Need some Movie Help!!

I've got 6 weeks annual leave coming up from work, and i'm hoping to go away for a week or 2... But even with a small holiday, it'll still be finding myself hanging around home for a month and I know i'm going to be frequenting the video shop regularly to ease boredom... I've been looking on Rottentomatoes.com to try to find some high rated movies and such, but it's a pretty difficult search..

I hate trying to pick random movies at the video store that I havn't seen as either I don't end up watching them, or I do end up watching them and they are crap..

So I need some help -

What movies have you seen lately that are out on DVD that you would recommend watching.. They can be anything from New Releases to classics, just anything that can provide a couple of hours entertainment during long boring days at home, and movies you thought were cool...

Definate reps on the way for anyone that offers a couple of suggestions..

Fantasic 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer ( Effects are ok, but could have been better)

Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's End ( Good effects and a few twists at the end)

The One ... With Jet Li

Willow

What type of moves do you like?

Seen quite a few lately

Death Sentence
Shoot em Up (daft but pure entertainment for 80 mins)

Also

This is England

and Tell No One (french version of a Harlan Coben novel) Subtitled but excellent

Sunshine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YZ2-xR54UDU

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Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla

Sunshine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YZ2-xR54UDU

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Yeah I thought sunshine was hella good also man. Definately check that one out bro.

The Nines - With Ryan Reynolds is pretty cool definately weird though.
Eastern Promises - Was really good
The Amateurs - I thought is was pretty funny
American Gangster - I think its an instant classic

if I think of somemore I'll come back to this thread.

American Gangster with Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington, was just released on dvd here in the states, so not sure if you have it there yet, but it's a great movie.

I'm sure you've probably seen it, but if not, 300 is a great movie.

I see you have a Snatch avatar, if you haven't seen Guy Ritchie's first flick, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, you should check that out.

3:10 To Yuma with Russell Crowe & Christian Bale

Eastern Promises with Viggo Mortensen & Naomi Watts. Viggo plays a Russian Mafia Hitman, and he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for this role.

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Originally Posted by Wadeb_21

Yeah I thought sunshine was hella good also man. Definately check that one out bro.

The Nines - With Ryan Reynolds is pretty cool definately weird though.
Eastern Promises - Was really good
The Amateurs - I thought is was pretty funny
American Gangster - I think its an instant classic

if I think of somemore I'll come back to this thread.

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I was typing my list at the same time as you, and I see we both recommended two of the same movies. ;D

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Originally Posted by DGs_Diane

I was typing my list at the same time as you, and I see we both recommended two of the same movies. ;D

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Thats funny.
I see you recommended 3:10 to Yuma that was movie was really good also. Not mention the Russel Crowes characher "Ben Wade" is actually my name lol, I thought that was funny when I was watching it I like not crap that guy has the same name as me lol.

They call me Trinity

Can I be the only one to remember these films?;D

Hitman - The movie
Snakes On A Plane
The 3 Bourne films
The 3 Blade films
Saving Private Ryan
Road Trip
Euro Trip

Snake On A Plane!!!! :confused:

That should go in the "Movies to watch while your stoned" thread. ;D

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Originally Posted by DGs_Diane

Snake On A Plane!!!! :confused:

That should go in the "Movies to watch while your stoned" thread. ;D

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Seriousley I liked that movie but everyone else does'nt, even people from where I live :D

Maybe its just because I like planes and snakes a lot ;D

I just purchased "30 Days Of Nights", it's a good shit.

I can't wait to get a copy of "I Am Legend", that's another good shit too.

It depends on what kinds of movies you like as well as what actors and actresses or directors.


Anything by Kubrick other than Eyes Wide Shut (Tom Cruise has ruined EVERYTHING).

That list includes: The Shining, 2001 Space Odessy, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket.

Some of my other favorite movies:
American Psycho
Point Break
Dazed and Confused
Sin City
The Star Wars movies...usually just the original trilogy
Terminator 1-3
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 & 2, 3 was total crap
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Miami Vice - I think the original pilot episode is better than the movie with Colin fucking Farell
From Hell
Batman Begins
Batman the one with Jack Nicholson as Joker
Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man series - there are 6 movies total, great detective movies
Stalaag 17
The Great Escape
Bullitt
Scarface....the Al Pacino one OR the James Cagney one

I could keep going but just tell me what genre you like best before I spend all day posting movies

Smilla's Sense of Snow (weird, X-Files type of a movie)
Candyman
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Fido
American Me
In the Mouth of Madness
Afro Samurai
The Thing
Napoleon Dynamite
The Tao of Steve
The Green Mile
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nothing.
Series 7
Kolobos
Cube

Below are a couple of the ones that have been posted that i've seen lately and really liked :

Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's End
Snatch & Lock Stock

Snakes On A Plane
The 3 Bourne films
The 3 Blade films
Saving Private Ryan
Road Trip
(we've got the same taste down to a tea... these are straight out of my 'watched several times collection'.. Snakes on a plane kicks ass!)

