Recommend a movie

[hsandman]

Well for some time now i have grown tired of the pig feed slop movies that is writen and produced it seems by morrons for the public. It takes time to sift trough the heap of garbage to find anything to watch that does not feel like participating in some type of lobotomy experiment turned director. So i thought maybe we could share titles of movies that you have watched lately (or whenever) that made think and you liked. mostly sci fi stuff, because they are the ones that present me with "what if" theories explored in some deapth.
I'll start off:

saw - because the ending cought me by suprise, rare :)
cube & cube 2
the atomic cafe
equilibrium
total recal
the game
momento
the thirteenth floor
flatliners
monthy pytons: the meaning of life
existenz
big labowski
the usual suspects
seven deadly sins
the omega man
the truman show
Bad Boy Bubby - bondi
Blade Runner- dilbert
House of 9
soilent green
1984
ghost in the shell 1 and 2
ps. will add more titles later when i remember them :)

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Movies that i look forward to watch.
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What the bleep do we know
11:14
dead again
the repo man
momento
Koyaanisqatsi - recomended by prince
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla - dhodges[/url]

[DHodges]

My preference in movies is for things that are, on the surface, so completely trashy and nonsensical that you are forced to search for a deeper meaning somewhere, because otherwise your mind boggles at the fact that the movie got made.

However, being de-sensitized by so many modern mainstream movies, it's hard to find something like that in current movies.

Here's one that will stand up to repeated viewings:
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

[SBN Charles]

Do you like the PC games Max payne and Max Payne 2?

If you've not heard of them it doesn't matter, however it would enhance your experience of watching the movie:

Sin City

made by the same producers, it has elements of the best parts of the Max Payne series PC games, such as the piercing and unflinching narration, the brilliantly done animations and rogue storytelling.

I found it very enjoyable to watch.

[hsandman]

My preference in movies is for things that are, on the surface, so completely trashy and nonsensical that you are forced to search for a deeper meaning somewhere, because otherwise your mind boggles at the fact that the movie got made.

However, being de-sensitized by so many modern mainstream movies, it's hard to find something like that in current movies.

Here's one that will stand up to repeated viewings:
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Not sure if you are mocking me, but i will give you the benifit of the doubt, so i will watch it and then formulate answer to that question :S I think i know what you mean by "deeper meaning" i also have noticed that on accasion in some movies, that on first glance seem to be absolute trash and nonsense.
"reading between the lines" is the saying i belive, for that experiance, but im still a tourist in that realm, so might go over my head :S :)

Do you like the PC games Max payne and Max Payne 2?

If you've not heard of them it doesn't matter, however it would enhance your experience of watching the movie:

Sin City

made by the same producers, it has elements of the best parts of the Max Payne series PC games, such as the piercing and unflinching narration, the brilliantly done animations and rogue storytelling.

I found it very enjoyable to watch.

yes i have played them both and i have watched the sin city. enjoyed all 3 of those experiances, (i know where you coming from, good call there :P )

[Diebert van Rhijn]

Sandman,

Do yo mean Memento from the Nolans? I see you listed it twice. Surely worth watching and understanding.

What the bleep I wouldn't recommend. Very safe and newagy.

What else in your list? The Cube movies (all three) are original and fine. Some others deserve a mentioning but I'll only name Total Recal because it find it weird (considering the mainstream status) I enjoyed it so much. Maybe it's the PK Dick thing because I had the same love for Blade Runner. Must be that theme of questioning the realness of personality and/or ones world that pops up (and in many of the movies you list).

You might like the movie 'Pi' as well.

[Bondi]

Bad Boy Bubby

It's an Australian "independent" film. I watched it about six years ago on TV, knowing absolutely nothing about the plot. I recommend you watch it without a peek into the plot summary on IMDB. Really worth watching, trust me. Not a silly horror, not a so-called "alternative" picture loaded with nothing but porn and vulgar speech. The story begins with the every-day life of a "boy": a thirty-ish, retarded man who lives with his mother and his cat in a filthy place, knowing almost nothing about a world outside...


