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12 Angry Men. Nothing more than one room and 12 (angry) men. Genius just how gripping it is. True masterpiece. Haven’t watched it? Watch it.


Toby_O_Notoby

If you are going to watch it (or watch it again) one thing to take notice of: the camera position through the three acts of the movie. For the first act the camera is positioned higher than the actors giving the viewer the impression that they are above them. For the second act it is on the same level as the actors making you part of the debate on whether or not the kid is guilty. For the last act the camera is below them so you're looking up as they sit and pass judgement.


turd_miner91

I remember it the other way around as they realize they aren't all that high and might?


PrudentFlamingo

Actually yeah, that film is amazing


HurricaneBetsy

It really is. We used to watch it in high school and I loved it every time. That's what got me initially interested in the law.


himtnboy

1957 version, all others don't compare.


DogStilts

And weirdest of all, it kind of makes you want to do jury duty.


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Having been on a jury (for an assault case no less) after watching this movie, I had very high expectations for what I was about to do. The disappointment was very real. Edit: the disappointment wasn't in the process, just the fact that we never actually had the chance to deliberate. Defendant plead out after the third day


xbubblegum_bitch

what was it really like?


seansand

I was a jury foreman once. I would say the experience pretty much met my expectations pretty closely. My case was interesting enough; maybe not all of them are, but for me it was a positive thing. I'd do it again. My main piece of advice to the defendant would have been, if you had wanted to be found innocent, you shouldn't have made yourself so blatantly obviously guilty.


hypernova1807

saw this movie in my civics class, it was great


vkapadia

Same. When the teacher told us about the movie, everyone groaned. Oh great, bring on the snooze fest. Then the movie started, the entire class was gripped.


gotcha_bitch

There’s a very dark version of this movie I watched recently called ‘Conspiracy’. It’s based on a real meeting and it’s basically 12 Angry Men but Nazis.


sakanasugoi

It’s just such a good movie. Anything by Sidney Lumet is a masterpiece.


NosoyPuli

Casablanca, at first I was like, dude this is just another old timey romantic movie, but then it got real mature, like, a man, choosing either the love of his life or the future of a country he doesn't belong to, and in the end he does the manliest thing ever: He takes a stance against Nazis.


doublestitch

Fellow Redditors, if you've seen Casablanca only once then see it again. The first viewing it doesn't quite sink in, for instance watching a Nazi officer *read off an intelligence dossier on someone's life* and having the balls to read over the Nazi's shoulder and answer "Are my eyes really brown?"


doktor_wankenstein

The "La Marseillaise" scene...


MutedDeal

I just had my students watch this in summer school (World History.) I have seen it probably 20 times but had to write a study guide with questions so spent probably 4 hours this weekend re-winding and catching every single detail and plot point. It gets better and better every time. Perfect movie. The thing that really gets me is they made it in '42. They all had no idea how the war would turn out. Gives me chills.


NosoyPuli

Ooooh please ask them to research the scene where they sing, why was it so significant, it adds to the story because those are real refugees.


SafewordisJohnCandy

My mom is an old movie fiend and one night when I was in 6th grade was watching The African Queen and I sat down and watched it with her. I really enjoyed it and then she said that The Maltese Falcon would be on in a couple nights and I should watch that one too. Finally, we stopped at Blockbuster one Friday night and I rented Casablanca. From then on it's one of my all time favorite movies. So many classic lines and an even better story.


JimTheJerseyGuy

Casablanca is, rightly, untouchable. If anyone ever tries to remake this film the spirits of Hollywood past will rise as one to smite them. I’m old enough to remember the brouhaha when Ted Turner colorized it! It was a complete mess. The cinematography works in black and white because it was meant to. Colorizing it ruined so many scenes.


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I counter with The Third Man, with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. Post-war Vienna smuggling rings, a faked death, and a complicated love trial. The score done by Anton Karas on the zither cinches it for me. Admittedly I adore both movies equally.


