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Adrian M Lopez | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +6 
 Off topic, what’s a handful of your favorite movies? I didn’t know until recently that you went to film school!
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TheGuySwann | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +13 
 Gonna rapid fire off the top of my head all movies that come to mind:

Fight Club
Stardust
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Shawshank Redemption
Dark Knight 
Matrix
Princess Mononoke
Aliens
Klaus
Good Will Hunting
Heat
Die Hard
Snatch
Pan’s Labyrinth
Rope
V for Vendetta
Groundhog Day
Love Song for Bobby Long
Lord of the Rings
Top Gun: Maverick
Children of Men
Whiplash
Sanjuro
The Princess Bride
Gravity
Arrival
Cashback 
Annihilation
The Last Samourai
Vanilla Sky
Perfume: Story of a Murderer
Sunshine

I can’t get anymore off the top of my head but I’m undoubtedly missing a number of great ones because I didn’t think of Sunshine til the last moment and it’s one of my favorites. Big Danny Boyle fan.
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dackdel | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 We live in public
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d74cc6bd | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Interstellar
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TheGuySwann | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I can't add that one only because I read the script like 5 years before it was released (wasn't even greenlit), and absolutely fell IN LOVE with it. It was SO good... but then i went to the theater just excited out of my mind, and they completely gutted basically the most profound moments and theme of the story and I was dumbfounded. I hated that movie the first time i watched it because I kept trying to figure out how it was going to end the way it had in the script...

That said, since my passionate aggression to the film diverting from the story i loved has subsided, the movie is much better than i gave it credit for.  It will likely always be a tainted film experience for me because of that reason though. i kinda wish i had the opportunity to watch it "unburdened by what has been" 🤣
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Rand | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 prereads usually run betr 4 me
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150bb098 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Try writing your top 50 movie list sometime. I’ve done it - it’s a fun and challenging exercise.
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6b1c4d0724de15e2fc554bc2b0cba8a41bc059dc5a6879dc20... | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Adding:
No country for old men
Unforgiven
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rowdyhodl | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Two greats
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Adrian M Lopez | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I’ve seen almost all of these! Great fucking taste bro!
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calimike | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Tombstone
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mbrochh | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 My list would be almost exactly the same.

But you clearly forgot The Big Lebowski.
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Anon | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Coherence (2013)
Match Point (2005)
Thoroughbreds (2018)
The Killer (2024)
Underworld (2003)

Pretty much every movie on my favorites list is panned as "forgettable" or "uninspired."
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Tara | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Testing… my first primal post.

Adding 
Pulp Fiction, 
Groundhog Day & Princess Bride
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danieltapa | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 no Tarantino's? 🤔
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JoeBloggs | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fundamentally, "In Time" is missing and "Dawn of the Dead (Original) and "Money Heist" and "Full Metal Jacket" and "2001 A Space Odyssey" and "The Shining" and "The Thing" and "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Rambo First Blood" and "A Brief History of Time" and "Idiocracy" etc et cetera....
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rowdyhodl | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Perfume…going hard core movie guy there.

Solid list.
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rowdyhodl | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I know the last thing you need is more shit to do, but having your friends on the show once a month to talk old school films may give your brain a break.

Congrats on the second baby BTW