Movies I should watch

[Rex]

Here's an assortment:Office SpaceGross Pointe BlankShawshank RedemptionUsual SuspectsThe Professional (originally called Leon)GoodfellasClerks/Mall Rats/Chasing Amy/Dogma/Jay & Silent Bob Strike BackGood Will HuntingRadio FlyerThe Dish

[Jesda]

The VillageHAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLEI, RobotRoger and MeBarbershop 2

[red_240_fastback]

definitely watch harold and kumar go to whitecastle. i have a copy of it if anyone is interested

[SmithSR]

Glengarry GlenRoss, then watch every movie with Christopher Walken

[BadMojo]

Holy ****! How could I forget Spaghetti Westerns?

You'll want to watch:

The Good, the Bad and the UglyA Fistful of DollarsFor a Few Dollars More

AND

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone rocks!

[BB Turbo]

Pi Requiem for a DreamDefinitely Boondock saints

[Altiman94]

top gun, gilligans island movie, in the army now. My personal favorite youve already seen BLACK HAWK DOWN

[burnin240sx]

Barney goes to snoop dog'sGuy's gone wild.

but for real check outDonnie Darko

[GEO]

SPACE BALLS!

[Badfish]

Somebody mentioned Brother with Kitano Takeshi (you might know him from Most Extreme Elimination Challenge). Funny cause I was going to mention another movie hes in, Kikujiro. Very lighthearted and touching.

Or ir you want action. Try Hard Boiled with Chow Yun-Fat or Thunderbolt with Jackie Chan.

[Sircnay]

boondock saints -Fight club -checkMystic River -UHF -KIDS -The Usual Suspects -checkSwordfish -checkShawshank Redemption -Momento -Boiler Room -Minority Report -checksuper troopers -No Way Out - Twelve Monkeys -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -checkEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -Fight Club -check -check -check -check -checkMulholland Drive -Trainspotting -Adaptation -Dark City -The Truman Show -checkDonnie Darko -checkSe7en -checkOffice Space -checkGross Pointe Blank -Shawshank Redemption -checkUsual Suspects -check-check-check-check-check-checkThe Professional -checkGoodfellas - Clerks/Mall Rats/Chasing Amy/Dogma/Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back -check and -checkGood Will Hunting -checkRadio Flyer -The Dish -Pi -checkRequiem for a Dream -check

Looks like I've got some work to do.

[burnin240sx]

super troopers is funny as hell.

[Mr1der]

Berry Gordy's the Last Dragon, Big Trouble in Little China.

ummm....almost anything with Clint Eastwood (bridges of madison county blew...) mainly though, Any Which Way But Loose and Everywhich Way You Can (I think)

Better off Dead, Revenge of the Nerds, The Goonies. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Back To the Future Trilogy. Tombstone, Man with no name trilogy. the Dirty Harry Collection, oh wait, these fall in under Clint Eastwood...

True Grit, The Shootist, McClintock...

First Blood, Rocky I-IV, The Transformers. GI Joe Miniseries Collection, Three Amigos, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, the Dolemite Collection, The REAL Game of Death....

and a lot of other stuff...like uh....The Deer Hunter, and the Taxi Driver, and uh....Once Upon a Time in America, and Once Upon a Time in The West...

I'm done for now...

oh, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[Sopdadope]

Holy ****! How could I forget Spaghetti Westerns?

You'll want to watch:

The Good, the Bad and the UglyA Fistful of DollarsFor a Few Dollars More

AND

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone rocks!

You sir, have phucking impeccable taste!! Both Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are on my 25 Greatest Films of All-Time list (OATITW is in my top ten).

As far as Spaghetti Westerns go, I'd also recommend Death Rides a Horse with Lee Van Cleef and both Django and DDjango Kills!.

Other highly recommended, albeit non-Spaghetti, westerns: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, Shane, Dead Man, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Wild Bunch, Tombstone and Unforgiven.

[BB Turbo]

Whatever you do, don't see Adaptation, or Beloved, ugh. On my worst movies of all time list.

Watch The Saint also.

Anyone have a *copy* of Thunderbolt that I can borrow? I can't find that movie anywhere, unless its online, and I don't have a credit card:(

[BadMojo]

You sir, have phucking impeccable taste!! Both Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are on my 25 Greatest Films of All-Time list (OATITW is in my top ten).

As far as Spaghetti Westerns go, I'd also recommend Death Rides a Horse with Lee Van Cleef and both Django and DDjango Kills!.

Yeah, I'm a sucker for Sergio Leone. There's just something so epic and almost "over the top" about his films. Everything just works perfectly. The long, slow shots...the close-ups, the music. IMO, all Once Upon a Time in the West and The Man with No Name trilogy transcent the Western genre.

Oh, Clint's little speech about how his mule is offended in Fistful of Dollars is priceless.

