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Movies suck (this summer, hard).  TV sux (period).  I need some suggested rentals.

I recently really enjoyed "Ripley's Game" with Malkovitch and then "Sexy Beast" with Ben Kinglsey and Ray Winstone (from both films).  The 2 "Bourne" films, good good.  Awesome 50's film black&white with Alex Guiness and Richard Burton: "Spy who came in from the cold" (from the LeCarre novel).   Anyone recommend similar films, smart/complex/foreign or domestic?   Drama, action (no Kevin Smith films plz, I'm done with that).  Thank ye.

I just watched the original of 'The Manchurian Candidate' a couple of weeks ago. Great flick, and quite well acted all round.

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

No, I'm not kidding. It is stupid, but if you look beyond the obvious, the surface stuff, there's a lot of good satire there.

Not so funny? Ok, how about Croupier? Fog of War or the Corporation, if you dig documentaries. Collateral was really good.

Session 9 - Suspense-thriller, does a great job of building the tension near the end.

Boondock Saints - Great movie.  Action, comedy, and morality.  And a very gay Willam Dafoe.

Bubba Ho-Tep - <3 Bruce Campbell

Sounds like you are into spy flicks.

The Eiger Sanction (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/) is good.  As is Catch 22 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/).

If you want to see a good movie still in the theatres, I highly recommend seeing Cinderella Man.

For TV, there's a lot of discs of Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and Deadwood to watch. Band of Brothers.

There's also Firefly and Wonderfalls.

And if you want to watch Anime, there's tons of that too.


Too bad Netflix doesn't have a Groups of Friends or something, so we can all join the same Friends group and share movie ratings.

Then schild would join and art snob it all up.

Pffft. I've rated like 600 movies. I can't think of 40 snobby art movies. 39? Easy.

Spy drama? "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is a British mini-series from 1979 based on John Le Carre's novel, starring Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley. Out on DVD in a region near you.

There is also another Le Carre adaptation, The Tailor of Panama, starring Pierce Brosnan (as a nasty operative) and Geoffrey Rush as the tailor.

Graham Greene is another prolific writer whose film adaptations often end up good: The Quiet American (the new version with Michael Caine since the 1958 version is "sanitized") and not to forget The Third Man.

Into kitchy, cult-status material movies?

http://www.americanastronaut.com/

I won't ever tire of watching 12 Angry Men(Henry Fonda version), The 400 Blows, Empire of the Sun, The Shawshank Redemption, and Raising Arizona.  I recommend all of them wholly.

Happiness of the Katakuris
Battle Royale
the Station Agent (low budge but great)
Dead Man
another fave of mine (not really a movie per se, but friggin' hilarious): Fishing with John. Jim Jarmusch, Dennis Hopper, Willem Defoe, Tom Fucking Waits, Matt Dillon and am I forgetting someone? all go fishing with JOhn Lurie. You may remember him from such films as Down By Law. Oh, shit. You should rent that too. It also has Tom Waits and Roberto Benini.

I saw Crash in the theater, was quite good.  Well acted, good story...

Also can heartily recommend a short list of intelligent type things

LA Confidential is a great crime drama.
Seven
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels or the other one, Snatch, intelligent, hilarious...
Magnolia, a lot like Crash only better IMHO, and with a completely unexpected ending...
If you haven't seen Dr. Strangelove, then you must do so.  now. 
A Clockwork Orange
12 Monkeys

Ok, I stop now.

Freaked (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007WFXTE/qid=1118528220/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-7456122-4731024?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846)

Shakes the Clown (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767837991/qid=1118528252/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-7456122-4731024?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846)

Happiness (Todd Solondz) is also laugh-out-loud funny, if you think pedophilia and desperation are funny (I do).

Bruce?

Solondz should make a film about him, too. He made one about me. It's called Welcome to the Dollhouse.

I'd assume that most people on this site have already seen Equilibrium, but if you haven't, that's a must-watch.  I won't say it's the absolute greatest movie of all time, but like Donnie Darko, it deserved to do much better in the theaters than it did.

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