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Geez everyone's got a list! I got just one movie I watch over and over.

FIGHT CLUB

Adding in some documentaries, I'd highly recommending watching these climbing docs as a trilogy to understand the scope of what's being achieved as well as understanding the different approaches to the sport:

The Dawn Wall: Introduces you to climbing legends such as Tommy Caldwell and the difficulty of the sport, with the main focus being one climb in Yosemite.

Free Solo: Takes the dawn wall and makes it look entry level, focuses on Alex Honnold who climbs 'free solo' meaning without ropes or a partner.

The Alpinist: Difficult to put into words, focuses on an almost completely unknown climber called Marc-André Leclerc who is to climbing as Michael Phelps is to swimming. This guy completes climbs even the greatest in the sport consider far from humanly achievable, with part of the doc being a battle to even find the guy to film as he doesn't care for media attention or fame for his climbs.

The docs all contribute to the understanding of what drives the people pushing the bar of what's considered possible, and in the subsequent docs the previous climbers appear frequently in interviews that adds a kind of continuum which is why I love these 3 together rather than as individual pieces.

I found a few missing!

I personally loved Sunshine. if you are into Scifi; it's not Interstellar, but it's great in it's own right.

Then there are movies that are so bad that they come out on top, the Sharknado series fill that spot for me.

I'm also a big fan of The Machinist, seeing what actors do to their bodies opened my eyes to the dedication they show.

A movie that was so full of suspense for me that I couldn't watch it to the end in one sitting was The Hunt (2012), a Danish film about Mass Hysteria in a small village after someone gets falsely accused of child molestation.

All other movies that I can recommend are already mentioned in the other lists, and I've saved this whole thread for the huge amount of movies I'm still missing.

I'm more into just about anything animated, so my list is absolutely biased against most any live action film:

• Prince of Egypt ( Pixar's last good film before they started flying off a cliff, in my opinion )

• An American Tail ( Fivek Goes West as well, but the first one is definitely better )

• The Land Before Time ( specifically movies 1 & 5 since they're my favorites of the overdone franchise )

• Secret of NIMH

I can't think of any others off the top of my head that aren't your standard 1970s animated Robin Hood ( the dosney one ) or Zootopia, but I can't say I'd put them up there despite how much I adore those movies.

Rush is probably one of the best motorsports movies out there, definitely better than whatever the fuck the F1 movie was trying to be.

Also try Ford Vs Ferrari that one's good too.

The wicker man (1973)

Shaun of the dead

The Shawshank redemption

The thing

There's a lot of movies I really like. But I believe these to be my all time favorites:

Master and Commander

Rogue One

Tron: Legacy

Arrival