I've had a lot of time lately to sit in my goddarn wheelchair watching random movies and I know my opinions on them are important to you because I'm an important person. 
The Time Machine
The version from the 1950s. This is a classic where everything came together just right. Notably they knew exactly what special effects they had the technology to pull off, so it still holds up today better than Marvel capeshit.
The Best of Everything
Foids working for a publishing company in 1950s NYC engage in foid nonsense, slutting around and then wondering why everything goes wrong in their lives. I couldn't quite tell if it was meant to be a cautionary tale or if women already were unable to accept personal responsibility back then.
The Prisoner of Zenda
A guy is mistaken for the nearly identical prince of a Balkan shithole c. 1900 and is caught up in intrigue. I saw the 1950s color version, which is apparently supposed to be inferior to the earlier one. Whatevs. I thought it was pretty good and James Mason was great at being a massive butthole.
Le Samourai
A hitman in 1960s Paris runs into film noir complications. Melville knew how to make an American-style movie better than Americans. And it's always nice to see France in that era. My dad loved watching French movies in boomer times so it feels comfy.
The Naked Prey
Africa, 1890s. A white guy gets captured, stripped naked, and told to start running. Guys with spears chase after him. A great movie if you like watching sweaty shirtless guys. Pretty good pacing.
Raging Grace
A Filipina illegal immigrant works as a maid for a dying old man while trying to take care of her own daughter. Increasingly ominous things happen. I quit this halfway through because I can't take watching something where kids are possibly in danger. It just makes me have anxiety and feel unpleasant.
Las Vegas: The Story of Sin City
CNN documentary series about the history of Las Vegas. It has interviews with lots of people who worked there as entertainers and gives you some interesting perspectives of what it's like being on the fringes of mafia shit but not really a part of it.
Collateral
Made by Michael Mann when he was still good. A hitman (Tom Cruise) forces a cab driver to give him a few rides. Not much to say except it's really good.
Arrival
Linguist tries to communicate with mysterious aliens. I give it points for actually making the aliens be alien. But the story moves at a glacial pace up until the ending, which I wasn't terribly impressed by. Also suffers from some idiot plotting where everyone besides the heroine seems heck bent on fricking things up.
The Abyss
Made by James Cameron when he was still good. Civilians team up with SEALs to rescue the crew of a sunken nuclear submarine. It's a bit too obvious who the villain is, especially if you know James Cameron. But there's a wild and unexpected surprise ending. If the woman ever ended up in a wet t-shirt I must have tragically missed it.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Tina Fey is a reporter in Afghanistan. Based on a true story. I found her charming and relatable. The movie is entertaining enough and actually something real, not just what some empowered white woman imagines she would be like in a war zone.
Smokin' Aces
A silly action movie about hit men who are competing to kidnap a mobster. Sometimes it's too silly and sometimes it takes itself too seriously, but it's pretty good for what it is.
Heist 88
Based on the true story of a plot to steal vast amounts of money through fraudulent wire transfers in 1988. It's somewhat interesting to see how that stuff worked back then, but like with many true stories there just isn't 2 hours worth of material.
Breaking
Not the documentary about break dancing. Another true story. A disabled veteran goes into a bank and takes hostages, threatening to set off a bomb unless the VA gets his shit unfricked. Like the above, I think there's just not enough story so it's slow moving and repetitive. It would need a really good actor to pull it off and these days we don't have Denzel, we have John Boyega.
Nick of Time
An ordinary guy's daughter is kidnapped to blackmail him into assassinating a politician. We've all seen this concept a million times but it's well executed here. The villians are very hateable and Johnny Depp looks immaculately 1995.
Edge of Darkness
Mel Gibson is a detective who has to avenge his daughter's murder. It's pretty dumb and predictable, especially if you know the story of Karen Silkwood which it's obviously based on. Spoiler: The evil corporation turns out to be evil.
13 Hours
The US consulate in Benghazi is overrun by Islamists. I actually learned a lot from this. Media accounts at the time made it sound like it was a much smaller event than it really was. They got away with it because somehow in all the Republicans' furious ranting about Killary they never bothered to just explain wtf happened.
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Are there any hidden gem
movies you could recommend to a zoomer who doesn't watch many movies?
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Best hidden gem is Thomas est Amoreux. Thomas in love. Watched this at Cinema 21 with Philippe. He was constantly laughing. Got dirty looks from everyone who thought he was being an butthole. My neighbor was French Canadian and got all the jokes that were lost in the subtitles.
It's from around 2000, set in the future. It's POV watching the Internet feed of an agoraphobic incel struggling to do better. It's way way before its time.
The Saragossa Manuscript. From Poland in the 1960s based on an old French book. One of my dad's favorites. It's got an incredibly intricate plot which... You would have to see it.
As long as we're talking about my dad's stuff, Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It's about a French guy's relationship with his fiance when he comes home from getting his leg fricked up in Algeria. It had a certain meaning to him because he was in the war and you can't explain that to your wife when you come back. (I haven't roped because I'm the only person he can dump this on.) And I got crippled and it's the same.
Star Trek II
The Last of the Mohicans
Heat
Swordsman II
Run Lola Run
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Some people are able to display their intelligence by going on at length on a subject and never actually saying anything. This ability is most common in trades such as politics, public relations, and law. You have impressed me by being able to best them all, while still coming off as an absolute idiot.
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Thanks king
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Battleground (1949).
My dad is always like "those r-slurred chuds who think they're a big deal because they they were in the military". Yet somehow knows and shares to his son all of these jokes about how every division sucks except the 101st Airborne.
Probably because it's undeniable.
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I really, really like A Serious Man
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