5 films you'd recommend to uzzers

Cleat Eastwood
Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
edited June 2010 in The bottom bracket
I wid recommend zees

1. Mirror- Tarkovsky
2. Sympathy for the Devil- Godard
3. City Lights-Chaplin
4. Napoleon Dynamite
5. Naked Gun 33 1/3

cos each does a new thing with the medium.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Fight Club
    Lost in Translation
    Brokeback Mountain
    Inglorious Basterds
    Munich.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Only 5? Tricky.

    I've chosen my favourites from separate genres. In no particular order:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Scarface
    Papillon
    Napoleon Dynamite
    Aliens

    I don't count 2001: A Space Odyssey as sci-fi to be honest... don't know what genre it should be in!
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  • thedirge
    thedirge Posts: 181
    Millers Crossing
    Pi
    Dead mans shoes
    LA Story
    Hot Rod
    Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.

    Thinking about things isn't the same as doing things. Otherwise everybody would be in jail.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Das Boot
    Grosse Point Blank
    Before Sunrise
    A Bridge Too Far
    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • Brassknocker
    Brassknocker Posts: 209
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Withnail & I
    The Big Lebowski
    The Day of the Jackal
    Das Boot

    ...actually, the first three listed there I didn't like the first time around, but think they're all incredible now!
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    The Departed
    The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
    Dead Mans Shoes
    Goodbye Mr Chips (original)
    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • BigG67
    BigG67 Posts: 582
    I'll go for the different genre idea as well...

    Sci Fi - Blade Runner
    Comedy - Young Frankenstien
    Action(ish) - Leon
    Drama - Schindlers List
    Horror - The Omen (original)
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    Pulp Fiction
    Amelie
    Ludwig
    Apocalypse Now
    Shallow Grave

    Fast and Bulbous
    Peregrinations
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  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Hard just to pick 5, however here are 5 off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned so far

    The Usual Suspects
    Amores Perros
    21 Grams
    Pans Labyrinth
    Godfather 1&2
  • yakubu22
    yakubu22 Posts: 20
    Much too hard to pick all time top 5, so top 5 recent films instead:

    1. The Damned United
    2. Drag Me to Hell
    3. The Dark Knight
    4. Knocked-Up
    5. Funny People

    (Nice to see Dead Mans Shoes get a couple of mentions above by the way)
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Trainspotting
    Wicker Man (original, of course)
    Life of Brian
    La Haine
    Ong Bak
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Trainspotting
    Wicker Man (original, of course)
    Life of Brian
    La Haine
    Ong Bak

    Jusqu’ici tout va bien...
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    In no particular order

    Pulp Fiction
    Slapshot
    The Dark Knight
    Clerks
    Snatch
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • magicrhodes
    magicrhodes Posts: 123
    thedirge wrote:
    Millers Crossing
    Pi
    Dead mans shoes
    LA Story
    Hot Rod

    A fellow Pi fan cool!!!
  • garryc
    garryc Posts: 203
    Only 5!

    Fight Club
    Amelie
    The Big Lebowski
    Blade Runner
    Alien


    But there's so many other good ones I've left out...
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Metropolis It speaks for itself.
    2001: A Space Odyssey I'm surprised that it's been mentioned a few times already as I'm the only one that I know that thinks it's brilliant.
    Irreversable Told backwards and in French. Contains the most realistic, and disturbing, rape and smashing in of someone's head with a fire extinguisher that I've ever seen.
    The Usual Suspects Still not sure whether Kaiser Soze really exists.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Visually stunning and you can almost believe that people can run up walls, fly etc. Beautifully choreographed fight scenes.

    A sixth, because I just can't leave it out: Fargo
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  • PhilofCas
    PhilofCas Posts: 1,153
    Last king of Scotland
    Sin Nombre
    City of God
    Let the right one in
    Avatar
  • Heckler1974
    Heckler1974 Posts: 479
    Glengarry Glenross
    Big Lebowski
    Kingdom of Heaven
    Withnail & I
    Ronin
  • jc4lab
    jc4lab Posts: 554
    For anyone about to go to Australia..Wolf Creek
    Since starting Cycling and the car abuse that comes with it. .Death Wish.& .Harry Brown..
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  • nobunaga
    nobunaga Posts: 23
    Beerfest
    Bring It On
    The Boondock Saints
    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Infernal Affairs
  • ScaldedCat
    ScaldedCat Posts: 111
    In Bruges
    The Damned United
    Good
    Eastern Promises
    Black Hawk Down



    Not your average womans choice of movies I grant you but that's one of the reasons I'm so amazing. :wink:


    ...and modest. :lol:
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Is that CP Taylors Good, the one about the corruption of the professor in Nazi Germany. Top class.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    LA Confidential
    Clerks
    Oldboy
    Brokeback Mountain
    Goodfellas
  • ScaldedCat
    ScaldedCat Posts: 111
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Is that CP Taylors Good, the one about the corruption of the professor in Nazi Germany. Top class.

    Yes that's the one. I know one of the chaps in the movie and was lucky enough to go to the main uk premiere.
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Rather than go for my favourites – I’m going for films I think fell through the net somehow or in one case - is old and often disreagrded - and most people I know haven’t seen them – but should.

    Tideland
    Cube
    Adaptation
    Dig!
    A Day At The Races
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Killing Zoe
    Dizzy Detectives
    District 9
    Outpost
    Hallam Foe
  • 1footedninja
    1footedninja Posts: 269
    Ive gone mad(max) on dystopian futures films recently, submarine films and anything with a film score by Roy Budd so:

    1)'Das Boot' - the best sub film going!
    2)'Le Temps du loup' (time of the wolf)
    3)Anything early Jean Luc Godard - 'alphaville', 'a woman is a woman', 'le weekend' being faves
    4)'Who Dares Wins', 'Marseilles contract' - Roy Budd is the don of spy / thriller / psychadelia soundtracks
    5)'Treeless Mountain' - Korean film, its a little gem of a movie.

    and cos I never go by the rules thought I would add another : 'Samson and Delilah' (2009) Aussie film and whilst Im at it 'Ten canoes' as well. :)
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  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    5 gritty Northern films in no particular order:

    Saturday Night Sunday Morning
    This Sporting Life
    Dead Man's Shoes
    Kes
    Hobson's Choice
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  • will2580
    will2580 Posts: 86
    tropic thunder
    napoleon dynamite
    dance of the dead
    zombieland
    lord of the rings
    commencal meta 5.5.3
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    ah only 5,

    Brazil
    South Park the Movie
    Delicatessan
    Philidelphia Story
    Momento (although you may need to watch this twice - does that count as 6 then?)
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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