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I just saw a bad movie thread - how about a good movie thread? the one's I've picked here are maybe movies that might not be widely released and maybe people have not heard of. please add yours with a description of what type it is, it's genera. here is a start ->
bottle rocket
offbeat lovestory, funny, good for both chick and guy
night of the comet
warning, this is a scifi B movie, but not a bad one, good camp fun
the five deadly venoms
vintage hong kong kung fu, a classic in this area
le circ rouge (the red circle)
old french film, possibly an inspiration to tarantino
true romance
tarantino
ronin
modern action film with european overtones, best driving sequences I've ever seen, unfortunately I would guess it inspired behavior that lead to the princess di collision :(
uncle buck
wonderful 80s comedy, excellent john candy, even a family movie if kids are over 12
tron
classic movie, scifi, with decent actors
lone star
mystery, bit of love story, crossover flick (guy and chick)
grease - john travolta and the hole in his chin, FUCKING PWNAGE
grease - john travolta and the hole in his chin, FUCKING PWNAGE
you can drive a bus though that hole
most my favourite films are all martial arts stuff so i wont bore you with that, other wise ill end up talking martial arts all night :lol:
Equilibrium
Amazing action sequences for low budget, amazing dialogue, better than the matrix 1 2 or 3
The Boon Dock Saints
Amazing dialog, beautiful camera angles, excellent story telling style
Oceans 11
not a single continuity error, great dialogue, amazing wardrobe
Jackie Brown
Tarrantino
Pulp Fiction
Tarrantino
Resevoir Dogs
Tarrantino
Kill Bill
Tarrantino
many others.
Bred
I dont know if this belong here but I was watching Boogie Nights last night on Channel (porn) 5 and there was a scene where this dude at a porn industry party who's wife who was a porn star was shagging this other guy. Then the dude got really angry and killed his wife, the dude she was shagging and then walked out into the party, smiled and shot himself. That really shocked me, more so than any other scene in any other film, nearly made me cry.
Equilibrium was fucking AWESOME
And so was Boondock Saints. Hopefully the sequel doesn't disappoint. The website has autographed DVDs for sale right now but the god damn shipping costs MORE than the cost of the DVD!
And yeah, Ocean's 11 was definately a very good remake of a not very good movie.
Kaufman's scripts/screenplays own: Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind...
Anything Tarantino.
Snatch, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)
The Way of the Gun, The Usual Suspects (Christopher McQuarrie)
Battle Royale, Donnie Darko...
And for the love of god, Darren Aronofsky! Pi was killer, and Reqiuem for a Dream was just one of the greatest, most gripping films I've ever seen. His camerawork is just stunning.
Three Kings is an excellent movie too, and still, oddly, appropriate for todays situation.
Wag the Dog.
Magnolia.
Fucking Amal
It's a movie about a girl that lives in a swedish town called Amal, but the town sucks... And then the girl finds out she's in love with the most popular girl in school and she doesn't know how to tell people she's a lesbian and she basicly feels like shit most of the time.
But it's such a great movie...
Also, it almost didn't make it to some movie festival cause customs thought is was a porn movie lol (which it isn't)
HatchetRyda
28-06-04, 22:47
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Original
The Warriors - Best gang movie
"Warriors, Warriors, come out to play-ay!!!"
Bill & Ted 1 & 2 ;)
Weird Science :P
and other comedy flms from around the same time
Max Jefferson
28-06-04, 22:57
Mad Max 1, 2 & 3 - (ok, maybe not 1 so much) Post Apocalyptic sawn-off shotgun touting dune buggy drivers.
Blade Runner - Best film setting ever, story line wasn't the best, definitive cyberpunk.
The Fifth Element - Vertical cities, rawking soundtrack... win.
The Blues Brothers - Best car chase and ending ever.
Die Hard 1 & 3 - Best action ever (we'll ignore 2)
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the lost ark & The last crusade - Also the best action ever + indy... win. (Temple of doom... doom in title: win, small annoying child and annoying woman: lose)
Total Recall - Cause it's based off an awesome book, and features the worst nose/eye-involving special FX ever.