American Psycho
Point Break
From Hell
Batman Begins
Black Hawk Down
The Matrix
Sin City
Clockwork Orange
The Shining
(your the movie king lyle, I think we have the same range of tastes as well... You must be a bum at home like bilbo with all the movies you've seen! I wonder if he has a dvd player??)

The Green Mile
Cube
Napoleon Dynamite

I pretty much like all genre's... I can and am entertained by anything...

There is nothing that I would say that I don't like... Well, nothing that you guys would ever recommend anyway.. My girlfriend manages to pick the odd one that bore's the shit out of me...
Anyway, even though I don't intend on getting stoned during holidays, the other thread helped as well.

I'm just going through my collection now and picking out a bunch of random ones that I particularly like to give you some more idea's.. I'm sure some of them will get you guys thinking..
About 50% of what everyone has posted i've seen and liked! and 50% I havn't seen at all... No one posted any that I have seen and havn't liked,,, so their are already some great suggestions for me to check out that I have faith in..

Anyway here's some ones of mine I found laying around.

Behind Enemy Lines
Children of Men
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
The Aviator
Hostel
Gladiator
007 Casino Royale (shit maybe i'll do a James Bond marathon minus the new peirce brosnan ones)
Dressed to kill
Final Destination 1,2,3
Wedding Crashers (particularly cool)
Borat
The Departed
Get Shorty
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
Insomnia
Searching for Bobby Fischer
All Harry Potters
Crash
American History X
Club Dread
Blow
Jarhead (awesome)

So there is a bit of everything there..

Eastern Promises

The Four Feathers

The 9th Gate

The Recruit

Secret Window

American Me

Blood In Blood Out{been a while, is that the right name?}:rolleyes:

Weekend at Bernie's

Vanilla Sky

I highly recommend The Thin Man series...all Nick Charles (played by William Powell) does is drink and smoke....and solve crimes.


You can't go wrong with any of the following

Arsenic and Old Lace - a comedy starring Cary Grant

Lawrence of Arabia - very informative about the Middle East and entertaining

Hitchcock movies: North By Northwest(GREAT movie), Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, and Rear Window.

The Best Years of Our Lives - about how 3 guys and their families cope post WWII...stars Harold Russle a REAL WWII hero who lost both his arms in battle and one of only 2 non-professional actors to win an Oscar.

The French Connection - The story of Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo and their efforts to stop the heroin trafficing from France to the US.

The Deer Hunter - Another story of life before and after war, this time Vietnam and this time it's not a feel good story either.


And Hamburger Hill is an underrated war movie....and The Lost Battalion is a good World War I flick.

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Originally Posted by Lyle

I highly recommend The Thin Man series...all Nick Charles (played by William Powell) does is drink and smoke....and solve crimes.


You can't go wrong with any of the following

Arsenic and Old Lace - a comedy starring Cary Grant

Lawrence of Arabia - very informative about the Middle East and entertaining

Hitchcock movies: North By Northwest(GREAT movie), Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, and Rear Window.

The Best Years of Our Lives - about how 3 guys and their families cope post WWII...stars Harold Russle a REAL WWII hero who lost both his arms in battle and one of only 2 non-professional actors to win an Oscar.

The French Connection - The story of Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo and their efforts to stop the heroin trafficing from France to the US.

The Deer Hunter - Another story of life before and after war, this time Vietnam and this time it's not a feel good story either.


And Hamburger Hill is an underrated war movie....and The Lost Battalion is a good World War I flick.

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Arsenic and Old Lace is a GREAT movie.. along with french connection, i'd add Bullitt with Steve Mcqueen

and Lyle you hit just about all the GREAT Hitch films but "Shadow of a Doubt" is one of my favorites.. it's probably second after Psycho.. Psycho blew me the fuck away when i watched it and it is my second favorite movie all time.. behind Memento.. So Dizaster if you haven't seen Memento then you haven't lived yet.. The best movie, all around, i have ever seen, and i was a film student for 3 years so there is my attempt at receiving some sort of credibility in this discussion..

