Thread: Movie Recommendations?

The book was even creepier/weirder.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Anyway "The lovely Bones" was on film four last week and i thought it was very good indeed. Stanley Tucci was superbly creepy.

Another one in the fine Vegas genre: "Showgirls". I particularly liked Sigurney Weaver in "Half Moon Street".

The Turin Horse
Can't go wrong with Nietzsche

Event Horizon.

Anything from the Alien series.

Leon the Professional.

Total Recall.

Commando.

Originally Posted by KrazieSj

Anything from the Alien series.

Except for resurrection and the standard cinema cut of alien 3. the studio killed that film.

Looking forward to the new ridley scott film, called prometheus at the moment. was supposed to be an alien prequel, but has changed now for some reason. although apparently it's set in the same film universe. Ridley was always more interested in the space jockeys than the xenomorphs

The greatest war film ever made, A Bridge too Far, with every major actor of the 70's british and american.

The second greatest was film of all time, which got overshadowed by saving private ryan as it was released at the same time and wasn't as instantly gratifying, The Thin Red Line.

Zombieland.

The life aquatic with steve zissou

The descent

The thing

Any bourne film (thank god for bourne because the james bond franchise had to get better after that)

Ring (the original japanese)

The Wrestler

Eagle vs Shark (you need a really leftfield sense of humour)

Zulu

Jaws

Bullitt

Dune

Little Miss sunshine

Battle Royale

Black Dynamite (seriously, you have to watch this)

Trainspotting

Thankyou for smoking

Human Traffic

Wall-E

Up

The defiant ones

the longest day

Superman

The Great Escape

Ghostbusters

REC (original spanish version)

Night of the living dead

Rocky (the original)

Rambo first Blood (what the hell happened to the franchise after this i have no idea)

The Princess Bride

Stardust (robert de niro as a gay pirate captain? yes please!)

Day watch and night watch

Brotherhood (Brotherhood of war in the american market)

Right at your Door

Battle for Haditha

Clerks

Dogma

Clerks II

The Godfather. The style of the era the film is set in (1940's) would appeal to most straight razor shavers, I think. Plus it's an amazing movie. Godfather II is good, too. III? fugeddaboudit.

If you want a lot of unrealistic explosions, shootings, beatings and at the last scene the bad guy falls from the rooftop or dies in the huge nuke blast, then go for mainstream Hollywood movies.
If you want more real life and something to thing about, then search for European movies.

Last film i watched was 'True grit' from Coen bros. That was hilarious. Highly recommended.

If you haven't already seen it, I would highly recommend the HBO series "Band of Brothers".

The Godfather- Probably the greatest movie of all time--IMHO
Dr. Zhivago
Papillon
The Deer Hunter
One Day In September-Documentary, possibly the best made--IMHO
Cool Hand Luke
Ronin
The Book of Eli
True Grit-Original
Slum Dog Millionaire
Casino Royale, then watch Quantum of Solice
Shane
Man On Wire-Documentary
Donnie Brasco
The Great Escape
Public Enemies
The French Connection
Eastern Promises
Blade Runner
The Fighter-with Christian Bale
Heat
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Basically, anything with some good old fashioned violence.