Recent movies (last 20 years or so) that you'd consider a classic or a potential future classic?

MutantScalper said:
Maybe Black Hawk Down but I'm not saying it's a perfect movie, just that in terms of spectacle it's pretty high up there especially I guess when seen in a movie theater. In a way that BHD isn't politically correct sort of makes it interesting to look at.
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Black Hawk Down is one of my favorite films and I think it's already a classic in the war film genre.

But what are you saying about it no being PC? I have no idea where you're going with that.
 
Atomkilla said:
Black Hawk Down is one of my favorite films and I think it's already a classic in the war film genre.

But what are you saying about it no being PC? I have no idea where you're going with that.
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Well the Somalis are called "skinnies" and if it was made today there maybe would be a view from the Somali perspective in the movie as well. I've read Mark Bowden's book and the book might even be better because the movie is condensed and truncated in many ways. In the book the Somali view is shown better.

I'm sure there are other significant movies in the 'niche'/'arthouse' -categories but I just can't think of that many. I like some of the European/German big budget productions like Downfall, Bader-Meinhoff Komplex and some others. I prefer non-fiction stuff I guess.
 
Yeah no get out was trash and all the symbolism in the world can't save it from being just another poorly written horror movie.
 
R.Graves said:
Yeah no get out was trash and all the symbolism in the world can't save it from being just another poorly written horror movie.
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Seconded.
I had liked the idea behind the film before I saw it. Turns out it was just another poorly written film that isn't sure if it was a horror, a thriller or a comedy. Bland, stereotypical characters, uninspired script and a "meh" twist.
It's political message suffered because the overall film is vacuous, and consequently all its social commentary felt hamfisted.
 
I prefer more 'niche' and 'arthouse' stuff. Blockbusters tend to feel too... clinical and messy for me, and even when good and entertaining, I can't get myself to appreciate them as much as I probably should.

I've no idea how much any these might have potential to become a 'classic' in their genre or sub-genre, some more some less, but all good movies nonetheless that I regard highly from the past "20 or so years".

Dogville, Antichrist, Melancholia (von Trier)
I Stand Alone, Enter the Void, Irreversible (Noé)
The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Mother (Aronofsky)
Crash, History of Violence, Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)
Inland Empire, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway (Lynch)
The White Ribbon, Funny Games, La Pianiste (Haneke)
Leviathan, The Banishment (Zvyagintsev)
Audition, Ichi the Killer (Miike)
 
Kohno said:
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
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This was actually a pretty big production, the other big war movie of that year together with Saving Private Ryan. Even George Clooney was in it. It's a good movie, manages to combine the action of war with more poetic storytelling. Based on a book by James Jones who was a WW 2 veteran.

Didn't actually know where the name, which comes from the name of the book, comes from. Until I Google it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Red_Line_(Battle_of_Balaclava)
 
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I know I'm gonna have some naysayers for at least two of these choices but fuck you these movies are great.
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Haven't seen Logan, but I heard it's really good, and I agree on the rest. Well, Fury Road was decent at least, not sure if it's going to be a future classic. I don't think it had the same impact that Road Warrior had.
But Blade Runner 2049 will be a classic, I think, if only for the fact that it's a sequel, not a reboot, and a bloody good one at that.
 
R.Graves said:
I know I'm gonna have some naysayers for at least two of these choices but fuck you these movies are great.
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By whom, Morons? who cares what morons think. all those movies are great.
Hassknecht said:
Haven't seen Logan, but I heard it's really good
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It's essentially a western set in a semi-dystiopian industrial wasteland of the American southwest. instead of Six-Shooters he has claws.
 
BigGuyCIA said:
Bladerunner 2049 was a masterpiece and easily surpasses the first one.
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You probably just made some contrarian's head explode somewhere. I like Blade Runner but I will admit it's a movie were nothing happens. 2049 on the other hand has things happen.
 
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Honest question but are any of the recent Star Wars films going to make their way into being sci-fi classics? I feel like the prequels squirmed there way into that category by virtue of being a Star Wars film.
 
BigGuyCIA said:
Honest question but are any of the recent Star Wars films going to make their way into being sci-fi classics? I feel like the prequels squirmed there way into that category by virtue of being a Star Wars film.
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Not really. TFA was serviceable enough as a soft reboot but everything else Disney has put out afterwards has been overwhelmingly underwhelming.


Also I'd hardly call the prequels classics as they're not really all that enjoyable. The Mr plinkett reviews of the prequels that RLM put out would be closer to classics than the prequels themselves would be imo.

Also I liked the first blade runner. A lot actually but overall I felt the film was lacking an emotional core. The romance between Deckard and Rachel fell a bit flat as did most of the replicants psychological struggle with wanting to meet god to ask him for more life.
 
Which blade runner are we all talking about though? There’s like 5 different cuts.
 
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