Movie recommendations

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-10-10 03:45pm

I usually watch indie films and shorts because I spend so much time at work (HA!) on the 'net.

Hence, I love a lot of the stuff at places like http://www.ifilm.com and the like.

Although, if you haven't seen THE KILLER BEAN 2: THE PARTY at Jeff Lew's site (http://www.jefflew.com), you are culturally nonexistant.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-10 04:15pm

Now aside from the Akira Kurasawa Samuria flicks, I am starting to catch some of the current PG rated fare, mostly the result of having a Significant Other with a kid.

Having Said this: Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Atlantis, and the new stuff comming from Dreamworks is fairly high quality.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2002-10-11 03:51am

The Hellsing manga rocks while imho the animes drags after Valentine Brothers were defeated.

Master of Mosquiton is another great vampire anime but it is a comedy.

IMHO the Blade movies SUCKS because almost none of the vampires even know how the fight at all. Hell even ST redskirts can beat them without suffering any loses.

unigolyn · Post by **unigolyn** » 2002-10-12 08:18am

Fight Club (best movie ever ever)
Requiem for a Dream
LOTR (i'm certain TTT and ROTK will kick ass)
A Fish Called Wanda
Braveheart
Hudson Hawk (the most misunderstood movie ever)
Full Metal Jacket
Pulp Fiction
The Boondock Saints
Groundhog Day
Shrek
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Total Recall
Terminator 1 and 2
Being John Malkovich
Contact (the religion angle was overdone, but it was a good movie)
Clerks
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
Every SW movie apart from the ewok shit.
Trek movies, favourite is IV.
Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
La Cite des Enfants Perdus (city of lost children)
Life of Brian
MP's Holy Grail
Spaceballs
History of the World part I
Young Frankentstein
Blazing Saddles
most Schwarzenegger movies
and any movie by either Zucker, Zucker, or Abrahams.

as for favourite porn... I must have ADD, but I never dwell on it long enough to remember the titles

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-10-12 09:51am

roadracers by robert rodriguez
for some reason the german title is "bad boys never die".

*finds it very weird to translate an english movie title into another english title*

btw
why is this thread in the sml forum?

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-12 10:01am

salm wrote: btw
why is this thread in the sml forum?

It's not actually there. It was moved to OT, but there is still a link to it from SLM.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-12 07:58pm

Das Boot: Best Sub Movie
Best Anti-Hero Western Series: The Man With no Name Trilogy
Best Post adolecent Rebellion Flick: Breaking Away
Best Dramatic Movie that originally Had an X Rating: Midnight Cowboy (Of course it's competiion is Last Tango in Paris, The Wild Bunch, and The Cook, the Thier, his wife & her lover)
Best Mind rape for the Audiance: The Sting (You watch it cold for the first time, and tell me that you could follow the plot.)

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-12 08:44pm

THe Yosemite Bear wrote: Best Mind rape for the Audiance: The Sting (You watch it cold for the first time, and tell me that you could follow the plot.)

Yes! I love that movie.

another great war movie: The Dirty Dozen.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-10-12 09:55pm

Grosse Pointe Blank

"Psychopaths kill for no reason, I kill for money!"

"I'm a professional killer."
"Good for you, it's a growth industry"

Great lines and a good soundtrack

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-10-12 10:55pm

Ender wrote:Grosse Pointe Blank

"Psychopaths kill for no reason, I kill for money!"

"I'm a professional killer."
"Good for you, it's a growth industry"

Great lines and a good soundtrack

Technically I think the guy in GPB is a sociopath. He knows the difference between right and wrong. He just doesn't really care. Kinda like God.

I like The Killer, Hard-Boiled, Versus, Battle Royale, and Cube. If any of those were mentioned then I apologize.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-12 11:59pm

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-13 01:15am

A touch of Evil, and Sunset Buelvard. Just two very well done noir films.

What my point about the sting was, that the first time you see the movie, if you haven't been spoilered, it's impossible to fallow whats going on. That is what makes it such a good movie.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-13 01:16am

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-10-13 04:18pm

Emperor Norton II wrote:I recommend a golden oldie "Paths of Glory" with Kurt Douglas from the 60’s.

Also "Kung Pao Enter the Fist” the dubbing is hilarious

That's one hilarious movie.

"We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke."

"And so began Betty's killing spree."

