Movie reccomendations

[Luc214]

Please reccomend me some great films.

Any genre.

I'm bored as hell right now.

[Cocaine]

genres? styles? moods? eras? robocop?

[Tillius]

Lost Highway
Mulholland Dr.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Elephant Man
Faust
The Life of David Gale
Sideways
Deathproof
The Virgin Suicides

That's all I'm gonna list.

[Luc214]

genres? styles? moods? eras? robocop?

I don't care. Some of your favorites perhaps.

Robocop? Is it boring like a lot of 70s/80s action films? (that's the era right?)

[Tillius]

You're welcome ****nut.

:angry:

[Luc214]

You're welcome ****nut.

:angry:

:p okay.

Lost Highway
Mulholland Dr.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Elephant Man
Faust
The Life of David Gale
Sideways
Deathproof
The Virgin Suicides

That's all I'm gonna list.

I bolded the ones I've seen. Pitch the unbolded to me.

[Tillius]

Oh, also check out Buffalo '66, Broken Blossoms, and True Heart Susie.

[Cocaine]

I don't care. Some of your favorites perhaps.

Robocop? Is it boring like a lot of 70s/80s action films? (that's the era right?)

Robocop is really heavy in satire, cheesy one-liners and needless but awesome explosions.

If you'll see anything, just browse around rottentomatoes.

[Luc214]

Oh, also check out Buffalo '66, Broken Blossoms, and True Heart Susie.

Do you mean Broken Flowers by any chance? The one with Bill Murray?

And on second thought, I'm in a sci fi mood.

[Tillius]

No, I mean Broken Blossoms with Lilian Gish.

And I can't really think of any sci fi off the top of my head.

[simplephotographinthesun]

though not sci fi, Die Hard transcends all.

[jrowa001]

Boondock Saints
Reservoir Dogs
Running Scared
Forbidden Zone
Blind Beast

[Meatplow]

Persona by Ingmar Bergman was a film i thoroughly enjoyed recently.

[A Dead Modernist]

watch

Days of Heaven
Badlands
Naked

thats what im watching this week

[Cocaine]

Do you mean Broken Flowers by any chance? The one with Bill Murray?

And on second thought, I'm in a sci fi mood.

Oh I went on a major sci-fi kick a while back, I can help you here.

Minority Report (srsly), Serenity, Alien (for tense shi), Aliens (for action shi), The Host (Korean monster flick, really amazing), Predator, Terminator, etc etc

[Aficionado]

If you'll see anything, just browse around rottentomatoes.

Ughh...I hate that site.

[Cocaine]

Ughh...I hate that site.

um, why? It just totals movie reviews and averages them out. It's nothing to swear by, but it's really helpful in browsing to find new movies. I've found dozens of new flicks by using the tomatometer.

[Luc214]

Oh I went on a major sci-fi kick a while back, I can help you here.

Minority Report (srsly), Serenity, Alien (for tense shi), Aliens (for action shi), The Host (Korean monster flick, really amazing), Predator, Terminator, etc etc

I've seen all of those except for Predator :p

And I know, Minority Report is seriously good.

[Cocaine]

I've seen all of those except for Predator :p

And I know, Minority Report is seriously good.

The Fly?

[Aficionado]

um, why? It just totals movie reviews and averages them out. It's nothing to swear by, but it's really helpful in browsing to find new movies. I've found dozens of new flicks by using the tomatometer.

I don't like the whole set up of the site. I dont like the whole concept of the tomatometer.

[A Dead Modernist]

i like it more than imdb tbh

[Luc214]

The Fly?

Haven't seen.

[Incognito]

You should see the **** out of the fly (we're talking the remake right?....RIGHT?!).

If you like that I reccommened John Carpenter's The Thing

Um what else....I'll actually go ahead and second whoever said Robocop, love that movie.

Ok list time


The good, the bad and the ugly
Blood Diamond
Hot Fuzz
What's eating Gilbert Grape?
Army of Darkness
Carlito's way
Full metal Jacket
Gattaca
Gwoemul (The Host)
Little shop of horrors (1986)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Predator
The salton Sea
The prestige
Shallow grave
the blind swordman: Zatoichi

I'm listing too much now...

[Luc214]

Shallow Grave is great! I love Danny Boyle.

To pick one randomly out of there, I hated Little Shop of Horrors. :-\

Oh yeah, I just remembered I have Ichi The Killer burned on a DVD, never watched it. I'm probably going to watch that.

We can use this thread to reccomend movies to each other though.

I reccomend to any fans of noir/crime films:

Bound

[Incognito]

Shallow Grave is great! I love Danny Boyle.

To pick one randomly out of there, I hated Little Shop of Horrors. :-\

Oh yeah, I just remembered I have Ichi The Killer burned on a DVD, never watched it. I'm probably going to watch that.

We can use this thread to reccomend movies to each other though.

I reccomend to any fans of noir/crime films:

Bound


The only thing I don't like about it is that they changed the ending, love the b-movies.

[Tillius]

Just watched Before Sunrise, and I highly recommend it.