Terminator 3 - Best ending ever. (I'm allowed 2 best endings ever)
Hackers - Disgrace to the hacker community.. yet, damn good.
Brazil - 1984 on steroids.
1984 - Brazil on steroids.
There are more, but I don't want to spam too much :)
My fav films:
Brazil ( i really need to see 1985)
Scarface (classic)
Pulp Fiction
all the Jason films (Jason X and Freddy VS Jason as well)
Dogma
The Cube
Basic (John Travolta and Samule L Jackson, fucking twisting storyline yakes a while t get your head round)
28 Days later (just for pure scale of things (my old flat is in it :p))
Clockwork Orange
Equilebrium
Cradle to the Grave
The Rock
Highlander
all good films imo....
oh yeah how could i forget Blade Runner and Die Hard 1 & 3
and has anyone heard anything about Deus Ex the movie? last i heard they wanted Eminem to play JC (not a bad choice if u get away from the rapper stereo type)
Pulp Fiction > Reservoir Dogs (just :p) > Kill Bill > Jackie Brown > you.
Nuff' said.
Other decent films are Swimming with Sharks and Snatch.
oh yeah Lock stock and Snatch, Ocean's 11 are good too,
and i loved Underworld lol and Casino and the Crow
While we're talking about cyberpunk movies
New Rose Hotel: an adaptation of Gibson's short story in Burning Chrome, quite good IMHO
Blade runner is a seminal classic of course, get the extended director's version for the added scenes.
Edward Scissorhands is a love/hate movie, you love it or you hate it, I kinda liked it.
hmm
TOPGUN ( kick ass)
7 years in Tibet ( drama quite good)
Blade I
Blade II ( ownage)
Matrix trillogy
ALL OF THE ROCKY FILMS!!!!
Fight Club ( ausome)
snatch (its the dogs bolloks - v good)
and Jackie chans flicks
the Fith element
Army of the 12 Monkeys
Alien 1,2,3 and extras
Terminator 1,2,3 ( classic blow shit up film)
you can drive a bus though that hole
most my favourite films are all martial arts stuff so i wont bore you with that, other wise ill end up talking martial arts all night :lol:
yeah same here Westerns and Matrial arts movies, I enjoy martial arts movies so much I even like Van Dame movies, hey universal soldier is fucking pawnage!
Favourite martial arts movie: Street fighter... only joking :D Big Boss although i've seen to many
Favourite western: Proberbly Once Upon A Time In the West with charles bronson or The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
Tarrentino is overated, Resivoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are his best movies, kill bill is trash imo.
Space Balls *Runs for cover*
In no particular order but kind of sorted :
Sonatine
Hana Bi
Seven Samaurai
Ran
Police Story 1 & 2
Project A 1 & 2
A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2
Bullet In The Head
Crying Freeman
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Fist Of Legend
Once Upon A Time In China
Kiki's Delivery Service
Grave Of The Fireflies
Leon
Fifth Element
Citizen Cane
Third Man
Rear Window
Highlander
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders Of the Lost Ark
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Ghostbusters
2001
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Metropolis
Blade Runner
LoTR Trilogy
....OK I'll stop now
Space Balls *Runs for cover*
LOL, its a good movie, POWER OF THE SWARTZ
In no particular order but kind of sorted :
Seven Samaurai
Once Upon A Time In China
....OK I'll stop now
this man has taste!
all films with jay and silent bob in ;):p
Lesee...
Minority Report
Ocean's 11
Secondhand Lions
The Matrix (and the other two, but not quite as much)
Hidalgo
Pirates of the Caribbean (sp?)
Lord of the Rings trilogy, esp. Return of the King
The Last Samurai
Mission Impossible and MI 2
Training Day
Tears of the Sun
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' at Heaven's Door
And there's more that I don't really have the time to think of at the moment.
