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Topic: Recommend-a-Movie Thread
Posted By: enteredwinter
Subject: Recommend-a-Movie Thread
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 12:17
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Recently, I've been spending more time looking for good movie DVD's to buy than I have been looking for CD's. I'm looking for recommendations for ANY movie, whether it's old or new, just seen in the theater or seen on DVD, whatever. So, post one (or more!) movies that you really recommend. I'll start off: I've been on a horror movie binge recently, and my recommendation is The Descent (2005). Holy crap, that movie is good. If you like the idea of a well-made horror movie that is genuinely very scary, look no further. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 12:48
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 12:58
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A Matter of Life and Death title for US release Stairway to Heaven it is from 1946 but is an amazing movie |
Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:00
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Almodovar's "Volver"; also "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" brings some chills down your spine and it's not the typical horror movie.. it's more like a trial movie ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:11
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Check out the Criterion Collection for some great DVDs, including Wes Anderson's films. Also, buy Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. I know that none of these movies are horror films, but they are excellent in their own right. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:13
| Horror: Saw 1-3 |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:16
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I just saw Children Of Men last night. It was fantastic. Some of the best directing I've seen in awhile.
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Posted By: Flokk
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:28
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Natural Born Killers, by the one and only Oliver Stone
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Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:37
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Fight Club ------------- 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 13:42
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Any movie directed by Clint Eastwood, from High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Firefox, to Million Dollar Baby, Space Cowboys, Mystic River, Iwo jima, Flags of our fathers, Unforgiven, Bridges of Madison County, and many more I don't remember right now. (Man, the one with Whitaker about jazz, I saw it like 10 years ago I don't remember the name!) absolute power, etc.
He's the greatest living director. No Scorsese, Eastwood. ------------- 
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Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 14:27
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Thanks for the recommendations. Logos: I bought the first Saw on DVD recently, due to my horror movie binge. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so, maybe tonight. Here's another recommendation from me: Donnie Darko. Watch the original, NOT the director's cut, which ruins it to a large extent. That movie has excellent use of soundtrack, tying into the film in interesting ways, definitely a good movie for prog fans even though the music isn't prog. Keep 'em coming! -------------
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 14:42
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Vittorio De Sica: The Bicycle Thieves....
....utterly superb....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 14:48
One top of that: Life of Brian or Monty Python and the Holy Grail  -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 14:53
A masterpiece, one of the landmarks in movie history.. a simple story, a human story, a poor italian working class family and a bike, you can't get much low-budget that that... ands to think that today, with all the millions they spend, they can't come up with interesting screenplays (well, they can, but curiously, mostly for unexpensive films or films where the only big expense is the star's salary... but the cgi-ridden films, agghhh....)
If you like horror, check the classics first, I would advice you not to stick only with today's cheap blood-fests. Some of these are decent, but most are just a chain of "how to kill and torture in the most sick and graphic manner and thus cause the audience to shock". -------------
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:03
Agreed, two great movies, especially the latter!   |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:05
| Here are some more comedies: Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, and Snatch |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:15
depends which classics you mean. One person might go for Alien, another Nosferatu, and another person yet might say Tetsuo the Iron Man. I recommend Tetsuo the Iron Man ;P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:19
| On the comedy front you can hardly do better than "Zorro The Gay Blade" with George Hamilton. Not well known, but a true classic. |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:26
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If you like westerns Sergio Leone's 'Dollars' trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West are must see films particularly the latter which is one of the best films I've ever watched. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:26
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All comedy was invented by Charles Chaplin. If you have a serious interest in movies, check The Gold Rush, Modern Times, Limelight and The Great Diktator... and then agree to name Chaplin the greatest movie maker and movie persona in general to ever have lived.
