Would Anyone Suggest a Good Movie Please? (shameless vanity)

10/28/2009 | Skooz

[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

[sunny48]

I enjoyed The Patriot this weekend

[DouglasKC]

This will only appeal if you have wierd taste (like me), but you might try Miracle Mile

I love that movie but you're absolutely right....it requires a certain mindset and not everyone will love it.

[OldMissileer]

If you shop at Wal Mart they have a Magnavox Blu Ray player for $99. That is the one I bought (I do not work for or at Wal Mart nor did I get any money for this post).

My old CRT TV went bad this spring so I picked up a nice 37” 1080p from Wally World for less than what I paid for the TV that blew out.

[Nickname]

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Some others to consider from the recent GI Film Festival:

The G.I. Film Festival and Gary Sinise: Supporting Our Troops

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/10/04/the-g-i-film-festival-and-gary-sinise-supporting-our-troops/

[Skooz]

quirky indy: Primer. Plan on watching it with someone at least twice if not three times.

I forgot about that one. I saw it about a month ago. Very intelligent film made with a shoestring budget.

[thefactor]

The Fifth Element

The Hunt for Red October

Anchorman

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Bad Lieutenant

[Petronski]

WWII:
The Last Metro (Le Dernier Metro)
Lucie Aubrac (if you can find it!)

Crime:
Thieves (Les Voleurs)
Ronin
Généalogies d’un Crime (Genealogies of a Crime)

Comedy:
Les Visiteurs (hilarious time-traveling French farce)

[Roccus]

Best Gangster movie “Once upon a time in America”

Years ago I had rented that tape so often, the video store gave me a brand new copy. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Ping. Lots of good suggestions here, a few we may have missed. :-)

[Skooz]

LIVES OF OTHERS

Saw it a few months ago. Loved it.

[Tolsti2]

Wow, Ice Pirates. I was 10 years old at the time, and it’s sitll the only movie I ever walked out on at a theater.

[Tolsti2]

Wow, Ice Pirates. I was 10 years old at the time, and it’s sitll the only movie I ever walked out on at a theater.

[12Gauge687]

The Third Man w/ Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles
The Man Who Knew Too Much w/ James Stewart and Doris Day
The Bridge on the River Kwai w/ Alec Guinness and William Holden
Das Boot w/ Jurgen Prochnow (German version)
The Ladykillers w/ Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers
The Day of the Jackal w/ Edward Fox (original)
Gran Torino w/ Clint Eastwood (as mentioned by others, a pretty good contemporary movie)

Hope this helps.

[dfwgator]

A German movie, about a Stasi-agent secretely monitoring a dissident in Communist east Germany, who develops some sympathy for his target.

If you haven't seen Goodbye, Lenin! yet I can't recommend it highly enough. One of those movies that will make you laugh and also cry. And Yann Tiersen's soundtrack is my favorite of any movie.

[Fiji Hill]

Are you into musicals?

Best rock musical: The Girl Can’t Help It

Best variety musical: Hollywood Revue of 1929

Best choreography: Golddiggers of 1933

[dfwgator]

LIVES OF OTHERS Saw it a few months ago. Loved it.

The ending was so perfect. Damn shame the main actor passed away shortly after the movie had finished. He probably was even sick during the filming.

[sweet_diane]

My two favs are Slingblade and Christmas Vacation. :)

[bboop]

We are loving the DangerMan series, known in the US as Secret Agent Man. Early James Bond stuff, set all over the world, fighting bad Communists. There is also a very good series on Netflix — Battlefield Britain — where they go to Hastings/ replay the battle. Excellent. One series where the guy traces Alexander the Great’s travels — In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great/ Michael Woods. He also goes to Troy/ traces the Odyssey, etc. This is streaming NetFlix.

[Leo Farnsworth]

Get Shorty
Dead Again
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Ghost Town
Seven Samurai
Just Like Heaven
Bullets Over Broadway

[Dr. Ursus]

I just saw the promo.I think that Radio Caroline reached
Germany where I was stationed? Although,I remember listening
to Radio Luxembourg.