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I've been renting a lot of movies lately. I'm starting to run out of ideas though.

I know there's some film buffs on here (Lando), suggest some stuff for me:).


Oh I don't really care what type of movies they are, just not childrens movies, or comedy....well you know most comedy......not that i hate comedy or anything.





.....I realize that chances are this might not work well cause i'll just be saying "yeah i saw that" to lots of the suggestions, but hey maybe other people haven't!

This is incredibly tough to answer for me because there are so many different great movies for their own reasons.

I base my opinions on so many different things. A film, to me, can be great for many reasons. Such as, the cinematography, the story, the background behind the film, the fact that it's independent, many movies are great for their own reasons.

So letting you know what movies you need to see is incredibly difficult because it's so subjective.

What I mean is, I absolutely love the movie Collateral by Michael Mann because of the cinematography and the way it's presented visually. However, when it comes to an incredible piece of writing. I'd consider something like the movie Adaptation to be incredibly well written.

Then there are movies like El Mariachi, which I love for so many reasons. First, it was completely funded by the director/writer Robert Rodriguez. He raised money to fund his film by being a being a drug tester for pharmaceutical companies.

Not only that, but the fact that he made that film into his own trilogy with Desperado and Once Upon A Time In Mexico as his own homage to Legendary Spaghetti Western film maker Sergio Leone who made what's referred to as the "Dollars Trilogy" which are the Clint Eastwood Western movies: A Fistfull of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

However! Sergio Leone's A Fistfull of Dollars was based on an amazing film by Japanese writer/director Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo. Yojimbo is an incredible movie, with both the way it was shot and when you've seen how so much is taken from Kurosawa's work in modern filmmaking and story telling you really appreciate the movie that much more. Seven Samurai is Kurosawa's most legendary film and he even has films such as The Hidden Fortress which George Lucas took heavily from while writing Star Wars: A New Hope.

A lot of people don't even know that Star Wars isn't all Mr. Lucas's original ideas, and with it being pretty much the biggest Sci-Fi film franchise in history, it's surprising.

Anyway, I've rambled on quite a bit, I can list tons of movies and why I think they're important to see or what makes them great or worth seeing, but seeing as how opinions on films are so subjective, you might watch half of them and really love them and be bored to death or hate the other half. You never know.

If you ask specifically for what type of film you're looking for, whether it's cool cinematography, an incredibly engaging story, an independent or foreign film that's not some blockbuster or mainstream movie, I can more easily suggest what to check out. It just depends what exactly you're wanting to see or take away from the film.

erm.

Run Lola Run
Crash
Donnie Darko (Though I'm sure you've seen it)
Fight Club.

Camp Nowhere.

I seem to only really enjoy movies that were made in my time period. I'm not entirely sure why that is. And most of the movies I like are ones that are ment to be just entertaining. I'm not much for politics and ethics and all that.

haha personally, I think he would have enjoyed Camp Nowhere when he was younger... It's nothing spectacular. I do agree with the other choices though.

Anything from Kubrick especially A'Clockwork Orange

I was actually going to suggest Full Metal Jacket. A Clockwork Orange is incredible too though.

Hm.... does it have to be movies, specifically? 'cause Band of Brothers is an amazing 10-part miniseries

I second The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as well as Fight Club. If you like awe-inspiring fights and don't particularly care about the simplicity of the plot, see Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. I enjoyed Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, though you've probably already seen those. Garden State was an OK movie as well, not something completely life changing or anything, but it was pretty good. Um... The Great Escape if you like classic war movies (and Steve McQueen), Goodfellas ("HOW am I funny? Funny like a clown? Do I AMUSE you?")

....aaaand that about clears out all the movies I have downloaded.

The Great Escape is good to watch so you can understand the many pop culture'esq references tv and movies make to it today. (I.e. The Simpsons episode where Maggie goes to the daycar and gets put in 'The Box')

Something else you may throughly enjoy is getting one of those multi-dvd collections of like 50 Horror B-Movies for liek $20 - $30 for hours of halarity.

