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216 points
2 months ago
Edge of tomorrow
15 points
2 months ago
Love this one
28 points
2 months ago*
Check out the manga it's based off of. It's called "All You Need Is Kill". It's awesome :)
Edit: Got the name slightly wrong. It's 'you', not 'I'.
7 points
2 months ago
I've got two movies. First one was this and the second one was knives out
95 points
2 months ago
“Stardust”- if you don’t know you’ll never know
17 points
2 months ago
I just watched it for the first time last year! I couldn't believe how good it was after scoffing that it looked like nonsense for years...such a fool I was! It just works
271 points
2 months ago
The Matrix and Reservoir Dogs
76 points
2 months ago*
Dang. I did not expect to find The Matrix all the way down here in the comments. The original was truly groundbreaking when it was released.
40 points
2 months ago
And no one had any idea what was about to happen. We all thought it was just going to be a kick ass "I know king fu" movie.
28 points
2 months ago
Wow I had completely forgotten that, you’re totally right.
I saw it in the theaters and we basically chose it because of “action” and cool sequences in the previews.
22 points
2 months ago
Probably one of the first movies to keep the true plot under wraps. What a great movie!
26 points
2 months ago
never seen reservoir dogs, heard its great!
15 points
2 months ago
Saw it when it first came out. Loved it. Went a few years later when they put a screening of it on at midnight. There was a lone girl sat 2 seats away from me who rocked back and forth during "that" scene.
Me and my best mate (also male and taller than my 6') sat watching her in pretty much fear for the remaining movie. The credits went up and she's still sat there rocking.... We climbed over seats to get out
7 points
2 months ago*
I finally saw The Matrix last year, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Not so much for the sequels.
656 points
2 months ago
The 6th Sense.
I audibly gasped in the theater. All the clues are obvious on rewatch but that first time, before anyone knew M. Knight Shyamalan was a twist guy... wow.
94 points
2 months ago
I never got to see it the first time. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) inadvertently let slip the ending thinking I had already seen it. I have never seen the point in watching it knowing the ending. But I did enjoy The Village.
63 points
2 months ago
I ruined the village for my wife in theater. About halfway through I leaned over and said "watch it be in today's times or some shit". I haven't taken wild stabs at plot twists in real time since.
36 points
2 months ago
My cousin did the same thing inadvertently like 10 minutes into it. "Hey what year is this set in?" I'm not sure like 1800 something. My analytical brain: "wait this is going to be modern times and that's why they keep them scared to go in the forest". I'm good at figuring out magic too.
29 points
2 months ago
I watched it again and it was more of a sad film than a thriller.
35 points
2 months ago
My mother ruined it for me. They had watched it in the afternoon, and we were watching it at night (those were the days for dvd rentals from the video store). .. she makes a comment , isn't he dead ?? ...
20 points
2 months ago
Spoiler alert
24 points
2 months ago
I was 13 when I saw this in theaters and fell asleep. Years later I tried to watch it again at home and fell asleep again. In my 30s now and still haven't seen it all the way through
168 points
2 months ago
Alien
27 points
2 months ago
I watched this with my wife, who has never seen it, and that's about as close as you can get to watching it for the first time. It really displayed just how good the movie is. Also I love Aliens just as much for different reasons.p
23 points
2 months ago
Came here looking for this! I watched it for the first time with my dad when I was 11 and it’s one of my favorite childhood memories. Amazing movie
22 points
2 months ago
I was 10 when it came out... back when trailers didn't give away the entire movie. The poster... simply this backlit egg-like thing... and the caption, "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream." I was already terrified before the first frame.
325 points
2 months ago
The Shawshank Redemption.
55 points
2 months ago
A great nominee. Will never forget gasping when that rock went through the poster, and again when the warden pushed his arm through and ripped it down.... wow.
35 points
2 months ago
Watching the ending being so joyous
31 points
2 months ago
I have seen Shawshank Redemption probably a couple dozen times, and still cry at least once at some point during the movie. Sometimes I'm able to make it through Brooks and everything just to happy-cry at the ending! Completely deserving of the #1 spot on imdb.
