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Topic: Movie help plz (Read 3808 times)
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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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.
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WayAbvPar
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I just watched the original of 'The Manchurian Candidate' a couple of weeks ago. Great flick, and quite well acted all round.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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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.
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Evil Elvis
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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
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Fargull
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"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." John Steinbeck
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Viin
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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.
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- Viin
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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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. |
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schild
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Pffft. I've rated like 600 movies. I can't think of 40 snobby art movies. 39? Easy.
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AOFanboi
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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.
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Current: Mario Kart DS, Nintendogs
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ahoythematey
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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.
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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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.
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grebo
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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.
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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Happiness (Todd Solondz) is also laugh-out-loud funny, if you think pedophilia and desperation are funny (I do).
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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Happiness (Todd Solondz) is also laugh-out-loud funny, if you think pedophilia and desperation are funny (I do).
Bruce? |
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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Solondz should make a film about him, too. He made one about me. It's called Welcome to the Dollhouse.
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Samwise
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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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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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the Station Agent[/b] (low budge but great) Yes. |
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