Recommend Movies...

[skully]

battle royale is definately awesome

i love clockwork orange but just recently read the missing 21st chapter...so now the story has a different twist and i haven't decided how good the movie is anymore

[poison]

interview with the vampire i liked cause its true to the book, erm..sid and nancy is good....romeo and juliet, nosferatu, virgin suicides...

anime = blood:the last vampire is very good, or the classic Akira..

[TheDeathKnight]

Hmmmm....

Donnie Darko is cool.
I like almost all of David Lynch's movies. Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive, etc...
Gummo is indeed cool. Better than Kidz, because it is more bizzare/funny.
Napoleon Dynamite is incredibly fucking funny.
City of Lost Children is pretty cool visually.
John Woo's "The Killer" is cool for the gunfights. The rest sucks.
Interview with the Vampire is cool to watch sometimes.
Thin Red Line is cool for a war movie. Very poetic. Interesting movie.
Amelie.
Seven.

I like Requiem For A Dream, but I do not know if I would watch it over and over.

I did not like Ichi the Killer as much as some other people did.
It had some cool characters, and some cool visuals, but I did not think
it had the best story. It was ok. Glad I saw it, but I wouldn't own it...

[franziska]

Has anyone else seen "This is Spinal Tap"? It's the greatest mockumentary ever, I think...

[TheDeathKnight]

Spinal tap has so many layers of humor.
Unless you get the subtle humor, it is not as funny.
But if you get some of the hidden jokes, it is really great.

Example: There is one scene where they are all talking about something.
There is a groupie with the bassist. She has a sore on her mouth.
Then, later in the movie, you see that the bassist has some sores
on his mouth. Then, even later, they all have them. But it is never
really mentioned. The joke is just there for you, if you notice it...

[TheDeathKnight]

Oh I forgot one...

Office Space.

[Nudemuse]

Movies I like

The Basketball Diaries
The World According to Garp
Pecker
The Salton Sea
Imitation of Life
Rebel without a cause
Seven
The Usual Suspects
Permanent Midnight

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[TheDeathKnight]

"Spun" is pretty damn funny...

If you like funny tweaker movies...

[pedar]

Girl With The Pearl Earing-it's like looking at all of Vandemeers pieces come to life and it has Scarlet Johansen....I think see has the most amazing lips...
but she
Land Of Hope And Glory- A boy thanks Hilter for his school being bombed..it takes place during the seconf world war in England

well

actually the title of is just 'Hope And Glory' abt WWII-- by John Bormann

[countessnichole]

SPACEBALLS!

And Robin Hood: Men in tights. Two funny movies I like and they came in mind immediately.

[Mirren]

Chuck & Buck
Bleeder
Bunman:The Untold Story
Last Exit To Brooklyn
Carne
Seul Contre Tous
Irreversible

[mrs jones]

There have been some excellent mexican/spanish movies released in the last few years:

Amores Perros
Y tu mamá también
Nicotina
Hable con ella
El crimen del Padre Amaro

I like classics more than anything:

Network (1976)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Graduate (1967)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Yojimbo (1961)
The Omen (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Chinatown (1974)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966?)

and more recently:

City of God
The Devil's Advocate
Unforgiven
The Chocolate War
Heat
Go
SLC Punk

[Mirren]

mrs jones:I liked Amores Perros a lot better than 21 grams. What about you?If you have see it.

[mrs jones]

haven't yet seen 21 grams

also forgot to put on my list Last Temptation of Christ

[SomethingSelfrighteous]

Napolean Dynamite was really...really good, and i saw white oleander the other day which was good, and NOFX's 10 years of fucking up was hilareous...indeed

[TheDeathKnight]

City of God is a really cool foreign language film.
If you don't mind the subtitles, it's pretty damn good.

[Amelia G]

Skip Hot Rod. I thought the reviewers were exaggerating because I usually love Andy Samberg's stuff. They were not exaggerating.

[athenahollow]

Just watched Sweeny Todd.... it was fantastic. the original with angela landsbury was great too

And Doom Generation & Nowhere. in fact, anything by Gregg Araki

and Children of Men... but I'm a huge clive owen fan, so I would also add Closer to that list.

[Amelia G]

Just watched Sweeny Todd.... it was fantastic. the original with angela landsbury was great too

And Doom Generation & Nowhere. in fact, anything by Gregg Araki

and Children of Men... but I'm a huge clive owen fan, so I would also add Closer to that list.

I think Gregg Araki is great, although I felt Doom Generation could have stopped about 7 minutes earlier and been more awesome.

[funkatron]

Back from the dead, it seems.

Of recent releases, No Country For Old Men was great. If you're a Cohen Bros fan (esp of Fargo), you will probably really dig this.

Other flicks I highly recommend:

- The Great Happiness Space, a great doc about male escorts in Japan

- Lollilove, a fun little mockumentary by Jenna Fischer

- Shadow Company, a doc about military contractors ("mercenaries") in Iraq

- The Devil's Rejects, one of my fav horror movies ever

- Where The Truth Lies, a pretty interesting take on suspense/mystery

- Wet Hot American Summer, a fabulous spoof on 80s summer camp movies.

