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Good Movie Guide
bsjezz
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With a wint'ry week ahead of me, stuck at home with an absent spouse, I've been renting a lot of films and I'm keen to rent some more. Good ones, if possible. So I thought we should have a thread for suggesting the best movies you've been watching, with a few brief lines on what makes them good. Much like the book thread! ...only for movies. What have you watched recently? What's a classic not everyone's heard of? What should be avoided? Etc. etc.
Without further ado here are a few to kick it off:
Mary Antoinette: I actually liked this a lot, despite the poor reviews it got. It had a kind of understated, wandering feeling, and though I think the strain on keeping dialogue 'modern' hurt it, it was certainly a unique biography in terms of historical cinema. A bit like an 18thC French version of The Royal Tennenbaums - very Wes Anderson.
Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys: I'd never heard of this before but it turned out to be a pretty nice little movie. A bunch of kids in a religious school muck up in mid-century America. They draw comics of themselves as superheroes and get up to mischief and fall in love with equally dangerous girls. It was interspersed with animated scenes from the comic itself, which was a nice touch. It was a cool little movie, kind of like Donnie Darko with less pseudo-sci-fi and more zany schemes and comic books.
12 Angry Men: Took me a while to get around to this one but it's certainly deserving of its spot as a classic. A jury meets to decide the fate of an alleged killer. The case is constructed entirely through the response of the jurors so there's no stuffy time in the courtroom wasted in this great character flick. Prejudices are exposed, deep questions are asked, and yes it's black and white you unappreciative modern kids sheesh. It's the kind of movie you have to watch sooner or later, so watch it.
So what should I rent tonight?
Without further ado here are a few to kick it off:
Mary Antoinette: I actually liked this a lot, despite the poor reviews it got. It had a kind of understated, wandering feeling, and though I think the strain on keeping dialogue 'modern' hurt it, it was certainly a unique biography in terms of historical cinema. A bit like an 18thC French version of The Royal Tennenbaums - very Wes Anderson.
Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys: I'd never heard of this before but it turned out to be a pretty nice little movie. A bunch of kids in a religious school muck up in mid-century America. They draw comics of themselves as superheroes and get up to mischief and fall in love with equally dangerous girls. It was interspersed with animated scenes from the comic itself, which was a nice touch. It was a cool little movie, kind of like Donnie Darko with less pseudo-sci-fi and more zany schemes and comic books.
12 Angry Men: Took me a while to get around to this one but it's certainly deserving of its spot as a classic. A jury meets to decide the fate of an alleged killer. The case is constructed entirely through the response of the jurors so there's no stuffy time in the courtroom wasted in this great character flick. Prejudices are exposed, deep questions are asked, and yes it's black and white you unappreciative modern kids sheesh. It's the kind of movie you have to watch sooner or later, so watch it.
So what should I rent tonight?
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You better mean the original, black-and-white movie with the guy who played Piglet
John Carpenter's The Thing: My favorite horror movie of all time. Actually, it's the only horror movie I've watched to completion and enjoyed.
It's a delightful romp through the fields of satire. This smart, witty comedy borrows from some of last summers biggest blockbusters, and delivers nonstop laughs.
Watch as some of your favorite characters are lampooned to hilarity, and ride the roller coaster of laughs, all the way to the epic end.
I give this movie, two thumbs way up!
The Curse of the Golden Flower: Chinese wars? Historical? YES PLEASE
Sholin Soccor: The Best
Kung Fu Hustle: The Bestest
Requiem For A Dream: Probably going to get shit for this, but I just saw it recently, and it literally altered a path in my life. A former addiction had been gnawing at me, and this move squashed it with the quickness. Don't watch it on a good day, since it will destroy your mood. And for the love of God, pick up the unrated version. Drugs are bad.
goodness i enjoyed it
This was a great movie. I remember going "Gee, I dunno" about it, but I liked it.
And the chick in it seems to be a character actress who only plays young girl whores.
I can imagine her agent in a meeting..."Oh, you need a young slut? Have WE got the actress for YOU."
