Good Movies

• Blade Runner 1982 – still a good movie but interpreted differently by today’s standards. The sequel sucks.
• Dune 1984 – the original version, I didn’t like the remake.
• Subway 1985 – a weird French film that’s strangely captivating.
• Alien Nation 1988 – former slaves from outer space seek refuge in the US.
• DOA 1988 – a man who is murdered by a slow poison tries to catch his murderer. It’s a remake of a 1950 movie and there is another remake from 2022. I don’t know how the 3 movies compare but the 1988 movie is great!
• They Live 1988 – classic SciFi movie about aliens brainwashing everyone on Earth.
• La Femme Nikita 1990 – one of the classics of spy action drama.
• Clerks 1994 – very funny and moderately offensive.
• Léon: The Professional 1994 – interesting take on a hitman and the young girl he guards.
• The Usual Suspects 1995 – famous and memorable film.
• The Celebration (Danish: Festen) 1998 – a very memorable and artistic movie notable for it’s lack of special effects. Avoid spoilers.
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 – British crime noir.
• Pi 1998 – while Wall St is crashing a mathematician tries to discover the nature of god and the universe. I didn’t like the end.
• Ronin 1998 – one of the better spy/action movies with a good car chase.
• Being John Malkovich 1999 – strange and interesting movie, avoid spoilers.
• ExistenZ 1999 – strange SciFi about immersive gaming.
• Office Space 1999 – insightful satire of office work.
• Memento 2000 – an unusual film about memory loss, avoid spoilers.
• Snatch 2000 – British crime-comedy noir.
• The Road to Perdition 2002 – one of the best crime movies.
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 – interesting movie about memory erasure.
• Paprika 2006 – anime with similar themes to Inception
• The Man from Earth 2007 – a professor claims to be a long-lived caveman.
• Moon 2009 – Interesting SciFi movie about a man working on a moon base on his own for which you should avoid spoilers.
• Inception 2010 – interesting movie about invading dreams.
• The Interview 2014 is a very funny political satire film about North Korea.
• Bright 2017 – elves and orcs are living alongside humans in the US. Has some similar elements to Alien Nation but fantasy.
• The Circle 2017 – a movie about a Facebook like company. Interesting and amusing.
• Bullet Train 2022 – funny and absurd movie.
• The Menu 2022 – psychological drama about an obsessed gourmet chef and his fans.
• Poker Face 2022 – very Australian take on a hostage movie.
• Vespa/Vesper 2022 – artistic movie about biohacking.
• Robots 2023 – comedy with a new take on robots impersonating people.

Time Travel and Alternate Universe

• 12 Monkeys 1995 – a really good movie, followed by a TV series that started out OK and dropped in quality.
• Run Lola Run 1998 – a pioneer in the redo it genre.
• Primer 2004 – interesting time-travel movie.
• Coherence 2013 – really good acting and production, but I can’t understand the hostility.
• Arrival 2016 – really different, AVOID SPOILERS.
• The Discovery 2017 – SciFi movie that starts with a lot of suicides when an afterlife is proven to exist. Don’t worry about spoilers worry about trying to understand it, the movie is good but some concepts are hard to present.
• Tenet 2020 – really needs to be watched in 4K with subtitles. Interesting time-travel movie. Some similarities to Primer but more action. Don’t worry about spoilers because it’s hard enough to understand anyway.