Movies that are awesome that youve seen recently

[Hippee]

Have you guys seen anything really AWESOME lately?

I have -

Hang Em High - Clint Eastwood's first American-made Western - 60s maybe - it is really good. If you like stuff like Trigun and Metal Gear or badasses shooting people, then you should check out some of Eastwood's westerns - fistful of dollars, good bad and the ugly, etc.

Dr. Petiot - French film made in the 90s. It is about a Dr. who would (in the 1940s) tell Jews he would smuggle them to South Africa, instead he would kill them and take their money and valuables. Very AWESOME very haunting.

City of God - Pretty recent. French (?) film about Rio De Janeiro. Very violent. Lots of guns. Great story. Highly Highly recommended if you like anything crime related or if you like violence.

Plan 9 From Outer Space - Older. Horribly AWESOME Ed Wood was a God. The script really is BRILLIANT. No joke. See it now.

Tell me about some good movies you people have seen or I'll get mad.

 

[FeelGood]

Ichi the Killer (I think about it daily)

Battle Royale

Versus

Brother

Fireworks

Scarface

Grave of the Fireflies

Fight Club

Bloodsport

Fallen

Memento

Lost Highway

Videodrome

The Naked Lunch

El Topo

 

[FeelGood]

oh woops - didn't catch that recently.

these are just movies you should see so that you can see eye to eye with me on life and neo geo games.

 

[Liquid Snake]

Scary Movie 3

 

[Baseley09]

Have you guys seen anything really AWESOME lately?

City of God - Pretty recent. French (?) film about Rio De Janeiro. Very violent. Lots of guns. Great story. Highly Highly recommended if you like anything crime related or if you like violence.

That is a great film, rare thing these days, kinda like "Once upon a time in America", but obviously.....in Brazil



.......I enjoyed "Gregory's 2 Girls" on TV t'other nite.

 

[Mattitude]

Hmmm...

Last Samurai

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Hard Boiled

Ninja Scroll

 

[BoriquaSNK]

EW, you liked versus? I really hated it, it seemed pretty exhausting...I was kind of hoping for a straight up samurai flick and I felt the film dragged on for too long...also zombies shouldn't be able to shoot guns dammit.

And with the exception of Fight Club, I think everything else on your list is spot on though, Ichi the killer is a classic, and I've been hosting screenings of Battle Royale on my campus all semester.

Here's a few more:

The Happiness of the Katakuris: An excellent and disturbing film by Takashi Miike, an allegory about the ultimatum given to and rape of moral society by comercialism, surrealistic claymation and random J-Pop musical numbers litter the film.

Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee's masterpiece, an ironic film that doesn't answer any questions but asks many. THe movie is surprisingly rare, good luck finding it (I paid $35 for my Criterion version a year ago). But don't take the ending at face value, Spike Lee is NOT taking sides racially no matter what it looks like.

Hollywood Shuffle: Robert Townsend's only meaningful film, sort of exploitation but not really. It's what Bamboozled should have been, some of the best subversive editing ever for an independdent film...it's also fucking hilarious.

Vertigo: The most complex and disturbing modernist film ever made. Everytime you watch it, it gets sicker and more disturbing. It also shows Hitchcock's personal weaknesses as a man and his personal (and ironic) obsessive relationship with Grace Kelly, who doesn't appear in the film...in person anyway.

Batman Forever and Batman and Robin: Two films created in the spirit of John Waters and David Lynch. These two films are Joel Schumacher's "fuck you" to the studio system, as well as his vanity "coming out of the closet" projects. He took $100 million of Warner's money, made two commercial cultural icons homosexuals, and then laughed all the way to the bank. You may hate these films, but look at them knowing the nipples were put on the batsuit on PURPOSE, and it's a completely different experience.

 

[EvilMike]

The satire in Versus is freakin amazing.

EWs list is spot on. Other things people should see that are pure quality.

