Recommend Me Some Movies

[Simon Leonhart]

Escape from L.A.
Lord of War
Equilibrium
Platoon
The Thin Red Line
Apocalypse Now
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (great date movie)
The Royal Tenenbaums

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Going by titles that haven't appeared post-2004 (maybe a few)

Eraser
True Lies
Air Force One
Cats Don't Dance
Chicken Run
Commando
Down periscope
Liar Liar
Speed
V for Vendetta
Back to the Future trilogy

 

[Cargando]

Watch Yellow Submarine. It's just... beautiful.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I could type a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE list, but for now I'll go with one I just really want to share:

Brotherhood of the Wolf

It's a rather insane, French movie set in French Revolutionary times. I've only seen half an hour of it, but I already know I love it to death. This is what I saw in that half hour:
- 2 Gypsy girls going all martial-arts on an Iroquois Indian, and said Indian going completely martial arts on them and kicking their asses.
- The same Indian beating the everloving shit out of a group of French farmers with a stick, again all martial arts style.
- The coolest musket ever.
- Plenty of wolves, wolves are awesome.
- Brilliant late-18th century French costumes.
- Costume drama.
- 18th Century whores.
- Monica Belucci as an 18th century whore.
- Monica Belucci's ass.
- Monica Belucci's boobs.
- Lots and lots of French talk, French is an awesome language.

All that in half an hour from a 2-hour film. I can't imagine the awesomeness packed in the rest of it.

 

[Dr.Susse]

classics eh? *crackes knuckles*
Horror Island (1941)
How The West Was Won (1963)
Nosferatu (1922)-you must see this-
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
And the Birds, just to laugh at the policeman who says in a house filled with dead birds say "yah definitely sparra?s

 

[Logic 0]

-They live.
-raiders of the lost ark
-goldfinger.

Those are the only ones I can think of that no one else has done.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Classics are overrated. How about these:

The Squid and the Whale
Elephant
The Devil's Backbone
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Mysterious Skin [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.178247-Film-Review-Mysterious-Skin] [sub](Yay, self promotion! >.<)[/sub]
1900 [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.163189-Movie-Review-Novecento-1900] [sub](And again.)[/sub]
Du Er Ikke Alene
City of God
Let The Right One In [sub](If you haven't already seen it)[/sub]
Respiro
I'm Not Scared
The Descent [sub](If you want to be scared)[/sub]
Bram Stoker's Dracula [sub](The one with Gary Oldman)[/sub]
Any and all studio Ghibli movies
Empire Records

I may add more later.

 

[Criom]

I'll just say "Moon" because I saw it recently and fell in love with both Sam Rockwell's performance and the writer/director, Duncan Jones (also known as Zowie Bowie - David Bowie's son). If you've seen it, awesome and my apologies for failing you. If you haven't, I do recommend it. Great study in humanism and a brilliant little sci-fi twist sans aliens and the like. Also, Pandorum wasn't terrible. Not great, but wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 

[Hollock]

One flew over the cuckoos nest
an american werewolf in london
the shining
princess mononoke
Fargo
Oldboy (I'm still not sure what the fuck happened but it was fucking cool)

 

[Aur0ra145]

The Great Sanitini
Flight of the Intruder
Flying Tigers
The Believer
Fandango
Crimson Tide
Run Silent, Run Deep

 

[latenightapplepie]

I just finally got around to seeing Dark City. I almost missed a real gem.

So yeah, that's my recommendation.

 

[UnityRiot]

Classics are overrated. How about these:

The Squid and the Whale
Elephant
Bram Stoker's Dracula [sub](The one with Gary Oldman)[/sub]
Empire Records

I love those @_@


Random assortment of movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Talk to Her (AKA Habla con Ella. It's in Spanish :|)
Lost in Translation
Nine Lives
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Once
Howl's Moving Castle
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
To Kill a Mocking Bird
West Side Story
The Science of Sleep
Paper Heart
Four Sheets to the Wind
Blue Velvet
Blade Runner
The Wackness
Gattaca
The Truman Show
The Illusionist
etc. etc.

 

[Zer_]

The Bourne trilogy. One of the best modern trilogies. I love all three movies equally. Even the 2nd of the series is pretty damn good.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Classics are overrated. How about these:

The Squid and the Whale
Elephant
Bram Stoker's Dracula [sub](The one with Gary Oldman)[/sub]
Empire Records

I love those @_@

Is that sarcasm? 'Cos they're all good movies.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

District 9. It is thoroughly awesome.

Also Red Cliff 1 and 2. That is a LOTR style epic set in ancient China. Excellent facial hair all round.

 

[tomservo4prezident]

Battle Royale
Any Tarantino film, blocking Death Proof and Jackie Brown
Brazil
Eraserhead
MST3K anything
Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 3 or New Nightmare
Yojimbo
Akira
Enter the Dragon
Edgar Wright's Blood and Ice Cream Series [Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz]

 

[Criom]

Well that's funny... I just looked at this thread again and then hit the "Stumble" button for Stumble Upon and found this: http://www.missioncreep.com/movie/

 

[The Man With the Soap]

the Alien series
the Predator series
Saving Private Ryan
Wayne's World 1 & 2
Tron
the Terminator series
Forrest Gump
the Mad Max series
The Dark Knight
and I can't believe no one has suggested...
Fight Club
or
The Warriors (one of my favorite films of all time)

 

[Caligulove]

If you have Netflix, you have an amazing opportunity right now!

I was amazed to see that they have put up a great deal Akira Kurosawa's best movies onto Instant View. Including:

Seven Samurai (one of the most influential and best movies of all time)
Yojimbo
Hidden Fortress (one of the large influences for Star Wars)
Sanjuro
Rashomon

All of these movies are certified classics. Regardless of what you think about Samurai movies or other Japanese film- these are some of the most influential movies from definitely one of the most influential directors of all time.

 

[Buck Wilde]

All I have to say is The Shawshank Redemption, best movie i've ever seen. Classics? I'm not too sure about but I guess To Kill A Mockingbird might fit into that (obligated to reccomend a Gregory Peck movie).