OFFICIAL: Movie recommendation thread
 

Alright guys, what tripper said this is a good idea for a sticky, here you will recommend movies, for others in the forums that you think are good. You have to explain WHY they are good, not just spam the fuck out of this thread saying the movie sucks. I and the other mods will delete anyone posting anything but a movie recommendation.

Oh also, if you've seen the movie someone has posted and you like it/ dislike it, QUOTE the original post and write your review on it. Other than that there will be no other talking in here.

The Last of the Mohicans, good acting, good dialogue and a good story. Watch it.

Chinatown..Roman Polanski flick about a private detective investigating an adultery case when he stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

Post a link to the movie on IMDB if you can as well.... rock:

Memento (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/

The story unfolds backwards. You see a scene and think you understand. And then there is another scene that has happened prior to it, and it totally changes your perception of what is going on. By the end you cant be sure of much at all except the fact that your confused.

Thank you tripper. Good idea.

Momento is a great movie, i love how its backwards, i'd highly recommend that to anyone.

[url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0093608/:8eb95]Nekromantik[/url:8eb95]

Too lazy to write my own synopsis so here's the first review on IMDB. I'll just add that it has one of the best sound scores ever. (besides lord of the ring, star wars, and requiem for a dream)

Edit: It's also the perfect dinner movie.




Nekromantik (1987) is written by Franz Rodenkirchen and directed by Jörg Buttgereit and I think this is their first feature film after couple of short films. This German classic (yeah!) tells us a fascinating story of a couple who has strange emptiness in their affair and death seems to appeal to them, and since the male can get some dead bodies or body parts (I'm not sure what is his job, but at least he goes to car crash scenes in his work etc.), he starts to take them home and soon the couple finds their real love....and it is pretty rotten and decayed love! Scenes of necrophilia are something that will repulse even jaded cinema fanatic because necrophilia as a thing is very disgusting and taboo as a subject matter. But this little film makes ugly things look incredibly beautiful with the power and magic of cinema.

This film shows exactly how talented film maker can show things in personal way and show disgusting things beautifully and with a taste. This film is not ugly or disgusting, but to say that, I think one has to be pretty tolerating and "difficult art loving" viewer since this is not easy to view if one cannot interpret movies. The scenes of necrophilia are shot gorgeously with different techniques and the most important element in Nekromantik is again the music, the unimaginable and hypnotic music. The music is among the most beautiful and gentle (and very dark and ominous at times) I've ever seen, and it is as touching as Riz Ortolani's music in Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (Italy, 1979), one of the most important films ever. Nekromantik would not be Nekromantik without the music. Totally unforgettable element.

The infamous rabbit killing scene is often judged and not accepted, but the fact is that the film makers did NOT kill the creature, they only shoot the farmer doing his job, and the rabbit would've died without the film, too, because we eat meat everyday with or without Nekromantik in existence. And this is the meaning of the scene and we definitely should realize that eating meat means always that an animal has given its life that we can eat its juicy meat. I love animals very much but still I eat meat because I know that they are the only source to get it and in my opinion the rule of nature is that way that human beings are meant to use the resources of nature, but as we know the nature of human beings, do we really deserve all this from the nature as we exploit and destroy it every minute?

The movie's end is unforgettable and also the most shocking scene in the film, but so releasing and gives the final relief and salvation to the protagonist, and it is very beautiful scene with the music again as a strong element. This is something that is never before seen on screen and it is way too much for many. There are also other over the top gore and splatter scenes in the film and they are the ones that alienate the casual viewer. The disturbing "snuff" scene where a woman is sliced, is a part of the interpretation about "exploiting" (Nature or other human beings), which I explained in the rabbit paragraph above. Do we have any right to live or be in existence (not to mention eating and consuming the sources of Nature) since all this trash and sick entertainment exists and has its consumers? And this film itself is NOT that kind of a sick trash/exploitation as many consider: Nekromantik is a very challenging and symbolic piece of underground cinema, which has many things bubbling under its surface and the movie's core has to be found in order to understand it.

