"Dude you HAVE to see this movie!"

[longshadow11]

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1. Braveheart
2. Goodfellas
3. Gladiator
4. Casino
5. Shawshank
6. LOTR trilogy

[rockchisler]

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1. Gone Baby Gone
2. Mystic River
3. Fight Club
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Seven

Freeman and Pitt Fan..

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I'm kinda surprised at some of the lists that I'm seeing. I guess I know who and who not to ask for movie recommendations lol. The first time I watched all of these movies they impacted me in one way or another. I've seen all of them more times than I can count.

City of God
Goodfellas
Kids
The Devil's Advocate
Jurassic Park

[JayBee74]

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• Defending Your Life
• Trading Places-a truly great, now classic comedy
• Inside Moves
• Warlock (Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark)
• Soapdish-as good if not better then Tootsie

[X*Cell]

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Fight Club - Amazing movie, love it to death... but there will always be somebody out there (*cough* my parents) that don't see the directing style as something that is a brilliant aid for the movie.

*cough* me too.

The Shawshank Redemption - Don't hark on me, but I just only saw this recently (hey, there was a time where you saw it for the first time, right?). Anyway, it easily became a top ten favorite movies of all time for me. Now the only question is whether it's a Blu-ray purchase (two reasons: 1) don't know how good the quality is for a '94 movie, 2) what kind of replay value does this movie have?).

My favorite movie of all time. Used to be Above the Rim, but I grew up.

[AlexBrady]

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Gone Baby Gone - Gonna see it tonight, I have it recorded.

Mystic River - I've heard way too many mixed impressions on this movie. I just won't want to waste two hours on something that I won't like, but I'll look more into it to see if it may be my cup of tea.

Fight Club - Amazing movie, love it to death... but there will always be somebody out there (*cough* my parents) that don't see the directing style as something that is a brilliant aid for the movie.

The Shawshank Redemption - Don't hark on me, but I just only saw this recently (hey, there was a time where you saw it for the first time, right?). Anyway, it easily became a top ten favorite movies of all time for me. Now the only question is whether it's a Blu-ray purchase (two reasons: 1) don't know how good the quality is for a '94 movie, 2) what kind of replay value does this movie have?).

Seven - Another classic, and a must-see. I notice you have a decent liking for Pitt and Freeman, which is terrific, because so do I.

Aside from Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River, these are all definitely must-sees. I'll have to see about GBG later tonight.





And uhh... I guess I'll just throw out The Dark Knight since no one has yet said it, but I think I'm only talking to people that have been living under a rock the past six months.

Lol, yeah I saw Shawshank for the first time back in May. I instantly fell in love with it and I now watch it whenever I am feeling down (which isn't that often but still it is great to be able to watch it a few times every year).

Gone Baby Gone was a classic for me and one of the scenes was really powerful and is one of my most memorable scenes of all time. Plus Freeman is in it. (big fan)

I thought Pitt was phenomenal in Fight Club and I just love how different and gritty it is. And yes, I am a Pitt fan. Norton was also a classic movie character for me. "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club".

Seven was great because of the unique and disgusting ways the killer took people out. One of the grossest movies of all time. But Pitt and Freeman were a spectacular duo. The ending may be a bit surprising.

Mystic River has stuck with me for a long while. Has a great story as well.

I do love Pitt and Freeman. On a side note, how do you guys feel about Tim Robbins, Ed Norton, and Sean Penn?

[sven]

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To be honest my friends all have **** taste in movies and stuff that I truely love goes right over their heads. For instance there was too much talking and not enough action in Ironman but Ghost Rider is like the greatest comic book movie of all time. So there really arent any movies I feel my friends have to see.


But if I had to pick 5......

The Dark Knight
LA Confidential
Snatch
The Usual Suspects
Big Trouble In Little China

[Blzer]

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Okay, I saw Gone Baby Gone last night.

I'm going to start off by saying that I am not listing this as a "Dude, you HAVE to see this movie!" movie. It is undoubtedly a great movie, but IMO I could have gone without it. I actually didn't know Freeman was in it, so I saw it as a plus. Anyway, perhaps it was because I caught on the subtle clues and hints that lead to what it lead to, like...

Spoiler

I forget what led to him doing it, but it was the scene outside after Patrick sees Cheese, and when Remy turns around towards the car, he gives Poole a wink). Instantly there was an indication that something was going on, plus the call that we didn't get to hear and the only documented information being from a transcript, having him read it aloud so we can even further believe that it was all Cheese. But no audio, no nothin' (IMO). Then there was the obvious lake scene at night where we only heard gunshots and saw the aftermath... of course anything could have been set up then.

Overall, I didn't find anything to be a surprise, if that makes sense.

