Great Films You've Seen

[Svelter]

I'm building up a collection of films for a room I've just redecorated but I've kind of become stuck on what to buy. What films have you seen that you enjoyed a lot? Things you'd recommend me? I particularly seem to like movies about fairly normal, everyday characters in strange situations (Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Con Air)

[matt bird]

get ready for a thread full of lists

ps dog day afternoon, the incredibles, once upon a time in the west, the shining

[GorillaBearBear]

Oh man, Once Upon a Time in the West is the western. I love that film so hard.

[Gabber-Baby]

Drop Dead Fred :notworthy



....also, The Green Mile, Casino, Goodfellas, and Anchorman obviously.

[Irvine Black]

Drop Dead Fred :notworthy



I saw that the other day, I love Rik Mayall but I thought it was fucking shite. Agree with the Green Mile though.

Films I've enjoyed:

Donnie Darko (as if you haven't seen it already)
Requiem For A Dream
The Machinist
Shawshank Redemption
Catch 22
Seven
Withnail and I (One of the best. Ever)

Those are just the ones I can see in my DVD rack right now.

[JebblehMooo]

Shindlers List
Forest Gump

:love:

[Soapie]

Anyone who's a fan of horror movies should watch A Tale of Two Sisters as soon as possible.

[Svelter]

Shindlers List

:love:
I watched something like, but not necessarily, Schindler's List. I watched it and I wept.

[Gabber-Baby]

I saw that the other day, I love Rik Mayall but I thought it was fucking shite.


:eek:

Yes Rik Mayall is awesome but Drop Dead Fred was a childhood film for me :p

"Dog poo, dog poo, lovely smelly dog poo, dog poo on the chaaaair, all on the side, all up there, lovely lovely smelly dog poo."

[GorillaBearBear]

It's not a film, but you really ought to buy Band of Brothers (only £20 in HMV).

It seriously blows every other World War II drama totally out of the water. Probably any war drama. The acting is generally top quality, and the writing is fantastic. It's probably one of the most moving things I have ever seen (particularly the US Soldiers difficulty in reacting to the mistreatment of women who slept with germans in Holland. The discovery of the concentration camp and the way it affects the men in the show is completely heartbreaking)

Seriously. At that price for 10 odd hours of solid amazingness, you can't go wrong.

[Thomp]

It's not a film, but you really ought to buy Band of Brothers (only £20 in HMV).

It seriously blows every other World War II drama totally out of the water. Probably any war drama. The acting is generally top quality, and the writing is fantastic. It's probably one of the most moving things I have ever seen (particularly the US Soldiers difficulty in reacting to the mistreatment of women who slept with germans in Holland. The discovery of the concentration camp and the way it affects the men in the show is completely heartbreaking)

Seriously. At that price for 10 odd hours of solid amazingness, you can't go wrong.

This this this this.

[GorillaBearBear]

It took me so long to get round to watching it. Since it first came out like, 8 years ago or whenever it was, I'd only seen the first 3 episodes until last week when my sister lent me the box set. Sweet jesus. The last few episodes are so ridiculously emotional.

[Thomp]

It took me so long to get round to watching it. Since it first came out like, 8 years ago or whenever it was, I'd only seen the first 3 episodes until last week when my sister lent me the box set. Sweet jesus. The last few episodes are so ridiculously emotional.

I watched it all when it was on the BBC, and have to say, I did feel like crying at some points, it was so emotionally charged.

[Svelter]

I watched it all when it was on the BBC, and have to say, I did feel like crying at some points, it was so emotionally charged.
Thomp watched something like but not necessarily Band of Brothers. He watched it and he wept.

Sounds like a good film, or series. I have a friend who is obsessed with it, although to be honest, he's obsessed with any war drama. He even said Deathwatch was really cool.

[cyber_turnip]

So... you want a list of great films or... what?

To name just a tiny percentage of the great films out there (in no particular order):
Ghost World
Highlander
The Shining
Midnight Cowboy
Children of Men
An American Werewolf in London
The Matrix
Soylent Green
Thank You For Smoking
Walk the Line
The Aftican Queen
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Millions
Oldboy
Amelie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Breakfast Club
The Cocoanuts
City Lights
Battle Royale
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (30s)
Edward Scissorhands
The Great Escape
Easy Rider
The Last King of Scotland
Fight Club
Aliens
Taxi Driver
The Terminator
12 Monkeys
The Ladykillers (original)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Spartacus
The Great Dictator
Speed
Dr. No
A Day at the Races
Predator
Monkey Business
Animal Crackers
The King of Kong
Stranger than Fiction
Big Fish
I Walked With a Zombie
Rear Window
Alien
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Horse Feathers
The Shawshank Redeption
Run Lola, Run
The Descent
United 93
Heavenly Creatures
It's a Wonderful Life
Carnival of Souls
American Psycho
Forrest Gump
The Frighteners
Full Metal Jacket
Little Miss Sunshine
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgendy
V For Vendetta
A Night at the Opera
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Mysterious Skin
The Incredibles
Grave of the Fireflies
Jurassic Park
Shrek
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ghost Busters
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
24 Hour Party People
The Last Man On Earth
Dog Day Afternoon
Godzilla (1954)
Toy Story 2
Groundhog Day
Clerks.
The Producers (1968)
First Blood
12 Angry Men
Videodrome
The Evil Dead
Re-Animator
Sleuth
Safety Last!
Unbreakable
Evil Dead II
The Wolf Man (1941)
Pan's Labyrinth
Duck Soup
Toy Story
Bride of Frankenstein
Pulp Fiction
Aladdin
Kung Fu Hustle
Ratatouille
The Thing
Braindead
Die Hard
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Fly (1986)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Rain Man
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Ed Wood
The Lion King
Back to the Future
The Truman Show
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead
The Iron Giant
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Army of Darkness
A Clockwork Orange
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