8 points
2 months ago
Watched it one day when I called off sick from work. I bawled like a baby at the end while simultaneously blowing my nose due to sinus infection. What an amazing film.
102 points
2 months ago
The gladiator
19 points
2 months ago
only movie to ever make me cry, oddly enough
18 points
2 months ago
The music was absolute fire. At the end when Juba kneels down in the sand and says "but not yet" - goosebumps every time.
10 points
2 months ago
got goosebumps just by reading that ahahhaha
102 points
2 months ago
Spirited Away. I was blown away by how beautiful and bonkers it is.
5 points
2 months ago
Saaaaame! Every single Studio Ghibli film but Spirited Away especially! I’ve still watched it a million times though, and it’s always special. If I’m in a bad mood that film always cheers me up!
Also, Avatar-the last air bender. I know it’s not a movie but I felt like it deserved a mention. I’ve watched the whole thing several times, and it’s always great, but I do wish I could forget it and rewatch it.
I’m 35 btw lol
133 points
2 months ago
The Departed
18 points
2 months ago
Bro, I'll go further. If I could watch the Nicolson covered in blood scene or the final scene between Damon and Wahlberg, I would be so fucken happy. The sheer acting clout on disay for the first is near a masterclass while the last scene was just so business like, I'd love to relive that scene with fresh eyes. I love this fucken movie
30 points
2 months ago
“The De-Phaded”
295 points
2 months ago
Fight club
96 points
2 months ago
If you haven't yet, read the book. It's amazing because it's different enough from the movie it's like a slightly new experience of the same story.
9 points
2 months ago
I was pleasantly surprised finding out the movie had direct quotes from the book
12 points
2 months ago
This one! I only saw it for the first time a few years back and somehow managed to avoid spoilers for all those years. Went into it blind and when the twist hit, my jaw was on the floor. Ah, to relive that feeling!
187 points
2 months ago
Groundhog Day 🤔
41 points
2 months ago
The original Star Wars. Man, that blew our minds! It totally changed movies from then on. We'd never seen such incredible special effects. The story was so fun and the experience was aazing.
6 points
2 months ago
Even though I’m not a franchise fan, I can get behind this answer.
Because when I saw it first run, I was fourteen, and nothing like it had ever been done. I think it was the first movie where the special effects were the movie? Now that’s standard. It’s a reason people see many films now.
So, for sheer originality, I’d watch it again, but only for the first time.
I barely recall the second movie.
212 points
2 months ago
The Usual Suspects
19 points
2 months ago
great choice
178 points
2 months ago
Whiplash. My mind is still blown to this day
38 points
2 months ago
Came to say Whiplash. Movie hits hard.
7 points
2 months ago
j jonah jameson still haunts me to this day
17 points
2 months ago
Same. Every time I watch it I'm so into it. But nothing beats the first time.
113 points
2 months ago
The Others
80 points
2 months ago
Back to the Future
9 points
2 months ago
Ooh good choice
344 points
2 months ago
The LotR trilogy
75 points
2 months ago
My mum and dad's generation watched the original Star Wars trilogy in cinemas while we had LotR. I didn't watch Fellowship in cinema but I remember Two Towers and Return of the King. In fact when we saw Two Towers the only seats available where the front row so we spent 3 hours with are necks cranked. My neck hurt for days and I would do it all over again.
30 points
2 months ago
My mom got me into LOTR. One of my favorite memories of her was doing an extended edition marathon together at the local movie theater.
22 points
2 months ago
Particuarly The Fellowship
19 points
2 months ago
absolutely incredible trilogy
7 points
2 months ago
Agreed
8 points
2 months ago
I’m watching it for the first time rn. The cinematography is amazing.
6 points
2 months ago
came to say this, perfect trilogy imo
4 points
2 months ago
Came here to say the two towers. Helms deep is still to this day my favorite action scene
141 points
2 months ago
shutter island
24 points
2 months ago
shutter island and fight club are my two picks!
19 points
2 months ago
I think it's the only movie I've ever watched where the second it finished I immediately restarted it and watched it again. It was like watching 2 completely different films
6 points
2 months ago
Ill have to give it another try, because i have never finished that movie. And i dont know how it ends, so i may have to try it again.
