The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven’t been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.

  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
    21·
    17 days ago

    Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.

    • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      17 days ago

      I thought of this one as well. It’s my favorite movie I never want to see again.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      5·
      17 days ago

      I, too, remember this one. But it’s so long since I’ve seen it. But every time I consider a re-watch I wuss out.

    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
      4·
      17 days ago

      What makes it worse for me is there was an old channel 4 advert that kad clips from lots of movies and the names of the movies in the current roster.

      I thought the names matched the clips… and requiem for a dream appeared alongside a film I’ve not actually identified with a guy shooting over a limo saying something like “death to some thing something and bad cinema”

      So a few years later I finally sit down to watch requiem for a dream expecting some weird Hollywood critic (or something)

      Kept waiting for that scene until things got really dark and then kind of knew something was amiss.

      On the upside: no heroine for me thanks

  • mech@feddit.org
    13·
    17 days ago

    The Road
    The only truly realistic post-apocalyptic movie.
    There is no hope. There is no humanity pulling together in times of crisis.
    Just one man trying to keep his son and himself alive for another day, after losing everything else.

    • jpeps@lemmy.world
      10·
      17 days ago

      Maybe I just didn’t give it enough of a chance, but I really just didn’t get this film honestly. For me it just felt like a sort of ‘depression porn’ without really much substance to it.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    9·
    17 days ago

    There was something in Trainspotting that fucked me up so hard I never, ever went near that movie again.

    And it’s not explicitly a horror movie, so valid in this context.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    I, Daniel Blake

    When I say ‘favourite’, I mean it’s the most compelling, devastating, truthful movie I’ve ever seen that I was transfixed by for it’s entire duration, and never want to see again.

    I’ve been on job seeker’s allowance. I’ve suffered the indignity of the weekly visits to the job centre to be sneered at for not applying for an adequate number of jobs, of for not just accepting the first shitty delivery jobs on the list. But I was lucky enough to be healthy. I can’t imagine having to deal with all that shit while also being sick.

  • danh2os@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    17 days ago

    Everything Everywhere All At Once. I watch it every year and I pretend I’m a different character every time. I’m in my Waymond phase now. Watch it from his point of view when you’re ready.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
      3·
      16 days ago

      Powder is such a unique choice - not one many probably even remember.

      Saw it in theater way back. Oddly, the power went out midway through.

      It was touching.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    17 days ago

    君の名は。 (your name.) — the first big twist. When ya boy Taki first sets foot on the school (as himself) and looks at the lake and you realise what the movie’s been doing this whole time.

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did it like 15-20 years prior (and I loved that episode) but I never saw it coming. You go back and watch, and the movie kinda slaps you with a fresh fish with the clues, especially the date where he and his coworker are looking at all the photos. Camera stays there a good little while, too. Like damn. Stevie Wonder coulda saw that twist coming. But I was captivated by the beauty of the film. And the music.