Movies General

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 3:26 am #28883

I love movies. I watch them almost non-stop. When I'm cleaning, working, writing essays. I watch movies.
Suggest movies, talk about movies you love, list your favorite movies, etc.

My favorite movies go like this:
1. Catch me If you Can
2. The King's speech
3. Shindler's list.
4. Ferris Bueller's day off.
5. Stand by me
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of shadows
8. The Grand Budapest hotel

I don't know why I like some of them, like the Grand Budapest Hotel, I just like it. I like all those movies very much and I have watched all of them, 5+ times each.

TheTerbs · Post by **TheTerbs** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:32 am #28892

factotum

Remie Richards · Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:13 pm

Se7en was pretty good.

Any of the SIlence of the lambs series.

bockman22 · Post by **bockman22** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:53 pm #29014

Airplane wins in my book

QuartzCrystal · Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:04 am

Good movie that I watched recently (that's kinda new) is Blue is the Warmest Colour. Although the first sex scene between Emma and Adele definitely goes on way too long.

It's like, I get it, they're having sex. I get it.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:12 am #29482

Man this is tough to put a top-ten list together. I managed a video-rental store for four years and just absorbed as much film as possible at the time. I both saw a lot of stuff that was great, but also there was so much of it it's hard to remember it all, and it was almost a decade ago. I got really burned out on film after a while and stopped watching much. I still don't really watch much. In picking favorites it's hard because as a viewer I tend to like sci-fi horror stuff, I have a fixation on some really cheesy comedies and B-movies, but it conflicts with my desire to also want to recount what are ten great, important films everyone should see.

My top ten favorite films:

1) Terminator 2, the greatest action movie of all time.
2) Alien, the greatest sci-fi/horror movie of all time.
3) The Thing, the close second greatest sci-fi/horror movie of all time.
4) Army of Darkness, the greatest b-movie of all time.
5) Blade Runner
6) Robocop
7) Equilibrium
8) Event Horizon
9) Reservoir Dogs
10) Wet Hot American Summer

Top Ten Important Films of Great Merit

1) The Royal Tennenbaums
2) The Shining
3) Pulp Fiction
4) Memento
5) Fight Club
6) 2001: A Space Odyssey
7) The Shawshank Redemption
8) Se7en
9) American Beauty
10) Apocalypse Now

Fuck that's a hard list to make. It's not even what I would think are the ten overall greatest films really, but the ten films that represent a diverse selection of themes, genres, cinematics, and storytelling. If you haven't seen all ten of those, not only are you missing out on a great film but you're missing out on a piece of what should be your basis for comparison for all other films. Though there are plenty more I could list.

NikNakFlak wrote:I love movies.
Catch me If you Can
Ferris Bueller's day off.
Stand by me
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Love these ones. Catch Me If you Can is an especially strange beast. The soundtrack is very muted and it's shot with a lot of blue. It doesn't make itself easy to watch, it's a movie that's made in a way that makes it hard to keep your eyes on, about a guy who was very hard to catch. It makes your brain and eyes do work.

Based on how you like that and Sherlock Holmes you DEFINITELY should watch "Insomnia" and "The Zero Effect". Trust me on those, you WILL like them. They're both very cerebral and can be difficult to watch but the characters and intensity are top-notch. If you get your serious film watching face on give them a shot (if you haven't seen them already, that is). Insomnia is directed by Christopher Nolan of Batman/Inception fame, and The Zero Effect is loosely based on one of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

Honestly I can do a better job of telling others what they will probably like than deciding what I actually like myself. I watched a FUCKING TON of film in a manner that wasn't so much digesting it for myself, but cataloging it so that when customers came in I could dig around in my head based on their rental history and make good recommendations.

Donk Honk · Post by **Donk Honk** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:38 am #29487

Is it bad that I am a fan of movies Tangerine Dream did a soundtrack for? Good or Bad?

Whoisthere · Post by **Whoisthere** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 2:42 pm #29538

I liked Dark Star by John Carpenter.

