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[Sylar]

Two films to avoid as if your life depended on it:

Tree of Life and Cyrus.

Utterly god awful beyond any measurable level.

[hibsbollah]

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The ending to Melancholia is given away within the first 10 minutes. I think Von Trier's reasoning was that the question of whether the world would end or not would have detracted from the story, and taken focus away from the characters. Personally, I would've liked not to have known.

I found it to be an extremely chilling ending - probably one of the scariest I've seen. Brilliant film though IMO.

To me, the big strength of the film (on top of Von Triers laudable imagination) was Kirsten Dunst. Shes taken her place amongst the best mainstream actors around IMO.

[easty]

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Two films to avoid as if your life depended on it:

Tree of Life and Cyrus.

Utterly god awful beyond any measurable level.

I watched Cyrus last week, I actually expected it to be good, the story has potential to be good. But, you're right, it is awful.

I'd recommend Kick-Ass, Zombieland (quality Bill Murray cameo) and Troll Hunter.

[Sir David Gray]

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A time to kill.
Some very good performances from "a" lst Hollywood dudes in an excellent film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/fullcredits

I'm not a film lover at all and I hardly ever go to the cinema but that is a brilliant film. I watched a bit of it at school and loved it and since then, I've seen the whole film and really enjoyed it.

It's on from time to time on BBC and I've watched it a lot.

Highly recommend it.

[easty]

Just finished watching Last of the Mohicans on 5. Doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, it's still brilliant.

[matty_f]

This is a cracking thread. I love Lovefilm, only on a two disc a month package but I've basically just stuck loads of recommendations down on my wishlist and am slowly getting through them. Really like getting films I'd not have bothered looking at otherwise.

Some good ones I've had recently:

Source Code
The Fighter
Frost/Nixon
RED

Had some turkeys as well - Tropic Thunder and The Tourist were bollocks.

[SRHibs]

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Two films to avoid as if your life depended on it:

Tree of Life and Cyrus.

Utterly god awful beyond any measurable level.

I actually enjoyed The Tree of Life. Terrence Malick is an awesome director.

Films for the OP to watch:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Drive
The Tree of Life
Good Will Hunting
Amelie
The Social Network
Into the Wild
The Sunset Limited
Romanzo Criminale
Un Prophete
The Thin Red Line
The Ides of March

[frazeHFC]

Not a fan of Nicholas Cage normally, but The Rock is one film i never got bored of. Love it.



My 5 favourite films are probably:

Lord of the Rings trilogy
Shawshank Redemption
Se7en
Memento
Saving Private Ryan


Imo that is a heavenly crop of films.

[SteveHFC]

I.D.
Cass

[HH81]

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I.D.
Cass

Casual :-)

Why has no one mentioned braveheart? :-)

[BroxburnHibee]

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Not a fan of Nicholas Cage normally, but The Rock is one film i never got bored of. Love it.



My 5 favourite films are probably:

Lord of the Rings trilogy
Shawshank Redemption
Se7en
Memento
Saving Private Ryan


Imo that is a heavenly crop of films.

That's 7

[Sylar]

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I actually enjoyed The Tree of Life. Terrence Malick is an awesome director.

Films for the OP to watch:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Drive
The Tree of Life
Good Will Hunting
Amelie
The Social Network
Into the Wild
The Sunset Limited
Romanzo Criminale
Un Prophete
The Thin Red Line
The Ides of March

Opinions and all that, but I'm keen to know why did you enjoy it?

I've no arguments that visually, it's stunning - but it's like a fragmented scrapbook of good imagery, masquerading as an attempt to convey some deep spiritual philosophical ideal, with no story behind it (well, there is a narrative, but it's awfully constructed).

There's nothing to hold on to and in the end, it's a lengthy drawn out pretentious failure of a film.

Someone once told Malik he was an artist, and he's evidently become besought by the idea.

There seems to be a feeling amongst the critics who've reviewed the film, whereby because it's "an artistic director", because it's utterly pretentious and because it's non-commercial, they have to be seen to wax lyrical about this, or be seen as stupid/outcast because they slated an artistic masterpiece.

I am keen to ask someone who enjoyed it what makes so good though, as most people I've spoken to (many of whom are self-confessed cinephiles) thought similar to me, that it was woeful.

[Barman Stanton]

If you like Doc Films then there are some excellent ones you may not have seen. Dogtown and Z Boys is about how skateboarding started in the 70s, hate to think how many times iv watched it.

