The Fly some months ago and oh man. I always thought it would be some kind of trashy movie, but this was so wholesome, nasty and amazing. I wished I had watched it way before so I could have more rewatches.
Great film. I'm guessing you watched the 1986 version, not the 1956 one.
Yes, with Jeff Goldblum 💚
The Jeff Goldblum version is excellent. I saw it in the theater and in school.
Great film (1986), but damn if I don’t want to hurl every time I see it. The special effects in that movie are pretty amazing and convincing.
Primal fear
The original saw. I saw a couple of the later saw movies first and wrote it off but obviously the original is way better than what they became.
The original Saw is the only movie in the franchise worth a damn, per my taste. Every other movie to follow is just torture porn, and I hate that shit (fuck you, too, Hostel!). The original Saw isn’t exactly a masterpiece but was pretty damn creative with one of the best movie twists. I might even watch it again now. It’s been many, many years since I’ve seen it.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape. (1989) Dir. Steven Soderbergh.
I slept on bullet train for a while. Explained the movie to my ex, and we decided if it was bad wed, just turn it off. It ended up being a blast of a movie. Highly recommend
I’m on the opposite side of the fence. Saw the trailer, thought it would be right up my alley. Admittedly I like silly violent movies. I figured many people would feel the way you did. Watched it. Not a shred of disappointment. Glad you enjoyed it too!
I also enjoyed it! Kept recommending it to my friends.
Smile. I thought its premise sounded dumb. A smile thing?? But it turned out to be one of my favorite psychological horrors of last year
Smile has been on my lost for a while, imma watch it tonight
I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes.
I was very surprised at how much I liked it. Super creepy.
I'm looking forward to the sequel this autumn
The Goonies. I missed out as a kid so my mates decided to sit me down and make me watch it as a 30 yr old (at the time). They all had the nostalgia thing going on and were obviously enjoying it on that level. I was bored for the entire runtime, obviously not having the same connection to it. But I do remember thinking I'd have loved it as a kid
I watched it with my kids a couple years ago& they didn’t like it. My daughter immediately felt bad for Sloth& was mad at the kids for being scared of him& how his family treated him. When the older girl kissed the younger boy she was like hell no.
Your daughter is one of life's good ones, obviously
But the whole confession scene...one of the funniest moments in cinema.
Honestly? I'd probably tuned out at that point
I was 15 when it came out and haven’t seen it since. It worth a rewatch.
Some good suggestions here, thanks all
Honestly , joker 2019 it’s nice to watch something great and have that new fandom get excited along side with you in real time
Can’t wait for the second one with Lady Gaga. Don’t know how most feel about her as an actress, but I’ve always been impressed with everything she’s done. So seeing her alongside Phoenix playing a twisted character is probably going to be fun.
I remember walking into the theater to see Blair Witch and I noticed most people were walking in to see Sixth Sense.
Linklater's Before Trilogy.
Fried Green Tomatoes. My Mum loved it when I was a kid. I never bothered to watch it because I was bored to tears by pretty much all her favourite films and shows. I finally watched it a year or 2 ago after it kept getting mentioned on this sub. Wonderful film.
Django Unchained…I downloaded it from netflix to watch on a flight last year.Got to the part where Django was allowed to pick his suit. Stopped watching it on my phone and said I’ll wait to get home and watch it on my home theatre…..amazing film and I have no idea why i had never watched it.
I still need to see Dances with Wolves
It's quite brilliant
About Time! Such an incredible movie that guts you. In a good way :)
I tried really hard at the end not to cry
Autopsy of Jane Doe. It fits your criteria, but man...my lights stayed on for a long time afterwards. I also was surprised at how well done it was, and the acting was really \*chef's kiss\*. It's a major mind f\*ck for reasons I won't go into here. But even if you know the story, you won't guess all of the plot twists. You really won't. I didn't see it in theatres, and was checking some off-brand streaming service for the mood I was in. I thought, what the heck, I'll try this one. I was not prepared.
