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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Doctor Zhivago. And when they inevitably fall asleep. I’m jacking that Ufo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Obviously the greatest documentary ever committed to film: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Letting them know what mankind is all about seems like a terrible idea. We're jerks.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If I could get away with a miniseries, James Burke's Connections.

Or Cunk on Earth. It's a toss-up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Wall-E. Sums it up pretty well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Hellraiser II

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Literally telling aliens that we will fuck shit up.

Stalker (1979) - You can leave your garbage and we'll think it's treasure.

Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) - Humanity is really just a bunch of idiots, stumbling through everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Double Feature: Ender's Game (2013) and Starship Troopers (1997) - then we serve them a sumptuous shellfish tower to discuss their surrender over dinner.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

β€œThe Final Member”

It’s a documentary about the worlds first penis museum in Iceland trying to finally secure a human specimen

https://youtu.be/sZMaheZ_Iy0?si=SCIxh2weymwp3AOk

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Earth Girls Are Easy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Shawshank Redemption

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nobody has mentioned porn. We try and say things in our great works of art but maybe they'd learn more from what we make when we're trying to say nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Schindler's list. Yeah aliens. It's like that. Go ahead and end us thx.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fellowship, two towers, return of the king. Tell them it's one movie showing how the littlest person can make the biggest difference.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Requiem for a dream

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: I have watched none of the movies listed here in the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Rocco's Animal Trainer #3.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

End of ze world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The House of Spirits or Melancholia

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