However, there was good in this movie. First of all, I could stare into Affleck's cold, incriminating eyes all movie (no homo) and believe that he is all bad-*** inside. I loved the first bar scene especially.

I have a problem with Michelle Monaghan, though. It's not just in this movie though. Even in Mission Impossible III and Eagle Eye. Like, I like seeing her on screen and what not (she is one of those "unconventionally attractive" women on my list), but I just don't feel like she is a very dominant actress overall. I don't feel her love for her partner ever, really. But in this movie especially, it seemed sort of funny that she just stayed to the side while there are some really heated arguments going down. No fear, no anger, no nothing on her face. I want to see her step up and really throw down the law, but it doesn't ever really happen.


Now, the ending is the star of this movie, this is what made the movie. I'll digress again quickly... I felt a lot of middle scenes that dragged on to be "pulling a Blzer." What I mean is that the scene ultimately has a point, but it takes a thousand exchanges of dialogue to ultimately end the scene, even though the point has been made over and over and over again, though in different ways each time. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's how I felt about some of the middle. It was like this movie was ninety minutes of material stretched into two hours of film. Not bad (normally I like it), but perhaps I didn't feel it to be beefy enough or something, I don't know.

Back to the ending... very controversial, IMO. It almost made me shed a tear in some ways. The question is... what is the right thing in this matter, the law or your heart? I like it because it's something that you can think about and discuss for a long time after, and in that regard, this movie deserves a high nod and is instantly watchable. It's just a matter of opinion as to whether you think you could die before seeing this movie, and I feel like you can. The others that were listed, though, must be seen LOL.

I do love Pitt and Freeman. On a side note, how do you guys feel about Tim Robbins, Ed Norton, and Sean Penn?

I've only seen Tim Robbins in two movies now (again... sad, right?): The Shawshank Redemption, and his War of the Worlds cameo. I can't say too much about him yet (same with Penn, but I'll get back to him). I love Edward Norton, but I feel like some people like him because they're "following" the crowd, not necessarily because they just happen to be "in" the crowd. I don't like him for those reasons. I like how he gets into character, and I see who he is in character, not him himself. I see Steve from The Italian Job, I see Derek from American History X, I see Eisenheim from The Illusionist, I see... who he is in Fight Club. Many other actors, when using them as a reference in discussion of a movie, I will say their actual name and not their character name. For example, I normally say Morgan Freeman, because I just feel like he's that same great guy every time (as VV says in Four Christmases: "d was just like The Shawshank Redemption, except I didn’t have some soft-spoken gentle black man to share my troubles with").

I've only seen Sean Penn in two movies as well: The Game and Carlito's Way. I might have seen him in more, but I'm not IMDb-perusing right now. Anyway, good actor in both, but I don't know... he seems like he may be kind of a troubled guy off screen. I know he was in All the King's Men, but has he been in anything since? I just wasn't sure what kind of work he has been getting lately... I wasn't sure if he was one of those guys that had trouble with crew and other cast, etc. He sort of just comes off that way. Don't know why... maybe it's just his written characters.

[SPTO]

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I know most of you have seen it but I just saw Wall-E today and I have to say this is definitely on my "you have to see this at least once in your life" list. That's mighty praise for a modern animated movie but I really thought it was a piece of art. The whole first quarter of the film had minimal dialogue and seeing the way Wall-E lived and then meeting Eve and showing her his life etc etc and falling in love with her was just stupendous.

The way the movie was done and the way the story was laid out was very much in the vein of the classics. The characters weren't too cutesy and while the storyline once Wall-E is in the spaceship got a bit too PC in some areas (the idea that people have become so lazy and they've lost thinking capacity because they've escaped the over polluted earth) but the over riding message of the story about love kept it going.

In fact, this is one of the very few movies where the love story had more pull with me then the other elements of the film.

[Jet Sufferer]

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Reading through the first few pages I'll give you great movies not mentioned in no particular order.

1. Brazil - You can watch in 15 times and see things you never saw. Orwellian, futuristic, big government, big brother run amok.

2. Patton - Amazing, little known fact, Coppola wrote the original screenplay

3. The Manchurian Candidate - The ORIGINAL with Sinatra, blows away the remake, even though I enjoyed it.

4. JFK, the directors cut. - Must be watched as a paranoid, black comedy farce. Stone wraps all the conspiracy theories into one, millions involved. Little known fact, Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine with a rifle acted alone, read "Case Closed" and "Reclaiming History" for reference.

5. Apocalypto - Overlooked classic because of Gibson's DUI fiasco.

6. American Psycho (Unrated) and The Prestige with Christian Bale. One of the last actors left with any testosterone in a Hollywood full of sissies.

7. Bram Stoker's Dracula - Amazing, underrated movie with a cult following. Gary Oldman is a great actor, like Bale, rent anything he acts in.

8. Barry Lyndon - Maybe Kubricks best movie. Don't let the description on the DVD fool you, it has everything, action, sex, betrayal, drama, tragedy. My favorite Kubrick movie.

9. Any Western with Clint Eastwood, and Westerns in General, great genre. Hitchcock movies if you haven't seen them, like the Cohen brothers today, Hitchcock couldn't make a bad movie.

10. Fallen with Denzel Washington, this and Training Day are his best, overlooked movie.

11. Conspiracy Theory, Mel Gibson, little gem of a movie.

12. Sword and Sandals - Spartacus, Gladiator, Braveheart, Ben-Hur, Barrabus.

[Jet Sufferer]

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High Noon is a good Western too.

You mentioned the Boys from Brazil too, both movies I was going to list that won't show up on most people's radar.

[jmood88]

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I know most of you have seen it but I just saw Wall-E today and I have to say this is definitely on my "you have to see this at least once in your life" list. That's mighty praise for a modern animated movie but I really thought it was a piece of art. The whole first quarter of the film had minimal dialogue and seeing the way Wall-E lived and then meeting Eve and showing her his life etc etc and falling in love with her was just stupendous.

The way the movie was done and the way the story was laid out was very much in the vein of the classics. The characters weren't too cutesy and while the storyline once Wall-E is in the spaceship got a bit too PC in some areas (the idea that people have become so lazy and they've lost thinking capacity because they've escaped the over polluted earth) but the over riding message of the story about love kept it going.

In fact, this is one of the very few movies where the love story had more pull with me then the other elements of the film.

I don't see how it's PC. The story wasn't about pollution more than it was about people having everything done for them and not having to actually do anything. The people weren't dumb, they just were only thinking about what they wanted to do at that moment. The one's who realized that there was a world outside of their chairs and the ship liked just exploring everything and being with each other more than anything else.

[goh]

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And uhh... I guess I'll just throw out The Dark Knight since no one has yet said it, but I think I'm only talking to people that have been living under a rock the past six months.

Bit more than that...

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I'll pick:

Run Lola Run
Night Watch/Day Watch (Night Watch comes first)
Equilibrium
May
Mirrormask

I went with stuff it's less likely people have already seen.

[spankdatazz22]

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I'm going to say a movie that likely hasn't been mentioned yet, The Insider w/Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. It's the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, the would-be whistleblower on big tobacco who had inside knowledge that the people running the big tobacco companies knew of the health risks cigarettes presented but tried to conceal it. At the time people knew of the health risks, but no one could stand up to the big tobacco companies because of their influence and the immense amount of money/resources they had. Al Pacino plays the 60 Minutes producer that coaxes Wigand to do an interview on the show, which at the time was THE journalistic standard. Christopher Plummer does a flat-out amazing job as Mike Wallace; he has his mannerisms and tone down pat (there's a great scene reenactment of when he interviewed the sheik of Iran). It seems like it would be a boring boardroom story but it's directed by Michael Mann, and it crackles with energy.

I just find the movie fascinating because I'm old enough to remember when the tobacco companies were able to get away with denying they had knowledge of cigarettes' health risks, and how no one could really challenge them. The movie shows why it was so difficult to break that barrier and how even a huge company like CBS were compromised in the face of the power the tobacco companies had. Great movie; Russell Crowe and Pacino are excellent. I've been wanting to get the movie on dvd but it's hard to find

[jmood88]

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I'm going to say a movie that likely hasn't been mentioned yet, The Insider w/Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. It's the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, the would-be whistleblower on big tobacco who had inside knowledge that the people running the big tobacco companies knew of the health risks cigarettes presented but tried to conceal it. At the time people knew of the health risks, but no one could stand up to the big tobacco companies because of their influence and the immense amount of money/resources they had. Al Pacino plays the 60 Minutes producer that coaxes Wigand to do an interview on the show, which at the time was THE journalistic standard. Christopher Plummer does a flat-out amazing job as Mike Wallace; he has his mannerisms and tone down pat (there's a great scene reenactment of when he interviewed the sheik of Iran). It seems like it would be a boring boardroom story but it's directed by Michael Mann, and it crackles with energy.

I just find the movie fascinating because I'm old enough to remember when the tobacco companies were able to get away with denying they had knowledge of cigarettes' health risks, and how no one could really challenge them. The movie shows why it was so difficult to break that barrier and how even a huge company like CBS were compromised in the face of the power the tobacco companies had. Great movie; Russell Crowe and Pacino are excellent. I've been wanting to get the movie on dvd but it's hard to find

I've never even heard of that movie but I want to see it now.