i have been watching quite a few films recently but I'm not much in the know of whats good and whats not, so i need some new ones to watch.
recent films i have watched and liked include
-limitless
-children of men
-fight club
also like
-sin city
-bourne identity
etc etc
any classics i should definitely watch? just whatever + explain very briefly what its about or its genre at least
down by law
birdy
rumblefish
un prophet
hero
city of god
happiness
[b]Submarine[/b]. It deserves to be a classic, and will be when it's old enough.
Cool Runnings. Great film.
I very rarely watch one twice and have seen this 3 times.
(Team Jamaica at Winter Olympics)
Pitch black
Aliens
Bladerunner
All 3 bournes
Taken
Despicable me
Up
Snatch
Rock n rolla
300
Run Lola run
Blazing saddles.
I'd better stop!!
City of god
The problem with watching this film is that all subsequent films seem rubbish.
Except the shawshank redemption
Dead Man's Shoes
One of the best films of the last ten years, if not all time.
Synopsis: man returns to his home town from time in the army and seeks revenge on the gang that abused his brother.
Sounds like a no brainer action flick, but it's so much more than that.
Trailer
Bubba Ho-Tep.
Elvis is alive in retirement home where ancient Egyptian mummy is killing people.
Starring Bruce Campbell.
Source Code
Moon
Training Day
Inception
Shutter Island
2 I watch over and over are: -
The Name of The Rose
Jabberwoky for a laugh.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Big Fish
Fantastic Mr Fox
Contact
Spinal Tap
Little Miss Sunshine
Zombie Land
Almost Famous
Enchanted
12 monkeys
There are a few to look at.....
Snatch.Top film.
Kick-ass
Scoot Pilgrim vs the World
Valhalla Rising
Moulin Rouge
Blade Runner
Hero
Desparado
HellBoy
Brazil
Pan's Labyrinth
When We Were Kings
Tremors
Excalibur
The Big blue
Leon
The House of Flying Daggers
Memento
28 Days Later
A Life Less Ordinary
127 Hours
slainte 8) rob
Good call on Dead Man's Shoes, great film.
Everyone should watch La Haine.
Leon
And if you like Bourne movies try SALT. Excellent
Millennium Trilogy as well
You appear to like 'clever' films, so +1 to Memento. It's stark raving genius.
+1 for Pans Labyrinth though it's fairly weird n gruesome in places
No Country For Old Men
The Watchmen
Pulp Fiction
Hot Fuzz
28 Days Later
City of God
The Fountain
Little Miss Sunshine
Sucker Punch
Dodgeball
Anchorman
Serenity
The Wrestler
Attack The Block
American Beauty
Die Hard
Moon
Zombieland
Kick-Ass
World's Greatest Dad
Children of Men
Burn After Reading
The Hangover
Shawshank Redemption
V For Vendetta
District 9
Naked Gun
The Matrix
Memento
Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Inglourious Basterds
Gran Torino
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
I, Robot
Just a random bunch copied off my FB profile. All great.
The Big Lebowski. Stoner heaven and stupidly funny. John Goodman is a complete genius.
Just a random bunch copied off my FB profile. All great.
Sorry, but you're not allowed to watch Serenity without watching Firefly first. (The Empire Strikes Back is a fantastic film, but would you watch it before Star Wars?)
Goodfellas
Usual Suspects
Dirty Harry
And of course, my all time favourite, Uncle Buck.
Some good mentions above, fight club is my favourite film ever.
The Departed
American History X
The Dark Knight
You've seen pulp fiction, yes?
You could try Primer. If you think Memento was smart then Primer will blow your mind. I remember reading somewhere that one scientific critic said if you think you understood the film, you probably didn't.
Oh, Donnie Darko hasn't been mentioned yet I think.
+1 Dead Man's Shoes - Paddy Considine is superb.
Gattaca - clever & atmospheric sci fi.
Narc - gritty / visceral cop movie.
Sideways - very funny road/buddy movie.
And if you like Bourne movies try SALT. Excellent
What? Salt is a truly awful film. I watched it on a flight from Newark to San Francisco recently and was so bored I had to resort to taunting the fat, ugly american sat next to me.
I saw the latest X-men film on a recent flight and it was great - right until the end when Xavier became a cripple years before he did in the proceeding films - which was a let down.
Good films:-
Easy Rider
Blood Simple
Get Carter
That really is it......
well that should get me started! off to watch dead mans shoes now...
Hope you haven't missed "He's just not that into you" tonight then.
Jacob's Ladder - thriller/horror, dark and different
For some light relief, I suggest some of Myazaki's wonderful Studio Ghibli animé:
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Porko Rosso
Castle In The Sky
Howl's Moving Castle
Ponyo
Arrietty
All masterpieces of the animators art, and all wonderful. Totoro is quite possibly one of my all time favourite films. Gives me a warm glow every time I watch it.
