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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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To: Skooz

Have you seen “Network”?


161 posted on 10/28/2009 9:48:36 AM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: Skooz

Have you seen “Network”?


162 posted on 10/28/2009 9:48:41 AM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: Skooz

Gettysburg


163 posted on 10/28/2009 9:50:41 AM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: El Sordo

Yeah, Primer was great. That’s basically what my list was...movies that have you thinking at the end. Mostly “WTF just happened??” I enjoy movies like that because it’s not some formulaic pap like Transformers.


164 posted on 10/28/2009 10:00:13 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: Skooz

i like films that don’t spend most of their time demonizing christians, conservatives, America, or George Bush. I like Knowing. also State of Play with Russel Crowe.


165 posted on 10/28/2009 10:14:39 AM PDT by applpie
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To: IYAS9YAS

loved loved second hand lions.


166 posted on 10/28/2009 10:16:04 AM PDT by applpie
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To: dfwgator

oops forgot one. Believe it or not i was shocked as to how much I really loved Amazing Grace. i had put it off and was so pleasantly surprised. It’s the movie about William Wilberforce and his life long pursuit to end slavery in Britain. we need more statesmen like this.


167 posted on 10/28/2009 10:18:03 AM PDT by applpie
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To: uncitizen
Have you seen “Network”?

Saw that when it was shown on HBO back in 1977. I thought it was brilliant.

I watched it again a couple of years ago. Doesn't seem so far fetched now.

168 posted on 10/28/2009 10:25:14 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: Skooz
Doesn't seem so far fetched now.

Sure doesn't. It predicted a lot of what is going on today. That the TV generation would lose some of their humanity and live their lives vicariously thru TV characters and be more prone to crime. And most importantly, the way that the news became entertainment and how corporations just bought and paid for the "news".

169 posted on 10/28/2009 10:30:10 AM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: uncitizen
Yep. At the time it was considered outrageous, almost farcical.

Now, it's still a good movie, but kind of matter of fact. Reality has imitated art.

170 posted on 10/28/2009 10:34:30 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: Skooz
Yep. At the time it was considered outrageous, almost farcical.

Same could be said for Idiocracy.

171 posted on 10/28/2009 10:37:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: applpie

If you ‘liked’ SoP with Russell Crowe, then you’ll LOVE SoP as the BBC originally did it. Get it now. Bill Nighy is priceless as the editor (but then, he’s always brilliant: Shawn of the Dead, for instance).


172 posted on 10/28/2009 10:40:54 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (I'm still waiting for Dear Leader to say something that isn't a lie)
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To: Skooz
Some of my favorite movies I have seen the past few months are Defiance...

I'm watching Defiance right now. Spreading it out over several nights.

I just looked up Everything is Illuminated on the imdb. Coincidentally, Liev Schreiber, the director, is one of the main characters in Defiance. Both movies have a similar Nazi/Jewish theme.

173 posted on 10/28/2009 10:41:13 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (The Libs play dirty because the Libs ARE dirty.)
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To: paulycy
"...a Streisand movie - What’s Up Doc"

Don't tell anybody, but I've got that one and watch it as often as I do Woody Allen's "Play it Again, Sam". Did you see the other Streisand comedy, "For Pete's Sake"?

174 posted on 10/28/2009 10:45:36 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Coincidentally, Liev Schreiber...

He's one of my favorite actors.

175 posted on 10/28/2009 10:46:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Skooz
Brazil

The Lives of Others

The Man Who Would Be King

The Commitments (Irish)

176 posted on 10/28/2009 10:50:30 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge

The Man Who Would Be King, excellent choice.


177 posted on 10/28/2009 10:52:08 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Same could be said for Idiocracy.

I loved Office Space, but Idiocracy (though it had it's moments) fell a little flat with me.

178 posted on 10/28/2009 10:53:55 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: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
I just looked up Everything is Illuminated on the imdb.

Order it now. I give you my word you will not see a better movie this year. The cinematography alone is wondrous.

It's a rage gem of a movie; poignant, heart breaking, hilarious, exceedingly entertaining yet very low key. And the acting is perfection.

179 posted on 10/28/2009 11:03:26 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: Skooz

Register here, subscribe to RSS feed and explore this site with educational, science, Discovery, BBC torrents started by a Welsh man. Has a nuclear age collection.

http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php


180 posted on 10/28/2009 11:06:50 AM PDT by enviros_kill (Counter the culture and the oppression of regression)
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