What would be your top recommendations for someone who never watched many movies?

You know PV is going to show up and recommend some cult film you definitely don't care about, right?

i just watch mainstream stuff like
everything everywhere all at once
inception
the one
edge of tomorrow
looper
the matrix movies
lord of the rings movies
thats all on top of my head right now

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Everything Everywhere All At Once: I did watch it because a friend almost pleaded me into it... It was alright.
Inception: I have the vague memory of trying to watch it as a teen but dropping it because I found it boring (I'm sorry).
The One: I think I literally never heard of this movie before today.
Edge of Tomorrow: I watched it because I read the manga (All You Need Is Kill). It was not bad but I'm not really a fan of the modified ending.
Looper: Never watched that one too.
The Matrix movies: Only watched the first movie. It was decent, I guess.
Lord of the Rings movies: Never watched any of them, and are pretty much the reasons @149597871 started to tease me over not watching movies.

I think Love Exposure and Battle Heater Kotatsu are peak Japanese craziness movies.
And uhm...I guess the Jurassic Park & World movies are all pretty solid and enjoyable, but I'm assuming you might have already seen those 😅

Depends on the person, for someone like you I'd recommend movies like:

• Amelie (2001)
  
• Little Women (2019)
  
• Before trilogy (1995-2013)

Considering how much you haven't seen, it's better to go for the pretentious movie elitist character build instead. Go watch everything made by David Lynch and Lars von Trier. Then infiltrate some post-graduate art critic social circle in central Europe and explain the ingenuity of Dogville or something like that to the hottest and least crazy girl you see in there. Easy win.

Disclaimer: Before you guys say anything, I'd just like to point out that I actually like Dogville. Its chalk-outline sets aren't minimalist at all but rather the exact opposite in their exposure of human depravity, and by stripping away scenery, von Trier forces us to watch the characters with nowhere left to hide. It's absolutely ingenious! (You can borrow these lines, yes.)

In my opinion you should watch all those movies:
- Big Trouble
- The 24th Day
- Four Brothers
- Lords of Dogtown
- Man on Fire
- Meet the Browns
- Madea Goes to Jail
- New Year's Eve
- The Three Stooges
- Machete Kills
- Fading Gigolo
- Chef
- Wild Card
- Hot Pursuit
- Bent
- The Female Brain
- Bottom of the 9th
- This Is Me... Now

there is a little thing they all have in common, i think you will quickly get it, i did watch (almost) all of them, some of them were ass, but Sofia is worth it.
(unfortunately i wasn't joking about watching all those movies)

And i'm really not a good person to recommend movie simply because i've chosen to not invest time in it despite my love for it, i rather have a lot of knowledges on a few domain than less knowledge but on more domains.
Most of them were all super-heroes movies.
But i've watched some other things and will only recommend you two

The blind side, that's my fav movie outside heroes, i watch it every summer, idk why tho.
Taxi Driver (i think you've already watched it tho, he's extremely popular)

How bad is this case of "I don't know any popular movies"?
Shrek, First Blood, Bone Collector, Nightmare on Elmstreet, Alien (1,2), Predator (1), Saw, Run Lola Run, Get out, Cube, The collector, Millenium, Bubble boy.

@Zakatsuki_ I'm very sorry, but I don't think I will watch any of these movies just because your favorite actress plays in them... (I don't think I've ever heard of any of these before, to be honest).

And no, I didn't watch Taxi Driver, even though I'm pretty sure I’ve heard of it before.

Once again, I must remind you that English nouns don't have grammatical gender!

You tell me, the only movie I watched among the ones you listed is Shrek and I'm pretty sure I was so young it wasn't even of my own volition.

