Recommend-a-Movie Thread

A Lion in Winter is an excellent fim, 1968 Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'toole, Timothy Dalton and Anthony Hopkins in his film debut. Very good acting very good story, almost completely dialogue and complete drama throughout. Highly Recommend.

Edited by video vertigo - March 03 2007 at 00:12

definitely check out science of sleep.

mina wrote: definitely check out science of sleep.

Kenny Everett got there first!

Recent viewings:

Little Miss Sunshine - great, very funny, good acting, 9/10
Stranger Than Fiction - not great but funny at times, gets too sappy halfway through, 6/10
Magnolia - great, deep movie, but the drama way overdone at times, still 8/10

story about Attila of the Hun

video vertigo wrote: enteredwinter wrote: Stranger Than Fiction - not great but funny at times, gets too sappy halfway through, 6/10 that was an excellent movie until the ending. Just as Dustin Hoffman's character says the new ending to the book is just okay, the ending turns the movie from great and will ferrell's best to date into just okay. One of the biggest dissapointments in the ending to a film I have had in a long while.

I loved the new ending. I knew that Will's character was going to "die"...so to see him survive was a twist I hadn't expected. And as Emma's character said : "Because it's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die. And then dies. But if a man does know he's about to die and dies anyway. Dies- dies willingly, knowing that he could stop it, then- I mean, isn't that the type of man who you want to keep alive?"

Emma Thomspon is a fantastic actor in this movie! I love her voice...

I would also recommend Children of Men, another fantastic movie, albeit somewhat dark and heavy, but amazingly done. Michael Caine plays a great part also. And the fighting sequences in the refugee camp are extremely realistic. It also touched upon issues of "terrorism" (I put it in quotes because in the movie it's really the British military/immigration police that are the terrorists, and comparable to Nazi Germany) and immigration ie. illegal immigrants, refugees. What happens to a society when the rest of the world crumbles and falls into total anarchy? A very chilling concept...based on a novel by P.D. James, a wonderful author. And an amazing soundtrack to boot...there is even a scene where In The Court Of The Crimson King is playing! And the view outside a character's window resembles the cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals".

Highly recommend both these movies to anyone.




Edited by tardis - June 07 2007 at 11:38

If you havent seen Pan's Labyrinth yet, go rent it. And dont let the subtitled Spanish language scare you away. This is the best movie I've seen in quite some time.

Edited by dralan - June 07 2007 at 17:19

2001: A Space Odyssey      will never be topped.

I recommend, if not recommended before, The fountain by Aronofsky

A true masterpiece, one of those movies you watch saying "this is awesome", open your eyes until they hurt in the final moments and think about it for days and days. Best movie I have seen in a good while!

very little do you know about Sartre if you see him as a philosopher only; he wrote a lot of plays, and some of them have even been made into movies. and when I say "Blair Witch Project" reminds me of "Huis-Clos" I definitely mean it in a positive way. the horror is not on the outside, the horror is within the relationship between the 3 characters.
as to "showing off": touch your own nose