Good films - your suggestions please?

munky · Post by **munky** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:11 am

Boredom, night shift sleep patterns, etc = I have many dull hours to fill...

I've watched my worryingly large collection of films to death and tonight I ran out of TV series that I follow too (also open to suggestions for good tv shows) so I'm on the hunt for a few more to buy to kill a few hours.

Point me in the direction of some good films?

(no hollywood blockbuster, marketing exercise, 'lets see if we can stretch it to a trilogy', J. C. Van-Damme, Steven Segal, Kevin Costner, Will Smith et-al mindless tat please)

Thanking you kindly...

Null_Byte · Post by **Null_Byte** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:57 am

Still Crazy
Serenity (TV series firefly)
Leon
Shawshnk Redemption
Lockstock/Snatch
Ghost Dog
A fish caled wanda
Assault on Precint 13 (original)
Grounhog Day
Equilibrium
Full Metal Jacket
From Dusk till Dawn
Happy Gilmore
Hot Fuzz/shaun of the dead
Kung Pow
M*A*S*H (tv series of the same)
Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddick
Pulp Fiction
Once upon a time in mexico
Transporter
Young Frankenstein
Fight Club
Casablanca

You should have seen all of those, but im supprised when people havn't seen some of the classics so if you havn't seen any on that list, get them "bought"

As for TV

Family Guy
Southpark (season 12 is most excellent at the moment)
Robot Chicken
Scrubs
Burn Notice
Green Wing
Tripping the Rift

Should keep you going

POWELL · Post by **POWELL** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:20 am

Pick up band of brothers make gone reaaly cheap now and well worth the watch. Gavin and stacey is a good laugh to (think i may have found it funny cos im welsh thou)

will-220GSiTurbo · Post by **will-220GSiTurbo** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:51 am

Rise of the foot solider
No country for old men. both pretty recent and both mint films

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:39 pm

will-220GSiTurbo wrote:Rise of the foot solider
No country for old men. both pretty recent and both mint films

These are on my list of 'watch soon' films.

Howver, with what I currently have, LOTR trilogy or the Ludlum / Bourne films with possibly 'Heat' and 'Ronin' thrown in.

Lots of guns cars, tit/bum and a Moby or Brian Eno soundtrack and I'll watch it.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:55 pm

as ive watched most of his flims and loved them, id say any flim by quentin tarantino.

fergy7197 · Post by **fergy7197** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:01 pm

crash is good - very different

shen · Post by **shen** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:47 pm

no country for old men sucks more chupa chup than a world champion chupa chup XL at a chupa chup sucking convention...avoid it like the plague...same with cloverfied crap... very vert very sh1t films make no mistake.

if you haven't seen before I advise...

Kingpin
For a few dollars more

and more recently

knocked up
and
Leon

also agree with LOTR trilogy and bourne trilogy too and Snatch is just fantastic... I also kinda enjoyed road to perdition but not as much as others mentioned.

Check Blues Brothers if you haven't seen it before and for martial arts, although it's silly with flying people, crouching tiger hidden dragon is a pretty nice story.

Dave_ZS · Post by **Dave_ZS** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:53 pm

scarface

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:15 pm

Cool World !!
( thinking man's Roger Rabbit.)

shellis · Post by **shellis** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:33 pm

kidulthood, bit "ghetto" but still a good watch

PJW · Post by **PJW** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:24 pm

I just watched 3:10 to Yuma and enjoyed it.

I have 'Pauly Shore is Dead' and "Day Watch" to watch.

The Tahiti Manalishi · Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:04 pm

shen wrote:no country for old men sucks more chupa chup than a world champion chupa chup sucker at a chupa chup sucking convention...avoid it like the plague...same with cloverfied crap... very vert very sh1t films make no mistake.

You've got to be kidding? At last a film that isn't made in the same f*n mould as everything else ever done. I really respect films with no heroes like Arnold/Bruce Willis/Mel Gibson and that kind of crap. Those movies belong in the eighties.