"Sometimes he walked, other times he drove, and sometimes partied with the desert creatures."

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-10-13 04:40pm

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Das Boot: Best Sub Movie

One of my all-time favorites. Btw are you talking about the cinema version or the 6 hour tv-version?

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-10-13 04:57pm

verilon wrote:Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Wow, really? The one movie that has a 0% rating on RottenTomatoes?

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-13 07:12pm

Dalton wrote:
verilon wrote:Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Wow, really? The one movie that has a 0% rating on RottenTomatoes?

I thought it was a good movie. SLow at first, but it picked up. Plus, it's also the kind of movie I like...I have a strange taste in movies. And I don't trust professional critics. It's an oxymoron, in my book.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-10-14 02:06am

The Rules of Attraction

Saw it this weekend. Excellent film.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-14 07:47am

Durandal wrote:The Rules of Attraction

Saw it this weekend. Excellent film.

Cool, whats it about? And more importantly, did any of those hot chicks in it get naked?

Nick · Post by **Nick** » 2002-10-14 08:54am

Messing with your head:
Memento
American Beauty
Fight Club

Good clean fun:
The Princess Bride
The Three Musketeers
Toy Story
Shrek
10 Things I Hate About You

Shit go boom:
XXX
(Comment: "It's just a whole heap of action scenes strung together"
Response: "D'uh!")
Terminator 2

Just plain cool:
The Blues Brothers
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Fellowship of the Ring

And plenty more. . .

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-14 10:16am

Shit go boom:

Predator
Alien
Aliens
True Lies
The Matrix

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-10-14 10:01pm

neoolong wrote:Technically I think the guy in GPB is a sociopath. He knows the difference between right and wrong. He just doesn't really care. Kinda like God.

Actually, he does care. It's a major plot point of the movie. And in any case, it's a comedy, don't put so much effort into analyzing it.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-10-14 10:32pm

Cool, whats it about? And more importantly, did any of those hot chicks in it get naked?

It's more or less about teenage angst. So, logically, it follows that hot chicks will get naked. :D

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-10-15 12:13am

Ender wrote:
neoolong wrote:Technically I think the guy in GPB is a sociopath. He knows the difference between right and wrong. He just doesn't really care. Kinda like God.
Actually, he does care. It's a major plot point of the movie. And in any case, it's a comedy, don't put so much effort into analyzing it.

Actually he doesn't start caring till part way in the movie. But yeah, it's a movie. It doesn't really matter.

Mr. Mister · Post by **Mr. Mister** » 2002-10-15 11:43pm

Hmm... first, my replies to old things:

1) Contact bored me. It really, really, really, bored me, to the point that I don't really consider it a movie.

2) Fight Club was once the most over-rated movie I'd ever seen. Then Gladiator came around.

3) The last time I watched Mortal Kombat: Annihalation, I searched the credits, but never could find where they named the writer.

4) The OUTIC series has excellent fight scenes. Its dubbing's not the greatest, so try and find a subtitled version. Still, the first one manages to be good on a non-combat level, even through the dubbing. Actually, I would love to see it subtitled, because that would be awesome. However, the acting (largely because Yuen Biao didn't return) and fighting (because it got too crazy) go down after the first. The soundtrack's great, too.

Now, go to your nearest video store. Rent Shiri. It's Korean. It's an amazing movie. It has all the hallmarks of a great mindless action flick - and then an excellent romantic dramatic plot. Plus an ending so full of pathos. It's grotesquely beautiful.

I also reccomend The Last Emperor. It's strange: it's a thoroughly engrossing movie, 4 hours long (watch the director's cut) about a man who does absolutely nothing with his life. And it's rockin' sweet.

Rain Man. Criticize that movie at your own risk. It's wonderful.

Half of the appeal of the Matrix and CTHD is that Americans had never seen Yuen Wo Ping's work before. Never mind that he and Tsui Hark developed wirework back in the early '80s (the major breakthrough was Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, which I've unfortunately never found a copy of).

Yes, the Terminator movies and first Robocop are fun.

For evidence that Spanish people are kind of weird, I suggest you watch El Espirítu de la Colmena (Spirit of the Beehive). I don't know what the writer was thinking. Of course, it's not a quarter as crazy as Un Chien Andaluz (The Andalucian Dog), which is the only movie I've ever heard of that was written by Salvador Dalí. It's really, really, really weird.