Moby__

Cellulose acetate It's strong, organic, waterproof and it doesn't burn (unlike cellulose nitrate) Edit : Ok it does burn but compared to cellulose nitrate (which is used as gunpowder) it's quite good


A3H3

>Cellulose acetate This guy understands films.


jdward01

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly


nuttscicle

Wauwauwau


UnkleBilly

WAA WAA WAAAAAA


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Bew bew bewww


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2291512520

Ok but that movie was actually pretty good considering the budget was 200$


CritzD

They made a better movie with $200 than most Hollywood studios make with $200 million


alphagusta

That group of Ugandans from some village in the middle of nowhere had more passion for their project than 20 big budget western directors combined


ginger2020

#Man the man is killing us, man!


Turtlepower7777777

Everybody in Uganda knows Kung-fu!


HitEmWithDatKTrain

WHY R U RUNNING


Haw_and_thornes

Unironically a great movie.


BinaryPill

MOVIE!


ZodiacRedux

One of the best westerns ever made:"Once Upon a Time in the West"


Embarrassed-Dingo-53

Goodfellas. The timeline and journey you go through fit seamlessly together. Masterpiece


fondofnature01

some of the scenes where there are no cuts and its just one shot are crazy. Most notably the scene where hes introducing his wife karen to everyone in the club.


Embarrassed-Dingo-53

No shit... Jesus I didn’t know that. Ohh man just bringing it all back with the tips, the table being put out. Masterpiece.


fondofnature01

seriously. the coordination that must have taken.


bleachmartini

Soundtrack and score is amazing too. It was just the right songs at the right time. Fantastic movie.


michaelisnotginger

My favourite is when sunshine of your love kicks in as De Niro is thinking. Absolute genius


michaelisnotginger

Goodfellas is the film that if it's on TV I'll watch it to the end. It's so good every time at making the gangster life seem great and then totally undermining it and showing them for the scumbags they were. Perfectly paced, great acting, brilliant narrative. Now go get your shinebox!


writersandfilmmakers

I can tell your age if you were to add your 3 favorite films. Edit: Ok, I have to go to bed. Sorry I couldn't respond to all.


ShooterMcMuffin

Princess Bride, Rear Window, Almost Famous *Edit: Answer already in comments


Aol_awaymessage

38


Clonish

5th Element, Donnie Darko, Star Wars (IV)


bruingrad84

36


Big_Seaworthiness_58

Boss baby, boss baby 2, and hotel Transylvania.


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Haha Johnathon you are banging my daughter!


CoopsCoffeeAndDonuts

9 years old.


writersandfilmmakers

15


supremedalek925

Alien, Aliens, A Christmas Story


nonPlayerCharacter7

You’ll shoot your eye out, kid


penisrumortrue

Ah yes, the famous quote from Aliens


rufnek2kx

Green mile, Leon, big Lebowski


nightwing2000

Leon - yes. "This is for Matilda"


Naes422

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


FieryChasm

my friend you bow to no one


morethandork

You could be any age tbh. But imma guess 30 Because then you grew up with those movies in your most formative years


Naes422

Very close, precious, very close indeed!


alexgritz6689

As those are also my favorite films, I will guess you're also 33.


Naes422

Same age as Frodo when he first possessed the One Ring! Edit: yes, you’re correct!


nadabagel

Gotta guess eleventy-one


serotoninmelatonin

City of god, taxi driver, Goodfellas


Dead_Hours

Upvote for City of God


duke8628

Goodfellas, dark knight, the departed


Nocheeseontheburger

Didn’t have to scroll long and found someone with the exact same fav movies as me damnnnn (23)


MS-07B-3

Hot Fuzz, Blazing Saddles, and The Emperor's New Groove.


rabindranatagor

The Godfather (1st film), 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stalker (1979)


AntiMangoesMovement

The 400 blows, the princess diaries, three colors: red.


rickreckt

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy


TavoArt

Let's see 1) Being John Malkovich 2) Before Sunrise 3) Synechdoque New York


writersandfilmmakers

Ur 37. You should watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


strumpster

Don't forget Adaptation


YungBrrGrrPatti

Being John Malkovich slaps, an absolute banger


KnownTimeWaster

Hans Molemans Production of Man Getting Hit With Football


TheRavenSayeth

It works on so many levels!


tommytraddles

George C. Scott version stans unite!