Also, Suicide Kings with Christopher Walken was a good flick..

Lyle have you ever seen the movie "Tape"? One of my cult classic favorites.. The whole movie takes place in a single hotel room, it's fantastic.. A setting and environment where your actors are FORCED to act to their fullest, and they come through.

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Originally Posted by LEGION

Eastern Promises

The Four Feathers

The 9th Gate

The Recruit

Secret Window

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Legion.. you LIKED Secret Window?!?! Is it because you have some sort of man crush on Johnny Depp or is it because you haven't seen Fight Club, Memento, or The Shining (the wife) yet?

that movie was a horrible rip-off and carbon copy of those movies BUT with Johnny Depp..

Yes, I have a huge man-love crush on Johnny Depp. He's a hottie;)

Seriously, I liked Secret Window. Not the greatest movie, but one I just watched and had it on my mind when this thread came up.

I will try next time to discriminate with better movie choices so as to not offend the serious movie critics such as yourself:D

Speaking of great classics, try Circle of Iron;D

Munich was a great movie IMO also.

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Yes, I have a huge man-love crush on Johnny Depp. He's a hottie;)

Seriously, I liked Secret Window. Not the greatest movie, but one I just watched and had it on my mind when this thread came up.

I will try next time to discriminate with better movie choices so as to not offend the serious movie critics such as yourself:D

Speaking of great classics, try Circle of Iron;D

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haha.. not saying that my opinion is 'correct', just wondering how you liked such a shitty movie :lickish:.. I actually worked at a video store at the time it was released, and normally, the general public enjoys all of the bullshit movies, like secret window, and surprisingly a lot of people didn't like it.. I just couldn't enjoy the movie subconsciously knowing how it was going to end, and knowing that it was a rip-off.. just my opinion..

I haven't seen Munich, so i can't comment on that..

My movie collection is at my girlfriends apartment, but the stray movies i have still at my house right above me on a shelf are: Lost in Translation, Pans Labyrinth, I Heart Huckabees, Bottle Rocket, Punch-Drunk Love (top 15-20ish fav of all time) and The Machinist, just to give an idea of movies i liked enough to purchase.. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan, but wasn't able to see Darjeeling Limited when it was in theatres.. managed to burn a copy of it but the quality was so shitty that it was unwatchable, so i plan on getting it this week.. Especially considering the prequel to it, the Hotel Chevalier short film is on the DVD and you get to see Natalie Portmans bare ass.. Has anyone seen it yet?

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Originally Posted by RP33

Arsenic and Old Lace is a GREAT movie.. along with french connection, i'd add Bullitt with Steve Mcqueen

and Lyle you hit just about all the GREAT Hitch films but "Shadow of a Doubt" is one of my favorites.. it's probably second after Psycho.. Psycho blew me the fuck away when i watched it and it is my second favorite movie all time.. behind Memento.. So Dizaster if you haven't seen Memento then you haven't lived yet.. The best movie, all around, i have ever seen, and i was a film student for 3 years so there is my attempt at receiving some sort of credibility in this discussion..

Also, Suicide Kings with Christopher Walken was a good flick..

Lyle have you ever seen the movie "Tape"? One of my cult classic favorites.. The whole movie takes place in a single hotel room, it's fantastic.. A setting and environment where your actors are FORCED to act to their fullest, and they come through.

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I haven't seen "Tape" yet but I will most certainly make a note of watching it in the near future.

My favorite Hitchcock film was "North by Northwest" no wonder Cary Grant was the #1 choice to play James Bond.

Any Abbot & Costello or Hope & Crosby movies are worth watching.

Any John Wayne movie is worth watching...I suggest "The Searchers"

I loved Punch Drunk Love RP33; watched it many times. I don't know why, as it depressed me for some reason:-\

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Originally Posted by LEGION

I loved Punch Drunk Love RP33; watched it many times. I don't know why, as it depressed me for some reason:-\

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good stuff..

why was it depressing?..

it concluded happily.

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Originally Posted by RP33

good stuff..

why was it depressing?..

it concluded happily.

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If I knew that I wouldn't watch it any more;D

Maybe because I really wanted to f#ck that chick for some reason, which is even more depressing:D

haha.. there was something about her eh? maybe the accent.. yeah, let's say it was the accent..

rent Boondock Saints.

Lyle you have some good taste in movies almost all you listed that I had seen I thought were good.:cool: