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dannebubinga

Movie recommendations thread

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Hi.

I'm very into movies nowadays, but sometimes it's hard to know wich movies to watch. So I thought we could recommend each other movies based upon each others tastes.

I thought maybe you could just post some of your favourite movies or what you like in movies in general and we could go from there. You can also be more specific if you feel like it.

Interpetation and discussion about movies is also very welcome! Rant about other peoples taste is welcome as well, as long as you can provide good points to why they've got no taste ;)

I'll start I guess.

favourite movies atm:

Mulholland drive
Dead or alive 2: birds
Martyrs

I'm mostly not into films from the US but sometimes they come up with some good stuff. US ain't artsy enough for me :P

What should I watch?

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I try to keep a list of every film I have ever watched. Since it's almost impossible to recall absolutely all the films you have watched however, it's only truly accurate from the date at which the list was first assembled, as one can make sure they jot down the name and date of the film immediately after it's viewed.

Over the last 8 months, these are the films I have watched that I have ranked very highly. The ones I have highlighted in bold are ones that I would recommend you watch, as you say you're into artsy numbers, although Sideways isn't at all art oriented in that sense. I guess that's just a little bias sneaking in:

Harry Brown
Dark Star
A Scanner Darkly
Pontypool
A Prophet
Cold Souls
Jet Li's Fearless
The Quiet Earth
Touching the Void (If you're keen on the documentary style)
Moon
Unstoppable
1408 (The leadup in particular)
Sideways
Shutter Island
Severance

Come back to me in 6 months and I'll have another short roundup for you!

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If it ever appeared on MST3K, then I probably like it. :D

Other stuff, in no particular order:
Yojimbo (and its western & fantasy remakes)
Seven Samurai
Ray Harryhausen stuff
Big Trouble in Little China
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Willow
The Princess Bride
Spaceballs
The OLD Hobbit & Lord of the Rings animations
old kung-fu flicks (36th Chamber of Shaolin, etc.)

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dannebubinga said:

Mulholland drive


David Lynch is a genius. I highly suggest you check out the rest of his work. My favorites from him would probably be Lost Highway and Twin Peaks (TV series).

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st.alfonzo said:

I try to keep a list of every film I have ever watched. Since it's almost impossible to recall absolutely all the films you have watched however, it's only truly accurate from the date at which the list was first assembled, as one can make sure they jot down the name and date of the film immediately after it's viewed.


I do the exact same thing but i also have a rating system that i use to grade films.

My current top 20, i recommend every single one of these:
Thief(Theatrical)
Taxi Driver
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vampire's Kiss
Kontroll
The Great Silence
The Big Lebowski
The Red Balloon(Le Ballon Rouge)(1956)
Punch-Drunk Love
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky(Dubbed)
The Gravy Train/The Dion Brothers
Sweet Smell of Success
Heroes Shed No Tears(1986,Ying xiong wu lei)
The Conversation
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Eastern Condors(Dung fong tuk ying)
Ikiru
Rabid Dogs(Cani arrabbiati)
For a Few Dollars More

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Some good ones being listed. I'd like to add:-

No Country for Old Men
Barton Fink
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Apocalypse Now
Antichrist
Black Swan (fuck you if you didn't like it)
Jacob's Ladder

...I'll think of more. I could also list all the straight-up action movies and sci-fi that I love, but I don't see the need here.

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inb4 Doom

Some favorites of mine would be:

Silent Hill
The Mist
Pandorum
Event Horizon
Indiana Jones (All of them, don't even start with me. My favorite is The Last Crusade though.)
Perfect Blue

About a thousand others that I'll never be able to recall in a spur of the moment post.

DoomUK said:

Black Swan

That was awesome. Actually, it reminded me a lot of Perfect Blue, which apparently was a major inspiration for some of Aronofsky's scenes in various movies.

DoomUK also said:

Antichrist

That movie kind of broke my brain for a few hours. Some of it was downright sickening.

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Megalyth said:

That movie kind of broke my brain for a few hours. Some of it was downright sickening.

Yeah it's not an easy watch. I still can't bring myself to keep my eyes on the screen during the infamous genital mutilation scene. Not to let anyone who hasn't seen it think that the whole point of the movie is about disturbing gore, though. If you're expecting a horror movie look elsewhere.

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whiteboy567 said:

Kontroll

Oh fuck yes, finally someone who's seen it.

DoomUK said:

No Country for Old Men
Black Swan (fuck you if you didn't like it)

Both were meh. I still have no idea why the Coens got best motion picture instead of There Will Be Blood (must've been the name), and Black Swan is Aronofsky's worst movie to date (with a good performance from Portman).

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Edit: Whoops, forgot to quote. Still regarding Antichrist:

Although, conversely, some of it made me laugh uncontrollably at the sheer lunacy of it, such as the grindstone through the leg scenes. I thought it may have been something Biblical when I considered it later on, but at the time I, laughed myself to tears.

Another movie that had that same effect was one of those Horrorfest movies (or whatever they are), I think it was called Fur, starring none other than Meatloaf. At one point he cuts himself open and starts ripping his skin off, screaming shrilly, spraying blood, etc. Maybe that was my mind's defense mechanism against seeing something so completely outrageous.

Edit 2: Correction, it was called Pelts. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779496/

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Just came back from watching Frontier(s) and Battle Royale. Both movies were good and I would recommend Battle Royale to anyone. I can't believe I've missed out this movie :/ Frontier(s) was a pretty nasty flick but with a good message I must say.

Mattfire: I've seen everything by David Lynch except the cowboy and the frenchman. He is indeed a genius.

alfonzo: The quiet earth is really good. I was pretty taken by that movie tbh. The ending was very depressing and open for interpetation, which I like.

