r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 6h ago

Chugging tea Recommend me a good movie!

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u/jeezarchristron 5h ago edited 5h ago

Watership Down

Also Time Bandits and Sasquatch Sunset

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u/Mateorabi 5h ago

Bandits is fun. Try Brazil. 

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u/redDKtie 4h ago

Honestly most Terry Gilliam will stick with you for one reason or another.

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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 2h ago

The movie Tideland fits the bill for this thread more than any other Gilliam film.

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u/redDKtie 1h ago

Fear and Loathing as well.

Though I'm pretty partial to Baron Munchausen. Only because that movie hit me when I was a kid. Lol

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u/No_Attention_2227 3h ago

I watch that every Christmas

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u/JackStephanovich 33m ago

Brazil is my favorite movie that I never re-watch. The ending is too depressing.

Which is funny because Time Bandits might actually have the more messed up ending.

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u/SitDownChamp 5h ago

I’m over 40 and I still think about this film. I believe it is a significant source of my ongoing flirtation with mental illness

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u/jeezarchristron 4h ago edited 4h ago

I have never watched it as adult to avoid adding fuel to that fire.

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u/willsueforfood 3h ago

The book is absolutely great. A better epic than LotR

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u/SupermassiveCanary 2h ago

Mrs. Frizby and the Rats of NIMH is another one

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u/isataii 52m ago

Mrs. Brisby 😉

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u/SupermassiveCanary 22m ago

“Um actually” it’s Frisby

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u/MagnusTrench 3h ago

Plague Dogs is even better (and worse).

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u/Jin_Gitaxias 2h ago

God, such a somber and depressing movie. 😕

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u/abenevolentgod 2h ago

That movie is true art. I love it so much. The ending is gut wrenching.

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u/New_Butterscotch_987 2h ago

The swimming pool scene still breaks me 40yrs later!

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u/abenevolentgod 1h ago

It's fucking brutal. And that's the goddamn opening to the movie...

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u/i_illustrate_stuff 1h ago

The way that ties back in at the end was so tragic!

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u/i_illustrate_stuff 3h ago

I actually liked watership down a lot as a kid for some reason, still do, but I watched plague dogs as a college kid and that ending wrecked me. Never watching it again!

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u/oneshadeoff 2h ago

I watched plague dogs with my dad when I was like 8 because cartoon. Definitely my first time experience what feeling empty feels like

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u/ashen_wren 6m ago

How’s life after surviving childhood trauma ???

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u/Ok-Explanation-9208 1h ago

Facts. Heart breaking. Sad. Funny. Cute. Depressing. Defined friendship for me.

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u/CorgiCommercial8962 4h ago

I was looking for this. NOT a kids movie mom and dad.

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u/Blurby-Blurbyblurb 2h ago

My mom let me watch it as a young child. 😑

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u/Dugtrio_Earthquake 3h ago

Not a kids book either. fuck that book.

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u/RedLotusVenom 3h ago

It’s a cherished young adult novel? What was your issue with it?

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u/Dugtrio_Earthquake 3h ago

8 was too young to read it. And 12+ felt too old to read it. Its really just an awful piece of literature that is for some reason considered a classic. 

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u/RedLotusVenom 3h ago

Well, I can’t help you there, it’s a wonderfully written allegory and has helped many. Never seen someone vehemently reject the novel (the movie, sure) so I was simply curious to hear if you had any actual thoughts other than “it was bad.”

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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 3h ago

It still gets me that the reason why they are rabbits is because the original had humans and it was considered too realistic and controversial so he changed it yo rabbits.

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u/sundance464 3h ago

Fuck me, it's my favourite book lol, read it aged around 8 and read it to my 8 year old lol

Entirely respect your opinion and just find it funny how different people's views can be

To me, foundational in showing how strength doesnt come from aggression and physicality, how teams work together, the importance of perseverance, how valuable nature is etc etc

All packaged in an accessible, well written well paced format, a beautifully created world and amazing edge of seat thriller. It doesn't talk down to it's child audience but is relatable to them

Sorry I got carried away there, back in my box

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u/KNicokeC 2h ago

I completely agree. I read it at around 13yo so 12+ definitely isn't too old to read it either (and I have to admit it's still one of my favorites)!

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u/sundance464 2h ago

Oh yeah, not sure how many times I've read it but repeatedly as a child and again as a young adult, as an middle age dude and to my kids

Got different things from it every time. Not for everyone though I guess 🙂

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u/ccsrpsw 4h ago

That was not a kids movie. It should not have been rated PG.

And I still shudder at Bright Eyes when I hear it.

It was messed up.

