Movie recommendations?

[Winston001]

The thread on movie scenes made me think of what movies we might have missed and are worth watching.

This topic was last posted in 2003 so have a look if you like. http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=490&highlight=Movies

Anyway, I use the IMDB site http://www.imdb.com/Top/ for ideas. I'm pleased to say I've hired DVDs I'd never have thought of and discovered some great films.

To start off and in no particular order:

Slingblade
Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
Memento
Donnie Darko.

Enjoy. :doobey:

[Kendog]

Natural born killers. American Psycho. Idiot Box.

[Psalm42]

Liked Donnie Darko.

Yellow Beard
Arlington Road
Ice Pirates
Team America
Guest House Paradiso

[WINJA]

man under fire denzel washington
dragonfly kevin costner
enter the dragon bruce lee

[hXc]

Saw
Saw II
Team America
Napolean Dynamite
Anchorman
Gothika
House Of Wax
Underworld
Underworld: Evolutions

[Lazy7]

Saw
Saw II
Team America
Napolean Dynamite
Anchorman
Gothika
House Of Wax
Underworld
Underworld: Evolutions

none of those are really any good. Napolean Dynamite isn't bad. But you couldn't really call Saw or House of Wax movies - let alone good ones.

[hXc]

none of those are really any good. Napolean Dynamite isn't bad. But you couldn't really call Saw or House of Wax movies - let alone good ones.
Well it depends what you're into. I'm into comedy and horror. Maybe you're into different things. But that's your choice...

[Timber020]

Being a sensitive new age guy, Im fully in touch with my more gentle side and like movies that encourage me to explore my emotions and find my inner sensitivity.

The original All quiet on the western front (1930)
Apocalypse Now
Stalingrad (german movie)
Sin City
Fight club
bullit
March of the penquins
Die hard
Platoon
Full metal jacket
Band of brothers
Saving private ryan
Good the bad and the ugly
Das boot

[Waylander]

Appleseed
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Inocence
Spirited Away
Howls Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
Escaflowne: The Movie

[SPORK]

enemy at the gates

[Sutage]

the beach
seven
fight club
shawshank redemption
walk the line !!

[Finn]

the beach
seven
fight club
shawshank redemption
walk the line !!

You forgot your all time favourite... "Bike Thieves Are Our Friends"

[Insanity_rules]

Jay and Silent Bob strike back (really funny)
Vanishing Point (The original 70s version not the 90 remake, that movie altered my perception totally)
Mambo Italiano (really funny too)
Two Lane black top

Try those!

[Teflon]

1) Goodfellas
2) Casino
3) Cabin Fever
4) Wrong Turn
5) Wolf Creek
6) Halloween

[SARGE]

Animal House
1941
National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation


avoid Jarhead like the bird flu

[Winston001]

Gattica - Uma Thurman, script by a Kiwi

Enemy At The Gates - Stalingrad WWII

Schindler's List

The Usual Suspects - great crime story

[Lias]

Summary so far:

1941
Akira
American Psycho
Anchorman
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Appleseed
Arlington Road
Band of brothers
Bullit
Cabin Fever
Casino
Das boot
Die hard
Donnie Darko x2
Dragonfly
Enemy At The Gates x2
Enter the dragon
Escaflowne: The Movie
Fight club x2
Full metal jacket
Gattica - Uma Thurman, script by a Kiwi
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Inocence
Good the bad and the ugly
Goodfellas
Gothika
Guest House Paradiso
Halloween
House Of Wax
Howls Moving Castle
Ice Pirates
Idiot Box
Jay and Silent Bob strike back (really funny)
Mambo Italiano (really funny too)
Man under fire
March of the penquins
Memento
Napolean Dynamite
National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation
Natural born killers
Platoon
Princess Mononoke
Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
Saving private ryan
Saw
Saw II
Schindler's List
Seven
Shawshank redemption
Sin City
Slingblade
Spirited Away
Stalingrad (german movie)
Team America x2
The Usual Suspects - great crime story
The Beach
The original All quiet on the western front (1930)
Two Lane black top
Underworld
Underworld: Evolutions
Vanishing Point (The original 70s version not the 90 remake, that movie altered my perception totally)
Walk the line !!
Wolf Creek
Wrong Turn
Yellow Beard

My Pics:

Romper Stomper
The Butterfly Effect (fuck me but its good even thou it has Asthon Kutcher in it.. Boy was I surprised)
The Boondock Saints
Band Of Brothers
The Blues Brothers
Gladiator
Lord Of The Rings
Braveheart
Urotsukidoji (Legend Of the Overfiend)
Wicked City

