What I’ve Watched – Recommendations
December 27, 2013 in Blog
Since I have been bound to a computer I’ve had too much time to watch entertainment. I have seen everything. Below, I listed these as my favorites. These are the only ones I outstandingly recommend.
These movies are less popular and I rated them 5 stars:
- Mr Nobody
- The Machine
- Metropolis Restored
- Instructions not Included
- Goodbye World
- Eva
- Delete
- Take Care
- The Trotsky
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Aeon Flux
- 12 Angry Men
- Margin Call
- Casino Jack
- Nell
- Agora
- 8 Miles High
- The Way Back
- Awakenings
- The Great Debators
- O’ Brother Where Art Thou
- The Red Violin
- Kon-Tiki
- Malena
- Charley Wilson’s War
- Fair Game
- Middle Men
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose
- Thank you for Smoking
- Idiocracy
- Children of Men
These movies are worth a watch; I rate them 4 stars:
- Doomsday Book
- Automata
- Europa Report
- The Final Cut
- Robot and Frank
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Heir Apartment: Largo Winch
- Cybergeddon
- Detachment
- Branded
- Stand by me
- The Brass Teapot
- eXistenZ
- Into the Void
- Jesus Henry Christ
- Barbarella
These are popular movies worth watching again; rated 5 stars:
- War of the Worlds
- Inception
- Minority Report
- Total Recall
- K-Pax
- The Mist
- Elysium
- Prometheus
- A.I.
- I Robot
- Oblivion
- Minority Report
- The Island
- Serenity
- V for Vendetta
- Into the Wild
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Gangs of New York
- There Will Be Blood
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- Black Swan
- Dan in Real Life
- Blood Diamond
- Schindler’s List
- The Aviator
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- The Pianist
- Vanilla Sky
- Fight Club
- Gattaca
- Avatar
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- A River Runs Through It
- A Beautiful Mind
- Shawshank Redemption
- Donnie Darko
- The Last King of Scotland
- Hotel Rwanda
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Beach
- Good Will Hunting
- The Grapes of Wrath
- A clockwork Orange
- Gran Torino
- Django Unchained
- Rain Man
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Truman Show
- Jurassic Park
- Planet of the Apes
- Big Fish
- Reign Over Me
- The Help
- Iron Man
- The Life of David Gale
- Pay it Forward
- Babel
- Tsotsi
- 10,000 BC
- Milk
- Defiance
- Argo
- Catch Me if You Can
- Erin Brockovich
- The Blind Side
- The Mothman Prophecies
- Ray
- Lincoln
- Jarhead
- Rudy
- Rock Star
- Almost Famous
- Apocalyptico
- Dances with Wolves
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Les Miserables
- The Wizard of Oz
- Moulin Rouge
- Burlesque
- Hustle and Flow
- School of Rock
- Team America: World Police
- Valkyrie
- Seven Pounds
- Boiler Room
- Edward Scissorhands
- Sweet Novermber
- Harry Potter
- Boys in the Hood
- Juno
- Borat
- Saturday Night Live
- Embended: Live
- The Legend of Bagger Vance
- Limitless
- The Departed
- Crash
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- District 9
- Office Space
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Clerks
- Forest Gump
- Armageddon
- Gladiator
- Braveheart
- Sweeny Todd
- Don Jon
- God Bless America
- Promise Land
- Wall-E
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- The Goonies
My favorite relationship movies:
- Mr Nobody
- Stuck in Love
- Liberal Arts
- The Giant Mechanical Man
- Spanglish
- Silver Lining Playbook
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Chasing Amy
- American Pie
- Frida
- She’s Out of My League
- The Wedding Singer
- 500 days of summer
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mine
- Take this Waltz
- Happy Gilmore
- High Fidelity
- Wanderlust
- Just go with it
- Now is Good
- I can’t think straight
Favorite stand-up comedians:
- John Mulaney
- Bo Burnham
- Bill Maher
- Mitch Hedberg
- Bill Burr
- Lewis Black
- Dick Gregory
- Joe Rogan
- Janeane Garofalo
TV series that I’ve rated 5 stars:
- Continuum
- Caprica
- Jericho
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- The Honorable Woman
- House of Cards
- Mad Men
- Doctor Who
- Star Trek
- Battlestar Gallactica
- Black Mirror
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Futurama
- Chuck
- Key and Peele
- Weeds
- 30 Rock
- Modern Family
- Chuck