Dedictví aneb Kurvahosigutntag (Inheritance or Fucking Gutntag, Mateys!)

Uhm, I don't think you ever gonna find this gem outside Central/Eastern Europe, but nonetheless... It's a Czech comedy about a common man, a typical alcoholic worker from a small countryside village who suddenly inherits 10M dollars from an unknown stepfather in the US. Of course, he begins to spend the money instantly on pricey and totally meaningless things (i.e. swimming pool on the yard of the filthy cottage he lives in), not giving up wearing that Swiss hat typical of common (alcoholic) workers, not giving up drinking beherovka and not giving up his yob behaviour etc.

[Blair]

Koyaanisqatsi.

[Jamesh]

Koyaanisqatsi.

I got this out once and found it too boring to watch. I think David Quinn also recommended it. Much rather watch science doco's than this sort of thing - the BBC has some excellent one's. Mind you - Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice To all Creation would have to be the worst science doco ever made.

Of the less popular films around, I liked My Left Foot, Barfly, Papilon, A Man for All Seasons, Underground, Freaks, Ghost Dog

Loved Bad Boy Bubby. Some other aussie/NZ films I liked were Sweetie, Chopper, Bliss, Once We Were Warriors, Proof.

[LooF]

the first matrix was exciting

[Jason]

AI: Artificial Intelligence
Akira(I think better than Ghost In The Shell)
Last Night(Canadian film)
Donny Darko
American Beauty
Baraka
The Cell(for the visuals)

[Greg Shantz]

My three favourite movies of last year were:

Land of the Dead
A History of Violence
Bad News Bears

None of them are a waste of your time.

The Island was also an okay sci-fi.

[hades]

matchstick men
snatch
fightclub


ong bak


Munich <- cool

[MKFaizi]

Brother, Where Art Thou
Natural Born Killers
Master and Commander
Clockwork Orange
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
Scarface
The Godfather movies
Full Metal Jacket
Gangs of New York
Quills
Some of John Waters movies
Saving Private Ryan

Just off the top of my head. I thought Natural Born Killers was hilarious. I don't see many movies these days.

If I was granted the opportunity now, I would see Munich or the one about Truman Capote.

Faizi

[Matt Gregory]

I watched some movies on TV recently. I thought "I, Robot" and "Hide and Seek" were pretty good. I don't really like movies, though, as a rule. Usually the first half of a movie is good and the second half sucks. I think it's because all the weird stuff happens in the first half and then they ruin it by explaining everything in the second half.

[avidaloca]

I saw Munich recently and it wasn't that good at all.

If you liked the C.S.Lewis books (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) I doubt you'll be disappointed with The Chronicles of Narnia on the big screen. It's a very well made film that does not bore at all over the three hours - the story builds very well.

Aside from that:

HEAT - Michael Mann film
Pretty much every Scorcese film you can name including Cape Fear, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull
MAX - film starring John Cusack about Adolf Hitler's early life
Der Untergang - German film about Hitler's suicide in his Berlin bunker
The Edukators - German film from last year
Bangkok Hilton - 1989 three-part TV Miniseries - very well made with some great acting (stars Nicole Kidman)
Four Weddings and a Funeral - "in the words of David Cassidy, while he was still with the Partridge Family"

[SBN Charles]

My three favourite movies of last year were:

Land of the Dead
A History of Violence
Bad News Bears

None of them are a waste of your time.

The Island was also an okay sci-fi.

G Shantz, do you like other "Zombie" movies also?

Such as resident evil?

I think Zombie oriented films, a la 28 days later, resi evil 1&2, dawn of the dead, land of the dead are very entertaining, do you not think the same? I like coming back to watch them again and again.


HSANDMAN, i recommend to you 28 days later, i have it on DVD, there's a chance you may rate it lowly based on the other films you like, however my knowledge of these films is not great, i recommend it to you on the outside chance you may find it as entertaining as I.

[Matt Gregory]

I liked "Evil Dead" (the first one). That was a good zombie movie. I remember watching "The Gates of Hell", but I can't remember anything about it now. I remember it was really hard to find back in the 80's when I saw it.

[Antimime]

A good independent Aussie flick is "He Died With a Falafel in his Hand"

I've seen a lot of good indie movies this year, but I forget titles.

Not indie, but "Walk the Line" excellent biopic about Johnny Cash.

"Capote" very good.

All time favorites: "Gummo" and Johnny Depp's "Fear and Loathing".

[DHodges]

Come on! This is the brothel. A thread about movies, and no one's mentioned any porn. What's with that?

There were a few directors who used the porn movie as a vehicle for serious artistic expression - those who had some truly bizarre ideas that could not be expressed in a more conventional movie without serious compromise. Or something. Anyway, some pretty strange movies.


Cafe Flesh takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where most people are unable to have sex, but are obsessed with it. Most of the movie takes place in the Cafe, which is kind of like a more extreme version of Cabaret, with live sex acts.

Then there's Party Doll-a-Go-Go, by the same director. Memorable lines include, "Ride me stranger, like a Rocket 88!" This sort of line is repeated over and over again. There was a soft-core version of this movie made for cable, which was more like a keleidoscope than porn, because of the way they edited out the naughty bits, but still had the full bizarreness quotient.

What else... there was the Between the Cheeks series, from the Dark Bros. I think there were at least three of them; I forget which is which. One is the story of a man who imagines he is a pimp - or maybe he really is; who knows. Either way, he goes crazy. He thinks the Earth is being invaded by aliens who want to invade human buttholes. "They come from a small, dark, wrinkled hole of a planet... holes just like our anuses!"

In another one in this series, there's another guy apparently going crazy, and he introduces the idea that, under certain conditions, female assholes can talk (and have a voice something like someone who's inhaled some helium). Not that they had all that much to say, really; they are just buttholes, after all. Female buttholes also had something to do with the structure of the universe, but I forget what exactly.

I almost forgot to mention New Wave Hookers. This was also a series, with different ones having very different themes. One of them (New Wave Hookers 2) revealed sex roles on earth to be a plot by women, the leaders having male slaves and living under the sea or something. The plot was to get men to do all the work and provide women with everything they wanted. One of those plots that makes you go, "Uh, wait a minute..."

[Bondi]

So first porn, then preferably no Hollywood, and—last, but not least—let's not go too far from the Genius Forum's evergreen topic: women. Let me recommend this gem from 1984, Poland: Seksmisja —that is Sexmission. (Don't worry, you can find it on DVD, not like the Inheritence.)

It's about two scientists, who take part in an experiment. In 1991, they are voluntarily hibernated for 3 years, but when they awake again, they have to realize that they are actually in 2044 and are the only male survivors of a nuclear World War III. They are held captive in an underground facility—but that is only the beginning...

The film is defined as an "erotic sci-fi comedy", and (apart from the naked women) you can expect a long-unfolding plot with a truly grotesque ending.

[MKFaizi]

I never see not mainstream movies anymore. I rarely -- last time in 2004 and, before that, 2002 -- go to a movie theater. I rarely even rent a movie.

I did watch "Manchurian Candidate" this weekend because it was on HBO that, for some reason, I get for free. It was all right. My hunch is that the subject matter is more suited to 1962 when it was more shocking.

One mainstream movie I saw on HBO some time back that I genuinely liked was "Master and Commander."

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[MKFaizi]

I never see not mainstream movies anymore. I rarely -- last time in 2004 and, before that, 2002 -- go to a movie theater. I rarely even rent a movie.

I did watch "Manchurian Candidate" this weekend because it was on HBO that, for some reason, I get for free. It was all right. My hunch is that the subject matter is more suited to 1962 when it was more shocking.

One mainstream movie I saw on HBO some time back that I genuinely liked was "Master and Commander."

Faizi