Recommend-a-Movie Thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

TheProgMonster wrote:

I've been checking out Kubrick's films and there alot there to recommend:
Dr. Strangelove(Comedy)
2001:A Space Odyssey(Sci-fi sorta of Horror)
A Clockwork Orange(Doesn't really fit into a genre, but brilliant none the less)
The Shining(Thriller-Horror)
Full Metal Jacket(War Movie)

I've only seen 2001: A Space Odyssey a few times, I don't understand it but it is a weird and wonderful piece of cinema.

Edited by N Ellingworth - February 13 2007 at 05:20

That'll always be my favorite movie ^^

Edited by Falling Flower - February 13 2007 at 08:14

Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh

no, I also love that film. I suppose I've just been recommending more arty films

edit: misread your question. see it ;P

Edited by laplace - February 13 2007 at 08:59

If its horror you want theres only one answer, go East.

Hideo Nakata's Ring and Ring 2 are two of the scarriest films I have ever seen, largely becasue there is very little sound but an increadably bleak atmosphere. Ring 0 is rather good as well but done by a different diector (can't remember who now I'm affraid). The Thai film The Eye by Oxide and Danny Pang is really something special. Miike Takashe's Audition is another great film that is really creepy.

Speaking of Miike Takashe, he is a really prolific and creative director with a lot of weird films, with Visitor Q, Gozo and The Happines of the Katamuri's being at the top of the list of his films that I want to get.

Hong Kong is brilliant for action and cop films. Andy Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs is often compared to The Godfather trilogy, but is better than that IMO ( the first film was recently re-made into The Departed by Hollywood). One Night In Mongkok is a great film about a would-be assassin waiting to kill a mob boss and the cops that are trying to stop him. Jim Woo's last Hong Kong action flick (before he went to Hollywood), Hard Boiled, is a great action film if thats yor thing.

Lastly, Park Chan Wooks Vengence series (Sympathy For Mr Vengance, Oldboy and Lady Vengance)are three of the best films I've ever seen, highly recomended. Thumbs%20Up

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Jim Garten wrote:

Am I the only person on earth not to have seen Doctor Strangelove

don't beat yourself up about it Jim, go buy yourself a copy for a fiver from Play.Com....

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video vertigo wrote:

here's a couple I saw recently that I enjoyed:
The Notebook
My Summer of Love

The Notebook is a beautiful movie

I´d like to recommend Richard Linklater´s "Waking Life"

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sleeper wrote:

there is very little sound but an
increadably bleak atmosphere

Sounds like a Pallas fanclub convention

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Duel. All I can say is Duel.

Greatest movie ever made. Ever!

Beauty will save the world.

The Red Violin is a great movie.

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Zappa88 wrote:

Duel. All I can say is Duel.

Greatest movie ever made. Ever!

I just looked up some info on this movie, and it looks very interesting. I'm definitely going to check it out.

I watched the first Saw movie last night. I thought it was pretty good (I'll give it a 7 or 8 if I rate it on imdb.com), but it left me with zero desire to see the sequels.

Edited by enteredwinter - February 13 2007 at 20:53