The Official Last Movie You Saw Thread (Part 2)

[Blue Heaven]

I made a list of movies that my wife has never seen that I feel like she needed to see. Here's what we've watched together over the last two months:

A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Room
Trading Places
City Of God
Chinatown
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Top Gun
The Fly
Say Anything...
The Conversation
Glengarry Glen Ross
Bull Durham
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Heat
Dazed and Confused
The Thing
Fatal Attraction


She has enjoyed them all (except Top Gun, which I also found to be pretty awful upon rewatch). She still has about 90 movies left on her list, and if she finishes it before she has our child in March, I told her I'd never make her watch an older movie ever again.

Going back through the thread I saw this list of movies. We got the same taste. Watched Taxi Driver again today. Fixing to watch Dazed for the umpteenth time. No more mister nice guy!

[Joneslab]

The Edge of Seventeen.

I always roll my eyes when people tell me high school was hell. For me high school was a magical time of sports and girls and total unadulterated laziness. And then you watch a movie like this, and you finally understand what people were talking about.

This movie is something of a minor masterpiece. It reminded me of Superbad in ways--the longing and peculiarities of teenage friendship are perfectly done--and also of Freaks and Geeks, but really it belongs to those rare teenage movies that rise above themselves and become forces of art. The acting is extraordinary, especially the lead character, who plays angst and wonder and cynicism so perfectly you feel like you knew her in high school. I also liked Woody Harrellson as the terrible teacher who befriends the lead, and a young actor named Hayden Szeto who plays a love interest in the most awkwardly perfect manner ever in a genre known for awkward character types.

This is a raw, moving, sometimes dark look at what it means to love and lose inside the jungle of adolescence. It was put together with care and tremendous skill, and it's one of the best high school films I've ever seen even though that's a jam-packed genre full of great films. I loved Clueless because I thought that film spoke to the '90s generation, mine, the best of any movie ever made, but this is a different type of movie. It's darker, rawer, much more real. And yet it remains hilarious all the way through.

This thing sings with authenticity. Highest recommendation.

[Wonderstruck]

Caught an early screening of "Collateral Beauty" on Wednesday and it's fantastic. Great ensemble; Helen Mirren, Will Smith, and Naomie Harris were fantastic, and the story had a lot of soul. Very introspective film. I lingered on a rating for a while, but I can't find very many faults in it, so I have to give it a 5/5 for my personal tastes. It's one of my favorite films of the year.

[Westtncat]

The Edge of Seventeen.

I always roll my eyes when people tell me high school was hell. For me high school was a magical time of sports and girls and total unadulterated laziness. And then you watch a movie like this, and you finally understand what people were talking about.

This movie is something of a minor masterpiece. It reminded me of Superbad in ways--the longing and peculiarities of teenage friendship are perfectly done--and also of Freaks and Geeks, but really it belongs to those rare teenage movies that rise above themselves and become forces of art. The acting is extraordinary, especially the lead character, who plays angst and wonder and cynicism so perfectly you feel like you knew her in high school. I also liked Woody Harrellson as the terrible teacher who befriends the lead, and a young actor named Hayden Szeto who plays a love interest in the most awkwardly perfect manner ever in a genre known for awkward character types.

This is a raw, moving, sometimes dark look at what it means to love and lose inside the jungle of adolescence. It was put together with care and tremendous skill, and it's one of the best high school films I've ever seen even though that's a jam-packed genre full of great films. I loved Clueless because I thought that film spoke to the '90s generation, mine, the best of any movie ever made, but this is a different type of movie. It's darker, rawer, much more real. And yet it remains hilarious all the way through.

This thing sings with authenticity. Highest recommendation.

Well, you have made me want to see it.

[KCKUKFan]

The Edge Of Seventeen - Will nailed it, so I don't have to say anything else. It's awesome... see it.

[George]

My wife and I watched The 13th and Zootopia back-to-back last night. Fired up Zootopia to lift our spirits after The 13th; didn't realize it was Disney's take on race relations and we'd basically swam to the shallow end of the same pool.

[BobS]

Hated Scarface. Hated Pacino in it. Hated his phoney accent. Hate drug movies. Lot of hate there.

Liked Untouchables, Dress to Kill, Blowout. Dislike Nancy Allen. (Awful actress)

[KCKUKFan]

Hated Scarface. Hated Pacino in it. Hated his phoney accent. Hate drug movies. Lot of hate there.

Liked Untouchables, Dress to Kill, Blowout. Dislike Nancy Allen. (Awful actress)

There have been plenty of good drug movies.

[George]

There have been plenty of good drug movies.

Some of the best movies are drug movies.

[Blue Heaven]

Some of the best movies are drug movies.

Blow was great. Sicario was really great.

[George]

Blow was great. Sicario was really great.

I'm actually not a Blow fan, but I think Sicario is phenomenal. Then, of course, there's Traffic, Pulp Fiction (it's a drug movie, right?), City of God, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, The French Connection... so many good "drug" movies.

[Joneslab]

I'm generally not a fan of the cartel movie either, but Breaking Bad was a world-altering masterpiece. Also The Wire.

You can classify those both as "shows about familial relationships" as much as you could being about drugs. Drugs are just a trope.

[George]

I'm generally not a fan of the cartel movie either, but Breaking Bad was a world-altering masterpiece. Also The Wire.

You can classify those both as "shows about familial relationships" as much as you could being about drugs. Drugs are just a trope.

I can't speak for the others, but I'm not just talking about cartel movies. You could call Dazed & Confused a drug movie if you wanted.

[BobS]

I'm actually not a Blow fan, but I think Sicario is phenomenal. Then, of course, there's Traffic, Pulp Fiction (it's a drug movie, right?), City of God, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, The French Connection... so many good "drug" movies.

Good for you but I hate them. I hated Pulp Fiction and every Tarantino movie ever conceived or made.
I liked Sicario. It was certainly more than just a bunch of people sniffing pounds of cocaine or yelling the F word in every sentence. I just described Scarface. Sicario was definitely a movie about more than just drugs. Drugs were certainly the villains, but solid acting and character development carried that film, IMO.

Just not my thing. Not a prude and i have seen great films that involved drugs starting with A Hatful Of Rain. Don't like Hollywood glorifying, making fun or in some cases, making light of the what I feel is the greatest cause of the breakdown of American values. I go to movies to escape, not just to get what i see a lot of thrown in my face. But I digress. To each his own.

I would never put The French Connection and Scarface in the same galaxy but that's just me.

[George]

Good for you but I hate them. I hated Pulp Fiction and every Tarantino movie ever conceived or made.
I liked Sicario. It was certainly more than just a bunch of people sniffing pounds of cocaine or yelling the F word in every sentence. I just described Scarface. Sicario was definitely a movie about more than just drugs. Drugs were certainly the villains, but solid acting and character development carried that film, IMO.

Just not my thing. Not a prude and i have seen great films that involved drugs starting with A Hatful Of Rain. Don't like Hollywood glorifying, making fun or in some cases, making light of the what I feel is the greatest cause of the breakdown of American values. I go to movies to escape, not just to get what i see a lot of thrown in my face. But I digress. To each his own.

I would never put The French Connection and Scarface in the same galaxy but that's just me.

But how is The French Connection not a "drug" movie?