Another tip is 'There Will Be Blood', also not that ordinary and unexpected.

My favourite must be 'Lost in Translation' with Bill Murray. Great!

The Tahiti Manalishi · Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:05 pm

lsa wrote:I just watched 3:10 to Yuma and enjoyed it.

Ditto

will-220GSiTurbo · Post by **will-220GSiTurbo** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:22 pm

The Tahiti Manalishi wrote:
shen wrote:no country for old men sucks more chupa chup than a world champion chupa chup sucker at a chupa chup sucking convention...avoid it like the plague...same with cloverfied crap... very vert very sh1t films make no mistake.
You've got to be kidding? At last a film that isn't made in the same f*n mould as everything else ever done. I really respect films with no heroes like Arnold/Bruce Willis/Mel Gibson and that kind of crap. Those movies belong in the eighties.

Another tip is 'There Will Be Blood', also not that ordinary and unexpected.

My favourite must be 'Lost in Translation' with Bill Murray. Great!

Exactly.The film wasnt the fastest granted but the action was brilliant.
I dont comment on films much as peoples interests differ so much, but imo the film is one of my favorites

shen · Post by **shen** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:18 pm

I must have seen a different version... just cos it's different , doesn't make it good.

Watch el Mariachi if you like that kind of thing, now that is a brilliant film..the one that desparado was ripped from but is very cerebral and just a great story.

I'm not usually a fan of Arnie, Mel gibson...etc but No country for old men was a slow slow film with no real story to it...alot of unnecessary filling and basically just a load of pants from 10 minutes in right to the end.

Seemed to me like a film hyped far beyond it's actual entertainment factor and for critics to umm and ahh over...I retain my original comment on it.
Ranks among dorm daze and Ed Wood's stuff in my collection of DVDs.

each to their own though....

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:14 pm

Spaced (series) - Absolutely quality series

will2c · Post by **will2c** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:01 pm

Best movie I have seen this year is Awake

Still at the cinemas but there is a good DVD rip out
there if you know where to look

teethgrinder · Post by **teethgrinder** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:06 pm

Battlestar Galactica (new) - Watche the first series back to back with just bog breaks. Pure skill!

Tremors Quadrilogy...

munky · Post by **munky** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:42 am

Mahoosive multi-quote 'Havent been on RT since I made this topic' reply... in the 'got, got, got, need, got, need, got, got' style of playground collectors card swapping sessions.

...deep breath...

Null_Byte wrote:Still Crazy
Serenity (TV series firefly)
Leon
Shawshnk Redemption
Lockstock/Snatch
Ghost Dog
A fish caled wanda
Assault on Precint 13 (original)
Grounhog Day
Equilibrium
Full Metal Jacket
From Dusk till Dawn
Happy Gilmore
Hot Fuzz/shaun of the dead
Kung Pow
M*A*S*H (tv series of the same)
Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddick
Pulp Fiction
Once upon a time in mexico
Transporter
Young Frankenstein
Fight Club
Casablanca

got

Family Guy
Southpark (season 12 is most excellent at the moment)

got

Robot Chicken

need

Scrubs
Burn Notice
Green Wing
Tripping the Rift

got

POWELL wrote:band of brothers
Gavin and stacey

got

will-220GSiTurbo wrote:Rise of the foot solider
No country for old men

got

victor3 wrote:LOTR trilogy
Ludlum / Bourne films
Heat
Ronin

got

xr4x4 wrote:quentin tarantino.

got! (hasn't everyone?!?)

fergy7197 wrote:crash

got

shen wrote:cloverfied
Kingpin
For a few dollars more
knocked up
Leon
Snatch
road to perdition
Blues Brothers

got

Dave_214_SEi wrote:scarface

got... as has everyone on the planet... surely?!