[Cocaine]

If anything this could be a "Recommend me a movie" thread, not a "blindly recommend people movies" thread.

[Luc214]

Okay I see what you mean. :p

[AIRIC]

Friday

[Grant]

A few of my favourites:

For A Few Dollars More
Once Upon A Time in the West
City of God
Dead Ringers
The King of Comedy

[thedeadwalk!]

I'll second The Host and The Prestige.

Others:

Children of Men
12 Angry Men
Happiness
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Cool Hand Luke
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Time Bandits
Apocalypto
Closer
Freaks (1932)
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
Once Were Warriors
The Proposition
Spanglish
Sunset Blvd.
True Romance

[Tillius]

A few more I can think of:

Stranger Than Fiction
Infernal Affairs
The Brood
Blow
American History X
Goodfellas
Casino
The War Zone
Boogie Nights
The Basketball Diaries
Interview With the Vampire
Adaptation.

[Luc214]

Coppola's Dracula is another good vampire flick.

[Meatplow]

Recommend me some good road movies like Smokey & The Bandit.

[Luc214]

Recommend me some good road movies like Smokey & The Bandit.

Never seen Smokey, but About Schimdt and Little Miss Sunshine are good.

[Meatplow]

While About Schmidt is good and i haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine, i'm thinking more lots of comedic and over the top high speed chases from the law.

[thedeadwalk!]

Blues Brothers comes to mind. Haven't seen Cannonball Run, but it seems like it would fit. Maybe Deathrace 3000. They don't run from the law, but it's certainly over-the-top. Trying to run over a baby must count for something.

Coppola's Dracula is another good vampire flick.
That was crap on a stick. You might as well watch the original Nosferatu which, for any flaws, can be chalked up to 1920s technology. Coppola's has no excuse for sucking so hard.

[EightMilesHigh]

Commando
Reservoir Dogs
True Romance
Annie Hall
Snatch.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Die Hard I, II, III, and IV
Zoolander
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
I Heart Huckabees
Magnolia
Trainspotting
A Clockwork Orange
Wedding Crashers
Hot Fuzz
Platoon
Grindhouse
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
the Dreamers
Office Space
Back To The Future
Cape Fear (Robert DeNiro/Juliette Lewis version)

[Luc214]

While About Schmidt is good and i haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine, i'm thinking more lots of comedic and over the top high speed chases from the law.

Blues Brothers immediately comes to mind.

That was crap on a stick. You might as well watch the original Nosferatu which, for any flaws, can be chalked up to 1920s technology. Coppola's has no excuse for sucking so hard.

**** off, it was a beautiful film.

And even if you thought it sucked, there were no technological flaws, that was one of the best aspects of the film.

[Robert Crumb]

Little Giants

[big80smullet]

Smoking Ace's

[thedeadwalk!]

**** off, it was a beautiful film.

And even if you thought it sucked, there were no technological flaws, that was one of the best aspects of the film.
The special effects were horrendous. But, really, I'm speaking of acting, characters, and story progression for why it was really bad.

But, I only saw it recently. For when it came out, hell, it won 3 Oscars, one for effects. They may have been good in 1992, but they did not age well.

[Mr. Ron]

The Machinist.

[Meatplow]

Blues Brothers comes to mind. Haven't seen Cannonball Run, but it seems like it would fit. Maybe Deathrace 3000. They don't run from the law, but it's certainly over-the-top. Trying to run over a baby must count for something.

Cheers. I must be the only person on the planet who hasn't seen The Blues Brothers yet.

[Luc214]

The special effects were horrendous.

How were the special effects bad?

[thedeadwalk!]

Cheers. I must be the only person on the planet who hasn't seen The Blues Brothers yet.
Wow. And here I was not going to mention it because it's like a prerequisite to be on the internet or something.

Definitely check it out. Belushi and Akroyd are amazing, with great musical numbers from Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and such, as well as a ridiculously over-the-top cop chase at the end (biggest pile-up you've ever seen).

How were the special effects bad?
Primarily, Dracula's shadow. I know it was supposed to be on its own, but it was just so campy and horrible looking. I was constantly reminded of The Simpsons' episode where their spoofing on it. Plus, the atmosphere was so poor that it just added to its stupidity rather than unnerving me like it was with Keanu,

This exact thing wasn't done in the original Nosferatu, but how they worked the shadow into the story was much better just as his shadow.

I'd credit Army of Darkness as having better special effects.

[Meatplow]

I'll put it on my priority list.

[A Dead Modernist]

I guess this turned into "Your Favorite Movies" thread :confused:
In no order:

Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
City of God
Carandiu
Dancer in the Dark
Breaking the Waves
Noi the Albino
Gummo
Julien Donkey-Boy
Kids
Persona
OldBoy
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
3-Iron
2001: A Space Odyssey
Do The Right Thing
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Un Chien Andalou
Paris, Texas
The Royal Tenebaums
Rushmore

[thedeadwalk!]

I guess this turned into "Your Favorite Movies" thread :confused:
I like the idea of people asking for recommendations for specific kinds of movies, like Meatplow's road movies.