Nekromantik is one of the most noteworthy marginal and independent films I know and definitely one of the most unforgettable experiences in the field of cinema. I have seen this two times now, first on a videocassette and then in one festival in "big" screen! That latter was without a doubt very unforgettable experience and this is rarely seen in the big screen. So I recommend Nekromantik (and other Buttgereit's films) to the fans of intelligent and wonderful looking non-mainstream cinema and the cinema that has thousands of things to say and give to the interpreting viewer.

10/10

Robin Williams in Jumanji (I'm not kidding, this movie is one of my faves).

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":5c76a]Robin Williams in Jumanji (I'm not kidding, this movie is one of my faves).[/quote:5c76a]

Dude...link it to IMDB, and give a brief overview of the plot. Even if we all know what it is.

Dawn of the Dead (the original)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/

A group of survivors of a devastating zombie attack hold themselves up in a mall for survival. Theres only one problem they have....someone else wants to take it.

It's a real classic and any zombie fan should own this on DVD. I know I do.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

Another all time classic. Suspenseful nuclear thriller. Stars the sexual peter sellers. whats not to love?

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/:1afe7]IMDb[/url:1afe7]

In short; Eddie joins a game of cards with a gangster, "Hatchet" Harry, playing with his m8's money. Things go as you'd guess, and Eddie & his friends needs to get £500,000 for Harry within a week, or Harry will take Eddies fathers pub instead.

Funny as fuck, this is one of my alltime favorite movies.

irreversible

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/

"Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge.

A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything."

the rape scene sent shivers down my spine. ive never seen something so disguisting portrayed so honestly and perfectly.

movie sucked...ive seen worse in the rape scene...I found myself fast forwarding through the movie after the rape...its also all in french..which I didnt mind since every other word was fuck, cunt whore and shit hole.

well i liked it. subtitles arent a big deal for me. i thought the acting was done really well; the rape scene was extremely realistic and it wasnt youre regular glamourized disaster pornography type scene - its honesty was its brutality. the reverse chronological order kept me hook. i still say its a good movie that breaks the norm the_finger:

I had no problems with the subtitles...I thought the reverse order actually took away from the movie...I felt like there was nothing to gain from the party and lead up too. The camera angles with it swaying like in the gay club made me want to puke.

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/:dbbb3]28 Days Later[/url:dbbb3]

Plot Summary-- A small group of people try to survive after a fucking virus infects the population of great britain, turning people in hatred driven zombies who will stop and nothing to kill you.

20 outta 10, great flict. fucking cool

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163978/:dbbb3]The Beach[/url:dbbb3]


plot summary--Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings.

20/10 great movie, watch it

I second 28 days later, DAMN fine movie, and for all i've seen of the horror and zombie flicks, it stands millions of miles above the rest of the field (bar only maybe shaun of the dead) for just real raw human experiences during a zombie invasion. FUCK George Romero and...well, thats going off on too much of a flaming war, which i should start somewhere else...but yeah, 28 days later is THE best zombie movie out there, with the possible exception of Shaun of the Dead.

My recommendation:

Six String Samurai
[url:ff961]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118736/[/url:ff961]

Its...it is, potentially, one of the WORST good movies ever made. Made on a budget of less than 50,000 , over the course of 2 weeks, the entire films audio track was lost and had to be COMPLETELY redubbed. The ending was changed a week before the films release because the director thought it was too cheerful. It is a huge mess of a film, (but not like Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter, as you could at least actually watch this, and bear the acting and writing)

Long story short, a Samurai trained guitarist in post-apocalyptic Earth travels America to reach Vegas, the last free city, where a competition for Elvis, ruler of the World, is being held.

Just...i cant even describe to you how much you need to see this movie. It puts every other action movie and every other cheesy action line to shame. Its, essentially, so bad its amazing, and when the action lines and action itself get delivered, you fucking CHEER, because you see something so good being delivered in something you think is so low budget...i...i cant describe it. Watch it.

Hardball

I just watched this movie on TBS just now, I've seen it before but, still, its a great movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180734/

The movie info: A sports junkie (Reeves) agrees to coach a little league baseball team in Chicago to pay off his gambling debts. The movie is based on the book by Daniel Coyle.

Sounds a little weak there, but its a very moving story.

LOL Albs....Although technically, "TECHNICALLY," 28 Days Later isn't a Zombie flick as they aren't the undead - They just infected with RAGE.