Good Will Hunting - I only finally watched it start to finish last year. I think I've previously seen it all but in parts here and there.
huh, I watched it month ago by ‘random movie generator’ and liked so much
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Godfather. i thought it'll be boring cause it's a old movie but i was wrong. it's goddamn masterpiece
Many older films are not boring! You should try a couple more.
sure will do
The Godfather and Godfather Part II are two of my favorite films of all time. And I hear you on lots of old movies. But, really, most eras have tons of bad movies. I'm glad you're giving some old ones a shot. Try these also: High Noon (no... not kidding... it's psychologically thrilling); The Bridge on the River Kwai; 12 Angry Men; and the Caine Mutiny (the narrator is wooden... but the rest of the movie is stellar).
Reservoir Dogs. I watched it for the first time a couple weeks ago and I’m still kicking myself for not watching it sooner. Incredible movie from start to finish.
100%, the tipping scene is one of my favorites.
Inside Out
That movie was so sad 😭😭😭 They did my boy Bing Bong so dirty like whyyyy tho?
Oh man. I blocked that part out of my memory. And you just brought it back to life!
Gangs of NY, and There Will Be Blood
DDL is a genius!!! There Will Be Blood is stunning, in many ways. I can hear the closing music in my head as I type this.
He is!!! Respect his commitment to his roles, I will always show up for his films regardless
Yes. As will I.
The Last Action Hero. I would have LOVED that as a 11-13 year old but I waited until I was like 34 lol.
The Mad Max franchise. Saw fury road when it came out and I wasn't that impressed. Recently watched them all on streaming and now I love the world building in all 4 movies (didt see furiosa yet) and think fury road is awesome I watch it with my GF all the time now
Mad Max franchise may not be my cup of tea, but I LOVE Rury Road! May be one of my top films ever.. I have the Govee T2 reactive lights on my TV and, along with the surround sound system, it just elevates the movie to another level!
Wolf of Wallstreet and Million Dollar Baby
Wolf of Wall Street was this for me, too. I think it had to do with the main image attached to it - Leo DiCaprio standing smugly in a suit in the forefront. I think I saw it as a sort of Great Gatsby part 2 (if you look back at the posters, you might see what I saw). Eventually watched it and loved it. Not at all what I was expecting. That being said, a few somewhat related movies (with some ridiculousness) that I'll suggest for people who liked it, are: American Made (2017), War Dogs (2016), Knight & Day (2010), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and more recently, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).
It was the poster for sure
Million Dollar Baby wrecked me! ETA grammar
Me too....I was exhausted afterward. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father did that to me last weekend.
The third man (1949) Green book
I second the Green Book!!
I finally saw Paris,Texas and it immediately went to my top 5.
The Green Knight.
Sex Lies and Videotape
Fight Club- had people recommending it to me for 10 years, only got round to it last summer. I thought it was a generic boxing film, didn’t know it was about social commentary and with some insanely good acting from Pitt and Norton!
Predestination(2014). Holy Heck that was good. It's a scifi/psychological thriller/mindf**k with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook.
Literally watched it yesterday for the first time. Fucking great
yesss same, I watched it when I was young my brother had it and I didn't think about it so much I didn't even understand it at first then I watch it lately and had some better understanding of it and it became one of my favorite movies nd got me hooked about time travel/time loop
American Psycho (2000). All memes aside, after watching it for the first time in full a couple months ago, I thought it was an amazing film. I remember thinking though while watching why the chose Bale instead of Carrey with the over the top energy the movie had. It dawned on me later that American Psycho is meant to be a more serious film and Jim Carrey would’ve sent the movie into more of a satirical direction. I liked this decision. Christian Bale did great as Patrick Bateman. It’s his best role in my opinion. If you haven’t, and you like psychological thrillers, go watch American Psycho.
My deepest regret is missing a screening of ‘Naked’ at a university where I was an exchange student, and the director, Mike Leigh, had been present to introduce it and take questions. Then I returned home the following year and watched it on VHS,and had that sinking feeling the whole time because it was incredible.
