Movie Recommendations

I'm a movie junkie and need more crack so please gimme some recommendations :D

i like sci fiction, fantasy, animation and alternative movies and hate everything that's just cruel, violent and disgusting alÃÆÃâÃâá "saw". cube is okay since it is somewhat deeper. also i don't really like comedias, especially not blunt ones that are just stupid (like ace ventura), while true man show (to stay with jim carrey) is great.

i'll give you some recommendations myself (those that come to my mind and aren't too well known):

-telephone booth usually i'm not that much into thrillers, but this one is just awsome. the whole movie plays in a .. telephone booth (not a childrens movie, but should be okay for teenagers)

-cellular to stay with the same author this one's a similar movie. not as good, but still unusal and very thrilling

-eternal sunshine of the spotless mind very unusal love story, very surrealistic. wih noname actors like jim carrey, kate winslet, kirsten dunst and elijah woods (defintely not a childrens movie although nothing offensive at all and no violence)

-the iron giant absolutely great animation movie. (and absolutely suitable for children and if you aren't one and don't like the movie, find a hard object and punch yourself with it)

-crime city NOT sin city. never seen a movie that depicts violence so.. (realisticly!) violent. creeps under your skin.

-dogville minimalistic to the degree, that buildings are just hinted at with chalk lines painted on the floor to indicate a wall. seems boring in the beginning, but as the plot unfolded it chilled me to the bone. depicts humanity in it's worst and you won't even notice it.

-adaption same book author as eternal sunshine... (charlie kaufmann, also wrote being john malkovic). hard to describe. (funny sidenote: nicholas cage is fat in this movie) (some drugs and nudity in this one, but for sure it's not explicit. although i guess to a younger audience - not that i would be THAT old - the movie would just be boring)

-mars attacks! usually i don't like stupid movies, but this one is an exception. tim burton movie

-charlie and the choclate factory yah i know thisone is kinda new (although i read it's a remake). you really don't need to be 11 or younger to enjoy this one.

-Princess Mononoke one of the best animation movies ever. all character in this movie have a motives and a personality. no one is just "good" or "evil" (it's completly suitable for children in case you wonder)

-butterfly effect this one is about reality bending. creepy.

-zhao wen zhou - the blade a violent asian movie, but it's coherent violence. kinda an epic, with a hero and such. somewhat unusal mood.

-dark city surrealistic movie. although it has a dark mood it's not particularly violent.

-akira one of the best mangas ever.

-ghost in the shell 1&2 also a manga. i feel they are much more philosophical then akira. the second part is much harder to understand (as if the first part was that simple)

-the game unusal, thrilling

-they live the best john carpenter film in my opinon. those awsome sunglasses.. (no not because they look particular cool)

-the usual suspects great movie. somekind of gangster story. i don't know anybody, who saw it coming and then it hits you.

hm.. atm no other movies come to my mind. here's a list of better known movies i'd recommend you to watch if you haven't already:

-the matrix (duh)

-lord of war

-final fantasy

-the trueman show

-crouching tiger, hidden dragon

-fight club

-Natural Born Killers

-the devils advocate

also i enjoyed (although those movieas aren't as sophisticated as the ones above) movies like:

-X-men (1&2)

-Star Wars (all parts)

-Dune

-Star ship troopers

-Alien (i liked all parts, with the exception of alien vs predetor)

-pirates of the carribean (great movie, haven't seen the new one yet though)

-conan the barbarian (very well done movie)

-The Crow

-Robin Hood (the one with Kevin Costner =P. loved this movie when i was about 12)

-the mask of Zorro (2nd part is crap)

-Pulp fiction

-True Romance

-Dracula (with Gary Oldman as the count and Wiona Ryder, Keanue Reeves and Anthony Hopkins)

also i love jet li movies like:

-Evil Cult

-Kiss of the Dragon

-The One

-Meltdown (this one appears to be a "die hard" persiflage)

-Danny the Dog

-Once upon a time in china and north america

i'm sure i forgot to mention some really good ones, but maybe i could inspire you a little. was fun compiling this list. maybe you got some good ones for me =)

Update:

- American Beauty

- Requiem for a Dream

- Vanilla Sky

- Strange Days

- Fargo

- Smilla's sense of Snow

- L̮̩̉̉on the Professional

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is probably one of my favorite movies :3>

Usual Suspects is probably one of the better movies I've seen too :)

Yah it's a great movie.

