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[Her]

what are movies or tv shows that you tend to recommend to others?

 

[GengyGengar]

Glee is amazing, but other than Glee I don't watch much TV.

 

[Shadowraze]

Breaking Bad man you're missing out if you still haven't watched it. Game of Thrones would be great too, if you like fantasy medieval stories with dragons and shit this is the one for you. If you want more swords and battleaxes try Vikings a really great tv show from History highly recommend these tv shows.

As for the movies I recommend the Batman Trilogy by Christopher Nolan and all his other works e.g. Interstellar, Inception, etc. Also Dallas Buyers Club and Pulp Fiction really great movies that you should also watch. ;)

 

[Livewire]

I'll usually recommend Game Of Thrones, Marco Polo, Archer, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, etc., for TV Shows, and usually anything by either Tarantino/Scorsese/Nolan/Fincher/Boyle in the movie department.

 

[Kirestananderson01]

Inside out, Mission Impossible and harry potter movies.

 

[maccrash]

I cater to peoples' individual tastes when I'm recommending them shit because I'm not boutta recommend some artsy-fartsy B.S. to someone that watches exclusively, say, superhero movies & Survivor. however I end up accidentally telling most people I'm friends with to watch Rushmore at some point because I adore that movie.

 

[esperance]

I like to recommend Criminal Minds and CSI to people that like crime shows, and can handle a bit of violence. And I will always recommend Silence of the Lambs to those that can handle it.

 

[Esper]

And I will always recommend Silence of the Lambs to those that can handle it.

Yes. Great choice. Also on my list.

Most of the time I like to know what someone's tastes generally are before I recommend anything. But I have some stand-bys I like to throw at people:

Pan's Labyrinth
Good for anyone who likes fantasy or fairy tales or something on the darker side of things. Really pretty movie, good story, good characters. Easy to get sucked into it.

The Fall
Like Pany's Labyrinth, a beautiful movie which is great for people who like fairy tales and fantastical stories. It's really just a weird, beautiful movie unlike many others.

The Fifth Element
For fun, schlocky, wacky, popcorn scifi movie.

Dirty Pretty Things
Lots of actors I like, intense kind of movie. Good for someone who likes something with a little grit, but doesn't care for violence.

The Princess Bride
Like, the classic 80s fantasy movie for someone has never seen a classic 80s fantasy movie.

Wall-E
My favorite among the Pixar movies. I'm sure plenty most people have seen it though, but I still love it and recommend it to people if I've heard they haven't seen it.

Pacific Rim
This is a kind of niche movie so I'd have to have a good idea of what kind of taste someone has because, say, if you didn't like The Fifth Element or Pan's Labyrinth I don't think you'd like this movie.

And I don't really have many television recommendations except to say that Veronica Mars is one of the best things that has even been shown on TV.

 

[Lucid]

Here's a bunch of junk:

TV:
Spartacus
The Tudors
Game of Thrones
Supernatural
The Walking Dead
Dexter
Arrow
Parks and Recreation
Archer
Hemlock Grove
Arrested Development
Gotham
Braking Bad
The Chapelle Show
Vikings
Sons of Anarchy
The Voice
Jackass & Wildboys
Deadwood
Mad Men
The Office
That 70's Show
Orange is the New Black
Aquateen Hunger Force
Boardwalk Empire
Real Husbands of Hollywood
South Park
The Borgias

Movies:
Pan's Labyrinth
Sublime
The Princess Bride
Interview with a Vampire
Gremlins
The Boondock Saints
Guardians of the Galaxy
Friday
Spirited Away
True Grit
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Slumdog Millionaire
Black Swan
The Exorcist
The Book of Life
The Virgin Suicides
The History of the World Part 1
The Devil's Backbone
The Rum Diary
Ghostbusters
Pulp Fiction
Shutter
Space Balls
Tropic Thunder
Almost Famous
Scary Movie 1 & 2
Requiem for a Dream
Superbad
Lady Snowblood
Lost in Translation
The Wolf of Wall Street
Casino
Kill Bill Vol. 1
This is the End
Sideways
The Shawshank Redemption
White Oleander
The Great Gadsby
The Star Wars Franchise
The Jurassic Park Franchise
The Godfather Franchise
The 1st 3 Indiana Jones flicks

 

[esperance]

After seeing Lucid's post I have to add that both Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction are some of the greatest movies ever and I would recommend them to anyone.

 

[Pokemon Game Fan]

Breaking Bad
Arrow
The Flash
Gotham
Constantine
Monday Night Raw.

For shows.

For movies:
Dark Knight Trilogy
Bill and Ted
Almost Famous
and I have wayyyy too many to list and not enough patience. xD

 

[Outlier]

I recommend The Wire a lot. It never got the viewership it deserved because it aired back when a lot of people didn't have HBO and it was constantly snubbed by the emmys and other award shows despite being critically acclaimed and eventually becoming a cult hit. It's the greatest show of all time. Watch it you plebs!

 

[Captain Gizmo]

When I recommend a movie/tv series, it really depends on the other person because I don't try to shove what I like down the throat of someone. If I'm gonna recommend a movie/tv show, it'll be based on what interest them. My reasoning for this is, just because a movie/ tv serie is getting praised doesn't necessarily means that everyone is gonna like it. For example, I'm a huge horror movie fan and I've seen a crapton of zombie movies in my days. Then Zombieland came out and everyone was saying it's awesome and very good. When I actually got around to watch it, I wasn't the 'great zombie movie' that everyone have been saying, nor was it a bad movie. It was an okay movie. Because I've seen my fair share of zombie movies such as the 'Of the Dead' series, Night of the Living Dead and Zombie which imo were better movies than Zombieland. But Zombieland was praised because it kinda opened the gate for the zombie genre to enter the mainstream.


tl;dr: I'm never going to suggest a movie/tv series to someone based on what I like, I will base my suggestions on what THEY like and then suggest movies based on those criteria.

 

[Sir Codin]

Army of Darkness

And recently, Mad Max: Fury Road

 

[blue]

Orange Is the New Black
Modern Family
Breaking Bad
Prison Break
American Horror Story
Desperate Housewives
Hawaii Five-0
Bates Motel
Friends
The Office (U.S edition)
Scandal
Grace & Frankie
House of Cards
Fawlty Towers
Sense8
Nurse Jackie
Planet Earth

 

[noahr94]

I'll do my top 10 for each (no particular order)

MOVIES:
1.) Batman Begins
2.) Batman: The Dark Knight
3.) Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
4.) Akira
5.) Django Unchained
6.) There Will Be Blood
7.) American Psycho
8.) Goodfellas
9.) American Gangster
10.) Man On Fire

TV:
1.) The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
2.) Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
3.) Cowboy Bebop
4.) Lie to Me
5.) Breaking Bad
6.) Burn Notice
7.) Sherlock
8.) Steven Universe
9.) Adventure Time
10.) Dexter's Laboratory

 

[pkmin3033]

Usually I try and cater to people's individual tastes, but I find myself recommending Babylon Five an awful lot these days when people ask me for TV show recommendations...it's such a tragically overlooked series that really stands out for it's superb plot, diverse cast, universally (haha) fantastic acting, and for being a series set on a space station done right. I can understand people's reluctance - after all, when people think of space stations they tend to think of Deep Space Nine, and that was AWFUL - but I wish more people had seen it.

I don't really recommend movies often...I'm not really a movie sort of person.

...I will also push Suite Precure on anyone who will give me the time of day, irrespective of their interest in proper magical girl shows. xD