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Recommend me some movies (you know you want to)
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Really liked Dead Again when it first came out.
Good thriller from the early 90's you may not have seen.
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101669/
Good thriller from the early 90's you may not have seen.
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101669/
lilraylewis
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For a good thriller I would recommend The Usual Suspects, if you haven't seen it alread
Also, try High Fidelity, Swingers, and American Beauty if you liked Office Space. The movies are not really that similar, but they all share a certain vibe (or maybe not. It's early and I'm talking out of my ass. I would still recommend picking up all three.)
Also, try High Fidelity, Swingers, and American Beauty if you liked Office Space. The movies are not really that similar, but they all share a certain vibe (or maybe not. It's early and I'm talking out of my ass. I would still recommend picking up all three.)
Birbo said:Really liked Dead Again when it first came out.
Good thriller from the early 90's you may not have seen.
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101669/
That's not a religious thriller is it?
Seen Snatch and loved it btw.
Thanks lilray, I've seen American Beauty but not the other two. I'll check them out.
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silver said:That's not a religious thriller is it?
Seen Snatch and loved it btw.
Thanks lilray, I've seen American Beauty but not the other two. I'll check them out.
You absolutely need it to be religious? Damn. I'd have said Don't Look Now.
High Fidelity is a good comedy, yeah, a great one even.
25th Hour (The only Spike Lee 'joint' I've ever actually enjoyed)
Tombstone (Val Kilmer's role of a lifetime)
...not really comedies or religious, but they're still quality movies. Generally, a good 'comedy' may be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, too. Or you could try Adaptation.
Tombstone (Val Kilmer's role of a lifetime)
...not really comedies or religious, but they're still quality movies. Generally, a good 'comedy' may be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, too. Or you could try Adaptation.
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AlphaSnake said:
Please don't trust him.
silver said:
Along the "religious thriller" line, you should check out Frailty. Of course, if you wanted to see a religious comedy, there's always Dogma, too.
As far as other movies go, check out Memento, Galaxy Quest, The Fifth Element, Leon, The Iron Giant (one of the best animated films ever, IMO), and Pitch Black.
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I second Frailty. If you liked Snatch you should see Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells.
High Fidelity! It freaking owns. John Cusack owns. OWNAGE!
I thought The Usual Suspects was pretty bleh, I saw it well after it came out in the theaters, and even though I wasn't spoiled I saw the ending coming a mile away.
Kinda amateurish direction too, or at least I thought so myself. I know I'm in the minority here, but oh well.
I thought The Usual Suspects was pretty bleh, I saw it well after it came out in the theaters, and even though I wasn't spoiled I saw the ending coming a mile away.
Probably had something to do with Spacey's reputation of playing psychos, which mainly started after this film.
No one mentioned The Big Lebowski yet?
It's my favorite movie ever, while Office Space is my second one. I have a soft spot for dark humor.
Of course, if you watch The Big Lebowski, you could also watch every Coen Brothers film ever made, they are all worth it (except for the last two ones, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers, where's the originality? Coens are all about originality). I have all their movies on DVD.
And anything directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Lastly, you could watch cult movies such as This is Spinal Tap, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It's my favorite movie ever, while Office Space is my second one. I have a soft spot for dark humor.
Of course, if you watch The Big Lebowski, you could also watch every Coen Brothers film ever made, they are all worth it (except for the last two ones, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers, where's the originality? Coens are all about originality). I have all their movies on DVD.
And anything directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Lastly, you could watch cult movies such as This is Spinal Tap, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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jett said:High Fidelity! It freaking owns. John Cusack owns. OWNAGE!
I thought The Usual Suspects was pretty bleh, I saw it well after it came out in the theaters, and even though I wasn't spoiled I saw the ending coming a mile away.Kinda amateurish direction too, or at least I thought so myself. I know I'm in the minority here, but oh well.Probably had something to do with Spacey's reputation of playing psychos, which mainly started after this film.
Woohoo! The Usual Suspects is one of the most overrated movies of all time. If you take out the ending, the movie is completely devoid of any interest story-wise, and the direction is incredibly amateurish indeed. And well, Bryan Singer made the X-Men movies afterwards, so it's not like he's a really serious director (no offense, X-fans, but hey..).
On a movie script point of view, writing something like The Usual Suspects is incredibly easy. You can tell any story you want, it doesn't have to make any sense in the end, since it's all fake, and you are REVEALED that it is fake at the end. It's the "crime" equivalent of the "IT WAS ALL A DREAM" shitty ending.
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Vlad said:
Fuck! How did I forget that movie? It's a really freaking great movie, almost an almost-near-masterpiece, heh. Really, the direction is great, acting is great, and it questions a lot of stuff. You MUST see this.
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City of God. If you haven't seen it yet, drop everything and run out and get it. NOW.
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