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Post by Fnnenn Enninn on Jun 9, 2015 16:44:16 GMT -5
Alright, so pretty self explanatory: What are some of your favourite movies / what are some films you regard as best in class cinema? I'll start off with two pieces Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking BarrelsLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag. To pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. Fantastically paced, hilarious, cockney as fuck, copious amounts of ganja. (Director) Guy Ritche gets compared to Quentin Tarantino a lot, because of his gangland converging plot lines style. The movie is definitely up there with Pulp Fiction as the best crime/comedy ever made. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika?) is a 1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his own 1982 manga of the same name. Isao Takahata produced the film for Tokuma Shoten and Hakuhodo, with Top Craft animating. Joe Hisaishi composed the film's musical score. The film stars the voices of Sumi Shimamoto, Goro Naya, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Iemasa Kayumi.
Directed and produced by Miyazaki and Takahata before they eventually went on to create Studio Ghibli (and get hella popular), it's the film adaptation of one of Miyazaki's earliest, and IMO best, works. It follows a young scientist-princess of a post-apocalyptic earth covered in poisonous jungles, and it echoes with all the passionate pleas for environmentalism and anti-war sentiment that I love Miyazaki so much for.
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Post by ellis on Jun 9, 2015 17:05:11 GMT -5
No Country for Old Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Most Wes Anderson films (Royal Tennenbaums, I Heart Huckabees, etc)
Kairo (Pulse) and most things Kiyoshi Kurasawa
Many more...
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Post by Dryke on Jun 9, 2015 17:38:15 GMT -5
Oh, wow.
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings
American Sniper
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
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Post by Aniketos on Jun 9, 2015 21:24:32 GMT -5
My favorites... not really golden pieces of cinema, though an argument could be made for several: - Boondock Saints (SPOILERS: in particular the courtroom speech)
- Amelie
- Fight Club
- Donnie Darko/The Man from Earth (and anything else that doesn't just spoon-feed you plot, really)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead/Rubber (absurdism FTW)
- Limitless
- The Naked Gun/Airplane (ahhh Leslie Nielsen)
- MirrorMask
- Greenstreet Hooligans
- The Brothers Bloom
- Most anything with Cary Grant (dude was like the Neil Patrick Harris of his day, but much more classy)
- Not technically a movie, buuuut Band of Brothers
- The Gamers: Rise of Dorkness
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Post by Clutch [FM] on Jun 9, 2015 23:18:59 GMT -5
Perks of being a wallflower. Yes I'm that kind of person who likes this kind of movie. Might edit as my nerve cells regenerate.
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Post by Hobbes on Jun 10, 2015 8:54:57 GMT -5
Filth (New) Snatch Cube (Cube 2 specifically, but the whole trilogy is pretty insane) Usual Suspects This is Spinal Tap Truman Show Into the Wild Idol Hands The Beach Crash Confessions of a Dangerous Mind {Catch Me If You Can}okay, okay I'm a huge dicaprio fan. like pretty much anything he's in except Titanic. Maybe i''m just a huge Scorsese fan. It's hard to tell
{Pineapple Express}Because it was about friendship through all odds, NOT just because it was a stoner movie with hilarious comedians. This is the End was a good one too
SLC Punk (classic) ... and loads more. Netflix effectively makes this list never ending and with the way Series shows are made now, they might as well be in the same damn category as movies.
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Post by JordosS on Jun 10, 2015 12:30:32 GMT -5
I like a lot of things about movies and in my oppinion its fucking hard to actually make a list. Movies represent the different parts of my personality and as is with music, sometimes I like "bad" movies and sometimes I like "good" movies. That being said I have a few films that I would recommend to anyone as a must see, just because they add something to your life. Ill try to include movies that arent that well known but definitely deserve attention.
God Bless America A great movie that offers some narrative to the society that we have created, its a movie not a documentary and its just fucking awesome. A modern day classic that hasnt been recocknized as such, you dont want to be that guy that sees this movie in 50 years and be like, wow thats an awesome movie. Because it really is that awesome! (download it, right now! I SAID RIGHT NOW DAMNIT
The Wild Hunt Great indymovie about LARP, need I say more?
Can name a few others but these I just wanna share with you guys as movie that you need to have seen at least once in your life.
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Post by RichCoconut on Jun 10, 2015 13:45:36 GMT -5
Scott Pilgrim VS The World
Toy Story 3
Place Between The Pines
Rubber
The Art of Getting By
Coming To America
Harlem Nights
Fired Up
How High
Are some..
