Movie recommendations

Well, I have been enjoying the Music and Book Recommendation threads, thought we should have one for movies.

As for me, I would reccomend "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" and "Requiem for a Dream" for those of you who haven't seen them.. And "Shaolin Soccer", which is one of the silliest, stupidiest movie ever

5th Element ( to you know who)
Napolean Dynamite
Office Space
Usual Suspects

Jeez, I could go on for hours...

best one i've seen this year...

House of Flying Daggers

@borracuda

since we are talking movies and muntahi is not here to help, here are my 2c --
All the Pink Panther movies since 1969. I particularly like

The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

and my other favourites are
The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

Sheer class butterbean... so long as nobody spoils the ending for the uninitiated.

Der Untergang is definitely the best one I've seen in a while...

The Breakfast Club
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
Confessions of a Dangerous mind
Bamboozled

Still not seen Der Untergang, all the DVD stores just have the chepo version that doesnt have English subtitles, you have to buy the special edition for that.

Another good German film - Das Wunder von Bern.

Oh and while I am at it, also Shaolin Soccer. Funny as hell.

I was thinking about Das Wunder von Bern and Escape to Victory has just popped in my head, absolute classic.

Just saw a german film from a few years back called Das Experiment which was I presume based on the Stanford prison experiment. Great entertainment.

Ri!

BEst movie in quite a while is "Open hearts"

Saw "Igby" at the weekend... it's ok... I always liked that chic with the teeth in it...forgotten her name now ... she's in "Saving Silverman" too... I definitely emphatised with wanting to kill Susan Sarandon (yeh like that singles me out...)

Then there's pupees russes ... sequel to "L'auberge espagnol"

Some others were saying earlier that "Lucia y el sexo" is great... it is

Have you checked in Hugendubbel on Marienplatz? That's where I got mine, subtitles and all...

I'm actually ordering it off of amazon.de for a friend of mine in the UK...

"The Butterfly Effect" was a very good movie I thought..

It makes you think, after seeing it.. you try to bring the pieces together..

Two more quality films:

Withnail and I
The Italian Job (original)

I've seen The Butterfly Effect - Hated it, mainly cos it has that complete and utter prick Ashton "I'm an absolute Knobstick and only famous cos I'm shagging Demi Moore" Kutcher in it.

Cant decide who I hate more as an actor him or Ben "I'm another Knobstick" Affleck.

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

@Xargon - Excellent Film!!

Harold: Did Doogie Howser just steal my fucking car?
Kumar: Yes... I think he did.
Harold: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Burger Shack Employee: Ding-dong! May I interject for a second? As a Burger Shack employee for the past three years, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that if you're craving White Castle, the burgers here just don't cut it. In fact, just thinking about those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals every time you bite into one... just makes me want to burn this motherfucker down. Come on, Pookie, let's burn this motherfucker down! Come on, Pookie! Let's burn it, Pookie! Let's burn this motherfucker down! Let's burn it down! Let's burn it! So you guys maybe should just suck it up and go to White Castle.
Kumar: You can always get your work done in the car.
Harold: Let's do it.
Kumar: All right. Awesome. Then listen, listen - no matter what, we are not ending this night without White Castle in our stomachs. Agreed?
Harold: Agreed.
[shakes Kumar's hand then gives him pound]
Burger Shack Employee: Wise choice. You guys might have wanted to stay away from our special sauce tonight. Me and Pookie, we added a secret ingredient. I'll give you a hint. It's semen.
[bursts out laughing]
Harold: [Smirks] Semen?
Burger Shack Employee: Animal semen.

Something I saw recently:

Perdita Durango - Completely fucked up and intense Tarantino-esque flick with tons of violence and other disturbing content - Javier Bardem is mind blowing in this.

Doogie Howser?

Standard list of must sees:

The Usual Suspects
O Brother Where Art Thou
Fight Club
Snatch
American History X
Fargo
Trainspotting
Kevin Smith series
American Beauty
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption

I guess Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has to be in there too though I didn't like it.

The way you talk dirty makes me so f-ing HOT!!! I want to eat hot chili off you NOW.

You know the number!