About other comedies, I agree with the Zorro one, it's funny, though I'd also suggest Silent movie by Mel Brooks with him and Dom De Luise, Marty Feldman. A masterpiece. -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:29
 Also, speaking about Leone, try "Once Upon a Time in America", an almost 4-hour masterpiece the likes of which are seldom found. A work of art. It's about a group of jew mobsters, from childhood till death, about betrayal, about loyalty, about ambition, a pure masterpiece. -------------
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:31
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I would suggest the following Babe (the little pig who could, the man who said the most by saying the least) Repo Man - nothing funnier than watching a idiot run balls first in to a parking post E.T. - if you've seen too many times, try this - supposedly, E.T. is supposed to be a metaphor for Jesus. I don't get that either ! Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (w/ Johnny Depp) - who needs LSD ? Rambo - the first one only, who says inspiration is hard to find. Tora, Tora, Tora - interesting concept, not demonising the other side. Strange Brew - Bob & Doug are friends with Geddy, therefore they must be intellectuals. Modern Times - Chaplin said it all, didn't he ? Or to quote Gentle Giant "Cogs in Cogs", eh. And finally, Let There Be Rock - Bon Scott, if I need to say more  , if you don't understand that's ok, & I'm not being sarcastic (no really, I'm not). Oh forgot the obscure masterpiece - God bless the children of the beast ( I think that's the title) And Yellow Submarine. That's all. I think. For now. Maybe ... I can deal with the heat, it's the humanity I have problems with. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 15:41
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Ja ja, try comparing Tora Tora Tora with the modern take on Pearl Harbor.... and laugh after that. The first one (TTT) probably has 500% more plot and history and 1000% more historical accuracy and 2000% more intelligence, but many people today only know the cataclysmic debacle that was the PH film by movie-art-destroyer Michael Bay. It's so sad that cinema is the art the past from which people know the less. I mean, with music at least the majority KNOW (if they have actually heard is another matter) there was such a thing like classical music, or know the name Bach or Mozart (if sometimes for the wrong reasons), whereas in movies, the common moviegoer thinks that "The flight of the phoenix" with Randy Quaid is a new movie, when it was done to much better quality level decades ago with james stewart and richard attenborough. -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 07:25
Have to agree on this one - terrific movie, disturbing & uplifting at the same time; as far as direction goes, you only have to look at any of the 3 or 4 long & complex scenes (especially the climactic battle scene in the refugee camp) filmed on a single camera with no cuts & cannot but be impressed. Great use of prog, too - 'Court Of The Crimson King' used to great effect.
1 & 2 are current favorites of mine; not yet seen 3, but I've heard good reports. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 07:28
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Dancer In The Dark is an unbelievable tragedy film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/ PS. Main character is Bjork! ------------- [IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/amorfous/astro-1.jpg"> |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 07:30
The Godfather Trilogy 
rather old though  ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Fede
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 11:49
The Shining (Jack Nicholson=Genius) School Of Rock (Jack Black=Genius)  Pet Sematary  ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 11:54
Nice One T...
Let's add 'Umberto D' to the list, while we're at it then...
and how about Peter Lorre's stunningly chilling performance in Fritz Lang's 'M'??? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 13:39
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Movies mentioned that I've already seen (and/or own) include: Blazing Saddles Snatch Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Godfather Trilogy The Shining Alien All of those are great, and I second the recommendation for each of them. As for the other recommendations, I've added some to my list of movies to possibly check out. Here are two more recommendations from me. The first is a silly and stupid comedy that for some reason I find ridiculously funny, and the second is a mind-blowingly intense horror movie: Dodgeball 28 Days Later -------------
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Posted By: TheProgMonster
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 16:33
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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) |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 17:38
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Apparently Donnie Darko is a really good movie. I tried to watch it but I freaked out as soon as I saw the rabbit. Don't know why but I just can't look at it. ------------- 
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 17:43
this will blow you alway... one of the greatest movies of all.. .think it was on the AFI list... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 18:49
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Here are a few:
Harold and Maude
King of Hearts Rockers 2010 Finding Nemo Midnight Cowboy A Bronx Tale The King of Comedy |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 18:51
that is a great movie. a rare 4 clappy from me on that one ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 18:58
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i'd also recommend Man Bites Dog if you've ever laughed at an on-screen murder. you'll ask yourself why by the end of the film
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 00:02
Want sheer cinematographic beauty? Try Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso; try Il Postino. You want to feel weird about not getting stuff? Try Fellini Roma or Fellini 8 1/2; want a soul-lifting movie about true heroes and about the harmony within nature? Try Joffe's The Mission; about courage? Joffe's The Killing Fields; about art, love and the awful nature of the human being? Try the first (the good) Moulin Rouge with Jose Ferrer. Want a movie where every frame is a painting of art? Try Cyrano de Bergerac (the new one). Want to know the reality of life and why every 20 seconds people look up to the west? Try invoking The T.  -------------
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 00:13
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Excellent movies you have mentioned guys, right now i recommend a recent movie directed by Michel Gondry (Bjork, White Stripes Videos) it`s name is The Science of Sleep, actually it is the latest movie i`ve seen but i really liked it! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 00:16
I still can't shake the horrible feeling this movie gave me. It was very well done, but there's something about it that doesn't sit right with me. I think some of the 'ultra-realism' was a bit overdone, and for all the horrible things that go on, there's not enough redemption. I felt no sense of uplifting at all. In the end, it seemed that nothing was changed, no one was better for the experience. ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 02:04
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here's a couple I saw recently that I enjoyed:
The Notebook My Summer of Love ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 03:43
The uplifting element for me was for all the totalitarianism & brutality of the regime against the refugees, there was still a spirit there, a sense that despite everything, humanity can win out (witness the scene when all fighting stops to allow the mother & baby through) - although he doesn't survive the whole film (not to give too much away here), Michael Caine's character refuses point blank to allow the system to change him. All in all, this film is like the b*****d son of Saving Private Ryan and Schindlers List.. but don't let that put you off...  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 05:19
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. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 05:28
Personally, my fave Kubrick films are:
Paths Of Glory
The Killing
Dr Strangelove
...in that order... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 08:14
 That'll always be my favorite movie ^^ -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 08:58
Am I the only person on earth not to have seen Doctor Strangelove  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 08:59
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no, I also love that film. I suppose I've just been recommending more arty films edit: misread your question. see it ;P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 08:59
Don't worry, I never even heard of it. -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 09:09
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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. 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 09:10
I havnt seen it either. Whats it about, anyone? ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 10:56
don't beat yourself up about it Jim, go buy yourself a copy for a fiver from Play.Com.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 10:58
yes but Debby, you have an excuse, as you're still young....