I may return here to recommend more once I've given more time to think about it, but for a recent release I recommend Weapons (2025).
Taxi Driver (1976), Godzilla (1954), Mothra (1961), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), Monkey Man (2024), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), The Shape of Water (2017), Clueless (1995), Legally Blonde (2001), The Godfather (1972), The Suicide Squad (2021), Love & Pop (1998), Ritual (2000), Shin Godzilla (2016), Parasite (2019), Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987), Barbie (2023), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), American Psycho (2000), Antiporno (2016), Pride (2014), Moonlight (2016), Super (2010), The Virgin Psychics (2015), and Her (2013) are also recommended.
It would be more helpful to know if there's something specific you're looking for. Are you just looking for live-action movies, or would you also accept animated movie recommendations? Are there any genres or tones or vibes you're looking for?

You seriously didn't know about most of the movies this user listed?

Hmmm movies? Seen a lot but can't really think of others to recommend then horror flicks as those are the ones I actually remember liking a lot. OH and Nicholas Cage films, love the fucking acting he does.

And thanks for the ping, I probably would've missed this post otherwise



The Saw franchise (1-7 and 10 aka X) the plot is actually bonkers great and the body mutilation stuff is kinda avoidable, especially if you watch with someone that knows when bones crack etc. Saw 1 isn't like gory at all so check it out at least

Terrifier (only 1 as 2 was crap and never saw 3) a splatter comedy that is corny and bloody but not in a realistic way, a fun watch for me as I laughed a bunch

The Substance, amazing new film that uses body horror to tell a good narrative

(Holy shit I've only recommended body horror maybe that tells something about me)

Hills have eyes, it was fun

Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, Anthony Hopkins is so good even tho the films cut a bunch of stuff (according to my partner)

Spaceman, Adam Sandler is actually seriously acting in this which is weird but works, also there's a thing we still reference irl since it's a character name

Tenacious D, rock comedy from a time when Jack Black was known for weed and rock

Austin Powers, all films are fun parodies of Bond-style films

AND THEN NIC CAGE

National Treasures, good movies that are always a fun watch

Ghost Rider, fun action even tho the sequels have a drop in quality

Face-Off, classic crazy Cage

Pig, serious movie that has great acting in it

Willies Wonderland, FNAF but I like this a lot better than the actual FNAF movie as this is a horror comedy

Renfield, Nic Cage as Dracula? Hell yeah and it's a good comedy

Color out of Space, H.P Lovecraft? Nic Cage? Body horror??? I'm so in! Also a nice modern adaptation of a a century old story

Mandy, a heavy metal revenge story with lovely colours and lighting

And a few other Cage films but those are definite watches for me that we have on DVD

🤔 That sounds like the kinda stuff that will flag the police if someone seek it out.

I'm pretty sure you can find imdb top 250 yourself, lol - it's a good start. I only dare to recommend something on a specific request. Like, give my mind a direction at least...

Well, alright, here are some appetizers:
https://ibb.co/v6kHzfbd


Hitchhiker's Guide maybe?

PS: What have you done to me fleur? Wrong hole section of the forum!

Hey, I said cult, not obscure. It's not my fault the only two films you've talked to me about are Eraserhead and The Room! I don't think fleur wants to have "oh hai Mark" stuck in their head for the rest of their life.


The thread got too loud, he found us! Quick, scatter, before he tries to get you to chain him to a radiator.

Oh, and, what about Interview with the Vampire (1994) with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in roles you'd absolutely never pin them for? A floral mew probably isn't into the gothic, but if at all you appreciate that sort of aesthetic it's a nice film to look at.

I would never do such a thing. There's even supposed to be this implicit agreement that we aren't supposed to talk to each other (but that doesn't stop him from pinging me apparently, and I can't even answer since I told him I wouldn't talk to him until he said it was okay!)

Is there anything going on between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise? If yes, I might be interested.

Wow, I'm so sorry he's behaving this way. I'm reporting him for harrassment!


I don't want to spoil, but yes, but it's also complicated. If you like angst then you definitely have your vampire movie for the month of October.

Wow, I'm so sorry he's behaving this way. I'm reporting him for harrassment!


