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[–] LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Perfect Blue" by Satoshi Kon. Watching it dubbed multiple times so I notice the visuals. Also the changes between the sub and dub can bring more understanding.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

Excuse me, who are you?

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

!movies@piefed.social

[–] Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Big Lebowski. Every time.

He just picks things up through the movie and uses them later. One of the best examples starts in the opening scene of the movie where he's buying milk and paying with a check, as he's writing it out there's a t.v. behind the cashier playing GWB Sr saying "This aggression against Kuwait will not stand", then way later in the movie someone is shouting at him and he uses the line "this aggression will not stand" and you know he's picked it up from that earlier scene and used it again. The movie is full of this kind of callback and interaction.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The conversation with him and Maude Lebowski is also a great example of this:

Maude Lebowski: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude: 'Scuse me?

Maude Lebowski: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?

The Dude: I was talking about my rug.

Maude Lebowski: You're not interested in sex?

The Dude: You mean coitus?

Gets me every time

Also the self-correction of from "beaver" to "vagina."

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The elder President Bush was HW.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

You mean Fitgirl?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

12 Monkeys

Princess Bride

Fight Club

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Blade Runner (both movies)

Good list. I'd like to add:

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Inception
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Hot Fuzz

Every watch you notice new little details. This film is the (modenr) textbook example of Checkov's gun.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago

"You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village."

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[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Secretary.

Doubt ne if you want, that movie has serious layers and is brilliantly written.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

That movie is so hot. And I've met plenty of young women in the BDSM community who use submission as a mechanism to cope with trauma and fear. Its a better BDSM story than 50 Shades of Grey, that's for zure.

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[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lots of movies I’ve rewatched a lot of times but one I can think of off of the top of my head that offers something new on subsequent rewatched is The Truman Show.

There’s just… soooo much stuff there. Like, does Truman become aware of what’s going on over there course of the beginning of the movie, or is he already aware before the movie even began and trying to blend in?

And because the movie is really fun to watch, you will come back to it, and notice something new every time.

[–] SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

A fun little game is to point out all of the cameras that are visible. If you make that into a drinking game you would be dead by the end of the first act..

[–] mikezane@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I'm a fan of Fifth Element. Super enjoyable and there is a lot going on. It took a few watches before I realized the protagonist and the antagonist never actually meet in the movie.

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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[–] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)
  • Terry Gilliam's Brazil
  • Akira
  • What are you doing, step-bro?
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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’ve passed through Everything Everywhere All At Once approximately eighty times now, because on every single viewing, I’m discovering one or two tiny fragments of interrelationship that I’ve never seen before.

It’s a marvelous, marvelous movie.

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I had a lot of fun trying to look for more surveillance with each watch through of The Truman Show.

12 Monkeys

In The Mouth of Madness

The Thing

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

SCOTT!

PIL-GRIM!

Edgar Wright is amongst my favorite directors, and the first half of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is my favorite movie ever. Fuck, I had to take a film class with one of the world's oddest professor in college before I could properly explain why I love the movie so much.

Each time I watch it I notice a little something more. I've lowkey been thinking about making a fan-cut with the deleted scenes and everything.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Other than what everyone else has said (great taste in film, lemmings) I'll throw out...

In the Mouth of Madness. People tend to rank The Thing as his best movie, but the other two parts of the "Apocalypse Trilogy" are also excellent. Prince of Darkness has plenty to reccomend it, but I actually have watched IMM at least 10 times. The practical effects hold up well, and I feel like I catch new little details or acting quirks on each watch. Sam Neill and Julie Carmen are both really on their game and amazingly bring a lot of both subtlety and camp to the roles. The soundtrack is really banging too, if you're a fan of Carpenter's synth-rock.

And for something completely different, but still an "at least 10 views" favorite: Rian Johnson's Brick. You'll probably need at least 2 viewings just to catch all the dialogue, which is very fast and uses a weird made up slang. The main victim makes a phone call in the first act that basically reveals everything if you understand what she's saying, but it takes the whole movie for that to happen. It's just a fun, good mystery story too. Great sense of style, great (slightly off kilter) acting choices all around. Its one of those movies that's a little like poetry or a great album, just fun to watch and enjoy for itself.

[–] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

God I love Brick. Watched it countless times growing up and don't see it talked about enough online.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Brick is wonderful, such a brilliant movie.

There's a new film on Netflix called Brick and I was so disappointed that it's not the same one!

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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The Netflix TV show Dark. Holy hell. I missed SO much the first time. If you haven't seen this show do yourself a favor and watch it, the amount of detail is crazy, and the casting is top notch. Watch it in German with English subtitles though, the English dubbing is really, really horrendous.

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

This was the first DVD I ever purchased, and it was glorious being able to pause the movie & go frame by frame.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I don’t think I did 10 times, but Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sure offered something new every time I watched it.

God that movie was subtle.

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[–] be_gt@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] laserwash2000@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Blade Runner

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Monte Python and the Holy Grail

Christmas Carol (1951 w/Alistair Sim)

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