The oringinal Highlander movie. I second Lando on Full Metal Jacket.

"Highlander! It won an Academy Award... for best movie ever made." -Ricky Bobby

I will throw a few recommendations in here.

Seven Samurai by Akira Kurasowa is amazing. Honestly, he might as well be the most important director ever.

A few good foreign movies I saw over the summer that are considered classics that I enjoyed:

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Metropolis
400 Blows

The Wes Anderson films (Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) are great comedy films, if you haven't seen those yet.

Anyways, if you are looking for good movies, just check out a list of Criterion films. They are usually dead on.

Arrested Development season 3 just came out.
And if you don't already have seasons 1 and 2 you should be ashamed of yourself.

Jackie Chan-Snake in the Eagles Shadow

Just watch it, you have to.

Jellybones wrote:
The Wes Anderson films (Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) are great comedy films, if you haven't seen those yet.

If you're going to start watching Wes Anderson movies, start with Bottle Rocket. His first film. It's my favourite of his movies, I'm not a huge fan of The Royal Tenenbaums, but a lot of people like it a lot. Rushmore and The Life Aquatic I quite enjoyed.

xjsb125 wrote:The oringinal Highlander movie. I second Lando on Full Metal Jacket.

Lando wrote:"Highlander! It won an Academy Award... for best movie ever made." -Ricky Bobby

its all because Christopher Lambert is the coolest son of a bitch anyone will ever know of

I don't know.

as cool as:

Okay, here's a list of a few you need to see.

Rocky - The most important underdog story of all time. You don't need to like boxing or anything to appreciate this story of a man who has nothing being given one of the biggest chances to make something of his life.

Braveheart - Still one of my favourite movies.

The Matrix - You've probably seen it. Who hasn't? The first one has one of the most creative plot ideas in a long time. What if we're all really sleeping right now and none of this is real?

Sin City - The whole movie was done with green screen technology, but this is the closest and most accurate adaptation from a comic book/graphic novel to screen ever made. Not to mention that Mickey Rourke is kick ass. (Also directed by Robert Rodriguez, who I mentioned earlier)

The Godfather - Too legendary to get into why it's important to see. Just see it, even if you don't think it will interest you.

Shindler's List - Another one that's too legendary to give much of an explanation for. Pretty much everyone has at least heard of this movie. Whether or not you think it lives up to all the hype is up to you. I really like it though.

Crash - Recently won the Academy award for best picture. Written and directed by Canadian screenwriter/director Paul Haggis who also wrote and won an Academy award the previous year for the Clint Eastwood movie Million Dollar Baby. He currently has a movie in theatres starring Zach Braff from the TV series Scrubs called The Last Kiss.

The Rage In Placid Lake - I've recommended this one on here before. Don't get it confused with the american movie from the late 90's called Lake Placid. This is actually an Australian film starring a musician named Ben Lee. He's huge in Australia and recently toured across Canada both opening for Sam Roberts a few months ago and earlier this month on his own club tour. This movie is as far from Hollywood types of films as you can get. It's got a really independent feel to it, but it's one of the better written comedy/dramas I've seen in a while. The dialogue is fantastic.

A few others I'll recommend right now that are worth checking out and while not necessarily as groundbreaking as other movies, are still quite enjoyable.

Lucky Number Slevin, The Butterfly Effect, The Weather Man, Domino, Lord Of War.

I'll come up with some better ones soon. No time right now.

Lando wrote:Sin City - The whole movie was done with green screen technology, but this is the closest and most accurate adaptation from a comic book/graphic novel to screen ever made. Not to mention that Mickey Rourke is kick ass. (Also directed by Robert Rodriguez, who I mentioned earlier)

Not to mention Carla Gucinno in the buff *growl*

seriously, Crash was/is not as good as people make it to be.

I think you mean better than people give it credit for and it won the Academy award, so that's still not enough credit!