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[General]

I thıught this will be useful for people who search to watch something good, most people here shares common interests and their taste for movies will be similiar I think. So; make your top ten ( or more ) list of movies which you think is reall awesome and everyone must see, so we'll see if there is anything we missed

I'll start with my list :

The Last Samurai
V for Vendetta
Body of Lies
The Dark Knight
District 9
Equilibrium
Blood Diamond
Inception
Enemy at the Gates
Devil's Advocate
Manchurian Candidate
Shooter
Angels and Demons
Inglorious Bastards
Saving Private Ryan

[Destiny]

Independence Day
Saving Private Ryan

Sorry those two are the only movies that I watched when it aired over TV some years ago.

[Alias]

Donnie Darko
Ghostbusters
Shawshank Redepemtion
Se7en

One of each major genre there.

Destiny, on 23 Jun 2011, 0:39, said:

Independence Day

[SquigPie]

General, on 22 Jun 2011, 16:36, said:

Equilibrium

Good movie, but the it was riddled with plot holes.


My list:

The Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)
City of God
Pulp Fiction
Citizen Kane
Festen (The Celebration)
Kunsten at Græde i Kor (The Art of Crying)
Vanilla Sky
El Laberinto Del Fauno (No, I refuse to use its stupid english name)
Frailty
Requiem for a Dream

Edited by SquigPie, 22 June 2011 - 16:26.

[Camille]

- memento

- inception

- spirited away

- leon (the professional)

- the usual suspects

- a scanner darkly

- ghost in the shell (I and II)

- waking life

- 2001: a space odyssey

- blade runner

- Napoleon dynamite (yes!)


just to name a few. memento is easily my favourite movie ever though.

[SquigPie]

Camille, on 22 Jun 2011, 18:27, said:

- memento

- inception

- spirited away

- leon (the professional)

- the usual suspects

- a scanner darkly

- ghost in the shell (I and II)

- waking life

- 2001: a space odyssey

- blade runner

- Napoleon dynamite (yes!)


just to name a few. memento is easily my favourite movie ever though.

I've heard that Irreversible did the backwards plot thing better, that movie is sick as fuck though.

There's also some Korean Movie, don't remember its name, that uses the same chronological storytelling. Don't remember its name.

Edited by SquigPie, 22 June 2011 - 18:25.

[Chyros]

I know it's long, but I couldn't slim it down much more than this . Contains quite a few different genres too.

The Shining
Shawshank Redemption
Casino
Silence of the Lambs
Psycho (the original)
The Big Lebowski
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
Die Hard
Fight Club
Predator 1 & 2
The Rock
Saving Private Ryan
Once Upon a Time in the West
Aliens
The Dark Knight
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A Clockwork Orange
The Thing
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars 4
The Godfather
Memento
The Ring
V for Vendetta
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now
Der Untergang
Hot Fuzz
The Deer Hunter
The Matrix
Das Leben der Anderen
Goodfellas
Scarface
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Reservoir Dogs

[SquigPie]

Chyros, on 22 Jun 2011, 19:11, said:

Psycho (the original)

Does anyone prefer the remake?

Anyone hardly even know there was a remake.

[Chyros]

SquigPie, on 22 Jun 2011, 20:24, said:

Chyros, on 22 Jun 2011, 19:11, said:

Psycho (the original)

Does anyone prefer the remake?

Anyone hardly even know there was a remake.

I've also seen the remake; tbh it wasn't bad. But the original has far more power to it in my opinion.

[CJ]

Chyros, on 22 Jun 2011, 18:11, said:

Saving Private Ryan
V for Vendetta
Hot Fuzz
The Matrix
Scarface
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Reservoir Dogs

Thanks Chyros, you pretty much saved from having to type a list
I'd also add the Monty Python movies and The Warriors to that

[Wizard]

@ Squig, Fully agree with City of God but please tell me you were on drugs for Vanilla Sky

@ Chyros, Alien was soo much better than Aliens :|

A few more that are simply epic in and of themselves

Battle Royale
Lost Boys
Fueris Buellers Day Off

And How. In. The. Name. Of. Everything. That. Is. Holy. has no one mentioned the film with the single coolest moment ever recorded

Heat.

[CJ]

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 21:45, said:

the single coolest moment ever recorded

Heat.

I see wut you did thar

[SquigPie]

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:45, said:

@ Squig, Fully agree with City of God but please tell me you were on drugs for Vanilla Sky

Nah, I loved how the movie shifted completely from "Romance with a somewhat interesting idea" to "Mindscrew Science Fiction" from one minute to the next.

Why, you think it was bad?

And City of God is amazing, I love how they managed to put so much plot and history into 2 hours.

And FYI: I don't do drugs, I'm this way naturally

Edited by SquigPie, 22 June 2011 - 21:28.

[Wizard]

SquigPie, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:25, said:

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:45, said:

@ Squig, Fully agree with City of God but please tell me you were on drugs for Vanilla Sky

Nah, I loved how the movie shifted completely from "Romance with a somewhat interesting idea" to "Mindscrew Science Fiction" from one minute to the next.

Why, you think it was bad?

Bad? It was simply horrible, on soooo many levels. SoB sacrificial bad in fact.

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Vanilla Sky collapses into an incoherent jumble. Cruise's performance lacks depth, and it's hard to feel sympathy for his narcissistic character.

An acceptable critical opinion.

Edited by Wizard, 22 June 2011 - 21:33.

[SquigPie]

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 23:28, said:

SquigPie, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:25, said:

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:45, said:

@ Squig, Fully agree with City of God but please tell me you were on drugs for Vanilla Sky

Nah, I loved how the movie shifted completely from "Romance with a somewhat interesting idea" to "Mindscrew Science Fiction" from one minute to the next.

Why, you think it was bad?

Bad? It was simply horrible, on soooo many levels. SoB sacrificial bad in fact.

Meh, I liked it very much. The movie, not the SoB Sacrifice.

It seems to be a bit of an opinionsplitter though.

CJ, on 22 Jun 2011, 20:53, said:

Chyros, on 22 Jun 2011, 18:11, said:

V for Vendetta

Thanks Chyros, you pretty much saved from having to type a list
I'd also add the Monty Python movies and The Warriors to that

V is good, but it's far more preachy and less ambigious than the Comic Book.

It does some things better though.

Edited by SquigPie, 22 June 2011 - 21:34.

[Chyros]

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:45, said:

@ Chyros, Alien was soo much better than Aliens :|

It's different. Alien was more of a horror movie, Aliens more of a sci-fi thriller. They are both extremely suspenseful but the first one gives a more pressing feeling of hopelessness than the second. The second is still better in my opinion though (though I'd never say Alien was not a top movie - I still say it's fantastic). It's just that I find Aliens gives us much more of the universe and much more going on.

[Wizard]

Chyros, on 23 Jun 2011, 9:27, said:

Wizard, on 22 Jun 2011, 22:45, said:

@ Chyros, Alien was soo much better than Aliens :|

It's different. Alien was more of a horror movie, Aliens more of a sci-fi thriller. They are both extremely suspenseful but the first one gives a more pressing feeling of hopelessness than the second. The second is still better in my opinion though (though I'd never say Alien was not a top movie - I still say it's fantastic). It's just that I find Aliens gives us much more of the universe and much more going on.

I was referring to the technical aspects of the film. I agree with you that Aliens is by far the more entertaining