I will go on IMDB tomorrow and read about the movies you've recommended and see if I can find them cheap on ebay or something.

A tip if you want to keep track on which movies you've seen is to create an IMDB account and rate the movie after you've seen it. If you go to your rating history you can see what date you rated the movie.

Maybe we could structure this thread a bit with IMDB links and links to trailers?

Frontier(s): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814685/
Battle Royale: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

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I lived with a film buff last year who actually seemed to know his stuff and gave quite a few really good recommendations. Quick list of a few (some obvious, others not so much):

Taxi Driver (it's probably on my top 10 now)
Blade Runner (duh)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (completely and totally underrated, IMO)
Adaptation (genius metahumor)

Now that I think of it, the only recommendation of his I remember not liking was Fargo, but I seem to have a Coen Brothers aversion.

I'm also forgetting a bunch, but that's par for the course for a Xaserbrain.

Megalyth said:

Although, conversely, some of it made me laugh uncontrollably at the sheer lunacy of it

CHAOS REIGNS

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From what you posted, I'd say:

Andrei Rublev
Come and See
Cure (1997 Japanese film)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Ran
Big Fish
Brazil
The Bicycle Thief
Nights of Cabria
M
Harakiri (1962)

Holy shit... I just realized that Big Fish and Nights of Cabria, this is one of the most depressing lists ever.

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dannebubinga said:

Snakes: If you like M, maybe you'd appreciate The cabinet of dr. caligari. M is an amazing movie btw. That's my only recommendation cause the only movies i've seen from your list is M and Brazil. You could check out Soylent Green, just for the futurustic city theme (Brazil).

caligari: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/
soylent green: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/


Soylent Green was decent, and Caligari's been in my queue for months now... And yes, Robocop fucking rules.

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Let me think of random ones I thought were pretty good/enjoyable to watch in no particular order, there are too many good ones to list:

Remains of the day (Book is better but film ain't too bad)
Rashamon
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
500 Days of Summer
Gosford Park
Rear Window (Tip top classic)
The Birds
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Trainspotting
The Adjustment Bereau
A Clockwork Orange (Book is better but all of Kubrick's films should be watched)
The Shining
Being John Malkovich
Speed
Blade Runner (this should be here without saying)
The Matrix (Probably takes the trophy for favourite movie of mine for making philosophy and intertextuality so damned fun)

There's all the James Bond flicks you could watch as well. If you're up for that, you're better off starting with watching the good ones like these: Goldfinger, Dr No (you have to watch the very first that started the whole thing), On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Goldeneye, The Living Daylights, Casino Royale, The World is Not Enough, For your Eyes Only, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker.

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dannebubinga said:

artsy

In that case:
-4 (Russian movie. Fucking terrible, but it's very artsy.)
-Zerkalo/The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian movie. Not fucking terrible.)
-Any Andrei Tarkovsky movie. They're all fairly artsy and complex. Sure to drive anyone with the attention span of a rock crazy.

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mind game (trailer)
the fall (trailer)
magnolia
cyrano de bergerac (depardieu's best ever performance)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (this movie needs much more love)
a scanner darkly
the proposition (trailer)
jin roh (trailer, the red riding hood theme is kinda in yo face, but the movie has stunning style and represents more serious anime)
pi (trailer)
and the wonderful indie movie special (trailer), where rapaport shows he can be a powerful actor

nothing too artsy, but all these movies are tasteful and definitely not, erm, mainstream.

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Crouching tiger hidden dragon
The Terminator
Lust, Caution
The Matrix Reloaded
Doom 3 Movie
Bruce Lee Movies
The Soong Sisters
Indiana Jones
Ip Man
Resident Evil
28 Weeks Later

etc.

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DoomUK said:

This one should have remained one of the fake trailers in Grindhouse. Machete was watchable, though not a masterpiece.


The fake trailer sucked, the movie ruled. Case closed ;)

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I'm very much a sci-fi guy, so perhaps we can find some artsy sci-fi stuff. Some of this will have been mentioned already.

If you like them scary:And if you like historical movies -- not guaranteed to be true stories, even if they say they are:

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As far as new films go, this one was recommended to me by a friend and it's beautiful.

• This is England

dannebubinga said:

Holy crap! You've got some good taste in movies! Except for robocop 2 ;)


Yep Robocop 2 was a piece of shit. It seemed to miss that the first one was great because it was a parody. By that token, I'd recommend anything by Paul Verhoeven.

• Robocop 1
• Total Recall
• Starship Troopers

I have been watching a lot of old movies lately.
• The Good The Bad and The Ugly
• Mad Max

To finish with the three greatest American films EVER

• Repo Man
• Smokey and the Bandit (Thanx Consigno!!!)
• Blazing Saddles

Also, someone mentioned him already, but Stanley Kubrick is THE MAN. 2001 is probably one of my favorite films.

And obligatory anime... this one will blow your mind.
• Akira

/E

I forgot!

Escape from New York

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Thanks for all recommendations guys!

But I thought we could recommend each other movies and not just me :P

Paul Verhoeven is also one of my favourite directors. I love how he displays violence and still gets a valid point through.


I don't know how I will get time to watch all theese movies, but I guess I'll just go back to this thread and start reading from post 2 and go downwards hehe.

What are you guys opinion on horror movies btw? How does a movie scare you? I personally HATE screamers like ringu, them, rec. It makes me angry that directors think that you should scare the audience for a milliesecond instead of creating something truly scary. The only movie that succesfully mixes screamers with truly disturbing elements is Martyrs IMO, which I strongly recommend.

Martyrs: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029234/

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