BlueRover wrote:Cool World !!

need

shellis wrote:kidulthood

got

lsa wrote:3:10 to Yuma
Pauly Shore is Dead
Day Watch

got

The Tahiti Manalishi wrote:There Will Be Blood

need

Lost in Translation

got

shen wrote:el Mariachi
desparado

got

Sheaf wrote:Spaced

got (I own the box set)

teethgrinder wrote:Battlestar Galactica
Tremors Quadrilogy

got

.... aaaaand breathe!

That took ages, and I think demonstrates the extent of my problem.

I have a 500gb external hdd, 250gb internal hdd and about 500 cd's/dvd's of movie files and tv series, so there really isnt much I havent watched.

I've left my opinion of the films suggested out of this reply so as not to offend a few people... Mostly though, some very good suggestions, so many thanks to all...

I have a few to add to my 'purchase' list now so hopefully a few evenings will now be less boring then normal.

Keep 'em coming...

Vard66 · Post by **Vard66** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:30 am

When ya say 'got' to Serenity/Firely, do you mean both? If you've not got Firefly, buy it. It won't add many hours to your watch time, agreed, but you won't regret getting it. Ever.

Scrubs - alluc.com serves quite well for streaming, especially if you've a decent broadband collection. Some people say it's growing tired in the later seasons, but I disagree - it's the only thing I'll turn the box on for.

In the same band as LockStock/Snatch - L4YER CAKE - not as good as Snatch, and not as intricate as LockStock, but still damned good.

The Green Mile - If you've not, and with an extensive collection as yours shows to be, I'd expect you to.

As far as Green Wing goes, if you're a fan of Scrubs, don't bother. It's dingy, cloudy, unsubtle, more often than not vile, random, uncreative, and sometimes toilet based humour just doesn't snap with me, and I love Scrubs.

Kudos on being a Spaced man, gotta love it.

When it's out on DVD to buy (is it already?? I don't know), I'd put money on The Bucket List being a good one to watch - Nicholson can't play anyone but Nicholson, admittedly, but he can be good to watch nonetheless. He and Freeman teamed up might make for some intersting character portrayal and exchange.

Sunshine. Some people love it, some hate it. I personally liked it a whole lot.

The Core. Think Armageddon, but not Armageddon. Fairly similar storyline to any other 'oh lord the planet is about to explode and only four people can save us' fillum, but still half decent.

Armageddon, while I think of it, though again, as comments on Green Mile.

The Day After Tomorrow. Just don't watch it with anyone who either is, or is related to a meteorologist, as I did. They tend to take the fun out of natural disaster movies.

Ghostbusters - as comments on Green Mile.

Anything with Adam Sandler in. Particularly Happy Gilmore, which I think has been mentioned...

Blood Diamond - Cracking.

Steer well clear of Open Water. 90 odd minutes of watery bobbing, and not much else. Boobage at the beginning, to hook you into thinking it might be interesting all the way through, and then nothing at all. I'll never get that time back. (Mind you, as an afterthought, if you're looking to kill time, it'll do that, rather pointlessly and painfully).

12 Angry Men. An hour and a half or so of footage of one room and one room alone, yet one of the best films EVER made, imho.

Dr. Strangelove. Brilliant.

Back To The Future - Any and all, excellent, though again, comments as Green Mile.

The Dark Half - Mainly to tell me what it's like, as I've watched a couple of other films created from the original books by Stephen King that have failed to impress me utterly. Most notably The Stand, which is quite easily my favourite King book, and is in fact a Spielberg, so it's baffling as to why it's so, so poor. The Dark Half is one of my other King favourites, but every time I try to watch the film of the book, I somehow manage to miss it every time it's on.

The Shining, while I'm thinking of Stephen King and Jack Nicholson...

The Commandments. I've not seen much of it, as the tape Da lent me got eaten by the crappy old video player we had, but what I saw I enjoyed thoroughly.

St. Trinian's School for Girls. - The original, I hasten to add, the new one I fail to see the point of somewhat, but the original one is rather cleverly done in pretty much every scene.

Thunderbirds - Puppet series, not the film, that's just boIIocks. Never any shame in enjoying Thunderbirds at any age, they're still excellent viewing.

