5 films you'd recommend to uzzers

thedirge

Dancer in the Dark? Surprised it hasn't made the list.

Glad to see someone put Chinatown in there

I'd also add 'Kids' to my list http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/

Also LA confidential

afx237vi

thedirge wrote:

Dancer in the Dark? Surprised it hasn't made the list.

Great film, but not really one I'd recommend to someone else. Unless you have a suicidal mate you want to tip over the edge.

thedirge

Well okay it is rather sad.

Okay its more than sad I can't watch it and not cry my eyes out.

RonB

Porgy wrote:

RonB wrote:

Nightwatch (Nochnoi Dozor)

and not Daywatch?

Good point. Apparently this was always intended as a trilogy. I'm not aware of a third in the series though.

geordieindevon

1. Its a wonderful life

2. North by Northwest

3. Goodfellas

4. Shawshank Redemption

5. Sexybeast....Ben Kingsley is superb in this.

Chip \'oyler

Chip \'oyler wrote:

5 gritty Northern films in no particular order:

Saturday Night Sunday Morning
This Sporting Life
Dead Man's Shoes
Kes
Hobson's Choice

Can't believe I left out 'Get Carter' from that list! :roll:

ynyswen24

RonB wrote:

Porgy wrote:

RonB wrote:

Nightwatch (Nochnoi Dozor)

and not Daywatch?

Good point. Apparently this was always intended as a trilogy. I'm not aware of a third in the series though.

Baywatch?[/code]

rick_chasey

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rick_chasey

Presumably if you're recommending, it's usually a film someone's yet to see?

In which case, I'm going for films people dimiss out of hand because they sound rubbish. You've done the hard work watching all the rubbish films in the hope that some of them actually aren't rubbish, and thus can recommend:

Once > an irish film about a chap who fixes vacuum cleaners and writes songs who falls into love with a Czech immigrant. With lots of songs and singing.

Man on Wire > about an odd French chap who gets kicks out of tightrope walking between tall buildings. Possibly the most misleading poster tagline in a decade: "the greatest crime in history".

Primer > Seriously budget ($7000), low rent, low fi, single small camera film about two entrepreneurs who make a time machine. Only 70 minutes, poor production, and needs multiple viewings + many hours trawling through the internet to make any sense of it.

(Plenty well known): In Bruge > Colin Firth. In Bruge. Without any bikes. How could it actually be good?

In this World > Grainy, low fi, low budget film following a child's illegal immigration from Afganistan into the UK. Not quite a first date film...

Valy

Hibbs wrote:

Chip \'oyler wrote:

dennisn wrote:

Blues Brothers anyone? Your life is not complete without that movie.

Sorry. It's overrated bobbins

Hallelujah that man.

And Planes, Trains and bloody Automobiles! I suffered three years at uni with my "friends" continually raving about that film and quoting "those aren't pillows!" over and over and over and over and over... :evil:

IT'S NOT F***ING FUNNY! IT'S A PIECE OF OVER-RATED TORTOISE SH*T!

Hay, it's who is not funny.

rajMAN

The Hill
Get Carter
Billy Liar
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Once Upon A Time In The West

Chip \'oyler

rajMAN wrote:

The Hill
Get Carter
Billy Liar
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Once Upon A Time In The West

Billy Liar - superb film. Julie Christie is a plus in it as well!

rajMAN

Yeah she was, and a damn sight livelier than Billy's Orange sucking intended!!

Chip \'oyler

rajMAN wrote:

Yeah she was, and a damn sight livelier than Billy's Orange sucking intended!!

You and yer bloody oranges!

Tom Butcher

All pretty mainstream I know.

One flew over the cuckoos nest
Get Carter
A Better Tomorrow
Raging Bull
Dr Strangelove
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
The Prodigal Son