Recommend Me Some Good Movies

[Hollock]

I've been doing the same thing you said you're trying to do. I've been looking at a lot of websites that have been doing "best films of the decade lists" I'm going to steal all these recommendation and there's nothing you can do about it mwah ha ha!

anyways here a couple I'd recommend

28 days later- most people seem to have seen this but if you're like me you haven't cared for fast zombies and tried to avoid the fad before it became the thing to do (p.s I failed) you haven't seen it. It's actually good and I usually don't say that about horror unless it's directed by Sam "evil dead 4's coming or else" Raimi
sideways- I really liked it and it's got a 97% on rotten tomatoes but it- I can't tell -I have a man crush on Paul Giamatti. Check it out if you do too
Dogma- Besides clerks this is Kevin Smiths best film, it's really super good.
Princess Mononoke- It's anime, it's Hayao Miyazaki, it's fucking awesome and I'm not a huge fan of anime.

also are you actually buying them because for what I've been trying to do in my training to be a film buff, is watching them online.

 

[GiG3L]

Here, I've got a good list for you, as I'm a movie freak myself:
-A Good Year
-August
-Extract
-Hank and Mike
-Lake City
-Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
-Revolver
-RocknRolla
-Snatch (last 4 movies are done by Guy Ritchie, and every single one are definitely worth watching!)
-Rise of the Footsoldier
-Stealing Harvard
-The Damned United
-The Number 23
-Hackers and Hackers 2: Operation Takedown
-City of Angels
-Fat Pizza
-Forever Strong
-Jeux D'enfants (very very beautiful movie...definitely worth it if you find it on net/movie place with English subtitles...unless you speak French)
-Meet Joe Black
-The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
-The Pianist
-All of the French Taxi movies (all are brilliant)

Tell me what you like from the list (try on IMDB to see about each...it'll be worth it) and say from which types you'd like to know more...I have a huuuuge list on my HDs!

 

[vrbtny]

It's just struck me.... the ultimate movie for you to watch.

ANGELS AND DEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. on a serious not.

Try out Taken, a Excellent B-movie starring Liam Neeson.

 

[Arisato-kun]

I can safely recommend any movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki. All are animated and all are very good movies. I'd recommend Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle out of the list of his movies. I'll also add Grave of the Fireflies to that list of animation as well despite not being directed by Miyazaki. If that movie doesn't make you cry then you're not human.

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are hilarious movies as well and you should check them out if you appreciate smart British humor.

Finally I'll recommend Fight Club and The Boondock Saints just because of the sheer brilliance of both of them.

 

[Starkey The Pirate]

There's Something About Mary

So I Married and Axe Murderer

Groundhog Day

The Usual Suspects

500 Days of Summer (LEAVE ME ALONE)

Sahara

The Hangover

Casino Royale

 

[MortalForNow]

District 9 was great. Daybreakers was pretty solid, besides Willem Defoe. I really enjoyed Watchmen and 300, but then again I think Zack Snyder is a genius director, so I'm a little bias. Avatar, if you haven't seen it, was really good as well. Sherlock Holmes was really good, too.

Saw District 9 and both of those Snyder films. Now that Daybreakers is getting a lot of attention, I really want to see it. And I did want to see Sherlock Holmes but didn't get around to it yet.

28 days later- most people seem to have seen this but if you're like me you haven't cared for fast zombies and tried to avoid the fad before it became the thing to do (p.s I failed) you haven't seen it. It's actually good and I usually don't say that unless it's direceted by Sam "evil dead 4's coming or else" Raimi
sideways- I really liked it and it's got a 97% on rotten tomatoes but it- I can't tell -I have a man crush on Paul Giamatti. Check it out if you do too
Dogma- Besides clerks this is Kevin Smiths best film, it's really super good.
Princess Mononoke- It's anime, it's Hayao Miyazaki, it's fucking awesome and I'm not a huge fan of anime.

Saw 28 Days Later after I saw Slumdog (same director) and actually really liked the use of isolation in the beginning followed quickly by the panic that remained for most of the movie. Sideways is another that passed by me and I'm gonna see it at some point. Dogma is one that I wanted to see as well. And I heard about that Miyazki film and just looked it up after all of his films were recommended previously.

