Thread: Movie Recommendations?

oh yeah!! ronin and heat are awesome! Like the book of Eli too. Anyone seen equilibrium? all i'm saying is, if anyone pitches in with matrix ripoff, be prepared for a debate..

Originally Posted by Sailor

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.

Erhurrrmm.. Are we forgetting virtually all of Luc Bessons output for the last 15 years since Leon...?

I love equilibrium! One of my favorites. If you've exhausted movies may I recommend the HBO series 'game of thrones' - keeping me well entertained of late.

A surprisingly good documentary is Seven Up! which is the first in what-eventually-became a series (Wikipedia link). It starts off interviewing a bunch of 7-year-olds in England in 1964 and the director was able to follow-up with a few of them every seven years.

Basically watching kids from different social and economic backgrounds throughout their lives -- hearing their goals and dreams as children and then seeing what became of them. Actually looking forward to the next chapter in 2012.

Two other documentaries I really enjoyed were Food, Inc. and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

Do you like crass humour? What about an underlying current of misogyny? Dialogue that could have been written by a 7 year old? If you are after a movie that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, that is actually literally "nasty", then you should watch "Your Highness". It has some loud-mouthed no-talent "comedian" in it. He seriously must have someone famous as a friend to have even gotten this turkey made. It just screams nepotism.

Seriously, no need to catch up on this one.

I know you probably want new movies, but I just recently watched the old Moby Dick with Gregory Peck - really excellent. Orson Welles as the Preacher really steals the movie IMO.

James.

Dylan -- Streets of Fire. Stream it if you can, the dvd's out there generally suck, too dark and too much noise to watch.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Erhurrrmm.. Are we forgetting virtually all of Luc Bessons output for the last 15 years since Leon...?

"Le grand bleu" (1988) was (and still is) worth watching but I've happily ignored mr Besson for last 15 years. He might be ok for some but he's just trying to monkey what big fellas over Atlantic are doing. Such a shame as he has wasted any talents he ever had (imho).

you know i have just read this thread,and nobody even posted one of the best films in the thirller genre, and that is "the usual suspects" and remember, kaiser sosay is watching.

Originally Posted by Sailor

"Le grand bleu" (1988) was (and still is) worth watching but I've happily ignored mr Besson for last 15 years. He might be ok for some but he's just trying to monkey what big fellas over Atlantic are doing. Such a shame as he has wasted any talents he ever had (imho).

Yeah "Le Grande Bleu" is an excellent film, as was nikita etc, i think he got in trouble when he started to produce stuff post Leon. He became like a french Jackie Chan in terms of production, his own stunt team which he began to push and created movies as vehicles for them. Some of them just aren't very good films. District 13 for instance, spectacular, but not a great film.

Just mean you can't always say europe produces deeply intelligent well made films and Hollywood produces McDonalds for the brain. Now, yes, hollywood produces large amounts of tat, and europe, due to the fact they don't have millions to spend on special effects etc will generally produce more structurally interesting intellectula films, but the independent circuit in the states produces some excellent stuff (american history x for example) and europe will have it's Luc Bessons. The one i really want to see at the moment is troll hunter.

I also dislike this thing in American cinema of taking good foreign movies and remaking them. Ring, Let the right one in, REC and the departed were all examples of movies that didn't need a remake.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Yeah "Le Grande Bleu" is an excellent film, as was nikita etc, i think he got in trouble when he started to produce stuff post Leon. He became like a french Jackie Chan in terms of production, his own stunt team which he began to push and created movies as vehicles for them. Some of them just aren't very good films. District 13 for instance, spectacular, but not a great film.

Just mean you can't always say europe produces deeply intelligent well made films and Hollywood produces McDonalds for the brain. Now, yes, hollywood produces large amounts of tat, and europe, due to the fact they don't have millions to spend on special effects etc will generally produce more structurally interesting intellectula films, but the independent circuit in the states produces some excellent stuff (american history x for example) and europe will have it's Luc Bessons. The one i really want to see at the moment is troll hunter.

This I agree with. Yes, Hollywood produces a ton(ne) of rubbish, but there are a few jewels as well. The thing is, Hollywood is a big place and there are good and bad. Film is becoming international, anyway. Most of the recent Hollywood blockbusters were actually produced by a Canadian, James Cameron. Another big name in the explosions and CGI scene is Uwe Boll, a German. My favorite films of the past 10 years, the Lord of the Rings series of films, were funded by Hollywood. New Zealand was the driving force and talent behind the films, certainly, and they did an amazing job of it, but they were funded by Hollywood money.

Also, could you imagine Terminator 2 filmed by European standards? What a horrible movie!