An cleaned up and extended version of the The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was just recently released. Supposedly, all of the surviving main cast members were brought back to re-dub some of the scenes that were cut from the theatrical release. It also comes with a cool booklet and postcards showing the posters for the movie from half a dozen different countries.

[I Need $$$]

Alright in addition to some of the others said here are some more:-Meet the Parents-Detroit Rock City-Carlito's Way(Al Pacino)-Unbreakable-Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon(in that series)-The Patriot-Half Baked-Heat-Enemy of the State-Casino-Blow-The Rock-Old School-Face Off-and last but definately not least....SHREK

[gounc14]

Evil Dead 1, 2, Army of Darkness =DDefinitely Boondock SaintsComedy: Wet Hot American SummerSkulls is a fun movie, even if it does star two of the worst actors in history...Scarface?If you like p0ker at ALL gonna hafta go with Norton in RoundersFollowing on the Norton tangent, American History X and Primal Fear...as far as bad movies go, I suggest you pick up a copy of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.

[gounc14]

ALMOST FAMOUS

[Mr1der]

you want something bad that's a MUST SEE?

Billy the Kid VS. Dracula.

I have a copy on VHS somewhere around here....sadly, I actually paid 20 bucks for it:(

[StrangeLove]

The Hole

your going to have to download it or buy it off amazon, great movie though

[Rex]

...SHREK

One of the most quoteable movies since Caddyshack.

[Sopdadope]

Yeah, I'm a sucker for Sergio Leone. There's just something so epic and almost "over the top" about his films. Everything just works perfectly. The long, slow shots...the close-ups, the music. IMO, all Once Upon a Time in the West and The Man with No Name trilogy transcent the Western genre.

I agree completely about the films transcending the genre, especially Once Upon a Time in the West. In many ways, OUATITW can be viewed as a samurai film in a Western setting. In a Western landscape transformed by impending capitalism - signified by railroad baron, Morton and the transcontinental train- Harmonica, Frank and Cheyenne were mere relics of a different time. They were samurai- abiding by a strict code of honor and entrenched in their own archaic rituals. I think this is perfectly illustrated in two scenes: the one where Harmonica and Frank share a few words before their duel. During the entirety of the film, Frank longs to elevate himself from cold-blooded assassin to ruthless businessman, understanding the superiority of the power of money. But in that scene, he confesses his inability to give up his "old ways." And though he probably could've hired a legion of hitmen to kill Harmonica, he decides to challenge him to an old-fashioned duel.

In the other scene, where Cheyenne slumps to the ground dying from a brutal stomach wound after being shot by, and symbolically killed-off, by the railroad baron. Cheyenne's death symbolically represents the death of the Old West as we know it. At the moment his body collapses, Harmonica turns away. Very samurai-like. Harmonica rides off, with Cheyenne's body in two and in the same frame a train comes rumbling into frame as the pair ride off.....Beautiful....

For the most part, I always viewed Harmonica and The-Man-With-No-Hame aka Monco as supernatural figures with their uncanny gunfighting prowess and the way magically slide into frames.

Another thing to note, I was surprised to see Leone buck his own track record and a common Western trend by making Mrs. McBain the strongest character of the movie. Whereas Frank and Cheyenne are symbolically and literally killed off and Harmonica chooses to isolate himself from the "new world," Mrs. McBain is the only that adapts to her new environment. She survives the massacre of her family, rape, etc. In essence, she becomes a maternal figure of all the citizens of the burgeoning town of Sweetwater. I think the fact that Mrs. McBain was a former prostitute created an uproar when the movie was first released, many feminists claim she was an affront to all woman. But I think they're missing the point, what better illustrates the American dream than the scene where Leone's emotional and thematic gestalt in the form of the final scene where Mrs. McBain rounds up the hardworking railroad crew, taking charge and distributing buckets of water (read Mother Earth). What better illustrates the most overlooked American freedom- the freedom to start over?

Nobody ever used the extreme close-ups as effectively as Leone did- it's as if he filmed the human face as a landscape in itself exposing all the physical nuances of his actors' faces.

Few directors could match his mastery of filming sun-baked desert environments either. It's as if he perfectly blended all the elements- the Spanish/Italian vistas, experimental Ennio Morricone score, gruff italian actors, frame manipulation, exaggeration of time/space - and cooked up something entirely surreal. During the three-way shoot-out finale of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly it's almost as though Leone toys with the audience- pushing audiences' patience to the very ragged edge before brief, explosive action. The scene itself is reminiscent of the artwork of Salvadore Dali.

Dayam....I deify the man!

[Mr1der]

I remember first seeing that movie when I had the Flu and it just kinda came on Bravo and I was like "hey, Charles Bronson".

Really good movie though and it recently had a nice DVD released.

[Aries]

find you a hot chick and see "A Walk To Remember"Guaranteed to get you action afterwords.