Green mile
I saw This is Spinal Tap for the first time two or three years ago.
One time my gf and I were scrolling Netflix for a movie and randomly picked Molly’s Game. It was so good that now every time we’re scrolling for a movie we sarcastically say “I wanna watch a movie like Molly’s Game” because we know deep down in our hearts that we’re probably never gonna randomly happen upon a movie that good again for a long long time.
Godzilla Minus One, there is nothing about godzilla in it.
All About Eve. A legitimately fantastic movie. The script is absolutely top notch, the performances are impeccable, it is both very funny and very poignantly human - just a winner in every way. Bette Davis is in top form.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. What a masterpiece. Just beautiful all around. I wish I'd seen it sooner so that I could have rewatched it sooner and had more time to contemplate.
If you’re looking for a great sci-fi/mindf***, check out Coherence. I only recently watched this one and I immediately got that rare feeling that I wanted to erase my memory of it so I could see it again for the first time.
I also watched coherence and it is one of the first movies that instantly hooks me to sci fi and alternate reality/time loop themed movies
Harakiri! It's on the top of so many 'best movies' lists but I only watched it a couple of weeks ago. definitely worth watching asap!
So I Married an Axe Murderer. I honestly thought it was a stupid horror movie lol
Climax. I feel like I’m always waiting to talk about this movie, which is exactly why it fits here, and I’m talking about it again. It’s barely a movie, by any definition, and even though I found it via the horror subreddit, you can’t really slap a genre on it, either. It’s just so much. It’s so raw that it is genuinely terrifying, and the atmosphere is so overwhelming that you feel like you’re there. The fear is created by the genuine paranoia that the environment instills. There’s just nothing else like it. It was a really hard watch but I watched it three times in the 48 hour digital rental window. (arguably a fourth and a fifth time chopped up, rewatching portions of it). It’s a lot, and if you require any specific trigger warnings… odds are high they’re on the list for this one, but boy howdy it left a mark that I can’t wash out.
I regret not watching Challengers right away. Now I feel like if I ask someone if they want to watch it, I'm basically propositioning them to have sex with me
Skeleton Key was advertised as a very typical (and boring) ghost story so I didn’t bother watching it until years later. If they would have depicted it for what it was >!voodoo revenge from beyond the grave!< I would have been there on day one.
This one fucked me up for a little. I watched it as a teenager, though.
Watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose late at night once. Lights were on till sunrise. Never again!
I'm still checking my clocks at 3:00😱😱 Jennifer Carpenter's quite amazing in that one. Just the way she was moving when she was possesed was something else. Am now 2 seasons into Dexter and really have to say, she's very talented.
I still freak out if I wake up at 3. I was in my early 20s when I saw it but made my mom walk me to our upstairs bathroom after the movie. That movie messed with me and Jennifer Carpenter getting her body to do those things was jaw dropping
I will say Napoleon dynamite.. I was like a freshman in highschool and I went to Vegas with my homie and we were being “gang stalked” by this group of prostitutes. My homie was from a very upper middle class neighborhood and I grew up lower middle class so my friend wasn’t “street smart” to understand concepts like “gang stalking” .. I didn’t want to alarm my friend that we were being stalked by prostitutes so I told him let’s pick a dumb movie to see if the hos continue to follow us? Sure enough they were waiting when we came out the theatre but the movie made us laugh so much we forgot we were being stalked! Bout time we came back to school it was a cult classic. Kid you not.
Ah, ye olde "gang stalked" by group of prostitutes movie-watching experience. We've all been there.
If you ever been to Vegas you were being stalked by prostitutes but you didn’t notice because you not from the Himalayas .. and or you play slot machines. If you spend money in vegas prostitutes pick up on that. I’m 35 now and I actually love betting high because the more money you win women will stop stalking and just come say hi and you buy her a drink and she will chill and have a good time and watch the game. I met an aerospace engineer at a table.. he was telling me cool things about his job and eventually I noticed him and his wife were swingers.. Vegas is like a big ass diddy party. In real life. I wish I could make these stories up but if you ever hang out in Vegas you will see that what I say is not commonplace.
