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Would Anyone Suggest a Good Movie Please? (shameless vanity)
10/28/2009 | Skooz

Posted on 10/28/2009 6:22:03 AM PDT by Skooz

For a myriad of reasons, I have spent the last few months watching a movie most every weeknight. I have finally gotten my money’s worth from my Netflix account.

But, lately I have had trouble finding movies I think I will like. I scour Netflix and am having a hard time finding movies that interest me, though I know they are out there.

My interest runs from war movies to action flicks to quirky indy films to foreign art things.

Some of my favorite movies I have seen the past few months are Defiance, all of the Sean Connery Bond films, Sleeper, The Right Stuff, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Riding Giants, a Hard Day’s Night, and a few foreign artsy films whose names I don’t recall.

By far my favorite movie I have seen lately is Everything is Illuminated.

I have no interest in horror flicks, romance movies, teen gross out flicks or most movies made in the 1960s.

Could anyone be so kind as to suggest a good movie or two?

Thanks


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; cinematic; filmrecommendations; indyfilms; movies
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1 posted on 10/28/2009 6:22:04 AM PDT by Skooz
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Gran Torino

If you have not seen it yet.


2 posted on 10/28/2009 6:23:29 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Skooz

Patton, Where eagles dare, Green Beret, Father Goose, Operation Petticoat,

Just to name a few


3 posted on 10/28/2009 6:24:36 AM PDT by Patrsup (To stubborn to change now)
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To: Jet Jaguar

My step father bought that the day it was released. He’s a big Eastwood fan.


4 posted on 10/28/2009 6:26:21 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Good choice.I’ve been on a Paul Muni kick.We just viewed
The Life of Emil Zola,which was great!


5 posted on 10/28/2009 6:26:33 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Skooz
All the Dirty Harry's, Braveheart, Patriot, The Longest Day, A Bridge too Far, We Were Soldiers Once, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, Mad Max, The Green Berets, True Grit, Iwo Jima, Harry Potter, etc.
6 posted on 10/28/2009 6:26:53 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Skooz

The boy in the stripped pajamas.. Its a really great movie. Oh and have plenty of kleenex on hand.


7 posted on 10/28/2009 6:27:17 AM PDT by VairyAngel (PRAYING FOR AMERICAS FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANT)
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To: Skooz
Ice Pirates

Starring:
Robert Urich
Mary Crosby
Anjelica Huston
Ron Perlman
8 posted on 10/28/2009 6:28:03 AM PDT by IronKros (The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup)
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Random Harvest - old WWI movie made in the 1940s. Reasonably obscure, but one of my favorites.


9 posted on 10/28/2009 6:28:09 AM PDT by AngieGal
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To: VairyAngel

striped


10 posted on 10/28/2009 6:28:27 AM PDT by VairyAngel (PRAYING FOR AMERICAS FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANT)
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To: Skooz

Best Western “Once upon a time in the West”,
Best Gangster movie “Once upon a time in America”


11 posted on 10/28/2009 6:29:01 AM PDT by pennboricua
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ditto ‘Gran Torino’. Best flick I’ve seen this year.


12 posted on 10/28/2009 6:29:01 AM PDT by gmoore57
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To: Skooz

John Adams - 3 disc set @ Netflix


13 posted on 10/28/2009 6:29:12 AM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: Skooz
The Long Good Friday

Withnail and Me

Citizen Kane

Full Metal Jacket

Barry Lyndon

Internal Affairs (with Richard Gere)

14 posted on 10/28/2009 6:29:23 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Skooz
Brazil

Terry Giiliam's second best film next to Time Bandits


15 posted on 10/28/2009 6:29:31 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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I liked the Indian movies “The Namesake “ and “Slum Dog Millionaire “.

Also “I Am David”, “Frequency” and everyone says “The Lives of Others” is good. I haven’t seen that yet.


16 posted on 10/28/2009 6:30:21 AM PDT by Varda
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War movie; check out Black Hawk Down - intense, awesome.


17 posted on 10/28/2009 6:31:09 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Skooz
"Serenity"
by Josh Weadon
also his "Firefly" series that is the one season series that preceded the movie.
18 posted on 10/28/2009 6:31:22 AM PDT by rjsimmon (1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Daffynition

That was such a bizarre movie. I watched it, some of it made sense.

Maybe you have to be bent a particular way?


19 posted on 10/28/2009 6:31:35 AM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: Skooz

Apollo 13
If you haven’t seen it yet.
Where Geeks reign supreme!


20 posted on 10/28/2009 6:32:14 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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