--Stryfe
all films with jay and silent bob in ;):p
yeah ive got to get them all, they did a massive series didnt they, mall rats and stuff, classic intelligent funny interperatation of american teenage culture.
plus stuff like Clerks (the film, and the animated series ;))
yeah same here Westerns and Matrial arts movies, I enjoy martial arts movies so much I even like Van Dame movies, hey universal soldier is fucking pawnage!
lol i got a few van damme stuff myself(bloodsport/kickboxer/the quest) its not like you watch a martial arts flick for the verbal sparring anyway, so Van Dammes acting never bothered me.
and people also forget(or dont know) he was martial arts champion before he done films
ahh fuck it ill name a few:
Fist of Legend
Way of the dragon(bruce lee v Chuck norris is the win)
Once upon a time in china(first one after that wentdown hill)
Shaolin Temple(see comments for OUaTiC)
Fist of North Star(i think ill proberbly be alone in liking thisone but cool fighting)
Bloodsport(small plot lots of fighting :D )
big fan of samurai flicks as well
yojimbo, Sanjuro,Samurai Assasin to name a few(Toshiro Mifune is the no.1 film samurai)
Leon pwned, and i just remebered theres the Airplane films :p
Jay and Silent Bob were in: Clerks (and animated), Mall Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob strike back and the new one Jersey Girl, which aint out over here yet...i think thats what it called
Jet-Li..the man..nasty little guy..usually kicks ass in his movies
21 grams (thought it was gonna be a chick movie, turned out good)
The Ring
Avalon (Japanase movie, virtual war game, pretty cool)
Monty Python
any well-done war movie
Spider-man 2 on Wednesday night...
I dunno..
Scary movie 3 actually impressed me, compared to the first 2 in the series, it kicked ass..
internet videos of dumb kids hurting themselves seriously trying to be ``Jackasses``
The Kevin Smith movies, Mallrats wasn't that great but the rest were good.
..I'll watch pretty much anything, except TV...
Max Jefferson
29-06-04, 00:52
Avalon (Japanase movie, virtual war game, pretty cool)It was french, not japanese... damn good though.
OMG I forgot Avalon :o .
/edit - Actually it was shot in Polish in Poland by a Japanese Direcor (Mamoru Oshi - who also made Ghost In The Shell). I don't know of any French connection.
LOTR (all of em)
Anything By Kevin Smith
Minority Report
Ocean's Eleven
Terminator 2
Rocky (all of em)
Road Trip
Star Wars
Space Balls
Troy
X-Men 2
Bad Boys (1 and 2)
American Pie (all three)
Men In Black (second one sucked)
Half Baked
BASEketball
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy
^^
err um
Troy
Terminator 2
Boondock Saints (waiting on the sequel)
Top Gun (have the damned movie memorised) :p
Back to the Future (all)
Indiana Jones (all)
Red Dawn
Snatch
Oceans 11 (waiting on sequel)
Fight Club
Matrix 1 and 2
Any Tom Hanks movie :D
Independence Day
Patton
The Longest Day
Black Hawk Down
Jarassic Park 1
Tears of the Sun
Dumb and Dumber
Shrek and Shrek 2
Blue Collar Comedy Tour :lol: :lol:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (new)
Fifth Element
Die Hard (all)
LotR (all)
Star Wars (all)
Any Denzel Washington movies
Spiderman and 2 will be on here in a few days
Commando
Men in Black (1st one only)
Scarface (almost fuckin forgot that one)
S.W.A.T.
uh i'll edit if i think of anymore :P
lol i got a few van damme stuff myself(bloodsport/kickboxer/the quest) its not like you watch a martial arts flick for the verbal sparring anyway, so Van Dammes acting never bothered me.