 

[aakibar]

TOM HANKS' MOVIES!!!

personal favorite
apollo 13
castaway

the longest day is good if you want to see an old WW2 movie
The bridge at Remagen good

all of the wwII movies are a little on the long side and at time hokey if you can bear it

 

[VicunaBlue]

American History X

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Zombie-land and District 9 were probably my favorite movies that came out last year, if you haven't seen them already then check them out.

Haha, those were the exact two I was going to recommend.

However, I'll add another two: Hot Fuzz or Rosemary's Baby (old-ish; from the 1960s but it's all good). The Hangover was also awesome.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Let the Right One In. I know it's already been said but that movie is just excellent. Probably one of the best movies I've ever seen and you can watch it for free on Netflix if you have it.

The Hurt Locker came out on DVD just yesterday actually and it is the best war movie I have ever seen in my life.

And Eraserhead. Definitely not one of my favorite movies but it's probably the most unique movie I've ever seen.

 

[MortalForNow]

Here, I've got a good list for you, as I'm a movie freak myself:
-A Good Year
-August
-Extract
-Hank and Mike
-Lake City
-Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
-Revolver
-RocknRolla
-Snatch (last 4 movies are done by Guy Ritchie, and every single one are definitely worth watching!)
-Rise of the Footsoldier
-Stealing Harvard
-The Damned United
-The Number 23
-Hackers and Hackers 2: Operation Takedown
-City of Angels
-Fat Pizza
-Forever Strong
-Jeux D'enfants (very very beautiful movie...definitely worth it if you find it on net/movie place with English subtitles...unless you speak French)
-Meet Joe Black
-The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
-The Pianist
-All of the French Taxi movies (all are brilliant)

Tell me what you like from the list (try on IMDB to see about each...it'll be worth it) and say from which types you'd like to know more...I have a huuuuge list on my HDs!

Gonna PM you soon about the ones I've seen and ones that I'll consider checking out.

I can safely recommend any movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki. All are animated and all are very good movies. I'd recommend Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle out of the list of his movies.

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are hilarious movies as well and you should check them out if you appreciate smart British humor.

Finally I'll recommend Fight Club and The Boondock Saints just because of the sheer brilliance of both of them.

Oddly enough, the two Miyazaki movies you've recommended were the two that I distinctly remember seeing. Loved both of Wright's comedies and have now come to greatly appreciate his filmmaking. And I have seen Fight Club (loved it) but haven't seen Boondock Saints yet.

There's Something About Mary

So I Married and Axe Murderer

Groundhog Day

The Usual Suspects

500 Days of Summer (LEAVE ME ALONE)

Sahara

The Hangover

Casino Royale

Seen all of them except for Axe Murderer, 500 Days of Summer (heard good things about it, probably gonna see it soon) and Sahara.

TOM HANKS' MOVIES!!!

personal favorite
apollo 13
castaway

the longest day is good if you want to see an old WW2 movie
The bridge at Remagen good

all of the wwII movies are a little on the long side and at time hokey if you can bear it

Seen all of them and, yes, while they might be long, some of them, especially Longest Day, are worth it.

 

[vrbtny]

The Simpsons movie.... if you haven't already.

You don't need to watch the T.V series to get it.... I didn't

 

[silentsentinel]

I'm gonna recommend something rather unusual, since everyone's talking about all these high profile movies.

I really enjoyed a Japanese movie called "Departures". It's about a cellist that moves to the Japanese countryside after his orchestra is disbanded. He looks for a new job and finds an advertisement for a job in "Departures". He checks out that job, thinking of travel agencies, but finds out that there was a misprint in the paper: it should have been "Departed". The job is preparing bodies for burial. The cellist is revolted (encoffiners are not well-respected in Japan), but he tries the job anyway since the pay is good, and tries to keep his new job a secret from his wife and friends.