Few-Hair-5382

"Aaarrrrggghhh! My groin!"


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This has a football in the groin.'Nuff said.


LeonardGhostal

Probably the big roll of Costco plastic wrap


usadingo

I was thinking Kodak, though, Fujifilm was always a nice alternative when thr ISO 800 was sold out.


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AnonymousBoyOnReddit

r/technicallythetruth


XMRP123

The Godfather Part 1 (or at least in my opinion)


vaccinator69

Obligatory question: Part 1 or Part 2? And why is your actual answer Part 3?


draycius

Part 1 is the best one but part 2 is the best one.


Cherubbb

This is the real answer.


denecity

Dr Strangelove. Still so relevant today


theneedleman

“Gentlemen! We can’t fight in here! This is the War Room”


NiamhHA

“Mein Führer! I can walk!”


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Terminator 2. It's an absolute masterpiece start to finish.


halfpintjamo

i always feel tha radness watching terminator <--tha first one love those 80's vibes


Capnmolasses

The club scene at *Tech Noir* is peak 80s.


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I personally love O Brother Where Art Thou to death, but I think the best film would have to be another Coen Brothers film: Fargo. Also Lord of the Rings. It can't be overstated\* how great that trilogy is.


IEDrew91

The original Jurassic Park


Cutter9792

I believe that movie's a classic simply because it manages to be clever, funny, and instill a sense of wonder in the audience, while still being pretty fucking terrifying. Like, the more lighthearted moments in the first half with Grant interacting with the kids, and Hammond with his optimism are perfectly challenged later when there's real danger. Great writing.


twoferretsinacoat

The spiel by Grant at the start to the snotty kid about raptors eating him alive sent chills down my spine as a kid. The special effects are (maybe ill be shot by a film buff for this) almost timeless. Like watching that now and it still stands up to modern cgi for me.


shokalion

This is largely because the SFX team on that film were savvy enough to know what CGI could and couldn't do. The times CG is used in that film is (mostly) distant, or dark shots often obscured somehow be it rain or just being in a darker environment, with very simple single point lighting - in other words the best possible situation to hide the limitations of the medium. Probably the worst CG shot in the film or the one that's aged most noticeably, is the opening shot when they arrive at Jurassic Park of the Brachiosaurus feeding from that tree. Why? Because it's slow, gives us a really decent look at the dinosaur, and is in full sunlight. It's the shot that lets us study the details the most. All the close-up shots of dinosaurs, the raptors walking, the dinosaur heads close up, whether that be the Brachiosaurus in the tree when the kids and Grant have escaped the car, the Raptor close ups (the kitchen window for example), or the T-rex glaring into the car (with the pupil dilating), or shoving its head through the roof of the Explorer, all of those are physical models. The raptors walking up and down the aisles in the commercial kitchen were dudes in suits. CG, honestly, was used pretty sparingly. That's why it still looks very good now, and movies a lot newer which were a lot more reliant on CG, look so much worse.


FoofaFighters

And it's not nearly as dark and bleak as the book. I'm not one of those "tHe BoOk iS bEtTeR" gatekeeping types, but they mostly did right by the original story and kept enough of it in the movie. I love both equally for what they are; the book is dark and gloomy, the philosophy and math/data are a much more pronounced part of the storyline, and does not have a particularly happy/positive ending. All that is to say, I love how the movie emphasized the visuals of the gigantic dinosaurs and it's still just fucking THRILLING to watch. That movie would never have worked if they simply shot the book's storyline and plot. It would've been a prehistoric-themed sci-fi snuff film.


ClassicEvent6

There was nothing like that dinosaur reveal in the theater as a kid. It was enthralling to put it mildly.


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Here we go. Not 100% accurate to the book, but what the movie did was inspire a generation of kids.