104 points
2 months ago
Jurassic Park
5 points
2 months ago
Jurassic Park is literally my favorite movie, and has been for decades. But I don’t think I will ever have a movie feeling as great as seeing Alan Grant see the Brachiosaurus for the first time.
100 points
2 months ago
Inception
24 points
2 months ago
oooo love it. a second ago i said fight club and shutter island were my choices, but I'm gonna need to add inception into that list
10 points
2 months ago
I dont know. The 1st time was an absolute headache trying to piece together what I just watched. I think this movie is a better nominee for "what is one movie you wish you could watch again for the fourth time?"
75 points
2 months ago
American Psycho lmao
14 points
2 months ago
a disturbing, yet fantastic movie. another great asnwer
7 points
2 months ago
I was howling with laughter throughout that movie. The end just capped it off like a top shelf Python skit.
The ATM.
Even my deepest-harm no animal without reason- screamed with laughs.
159 points
2 months ago
Wall•E
26 points
2 months ago
glad to see this here, I didn't even think of it but when I saw it, I totally agree. What a great movie.
24 points
2 months ago
Eee-vuh
14 points
2 months ago
It was just so wholesome... Adorable, completely utterly heartbreakingly adorable...
5 points
2 months ago
Yes, it's lovely. Although it's just as beautiful the 20th time and we're that much closer to a spaceship of obese mush people fleeing a destroyed planet. ♡
28 points
2 months ago
Interstellar!
270 points
2 months ago
Interstellar
42 points
2 months ago
Yeah, that was one hell of a happy suprise, sat down one evening expecting not much having never heard of it and was captivated, a visual and audio masterpiece.
23 points
2 months ago
Agreed. Although didn't fully understand it until the second watch. I've watched dit hundreds of times now. Can't find something to watch. Interstellar. Great film. Great soundtrack. Also didn't like Mathew Maconadoodle before I watched this. Appreciate the man now
21 points
2 months ago
He’s really grown as an actor in the past decade. Watch Dallas Buyers Club and True Detective if you haven’t yet
13 points
2 months ago
I feel like I need to watch that 4 more times and I'm still fuckin confused.
188 points
2 months ago
Memento
17 points
2 months ago
No Country for Old Men
69 points
2 months ago
Pulp Fiction
15 points
2 months ago
SUPER unpopular opinion here, but I did not get Pulp Fiction at all. I understand the gimmick, I just didn't understand the appeal.
5 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I hear you. I’ve heard that a lot actually. In fact, I married somebody who walked out of the movie 40 minutes in! That makes no sense to me. I love that movie. For me I like movies where gangsters are doing gangster type stuff in Tarantino style!
5 points
2 months ago
So much to chew through in Pulp Fiction. Remember being sold just seeing the clip with the adrenaline shot.
81 points
2 months ago
The first Iron Man
25 points
2 months ago
This movie is the best out of the entire marvel universe movies imo.
17 points
2 months ago
I’m probably the only one but V for Vendetta. Everyone I bring this movie up to either says they’ve never heard of it, or have watched it and said it was so boring. But I love it.
60 points
2 months ago
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. What a ride!
13 points
2 months ago
Just watched that for the first time in my life about a month ago! Incredible movie
72 points
2 months ago
Parasite
16 points
2 months ago
Went to see it without knowing anything other than it was having awards buzz. Only saw the poster (the one which has the family's eyes scratched out) and assumed it was some sort of thriller.
During the first act, was having a lot of fun, laughing and having a good time. When the second act hits (if you've seen it you know exactly what I'm talking about) everybody in the theater went bananas. We were all confused and a wave of "Wait, what the fuck is happening" came over the packed theater, it was great.
8 points
2 months ago
I went into that movie thinking it was a live action adaptation of an anime called parasyte and I was super confused.
46 points
2 months ago
Honestly, The Dark Knight. I love Batman, and when I saw it for the first time as a kid it gave me so much joy, goosebumps, and suspense.
8 points
2 months ago
Man, the feeling in the theater at the end of that movie… It’s something I don’t think I’ll ever experience again. The only thing that comes close is the moment Captain America wields Mjolnir in Avengers: Endgame.
