Really enjoyable films

[BGH122]

Look up a little movie called "Primer." It is about a couple scientists who invent "something" i cant say more without spoiling it.

This film will mind-rape you. Then you will watch it another four times till you understand. So the sooner the start, the better. Really. It's awesome.

Saw it and hated it. It felt pretentious and deliberately confusing, like it was trying to hide a very shoddy concept behind a veneer of misunderstood genius. I'm not a dumb guy, I've got a 99th percentile IQ (to the right of the distribution, or else this argument would be a little null) so the whole 'you're too dumb to understand it' comeback I've always recieved on IMDB doesn't fit.

No offence, you liked the film and that's great, but if a film feels like work then I'm not up for it.

 

[UBERfionn]

The Room.
'nuff said.

 

[PoliceBox63]

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Hot Fuzz or any film with Simon Pegg

 

[LightspeedJack]

Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse.
I'm watching New Moon on my bed now and I find myself quoting it.

Trollbait much? Oh and don't double post, if you need to add something edit your previous post.

OT: Kick Ass is a great movie to kick back and watch, also District 9.

 

[tehannihalator]

Scarface
That is all

 

[The Night Shade]

The Expendables and Zombieland are lots of fun

 

[Julianking93]

I'm amazed you also didn't say Orphan.

Anyway, yes I'd agree with all that above me along with...

Oldboy
A Tale of Two Sisters
Ichi the Killer
Gozu
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Religulous
Moon
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
Paprika
Ghost in the Shell
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Kung Fu Hustle
Audition
Ju-On
Orphanage
Pan's Labyrinth
The Big LeBowski
A Serious Man
Lady Vengeance
Rear Window

I mention those because they're the most recent films I've bought.

You, sir, have an absolutely amazing taste in movies, although I'm not a huge Coen Brothers or Takashii Mike fan. I love Audition though.

Aye, thank you kind sir ^-^

I can understand not being a Takashi Mike fan. I'm not really big on his movies either, but not a fan of the Coen Brothers???

Blaspheme!

I will admit I was a bit disappointed by Audition after all the hype I heard over it. Ichi the Killer was way better.

 

[Julianking93]

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I saw Audition without hearing much, so it was completely fresh for me. As for the Coen Brothers, I can't stand any film they've done, which is why my name is Fargo. <.< Just kidding, I like a lot of their films, but some of them I just really don't like, or 'get'.

As for Ichi the Killer, I didn't like that very much. It seems like such a shallow movie when I know Miike can do better. He can be a real top-class film-maker, but he seems to spend so much time in terrible B-Movies when he could be making more high-quality stuff like Audition.

However, you get many respects for also being a Park Chan-Wook fan. That guy is amazing

I was about to say....>>

Still what is it about them that you don't like? I'm not going to get pissed or flame you, I'm just curious because a lot of people say they're just "boring"

Eh. I liked it because of its B movie feel. And because it was gory as hell. And Gozu was good just because it's fucking crazy XD
Audition to me was just....boring. What I heard was that it was a constant horror filled freak out of a movie and what I got was a slow paced tense thriller almost with only one scene of real gore or horror to it. I would have liked it more if people hadn't told me how great it was at first but I can still see why people liked it so much.

That last scene was pretty gruesome.

Everyone who likes Park Chan Wook gets props for simply liking him. He's yet to make a movie I didn't like. That one thing he did for 3 Extremes was....okay but Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Lady Vengeance and Thirst are all amazing movies.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

The Rock with Sean Connery and Nick Cage.

The most "enjoyable" movie I've ever seen.

 

[Hman121]

Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Julianking93]

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Well, stuff like Fargo, The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men I really enjoyed, but then they have films where they end and I just kind of go 'So, everything that was accomplished is now either redundant or I don't care about it? Great.' I especially felt like that after Burn After Reading. I think that simply isn't a good film. They also have a distinct lack of emotion in some of there stuff, I feel. While Fargo had a great ending that was both bleak and warm, a lot of the time the characters they write about seem more like caricatures than actual people.

As for Audition, it was my kind of film. I like the slow-burn, with everything building to a climax rather than set-pieces inserted at every opportunity to keep the audience interested. Ichi the Killer I thought was okay the first time I saw it, but I have a friend who keeps trying to explain to me that it's actually very 'deep'. He is an idiot for that one belief.

I have yet to see Three Extremes, but I'm going to pick it up when I can. Hopefully I'll like it. As for other Park Chan-Wook films, nothing he ever does disappoints me. Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance are probably two of the best foreign films ever made in my books, sitting right beside Let the Right One In.

While I love the Coen brothers, I completely agree with you. Especially when it comes to Burn After Reading. That film just wasn't very good. I don't like watching a movie only to find out that none of it even mattered. That's just something the Coen brothers see in the world I guess. They're showing more of caricatures and exaggerations rather than normal people. Pretty much every fault in their movies is present in Burn After Reading.

I like those type of movies too, it's just that I wasn't prepared to see a movie like that. I was expecting something completely different after what so many people told me. No, Ichi the Killer is not deep. It's pretty much just a mindless gory movie. I liked it for what it was, but it in no way was deep.

I can't even compare anything in good conscious to Let the Right One In....it's just a masterpiece. That's why I'm so fucking pissed about the remake.

 

[I Max95]

well three of the greatest movies in existance are still in theatres so ill tell yopu about a few others

Serenity-fun and stunning conclusion to the TV show firefly which passed away after 14 episodes then came back as serenity
great action likeable stars and one of my favorite climaxs in all movies
its about the crew of the starship serenity who have to protect a girl on their ship who is psychic and who is being hunted by the government

V for Vendetta- made by the wachowskis, i loved it because despite the action and the blood it also works as a statement about politics facism, religion and descrimination
about a terrorist named V who plans to blow up the english parlament on november the fifth and takes place over the course of a year

if you were wondering about the three in theatres they were Scott pilgrim vs the world, Inception, and Toy story 3 which you bshould definently see and see scott pilgrim another three times since it needs the support

 

[Ask]

Ocean's 11 and 13.