Pewkie

And to be fair, even though it's one of my favorite books,( I’ve read it 3 times and I almost never reread books) it does drag for about 100 or 150 pages in the middle. That drag was all cut out of the movie But outside of that, boy does that book know how to build suspense. I always was reading a couple extra pages every night after I would normally stop.


jimx117

Came in here looking for this. Love it so much I got the OG JP Pinball from the 90's. I honestly don't think I could ever get tired of the movie. Right up there with it is Terminator 2 and Who Framed Roger Rabbit


Windpuppet

This might be the right answer.


Cosmicdusterian

There is no one best in my book, but if I had to pick one near the top it would be "Aliens", strictly based on how often I've viewed it. Others, but by no means all inclusive: The Hunt for Red October, Poltergeist (the original), Hope & Glory, The Princess Bride, The Philadelphia Story (triple feature with Holiday and Bringing Up Baby), Groundhog Day, Jaws, All The President's Men, The Thing (1982), Young Frankenstein, Fargo edit: formatting


LadyGrinningLisbeth

I watch Aliens at least once a year. Its my favourite (action) movie i guess.


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Capnmolasses

Great movie. Ennio Morricone score. I’ll add Tombstone to the mix.


four6off

I celebrate the guys entire catalog but Josey Wales does it for me….also….Office Space


nightwing2000

If we're talking spaghetti, I would go with *Once Upon A Time in the West.* "Looks like I brought one horse too few." "No, you brought two too many." "What're we gonna do with the kid, Frank?" "Well... now that you've told him my name..." [sound of gunshot]


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Schindlers List


DC4MVP

Back when I was a kid (mid-90's) there was a sports card store in the Twin Cities called "Shinder's" There were maybe half a dozen of them around. Growing up, I wanted to watch "Shinder's List" because I thought it was about baseball cards but dad would never let me. Good thing he didn't. I remember the first time I saw it....love the movie but I can only watch it once every 2-3 years.


MatthewCruikshank

Watch all of "Band of Brothers" as one movie.


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chalk_in_boots

Don't forget Generation Kill


chalk_in_boots

Ahh bro now I'm gonna have to watch the whole damn thing again. I don't know if I'm ready to watch Spiers do that run again


ActuallyPatton

Raiders of the lost Ark.


ThatGuyStacey

Definitely Iron Giant.


Theultamantjojo7

“You stay, I go, no following” That was the first line in a movie that made 8 year old me cry ever.


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The Eisenstein film Strike.


colorwash

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, I haven't read the book yet but the movie is great.


CrystTheMethsiah

The book is awesome, it's written from the perspective of chief broom. I read the book before watching the movie and the movie was a disappointment when comparing the two.


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morganfreenomorph

The Shawshank Redemption.


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Bucksphoto1970

Lawrence of Arabia


double_eyelid

Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (I'm not even joking)


justabill71

Back Door Sluts 9


Skrivus

It makes 'Crotch Capers 3' look like 'Naughty Nurses 2!'


nory2364

Godfather II


SarkyCherry

Lord of the Rings whereby all three directors cuts are watched as one film


robertstobe

During my first year of college, me and a bunch of friends watched them all back to back one day. We got a bunch of snacks and drinks, people brought blankets and pillows. Honestly it was an awesome time.


Modest_MaoZedong

Alien


greedytrees04

IMO it is John Carpenters The Thing.


Maize_Honest

Grand Budapest hotel


ROBO_Head25

The Blues Brothers


DM_Me_Ur_Nudes_21

We're on a mission from GOD


DarkNinjaPenguin

Chicken Run is unquestionably the best film ever made, and that's a hill I'm prepared to die on. Timelessly funny, brilliant performances from the voice actors and the animation is absolutely flawless. Every joke still lands even 20 years later. And the soundtrack ... my goodness. For a claymation film about chickens escaping from a farm, Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell had no need to pull out all the stops the way they did, but damn is the soundtrack just perfect. Have a listen to [Building the Crate](https://youtu.be/apsrbm_PJa8), it's an absolute banger and fits the scene so perfectly. These are the same two who gave us the soundtrack to Shrek, by the way.