And also No Country for Old Men.

I guess.

Reimoo · Post by **Reimoo** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:51 pm #31331

If you guys like movies about religion (not religious movies, there is in fact, a difference), Doubt and Kingdom of Heaven are pretty good, although the latter involves a lame sideplot about some moralfag and his muslim waifu. Skip those parts.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:47 am #31414

Speaking of religious movies I watched "What Dreams May Come" when Robin Williams commit suicide and cried like a big fat bitch.

Kot · Post by **Kot** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:55 am #41950

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:22 am #41970

I finally watched Corpse Bride this halloween. Tim Burton made some nice stop-motion movies but I think I still prefer the work of Aardman and Laika.

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:47 am #42327

Just came back from a viewing of Interstellar. A phenomenal movie that plays around with the relativity of time.

If you've watched Christopher Nolan's other films, like Momento or Inception, it has a similar intensity and emotional pull to it that I really like.

I highly recommend it for sci-fi fans.

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Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:53 am #42329

Yeah it looks really fucking good.

I want to see that and John Wick.

Also I totally missed the Grand Budapest Hotel so that's next on my watch list.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 7:25 am #42344

Fury was great. I didn't realize Shia LaBeouf was in it until I got home and looked on imdb.

Kavaloosh · Post by **Kavaloosh** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:15 am #42359

1. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
2. The Thing
3. Fear and Loathing
4. First Blood
5. The Deer Hunter
6. The Raid (1 and 2)
7. The Naked Gun
8. Filth - probably woulda been number one if it hadn't had such a bad last 1/3

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:58 am #42880

Interstellar is one of the best films I've seen in years.

Goddamn. Everyone should go see that as soon as possible.

Septavius · Post by **Septavius** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:08 am #42886

fuckin rad movie. great soundtrack too.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:34 am #42888

children of men. watch it.
in fact i might just stream it tomorrow because i feel like it

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:12 pm #42939

Children of Men was good, but I spent a lot of it asking "Why is this happening?"

MAGiC · Post by **MAGiC** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:45 pm #44301

Donk Honk wrote:Is it bad that I am a fan of movies Tangerine Dream did a soundtrack for? Good or Bad?

Man, I love TD. It's not a coincidence that they made the soundtrack on all my favourite movies.

Do you know "Thief" by Michael Mann? TD did the soundtrack for this film. It's not only that the soundtrack is beautiful, but the movie itself is awesome. Check it out.

BTW sort of unrelated to this thread: I'm doing a documentary right now, and for the teaser I want to use one of their tracks, don't know wich one. Any suggestions

MAGiC · Post by **MAGiC** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:18 pm #44308

I suck at making lists. I like things in no order. And I like a lot of things. So if I gotta say 10 movies that are always on my mind it goes like...

-Chinatown, by Roman Polanski
-Risky Business, by Paul Brickman
-Trash Humpers, by Harmony Korine
-Thief, by Michael Mann
-Lawrence of Arabia, by David Lean
-Basic Instinct, by Paul Verhoeven
-Under the Volcano, by John Huston
-Death Becomes Her, by Robert Zemeckis
-After Hours, by Scorsese
-Videodrome, by David Cronenberg

Oh, and all the John Carpenter filmography. The man knows how to make a fun movie.

Nienhaus · Post by **Nienhaus** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:21 pm #44310

I watch a lot of movies and never made a list and don't want to try. I really like the move Star Dust though but no one ever seem to like it.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 2:06 pm #45402

I like Stardust, I have no idea why so many people dislike it.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:02 pm #45426

Chinatown is great. Death Becomes Her is funny if you're an adult.

I've been meaning to see After Hours forever but dat backlog.