I mean to say....
what exactly has Mr Garten been doing with his life???
 ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 11:31
The Notebook is a beautiful movie
I´d like to recommend Richard Linklater´s "Waking Life"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00005YU1O/ref=dp_image_0/002-8136276-9598459?ie=UTF8&n=130&s=dvd">  ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 12:22
Finding new and exciting ways of hiding the bodies of "West Herefordshire" men under my shed 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 12:24
Sounds like a Pallas fanclub convention -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 14:31
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Se7en Dawn of the Dead (The remake's pretty good too) Hannibal 28 Days Later Night of the Living Dead (Again the remake is pretty good also) Texas Chainsaw Massacre Saw Deathwatch The Thing Silent Hill Cabin Fever Hellraiser Some of my favourite horror films, all highly recommended. As for non-horror: LA Confidential Hotel Rwanda Sin City American History X Bladerunner The Killing Fields Snatch |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 14:34
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Duel. All I can say is Duel.
Greatest movie ever made. Ever! ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 15:40
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The City of God was a nice movie. -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 15:43
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The Red Violin is a great movie. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 15:43
wow.... another nice call... haven't seen that in ..years. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 20:53
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. -------------
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 20:54
It's a hypothetical cold war situation. A general locks down a base and makes his troops think that Russia bombed the US, plus a whole bunch of other stuff goes wrong including a "doomsday device" Its very funny sometimes in a dark way. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 21:18
Now I'm interested, will be looking for this one. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 03:45
"Nice"? Are we talking about the same movie, here...? 
Great film, sure... but "nice"? I'd hate to think what you consider to be "disturbing"... -------------
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Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 04:09
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for those who love ancient roman movies, 'Augustus' is a great movie ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 11:28
I bolded movies I've seen and agree are great. I saw the Dawn of the Dead remake first, loved it, then watched the original. I wasn't exactly blown away by the original, but I guess it's important to keep in mind that it came out almost 30 years ago. Still, those blue-faced zombies just looked kind of dumb. Not scary at all, which is really what good horror should be about. Unless it's the Evil Dead series or Shaun of the Dead, which are highly recommended, by the way. I just watched The Thing recently. Now there's a good example of a horror movie from the late 70's/early 80's period that gets the visuals and special effects right, like Alien and unlike the original Dawn of the Dead. -------------
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 13:31
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Some totally weird movies: Alexandro Jodorowski - The Sacred Moutain (also known under its original title "Montana Sacra") Fernando Arrabal - Viva la Muerte! (Long Live Death!) Jean-Luc Godard - Weekend Something for Sci-Fi and Horror fans who like a movie to develop slowly: Saul Bass - Phase IV Another Sci-Fi movie (originally made for German tv), which is very difficult to get hold of due to a yet unsolved battle about legal rights: Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Welt am Draht (World on Wire) And if you like erotic thrillers: Paul Verhoeven - De Veerde Man (The Fourth Man). A lot better than the overrated "Basic Instinct". Renée Soutendijk is incredibly sexy. Careful, one very shocking scene, and I mean VERY SHOCKING. That is, if you happen to get an uncensored copy. And if you are a man, by the way ; the scene is less shocking for women.  -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Harkmark
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 14:26
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"Stalker" by Andrej Tarkovskij. Amazing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/ |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 14:29
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Friede chose some good ones; I'd like to add a few: Charles Laughton: "The Night of the Hunter" (with a fantastic Robert Mitchum in his best role ever). since I am a big fan of "La Deneuve", here two movies starring her: Luis Bunuel: "Belle de Jour" Roman Polanski: "Repulsion" one of the best SF-movies ever: Donald Trumbull: "Silent Running" 2 excellent horror movies of the slow kind: Roman Polanski: "Rosemary's Baby" Nicolas Roeg: "Don't Look Now!" (contains the most erotic love scene in a movie ever, between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. I am am out and out lesbian, but this scene even turns me on, so it is really something special. very shocking end!) Jos Stelling: "De Wisselwachter" (no English title; the Dutch title would translate as "The Pointsman" or "The Signalman"). a very quiet and melancholic movie, but with a lot of funny scenes too. Jim van der Woude, who plays the pointsman, says only one word in the whole movie, "Degoutant", French for "Disgusting", which is the woman's comment about the coffee he offers her after she tastes it and which he mistakes for her name. the rest of his acting is done pantomimically, and he is simply incredible (the scene where he switches the signals and points is hilarious; you will laugh your ass off) -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 19:51
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I don't know if they've been mentioned yet, but maybe Clerks (the original), or Half Baked
If not "Thank You For Smoking" is pure genius ------------- 
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 20:11
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 23:50