 

[cloudcover]

Here's a list of the films I've downloaded

Animated films;
Ratatouille
The Incredibles
Up
Wall-E (the PIXAR one)
The Iron Giant

Comedies;
Land of the Lost
Tropic Thunder
Night at the Museum (1 and 2)
Pineapple Express
The Hangover
The Foot Fist Way
This is Spinal Tap
Old School

Action;
Star Trek
Serenity
Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans
Manhunter
Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights
Dune
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Also check out Sunshine! There are plenty more but that should hold you over for a while.

 

[Julianking93]

While I love the Coen brothers, I completely agree with you. Especially when it comes to Burn After Reading. That film just wasn't very good. I don't like watching a movie only to find out that none of it even mattered. That's just something the Coen brothers see in the world I guess. They're showing more of caricatures and exaggerations rather than normal people. Pretty much every fault in their movies is present in Burn After Reading.

I like those type of movies too, it's just that I wasn't prepared to see a movie like that. I was expecting something completely different after what so many people told me. No, Ichi the Killer is not deep. It's pretty much just a mindless gory movie. I liked it for what it was, but it in no way was deep.

I can't even compare anything in good conscious to Let the Right One In....it's just a masterpiece. That's why I'm so fucking pissed about the remake.

The remake is going to be horrible. They're either going to re-make it shot for shot and do it worse, or cut everything good out of the movie. They're even making Hakan into Eli's father. The only point of Hakan was that the audience was unsure what relationship the two had, whether it was platonic or he had some kind of paedophilic attraction to her, like he did in the book. By designating him a role you ruin any ambiguity about that part of the film, and I feel this is the route they'll take for the whole thing. It'll just be pointing out everything and leaving no moral ambiguity.

STOP FUCKING WITH THINGS I LOVE, HOLLYWOOD!

Wait what? That's bullshit! I mean, I get the whole deal with the pedophillia and it was only slightly hinted at in the original movie but making him the father with incestuous pedo attractions is just going to make him unlikable. I still felt for the guy in the original especially when

Spoiler

he pretty much killed himself to give her food

I personally feel though, from watching trailers, that it's going to be a far bloodier movie with straight up horror feelings and almost completely get rid of the romance the Oskar and Eli had in the original. It looks to be made like she's going to have to control her natural vampiric cravings in order to be with Oskar (or whatever the fuck they're calling him) and that wasn't the point of the original. The point was that she had to keep moving and killing to live.

 

[Julianking93]

Wait what? That's bullshit! I mean, I get the whole deal with the pedophillia and it was only slightly hinted at in the original movie but making him the father with incestuous pedo attractions is just going to make him unlikable. I still felt for the guy in the original especially when

Spoiler

he pretty much killed himself to give her food

I personally feel though, from watching trailers, that it's going to be a far bloodier movie with straight up horror feelings and almost completely get rid of the romance the Oskar and Eli had in the original. It looks to be made like she's going to have to control her natural vampiric cravings in order to be with Oskar (or whatever the fuck they're calling him) and that wasn't the point of the original. The point was that she had to keep moving and killing to live.

They're removing the paedophilia aspect entirely. He's just someone who gets her blood, for one reason or another. From what I've read, they also seem to be playing up the whole 'Oskar is just another Hakan' thing, which is what I hated. If you look at Eli like that the whole film loses it's warmth, and even the author of the novel, who wrote the Swedish screenplay, has stated his intent was to make the ending a happy one. So playing up the whole 'Eli is using Oskar!' thing is a terrible idea and makes me agree with you, that they're going to turn it more into a horror than the original, which really was a film about the friendship between those two.

And they're calling him Owen. Why? Because they are fucking idiots. All they needed to do was Change it to Oscar instead and it would be perfectly suited for an American setting.

Ugh I hated that.

I let my mum watch the movie and she just thought the whole time "Oh so she's just using him like she used the other guy?" I didn't get that feeling at all when I first watched it and tried to explain that even the director stated that that specific interpretation is not what he intended. I understand how people could get that, but it's wrong. Don't make the movie into a stupid bleak horror that Hollywood seems to like so much.

This is like fucknig Quarantine all over again!!

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Oh, the list:

-Inception
-Batman Begins
-The Dark Knight
-Star Wars
-Zombieland
-Any of the Monty Python films
-Any of Mel Brook's films
-Airplane!

Yep, pretty much all of those, just slap on Back to the Future and both Hot Shots movies.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

To get the ball rolling I'll state a movie I loved: The Green Mile.

It was excellent from start to finish with great characterisation, brilliant acting (with superb casting) and it was sad and soppy without once involving romance.

I could say the exact same thing about The Shawshank Redemption. I cannot find anything wrong with that film, hence why it resides as my #1 fav film.

Hardly surprising; they're both Frank Darabont movies based on Stephen King novels.

OT: Pulp Fiction. I've found that you can watch it with pretty much any mindset or expecting almost any type of movie and you'll still enjoy the hell out of it.

 

[AvsJoe]

Favourite movie: Pulp Fiction
Recent favourite: I saw Casablanca for the first time a little over 2 weeks ago. Great film!
Favourite from ages ago: I haven't seen Battle Royale in about 4 years now but it's still one of my top 10 favourites.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

The Departed, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Shutter Island, District 9, Goodfellas, and Fight Club. That's all I can come up with right now. I could watch these at any time.