I don't want to spoil, but yes, but it's also complicated. If you like angst then you definitely have your vampire movie for the month of October.

You tell me, the only movie I watched among the ones you listed is Shrek and I'm pretty sure I was so young it wasn't even of my own volition.

Wrong! I love romance genre! Eyes wide shut, Love, Piano teacher, Caligula... ah, damn, that last one is historical, strike it out.

What do you expect, Princess bride, Singing in the rain and Casablanca? For one time in life, be serious!


What? How?! Dear lord, forgive me my sins... Ok, now I'm fine.

PS: Oh, just remembered that funny romance movie, Moonrise kingdom - I guess it's not in the top, yet I recommend.

The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003) Seriously just watch this trilogy already!
The Last Samurai (2003) A personal favorite
Gladiator (2000) Classic for a reason
Terminator 1 (1984) & 2 (1991) Also Classic for a reason
The Mummy 1 (1999) & 2 (2001) It's like Indiana Jones but cooler
Stargate (1994) It's a solid movie with an interesting idea, but the tv-series that came after to function as a sequel with new writers and actors was so much better
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) You can watch the first 2 prequel movies and this one and then skip anything else Star Wars related without missing out on anything. This was where it peaked

There are so many other classics like Back to the Future, Kill Bill, Die Hard, Rambo, Twilight, Harry Potter, Friday the 13th, Green Mile, Indiana Jones, The Shining, Braveheart, Signs, Blade Runner, The Sixth Sense, Kingdom of Heaven and probably hundreds of others that didn't instantly come to mind. But start with LORD OF THE RINGS!!!

Me? A mod? No way!

And we both know that spoiler image is an outright lie.


No, not at all! Do not misalign the Anne Rice vampires, or I'll make you watch the really bad follow-up movie and ban you from reading the books for correct context.


Good thing he had to ask if I was a mod just now, that means he'll never see it coming. 🤭

It's certainly a product of its time and I've seen people criticizing it for not being historically accurate at all but I still love that movie

Understandable. It has been a veeery long time since I watched any of those 3 myself so I can't really say anything else :P

Nice! I miss those types of "adventure into a cool forgotten culture" movies. Another movie that I'd recommend on the Ancient Egypt theme is the animated movie The Prince of Egypt

Yes the movie came first, directed by Roland Emmerich, with Kurt Russell and James Spader playing the main characters who were then replaced by Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks for the tv-series Stargate-SG1 which was a direct sequel to the original movie. And then that series got so huge that it also got spinoffs such as Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe

Yup lol

It looks like you've seen a decent amount of movies, at least from my limited sample :P I've always felt like I never knew what movies and references people were talking about, and same thing with a lot of games. But I blame that on WoW fully consuming so many years of my life. I've been going back to watch some of the classics like Blade Runner for the first time in recent years and I don't feel like I missed that much to be honest. They're good but I've yet to find anything that truly stayed with me


LoTR doesn't have much romance in it and what little the movies had were cut and pushed away into the various extended cut editions. One of the better romances that I've seen recently was The Glory but it's a series rather than a movie

He does have surprisingly good takes about a lot of things but I feel like most movies are kinda shit and if you didn't watch them when they were relevant you won't appreciate them since they will have inspired other more recent movies that you might've already seen. The only exception to this is Tolkien since no matter how much LoTR inspired fantasy and thousands of other movies it has never been able to match it, so it still feels fresh and new


Did you like it? Superhero movies never really appealed to me but I've seen some of them with others who wanted to watch them with me. They seem a bit too formulaic and "samey" imo, if you've seen one you've seen them all

I haven't watched any new movie releases this year but Avatar 3 this December will be fun. Those movies are more about the experience itself rather than the movie so maybe it doesn't count


Yes I don't know anything about the definitions used like kino or cinema. If it's something that I feel was popular then it's a classic to me. No further thoughts go into it and I'm sure it's not technically correct