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After The Sunset

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The Three Fugitives

These are two of my favourites 🙂


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 8:31 am
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Gattaca - No one seems to have watched it, but it's awesome!


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 8:58 am
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I wasn't overly impressed by Gattaca, wasn't awful but wasn't *that* good.

Have got "after the sunset" waiting in the wings. Will make an effort to watch it sooner rather than later


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 9:02 am
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Down By Law - one of my all time favourites but I've never met anyone who's heard of it let alone seen it


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:01 am
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Gattaca- mmmm Uma Thurman


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:03 am
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Posted : 24/04/2011 10:06 am
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Have not yet watched it get, but I'm expecting good things from The Thirteenth Floor.

Before anyone says "copying The Matrix", it preceded it and the screenplay was written from the book Simulacron-3 (1964)


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:28 am
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Moon


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:33 am
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"I scream, you scream, we ALL scream for ice cream."

+ 1 for Down By Law 😀


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:33 am
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*admires phatstanley from afar... in a strictly manly way*


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:34 am
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iDave, Down by law is excellent, as are most Jim Jarmusch films, have you seen Night on Earth?


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:35 am
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Moon

I think given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 10:48 am
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Agree with Gattaca - superb film.

I thought 'Narc' was excellent with Jason Patric and Ray Liota. I think the director was responsible for The Shield.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 11:15 am
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gattaca weren't bad, not spectacular tho.

Quite liked [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/ ]Nigh****ch[/url] (no not the one you think) not got round to seeing daywatch yet


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 11:28 am
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I think given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.

I only heard about it thanks to a forum, and it wasn't on in that many cinemas as I recall. Don't remember seeing any trailers or it being mentioned on the telly at all.. So I dunno.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:09 pm
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I think given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.

I think that's pretty harsh given how much he's downplayed it. He didn't have to go by 'Jones' for a start.

Moon got a moderate amount of publicity, but I'd like to think that this was largely because it was a damn good film.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:12 pm
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Veering back on topic,

Plunkett and MacLeane, anyone?


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:15 pm
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Funny Games. Brilliant film but nobody I know has seen it.
The original German version is also very good


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:34 pm
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I think that's pretty harsh given how much he's downplayed it. He didn't have to go by 'Jones' for a start.

Well seeing as I never said anything about him using his dad to forward his career, I don't really know how to respond to that.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:46 pm
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Breaking The Waves.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:49 pm
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Funny Games. Brilliant film but nobody I know has seen it.
The original German version is also very good

I've seen it and it's a bit on the dark side Derek.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:49 pm
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The Edukators.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 12:49 pm
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Donnie Darko is one of my favorites, the seen when the camera moves in through the school and introduces you to all the character's of the movie without a word spoken to the backdrop of Head over heals by Tears for Fears is simply brilliant.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 1:09 pm
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the cube.loved it when i saw it (but neither heard nor seen it before or since)

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Posted : 24/04/2011 1:54 pm
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and this

brad douriff is excellent in this.fantastic film 😀


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 1:59 pm
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Rec and Rec2
nice bit of Spanish zombie


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 2:50 pm
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Boiler Room and The Boondock Saints


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 2:54 pm
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Well seeing as I never said anything about him using his dad to forward his career, I don't really know how to respond to that.

Well, you said "given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity." Am I missing something here, is promoting your film different from forwarding your career? Assuming your career is "film maker" anyway, I doubt that promoting your film would do much for your career if you were a plumber.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 2:55 pm
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[i]The Station Agent[/i]


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 2:57 pm
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the cube.loved it when i saw it (but neither heard nor seen it before or since)

The Cube is ace, but do yourself a favour and avoid the numerous sequels and prequel, they're dreadful.

If you're interested, the recent Splice was written by the same guy who wrote The Cube. Entertaining little Species-a-like.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 2:58 pm
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Hot Rod. Laughed myself stupid (except at the bit with Scrooge and the goose).


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 3:25 pm
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+1 for The Boondock Saints. 9/10 easy.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 3:27 pm
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three burials of melquiades estrada


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 3:36 pm
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
Paycheck
Mallrats
Singles


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 4:19 pm
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Dark City (pre-Matrix altered reality story co-written by the co-writer of Inception).

Dogma.

The Big Blue (or Subway, or Nikita, or Leon - basically any of Luc Besson's earlier films).

Jarhead.

The City of Lost Children.

slainte 😀 rob


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 4:37 pm
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Breaking Away

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 4:56 pm
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Some of these suggestions are kind of cult films. Does that count as below the radar?


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 4:57 pm
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Volver


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 4:58 pm
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Are we allowed old films?

was made to watch Harold and Maude a while back, should be compulsory.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 5:10 pm
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Restless Natives. Epic film, epic soundtrack.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 5:29 pm
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^^^ Absolutely +1, superb film and a stunning soundtrack.. I'm sure I have the film score somewhere on vinyl 😀


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 6:50 pm
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Dark City - was overshadowed by the Matrix


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 6:54 pm
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Recommended in another thread the other day, but I'll do so again on the basis that it's a very good film:

Un prophète.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 7:04 pm
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My wife has just told me that Muriel's Wedding is such a film. I hope she's right as we're watching at 8:40 on Arte.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 7:09 pm
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Payback - Mel Gibsons best film.


 
Posted : 24/04/2011 7:11 pm
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