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If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life - What would it be?

Sardines said:
Unpopular choice

Punch Drunk Love

One of the most hated movies whenever I mention it's in my top 5
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NAOS_pt2 said:
People who hate this movie are so dumb.
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I've watched it maybe 3 times. Once with my wife, and a couple other times. I've tried to see what everyone who likes it says is there and all I see is pretension for the sake of pretension, so maybe I'm not the target audience but every time I found it to be dumber than the previous watching. No doubt the acting is great, some of Sandler's very best, but overall the movie just seems to be so full of itself that any point it is trying to make gets mired in the mud of it's own self-importance. I'm glad you like it, I mean every movie has an audience. I really like Mr. Deeds, which is widely regardless as one of Sandler's worst comedies but to me it just works. So to each his own I guess.
 
For me that movie is the Matrix. Not any of the sequels, just the original. Opened an entire new world of film-making. Pioneered several filmmaking techniques that are now de rigueur in action movies. Left the viewer with a sense of wonder and promise unlike nearly any other film. Of course they proceeded to bash that sense of wonder to pieces in the follow-up films. But as a single standalone it's nearly a perfect sci-fi epic. Could watch it over and over and I've seen it maybe 20 times. Probably more if I really try to tally it.
 
LogGrad98 said:
For me that movie is the Matrix. Not any of the sequels, just the original. Opened an entire new world of film-making. Pioneered several filmmaking techniques that are now de rigueur in action movies. Left the viewer with a sense of wonder and promise unlike nearly any other film. Of course they proceeded to bash that sense of wonder to pieces in the follow-up films. But as a single standalone it's nearly a perfect sci-fi epic. Could watch it over and over and I've seen it maybe 20 times. Probably more if I really try to tally it.
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Yeah that's a good one.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I've watched it maybe 3 times. Once with my wife, and a couple other times. I've tried to see what everyone who likes it says is there and all I see is pretension for the sake of pretension, so maybe I'm not the target audience but every time I found it to be dumber than the previous watching. No doubt the acting is great, some of Sandler's very best, but overall the movie just seems to be so full of itself that any point it is trying to make gets mired in the mud of it's own self-importance. I'm glad you like it, I mean every movie has an audience. I really like Mr. Deeds, which is widely regardless as one of Sandler's worst comedies but to me it just works. So to each his own I guess.
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I see the pretentious stuff. It kind of just goes by me. I have no idea what the point of the movie is.

I laugh almost non-stop when I watch it. Sandler's character is so real to me and maybe it's because I identify with his character and the stupidly awkward way he goes about everything. At times being almost brilliant but then being a guy smashing his sister's sliding glass door at a family get together because he doesn't know how to deal with his own emotions. I mean I don't want to try to get too deep with it because it isn't. I just empathize with that character in a way I never have with any other character in a movie and at the same time I find it so absurd that I do literally laugh almost non-stop when I watch it.

The symbolism of color swirls, finding an obscure musical instrument, finding "love," I'm sure it's supposed to mean something but I have no idea what.
 
LogGrad98 said:
For me that movie is the Matrix. Not any of the sequels, just the original. Opened an entire new world of film-making. Pioneered several filmmaking techniques that are now de rigueur in action movies. Left the viewer with a sense of wonder and promise unlike nearly any other film. Of course they proceeded to bash that sense of wonder to pieces in the follow-up films. But as a single standalone it's nearly a perfect sci-fi epic. Could watch it over and over and I've seen it maybe 20 times. Probably more if I really try to tally it.
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Okay so we probably just couldn't be further apart. I have never understood what people see in the Matrix. I hate the original and the rest are just super hero movies based on source material I don't like.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I've watched it maybe 3 times. Once with my wife, and a couple other times. I've tried to see what everyone who likes it says is there and all I see is pretension for the sake of pretension, so maybe I'm not the target audience but every time I found it to be dumber than the previous watching. No doubt the acting is great, some of Sandler's very best, but overall the movie just seems to be so full of itself that any point it is trying to make gets mired in the mud of it's own self-importance. I'm glad you like it, I mean every movie has an audience. I really like Mr. Deeds, which is widely regardless as one of Sandler's worst comedies but to me it just works. So to each his own I guess.
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I retract my former statement.

I'm dumb.
 
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