Also A scanner darkly and The royal tennanbaums are exquisetly good. But my guess is that youve already watched them.
The ending is bar-none the scariest fucking ending ever. Well, at least whatever led to the ending. You know.
Now, is this where Bale gets hells of skinny?
Real spoiler ahead;
My response to the last 15 minutes: "I did not just fucking see ANY of that, did I?"
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Swords, Babes and Kung Fu.
Iron Monkey: Theifs and Babes and Robin Hoodesq.
Fearless: Fighting till the end.
A Fistful of Few Dollars: This was another good Clint Eastwood flick
Unforgiven: One of the best Clint Eastwood Flick.
21 Grams: You have to constantly pay attention for this one, but has a great plot that weaves through intertwining lives, not afraid to go out of chronological order, pretty great when it all comes together.
I am about to pop it in
Also, Heavy Metal. This movie has everything. Everything! Violence, Sex, Drugs, 80ies Rock, more violence and undead WWII soldiers!
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
I was going to rent this but I'm saving up this week. One thing about Ryan Phillipe I like a lot is that he never plays the same character.
S.F.W. is a pretty cool movie. at first i just liked it because the opening song was Jesus Christ Pose, but it's a pretty cool movie about apathy, beer, and the main romantic relationship in the movie stood out for me because it was based on an actual emotional connection the characters developed instead of the whole movie being, "she's hot and I've never really talked to her but I'm going to chase her for an hour and a half and we'll end up together." because, you know, that second scenario happens all the time in real life.
The Kill Bill movies are great if you watch them back to back like one movie. solid revenge movie that has lots of cool characters. On top of that there's lots of references to other cool movies and pop culture for you to notice.
The Blues Brothers is awesome to see performances from more great dead people than you can shake a stick at. and some are still alive too, bonus.
Trainspotting: Great drug movie, extremely witty
Pan's Labyrinth: Now that everyone knows about it, it's lost a bit of luster, but still fabulous movie. NOT FOR KIDS, THOUGH!!!! Has very deep, literary-style themes.
EDIT:
Igby Goes Down: Fabulous movie about what it really means to grow up
Almost Famous: Similar theme as above, but more of an adventure movie
O Brother, Where Art Thou?: One of the best adventure movies ever made, fantastic soundtrack, George Clooney is awesome
Hard Candy - a little too girl-power, but so freaky and well done
Kicking and Screaming (not the Will Ferrell soccer movie) - great little movie about life after college and not knowign what the hell you're going to do with you life
Slackers - a silly college movie starring Big Pete from Pete and Pete and Devan Sawa as a sexy bitch
Sorority Boys - worth it for the dildo fight.
The Saint: Amazingly good soundtrack, lots of fun. Kinda cheesy, but a good movie with Val Kilmer (I suppose Heat is too, but meh)
City of God - Man, who knew Brazil was so crazy and awesome
Tsotsi - thug dude finds and adopts a baby in South Africa
City of Lost Children - not sure what I watched, but I liked it.
Perfume - dude in it is sexy as hell. Also, freaky story.
Jesus, I keep thinking of movies I consider must-sees:
Life Aquatic: Bill Murray is absolutely incredible. Hilarious, but not in a slapstick way, with a brand of humor similar to The Royal Tenenbaums (same guy made it), another movie I'd recommend, though not quite as strongly
This Is Spinal Tap: I hated Best in Show, but I loved this. Faux-documentary, comedy, some of the best lines I've heard in any movie ever.
Usual Suspects: You've probably heard it, one of the best crime movies ever made.
Snatch: If you liked Lock, Stock, and two smoking barrels, you have to see this film. It's a little more amercanized, but it keeps the frantic action, and awesome humor that LSTB did.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking barrels: Pretty awesome flick, awesome action, great humor. Nuff said.
Smoking Aces: Very similar to the above two films, but definitly more americanized with our mafia as main villians, and over the top gun fights. But it's a great film. Like a mix of oceans 11 and lock stock and two smoking barrels.
Whatever happpened to Lillo Brancato Jr.'s murder charges?
Don't they beat on black people who enter there hood? Sounds like a mob film.