[Hitpoint]

50 best films:

01. Taxi Driver - (1976/Martin Scorsese)
02. The Spirit of the Beehive - (1973/Victor Erice)
03. Fight Club - (1999/David Fincher)
04. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - (2001:2002:2003/Peter Jackson)
05. Seven Samurai - (1954/Akira Kurosawa)
06. 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968/Stanley Kubrick)
07. Persona - (1966/Ingmar Bergman)
08. Goodfellas - (1990/Martin Scorsese)
09. Brazil - (1985/Terry Gilliam)
10. Heat - (1995/Michael Mann)
11. Caché - (2005/Michael Haneke)
12. Le Samouraï – (1967/Jean Pierre Melville)
13. Pan’s Labyrinth - (2006/Guillermo Del Toro)
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - (1976/Milos Forman)
15. Ran - (1985/Akira Kurosawa)
16. Raging Bull - (1980/Martin Scorsese)
17. The Deer Hunter - (1978/Michael Cimino)
18. Bicycle Thieves - (1948/Vittorio De Sica
19. Citizen Kane - (1941/Orson Welles)
20. Aguirre, the Wrath of God - (1972/Werner Herzog)
21. Downfall - (2004/Oliver Hirschbiegel)
22. Once Upon a Time in America - (1984/Sergio Leone)
23. The Big Lebowski - (1998/Joel Coen)
24. Rashomon - (1950/Akira Kurosawa)
25. Kes - (1969/Ken Loach)
26. The Departed - (2006/Martin Scorsese)
27. Memento - (2000/Christopher Nolan)
28. Jaws - (1975/Steven Spielberg)
29. Yojimbo – (1961/Akira Kurosawa)
30. Twelve Monkeys - (1995/Terry Gilliam)
31. Toy Story - (1995/John Lasseter)
32. Princess Mononoke - (1997/Hayao Miyazaki)
33. Throne of Blood - (1957/Akira Kurosawa)
34. The Godfather Part II - (1974/Francis Ford Coppola)
35. The Seventh Seal - (1957/Ingmar Bergman)
36. Fargo - (1996/Joel Coen)
37. Schindler’s List - (1993/Steven Spielberg)
38. The Prestige - (2006/Christopher Nolan)
39. Saving Private Ryan - (1998/Steven Spielberg)
40. Gladiator - (2000/Ridley Scott)
41. Run Lola Run – (1998/Tom Tykwer)
42. Das Experiment - (2001/Oliver Hirschbiegel)
43. The Wizard of Oz - (1939/Victor Fleming)
44. Ikiru - (1952/Akira Kurosawa)
45. City Lights - (1931/Charles Chaplin)
46. Casino - (1995/Martin Scorsese)
47. Unforgiven - (1992/Clint Eastwood)
48. Terminator 1/2 - (1984:1991/James Cameron)
49. The Incredibles - (2004/Brad Bird)
50. Dog Day Afternoon - (1975/Sidney Lumet)

GuerillaBaaBaa minused me for this post, telling me that he could have just as easily copied and pasted the IMDb top 50. Guerilla, these are my 50 favourite films, whats with the crazy minus? Besides, a fair few of these aren't in the IMDb top 50, or even the top 250.

[Thomp]

Thomp watched something like but not necessarily Band of Brothers. He watched it and he wept.

Sounds like a good film, or series. I have a friend who is obsessed with it, although to be honest, he's obsessed with any war drama. He even said Deathwatch was really cool.

I'm telling the truth you fool ¬¬

[Lucage]

Thomp watched something like but not necessarily Band of Brothers. He watched it and he wept.

It was Police Academy 4.

[pomy]

if u like raceing lemans is a great film
i also liked back to the future
:D

[Mister Qwerty]

1) Shaun of The Dead
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Edward Scissorhands
4) The Nightmare Before Christmas
5) Pirates Of The Carribean: The Curse of The Black Pearl
6) Shawshank Redemption
7) 300
8) This Is England
9) Les Diaboliques
10) Green Mile
11) Wayne's World
12) Wayne's World 2
13) Saving Private Ryan
14) Nosferatu
15) Frankenstein (The one from the 1920's. Can't remember the year...)

