• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - The quintessential 80s movie. Everything you need to know about the 80s is contained in this film.

    Also Mr. Krabs is in it.

  • gimsy@feddit.it
    171·
    2 months ago

    Many good ones were already mentioned

    But from memory:

    • The snatch
    • The big Lebowsky
    • Clerks
    • American Psycho
    • 2001 a space odissey
    • Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
    • Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
    • Full metal jacket
    • The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
    • Fight club
    • Alien
    • The Truman show
    • In the mouth of madness
    • They live
    • The terminator (first 2)
    • Animal house
    • the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
    • Once upon a time in America
    • pulp fiction
    • reservoir dogs
  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
    563·
    2 months ago

    I always say everyone should see requiem for a dream, but no one should watch it. That film does more for stopping drug abuse than any government program ever did.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      277·
      2 months ago

      Idiocracy is a funny movie that I enjoy. However I’m disturbed by the number of people who say it’s a documentary, or a warning. That’s because the central premise of the movie (that humans breed wrong and if nothing is done, we’ll devolve and society will collapse) also happens to be the central premise of Eugenics.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        222·
        2 months ago

        Hey, at least in Idiocracy, once they determined the guy to be smarter than everyone else, at least they put him in charge of things…

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          19·
          2 months ago

          They did try to kill him first. Several times…

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          Not at all how I see it. It’s not eugenics its education, well the lack there of, that made the world in idiocracy.

          • OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
            32·
            2 months ago

            The movie maybe. But that intro was basically divorced from the rest of the movie.

            The intro suggested that stupid people having kids was the reason humanity started evolving backward. It invoked natural selection and “survival of the fittest.”

            The intro even labeled the low birth rate couple and high birthrate couple with IQ scores to illustrate this point.

            You argue that that the movie attributes the stupidity of its world to societal shifts. It does. It does a great job laying out a progression from late stage capitalism to idiocracy.

            But that just further highlights how unnecessary that intro was. The intro attributed the stupidity to something entirely different.

            • Jarix@lemmy.world
              6·
              2 months ago

              Just watched the intro. I’m not really on board with the eugenics angle even after watching it. It’s more social darwinism than eugenics.

              Eugenicists as ive always thought of it is an intended or active pursuit of creating “better” humans(or whatever species).

              One factor I see being a difference between natural selection and unnatural selection. Unnatural selection being eugenics, and natural selection being what a result of an environment having an effect on the evolution of a species.

              The intro Primarily sets a path of one group having more children than the other group and i will concede it the intelligent couple having problems having kids misrepresents the rest of the movie while still giving the audience a vehicle to how the future they wanted to craft could happen. And it also is meant to be entertainment not just exposition.

              Would be very interested in an in depth response from Mike Judge and the rest of the filmakers. Would be an interesting use of AI/Deepfake to redo the intro if it actually wasnt intended to invoke a eugenic view of the future

      • GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        My spouses family is dysfunctional with many many kids and more on the way.

        She’s the only functional one and its unlikely we will have kods of our own.

        The premise tracks.

      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        156·
        2 months ago

        Honestly, I’m kind of put off watching the movie due to those weird eugenicsy undertones… Feels like one of those “i am very smart” Reddit people looking down on the “lesser masses” and saying they shouldn’t reproduce.

        • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
          201·
          2 months ago

          I don’t think the movie in any way calls for eugenics.

          If anything it called out how toxic ignorance and stupidity can be in the presence of someone who just wants to do the right thing. It shows how corporate greed and capitalism encourages stupidity to further it’s goals of creating basic labor for the corporate machines owned by billionaires to exploit.

          But hey, that’s just like, my opinion man.

  • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    The Nice Guys

    Pitch Perfect Production of a 1970’s story that’s just shockingly good. Go in blind like I did, you won’t be disappointed.

    Synopsis:

    Tap for spoiler

    In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    These are not feel good movies at all but I think really send important messages. Not for kids, but at 16+ would be good. There’s very important takeaway messages in both.

    Grave of the Fireflies

    Requiem for a Dream

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
      7·
      2 months ago

      Requiem for A dream is a very good film. Its quite similar to the much older German film “Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo” (We children from the station zoo). The original version has a quite weird style in terms of how it tells the story but its still a very good film. Can only recommend it to everybody. Heroin one hell of A drug that can quite easily ruin everything.

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I saw Grave of the Fireflies once.

      Once.

      Could never bring myself to go through it again, despite how utterly beautiful it is.

      But my favourite thing about it is that it was originally a double bill with My Neighbour Totoro. Imagine seeing those two back to back. You’d get some serious emotional whiplash.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’ve tried so hard to watch the film three times and always fell asleep. It’s my bad for not starting it from where I left off but the intro is so good even if it’s a bit slow-paced for me.