Snatch
Boondock Saints
The Big Lebowski
Requim for a Dream
The Way of the Gun
Jin-Roh
The Usual Suspects

 

[MegaDrive20XX]

Movies seen lately that rocked!
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The Gospel of John
The Red Spectacles
The Last Samurai
Manchurian Canidate (never saw it until yesterday)
Dead or Alive Final (#3)
Bubba Ho-Tep
Gingi Naki Tatakai #4: High Tactics
---Fight Without Honor) *JPN VHS non subtitled.


...personas on rewind

 

[BeefJerky]

Pirates of the Caribbean

I like pirates

 

[FeelGood]

EW, you liked versus? I really hated it, it seemed pretty exhausting...I was kind of hoping for a straight up samurai flick and I felt the film dragged on for too long...also zombies shouldn't be able to shoot guns dammit.

I like Zombie movies.

I like yakuza movies, obviously.

I also like samurai movies.

This was like, everything I could ask for.

 

[Lashujin]

Kinda liked Memento, and Run Lola Run

 

[BIG]

Kill Bill Vol.1
The Last Samurai
21 Grams
Suicide Circle
Man Bites Dog
Versus
Irreversible

 

[Hippee]

Hey - is Battle Royale out on VHS or dvd? - soon? They showed it here on campus ONCE and I missed it

- what's Versus about? Japanese?

Boriqua - I agree, Do the Right Thing is Awesome. The story of Right hand/ Left hand, grabbing a slice w/ extra cheese... instant classic

 

[RVF400]

want scary jap films?, ju-oh the grudge, that is some freaky shit right there, there are 3 versions 2 television shows and a film.
the sequal to the first t.v show is the scariest, it seems really boring through out the entire film and explains nothing about whats going on, then right at the end you realise whats been happening and it SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF YOU in a similar way to the ring, i couldn't get out of bed cos i was too scared!

 

[mog]

8 1/2
Donnie Darko

 

[Hippee]

Whoa Mog - last night I almost watched 8 1/2, but I thought it was too long so I saw Killer's Kiss (Kubrick) and Plan 9 from outer space.

Coincidence?

 

[Pink Spider]

You're not alone EvilWasabi, I lliked Versus alot as well.

 

[BoriquaSNK]

Yeah, apparently I'm the only one that thought it was horseshit...well i stand by my horseshit claim dammit.

 

[jeff_mangum]

Batman Returns and Batman Forever: Two films created in the spirit of John Waters and David Lynch. These two films are Joel Schumacher's "fuck you" to the studio system, as well as his vanity "coming out of the closet" projects. He took $100 million of Warner's money, made two commercial cultural icons homosexuals, and then laughed all the way to the bank. You may hate these films, but look at them knowing the nipples were put on the batsuit on PURPOSE, and it's a completely different experience.

Okay, maybe you just got confused, but Batman Returns was directed by Tim Burton.

And Batman Forever isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but Batman & Robin might be. You can't be serious about B & R.

 

[Frame Gride 2]

White Oleander(great movie)
About Schmidt
We Were Soldiers
Memento

 

[BoriquaSNK]

Okay, maybe you just got confused, but Batman Returns was directed by Tim Burton.

And Batman Forever isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but Batman & Robin might be. You can't be serious about B & R.

You're right, I meant Batman Forever and Batman and Robin...and yes I am serious. If you've ever seen a John Waters movie or Blue Velvet and if you can see past the commercialism, they're great satires.

 

[neobuyer]

I saw Versus in the theater and it gave me a headache- to much on screen all at once. On DVD it's probably much less jarring.

Pirates of the Carribean (never thought I'd like a movie Jerry Bruckheimer produced)

Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters (can't stop watching it)

The Triplettes of Belleville

 

[slerch666]

Millennium Actress

 

[mog]

Whoa Mog - last night I almost watched 8 1/2, but I thought it was too long so I saw Killer's Kiss (Kubrick) and Plan 9 from outer space.

Coincidence?

Woah. And I just passed up a chance to see Plan 9.
That is pretty