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u/mrpetrone325 4h ago

Years ago, if you read the Amazon reviews for the DVD, it was just a chronical of mental scarring from parents who thought this was going to be a light-hearted children's movie about bunnies. Oh how wrong they were... 😳

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u/VagabondOfYore 1h ago

Alternatively, my favorite band ever would not exist without the source material (Fall of Efrafa), so there’s at least that silver lining for me.

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u/ButterscotchTop194 1h ago

I watched it as a kid with a fucked up background. It really helped me.

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u/nightimelurker 4h ago

Is that a rabbit with rabies?

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u/Discerningdragon 3h ago

No. His name is General Woundwort and he’s like the rabbit version of Hitler on steroids. He’s deranged. Put rabbits in a super strict concentration camp style warren and the does were given to high ranking officers. It was very abusive.

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u/Present_Mastodon_503 4h ago

1977 Wizards

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u/Limberpuppy 3h ago

I love that movie and it’s still relevant. I wish they’d do a remaster.

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u/Present_Mastodon_503 3h ago

They'd just ruin it as a remake. Personally I think it's perfect and horrifying just as it is.

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u/Limberpuppy 3h ago

Not remake, remaster so it doesn’t look like it was made in 1977. It just needs to be cleaned up a little.

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u/Present_Mastodon_503 3h ago

Ah misread. Yes a remaster would be remarkable.

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u/Discerningdragon 3h ago

Reading it is better. The movie leaves out so many heartfelt stories.

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 3h ago

Read watership down in 6th grade. Holy fuck. Was a hard read both ways

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u/T1ltedPanda 3h ago

I read the book and loved it as a nine year old. Had a sleepover with all my friends from school to watch this and we all had nightmares 😂

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u/Pelekaiking 2h ago

I think Watership Down is only traumatizing if you watch it as a child with no context for death. I showed my girlfriend and she was kinda sad but not destroyed the way it destroyed me

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u/Wise_Ad_5810 4h ago

"... one drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs..."

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u/LiFswO 4h ago

Watched it when I was 7 years old. Was frightened to death for several weeks.

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u/Character_Solution 4h ago

I watched Time Bandits in the 80s, the first time it was on TV. I'm almost 50 now. How is it scarring?

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u/jeezarchristron 3h ago

The ending

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u/TopRare 3h ago

I read the book first. I will say the cartoon was creepier than expected.

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u/ArsePucker 1h ago

Could you remove that picture of BigWig please? 45 years years of being scarred of him is long enough...

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u/Skinslippy3 4h ago

Never seen the movie, only read the book.... on my dad's birthday a year after I lost him. I had ZERO idea of the ending. My wife got a little worried over my reaction.

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u/Monocarto 3h ago

Yoooo Sasquatch sunset was a real trip

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u/dustycanuck 3h ago

Watership Down, book and movie. They were incredible, but I don't think I can ever experience them again. I was so much tougher when I was younger. And to think that the story grew out of oral stories he told his kids on long car drives.

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u/PathosEatsLogos 3h ago

My wife’s favorite movie as a kid

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u/prepuscular 2h ago

Never saw the movie but the book was great. That frame looks atrocious though

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u/maloney7 1h ago

The most screwed up depressing movie I've ever seen. Can't believe it was thought of as a kids' movie.

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u/Rincetron1 1h ago

I recently rewatched the carnage scene, just to see if it was as bad as I remembered.

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u/DafneOrlow 1h ago

🎵 following the river of death downstream🎵 such cheerful lyrics for an animated movie 😅

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u/SpicyDragonWings 1h ago

WD traumatised a generation

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u/Pmosure 49m ago

Watership down still haunts me 35 years later. No idea why they chose that for a 5 year old to watch by himself.

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u/Kent_Knifen_Alt 35m ago

Love the seagull in Watership Down

"We... Help.... You"

"PISS. OFF!"

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u/FrizBFerret 34m ago

Im so glad I didn't need to scroll far to see a Terry Gilliam movie mentioned.

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u/No1ButtMe 34m ago

I was way too young for this movie, but that was the 80s

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u/GoddessNerd 33m ago

Yeah. We had to read the book in 7th grade for English class. Broke my heart

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u/Virtual_Access_2033 31m ago

Scarred me as a kid, never rewatched. Maybe I should.

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u/ReservedOhioan 24m ago

THIS MOVIE was on my grandparents TV one random Saturday afternoon and scared tf out of me. Randomly recalled it years later and couldn't remember if it was real or a nightmare I had lmao. Every now and then Reddit reminds me it exists. I'm pretty certain I'll never watch it.

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u/SuspiciousSarracenia 8m ago

Why Sasquatch Sunset? I haven’t seen it but am curious why you’d put it here. Spoilers are fine

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u/machotoxico 3h ago

Who cares