• MissJinx@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      wow the 5th element for me too. Always thought I was weird but his movie is great

      also tropic thunder lol

  • Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca
    50·
    14 days ago

    The Big Lebowski. Simultaneously ridiculous and incredibly sophisticated. People who think its “just” a stoner comedy may have some more viewings to go 🙂

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      9·
      14 days ago

      I never realized it was considered a stoner comedy! It’s quite a bit better than one I’ve seen in that category!

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
        7·
        14 days ago

        It gets the stoner comedy reputation as the dude is stoned throughout. He’s a character in the movie though, not then full tone. That’s probably why it’s so good. It blends so many genres with an interesting interweaving plot and wonderful dialogue.

        It’s a deserved reputation as it’s great to watch stoned. Especially when the dude is confused and so are you. Or the psychedelic sequences. However it’s also not deserved as it’s so much cleverer than that with differen levels. A stoner comedy doesn’t normally have a coherent plot and levels.

        • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
          1·
          14 days ago

          Interesting. When my husband suggested we watch it, ages ago really early on in our relationship, I had asked him what category it was. I also asked him just now. Just now he went “Oh that’s difficult but broadly speaking it’s a comedy”. I said “I asked that question of you when you showed it to me like 15 years ago. So you know what you said then?” “No, what did I say then?” “You called it a dark comedy because someone died” (because I was and am sensitive to that) He nodded and said “Makes sense”

    • mateofeo85@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      14 days ago

      Especially when you dive into the fan made theories, like Donny is a figment of Walters imagination, Walter killed his ex-wife and her husband, the dude is the big Lebowski’s illegitimate son.

      • Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca
        1·
        13 days ago

        That’s going off the deep end for me. I prefer the interpretation that its a video essay on masculinity. “What makes a man a man?” is the central tenet of that movie, and personally, knowing that was a really crystallizing moment that made all the bullshit fall aside. I read a beautifully succinct essay about this somewhere and will look for the link.

      • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
        1·
        14 days ago

        I don’t think the Dude could be his illegitimate son since that’s part of the reason Maude referred him to that doctor. He wouldn’t have been very “thorough” if he missed that they were related.

  • BillDaCatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    14 days ago

    Groundhog Day

    Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

    Megamind

    Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)

    The Princess Bride

    • CybranM@feddit.nu
      2·
      14 days ago

      Wish they’d make a new release for the 4k version of Pirates. From what I’ve heard the one out now is pretty bad in terms of color grading and detail.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    14 days ago

    Big Trouble In Little China.

    Marathon Man [Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier] seems to have been designed for multiple viewings. A character seen briefly in one scene turns up later in the movie. A quick telephone call becomes incredibly important but you have to be paying close attention to every minute.

  • PurplePixie@midwest.social
    18·
    14 days ago

    Clue.

    Sometimes my friends and I just sit around quoting it until we’ve made it through the entire movie, so maybe there’s no point in rewatching it, but we do anyway.

  • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world
    15·
    14 days ago

    Idiocracy

    There’s something about that close-to-home dystopian outlook that calms me. Now go away, I’m batin’!

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    13·
    14 days ago

    Evolution.

    It knows what it is, and nobody in it is under some illusion that they’re making some masterpiece of cinema. That is not at all a criticism or even backhanded compliment. I like when the actors have fun with the things they’re working on. I mean, who doesn’t love seen behind the scenes of Ian Mckellen slapping a dummy of Sean Aston around.

    It’s fun, it’s ridiculous, and it leans into it a bit.

    Plus they came up with the Thanos Weakness a long time before the avengers fans.

    spoiler

    (it’s the butthole, they attacked a giant alien anus with soap to save the day)