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:38 pm #45434

saw Antichrist with willem dafoe and that dead cgi fox

my opinion of Lars von Trier has remained hovering around "he weird but alright"

probably might see Nightcrawler next weekend

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:30 pm #45467

LVT is the epitome of artsy-fartsy 2deep4u trash

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:22 pm #45479

i enjoyed europa, breaking the waves, and dogville by lvt. melancholia was also fine. to dismiss him as '2deep4u trash' is disingenuous as fuck; his issues as a director go far beyond simple pretentiousness.

i enjoy his cinematography and would say most of his issues stem from him trying to force a shitty concept for 110+ minutes (the idiots being prime offender number #1, "what if there was a group of people are only pretending to be retarded?") or done in by hamfisted political sentiments (manderlay).

An0n3 wrote:Interstellar is one of the best films I've seen in years.

Goddamn. Everyone should go see that as soon as possible.

interstellar was certainly a movie that was ostensibly about something

i liked it a lot but i'll always hold it in some reservation because

a) most unnatural direction of dialogue i've seen in a long time (the pure exposition, but i suppose this part was a necessary evil. the monologues about love and warm feelings inter-spliced with cuts of someone else's face made me want to lobotomize myself).

b) the plot is just... i got done and was like, "what was the fucking point of that?" they also hand-wave away major fucking plot holes and the way they do it makes sense and is agreeable, but it doesn't make it any less cheap. but that's Christopher Nolan post-momento films in general.

all in all though the cinematography and art direction is GORGEOUS. unlike anything I've ever seen in scifi or hollywood films in general. that alone will probably put it in a well-deserved spot in film history.

also: i think this film brings Nolan's "Protagonist With Dead Wife" count up to five.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:15 pm #46280

Interstellar was brilliant. More science fiction movies need a sarcastic robot.

Spoiler:

Rolan7 · Post by **Rolan7** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:18 am #47302

An0n3 wrote:Yeah it looks really fucking good.

I want to see that and John Wick.

Also I totally missed the Grand Budapest Hotel so that's next on my watch list.

Grand Budapest Hotel isn't an important movie but it's a good highbrow comedy. Saw it with family and enjoyed it more than anything else I've watched in a long time.

You guys know a lot more about movies than me, but I really liked Lucky Number Sleven. And 12 Monkeys. I love Bruce Willis in everything except Die Hard.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:37 am #47306

>Not liking Die Hard

Preamble · Post by **Preamble** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:00 pm #47307

Literally no mention of the godfather or Leon the professional.
Shameful display.

MAGiC · Post by **MAGiC** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:02 pm #49104

It's almost the right time to start re-watching Die Hard and Shane Black movies!!

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:27 am #49275

i fucking love indiana jones man
perfect movies

Kot · Post by **Kot** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:35 pm #51989

http://i.imgur.com/5p0AjDa.gifv

Nienhaus · Post by **Nienhaus** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:02 pm #52385

Ricotez wrote:I like Stardust, I have no idea why so many people dislike it.

Will you be my friend

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 9:03 pm #52432

Spoiler:

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:36 am #56994

let me fucking tell you about film

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:06 pm #59387

oscar nominations came out

Spoiler:

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:34 pm #59403

Last year most of the people who decide the Academy Awards only watched Frozen in the animated section, and some of them not even that. They've admitted to this themselves. I don't know why they even bother with animated movies anymore, they're clearly some kind of joke to the Academy.

Interstellar had an amazing soundtrack that was also impossible to miss because it was so loud. It worked in a theatre, but I wonder what it'll do to home cinemas.

rook · Post by **rook** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:44 pm #59407

MAGiC wrote:-Trash Humpers, by Harmony Korine

i read somewhere that korine was thinking about putting trash humpers on a vhs tape and leaving it in the streets for people to find. it would have been fucking horrifying to be the one to find it.

also here's a good movie:

Snake2512 · Post by **Snake2512** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 5:46 pm #59425

>no mention of A Bridge too Far or Stalingrad (1993)

Reimoo wrote:If you guys like movies about religion (not religious movies, there is in fact, a difference), Doubt and Kingdom of Heaven are pretty good, although the latter involves a lame sideplot about some moralfag and his muslim waifu. Skip those parts.

Kingdom of Heaven was pretty good and yeah that sideplot was lame as shit and they totally fucked up the portrayal of the catholic priest.