I have a really hard time telling wich are my favourite movies, because on the one hand there are such extraordinarys as eternal sunshine .. and on the other hand there are all those amazing action heavy blockbusters like x-men or pirates of the carribean.

i think the greatest movie experience i ever had was matrix (damn am i common). i was sitting in the movie theater and had no idea, what i had to expect from this movie. i was just stunned about all the things that suddenly happend and how. every scene was just: wtf?

That's a nice list there mate :)

How are you on films from the '50s? There's a sticky on this board asking people to submit their top 10 '50s films. If you have some, it would be great if you could submit some. I'd also recommend checking out the ones already mentioned in that sticky if you haven't seen them. Some great pieces of cinema there :)

:-k I just saw Ringer the other day, one of the funniest movies i've seen in a while...Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is awesome (even if you didn't like/ never played the original game, the graphics are amazing and it's a great movie), Big Fish and Forest Gump are great movies with great stories, Wayne's World! \ Spaceballs is an awesome movie if you like stupid comedy, Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3 are probably in the top ten best movies i've ever seen.

Bubsa: movies of the 50ties :-s woha... reading the sticky, i know.. Ben Hur

Free: Johnny Knoxville?! but after reading the IMDB comment maybe i give it a try. (can't say i like Johnny Knoxville or more what he stands for: JackAss -> gross). The Big Fish might be more something for me. thatnks for the tips though :D

Have seen the others you mentioned. Final Fantasy is WAY better than FFVII in my opinion (both story and graphics) although it has some good parts (i love the white, peaceful room he sometimes suddenly stands in in the middle of the action). Back to the Future is good. Liked it much back when i saw it. Spaceballs is also okay, but not exactly the kind of movies i cherisy. Wayne's World is cool.

If you liked DOGVILLE, go for MANDERLAY which is the second part out of Trier's America trilogy. It has got different actors (Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace/ Willem Dafoe as Grace' father). Same set-up visually. And of course there are similarities thematically. If you liked this one as well you should of course wait till he releases the third and of course final part of the trilogy: WASINGTON (no, that isn't a typo), but as it still takes some waiting you might want to see some of his earlier work. In the final years of the 80's he started on a Europe trilogy consisting of the movies Forbrydelsens element (The Element of Crime), Epidemic and Europe. The trilogie is basically done just like you're seeing the America trilogie now, but it has got other visuals and theme. But everytime you have those same visuals and themes that set the mood for the trilogie. If you're interested you might want to check out some articles and movies about Dogme '95 which has been a very influential movie 'guilde' halfway trough the ninetees. It has been a huge influence on modern arthouse movies. Because it had strict rules that were suposed to lead the 'purification' (is that a word?:P) of modern cinema. I haven't seen much movies from it (only the more mainstream ones Festen and Idioterne). And work just called for an emergeny (on my freaking day off) so I'm going to work now and get back you in an hour or two/three. :)

yaah! now that you said it, someone told something about a trilogy. probably i forgot about it really quick, because the movie doesn't appear well to be sequeled.

Thanks for the other tips to. i hope i can get my hands on any of those.

btw (seems you like donnie darko) i have seen it, but i honestly didn't get it at all. might have something to do with watching it in english. i don't always get all important things when i do that. maybe i should watch it again.

:D Great film, you seen The Thing also by Carpenter?

Pretty much every film in my Owned and Wishlist are reccomended ^_^

Hmm, I had a perfect reply in my head before I went to work, now I'm out of inspiration and don't know what to write anymore. So I suggest you take a look at the DVD's in the collection which you can find a link for in signature. A bout 90 % of my collection are high quality films.

:(

this proves again, that working runes the inspiration. i suggest putting some collective effort against wage slavery!

lol yeah:

OBEY

once i watched the thing, but fell asleep. (rarely happens whilst watching a movie, but i was really tired at the time) Since it is "just a horror movie" i'm not too eager to give it anothr try. not amy favourite genre.

and how2pk, in case you get back to this thread, maybe you can enlighten me a little about donnie darko. like why did he survive in the first place? why did that change his reality? How did he get back in time? and why tf was he so happy to die?

thanks to you both btw :)

EDIT: oh just found a thread on that topic. maybe i should open my eyes a little..