I need a good movie to watch

[OutforEC]

Stranger Than Fiction.
Idiocracy.
Rat Race.
Iron Man.
Defendor.
Any of these work? If not I can provide more.

I've seen Rat Race(hilarious, underrated) and Iron Man(a little overrated, but I'm biased against super hero movies)

What are the others about. A very brief summary will suffice. Just need background plot and maybe major actors/actresses

Spoiler: Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Then Fiction is great, and even friends of mine that don't care for Will Ferrell (I'm not a huge fan myself) loved it. Will Ferrell finds out he's the main character in a book being written by Emma Thompson, a reclusive best-selling author who's protagonist in each of her books dies at the end. Great performances by everyone.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Airplane!
Dr. Strangelove

 

[Rabish Bini]

Being John Malkovich.

Don't ask questions, just do it.

 

[Ganado_Headshot]

I Can vouch for a lot of the previous poster's choices, but I think Pulp Fiction tops them all.

 

[dOrOrOwait]

You all forgot American History X, shocking and thought provoking.

 

[rekabdarb]

Old Boy for a foreign film
Fight club for a ghetto philosophy film
BASEketball for a funny film
King's Speech for war film
Die Hard for a christmas film
The Fugitive for an epic film

 

[the spud]

ALL of Hayao Miyazaki's films are bueatiful and thrilling, providing a sweeping sense of scale and adventure. Espescially princess mononoke and spirited away. watch them now!

 

[Atticus89]

"Modern Times" and/or "City Lights" if you want some Charlie Chaplin, "Grave of the Fireflies" if you want a great movie you never want to watch again, "Silent Movie" if you want something made by Mel Brooks that nobody seems to have watched, or maybe "Brazil".

 

[Romblen]

Hunt to Kill or The Marine 2. Both are among the so bad it's good category.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Crash is a really good movie. It will bum you out and make you feel like a terrible person though.

 

[SimpleJack]

Ah... Ocean's Eleven. its just one of those movies that you enjoy watching.

 

[Instant K4rma]

GoodFellas. If you dug Gangs of New York, you'll probably dig GoodFellas. Both great pieces of work from Scorsese.

 

[LLGCrow]

Doomsday, the one from 2008. One of my personal favorites and fun if you're into the post-apocalyptic feel.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

V for Vendetta. Insanely good movie.
Watchmen is good too, though.

 

[OrokuSaki]

Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Oldboy
The Matrix
V for Vendetta
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
A Knights Tale

Or if you're in a musical mood:

Rent
Sweeny Todd
Moulin Rouge

 

[derob]

the brothers bloom
la chinoise
the life aquatic
rushmore

 

[EV777]

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is a great classic film, one of the best westerns ever made. Certainly one of my absolute favorites. The Entire "Dollars Trilogy" is really good actually.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

I just watched I Saw The Devil last night, now that's a movie everyone should watch, that one, and Oldboy.

 

[sockypants]

Fight Club is great, should definitely watch that if you haven't seen it
Watchmen
Snatch
Layer Cake
The Blues Brothers
The Departed
Moon

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

They Live! It's a John Carpenter film, and I just finished watching it a few hours ago (on The_Root_of_all_Evil's suggestion) and it's excellent. If you like science fiction, it's a great film. Don't look at any synopses or reviews though, just watch it!

Same goes for Confessions, a Japanese film. The less you know,the better your experience will be. Suspense thriller.