Movie suggestions?

[striped_bear]

I'm bored, looking for some good movies to watch. My movie collection has gotten pretty huge, but I don't usually like watching the same movie more than once, unless it's been a few years.

What are some of your all time favorite movies?

I enjoy sci-fi (Soylent Green, Robocop [hell ya]), medieval and/or fantasy (good ones, i.e. Braveheart, Highlander, First Knight, Robin Hood, Lord of the Rings...), comedy (Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space... no crappy summer throw away garbage), drama (Shawshank Redemption, Fear and Loathing, especially enjoy lawyer movies; Erin Brockovich, The Verdict, The Rainmaker, etc., usually any Grisham movie is good), action movies sometimes (Bourne series, Ocean's 11), documentaries (but not "docuganda" pieces, there's a huge difference)...

I haven't listed all the movies I've seen by a long shot, just thought I'd share a few of my favorites as well.

[kregener]

Serenity.

[Libertarian_Guard]

Amadeus

[Grand Master Melon]

Airplane is the best movie ever!


Other favorites:

The Way of the Gun

Usual Suspects

Blazing Saddles

Waco 93

Crónicas

The Machinist

Shooter

Fight Club

[Ironfield]

+1 for serenity and if you haven’t already you need to catch all the episodes of firefly.

Recently I’ve (re)watched and would recommend the following:

Shutter Island
Rocknrolla
The 13th warrior
Collateral
Slither
The Taking of Pelham 123
Pandorum
The Rock
From Hell

If you are looking to get into some tv series
House
Castle
Mad men
Spartacus Blood and Sand

-Ironfield

[SHTF2010]

Whose Life is it anyway - 1981
We're No Angels - 1955
Simone - 2002
A Bronx Tale - 1993
Treed Murray - 2001
Always Outnumbered - 1998
They Live - 1988
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - 1972

[Shami-Amourae]

Sword of the Stranger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xFUH5eMT4

...if your open-minded to anime.

[kregener]

To really get the full "Firefly/Serenity" chronological experience, you have to watch the first segment of Episode #1 of Firefly until 5:03 mark, stop it, pop in the movie Serenity and watch the first segment up to where the Alliance operative says; "Where are you hiding, little girl?", stop it, pop episode #1 back in and watch it and all subsequent episodes of Firefly, then pop the movie Serenity back in to where you stopped it and watch it to the end.

All the good shows never stand a chance on MSM...

[Nomen luni]

Dark Star
Space Hunter in the Forbidden Zone

[Gaillo]

Moon
V for Vendetta

[Brent]

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174732/

[Gneisenau]

Watchmen

[TPTB]

Now this is a must see movie...Trailer. ;D

http://www.youtube.com/v/xyPrJb1_IdI&hl=en_US&fs=1&

[keehah]

Based on your list striped_bear I think you should like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southland_Tales

Southland Tales is a 2007 science fiction/drama/black comedy film, written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the then near future of an alternate history, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex.

The movie did poorly at the box office, most viewers (and even many of the actors) found the plot incomprehensible. 'Bourne' 'Shooter''s everywhere along with the politics!

I used my years of reading GIM conspiracy and science to follow this thing. ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtp14ikRvxo

[Bullion_Bob]

Serenity.


Just watched Serenity the other day.

Check out Moon 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

Book of Eli (post apocalypse with ass kicking), and I watched The Wolfman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780653/ last night. Buddy from the matrix ("Mr Anderson" bad guy) is the detective +1 for that.

all pretty good flicks.

[Cebu_4_2]

bump, newer?

[Apparition]

Two great indy films, which I recommend, that are in cinema:

Winter's Bone
The Cartel


Films which are available on DVD or rent that I'd recommend include:

Blindness
The Lives of Others
A Beautiful Mind
Gattaca

[willie pete]

Comedy? this was funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP_kFlzA8OM

[steveoc]

Something really different :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlcfUzxxBDw

Its slow going, deep dark and thoughtful. Not your average adventure movie ... there is little action, just a slow grind into oblivion.

I loved it !!

[sirgonzo420]

Eyes Wide Shut.

[Horn]

Pure Entertainment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQTI1pbE5M

[kregener]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ2-xR54UDU

[gunDriller]

Pitch Black - sci fi, Vin Diesel's debut. he's good.

Armageddon - sort of sci-fi. they send an oil crew up to drill a hole in an asteroid so they can blow it up. definitely well-done, Ben Affleck's first big movie. they made it in 1998.

My Stepmother is an Alien - AVOID. it has a few flatulence gags but that's about it.

can't mention sci-fi without mentioning Alien/ Aliens/ Aliens 3/ Alien Resurrection.

i think Alien Resurrection was good. it has some classic lines. Ron Perlman, "Sleep when you die, man".

[Buddha]

Deer Hunter

Dead Presidents

Ill have to check this Moon movie out

[JDRock]

.....Read a BOOK! preferably, one written before the civil war.

[Bigjon]

Thanks go to goldmonkey

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/index.htm

I guess you could find these books elsewhere as I think they're all in the public domain.

[TomLandrysHat]

Eyes Wide Shut.


Amazing film. Anything by Kubrick is.

Things I've seen recently:

La Haine
Unforgiven
Heat
Thief
The Ladies Man (underrated comedy)
The Sting
Sneakers
The Wire (Greatest TV series ever)
Rob Roy
Taken

[JDRock]

.....Read a BOOK! preferably, one written before the civil war.


..no takers huh? :oo-->

[gunny highway]

True Romance
one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCagTPoPank

[dysgenic]

I have to say that some of these movie suggestions are truly terrible. Here are some good ones:

1. Revolver
2. Snatch
3. Beautiful Girls
4. Closer
5. Made

dys