Following on from the list of my favourite games, I figured it would be interesting to write down my favourite movies, along with a sentence or two about why I like them so much.
# After the Wedding
# Arrival
# Audience of One
# Being John Malkovich
# Birdman
# Blade Runner
# Children of Men
# Citizenfour
# City Hunter
# A Clockwork Orange
# Cloud Atlas
The scope of this movie always blows me away. It's beautiful, covers an exansive time period and has many interesting threads running through it. The re-use of actors, which would feel like a gimmick in most movies, works well in this context.
# Colossal
# The Congress
# Constantine
# District 9
# Donnie Darko
# Eat Drink Man Woman
# Edge of Tomorrow
I don't want to like this movie - after all, it has Scientologist Tom Cruise in it - but somehow I can't get over the fact that he's a great actor.
# Equilibrium
Although flawed, and with a fairly generic storyline, this movie had some great fight scenes.
# Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
# Eyes Wide Shut
# The Fifth Element
# Four Lions
# Gattaca
# The Handmaiden
# Hanna
# Her
# An Honest Liar
# The Host
# Human Traffic
A movie that captured a moment. Human Traffic chronicled a fictional weekend in the lives of a group of clubbers, and did it in a refreshing storytelling fashion. Plus the soundtrack is banging!
# In My Father's Den
A sad, serious, depressing New Zealand movie about love and abuse. What's not to like!
# Japanese Story
A sad, serious, depressing Australian movie about love and death. What's not to like!
# Jodorowsky's Dune
I'm conflicted as to whether Jodorowsky's vision of Dune should have ever seen the light of day. There's a good chance he would have made something god-awful, but the glimpses we are given in this documentary are, at the least, intriguing.
# Juno
# La La Land
I'm not a fan of musicals, and this one, although better than most, didn't blow me away - except for the montage at the end. That 5 minutes alone made the movie something special for me.
# Lars and the Real Girl
# the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
# The Lobster
# Lost in Translation
# Mad Max: Fury Road
# Magic in the Moonlight
An old friend had me watch this movie, as she told me the skepticism in it reminded her of me. I really like how the movie portrayed skepticism as a very human pursuit - one with lofty goals, but practiced by flawed people who are liable to make mistakes. Nobody's perfect!
# MAgnolia
# The Man from Earth
# The Man who Wasn't There
# The Martian
# Marwencol
# Meet Joe Black
# Moon
# Mulholland Drive
# Muriel's Wedding
# O Brother, Where Art Thou
# Oblivion
Another Tom Cruise science fiction movie that it solidly made, with some great performances.