It may interest you to know that I, too, find Nolan's Batman trilogy to be poorly-written. I also have minimal patience for most Altman films (MASH was filmed without a script, BTW) and I would dismiss the schlock horror/gore genre out-of-hand. Most people give up on Kubrick in the 3rd act, not the 2nd, but it's easy to argue that the most important parts of FMJ are finished with Pyle. I've never made it more than 20 minutes into Crouching Tiger but it's a rare Kurusawa I don't enjoy (couldn't quite make it through Ikiru, feel guilty about it, will try again some time).

And you're right - they're just movie recommendations. But they're just movie recommendations. When you frontload it like this:

Can I be honest? I'm gonna be honest here. I will fully admit that I intentionally glossed over those particular titles. All three of those cartoons seem really and uncomfortably weird to me and I didn't want to hurt your feelings or feel like I was snubbing your suggestions. It's like someone telling me that I need to see Eraserhead or A Clockwork Orange because they're classic cinema, but I've seen bits and pieces of both and know enough of both that I'd be extremely uncomfortable watching them and wouldn't appreciate them. I feel the same is true for those three titles from what I read about them on Wikipedia. I'm sorry. :/

You'd think I'd asked you to accept Ctulhu as your one true savior or tried to sell you some Amway products. More than that, you're acting as if I've thrown some horrendous curveball your way and I'e made you uncomfortable by doing so. But worst of all, you didn't ask me if I'd thrown some horrendous curveball your way - "lol these look kinda weird are you sure?" - you're acting as if I tried to sneak a Peter Greenaway film into your rotation because I've decided you need to be a cinema aesthete and you were too shocked to bring it up.

So if you "like to see what discussions come out of the questions that are asked and the things that are shared", here's what comes out of them. When you double down on prudish horror at the suggestion of one series over another, rather than try to have a discussion about something you're unsure about, the discussion becomes about the discussion rather than the movie.

'cuz see, we could have a hell of a discussion about Madoka Magica. Instead we're sitting here acknowledging that we both probably liked Ran.

LET'S BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: 90% of anime is pure shit. I'd say 50% of the anime that most americans love is pure shit. Dragonball? Shit. Pokemon? Shit. Fullmetal Alchemist? Well... I gave it about ten episodes and I was pretty goddamn unimpressed. Attack on Titan? Truly the fuckin' emo scenekids of kaiju anime. So when you ask for anime, my response is mostly going to be "here is a carefully-curated list of things I don't think are shit." Madoka, on the other hand, is a fucking physical anomaly. I'm not entirely sure how it got made. It's as if Tata somehow produced a GT40. You'd want a motorsports fan to know that. Hell, you'd want someone with a passing interest in cars to know that.

And you'd be pretty fucking weirded out if they ran away screaming "Behind me satan!"

So yay broadening horizons and boo shitting down the neck of people who are trying. Watch whatever the fuck you want to watch but do me a solid and try not to paint me up as the weirdo for answering the recommendations you specifically asked me for.