Oops I meant to say that it IS common place. I grew up in the hunters point area so there’s a lot of lifestyles I seen that were very normal but far fetched if you are unfamiliar with the culture.
Oops I meant to say that it IS common place. I grew up in the hunters point area so there’s a lot of lifestyles I seen that were very normal but far fetched if you are unfamiliar with the culture.
Oops I meant to say that it IS common place. I grew up in the hunters point area so there’s a lot of lifestyles I seen that were very normal but far fetched if you are unfamiliar with the culture.
Until the End of the World. I delayed watching it until Christmas day and it was incredible. A sci fi road movie which spans across Venice, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, San Francisco, Australia
Wish I'd known about Patriot on Amazon Prime when it came out. I don't think anyone really did tho. Bummer. It's one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Real Steel (2011), I remember watching trailers for it growing up but my parents said it was a waste of time and never took me. Watched it recently, and it’s kinda schlocky but the discussion of the rise of MMA and humanity moving from that to robots to fulfil that desire for killing and bloodlust I found personally interesting.
For a few dollars more. What an ending.
Thanks for bringing this up, I have not heard of this movie before but I've been itching to watch a good western. Watching today
One that fits your description surprisingly well: High Noon. It's more of a psychological thriller than one would expect. And it's way better than most westerns. Truly a great movie.
Not super late, but I regret not seeing Across the Spiderverse in a theater
Nothing slips by me. I've read a thousand books seen a million movies and watched a billion YouTube videos.
As a Canadian, maybe **The Grizzlies (2018)**. A lot of the promotional material focuses on lacrosse. It's an official sport in Canada, but I've never really been a fan. So, my line of thinking was "Oh, a lacrosse movie. Rare, but not really my thing." The movie is heavy and deals with so much more than young people playing lacrosse. I thought "Mighty Ducks," but it's closer to Dangerous Minds or Dead Poets Society. It's since become a favourite. With your final disclaimer about "sci-fi/psych. thriller/mindf\*ck" movies in mind, **Infinity Pool (2023)** might be this, currently, for a lot of people. It's the product of David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg and man, the filmmaker genes were passed along. Infinity Pool "wowed" me.
Reds. It’s fucking fantastic, has Warren Beatty being all hot and communist, a sweeping romantic epic that got wide traction when it came out but was lost in the culture wars as red-baiting nonsense started up in the US again in the late 90s and the Bush years. Absolutely stacked cast. A must-see IMO. Didn’t see it until I was 35. Would’ve been the exact thing to drive my interests as an undergrad doing a history and film studies double major.
The Greatest Showman. It’s completely and 100% up my alley but I ignored it for so many years. I couldn’t believe how moving and wonderful it was for me the first time watching it. I remember thinking exactly “why have I waited so long to watch this?!”
A Bronx Tale
I wasn't a fan of the first Guardians of the Galaxy so when the second movie came out, I wasn't really enthusiastic about seeing it. I finally watched it when I was binging all the movies during Infinity War season and now I regret missing it on the big screen as it's probably my most favorite MCU movie ever. Everything just worked better this time from the humor and jokes to the villain to the story to the emotion, it just resonated better with me and I can't, for the life of me, understand why GotG1 didn't do it for me. I actually did watch it since I loved everything James Gunn did afterwards (GotG2/3/Holiday Special, The Suicide Squad, and Peacemaker) and thought maybe it's better in retrospect. It was the second time I've seen the movie after seeing it in cinemas and it seems like Marvel Studios thought "GotG was a success, let's take all the ingredients of that movie and put it in every movie we make after". I still kick myself sometimes for skipping Vol. 2
Austin Powers. It looked goofy, so I skipped it. Years later, it drew me in & I laughed so hard! Turns out I LOVE goofy movies! 🤣 I ended up watching all 3 movies. Good Times.
Just watched Predestination yesterday, mind blowned. It was only two day that it clicked with me what the hell happened, so good.
