Recommend-a-Movie Thread

I don't know if any of these have been mentioned, but here's a few I enjoy:

Rocky Horror Picture Show ("Musical" of sorts)
The Big Lebowski (Weird but great comedy)
Almost Famous (Dramedy - Cameron Crowe's RS-writer story)
Transformers 80s Movie (Supposed to be action, but is really a comedy: HILARIOUSLY bad)
V for Vendetta (intelligent action movie from the Matrix creators)

Rock Operas:
Tommy (The Who's '75 film - in a word, trippy)
The Wall (The P.F. movie - pretty weird at times, but still makes more sense than tommy )


Edited by ClassicRocker - July 31 2007 at 13:02

1800iareyay wrote: After many months, I finally found Brazil. Terry Gilliam is my idol.

Great movie! I have the soundtrack too.

queenlerxst wrote: I finally viewed the Redux version of Apocalypse Now and was very pleased.  The unused footage was very interesting but I can see why it was left out.  The pace of the film was better in the original version, though I heard the reasons for its exclusion wasn't for artistic reasons, but for political ones....hmmmmm.

I agree, highly interesting footage but certainly would have slowed things. Though it may have been a superior film with some of it left in, as the Godfather was enhanced by the vast detail. Depends on the movie-- the added stuff in 'Aliens', for instance, wasn't necessary.

I finally viewed the Redux version of Apocalypse Now and was very pleased.  The unused footage was very interesting but I can see why it was left out.  The pace of the film was better in the original version, though I heard the reasons for its exclusion wasn't for artistic reasons, but for political ones....hmmmmm.

Gattaca



"Director Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, in my humble opinion, is at the pinnacle of the motion picture art form. All aspects of the production serve the story spectacularly. The retro-style art direction, script, acting, music, and lighting all brought to life, much too chillingly, a cold and soulless world where the content of your genes counted for everything while the content of your character counted for nothing. Watching Ethan Hawke's (Great Expectations, Hamlet) Vincent evade the relentless pursuit of the authorities while pining to be on the Titan mission, romancing Irene (Uma Thurman), and micro-managing his samples from Jerome (Jude Law in a very impressive supporting turn) made for some the most riveting viewing ever. This story highlights the negative side of pursuing the eugenic ideal, an ideal that is not an unworthy pursuit, but one that must be approached with the utmost caution since its seekers hope to master a realm once the sole domain of the Divine." - IMDB user review

I must say this movie is exactly what he says here. But to embelish on the music a little more.... the soundtrack is absolutely flawless and is one of the most fitting soundtracks to a movie I've ever seen/heard. It's so expertly placed to get the most out of a scene, and the abrubt endings just leave you aching for more (in a good way). This is one of my top 10 movies, and will continue to remain there.

The performance by actors Ethan Hawke and Jude Law were amazing. The honesty to them, they seemed so real. Surprisingly, (Eugene) Jude was my favorite actor in this. But they were all on such a high tier, it didn't really make anyone seem low. Fantastic fantastic acting.

Edited by Meddler - July 15 2007 at 13:27

The worst movie by far thta I have ever seen is The Man Who Fell To Earth with David Bowie.

Don't rent it. You'll be sorry.

The T wrote: BaldFriede wrote: The T wrote: cuncuna wrote: ¿What about recommend a bad movie? that would be a change... I've seen so many ridiculous films, and they always bring a laugh or two. For example, that thing called "League of extraordinary men". So many stupid details in the same movie...   Well, try "dracula vs frankenstein" by Al Adamson... probably the most awful gem in this world only rivaled by plan 9 from outer space... it contains that magic line, when a doctor asks dracula who he is: "I'm the Count of Darkness, Lord of the manor of Corpathia"..... (yes, corpathia, whatever that is)....That's THE GEM.. Hmm, Mr. T, I would have expected better of you. I haven't seen the movie, but he probably says "Carpathia". Dracula lives in the Carpathian mountains, a mountain area in Transylvania. The Carpathians are mentioned on the very first page of the novel (and several times throughout).   The funny thing, Mrs Friede, is precisely that HE DOES SAY CORPATHIA....If there's one matter in which I'm well trained is in my Bram Stoker and my Dracula, I have read the book 4 times (I was a dracula freak in the past ), have seen every movie since Murnau's 1921 Nosferatu:Eine Symphonies Des Grauens till Coppola's one (only DRACULA, not lousy vampires... I'm fan of the character...) If you check about that awful movie online, you'll see that that majestic line I quoted is also cited in a few sites... The movie is THAT bad.... Al Adamson directed m,any b-movies for drive-in cinemas in the US, and that one was his low(high?) point..... Yes, Carpathian mountains in Trnsylvania, near Moldavia and Bukovina, in today's Romania.... THIS, at least, you don't need to teach me, Ms. Friede, as, for once, I know what I'm talking about. ... But thatnks for the observation, I could've been wrong and it would've helped... In this case, miraculously, I wasn't.....

How do you know he says "Corpathia" instead of "Carpathia"? Is the movie subtitled? If not, I think it will be very difficult to distinguish between "Carpathia" and "Corpathia". What's more, with a Romanian accent the pronuciation of "Carpathia" would tend to sound like "Corpathia", which might have been the intention of the director.

Fight the Future

BaldFriede wrote: The T wrote: cuncuna wrote: ¿What about recommend a bad movie? that would be a change... I've seen so many ridiculous films, and they always bring a laugh or two. For example, that thing called "League of extraordinary men". So many stupid details in the same movie...   Well, try "dracula vs frankenstein" by Al Adamson... probably the most awful gem in this world only rivaled by plan 9 from outer space... it contains that magic line, when a doctor asks dracula who he is: "I'm the Count of Darkness, Lord of the manor of Corpathia"..... (yes, corpathia, whatever that is)....That's THE GEM.. Hmm, Mr. T, I would have expected better of you. I haven't seen the movie, but he probably says "Carpathia". Dracula lives in the Carpathian mountains, a mountain area in Transylvania. The Carpathians are mentioned on the very first page of the novel (and several times throughout).

His quote is right, as you can check on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067017/quotes); indeed "Corpathia" is stupid, but I'm amazed at the movie rating. I didn't think there could possibly be a movie to get only 2.4 stars

The T wrote: cuncuna wrote: ¿What about recommend a bad movie? that would be a change... I've seen so many ridiculous films, and they always bring a laugh or two. For example, that thing called "League of extraordinary men". So many stupid details in the same movie...   Well, try "dracula vs frankenstein" by Al Adamson... probably the most awful gem in this world only rivaled by plan 9 from outer space... it contains that magic line, when a doctor asks dracula who he is: "I'm the Count of Darkness, Lord of the manor of Corpathia"..... (yes, corpathia, whatever that is)....That's THE GEM..

Hi, T. As for bad movies, I wish I could send you a copy of "Todo por nada" (All for nothing), a local piece of crap. More awful than the movie itself (wich is really really low), the premiere was a Hollywood like event, after wich the attendants looked even scared because of the new low that was presented to them, full colour.