Recommend-a-Movie Thread

Yesterday i watched Meet Joe Black for the very first time, i liked it

memowakeman wrote: Yesterday i watched Meet Joe Black for the very first time, i liked it

sleeper wrote: kazansky wrote: sleeper wrote: enteredwinter wrote: Video Vertigo and Sleeper:I admit, I may have judged Serenity too harshly too quickly. One reason it didn't work for me is I have no familiarity with the TV show. If I had been a fan, or at least watched some episodes, I probably would have felt differently about the movie. Also, the movie has an 8.0 on imdb.com, and both of you say you like it a lot, so there must be something there that I'm just not getting. I'll give it a second chance later on.About Infernal Affairs: I'm definitely going to get the first one. Similar to the Serenity situation, there's something I probably should have watched before seeing The Departed, but better late than never. I havnt actually seen any of the TV show as I dont know f it was ever shown over here, its the type of film that really does appeal to me plus I'm a fan of Joss Whedan.As Kazanazky said, the second part of the IF trilogy is actually a prequal to the first film. I find it to be just as good as the other two. looks like you misread my post, sleeper. i said that Infernal Affairs 2 didn't have much to do with the first or the third. the story didn't really related. and you mispelled my name too Bugger, sorry about the mispelling KazI think it does relate, itshows the how te two lead charecters get into the positions they were in at the start of the first film and how Sam became the crime boss. Its an interesting back story, fleshed out rather well,  given its own film rather than clutter up the first one.

'kaz' should do, it's easier that way either

ah i should give it another run then, looks like lost attention when i saw it. thanks for the info

Last time I saw something interesting in the theatre, it was "The life aquatic with Steve Zissou" and "Coffe and cigaretes". Both enjoyable, cute the first, concise the second, 9/10 for the life aquatic and 10/10 for Coffe and...

There is a weid Jewel called "New Rose hotel", probably the most discreet and yet poweful approach to science fiction I've ever seen. 10 plus, I would say.

video vertigo wrote: Just saw Kubrick's Clockwork Orange I give it I was sadly dissapointed, it seemed vulgar for vulagarity sake and it was disturbing on an even deeper level, usually I like stuff like this but this one never seemed to pull together. The weakest Kubrick film I've seen now.

Are you serious? My favourite movie of him, together with 2001 and perhaps Dr. Strangelove.
It helps if one has read the book it is based upon, which I highly recommend, by the way. Anthony Burgess was an excellent author. I also highly recommend "Earthly Powers" (with a kind of twist ending that makes one think) and "The Empire of the Wicked".

I just saw Tarkovsky's Nostalghia and all I can say is WOW. Stalker is still my favourite of his films, but this one's amazing too.

enteredwinter wrote: The Departed (2006) - Amazing. Brilliant. Martin Scorcese, Jack Nicholson, and I'll just stop there, there's no need to go on. If you like good Mafia/Crime movies, you need to see it.

This movie just won the Best Picture Oscar, and Scorsese won for Best Director, so apparently I'm not the only one who likes it. Highly recommended, by me and whoever is part of this so-called "Academy" of voters.



Edited by enteredwinter - February 26 2007 at 01:09

Over my winter break back in December, I saw Big Fish (even though I had the movie since September or October), and I have to say, it was an excellent movie.  It's one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. 

I also intend to see The Departed at some point, my parents and one of my brothers have already seen it, and they all really liked it.  They said that there were a lot of plot twists. 

The movie Sleuth is probably my favorite one ever.It deals with two characters; Andrew Wyke(played by Laurence Oliver)and Milo Tindle(played by Michael Caine).Andrew's wife has been cheating on him with Milo.As a result, Andrew invites Milo over in order to torture him with mind games until his untimely death.I'm not going to spoil it,but it's a really awesome movie! I wish that there were more people around who were as much of a contribution to theatrics as Anthony Shaffer(the one who produced the movie I was just writing about).It seems as though people who think of the performing arts as more than a novelty are in short supply these days.

My favourite ever must be Edward Scissorhands. And note, that it has 2 of my favourite actors, and I liked it even before I knew it, that is Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp. And I would recommend films such as Sweet Home Alabama and Walk the Line. (ok, so I've got the hots for Reese Witherspoon) But they're both great nevertheless. SHA made me want to compose country music, which I then did