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My main suggestion is: cultivate yourself in cinema, too. Don't see movies only from recent years... dig in the art, search for the classics, go for b/w, watch some silent movies. I don't like that most people nowadays think cinema started when they were born. The same you do with music, try to do with movies. Explore. -------------
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 23:53
Another movie like that is:  Highly recommended . |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 01:59
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I'm watching "fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" for the first time right now. This movie is f'ed up beyond belief. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Palmer Eldritch
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 03:27
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If you're feeling sinister... Naked Lunch Dead Ringer Cannibal Holocaust Nekromantic II Irreversible Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer Lolita (Kubrick's version) Happiness The Beyond Re-Animator Charlotte's Web ------------- "That's Confidence in the System, in easy to swallow propaganda form, a new fast-acting thought control. So have some...today." --- Ben Bland |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 03:32
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The Tin Drum
Barfly The Paper Chase Mysterious Island The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (the original 1974 version) |
Posted By: TheProgMonster
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 19:15
And may I suggest Metropolis, a sci-fi film from the silent era thats often seen as a masterpiece of cinematograhy. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 22:11
Since you mention "Metropolis", I would like to mention another movie by Fritz Lang: "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" ("M - A City Looking for a Murderer"). It is about a child killer being on the loose. Peter Lorre is just incredible in his portrayal of the haunted killer; his speech before the "trial" is horrifying and moving at the same time. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 22:22
You remind me of another excellent movie, by Jodorowski called "El Topo" surely you have watched it, i don`t know the real title in english it should be The Mole or something... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 22:38
"El Topo" is another weird movie by Jodoriwski. A man wants to become the best gunslinger in the wild west and has to kill four current master gunslingers for this first, who are more reminiscent of zen masters than of gunslingers and all have incredible capabilities. One doesn't even use a gun anymore, but catches the bullets you fire at him with a net and throws them back at you! ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 15:09
Probably the best movie ever made. |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 15:12
Read the resumé, I definitely want to see this one ! ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 15:42
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Ooo another good one is Lolita (based on the book by Vladimar Nabokov, great book too btw!) -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 15:59
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Two movies I've recently seen that I think are nearly flawless, amazing movies: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - intense horror, great acting, very disturbing (it was recommended by someone else in this thread too) A History of Violence (2005) - Drama/Action Mafia-type movie, but nothing like the other mob classics like the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc., but still very well done -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 16:08
| I consider it my obligation to recommend David Lynch's Eraserhead, even though it's a weird movie. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 17:07
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ - Se7en http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/ - Amores Perros http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/ - Y tu Mama Tambien |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 17:16
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Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 17:22
| I haven't seen Amores Perros, but 21 Grams by the same director is great. |
Posted By: TheProgMonster
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 21:21
It's weird in a good way. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 16 2007 at 21:29
One of the greats, and incredibly funny. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:34
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Yesterday I watched this movie for the first time: Scarface  Strongly recommended! ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:48
I can't see the picture |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:48
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i can't see the pic, Mike ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:52
i haven't read the book. but it's a good movie indeed ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:55
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You should see the pic now ... I also added the name of the movie.
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:56
I see the picture. I haven't seen that movie yet. I plan to sometime though. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 05:58
and Carlito's Way, the follow-up (in concept), also very good. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 07:02
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^ agreed. I already know most movies with Al Pacino - Scarface was one of the few exceptions.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 07:20
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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
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Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 08:13
Les Miserables (1995) it's a good movie ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 08:24
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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 ).------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 17 2007 at 08:35
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 ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |