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

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.
 
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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Yeah, listen, that’s sort of PTA. Many here know I’m a massive PTA fan. I consider Boogie Nights to be one of the best five films of the last 30 years—I’d argue thee best but it wouldn’t be fair as it borrows heavily from Goodfellas. There Will Be Blood is another masterpiece. And Magnolia is an absolute ripper. But this last one can’t quite help itself at times. Definitely pretentious. Way too heavy-handed. A little too cokey. I saw PDL once but don’t remember it well and need to revisit it.
 
It's far from my favorite movie, but I've found the 2009 Star Trek movie extremely rewatchable. It might be the movie I've seen the most in my adult life. (I don't rewatch many movies. The movie I've seen the most in my life is either the Lion King or Aladdin, I watched those on repeat as a kid).

I watch it's a wonderful life every year and still find it enjoyable each time, so that could be in the running as well.
 
Well if we get into animated movies my favorite is the Incredibles. Just the first one, again. It's really really hard to make a sequel or trilogy where all the movies hold up.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Well if we get into animated movies my favorite is the Incredibles. Just the first one, again. It's really really hard to make a sequel or trilogy where all the movies hold up.
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This is where marvel killed it with the avengers.
I think #2 is the best, then #3, and then #1. And all of them were amazing.

Also the Nolan Batman trilogy. I think #2 is the best, then #1, then #3 but all of them are fantastic.
 
fishonjazz said:
This is where marvel killed it with the avengers.
I think #2 is the best, then #3, and then #1. And all of them were amazing.

Also the Nolan Batman trilogy. I think #2 is the best, then #1, then #3 but all of them are fantastic.
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Well I was specifically going for animated movies, not comic book movies. But for comic book movies I'd take the dark Knight trilogy over most any of them. But in that time the 2nd one is the best, the dark Knight was unbelievably good, but mostly just for heath ledgers performance. For the ages.
 
fishonjazz said:
This is where marvel killed it with the avengers.
I think #2 is the best, then #3, and then #1. And all of them were amazing.

Also the Nolan Batman trilogy. I think #2 is the best, then #1, then #3 but all of them are fantastic.
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I go back and forth between BB or TDK being the best…I love the tone and mood to BB much better. It’s a better story imo. And it’s more rewatchable for me. I’ve tried rewatching TDK but it just doesn’t have the same wow lighting in a bottle feel it had the first couple viewings with Ledger. The last 35-40 minutes are really pretty bad. The scenes with the two boats and any scene with Two Face. Just some really bad writing by Nolan’s brother Jonathan who I think wrote the script. BB would blow it away in fact if it simply had a great villian. The problem is Scarecrow and even RAG the way he’s used isn’t as terrifying as it could’ve been. Hell, my favorite villain was the two or three minutes with the gangster played by Wilkinson. Dude crushes that scene at the restaurant/bar.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
It's far from my favorite movie, but I've found the 2009 Star Trek movie extremely rewatchable. It might be the movie I've seen the most in my adult life. (I don't rewatch many movies. The movie I've seen the most in my life is either the Lion King or Aladdin, I watched those on repeat as a kid).

I watch it's a wonderful life every year and still find it enjoyable each time, so that could be in the running as well.
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“It’s a wonderful life” is a great pick.
 
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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First time I saw it was in the theater, I walked out and looked around and wondered if everything was fake. It definitely took you in, in a way that a sequel, no matter how good it was (and they were... ok) could match. I liked Animatrix, too.
 
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