It's a very slow, slice-of-life sort of film, and not a film for everyone. It mainly deals with the ways people deal with grief and death, since the main character witnesses many funerals. The main character also grows with each funeral he watches: he starts out a tad timid and weak in the beginning of the film (lots of emotional baggage) but finds closure as he helps give other people closure.

Don't really know if you'll like it, since you're into Tarentino and such (I like him too, by the way). But hell, I thought I'd mention something different.

 

[dalek sec]

Hot Fuzz.

 

[pearcinator]

Hot (fucking) Fuzz!

EDIT: I just read that you have already seen it...

Well my other top movies are...

Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 (not 3 cos it blew chunks)
The Incredibles
Kung Fu Panda
Rat Race
Die Hard (any of them...although I thought #2 was the weakest)
Indiana Jones (1 & 3 are the best)
The Untouchables
2012 (very entertaining for me)
Johnny English (lol I love this movie)
Star Trek (the most recent one, I liked it although the story was pretty weak)

as for ones in cinemas now...

Avatar (although I would be VERY surprised if you havnt seen it yet)
Sherlock Holmes (same as above)
The Lovely Bones (I liked it but critics gave it so much shit)

Avoid...

Transformers 1 & 2
Twilight 1 & 2
Anything else shithouse lool

 

[Plazmatic]

Children of men, but just a warning, it is not funny and is serious.

 

[MortalForNow]

I'm gonna recommend something rather unusual, since everyone's talking about all these high profile movies.

I really enjoyed a Japanese movie called "Departures". It's about a cellist that moves to the Japanese countryside after his orchestra is disbanded. He looks for a new job and finds an advertisement for a job in "Departures". He checks out that job, thinking of travel agencies, but finds out that there was a misprint in the paper: it should have been "Departed". The job is preparing bodies for burial. The cellist is revolted (encoffiners are not well-respected in Japan), but he tries the job anyway since the pay is good, and tries to keep his new job a secret from his wife and friends.

It's a very slow, slice-of-life sort of film, and not a film for everyone. It mainly deals with the ways people deal with grief and death, since the main character witnesses many funerals. The main character also grows with each funeral he watches: he starts out a tad timid and weak in the beginning of the film (lots of emotional baggage) but finds closure as he helps give other people closure.

Don't really know if you'll like it, since you're into Tarentino and such (I like him too, by the way). But hell, I thought I'd mention something different.

Heard about it, and since it beat out Waltz With Bashir (another great foreign language film) for Best Foreign Picture at the Oscars, I want to see it even more.

 

[Jenkins]

A scanner Darkly, Dr. Strangelove, Jarhead, BoB series, The Graduate, Goodmorning Vietnam etc etc.

 

[x0ny]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest. It's got Jack Nicholson in it, who also starred in Kubrick's The Shining and Batman. The movie's about a guy who gets put into a mental hospital because of a crime he had committed. He makes some friends and tries to go against that evil nurse. I won't say anymore, in case I spoil it.

 

[MortalForNow]

Hot (fucking) Fuzz!

EDIT: I just read that you have already seen it...

Well my other top movies are...

Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 (not 3 cos it blew chunks)
The Incredibles
Kung Fu Panda
Rat Race
Die Hard (any of them...although I thought #2 was the weakest)
Indiana Jones (1 & 3 are the best)
The Untouchables
2012 (very entertaining for me)
Johnny English (lol I love this movie)
Star Trek (the most recent one, I liked it although the story was pretty weak)

as for ones in cinemas now...

Avatar (although I would be VERY surprised if you havnt seen it yet)
Sherlock Holmes (same as above)
The Lovely Bones (I liked it but critics gave it so much shit)

Avoid...

Transformers 1 & 2
Twilight 1 & 2
Anything else shithouse lool

Seen all of them up to the Indiana Jones movies. All of them afterwards I haven't seen. Yes, I'm going to see Star Trek soon. And yes, I'm going to see Avatar this weekend (haven't so far because of time conflicts and because I want to build the anticipation for myself). Haven't seen Sherlock yet but want to soon. The Lovely Bones looked really promising and had a lot of hype, but even with the critics' opinions, I still want to see it.

And, on a side note, I agree with your views on the best/worst Die Hard and Indiana Jones movies.