OFFICIAL: Movie recommendation thread

Milla · **OFFICIAL: Movie recommendation thread -** 06-20-2005, 12:50 PM

Alright guys, what tripper said this is a good idea for a sticky, here you will recommend movies, for others in the forums that you think are good. You have to explain WHY they are good, not just spam the fuck out of this thread saying the movie sucks. I and the other mods will delete anyone posting anything but a movie recommendation.

Oh also, if you've seen the movie someone has posted and you like it/ dislike it, QUOTE the original post and write your review on it. Other than that there will be no other talking in here.

Stammer · 06-20-2005, 12:54 PM

The Last of the Mohicans, good acting, good dialogue and a good story. Watch it.

Machette · 06-20-2005, 01:05 PM

Chinatown..Roman Polanski flick about a private detective investigating an adultery case when he stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

Tripper · 06-20-2005, 02:51 PM

Post a link to the movie on IMDB if you can as well.... rock:

descry · 06-20-2005, 05:23 PM

Memento (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/

The story unfolds backwards. You see a scene and think you understand. And then there is another scene that has happened prior to it, and it totally changes your perception of what is going on. By the end you cant be sure of much at all except the fact that your confused.

Milla · 06-20-2005, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Tripper

Post a link to the movie on IMDB if you can as well.... rock:

Thank you tripper. Good idea.

Momento is a great movie, i love how its backwards, i'd highly recommend that to anyone.

Akuma · 06-20-2005, 05:59 PM

[url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0093608/:8eb95]Nekromantik[/url:8eb95]

Too lazy to write my own synopsis so here's the first review on IMDB. I'll just add that it has one of the best sound scores ever. (besides lord of the ring, star wars, and requiem for a dream)

Edit: It's also the perfect dinner movie.

Nekromantik (1987) is written by Franz Rodenkirchen and directed by Jörg Buttgereit and I think this is their first feature film after couple of short films. This German classic (yeah!) tells us a fascinating story of a couple who has strange emptiness in their affair and death seems to appeal to them, and since the male can get some dead bodies or body parts (I'm not sure what is his job, but at least he goes to car crash scenes in his work etc.), he starts to take them home and soon the couple finds their real love....and it is pretty rotten and decayed love! Scenes of necrophilia are something that will repulse even jaded cinema fanatic because necrophilia as a thing is very disgusting and taboo as a subject matter. But this little film makes ugly things look incredibly beautiful with the power and magic of cinema.

This film shows exactly how talented film maker can show things in personal way and show disgusting things beautifully and with a taste. This film is not ugly or disgusting, but to say that, I think one has to be pretty tolerating and "difficult art loving" viewer since this is not easy to view if one cannot interpret movies. The scenes of necrophilia are shot gorgeously with different techniques and the most important element in Nekromantik is again the music, the unimaginable and hypnotic music. The music is among the most beautiful and gentle (and very dark and ominous at times) I've ever seen, and it is as touching as Riz Ortolani's music in Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (Italy, 1979), one of the most important films ever. Nekromantik would not be Nekromantik without the music. Totally unforgettable element.

The infamous rabbit killing scene is often judged and not accepted, but the fact is that the film makers did NOT kill the creature, they only shoot the farmer doing his job, and the rabbit would've died without the film, too, because we eat meat everyday with or without Nekromantik in existence. And this is the meaning of the scene and we definitely should realize that eating meat means always that an animal has given its life that we can eat its juicy meat. I love animals very much but still I eat meat because I know that they are the only source to get it and in my opinion the rule of nature is that way that human beings are meant to use the resources of nature, but as we know the nature of human beings, do we really deserve all this from the nature as we exploit and destroy it every minute?

The movie's end is unforgettable and also the most shocking scene in the film, but so releasing and gives the final relief and salvation to the protagonist, and it is very beautiful scene with the music again as a strong element. This is something that is never before seen on screen and it is way too much for many. There are also other over the top gore and splatter scenes in the film and they are the ones that alienate the casual viewer. The disturbing "snuff" scene where a woman is sliced, is a part of the interpretation about "exploiting" (Nature or other human beings), which I explained in the rabbit paragraph above. Do we have any right to live or be in existence (not to mention eating and consuming the sources of Nature) since all this trash and sick entertainment exists and has its consumers? And this film itself is NOT that kind of a sick trash/exploitation as many consider: Nekromantik is a very challenging and symbolic piece of underground cinema, which has many things bubbling under its surface and the movie's core has to be found in order to understand it.

Nekromantik is one of the most noteworthy marginal and independent films I know and definitely one of the most unforgettable experiences in the field of cinema. I have seen this two times now, first on a videocassette and then in one festival in "big" screen! That latter was without a doubt very unforgettable experience and this is rarely seen in the big screen. So I recommend Nekromantik (and other Buttgereit's films) to the fans of intelligent and wonderful looking non-mainstream cinema and the cinema that has thousands of things to say and give to the interpreting viewer.

10/10

[DAS REICH] Blitz · 06-20-2005, 06:04 PM

Robin Williams in Jumanji (I'm not kidding, this movie is one of my faves).

Milla · 06-20-2005, 06:05 PM

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":5c76a]Robin Williams in Jumanji (I'm not kidding, this movie is one of my faves).[/quote:5c76a]

Dude...link it to IMDB, and give a brief overview of the plot. Even if we all know what it is.

Merlin122 · 06-20-2005, 06:21 PM

Dawn of the Dead (the original)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/

A group of survivors of a devastating zombie attack hold themselves up in a mall for survival. Theres only one problem they have....someone else wants to take it.

It's a real classic and any zombie fan should own this on DVD. I know I do.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

Another all time classic. Suspenseful nuclear thriller. Stars the sexual peter sellers. whats not to love?

Tystnad · 06-20-2005, 06:30 PM

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/:1afe7]IMDb[/url:1afe7]

In short; Eddie joins a game of cards with a gangster, "Hatchet" Harry, playing with his m8's money. Things go as you'd guess, and Eddie & his friends needs to get £500,000 for Harry within a week, or Harry will take Eddies fathers pub instead.

Funny as fuck, this is one of my alltime favorite movies.

anti · 06-20-2005, 07:09 PM

irreversible

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/

"Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge.

A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything."

the rape scene sent shivers down my spine. ive never seen something so disguisting portrayed so honestly and perfectly.

Nyck · 06-20-2005, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by anntihero

irreversible

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/

"Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge.

A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything."

the rape scene sent shivers down my spine. ive never seen something so disguisting portrayed so honestly and perfectly.

movie sucked...ive seen worse in the rape scene...I found myself fast forwarding through the movie after the rape...its also all in french..which I didnt mind since every other word was fuck, cunt whore and shit hole.

anti · 06-20-2005, 09:03 PM

well i liked it. subtitles arent a big deal for me. i thought the acting was done really well; the rape scene was extremely realistic and it wasnt youre regular glamourized disaster pornography type scene - its honesty was its brutality. the reverse chronological order kept me hook. i still say its a good movie that breaks the norm the_finger:

Nyck · 06-20-2005, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by anntihero

well i liked it. subtitles arent a big deal for me. i thought the acting was done really well; the rape scene was extremely realistic and it wasnt youre regular glamourized disaster pornography type scene - its honesty was its brutality. the reverse chronological order kept me hook. i still say its a good movie that breaks the norm the_finger:

I had no problems with the subtitles...I thought the reverse order actually took away from the movie...I felt like there was nothing to gain from the party and lead up too. The camera angles with it swaying like in the gay club made me want to puke.