[Thelomen Toblerone]

Napoleon Dynamite was fucking standard, laughed my arse off and went out and bought it and a matching t-shirt right after seeing it. Top quality film.

[Tiste Simeon]

Rep for TT - Napoleon Dynamite is much more of an original concept than 40 Year Old Virgin. I mean, come on it's just another play on the idea of "Not been laid yet, need to do so soon." The difference being that he is about twice the age of the people who are normally in those situations in these kinda films.

[RatManHEB]

Oldboy!!!! This one made me confused and disgusted at the same time. I wasn't exactly sure what was going on but I was sure it was gross. hehe And the octopus scene... WOW

[Zanth13]

paladin;292065 said:

three burials was shit. it was a pitiful attempt at an arthouse movie. i wanted to stab my eyes out by the end of it

wow... your the wrongest person in the history of wrong


great movie...

Boondock Saints is teh shit but I think it falls out of the 5 year window.

Mr. Brooks is my new number one for the day....

[Sparkimus]

Tiste Simeon;292114 said:

Rep for TT - Napoleon Dynamite is much more of an original concept than 40 Year Old Virgin. I mean, come on it's just another play on the idea of "Not been laid yet, need to do so soon." The difference being that he is about twice the age of the people who are normally in those situations in these kinda films.

Sure, apart from the constant HILARITY in 40 yr old virgin.

I think my main problem with ND was the fact that I didn't see it in the theater, and everyone for MONTHS was saying it was the greatest damn movie ever made and everyone should see it 8,000 times. So by the time it came out and we rented it, it was entirely over-hyped and I wanted to stab myself in the leg so I could stop watching it.

[caladanbrood]

I'm quite impressed that of the three films mentioned in the first post, one is based on a tv series, and the other two on comics...

I don't watch huge amounts of films, I must admit, but I'd probably go for Hot Fuzz

[Sparkimus]

Shawn of the Dead was by far the better, but that's obviously a knock-off.

Lord of War was pretty good, so was Charlie Wilson's War (but based on actualy events).

[Mezla PigDog]

Jeez, you guys watch a lot of shit movies without realising they're shit!

/patronising

Off the top of my head (I watch a lot of movies):

"Pan's Labyrinth". Not based on any books that I know of, but I can't be sure..... Beautiful fantasy juxtaposed with the brutality of the Spanish Civil War. One of those films that made me think about it a lot afterwards.

"The Proposition" could have been if they hadn't cast Ray frickin Winston and Emily Watson and if Nick Cave had chilled on the music. Dunno if that was based on any literature either but I didn't hear that it was.

Oldboy was very good. Really freaked me out and I wouldn't choose to watch it again so I won't rate it that highly.

[Possum]

Kung Fu Hustle.. Brilliant film!!

[Tiste Simeon]

Mezla PigDog said:

"Pan's Labyrinth". Not based on any books that I know of, but I can't be sure..... Beautiful fantasy juxtaposed with the brutality of the Spanish Civil War. One of those films that made me think about it a lot afterwards.

Oh yeah. Brilliant stuff!

[Smiles]

Pan's Labyrinth was excellent and History of Violence just sticks in my mind as shockingly brilliant.

[Sparkimus]

Have rep for Kung Fu Hustle!

Chucking a knife only to have it bounce off a wall and stab your buddy behind you almost made me piss myself.

[Coco with marshmallows]

if we make it last 10 years, i'd put Versus by ryuhei kitamura in there. Utterly frigging bonkers movie, with gunplay, swordfights, zombie yakuza assassins, insane cops, and all sorts of other goodies.

and three main characters called:
- the girl
- Prisoner KSC2-303
- the man
because hey, character names are overrated, and whats more original than your film being about a bunch of people with no names?

[Mushroom]

A Scanner Darkly

hands down...
(yes I know it was based on a book as well), but the way the movie was done was pretty cool.)

But I would have to agree with Pan's labyrinth as well.

[The Tyrant Lizard]

It's more than five years old, but I think Fallen is a good film.

And while DW is in my mind, Training Day is pretty frigging good too.

[dktorode]

Donnie Darko...need i say more?


ETA- wait thats over the 5 year mark

[Zanth13]

The Tyrant Lizard;292577 said:

It's more than five years old, but I think Fallen is a good film.

And while DW is in my mind, Training Day is pretty frigging good too.

Fallen is awesome... but way past the five year mark...


Training day was good... kinda of original spin on the whole Cop/partner genre though the cop corruption thing has been done a million times..
which doesnt lessen anything though... cuz its true and cops suck...

John McClane and Martin Riggs are the only cops I would trust

[The Tyrant Lizard]

Zanth13;292599 said:

John McClane and Martin Riggs are the only cops I would trust

But who would win in a fight?

[Zanth13]

The Tyrant Lizard;292606 said:

But who would win in a fight?

You know... I am not sure, but I bet it would be awesome...

technically Riggs has better training for hand to hand and they are both sharp shooters...

[The Tyrant Lizard]

I heard once that the Die Hard 3 script was originally supposed to be a Lethal Weapon movie. Someone bailed out so they changed it a bit and stuck McClane in there instead of Riggs. So they're pretty similar characters - similar enough to share a script.

Riggs is probably a better fighter, but John never loses.