- Scrubs
- Wilfred
- Misfits
- Mr. Bean
- Undeclared
- Bomb Girls
- Dexter
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- How I Met Your Mother
- Freaks and Geeks
TV series that I’ve rated 4 stars:
- Orange is the New Black
- Garfunkle and Oats
- Blue Mountain State
- Flight of the Concords
- Jekyll
- A Young Doctor’s Notebook
- Coupling
- Californication
The best tv news and reality:
- PBS News Hour
- Charley Rose
- Frontline
- American Experience
- Inside Man – Morgan Spurlock
- 60 Minutes
- 20/20
- Dateline
- Nightline
- BBC World News
- NBC Nightly News
- Dr. Oz
- Master Chef
- Shark Tank
- American Pickers
- The Daily Show
- The Colbert Report
Must see tv series in nature and science:
- How to Grow a Planet
- The Universe – H2
- The Inexplicable Universe
- Unraveling the Cosmos
- Amazing Planet
- Ultimate Mars Challenge
- Wild China / Wild Indo China
- Natural Geographic Amazing Planet
- BBC: Blue Planet
- PBS Nova
- Ken Burns: The National Parks
- Into the Wormhole
- Futurescape
- How the Universe Works
- Mythbusters
- Bear Grylls
- Survivor Man
- Dual Survivor
- How it’s Made
- Anything about the universe, science, nature and geography
Transcendent documentaries about the future of science:
- Transcendent Man
- Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design
- Future by Design
- Mega Engineering
- Surviving Progress
- Prophets of Science Fiction
- Brink: Singularity
- Print the Legend
The most informative documentaries:
- Mysteries of the Unseen Universe
- Jane’s Journey
- The Human Family Tree
- The Shock Doctrine
- The Vanishing of the Bees
- The Corporation
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Blackfish
- We Steal Secrets: he story of Wikileaks
- Frontline: Bush’s War
- Something Ventured
- National Geographic: Inside North Korea
- Sicko
- Outfoxed
- Freakonomics
- Walmart: The high cost of low prices
- Missrepresentation
- Temple Grandin
- Gasland
- Fuel
- Bowling for Columbine
- Roger and Me
- Waiting for Superman
- Ethos
- Inside Job
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Restrepo
- No End in Sight
- Zeitgeist
- Earthlings
- The Flaw
- Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky
- Tapped
- Flow: For the Love of Water
- Blue Gold – World Water Wars
- Stress: Portrait of a Killer
- Who killed the electric Car?
- The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- People of a Feather
- Snow Monkeys
- Wild Ocean
- The Green Prince
Documentaries about health:
- Food Matters
- Forks over Knives
- The Gerson miracle
- Food, Inc
- The Future of Food
- Hungry for Change
- Farmageddon
- Frankensteer
- Engine 2 Diet Kitchen Rescue
- Super Sixe Me
- Food Fight
- King Corn
- Burzynski
- Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
- The Beautiful Truth
- The Fruit Hunters
- Vitality
Spiritual documentaries:
- I am
- 3 magic words
- Alive Inside
- What the #%*! Do We Know
- Religulous
- Dogma
- Ayurveda: The art of being
- Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard
- The Nature of Existence
- Yoga Is: A Transformational Journey
I also watch and read anything about or from:
- Paul Krugman
- Ray Kurzweil
- Elon Musk
- Stephen Hawking
- Bill Gates
- TED videos
- Steve Jobs
- Warren Buffet
- Albert Einstein
- Thomas Edison
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Lincoln… and all US Presidents
- Noam Chomsky
- Gandhi
- Darwin
- Adam Smith
- Sir Edward Coke
- Isaac Newton
- Galileo Galilei
- Leonardo Da Vince
- Aristotle
- Plato
- Socrates
- Hypocrites
- Dali Lama
- The Pope
Update 4/6/17:
- The Last Man on Earth
- Cowspiracy
- 13 reasons why
- Beasts of no Nation
- The True Cost
- Requiem for the American Dream
- In Search of Balance
- The Big Short
- The Imitation Game
- Rosewater
- Fargo
- 3%
- 13th
- Travelers
- OA
- Stranger Things
- Seth Myers
- Where to Invade Next
- Advantageous
- Jim Jefferies
- Trevor Noah
- Dope
- Hits
- Interstellar
- Hidden Figures
- Moonlight
- Captain Fantastic
- The Martian
- Ex Machina
- Spotlight
- 12 Years a Slave
- Lincoln
- Les Miserables
- Life of Pi
Here’s some more recent decent sci-fi movies:
- Listening
- Time Lapse
- Synchronicity
- Uncanny – isn’t great but is interesting.
- The Lobster – I still don’t know if I love it or hate it.
- ARQ
- iBoy
- The Discovery
- These Final Hours
- Equals
- Operator