In the film, the character Fresh uses the same system of logic and strategy found in the game of chess to devise a plan to save himself and his sister from the cruel and harsh underworld of drug dealing and drug use.
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of “average American”, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he’s easily the most intelligent person alive.
I'm with you-same situation as me. Been on full SSD since 2005 for mental (lack of!) health problems. So I like dark movies.
Joker (really hit home because I was bullied for most of my school and work life) Very cathartic.
Taxi Driver
The Shining
Session 9
Anything Batman
Anything Martin Scorsese
Most sci-fi
Overall favorite: North by Northwest (beautiful blonde, Hitchcock and the 20th Century Limited-what's not to like?) The camera angles at Mt. Rushmore are to die for.
Probably my most liked movie of all time is “The Crow”. There’s more behind the making of the movie with Brandon’s death that makes it memorable but the movie itself is what I think makes it the best.
“Braveheart” is a close second in my opinion.
Initial D (on Netflix) not the animated version but the live version. I've watched it about a dozen times (seriously). Can't really explain why I like it.
Alien and Aliens (on Netflix and Blue Ray)- Because in the movie people are so stupid. They never learn thus making it fun to watch, LOL! I've also watched these over and over again.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Paths of Glory
La Dolce Vita
Nights of Cabiria
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
The Age of Innocence
Network
The Hospital
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Nashville
The Graduate
Catch-22 (1970)
Midnight Cowboy
Solaris (1972)
The Swimmer
The Leopard
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Lawrence of Arabia
Brief Encounter (1945)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Five Easy Pieces
Apocalypse Now
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona
All That Jazz
I like film, almost to the exclusion of radio and TV. There’s a lot of movies that rank #1 for me personally. In the hundreds. Depends on mood at the time. If I watch Cuckoo’s Nest in a certain frame of mind, I don’t care for it… Remember “Dr. Sardonicus?” There’s a lot of B and C movies that are number one now and then. It is quite impossible to call one film an everyday favorite. It’s kind of like trying to pick out a favorite flashlight. I can, but tomorrow it may be different.
I saw it last weekend. I have mixed feelings about it. I think it was a gutsy, artistically bold and creative movie to put together. I can’t fault the quality of the acting, filming and direction. Maybe it’s because I’m a student of history, and WW2 history in particular, that I had difficulty laughing at the portions of the film at which I was supposed to laugh. Maybe I have known too many people with numbers tattooed on their forearms to be entirely happy with the way any kooky comedy about genocide is put together.