and people also forget(or dont know) he was martial arts champion before he done films
ahh fuck it ill name a few:
Fist of Legend
Way of the dragon(bruce lee v Chuck norris is the win)
Once upon a time in china(first one after that wentdown hill)
Shaolin Temple(see comments for OUaTiC)
Fist of North Star(i think ill proberbly be alone in liking thisone but cool fighting)
Bloodsport(small plot lots of fighting :D )
big fan of samurai flicks as well
yojimbo, Sanjuro,Samurai Assasin to name a few(Toshiro Mifune is the no.1 film samurai)
If you like gorey samurai movies you should check out Vs its not exactly samurai both combatants use samurai swords in combat. Its all very supernatural in a Japanese way, two brothers against each other trying to become fully fledged gods. Lots of zombies and gore, all good :D
I've got most of those movies myself although some are on VHS fist of the north star included, good movie as far as manga/anmie goes.
thanks for the posts guys, most of those I know already but I did see some stuff that I have never heard of --- thanks, I'm looking forward to checking it out
della morte della more
itallian horror (in english) with that gay fella rupert everet (no he is not gay in the movie) seriously interesting / cool / weird / sexy / odd stuff
north by northwest
vintage alfred hitchcock
ben hur
old flick, check out that chariot race scene at the end, if you can catch it in widescreen on a big screen it's really something to behold
They Live
where else can you see the famous "roudy roudy piper" acting? camp grade B sci-fi, enjoyable, don't ever watch the sequal - it's crap
boondock saints
damn, nice one who suggested this, I totally forgot about it - great action flick
I'll try and think of some more unique ones later
hidden fortress
old black and white samurai movie -- yes, this is the one that inspired the story to star wars -- no, I'm not kidding -- one of the best extended 1vs1 fight scenes ever
Psychoninja
29-06-04, 04:40
Troy
Oceans 11 (waiting on sequel)
Actually they were filming some movie scene at a restaurant 1 block away from my house. I've asked around and I heard they were filming Oceans 12 (Oceans 11 sequel) Now I need to go see the movie to see if my friends were lying to me or not :(
Sounded a bit too good to be true :p
omg no one mentioned MOMENTO :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
KOS
falls over dead
sanityislost
29-06-04, 06:52
The Fifth Element
Battle Royal
Spirted Away
My neighbour totoro
there are some others but its 6am and i need to sleep
nite nite
SiL ..:..
Ronin
The Burbs
The Sandlot
How High (This movie has quite possibly the best casting in a comedy ever)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (I actually hate j&sb in every other kev smith film with exception of Dogma)
Donnie Darko
Snatch
Training Day
Ernest Goes to Camp
Ernest Saves Christmas
TheGreatMilenko
29-06-04, 07:10
Battle Royal
LoTR Trilogy
Blade 1&2
Matrix Trilogy
Scary Movie 1&2
Terminator 1&2&3
and others but to lazy to dig them up
Bridget Jonses Diary.
Princess Mononoke.
Those films are great.
For some reason I hated most of the movies posted in this thread. Just cheesy over acted American rubbish. I think Eddie Izzard best describes the USA's attitude toward movies with his Babys on Spikes bit. :)
i fell so stupid, forgot scarface and godfather :confused:
@ Divide: jaja, Sandlot was the WIN :lol:
Blazing Sattles is soooo fuckin hilarious, i bet nidhogg would shit himself or cry if he saw that film :lol:
Space Balls.
Shrek (feel so dumb i forgot that too)
We Were Soldiers
Tears of The Sun
Saving Private Ryan (and every other tom hanks film, the guy is fuckin awsome)
Black Hawk Down.
Top Gun (thx OOOOOOTIS!)
Fight Club
Heat (Daniro + Pacino in one movie = win)
Gladiator
Austin Powers
Basic
i cant fuckin believe i forgot Ben Hur (props to greploco on that) along with Sparticus omg those are so leet its not even funny. And all of you who put terminators 1 and 3 next to 2 should be shot!!! Part 2 is the best one...nuff said.
And i totally forgot about Ernest till i read divides list :p
along with Sandlot
hidden fortress
old black and white samurai movie -- yes, this is the one that inspired the story to star wars -- no, I'm not kidding -- one of the best extended 1vs1 fight scenes ever
Common misconception as the stories are vaguely similar. Lucas actually said it inspired the naration style of the first movie - ie centering the POV on two fringe characters (C3PO and R2D2) rather than the leads. He lifted elements of the actual story from a large range of places (all/most of which he freely acknowledges), mostly the Lensmen series by EE Doc Smith.
