The Austin Powers movies are fun if you are looking for something light with broad appeal
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The new Knives Out is coming up. The first and second deserve a rewatch.
The first Matrix, too bad they never made any sequels.
The Mask of Zorro is my all time top guilty pleasure.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is great and incredibly horny.
Princess Bride.
Hot Fuzz, gets better every time you watch it.
Labyrinth, yes plz.
Muppets Christmas Carol, later in the year, but like the best Muppets movie.
Wallace and Grommet, any but Curse of the Wererabbit is my favourite.
Rocky Horror Picture Show, depending on the group.
Similarly, The Room. Set up some spoon emojis 🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄
Anything with Tom Hanks. Apollo 13, Forrest Gump and A Man Called Otto if you need somewhere to start.
Puss in boots the last wish.
It’s really weird just how good that movie was
The first one was also really good if you can excuse some of the fairytale style humor that Shrek had kinda' overused in some of those.
Some random movies I like off the top of my head:
The Princess Bride
Terminator 2
Kate and Leopold
Dogma
Memento
Oculus
Catch Me If You Can
Galaxy Quest
Matchstick Men
Kung Fu Hustle
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Pineapple Express
Anchorman
Die Hard/Die Hard 3
Die Hard! Of course! Good call
one of my favorites to suggest is a classic called Paper Moon.
It's black and white and has that slower pacing of some older movies. I think it also stands up and has the kind of comedy that endures. We watch it every year around the holidays.
You can also have a look at what some other watch parties are showing.
Here's a calendar of events on Mastodon & Bluesky
https://livetweety.wordpress.com/
FYI in 20 minutes, #KungFuSat on Mastodon is starting the Jim Jarmusch crime drama Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai .
- More info: https://piefed.social/post/1281956
You can also use an online service to keep a wish list of films or see other people's lists. Many people use Letterboxd or Trakt. I've just started using the fediverse service NeoDB.
- My NeoDB movie wish list: https://neodb.social/users/klu9/wishlist/movie/
Whiplash and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri are the two best movies I've seen in a long long time
Not heard of them thanks mate 👍
While I agree that those are two great movies, you kinda hafta know your audience for them. They aren't family friendly, but fine for teens and up.
They're either perfect for group viewing because they are likely to prompt discussion OR a mismatch if the folks just want to zone out to entertainment without thinking about what would happen next, or what should have happened, and so on.
- Billy Madison
- The Breakfast Club
- Dodgeball
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Ghostbusters I & II
- Happy Gilmore
- Indiana Jones 1-3
- The Shining
- Super Troopers
- Young Frankenstein
And it's kind of cheating cuz it's not technically a movie but the mini-series Over the Garden Wall is a must for the fall and all together runs about 2 hours
Good tip re garden wall thanks 😊
Do you like "so bad they're good" movies? Pick any one of these (some even border on legit good):
- Rad (1986)
- Miami Connection (1988)
- Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
- Surf II (1984)
- Cool as Ice (1991)
- Double Trouble (1992)
Phantom of the Paradise
Fresh (1994)
Pump up the volume (1990)
anything made from Astrid Lindgren or Tove Johansson
1972 Mumin (T.J.) et al
1984 Ronja Rövardotter (A.L.) et al
also
1985 Misfits of Science
1986 Desert Hearts
2005 CreepSchool
if you'ven't already seen Hideo Miyazaki/Ghibli
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
My Neighbour Totoro