XXX
OOO

~Ashton

Excellent list Silva (though I'm a bit iffy on O Brother, the eye candy ain't bad.. )

--- short list ---
Amadeus
Resevoir Dogs
Elizabeth
12 Angry Men
Paton
Blazing Saddles
The Godfather (all 3)

The following are great movies but can be too disturbing for some:
Once were warriors
Das Experiment
American History X
Irreversible
Audition

Just plain excellent films
Amelie
Shawshank Redemption
Leon
Donnie Darko
Shaun of the Dead
Snatch

Try some of these...

Ring(Ringu). original Japanese s**t yourself horror.
Dark Water. see the original before the Holywood remake ruins it.

Withnail and I
Adaptation...film in a film in a film in a...two Nicolas Cages for the price of one.
28 Days Later.(not the Sandra Bollox rubbish, modern London horror).

Dr. Strangelove...Kubrick Atomic masterpiece...protect your precious bodily fluids!!!

Magnolia

Enjoy

IMDB Top 250

I knew someone was going to post it, sooner or later

it's a nice list .. but there are some films, which don't belong there really..

such as:

shouldn't have made it to the TOP 250
215. Almost Famous
236. Spider-Man 2

amazing order:
80. The Incredibles
125. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

well, the list is created automatically from the votes of the users so I think that's all right..

Um...lemme see here:

Clerks
Dogma
Mallrats
Chasing Amys
Kung Fu Hustle - If you loved Shaolin, you'll love this.
Garden State - Zach Braff from Scrubs wrote, directed and starred in this. Damned good.
Lost in Translation
High Fidelity
Bubba Ho-Tep - Bruce Campbell stars as an aged Elvis fighting a soul-sucking mummy.
Igby Goes Down (Whoever mentioned this, I think Clare Danes is the toothy one.)
Once upon a Time in America
Sin City
I <3 Huckabees
Annie Hall
Memento
The Machinist
Batman Begins
American Psycho (I'm a big fan of the Bale)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Great biopic of the pre-revolutionary days of Che Guevara)
Apocalypse Now
Deer Hunter
Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2
Animal House
The Doors
2001: A Space Odyssey
Seven Samurai
Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys
Saved!
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
Waking Life
Elephant
Groundhog Day
Caddy Shack

The two best films of the summer have been Batman Begins and Cinderella Man.

Pretty much any movie by Quentin Tarantino or the Coen Brothers ... plus the Breakfast Club, Grosse Point Blank, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Lost Boys, Enigma, Stalingrad, Der Untergang, Lola Rennt, The Others, Office Space ... anything with Vince Vaughn in it ... ok I should stop writing now.

Madagascar- was a great movie- darn little penquins stole the show
Shrek 1 and 2 - also great soundtrack- 5 year old niece loves Counting Crows
Nemo- gotta love Dorie

now for the adult in us!

Usual suspects (mentioned already)
Beaches (chick flick but great movie)
Men with Brooms (Canadian film)
Notting Hill
28Days
Ya Ya Sisterhood (another chick flick)
Catherine the Great (with Catherine Zeta Jones)
Pulp Fiction
Hitch (cute movie just saw in a flight)
Breakfast Club
16 Candles
Slapshot (only if you like hockey)
Bend it like Beckham (and I am not even a football fan)
Sound of Music (its a classic!)

just a few that have popped into my head at this late hour.

Asshton, and I mean the double S!! You try and Punk me and I swear I will beat you senseless with a stool or any blunt instrument that is near by.

@Ashton Kutcher

And I know number of people (me included) who would gladly join in the stool beating activities of 3 Lions...

Be warned...

To quote an associate.. "You, sir, are a wanker"

Now feck off...

I could suggest hundreds - lots have already been mentioned (commendations to Silva & RebellionLies )

Still, I never saw The Big Lebowski on any of the lists (though I am sure nixe was thinking it as one from the Coen brothers)

3 Loins IS a stool...but Ashton Kutcher is a complete knobsicle.

Oooh, you guys are making me so hotte! 3 Lions, I can't wait for you to take your "blunt instrument" out and beat me with it. I'm so down for Crawlie getting in the game and making it a man on man on man love fest.