No DVD collection is complete without these.

[cyber_turnip]

Bride of Frankenstein > Frankenstein

[BlueIncaPilot]

My recomendation would be to go on the top 250 list on imdb.com and just scout down that. It's accurate - got a good combination of old classics and modern greats, not chosen by whichever bugger but 100,000s of thousands of voters.

Now as I've taken inventory of my film collection just this evening, I can offer a few titles based on ordinary people in strange situations like you say - probably already been said though:

Wizard Of Oz
A Christmas Carol (the one from 1938 is very good)
Kill Bill: Vol 1
Harry Potters (all?)
Scream (1 is the best, sequels increasing in degrees of crap)
Dr Strangelove
Antz (for kids but it's quality)
The Day After Tomorrow
Rat Race
A Knight's Tale
Jumanji
Bruice Almighty
Enemy Of The State
The Faculty
The Green Mile
Little Miss Sunshine
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan

and 2 that have definatley been said - Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz.

[Irvine Black]

Saw Memento and American Psycho recently. Both very good films. Also saw Equilibrium, which was...watchable.

And I second Dr. Strangelove.

[Lestat]

Most of the film I was thinking about have been mentioned: Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange.

One that I was shocked not to see was Trainspotting. It is an amazing film, a must see.

[GorillaBearBear]

Was reminded recently while talking about Band of Brothers of the film "American Splendor" which I have just watched again. I'd forgotten how fantastic it is - truth be told I think last time I watched it I couldn't fully appreciate it.

Several reasons why it's an amazing film.

First up is that artistically it is an incredible achievement. A mixture of live action, animation, documentary and bipoic, with archive footage where appropriate, it never seems forced, or jarring, and the ways it moves from each type to the next (with one slightly extraneous section towards the end) is always clever and actually quite thought provoking. Camera work and composition is incredible. It's one of the few American Indie films of recent years that I would consider truly great.

Second is the quality of the acting. Paul Giamatti is excellent, and the supporting cast do an incredible job. One interesting thing is that seeing the actors, then seeing the people they are portraying, you can see that the actors have it absolutely spot on.

The humour, like the American Splendor comics, isn't immediately apparent all the time, I suppose, but the more obvious "jokes" are hilarious, and the more understated humour is worthy of a smile, and genuinely meaningful, like good comedy should be.

Finally, it is just an incredibly moving film. The characters in it are slightly larger than life, but their real life counterparts balance the charicaturishness of their on screen selves to provide a really balanced view of them. The interview sections are probing without being inappropriate, and it's possible to really connect to the people you are watching.

I honestly can't recommend the film enough. Buy it.

[Socks]

Donnie Darko
Little Miss Sunshine
The Shining
The Wicker Man
Pulp Fiction
The Maltese Fiction
Four Rooms
Pi
Hukkle
Requiem for a Dream
The Fountain
Fight Club
Fearless
Hero
Who Am I?
Deliver Us from Evil
Lion King
Fantasia
Cool Hand Luke
City Lights
M
Airplane!
Citizen Kane
Taxi Driver
The Last Picture Show
Goodfellas
Scarface
Casino
Fargo
Dazed and Confused

Edit: These films are in no particular order. I just like 'em.

[jonffm]

Shaun of the Dead doesn't deserve to be here, it was awfull!

Some really great movies i've loved.

Seven Samurai (AMAZING.)
Godfather I & 2
Grease
Lord of the Rings
Die Hard
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Vanilla Sky (The original. Nobody likes Tom.)
Finding Nemo
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Butterfly Effect
Shawshank Redemption
Princess Mononoke
Kill Bill
The Matrix

[cyber_turnip]

The Butterfly Effect doesn't deserve to be here, it was contrived, terribly over the top and somehow manages to pass itself off as a good film to the majority of the general public. It's an entertaining fluff film.
Shaun of the Dead on the other hand is one of the most fantastically layered and subtle comedies ever made.

[Erskien_Parkour]

Martial Arts Films?

Ong Bak
Fearless
Unleashed
Enter the Dragon

Favourite movies for me are super cheesy movies.
Dune! (cheese fest extreme)
Starship Troopers (<3)

[Hitpoint]

It's kind of depressing that you mention Seven Samurai and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves along side each other.

[woobi]

A Night In At The Opera.

A Marx brothers movie.

Brilliant stuff.

And Alien.

[BekyLou]

Point Break has always been a favourite of mine, since watching it with my mum when I was tiny. Its still awesome now, I could watch it over and over.
Lucky Number Slevin and Crank have grown on me too, as new films. K-PAX and Three Kings also.
...and of course Fear & Loathing.

[BlueIncaPilot]

Crank??? :ultra: