The Fundamentals of Caring.

I never see it mentioned but found it really good.

Speaking of Paul Giamatti, Win Win is a really good movie.

Man so is The Holdovers with him in it. My wife made me watch it lol and I loved it. VERY good movie.

Memento

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I've watched a lot of old, classic movies recently just to see if they held up. Many do not, but this is a great suggestion.

I'll also recommend Casablanca for its surprisingly good script that still impresses today. And High Noon, which both frustrates and satisfies.

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I went on a Hitchcock binge for a time in my 20's. Some of them held up well. Others were not as good. But man was that guy a master.

Stranded on a Desert Island movies:
Casa Blanca
Legends of the Fall
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Jerk

Knockaround Guys

American History X
Good Time

The Butterfly Effect
Stardust - One of my favorites, but weirdly obscure for having a cast with Charlie Cox, Henry Cavill, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ian McKellen, Robert DeNiro, Ricky Gervais, and Sienna Miller.

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The Butterfly Effect

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This is a great one. It is in my top 15 movies right below Edge of Tomorrow.

A History of Violence

Man. I forgot some of them were in that cast.

Thank You for Smoking

Been meaning to watch this one

Trident 88 said:

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I've watched a lot of old, classic movies recently just to see if they held up. Many do not, but this is a great suggestion.

I'll also recommend Casablanca for its surprisingly good script that still impresses today. And High Noon, which both frustrates and satisfies.

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If you want to hear something really strange about Casablanca, did you know that they released a version in Germany after the war that eliminated all references to the Nazis and to World War II?

They didn't get the original (dubbed in German) until the 1960s or 1970s.

Ghost Story
The Changling
Ruthless People
Starman

Haven't thought about Starman in ages.

BrownDeerAggie said:

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Ghost Story
The Changling
Ruthless People
Starman

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We watched the first and last on this list about a year ago. I didn't think either had weathered the test of time very well, particularly Starman. Good movies still, but not quite what I remembered from the early 80s.

This is easy. I have a lot. Will be returning to this thread periodically.

Moon (Rockwell is very underrated. Speaking of which)

Matchstick Men (Cage says this is a performance more should see of all his films, speaking of which)

Colour Out of Space and Mandy and Pig (all great performances, interesting films, with flaws)

Childhood of a Leader (Corbett's only good film)

Slow West (Fassbender, speaking of which)

his MacBeth

The excellent analysts at https://psyop-cinema.com/episode-archive/

have a good series on Malick, and I agree with their consensus A Hidden Life and Days of Heaven are his best films, and that he and Stone and Kubrick drop major clues about their early career regrets.

I'd also say that Ep. 79 is a definitive solution to Eyes Wide Shut, for those interested. Kubrick was very precise and they nail it with very significant detail.

The Northman is my favorite recent film, and while I appreciate Eggers taking his characters and their religious beliefs seriously, with impressive research behind it, I was disappointed that Nosferatu deviated from the text and the demon was "solved" via the occult (Read Ross Douthat on that).

The Northman is a de facto Christian film, and The Witch (I would have called it Black Philip) is terrifying in its atmosphere. There's still more horror to mine there, as the "witches" were the Planned Parenthood of the era.

Coen brothers:
Hail Ceasar! and A Serious Man are excellent, and one could make a case the latter is the most anti-Jewish film ever. Interestingly, the Catholic hero of the first was not exactly that way in real life.

Nightmare Alley and Crimson Peak are a good double feature, and both great. Then watch Byzantium.

Ready or Not: Here I Come will be a well deserved sequel to a very good original film.

Wild Tales is worth watching, as is House of the Devil.

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Coen brothers:
Hail Ceasar! and A Serious Man are excellent, and one could make a case the latter is the most anti-Jewish film ever. Interestingly, the Catholic hero of the first was not exactly that way in real life.

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I agree that A Serious Man is excellent. I disagree that it's anti-Jewish. Though it's so imbued with a darkly ironic take on a certain mid-century suburban Judaism that I could see where the argument comes from.

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Man. I forgot some of them were in that cast.

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Yeah, it's really an all-star cast. Pretty sure that was Charlie Cox's first big, starring role, too.

They're obviously parodying their upbringing, but it's amazingly biting and vicious. I'd bet at least one of them pulls a Norman Lear and converts to Christianity.

A few old titles that I have thought of:

Assault on Precinct 13, an early John Carpenter film that showed the style he would become known for (1976)
Looker, a sci-fi movie about subliminal messaging in advertising (1981)
Blow Out, a John Travolta psychological thriller (1981)
Escape To Witch Mountain, live action Disney movie (1975)
It, the Terror From Beyond Space, the makers of Alien clearly enjoyed this one (1957)
The Creature From the Black Lagoon, last of the classic Universal monster movies (1955)