It it a great movie though, definitely worth getting hold of as with any Kurosawa/Mifune films.
(and every other tom hanks film, the guy is fuckin awsome)
ghost u fuckin copy cat!!!!!!! whore :p
ghost u fuckin copy cat!!!!!!! whore :p
lol :lol:
wilson > u
Common misconception as the stories are vaguely similar. Lucas actually said it inspired the naration style of the first movie - ie centering the POV on two fringe characters (C3PO and R2D2) rather than the leads. He lifted elements of the actual story from a large range of places (all/most of which he freely acknowledges), mostly the Lensmen series by EE Doc Smith.
nicely said, you put it much more eloquently than I - but I'll stand by what I said :) I didn't quite mean it was the sole inspiration for star wars.
don't think I've seen too much John Woo in the list, has anyone mentioned "The Killer" or "Hard Boiled" yet? they are a little dated now but they are classic classic hong kong police/action.
I'll go out on a limb and post "Hulk" as well. I think it was the best arranged and translated comic book movie ever. They took a simple story and adapted and presented it very well. Spider man may grab much excitement and attention but the hulk was a better movie I would say.
mother fucker i forgot Face Off and Swordfish and a few other Travolta flicks...damn i feel like a fuckin tard now...like ghost :p
oh the punisher was good too dont forget that one
nicely said, you put it much more eloquently than I - but I'll stand by what I said :) I didn't quite mean it was the sole inspiration for star wars.
don't think I've seen too much John Woo in the list, has anyone mentioned "The Killer" or "Hard Boiled" yet? they are a little dated now but they are classic classic hong kong police/action.
I'll go out on a limb and post "Hulk" as well. I think it was the best arranged and translated comic book movie ever. They took a simple story and adapted and presented it very well. Spider man may grab much excitement and attention but the hulk was a better movie I would say.I tried to only pick 2 films from each director or I'd have posted WAY too much. I was torn between The Killer and Bullet In The Head and I'm glad someone mentioned the one I didn't pick :). Hard Boiled is also amazing and even MI:2 had moments when I remembered his former and true glory.
For comic adaptations the most true-to-original (in style if not story) were IMO - Ghost World, The Crow, Crying Freeman and Superman. All great films too. Hulk didn't do much for me but then I never liked the comic so maybe that means it was a good conversion.
nice posts, I keep having memories here - this is a classic
Yakuza, The (1975)
ready to revisit the 70s? it's dated, but a damn good movie. not released on dvd yet I think - don't bother unless you can see it widescreen I would say. It's a good film but the very end raises it up even more. it's vintage/drama/action - not necesarily a crossover flick unless your chick is very cool
Max Jefferson
29-06-04, 22:50
Actually it was shot in Polish in Poland by a Japanese Direcor (Mamoru Oshi - who also made Ghost In The Shell). I don't know of any French connection. Sorry, you're right... I blame my badly named.. er... "version".
Damn good film though, really says something about the future of MMORPGs eh? :)
Sorry, you're right... I blame my badly named.. er... "version".
Damn good film though, really says something about the future of MMORPGs eh? :)
You mean no leet speak and no-one crying "nerf"? There is hope? ;)
Some of my favourite films:
A.I.
Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers is just...)
Matrix I
Equilibrium
Big Lebowski (prefferably watched while you're drinking white russians :p)
Ususal Suspects
Zatoichi
Wu jian dao (Infernal affairs)
Full metal jacket
Shichinin no samurai
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ususal Suspects
12 angry men (Pure good acting)
Fight Club
Leon
Some of the Pink Panther films
...
and etc... What came into mind...
Clownst0pper
30-06-04, 13:02
Fallen Angels
Chunking Express
La Haine
Ytu Mama Tambien
If
Sympathy for Mr Vengance
I enjoy new wave foreign cinema :)
i just remembered Tombstone...i cant believe i forgot that one its like one of my favs and Seven with brad pitt
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