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Required viewing if you are trans or questioning your gender, imo

I'd have to say Baby Driver. Seen it over 20 times. Its our goto movie when we can't think of anything else

I'd pick The Big Lebowski for me. I'm a simple guy, I like movies and games where absurd things happens in everyday life—because my life feels monotonous, iykyk.

Sci-fi and high fantasy stuff is entertaining, but I don't dig them as much as media with contemporary setting.

Heavy Metal. It's so excited to show you all its cool stuff!

I have three that all vie for the top-spot at different times:

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is usually my top. I love all the performances, the practical sets, the goofy CGI, and the soundtrack (especially the ending scene with the expert use of "Staralfur" by Sigur Ros). I also grew up with an absentee father and while I never really developed typical "daddy issues" over that, something about this aspect of the plot hits me (same with why I have a fondness for Tron Legacy).

The Beach is also up there. Not a great film, but a favorite. I caught it right around the time I started surfing and developing an itch to see the world. I've also read the novel several times (which is quite different from the film). It's whole commentary on tourism-as-colonialism is brilliant.

Office Space might be the one movie I've seen more than any other. While it's a great comedy, the performances are perfect as is the themes (though the ending is kinda lame and feels like the movie loses steam). I grew up hanging out among cubicles with my mom and every character is someone that I have met.

Back to the Future. It's both an amazing time capsule of the era and somehow also timeless. All the actors absolutely nail it and it's just super fun to watch. I never get tired of it.

Gran Torino

Gotta be The Matrix (1999). It blew my mind with the action when I saw it as a teenager, it continued blowing my mind with the philosophical and existential ideas when I started understanding those as an adult, and now it's the ultimate comfort watch for me.

The two sequels have a special place in my heart too.

My Neighbor Totoro

I can't decide, but what immediately comes to mind that hasn't been said is "Everything everywhere all at once" and "Interstellar".

I have never had a single favorite film. I don’t think I could list my top five favorite films of many different genres.

The Living End by Gregg Araki

the movie touches on many of the problems/insecurities that young americans had to deal with back in the late-80's/early-90's and stands in stark contrast to the world of today's millenials & genz adults, but it's still familiar in deeply touching and troubling ways.

every time i watch it, it never fails to remind me of an aspect of life that i lived, but had completely forgotten about in the decades since then and Araki has a way of making each one feel like an old wound that you forgot you had like it's some sort emotional battle scar from living life.

a VERY young ethan hawke is in it and i've never disliked anything he's ever done. lol

That's a tough one to answer. I don't have a specific favorite movie; however, The Dollar Trilogy is high up on my list. For action, I like older movies like Enter the Dragon, and for comedy, take a look at The Big Lebowski.

Gut reaction?

"Big Trouble In Little China."

I know there are better movies, but this is my favorite. Magic and gangsters, a dimwit hero, cheesy dialog, really good fight scenes, and a really hot actress.

Every time I watch it I feel like I'm 14 again.

I have never heard of this movie. Am watching now. This is quite interesting !!

Alien and Blade Runner, both by Ridley Scott. Arguably set in the same universe.

Absolute stunning set and costume designs and genre defining in there own way.

"Rubber" - It's a (french?) movie about a car wheel that suddenly becomes aware of its own existence. It then starts rolling around, and somehow it has the ability to KILL telepathically. It starts small with squirrles or rats exploding, but at some point even the military needs to intervene.

I like trash :)

君の名は。 (your name.). There’s so much to it. The one that comes to mind now is how humbled the writer (Shinkai) was by the west’s reception of his previous film that he insisted upon the soundtrack being done by a band with a bilingual singer, so if you watch the English dub, the music is also in English. I don’t, but I love that detail. (I prefer the Japanese dub with no subtitles, followed closely by the Japanese dub with some really excellent fan subs.) I’ve seen it enough that I no longer need the dialogue translated to fully appreciate it. I know what they’re talking about.

I also love how the trailer doesn’t tell you shit about what it’s about. The trailer is happy letting you think it’s a romantic comedy about teens body swapping. There’s a hard right turn about halfway through that changes the whole thing. And while the whole thing is beautiful and there are some great scenes before that point, that’s where the movie really begins. There’s a line in one of the songs that says “everything before now is prologue.” And that’s true. There’s the story and there’s a bunch of stuff that just sets it up, and the trailer only covers the latter.

Then there’s the multiple timelines…

the thirteenth floor

also back to the future if i can choose one more

Eurotrip. My friends watched it like 8 times. It's not rated as great movie, but the jokes are really good, makes fun of stereotypes, every scene is a meme. Maybe I'm biased, but its a fun movie