Recommend-a-Movie Thread

The T wrote: sleeper wrote: BaldJean wrote: I just remembered "Blair Witch Project" again, one of the few movies that made Friede and me sit speechless in our chairs at the cinema for some time while all around us people streamed out of it. that does not happen very often, so that movie definitely hit a nerve with us I'll second the recomendation for Blair Witch Project. It feels so real that it really did scare me, one of very few films to do that (Hideo Nakata's Ring is about the only other one). Mike mentioned Kill Bill. The first film I found was very good but Kill Bill Volume 2 was very poor IMO.   In this case I won't second....for my taste is utter garbage and the start of the "cheap thrills through no-story" movemente of horror flicks....

Personnally I see the start of that kind of flick to be Scream,  which was OK but all follow-ups and other films in that mold are utter trash. I never did see it as cheap thrills as it never attempts to scare and shock by showing you the monster and gory scenes as many others do, but through building up suspense and through strange events.  Something I do enjoy.

I'm not saying you have to like it but its definitely not a "cheap thrills" film.

A lot of people find film perfection in empty spaces, striking locations or minimalism. you have to bear in mind that a critic will jump on a chance to advocate some unlikely flaw of a film as a new way of doing things and popularise something terrible.

I'm upset that Audition is Takashe Miike's most famous movie when it should be something like Dead or Alive 2.

BaldJean wrote: I just remembered "Blair Witch Project" again, one of the few movies that made Friede and me sit speechless in our chairs at the cinema for some time while all around us people streamed out of it. that does not happen very often, so that movie definitely hit a nerve with us

I'll second the recomendation for Blair Witch Project. It feels so real that it really did scare me, one of very few films to do that (Hideo Nakata's Ring is about the only other one).

Mike mentioned Kill Bill. The first film I found was very good but Kill Bill Volume 2 was very poor IMO.

some great movies are below your 7.3 mark; one of the best SF/horror movies ever, "Phase IV", only reaches 6.1. but then it is one of those slow-paced horror movies. one of the very best and scary (yes, scary!) scenes is of a single ant crawling up an arm (if I remember right; it might have been a leg). it is a single ant only, but at that point in the movie your nerves are already so much on edge that you feel threatened by it. now that's what I call true horror! and the ants really haven't done anything much so far, just showing a kind of intelligent behavior. it is as if not the scientists are studying the ants but the ants are studying the scientists. and this is what makes the movie feel "scary". but many people don't seem to get that, and the pace of the movie appears to be too slow for them

Edited by BaldJean - February 17 2007 at 12:27

I usually use imdb.com to get a general idea about what to expect ... I browse the collection of the dvd rental store for new movies and if the imdb rating is below 5 I usually keep away. But there are some movies that I really love which don't score much higher ... I guess that's a matter of personal taste. But if the imdb.com rating is above 7 it is a really good indication that the movie is really, really good ... so far I've never been disappointed.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 17 2007 at 08:41

MikeEnRegalia wrote: A few weeks ago I watched Kill Bill 1 ... also for the first time. It's really, really excellent ... and immediately afterwards I thought "what a shame that I will never again have the pleasure to watch this movie for the first time". A true masterpiece, excelled only by the second part (which I haven't seen yet, but I trust imdb.com in that regard).

imdb.com can usually be trusted, though some of my favorite movies don't get the acclaim they deserve in my opinion. and some excellent little movies, like "De Wisselwachter" ("The Pointsman"), hardly get any comments at all. but that's probably their fate

Les Miserables (1995)

it's a good movie

^ agreed. I already know most movies with Al Pacino - Scarface was one of the few exceptions.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: You should see the pic now ... I also added the name of the movie.

I see the picture.

I haven't seen that movie yet. I plan to sometime though.

Falling Flower wrote: Ooo another good one is Lolita (based on the book by Vladimar Nabokov, great book too btw!)

i haven't read the book. but it's a good movie indeed