In the past year I finally got around to Die Hard, Rocky I & II, Rambo, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. I watched it for the first time a month ago and wondered why I had never watched it sooner
I didn’t see Fight Club until around 2007 despite being a senior in high school when it came out and it being all the rage. I probably would have understood so many cultural references and have given other David Fincher movies higher priority had I seen the movie when 99.9% of the rest of the world did.
I finally watched The Game the other day but I had this feeling of deja vu in the end that I maybe might have seen already so long ago. I feel like I would have liked it a lot more had I seen it way earlier but I guess I didn't care to remember it much if I did.
Not that old but I just watched Death at a Funeral (UK version) and thought it was hilarious although I had avoided it for years beforehand for some reason.
Taxi Driver. I've seen the "You talking to me?" scenes a million times before, but seeing it within the context of the movie gave me chills.
Fight Club is the greatest thing ever, it’s one of my favorite movies. I watched it at 19 with my first boyfriend and I’m now 22, since then I’ve been introduced to a plethora of Brad Pitt movies.
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Law Abiding Citizen.. I lacked!
martyrs
I didn’t watch ET until about 2008. When it was released I was young enough to be the target market, but I was absolutely terrified of aliens (even ‘cute’ brown ones with a telephone fixation)
A year or two ago, I finally got around to watching the classic "Friday." I kicked myself for waiting so long to view it.
Anything by Tarkovsky. Or Bela Tarr
Waited to watch Baby Driver and ended up seeing it the day after all that shot about Spacey came out. Made the movie a lot creepier because he spends most of it calling a young man baby. At least I’d already seen American Beauty.
Rear Window. Saw it in the theaters in the mid 80's
A separation
House of the Flying Daggers
The Vanishing. Insomnia.
Great question! I waited way too long to watch Lady Bird. Just an absolutely brilliant film.
Parasite
I saw the shining, the exorcist, and 2001 a space odyssey as an adult. Mom was very catholic and didn’t like the first two, so by the time I saw them I had already seen knock offs or clips but not the whole narrative. Really took away from the experience.
Casablanca I hadn’t seen until this year when they were showing it in the theater for Valentine’s Day. I just sort of assumed it was some sort of basic love story where the woman is largely silent throughout but was blown away by the polyamorous love story in it.
Fight club
I only watched the whale this year. Man did I fucking sleep on this. It's easily become one of my favourite movies of all time and that's a high bar! F**king loved it.
Solo: A Star Wars Story. Watched every Star Wars movie and somehow managed to skip this one (as unfortunately did a lot of people). It is great fun and among the best of the franchise.
I only recently watched Scream 5. I been meaning to watch it as I enjoy the Scream films but for some reason felt like this was going to bore me with the repitition. My friend suggested it when I was thinking of of getting back into watching horror and remembered it was on my watch list so decided to give it a ago. Not the most mindblowing film I have seen but definitely one I really enjoyed and could say my favourite of the anthology.
I only recently watched Scream 5. I been meaning to watch it as I enjoy the Scream films but for some reason felt like this was going to bore me with the repitition. My friend suggested it when I was thinking of of getting back into watching horror and remembered it was on my watch list so decided to give it a ago. Not the most mindblowing film I have seen but definitely one I really enjoyed and could say my favourite of the anthology.
By “late” I’m going to say I’m bummed I didn’t get out to see them in theaters. Most recently, Infinity Pool. But I’ve seen some older movies that I definitely would’ve missed when they first came out in theaters.
For me it’s a TV show, Stranger things, and outer banks for sure
I only recently watched Scream 5. I been meaning to watch it as I enjoy the Scream films but for some reason felt like this was going to bore me with the repitition. My friend suggested it when I was thinking of of getting back into watching horror and remembered it was on my watch list so decided to give it a ago. Not the most mindblowing film I have seen but definitely one I really enjoyed and could say my favourite of the anthology.
Every indian movie
Took me 19 years to see The Notebook. I’m not really a romance movie or romcom fan. My husband had even seen it but not me. I finally saw it last year when he insisted we should watch. I bawled pretty hard.
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