I'm Ashton Kutcher, I'm awesome!

why does the instrument for beatings always have to be blunt?? Is this just for historical reasons?? Thats my question...Whats wrong with me bringing my axe...and using the sharp end??

Is it just me or does Ashton Kutcher remind anyone of Marcus Blair.

I would definitely recommend "Zoltan: Hound of Dracula" as a must see movie. Haven't seen it in years so if anyone has a copy knocking around please let me know.

How about:

Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino..

nobody's gonna mention any of Scorsese's work??

Shit. I knew I forgot something.

Peter Jackson's earlier stuff:
Brain Dead
Bad Taste
Meet the Feebles

...more:

Napoleon Dynamite
Swingers
Happy Gilmore
The Last Starfighter
Short Circuit 1+2
Ghostbusters 1+2
REPO MAN
New York, New York
Rebel without a Cause

Now there's a blast from the past! "Number 5, alive!!!"

But c'mon people, also list more obscure stuff that we haven't seen yet... I've seen 95% of everything listed here so far, and want to know about hidden gems.

I can recommend the flick Blueberry - a "western" on an intensely visual psychadelic peyote trip - the fractal imagery at the end is some of the best I've ever seen anywhere.

The Salton Sea
Boondock Saints
Boys Don't Cry

The Spectacular and slow painful death of Asshole Kutcher & Bum Boy Affleck.

OK, it isnt a film, but it should be.

even more:

Hotel Rwanda
The Night Watch - Russian Sci-Fi Fantasy/Horror film.
Ong-Bak
Adaptation
Zaoitici
Returner - Japanese Action Sci-Fi Film, not very original but extremely fun to watch.
Dazed and Confused
Ghost in the Shell
Blade Runner
Heat
Casshern - Another Japanese Action Sci-Fi. Adapted from an old Cartoon series.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

@BlueSte - Actually I was thinking of the Big Lebowski (and Raising Arizona) when I wrote `anything by the Coen Brothers´.

@canuck - Whenever the subject of bludgeoning people with blunt instruments comes up (as it does) I always think of Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (crap movie but I love Alan Rickman):
Sherriff of Nottinghams Cousin: Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe or a knife?
Sherriff: Cos it´s dull you twit, it´ll hurt more

Theres a good thread with more recommendations here.
And I also started a thread a couple of hours before this one recommending Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story the family guy movie that wont be out in theatres, but its pretty funny, just like a long episode but with more swearing.
Not many recent movies that I really like though.

Really funny, I saw it in the theaters. It's on at 20:15 on ARD aka Das Erste. For everyone who's sick of Oktoberfest or just plain sick or broke or lazy... if you can't read this summary though, you needn't bother, as it's genuine German so they speak rather quickly. Set in Berlin. Brothers separated by the Wall, reunited when the mother dies and demands that they reconcile or they can't inherit anything.

to be merged to movie recommendations later.


from http://klack.de and I would have only copied a bit but they don't archive their material anywhere you can link to so the link would be broken in a couple days... I think it will be anyway but here's the link just in case. http://klack.de/TvGuideDetail.php3?ID=933496802

German movie edition:

Das Leben der Anderen was great - wonderful acting from some top German actors - Martina Gedeck, Stephan Koch et al

Also with Martina Gedeck, Elementarteilchen as well as Moritz Bleibtreu, Franke Potente, Nina Hoss, Christian Ulmen. Strange French book makes stranger German movie, but with great acting and overall very interesting.

With a completely unknown actress: Requiem, about the last-known exorcism that took place in Germany. Very cool movie - freaky but also kind of sad. The unknown actress, Sandra Hüller has this amazing quality about her - I call it ugly-pretty. The director is Hans-Christian Schmid, who's apparently pretty famous.

Edit: Now I remember what he was famous for recently: he directed another great movie called Lichter, about life on the German-Polish border.

The Blue Collar Comedy Tour
Napoleon Dynamite
Super Troopers
The Shipping News
Pride & Prejudice (the new one with Keira Knightley)
Sixteen Candles
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Minority Report
The Big Lebowski
The Life Aquatic