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Movie Picking Megathread

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Movie Picking Megathread

Anna Rettberg
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Casey Muratori
Aug 24, 2022
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Hello everyone! We decided to make a post dedicated to picking movies! Please comment below with any suggestions you have for monthly themes or individual movies. We’ll curate some of them into groups of four movies that we could potentially use for future months. None of these are set in stone, and will likely evolve over time based on your suggestions. We won’t be able to list every movie you suggest here (there are so many!) but that doesn’t mean we won’t pick it at some point in the future. They’re all on the table!

New Releases: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, The Fabelmans, Avatar: The Way of Water, Glass Onion, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Banshees of Inisherin,

Music (but not musicals) Month: Amadeus, Whiplash, Almost Famous, Tar, Inside Llewyn Davis, This Is Spinal Tap

Computer Movies: The Imitation Game, War Games, Office Space, Her

Romantic Comedies: When Harry Met Sally, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Lobster, The Philadelphia Story

Spy Movies: Spy Game, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, No Way Out, Three Days of the Condor

Dance Movies: Saturday Night Fever, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Dirty Dancing, The Red Shoes

Love Triangles: The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gone With the Wind, Days of Heaven

Classic Romances: Titanic, Brokeback Mountain, Casablanca, Shakespeare in Love

Family Drama: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Bicycle Thieves, Still Walking, The Squid and the Whale

Road Trip Movies: Planes Trains & Automobiles, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Little Miss Sunshine

Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,

Trippy Movies: Being John Malkovich, Enter the Void, The Holy Mountain, Enter the Void, Bliss, Irma Vep, The Bothersome Man, Color Out of Space

The Best of Technicolor: The Wizard of Oz, Fantasia, Leave Her to Heaven, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The River, Niagara

Underrated When They Were Released: Starship Troopers, Tron, The Thing, Scarface (1983), Hook

Corpo-dystopia: Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, RoboCop, The Insider

Art Film Month #1: Blue Velvet, In the Mood for Love, The Thin Red Line, Tampopo

Art Film Month #2: An Elephant Sitting Still, Stalker, The Seventh Seal, Last Year at Marienbad

Bleak Future: Metropolis, Akira, Children of Men, Mad Max: Fury Road

Movies Based on a Play: A Streetcar Named Desire, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Glengarry Glen Ross, Fences

AI/Cyborg/Artificial Life: Blade Runner (The Final Cut), Ex Machina, The Terminator, Ghost in the Shell

Psychological Thriller: Transsiberian, Perfect Blue, Silence of the Lambs, The Lighthouse

Christmas Movies: Batman Returns, Home Alone, Klaus, Die Hard

Unlikable Main Character: Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver, Gone With the Wind, There Will Be Blood, Heathers

Mob Movies: The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Irishman, Scarface (1932)

Scary Movies (for Halloween): The Shining, Psycho, The Witch, Halloween

You Are Being Watched: The Conversation, Rear Window, The Truman Show, Enemy of the State

Time Travel: Looper, Back to the Future, Primer, Edge of Tomorrow

Westerns: The Power of the Dog, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven, The Searchers

Musicals: West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain, Moulin Rouge!, Cabaret

Ensemble Movies: Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, 12 Angry Men, Spotlight

Fractured Identity: Mulholland Drive, American Psycho, Fight Club, Vertigo

Stop Motion Animation: Anomalisa, Kubo and the Two Strings, King Kong, Isle of Dogs

Horror Comedies: Cabin in the Woods, What We Do in the Shadows, Shaun of the Dead, Gremlins

Hollywood: The Player, Barton Fink, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Hail Caesar!

Casey and Anna Movie Suggestions: Shakespeare in Love, Bullets Over Broadway, The Big Lebowski, Synecdoche New York, I Heart Huckabees, Apocalypse Now, Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai

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Deepwurk
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May 30

In the "Halloween" episode you mention following up with John Carpenter's other good movies. I should recommend them in this order:

- The Thing (1982)

- Prince of Darkness (1987)

- In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

^ People refer to these three movies as his "Apocalypse Trilogy." I would classify "The Thing" as being clearly the best (the kids are watching the original "The Thing from Another World" (1951) in "Halloween").

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Alex V
Apr 26·edited May 5

My recommendations:

- 3 Idiots (Comedy-Drama)

- The Grand Seduction (Comedy)

- Bon cop bad cop (comedy buddy cop)

Movie based on play: The Producers

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