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Movies with unexpected scenes
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Kids go on drug trip..
Hereditary
The drive home goes wrong.
Uncut Gems
Gambling addiction never ends well.
Movies with legendary soundtracks
Singles
Introduces grunge pop to America
2001: A Space Odyssey
Impressive scenes with impressive music
Dazed and Confused
70s rock never sounded better
Next: More great movie soundtracks
More great movie soundtracks
Repo Man
Distinctive surf-y, 80s California punk
Star Wars
Willams scores with his score
Rocky
Theme makes you wanna win
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More great movie sountracks III: The Soundtrackening
Saturday Night Fever
Disco hit after hit after…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Big, beautiful, sweeping orchestral score
Limitless
A very cool electronica score
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Movies with meh or even bad soundtracks
Lotsa bad movies that ruined good songs…
The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant
Sounds like being played backwards
Heavy Metal
Bad animation doesn’t match soundtrack
Cocktail
Caribbean theme doesn’t mesh well
Next: Movies with memorable theme songs
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“Moon River” became a hit
Star Wars
That first crashing chord… wow!
Dark City
First notes set the tone
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Movies with creepy music
It Follows
Atonal, uncanny soundtrack: great addition!
The Omen
Traditional Catholic liturgy turned evil.
Sinister
Industrial, unsettling, muffled, distored: creepy!
Legendary jump scares
Alien
Jonesy the cat, getting jumpy
Psycho (1960)
Norman in drag, getting stabby
Carrie (1976)
That outstretched arm, getting grabby
Next: Creepy dialogue in movies
Dark City
Mr. Hand gives me willies
Cape Fear
Max Cady is bad dude
Annihilation
People, alien zone: increasingly weird
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Particularly quotable movies
The Godfather
Everybody’s making some kinda offer
Casablanca
Here’s looking at lotsa quotes
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Too many quotes to list
Next: More movies with great quotes
The Big Lebowski
The Dude abides, very quotably
Aliens
“…only way to be sure.”
Limitless
No, actual recipe for grandeur!
Next up:
Good technothrillers
Westworld
Scared me as a youngster
Source Code
“Stop him! Stop the bomber!”
Johnny Mnemonic
Uneven Keanu in pre-Matrix role
Next: More technothrillers
War Games
Pink tights scene? Two seconds.
Android
Damn, that 'droid got testy!
Sneakers
Yaphet Kotto stole my cigarettes!
Technothrillers time has not been kind to
Fahrenheit 451
Dystopian tech movie, mostly forgotten
Hackers
It’s all stone tablet technology
Logan’s Run
Logan’s run out of juice
Next: Classic thrillers that still hold up today
Notorious
American agents take on Nazis
Wait Until Dark
Blind woman menaced in apartment
Three Days of the Condor
Reluctant spy on the run
Next up:
Movies about reconciliation
Field of Dreams
Hippy son, square dad, baseball!
The Straight Story
Guy drives mower across Midwest.
Invictus
Mandela, apartheid, rugby, South Africa.
Over-the-top, explosion-heavy, summer blockbusters.
Independence Day
Aliens battle the whole world
Transformers
Michael Bey’s explosively laden extravaganza
Die Hard
“Welcome to the party, pal!”
Next: Movies that combine Christmas with explosions
Gremlins
Don’t feed them after midnight!
Lethal Weapon
…too old for this shit.
Iron Man 3
Superhero movies all the same.
Depressing gut punches
Manchester by the Sea
Guilt does shit to you.
Twister: Into the Storm
Scores dead in devastating tornado.
Grave of the Fireflies
Orphans and deprivations of war.
Found footage films that don’t suck