- The Thing. *This* is my favorite horror movie ever. An absolute masterpiece of isolation, fear, and suspicion. Even exceeds the original Alien, imho.

[episode allah]

Back from the dead, it seems.

Of recent releases, No Country For Old Men was great. If you're a Cohen Bros fan (esp of Fargo), you will probably really dig this.

Other flicks I highly recommend:

- The Great Happiness Space, a great doc about male escorts in Japan

- Lollilove, a fun little mockumentary by Jenna Fischer

- Shadow Company, a doc about military contractors ("mercenaries") in Iraq

- The Devil's Rejects, one of my fav horror movies ever

- Where The Truth Lies, a pretty interesting take on suspense/mystery

- Wet Hot American Summer, a fabulous spoof on 80s summer camp movies.

- The Thing. *This* is my favorite horror movie ever. An absolute masterpiece of isolation, fear, and suspicion. Even exceeds the original Alien, imho.

The Thing and The Devils Rejects in the same list? eclectic at best!

i thought The Devils Rejects was shite personally although i got a good laugh imagining rob coming up with the great idea of a slow-mo scene at the very end of the movie with lynyrd skynyrd playing.

[Toe Cutter]

Black Book

by Paul Verhoeven. Really fucking cool movie. It a departure from Verhoevens other films (RoboCop, Total Recal) Really, Really, Reeeaaaallllllllly fucking good.

[funkatron]

The Thing and The Devils Rejects in the same list? eclectic at best!

i thought The Devils Rejects was shite personally although i got a good laugh imagining rob coming up with the great idea of a slow-mo scene at the very end of the movie with lynyrd skynyrd playing.

Understandable. I think it's a "love it or hate it" film, and I'm not sure it's great from a story standpoint, but I just love the characters and the aesthetic of the film.

[Morning Glory]

just saw American Gangster the other day. it's pretty darn good.

[Pull~My~Hair]

Frailty
The house of yes
Sin City
Slums of Beverly Hills
Session 9
Welcome To the Dollhouse
The Island
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Willow

[evilstonermonkey]

Blood Diamond and The Departed. leonardo dicaprio is suddenly badass!
not really sure if it/they count as movies, but if you can check out the Masters Of Horror series. every film (1 hr each) is messed up in so many ways, and of the ones ive seen so far (the first 12) ive only not like 1. and if you can only catch one of them, make it 'Cigarette Burns.' adn in case i havent linked to HIT enough, here's the head injury theater quick review of the first MoH box set.

[theUnclean]

mb I miss'd it, but I can't believe nobody listed PI!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

[Bikerpunk]

Death Proof.
Bullitt.

Enter the Dragon.
Shaft.

[evilstonermonkey]

ha, deathproof is awesome, but i was really disappointed that it didnt get released as the original grindhouse idea here in ausralia. they advertised grindhouse, then it jsut disapperaed off the grids (ut not until after i was ta excited). a while later, when i had given up hope, death proof comes out (and rocks) but still no trace of planet terror

[DoomTart]

Of course, I think Risky Business is the best Tom Cruise flick ever. Darkside meets teen sex romp with a dash of organized crime. Make of that what you will.

And Rebecca DeMornay is HOT!

And I don't get Penelope Cruz either.

[DoomTart]

Something Wild
Age of Innocence
Prey for Rock and Roll
Gypsy 83
Natural Born Killers
Secretary
Damage

[TheDeathKnight]

Here are some of the less mainstream movies
that I think are pretty good, and worth checking out:

Lost Highway
Mullholland Drive
American Beauty
Gummo
Kids
Spun
Pan's Labyrinth
Donnie Darko

[TheDeathKnight]

Whoops! I just realized this was an old thread, and I already replied to it... oh well...

[Pull~My~Hair]

, death proof comes out (and rocks) but still no trace of planet terror

I KNOW!! wtf? Im holding out for the box set, it HAS to happen..right?

[Morning Glory]

I'm still waiting to the special edition Kill Bill...

[evilstonermonkey]

i keep meaning to check out pans labrynth, it looks cool. id add it to my to do list, but my daily to do list is basially a blackboard with the date getting replaced

[Ace]

There's alot of movies on here that I love: (Evil Dead Trilogy, Fear and Loathing, and a million others), But let's not forget:

Kevin Smith/Jersey Chronicals-- He writes a good flick, and Clerks 2 was probably the funniest movie I have ever seen,

The Spaghetti Westerns-- Clint Eastwood is Badass with a capitol 'B'.

The Big Lebowski, and naturally, Jaws, which I think is probably the greatest film ever made.

Oh, and Alfred Hitchcock is the man.

[evilstonermonkey]

oh, and has anyone said chopper yet? dunno how well known it is outside australia... that and the castle. "tell him hes dreaming!"