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Movies you need to see. In the same vein as Apt's music thread.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 07:49 PM
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 08:10 PM
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 08:43 PM
Just a few that tickle my pickle and can be seen as genre defining (IMO)
Glengarry Glenross (Jack Lemon's finest film IMO)
Once upon a time in the West ( The best looking western bar none and one of the best reveals/twists in cinema history)
Bladerunner ( As Abyss said it is still to be matched)
Rear Window ( Although anything by Hitchcock is class, also Rope)
Aliens ( Alien was one of the best horror flicks, Aliens is one of the best war movies ever)
The French Connection ( Great cop movie, and along with Serpico and Dirty Harry great examples of the 70's golden era of gritty crime dramas)
Kind Hearts and Coronets ( Alec Guiness plays multiple characters and along with the Ladykillers and Passport to Pimlico, the best of the Ealing comedies)
I have a soft spot for B/W Ealing/ British comedies from the 40's and 50's. Some of the best written and best acted movies you will ever see. Anything with Alec Guiness, Alistair Sim, Peter Sellers etc is absolute gold.
Glengarry Glenross (Jack Lemon's finest film IMO)
Once upon a time in the West ( The best looking western bar none and one of the best reveals/twists in cinema history)
Bladerunner ( As Abyss said it is still to be matched)
Rear Window ( Although anything by Hitchcock is class, also Rope)
Aliens ( Alien was one of the best horror flicks, Aliens is one of the best war movies ever)
The French Connection ( Great cop movie, and along with Serpico and Dirty Harry great examples of the 70's golden era of gritty crime dramas)
Kind Hearts and Coronets ( Alec Guiness plays multiple characters and along with the Ladykillers and Passport to Pimlico, the best of the Ealing comedies)
I have a soft spot for B/W Ealing/ British comedies from the 40's and 50's. Some of the best written and best acted movies you will ever see. Anything with Alec Guiness, Alistair Sim, Peter Sellers etc is absolute gold.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 09:14 PM
Rear Window most definitely! Hitchcock's finest moment.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 09:44 PM
Mezla PigDog, on Jul 7 2009, 11:44 AM, said:
Not a benchmark in the art of film making but Some Like It Hot is the best comedy ever made, imo. Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis in an all girl band. What's not to love?
Caddyshack beats it.
Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jul 7 2009, 12:32 PM, said:
I'm looking for both, essentially. Films that really stand out among their peers, whether it be of an awesome story, a brilliant acting performance a la Heath Ledger as The Joker or a particularly thought-provoking story.
Elegy, with Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz, is worth watching. Every actor in that movie is completely on board with the story and delivers a powerful performance.
The best Westerns I've seen in the last five years (went through a huge tear) are The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Proposition. Once Upon A Time In The West comes in around 3 or 4, depending on if you count No Country For Old Men. Unforgiven is the fifth.
The Wackness is a movie I wish I'd see when I was 16. It is one of the best depictions of what it's like for a teenager to figure out love and life. Ben Kingsley's also phenomenal in it, and the movie has one of the best soundtracks ever.
The Deer Hunter is one of my three favorite movies ever (Point Break and Melquiades Estrada being the other two). The story is gripping from the beginning. Walken steals every scene in the 2nd half of the film, yet everybody in it is elite and very, very believable.
And everyone should see UP. Pixar can't get enough money for that gorgeous creation.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 10:37 PM
Thought of a couple more classics that deserve credit
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Leonardo DiCaprio, he killed-ded it!
Confidence - its about con artists
Belly - But only if you smoke alot of pot before viewing
Half-Baked - see above, what?
Honorable mention to UP, as Amp already stated.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Leonardo DiCaprio, he killed-ded it!
Confidence - its about con artists
Belly - But only if you smoke alot of pot before viewing
Half-Baked - see above, what?
Honorable mention to UP, as Amp already stated.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 10:47 PM
Lovin the Western love!
I'd throw Tombstone and True Grit in there also.
Rear Window is great also. If you like it i'd recommend Vertigo and North By Northwest.
For older dramas i'd recommend The Sting and The Maltese Falcon.
For sports Bull Durham and Slapshot..
Also throw in Scarface and Godfather.
thats enough.
I'd throw Tombstone and True Grit in there also.
Rear Window is great also. If you like it i'd recommend Vertigo and North By Northwest.
For older dramas i'd recommend The Sting and The Maltese Falcon.
For sports Bull Durham and Slapshot..
Also throw in Scarface and Godfather.
thats enough.
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 12:14 AM
A film that I'm still not sure if I like or not is Adaptation. I think the very fact that I find it so hard to classify or even fully grasp means it has stuck in my head. It's certainly not a bad film, but the other day someone asked me what it was about and I went...
Also, Serenity. Highly underrated and extremely enjoyable.
Also, Serenity. Highly underrated and extremely enjoyable.
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 03:48 AM
Bent, on Jul 8 2009, 12:37 AM, said:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Leonardo DiCaprio, he killed-ded it!
Nooo. Retard films are too painfull to watch. Just watching commercials for that film makes me angry.
Actually, I can't tell if it's the fact that it's Leonardo DeCrapio playing that role or just the fact that it is a retard character, that makes me angry at that film.
Leonardo went full retard.
Tiste Simeon, on Jul 8 2009, 02:14 AM, said:
Also, Serenity. Highly underrated and extremely enjoyable. 
Don't you mean... overrated?
After the series was cancelled no-one could stop blabbering about how great the series was and what a tragedy cancelling the series was.
Everyone was talking about the film and how it showed the potential left in the series. Bla, bla, bla.
It's just a cowbody/sci-fi action adventure.
Awesome ending though.
Summer Glau went Lethal Retard.
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 12:22 PM
I recently saw a Serenity DVD on offer for £1.99, right next to a Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants DVD also on offer. For £2.99. I chortled heartily.
More to the point, I'd say the original, black and white Night of the Living Dead.
More to the point, I'd say the original, black and white Night of the Living Dead.
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 01:43 PM
I'll add some war movies, those that caught my eye anyway:
Stalingrad
Letters from Iwo Jima
Thin Red Line
M.A.S.H.
Platoon
The Deer Hunter (not precisely a war movie, but it revolves around war)
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Letters from Iwo Jima
Thin Red Line
M.A.S.H.
Platoon
The Deer Hunter (not precisely a war movie, but it revolves around war)
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 01:53 PM
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 01:54 PM
Saw PUBLIC ENEMIES last night. It was dire. In a bad way.
But it did remind me that THE UNTOUCHABLES belongs on any must-see list.
- Abyss, would have sent the former film to the morgue...
But it did remind me that THE UNTOUCHABLES belongs on any must-see list.
- Abyss, would have sent the former film to the morgue...
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 04:54 PM
For me it's:
Ginger Snaps
Donnie Darko
Winged Creatures
Battle Royal
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 05:35 PM
The magnificent 7, if we're talking great westerns, great cast, great show.
War films, kellys heroes magnificent stuff
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Posted 08 July 2009 - 07:06 PM
Macros, on Jul 8 2009, 06:35 PM, said:
The magnificent 7, if we're talking great westerns, great cast, great show.
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Cocoreturns, on Jul 7 2009, 05:36 PM, said:
Shichinin no samurai (seven samurai) - the remake (magnificent seven) is good, but the original is excellent.
Seriously, watch the Kurosawa version. Magnificent 7 is very well made, and its interesting how
John Sturges and co adapted some of the scenes (the duel becoming a knife v gunfight draw, etc)
but this is one case where I give the edge to the original.
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