And that will do for now.
I suspect that if your film collection is quite as extensive as you suggest, a fair few of the suggestions above will be rendered immediately pointless, but I thought I'd cover all bases. This also explains why you're always on so late!

shen · Post by **shen** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:52 am

ooh forgot one...

charlie chaplin - city lights

used to hate silent stuff when I was little now I love that film

stevedx · Post by **stevedx** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:38 am

Just watched Run Fatboy Run, that was funny.

The Highlander fils, can be mildly entertaining, even the latest one 'The Source'

I have Serenity, never knew it came from a TV series, so when I found out I bought the series from Play.com 14.99, complete series box set and have just started watching it, 3 episodes in and I love it.

That Summer Glau is strangly attractive.

listie · Post by **listie** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:59 am

Dave_214_SEi wrote:scarface

Definatly
and

New Jack City
White Men can't jump
Predator 1
Rambo First Blood
Usual suspects
Bullit
Enter the Dragon
Snake in eagles shadow
The thing
Animal House

Vard66 · Post by **Vard66** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:04 pm

listie wrote:Animal House

GOOD CALL, THAT MAN!

listie · Post by **listie** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:37 pm

Vard66 wrote:
listie wrote:Animal House
GOOD CALL, THAT MAN!

It has to have the original sound track, I have 2 copies both different sound tracks

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:30 am

Short solution - watch anything with Christian Bale in it.

Chin. · Post by **Chin.** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:44 am

Dont even bother getting One Missed Call , utter sh!te

Seen:

Crank
The Bank Job
The Transporter , 1 or 2

:

rovex · Post by **rovex** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:39 pm

Re-watch some of your favourites in HD, worth doing sometimes. The Battlestar galactica series looks wonderful in HD, but it is the best tv series of all time, so HD just adds to it.

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:00 pm

rovex wrote:Re-watch some of your favourites in HD, worth doing sometimes. The Battlestar galactica series looks wonderful in HD, but it is the best tv series of all time, so HD just adds to it.

Whilst not being a big BG fan, I must confess that the theme music is superb.

420gazza · Post by **420gazza** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:58 pm

i cant believe no-ones suggested

cape fear (the ultimate for me along with scarface)
ronin
goodfellas
casino
harold and kumar
raging bull
transformers
fast and furious (purely for cars and women scenes)
swordfish
face off
national treasure 1+2
various adam sandler movies
heist
bad boys 1+2
quadrophenia
the firm (gary oldman original)
meet the parents

i could go on all day

Geo_coupe · Post by **Geo_coupe** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:12 pm

i highly recommend the shield, american cop show, think its up to season 6 or 7 now. great viewing!!

and as for films:
Batman Begins
The Usual Suspects
Gangster No.1
Akira
The commitments

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:57 pm

Howver, with what I currently have, LOTR trilogy or the Ludlum / Bourne films with possibly 'Heat' and 'Ronin' thrown in

Gazza, you mean '... except Victor!'

Yes, the film that made Gary Oldman a star, 'The Firm' - agree, this is a must. Good call, Gazza.

For real '100% pure style' fans, my fave ever continental film is 'Diva', French thriller. Wonderful bit of music in there by Vladimir Cosma.

200coupe · Post by **200coupe** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:24 am

How about sin city, or dark city?

boxertricks · Post by **boxertricks** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:41 pm

Leon*
Once were warriors*
die hard 4*
Every rocky film*
Pulp fiction*
the green mile*
platoon*
matchstick men*
foot soldiers
green street
football factory
shawshank redemption*
the business
locked up
bloodsport
training day*
raging bull*
the goodfellas*
casino*
true romance*
the gooneys lol
300*
eastern promises
borat
meet the fockers
superbad
godfather trilogy*
LOTR trilogy*
gone in 60 seconds
next
jumper
american gangster
before the devil knows your dead
running scared*

just top of my head mate ** are must see IMO