[The_Dover]

The Big Lebowski

[The Stranger]

1)PULP FICTION
2)Schindlers List
3)Dawn Till Dusk

[MisterD]

The Italian Job
Get Carter
Fist Full of Dollars / Few Dollars More / Good Bad and Ugly
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
(Well basically any of Clint's westerns..)
Usual Suspects
Quadrophenia
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull

[T.W.R]

American Me
Angel heart
Johnny Handsome
Bar fly
Ravenous
Serpant & the Rainbow
Roadhouse

[Big Dave]

Is anyone else like me and completely OVER watching Hollywood movies?
It's years since I went to the cinema.

Nothing against Yanks, but I just don't want to deal with that distorted American bullshit any more and the wank about 'stars'.
I've gone completely off television for much the same reasons.

Sport and old Brit comedy is all I watch nowdays and jeez I'm happy.

[scumdog]

American Graffiti
Blazing Saddles
Plus a lot that others have already listed.

AND

Goodbye Pork Pie (if only to show how much NZ roads/traffic etc have changed.)

[Winston001]

Is anyone else like me and completely OVER watching Hollywood movies?
It's years since I went to the cinema.

Nothing against Yanks, but I just don't want to deal with that distorted American bullshit any more and the wank about 'stars'.
I've gone completely off television for much the same reasons.

Sport and old Brit comedy is all I watch nowdays and jeez I'm happy.

I agree but have been pleasantly suprised to find lesser known Hollywood films which are worth watching. That is the reason for the thread.

Many of the so-called blockbusters are simply vehicles for the publicity machine of the actors. They fade. The IMDB lists of top films ignores box-office (although it has that info) and is compiled by enthusiasts and critics.

[Smorg]

Is anyone else like me and completely OVER watching Hollywood movies?
It's years since I went to the cinema.

Nothing against Yanks, but I just don't want to deal with that distorted American bullshit any more and the wank about 'stars'.
I've gone completely off television for much the same reasons.

Sport and old Brit comedy is all I watch nowdays and jeez I'm happy.

Americans can make awesome movies if there is a decent brain behind it, they do however tend to over do american flags flapping and other patriarchal bullshit that could be done without.

I for one still vote hollywood for now though, also a vote to the australian film industry. They make good shit to

[Big Dave]

That is the reason for the thread.




For sure.
Just an opinion - no angst.

[MD]

Good to see so many movie fans out there. War movies seem to be popular;
-Last of the Mohicans; Beast of war (about a Russian tank crew lost in Afganistan circa 1980s); Enemy at the gate; Platoon; Priv. Ryan - to many good scenes to list; Troy (weak in places but still a good history yarn) All quiet on the Western Front...
Then there's;Fish called Wanda; Lock, Stock and smokin barrels; The world according to Garp, Forest Gump; The Princess bride; Pirates of the Carib.;Ghost; Easy Rider; as someone said, any Clint western - my favs; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; and Unforgiven.
All of the Matrix, LOTR and Terminators. Shit time to stop I'm just a movie junkie.

[APPLE]

hope u didnt leave anything out Lias?................9SONGS..if your in 2 stick? winja looks like he might like the movie

[Madness]

New Release - Crash ( Recently won Best Picture at Oscars )
I picked it up at the video store a while ago but put it back because it looked so boring. Never judge a movie by its cover!!

[mini_me]

legend of 1900

a must see movie this one

m/m

[Winston001]

Summary so far:

The Butterfly Effect (fuck me but its good even thou it has Asthon Kutcher in it.. Boy was I surprised)
The Boondock Saints


Have now watched The Butterfly Effect and got to agree - a really good movie. Good call. Reminded me of Donnie Darko a bit.

Also the Boondock Saints is worth watching - had it about the time this thread started.

Saw "I Am Sam" last night. Ok, so its maybe a bit deliberately emotive in places but I unashamedly enjoyed it. Sort of "Rainman" has a child. Sean Penn is a suprisingly good actor.

The Wild Bunch and the Alien Series as among my favourites. Still, A Clockwork Orange and Pulp Fiction are the two movies which stand out above the others.

[Matt Bleck]

BAD BOY BUBBY
Deliverance(sp?)
Kungfu Hussle

[hXc]

Can't comment fully but if it's anything like the book: Lord Of The Flies