decent films

OOtzen-Booty
OOtzen-Booty Posts: 116
edited January 2009 in The bottom bracket
Can anybody recomend a good film????

I,m laid up with a porly wrist and in need of a good dvd.
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  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Starship troopers 8)
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  • aarw
    aarw Posts: 448
    just signed up to lovefilm last week, watched In Bruges, i really liked it. Now watching Once, shit camera work but great music.

    also watched Inside I'm Dancing last night. very funny, very sad.

    what sort of film you after?
  • jp1985
    jp1985 Posts: 434
    In Bruges
  • McHattie
    McHattie Posts: 146
    +1 for In Bruges, plus The Bank Job. Both cracking entertainment.
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    +3 (?) for "In Bruges" - watched it last night for the first time - a really good story in a "Pulp Fiction" sort of genre
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  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    watched trainspotters the other night and it was just great.

    reservoir dogs is also good
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    The Shawshank Redemption
    Kelly's Heroes
    Le Mans
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  • yogi
    yogi Posts: 456
    ++ for 'In Bruges' and 'Once'.

    On a more off-the-wall comedy level - 'Superbad'
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Not a film, but a series - The Wire - for the price of a film you get 12 hours of entertainment and there are 5 series - check out the reviews on Amazon
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  • Gotte
    Gotte Posts: 494
    Which wrist? That might determine the, err, genre ;)
  • nasahapley
    nasahapley Posts: 717
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Not a film, but a series - The Wire - for the price of a film you get 12 hours of entertainment and there are 5 series - check out the reviews on Amazon

    This is very, very good advice - The Wire is amazing (and seriously addictive) - you either love it or haven't seen it. Another +1 for 'In Bruge' too, but minus several million for 'Superbad' - there are insufficient words in the English language to describe how bad that film is! 'City of God' is one of my favourites, and 'The Lives of Others' is fantastic (subtitles though).
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    Black Hawk Down

    Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

    In Bruges
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • EdHarris
    EdHarris Posts: 81
    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the French Connection films and The Shining.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Napoleon Dynamite
    Anchorman
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Lagavulin wrote:
    The Shawshank Redemption
    Kelly's Heroes
    Le Mans

    Great films. As is Superbad as Yogi suggets. On the same level as 40 Year old Virgin if you havent seen it. Surely the biggest downside to watching In Bruges is Colin Farrell being in it. What a f***ing monkey!
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    If we're going to talk series:

    Arrested Development
    Peep Show
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  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    The Dark Knight - haven't been a big fan of recent Batman movies, but thought this one was very good.
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  • homercles
    homercles Posts: 499
    If you like skiing, I highly recommend 'Steep' - some amazing scenery and skiing in it.
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  • Gotte
    Gotte Posts: 494
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    Lagavulin wrote:
    The Shawshank Redemption
    Kelly's Heroes
    Le Mans

    Surely the biggest downside to watching In Bruges is Colin Farrell being in it. What a f***ing monkey!

    I hear you, brother.
  • Ken Night
    Ken Night Posts: 2,005
    + 1 for Shawshank Redemption,

    How about some golden oldies

    Saw To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time last year-recommended

    always liked the Third Man, Brief Encounter, Casablanca
    Cabaret.....Silence of the Lambs, and Remains of the Day

    more recently, The Changeling
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Depending on your mood,you won't go far wrong with one of these.

    Feel good:-
    Waking Ned
    On A Clear Day

    Foreign:-
    Cyrano de Bergerac (Gerard Depardieu)
    36
    13 (don't read the blurb on the DVD box first!)
    The Lives of Others
    Tell No One

    Thriller:-
    Babel
    Heat
    Donnie Brasco
    21 Grams
    Mystic River
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  • ogre
    ogre Posts: 50
    If you're going to do series then "The Sopranos" but start at the beginning or you start confused.

    For films -
    Delicatessen
    Man on Wire
    Amelie
    Last of the Mohicans
    Fifth Element
    Touching the Void
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    Dark wet cold - FCN - 7
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Pan's Labyrinth.
    V for Vendetta
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Series-wise I thoroughly enjoyed The West Wing. The first 3 or 4 seasons penned by Aaron Sorkin was enthralling stuff. I've watched and own them all but they started to tail off. I first got into it while recovering from a hospital op and, despite being in my early twenties at the time, I thought they were brilliant.

    Band of Brothers is also an inexcusable omission from a DVD collection.
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  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    Lagavulin wrote:
    Series-wise I thoroughly enjoyed The West Wing. The first 3 or 4 seasons penned by Aaron Sorkin was enthralling stuff. I've watched and own them all but they started to tail off. I first got into it while recovering from a hospital op and, despite being in my early twenties at the time, I thought they were brilliant.

    Band of Brothers is also an inexcusable omission from a DVD collection.

    +1 for the first 4 seasons of West Wing

    If you need something less morally superior, seriously recommend Green Wing :D

    Sopranos also a good choice.

    Film-wise, if you're into Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the like, No Country for Old Men was very good, too.

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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    One of my favourite films is a Boulting brothers film from the sixties called "The family way"

    Stars John and Hayley Mills and Hywell Bennett.

    Absolutely brill. For me what makes it more poinient is it was the last film I saw with my mum only a few weeks before she died unexpectedly.

    In it John Mills utters the line to his son

    "You might laugh at life now lad, but one day it'll make you bloody cry".
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  • percusski
    percusski Posts: 41
    some recommendations:

    The Lives Of Others
    Sunshine
    Remains of The Day
    The Pianist

    far too many to mention here.
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    +1 for the first 4 seasons of West Wing
    Glad it isn't just me who thought it went downhill when Sorkin left. Still enjoyed seasons 5, 6 and 7 but they weren't of the same calibre.

    Bullitt. I could watch the Mustang GT390 scream around San Francisco for probably half a day.
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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    Lagavulin wrote:

    Bullitt. I could watch the Mustang GT390 scream around San Francisco for probably half a day.

    Great film, but did you notice the same VW beetle appearing driving down every street - common car I guess :wink:

    My vote goes to City of God - a sensational film.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    alfablue wrote:
    Lagavulin wrote:

    Bullitt. I could watch the Mustang GT390 scream around San Francisco for probably half a day.

    Great film, but did you notice the same VW beetle appearing driving down every street - common car I guess :wink:

    My vote goes to City of God - a sensational film.

    The same one they over take 6 or 7 times? Hands up who doesnt turn the volume up during the chase? The Mustang is a lovely car granted, but the baddies always drove Dodge Chargers and thats what I wanted. Does anyone know if the horn always got stuck on when the car blows up in petrol stations? That would be quite annoying.

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