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Post by Fnnenn Enninn on Jun 10, 2015 15:44:10 GMT -5
I like a lot of things about movies and in my oppinion its fucking hard to actually make a list. Movies represent the different parts of my personality and as is with music, sometimes I like "bad" movies and sometimes I like "good" movies. That being said I have a few films that I would recommend to anyone as a must see, just because they add something to your life. Ill try to include movies that arent that well known but definitely deserve attention. God Bless America A great movie that offers some narrative to the society that we have created, its a movie not a documentary and its just fucking awesome. A modern day classic that hasnt been recocknized as such, you dont want to be that guy that sees this movie in 50 years and be like, wow thats an awesome movie. Because it really is that awesome! (download it, right now! I SAID RIGHT NOW DAMNIT The Wild HuntGreat indymovie about LARP, need I say more? Can name a few others but these I just wanna share with you guys as movie that you need to have seen at least once in your life. I definitely agree with that sentiment. I tried to keep my list short, to two movies but it was a hard decision. I actually had a few more typed up but cut them just for efficiency on the OP. Media in general is so subjective, even at an individual level, that the simple act of picking favourites is kind of redundant. I appreciate so many films that choosing a special few is nearly impossible. Rather then, than picking favourites this thread is more about movies you'd recommend or that you feel more people should watch. I haven't seen The Wild Hunt, but God Bless America is on my short list of "things people should watch as part of public education" and maaaaaaaaybe my favourite movie of all time. I actually had part of an entry typed for it at the start, but couldn't quite do it enough justice, and decided I'd save it for a later post. I'm thrilled someone mentioned it. Things I'm really happy showed up: Snatch This is Spinal Tap Leslie Nielsen Nearly everything posted... Things that reminded me I had shit on my to watch list: SLC Punk. Put off for too long, haha
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Post by RichCoconut on Jun 12, 2015 13:22:03 GMT -5
Oceans series
Fight Club
Snatch
Looper
Inception
Frank
Cannibis Kid
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Post by Fnnenn Enninn on Jun 12, 2015 17:18:15 GMT -5
Slighty off slightly on topic: Mad Max: Fury Road
I'm a big fan of the original Mad Max movies. Great pieces of work, definitely recommend them. So tonight, I went to see Fury Road, as you would. This lady down in front wouldn't put away her phone. So we asked a few times, politely, but she only put it away for a handful of seconds before it was back out, full brightness and shining. So we waited a few more times, and I lobbed a bit of popcorn; three pieces. She turned around with her boyfriend, told me off for a little bit and hushed up: no more phone though.
Intermission comes (that's a thing here: they cut the movie in half at literally any interval what so ever. Even the middle of a sentence, it's bizarre) and she starts to blow up. Screaming, shouting, threats of violence from the boyfriend, the unscrewing of a bottle of water. Now I know where this is headed. The bottle cap comes undone and I hear in my head "WHAT A SPRAY, WHAT A LOVELY SPRAY", and the water comes flying, coats me and whoever else is in my vicinity. So, cool as a cactus, I wipe off my glasses, put em back on and keep seated; breathing exercises pay off.
The people behind me though, now they didn't buy splash zone seats so they're a little more upset than I am. So the shouting match erupts into a calamitous cacophony of chaos centred around me. English and Arabic swearing, threats. Real Mad Max spirit, you know? So security hears it all, comes in. The party in front of us thinks "we should go outside, wait to gank em when they leave" The party behind us thinks "these water tossing yahoos need a piece of our mind" So we leave; they try to start something in the lobby but don't go anywhere with it. More shouting, the works.
Now, I can't say as to what happened next since we just walked out, but while I only got to see half the film, I'm convinced that I had the best idea of what Mad Max is all about.
TL;DR See Mad Max Fury Road, it's pretty fucking epic.
Also, IMMORTAN JOE WILL WITNESS ME FOR THROWING POPCORN AT THE LADY WITH THE PHONE IN A CINEMA
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Post by swainoez on Jun 14, 2015 9:23:27 GMT -5
For me m favourite is Dr. Strangelove. I really like how the movie is paced and enjoy it all the more everytime I watch it. The action starts right from the word go and the plot pretty much unfolds right infront of you in the first couple of scenes. There are so many memorable scenes in this flick and is the case with Kubrick in many of his films you can see the actors ablib and pull of a really natural and convincing satire of the hopelessness that is obvious throughout the film.
It's a black comedy and I highly recommend it!
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Post by teabag on Jul 13, 2015 14:50:58 GMT -5
My favorite film of all time: Anyone know what film this is?
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Post by JordosS on Jul 13, 2015 16:34:49 GMT -5
For me m favourite is Dr. Strangelove. I really like how the movie is paced and enjoy it all the more everytime I watch it. The action starts right from the word go and the plot pretty much unfolds right infront of you in the first couple of scenes. There are so many memorable scenes in this flick and is the case with Kubrick in many of his films you can see the actors ablib and pull of a really natural and convincing satire of the hopelessness that is obvious throughout the film. It's a black comedy and I highly recommend it! I have to agree with you, the movie is weird and just an interesting watch, the same with 2001 a space oddyssey. Its just so fucking weird and all over the place and I think that a movie that makes you think about it later at unrelated moments is a good movie in itself and Im not sure Ive had 2 films who did the same for me as these 2. I personally also had a good time watching Limitless with Bradley Cooper, its not really that good a movie as its over just as it really begins but it just stuck with me that the protagonist decides to do something totally different than only make money with his new found superpower pills. Also I want to thank a lot of you, Ive put some movies from you all on my list and Im not nearly done watching Im afraid ;p
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Post by Rave on Jul 14, 2015 19:41:00 GMT -5
Blow
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Sniper (1993)
Casino Royale (yay, poker!)
A Time to Kill
Inception
Desparation (or the book, at least)
Memento
Donnie Brasco
Lord of War
Blood Diamond
Face/Off
Finding Nemo (cuz I'm a man, dammit!)
Dinner for Schmucks
Get Smart
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