Romero > All

I saw the special screening last night of the movie Bewitched, well let me just tell you, it was great! It was about making the remake of the show.

Will Ferrel was just great! I always thought of him as being hillarious, like he has his own style. SPOILER:::::: He apears naked like in Old School, but they do frontal. It's pixalet so you don't see his package. In this scene I laughed so hard I though I was gona faint, cause it appeared out of nowhere ... I felt like I was high and laughing so hard.

Nicole Kidman was also great, I thought she played the part like the original. And I also thing she's gorgeous, I would not mind getting a piece of that.

It was just a fun movie, something for like family nigh.

The only problem I hd was that the theater was runned by jearks, or racist. I was there with my sister who is 15 and a little brother who is 3 ... well he wasn't so comfortable so he was on his seat jumping and saying my name and laughing at the movie, well some lady that worked there came up and told me that I needed to take my "son" down or outside, well i just gave her the f**king dirtiest look, like if i was gona donkey punch her and rape her analy. She felt really weird and like ran downstairs and got one of those rent-a-cops ... and the guy was standing around us like ready to give us a ticket or something.

definately agree with 28days later.

I went to see Sin City a few days ago - it was amazing, a definate film to recommend

anybody reccomend Saw? wanted to see it but not sure if it sucked.

Reservoir Dogs

im sure you have all seen it, and if you not go buy it download it rent it doesnt matter its one of the best movies i have ever seen and QT is a genuis

http://imdb.com/title/tt0105236/

[quote="Sgt. Paine":275db]anybody reccomend Saw? wanted to see it but not sure if it sucked.[/quote:275db]

Saw is amazing, its a very good film, very psychological its a definate film to watch. I went to see it at the cinema and fucking loved it, although its not quite the same watching it from home.

I found [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292886/:da99f]800 Bullets[/url:da99f] very enjoyable. If you don't speak Spanish ... learn.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

http://imdb.com/title/tt0311113/

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America.

Can you retards not fucking read or something? No other talking in the thread outside of movie discussion now stfu and get back on topic.

:pointless blabbing deleted. oOo: rolleyes:

I saw Layer Cake like 2 weeks ago and it was quite awesome. I liked the dialouge and the story was really well made. Overall a very awesome movie. I also liked seeing Colm Meaney in something other then the engine room of a Starship.

This week I would reccomend watching Rescue Me on FX channel. Really a just well done series. Very authentic and honestly good acting from the whole cast and , surprsignly, Denis Leary. Considering he made the show and such, his charecter was tailor made to him.

Unleashed ...

Great movie some people say it isnt an action flick , but i think any jet -li movie is an action flick , still a great movie though.

Madagascar ..

Very good movie as well , even for those of you that dont have kids which is prolly 85% of this forums members

City of God

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

"Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer"

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/:f22ff]On The Waterfront[/url:f22ff] <-- Click for linkage

Marlon Brando

Terry Malloy (Brando) dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.

One of the best scenes in a movie im about to quote here:


Charlie: Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.
Terry: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
Charlie: Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.
Terry: You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.

I love that scene, infact it was ranked number 2 on top 100 movie quotes of all time.

Anyone seen this one?

Bringing out the Dead (1999) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163988/

Screenplay is much better than it got credit for being. It takes some patience but i thought it was pretty good after i thought about it. Very under-rated.

its about a lot of people

I really liked this one, gonna have to watch it again sometime


Very Bad Things

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124198/

A group of friends head to Las Vegas for a bachelor party.. only things go wrong and a woman is killed. Soon, the bodies are piling up and the friends find themselves turning against one another as the coverup builds.

I might look into this one... intrests me.

Does anyone recomend Falling Down, with Michael Douglas?

Falling Down is a good movie, i saw it years ago, but i thought it was well done. One of the few Michael Douglas movies i like.

True Romance

http://imdb.com/title/tt0108399/

Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.

Directed by Tony Scott, written by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Chirstopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, and James Gandolfini.

FALLING Down epitomizes cool.....

Great movie.

Love and Death because the slapstick humor is overwhelmingly hilarious...i think it is one of Woody Allen's best. awesome stupid humor[url:36a7a]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073312/[/url:36a7a]
The Big Lebowski It is a great comedy w/ simple humor.... [url:36a7a]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/[/url:36a7a]