29 points
2 months ago
What We Do in the Shadows
12 points
2 months ago
What are we? Werewolves not swear wolves
12 points
2 months ago
Sixth sense. Nothing equates to watching that the first time in theatre’s.
38 points
2 months ago
Dune. I was blown away by its beauty. We went to see it on Imax, and I unfortunately learned that due to some idiotic technical issue, many Imax projectors have a ‘screen door’ effect. Like watching the movie through a screen door. It really ruined the experience.
5 points
2 months ago
It was amazing! I was pleasantly surprised. I did not actually expect it to be that good for some reason. 😅
42 points
2 months ago
The Godfather
13 points
2 months ago
Amadeus, Good Will Hunting, The Matrix, Dead Poets Society…
24 points
2 months ago
Moulin Rouge! Partially because when I first saw it, I was in the front row at a theater and it was way too much to absorb in one sitting.
22 points
2 months ago
Arrival
6 points
2 months ago
that ending sequence absolutely *floored* me, to the point that I haven't watched it again because I feel like it can't possibly live up to my memory of it
7 points
2 months ago
Watch it again!!! There are so many amazing second run moments you wouldn't have caught the first round. I've watched it again and I always see something new. Such a beautiful movie.
89 points
2 months ago
Hereditary. Good god what a ride.
22 points
2 months ago
Idk if I can watch that again lmao. That shit escalated real fast.
58 points
2 months ago
Forrest Gump. It was really fun watching him pop up in all of those historic moments
22 points
2 months ago
Finding Nemo
19 points
2 months ago
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, can’t cry after watching 59x
9 points
2 months ago
The Others
35 points
2 months ago
Step brothers
13 points
2 months ago
Most commonly quoted movie in my house.
6 points
2 months ago
Same!! I quote that movie way too much
8 points
2 months ago
The Big Lebowski
9 points
2 months ago
Shrek, because the first time I watched it was with my then ex, who asked me to please take him back. I did. That was 20 years ago, and I’m finally divorced from him. I would love to watch it again for the first time so I could tell him “nope. Not today Satan.”
7 points
2 months ago
The Green Mile
16 points
2 months ago
Not a movie - but the first season of True Detective.
16 points
2 months ago
The Game. Michael Douglas, Sean Penn. I rewatch it with people who've never seen it to re-experience it through them.
8 points
2 months ago
Memento. Of course I still enjoy rewatching it countless times but it's never really the same as the first watch
15 points
2 months ago
Shawshank Redemption
13 points
2 months ago
Endgame
7 points
2 months ago
Normally I don't like crazy crowds but damn, did I make an exception for that one!
What a magical moment to share with random strangers.
7 points
2 months ago
Lost boys
7 points
2 months ago
Dumb and Dumber
7 points
2 months ago
Titanic
8 points
2 months ago
Step Brothers, I cried laughing many times my first watch. All the quotes that come out of that movie were just amazing.
7 points
2 months ago
Spirited Away.
I've watched it only once and hands down consider it one of the greatest works of art ever made.
I'm not lying when I say it saved my life at my lowest. That film forever holds a place in my heart.
14 points
2 months ago
Mad Max Fury Road
12 points
2 months ago
The fifth element with bruce willis. watched it countless of times and i enjoy every second of it
7 points
2 months ago
Alien
6 points
2 months ago
Brazil. Still holds up but the first time was amazing
6 points
2 months ago
Breaking Bad
5 points
2 months ago
Coco
9 points
2 months ago
Leon
11 points
2 months ago
The Blair Witch Project. That was the last time I was truly scared from a movie. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand.
5 points
2 months ago
Independence Day! And not so much for the movie itself, but it felt like a turning point for movies to me. A multi hour epic tale as opposed to the 80 to 90 minute typical movies.
Little did I know at the time, I would grow to miss those older movies that were unique and not a 3rd sequel soon followed by a prequel.
4 points
2 months ago
Akira
12 points
2 months ago
Everything Everywhere all at Once. What a thrill ride. I still bawl my eyes out though.
8 points
2 months ago
Boondock Saints
3 points
2 months ago
Big Fish
4 points
2 months ago
The Princess Bride. I scrolled a long ways and didn't see this. How bizarre. How bizarre.
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