And I go along with pretty much every suggestion made so far, too.
+1 for My Neighbour Totoro, +1 for the warm glow.
Salt is a truly awful film
I thought Salt was "alright." It wasn't bad, it wasn't terrific, but it was "alright." There are many films that fall into this category.
just watched hanna.
good film, its like a modern day leon ( which if not seen, then see !
In Brugge
Point Blank (note not Grosse Point Blank) - very violent French film
The Station Agent - really lovely feel good film
1900,death machine,the hitcher (rutger hauer original film),freddy got fingered,nikita,leon,labyrinth (80's jim henson classic),the cube,hellraiser trilogy,repo man.just a few off the top of my head (apologies if any have been mentioned already.
The three burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Hobo with a shotgun
and my current head mess of a film "Rubber".
Has anyone mentioned True Romance yet?
A very under-rated film IMO
Of course most of the above too.
Sorry, but you're not allowed to watch Serenity without watching Firefly first. (The Empire Strikes Back is a fantastic film, but would you watch it before Star Wars?)
Of course I watched Firefly first, what do you think I am? A monster?
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skeetsgb - Memberjust watched hanna.
good film, its like a modern day leon ( which if not seen, then see !
Here is a list of things that you could do which would be better then watching Hanna
Anything
Everything
Probably the worst film I have ever seen. And I've tried to watch Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
and my current head mess of a film "Rubber".
When Robert, a tire, discovers his destructive telepathic powers, he soon sets his sights on a desert town; in particular, a mysterious woman becomes his obsession.
lol?? Hobo with a shotgun was pretty cool though.
come & see
kes
some like it hot
volver
sparticus
old boy
Rec and Rec 2 (Spanish)
Horror
amelie. Thread closed.
Bad Boy Bubby. Thread closed.
Nice tats you've got there Flo'. Great big woppers there be.
Also one of my all time faves 8)
oh yeah,i forgot eraserhead. i remember waking from a drunken stupor (do not drink now though 😉 around 3am (had the tv on still) guess what was on 😉 man was that trippy or what 🙂 (i don't do drugs i'd like to add 😉
The last two films I saw were:
The boy in the striped pyjamas (very moving film imo)
Return of the Jedi (its a classic)
who the heck suggested Valhala Rising, its utter crap!!! the wordst film I've ever experienced
Drop dead Fred.
Hopefully not repeating too many that have been previously posts & only a few as I could go on for hours:
Grosse Point Blank - fantastic 80's sound track, John Cossack in great the role he's repeated performed ever since (see it once, so you don't need to see the repeats) & a bunch of good actors having fun.
Leon the Professional - this is the director cut version of 'Leon', with an extra 15 minutes of film which add's to the story & allows it to make a bit more sense. You see a longer relationship develope between the main characters, rather than seemingly meeting and the climax.
Taxi - The french comedy not De Niro's "taxi driver" or the Queen fricken Latifah re-[s]shite[/s] do. Subtitled, but again some great music (bloody sound track cd has a loads of lousy french DJ's added - very very annoying). Ignore the bullets missing everything and just enjoy the french having fun with a 405...
Alien and maybe Aliens but none of the others are worth bothering with, prepared to jump & become scared of the dark.
Black Hawk Down - It's just very very good, and lots of guns for the 'boys'.
Animated:
Toy Story - all of them, just watch them, you need to
Shrek - the 1st is the best, the other are a bit pap
Up - If you don't cry or at least become a bit sniffy with the 1st 10 minutes, your not human, but them it's GREAT! ...Squirrel!
Ghost busters, Zomieland, Star Wars (IV to VI).. loads and loads of great movies about
Another for me, that wasn't a commercial success. Skip the first 25mins of Savior and it turns from a horrid US B movie into a bleak, depressing but touching Balkans-homemade feel film.
Everytime I watch it I end up drinking a lot 🙁
Youtube savior trailer (the cack bit is the cafe blowing up)
Taxi - The french comedy not De Niro's "taxi driver" or the Queen fricken Latifah re-shite do. Subtitled, but again some great music (bloody sound track cd has a loads of lousy french DJ's added - very very annoying). Ignore the bullets missing everything and just enjoy the french having fun with a 405...
Oh yeah! One of my faves! Soundtrack includes much from the marvellous IAM.
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Cool Hand Luke
all 3 are prison movies
Cassablanca - cynical bar owner tries to play the nazis off against the vichy French while wishing that his ex hadn't turned up in town
A Fistful of Dollars / For A Few Dollars More / The Good The Bad & The Ugly, in that order. Spaghetti westerns, what more do you need to know.
Pale Rider & High Plains Drifter too. Oh, and Two Mules For Sister Sarah.
Repo Man (the 1980s one with Emilio Estevez & Harry Dean Stanton, not "The Repo Men")
On The Waterfront
Revenge of billy the kid.
A true classic