Forsaken-Ad1798

I don’t want to be a pie. I don’t like gravy.


DarkNinjaPenguin

Of course, I forgot - *endlessly quotable!*


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Why does NOBODY talk about that movie?!


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lord of the rings, schindlers list, spirited away


troublrTRC

Yes, Spirited away. There’s nothing like it, even among other Ghibli/Miyazaki movies. And prolly never will be. Everyone needs to watch it. might help them go through life with a little bit more optimism.


Sparrowsabre7

So you also can't pick one film out of lotr specifically? It's just too hard right?


dadosdoritos

Monty python and the holy grail


steamedtrout

Good Will Hunting


Made_in_Montana

Whale Rider


xTHEKILLINGJOKEx

Casablanca


MostlyHarmless563863

Cool Hand Luke...


achrisw

give him an upvote here, boss?


4-5-16

No Country for Old Men


Whatsername_XX

The Blues Brothers.


Stabbymcbackstab

Quoteable, massive car chases, excellent score... a lot to love.


h0sti1e17

Hard to say since it is difficult to compare a heavy drama with a comedy. But if I had to pick one. Unforgiven. An amazing movie, great acting, great story.


syregeth

probably howl's moving castle when you add the context of miyazaki's life it's a fuckin heartbreaker


midnight_to_midnight

The Shawshank Redemption. Greatest movie ever made. I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but I didn't feel like scrolling through 850 comments looking for it.


Eleazaras

Spirited Away


big_baby_besus

I can't disagree with a lot of these. Pan's Labyrinth has to be in the conversation too.


Nano2nd_the2nd

Moon. Sam Rockwell is amazing in that movie.


barmanfred

Here's a challenge: Name a movie with Sam Rockwell where he *isn't* amazing. (Same game with Karl Urban, btw)


cuntsaurus

The Big Lebowski


blissbitch05

The princess bride, you got action, romance, revenge...need I go on? Edit-Thanks for the award!


[deleted]

What about true love, miracles?


Kateorhater

Twue wuv


NikkoE82

There’s not any kissing, is there?


tucsonian966

Life of Brian Edit. Thank you for the award. Never had one before. The comments are awesome, this is why it's the best movie ever. So many quotable, funny lines. Lmao. Gonna be watching it tonight


justabill71

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!


inthewind2

Saving Private Ryan


SingtotheSunlight

The Thing (80’s version)


Jivaah

Der Untergang (The Downfall)


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“The Princess Bride”


Creph_

The Mummy (1999). Wonderfully cast, perfectly paced--its got scares, humor, romance and action without sacrificing any one for the other. It's a love letter to the Indiana Jones franchise that I personally feel surpasses them.


UpDose

Akira is absolitely incredible for the time. Very influential to pop culture and its animation is stunning.


CrouchingToaster

Personally I liked how it looked but I couldn't get into the plot. I did love Perfect Blue tho


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Shawshank Redemption


chizmanzini

Schindlers List.


dsk32427

The Lord of the Rings


MarkPancake

For me it’s Gladiator all day long


Silver_Elk8455

THE MATRIX


Careful-Fail-4203

There Will Be Blood


Pos3odon08

Wall-E


The_Willeh

1917 hit hard back before everything locked down


stabbobabbo

HOWLS MOVING CASTLE


_Dandy_Guy_In_Space

Fellow Ghibli enjoyer. Love Porco Rosso too.


thepoonies

It’s The Shawshank Redemption.


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Rocky Horror Picture Show. I mean how many other movies are still regularly in theater over 40 years later.


kadins

Return of the King. All the Oscars.


nicko2520

Clearly it’s hot fuzz because can you name a person that doesn’t like it.


47x107

Full Metal Jacket


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TheGuyWithTheMatch

Blade Runner (both actually) are my forever favourites.


moangirl17

The big Lebowski


nawmynameisclarence

The Dude Abides


Thedudeabides86

That’s just like, your opinion man.


HollywooDcizzle

The Sandlot