Watch Films

Movies I want to see

alphabetical: 

• Baby Driver
• Dopamine 
• Empire Records 
• The Fountain +1
• Gaslight (1944)
• Léolo 
• Like Crazy
• Paris, je t'aime (rec by Juliane)
• Patton 
• RBG
• Seven Samurai (1954 and 2015)
• Sliding Doors
• Super Intelligence (2019-12-25)
• The Book of Eli (2010)
• The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
• The Crow: Salvation (2000)
• The Science of Sleep
• This Film is Not Yet Rated
• Walk the Line
• Winter Passing
• Won't You Be My Neighbor

Recommended to me:

• American Hustle (rec by Carla / Tomas d#8) 
• Atypical (rec by Lucy)
• Breath of the gods (Netflix documentary, rec by Ellie 2016-05-16) 
• Bubblegum Crisis (on Hulu)
• Joy (wait for Netflix) 
• Knights of Sidonia (on Netflix) 
• Meru (on Netflix)
• Sullivan's Travels (rec by Debs)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (rec by Juliane)
• Up In The Air (rec. by Jane McG 2015-255)
• Valley Rising (on Netflix)

Recent movie recommendations

Movies I have seen recently (perhaps the past few years) that I recommend:

• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (available on Amazon Prime Video)
• ... 

Favorite movies

My top favorites (roughly up to date as of 2023)

• Contact
• Gattaca (especially if you are considering getting your 23andme.com profile — Update: actually just don't)
• Helvetica
• Interstellar
• Objectified
• The Martian
• Tomorrowland
• TRON
• TRON: Legacy

More favorites, in clusters:

Favorites cluster 1

• Batman Begins 
• Bourne Identity
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• The Conversation
• Enemy of the State
• Inception 
• The Matrix
• Real Genius
• WarGames

Favorites cluster 2

• Doctor Strange
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
• Paycheck
• Run Lola Run
• Tenet

Favorites cluster 3

• Black Panther (2018)
• Blue Crush
• Star Wars IV-VI
• Wall•E
  
  

Favorites cluster 4

• Blade Runner (original and 2049)
• Fifth Element
• Logan's Run

Not favorites per se, but recommended for at least a viewing and perhaps a discussion

• Her
• Rain Man 

Favorite TV shows you should watch

Occasionally good TV shows seem to appear. I rarely sample most TV, so I'm willing to be convinced that there may be other TV shows out there that don't suck.

non-fiction:

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (7 DVD Set)
• Evolution Boxed Set (8 hour PBS special produced by WGBH Boston, narrated by Liam Neeson)
• Fringe
• Loki
• ...

1970s Movies

Movies made/released in the 1970s I recommend (in addition to any above)

• Enter the Dragon (1973, on Netflix as of 2019)
• ...

1980s Movies

Movies made/released/about the 1980s I recommend (in addition to a few already in the lists above)

• Big Trouble In Little China
• The Last Dragon (1985, on Netflix as of 2019)
• ...

Aside: many previous favorite/memorable 1980s movies are somewhat (or very) problematic when re-evaluated with modern lenses, so I've deliberately left out several. Definitely worth in-person discussion.

1990s Movies

• The Crow (1994)
• Hackers (1995)
• ...

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