Kong of Kong also worth a watch. About a guy trying to beat the Donkey Kong world record and is very very funny.

[Matty_Jack04]

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Yeah you can get unlimited streaming for a fiver a month, but unsure if they have more or less content than Netflix.

I'm on the 14.99 a month deal, you can get unlimited rentals and streaming, plus Xbox, Ps3, Wii, PSP, DS games etc, you get 3 discs at home at a time, no late fees etc, I watch a lot of films so find 14.99 a month to be a pretty good deal considering I'd probably spend more than that on DVD's/Games if I didn't rent them. You can drop down to 2 discs at home at a time for £11.22 a month.

I've heard of people saying the films go missing in the post etc, but I guess that will happen from time to time, they haven't missed a beat with me though, whenever I've sent a film back I've got a new one through the letterbox within 2 days. I usually send old ones back on Thursday and have new ones through on Saturday in time for the weekend.

Think I might have a couple of '2 months free' offer codes, if anyone fancies one just drop me a pm.

Iv just started a months trial with Netflix pretty good it has movies documentarys and tv programmes all streamed to the ps3/Xbox with a smart phone app too.
only worry I have for it is how often they freshen the list of choices up, there's a lot of content but it won't take long to get through the good stuff and some tv sets aren't full series

Think il stick with it as u can cancel at anytime might also add love film so the movies keep coming since I'm having to cut off the sky tv

[Betty Boop]

Pan's Labyrinth on Film Four now.

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A History of Violence
Audition
Battle Royale
Brotherhood
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Drive
Four Lions
In Bruges
Infernal Affairs
Lady Vengeance
The Last Seduction
Let The Right One In
The Messenger
Michael Clayton
Office Space
Ran
Sexy Beast
Slap Shot
Thirteen Assassins
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Zatoichi

All these, plus

The Conversation
Unforgiven
The Third Man
Touch of Evil
Arsenic and Old Lace

And if you're just feeling silly, Vincent Price in The Comedy of Terror which is completely silly but has big Vince along withBoris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone and Joe E Brown thoroughly enjoying themselves in a spoof horror.

A Little Shop of Horrors is good, too.

You'll enjoy In Bruges.

[.Sean.]

Black Swan is fantastic, it also stars the unbelievably fit Mila Kunis.

[The_Exile]

Got Tree of Life through so will give that a watch tonight I think

Recent films I watched and enjoyed were:

The Tree - usually don't go for this type of film, but as I'm a dad now I think I view these films a bit differently and was pretty close to choking up, almost tears (only cried at one film in my entire life, that was homeward bound at the age of 8)
, basically this is about a dad who dies and his kid can hear him in the tree outside their house, but the tree is old, huge and doing damage to the house so..........

Source Code - Damn fine film, I knew what the ending would be about half way through but was still a pretty good watch.

The Ghost - Think this was on Channel 4 recently but streamed this the other night, the casting for this was perfect, Brosnan as the ex prime minister accused of war crimes and McGregor as his ghost writer, plenty twists and turns and an enjoyable story, on for over 2 hours so a long one but I don't mind the long films if it's attached to a good story which this one very much was.

[easty]

I watched Sleepers at the weekend. Hadn't seen that for years, good film though. I've always meant to read the book but never got around to it.

[Phil D. Rolls]

I had the misfortune to watch Invictus starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. Damon is excellent as Stephen Pienaar (?) but Freeman does a Spitting Image take on Nelson Mandela. If you've ever seen the Comic Strips take on the miners strike, then you'll know where the makers of this film about post apartheid S. Africa got their inspiration.

Shutter Island is an excellent film though, check it out.

[cal-d hibs]

I've said it before but happy to mention a great film in La Haine.

[Bighoose]

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If you like Doc Films then there are some excellent ones you may not have seen. Dogtown and Z Boys is about how skateboarding started in the 70s, hate to think how many times iv watched it.

Kong of Kong also worth a watch. About a guy trying to beat the Donkey Kong world record and is very very funny.

Have to agree Dogtown and Z Boys is really good and even for someone with no interest in skateboarding.

Another good doc is Dig! a documentary on the once-promising American rock bands The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the friendship/rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor. They all have such an over inflated opinion of themselves that it is mostly unintensionally hilarious.

[lyonhibs]

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I had the misfortune to watch Invictus starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. Damon is excellent as Stephen Pienaar (?) but Freeman does a Spitting Image take on Nelson Mandela. If you've ever seen the Comic Strips take on the miners strike, then you'll know where the makers of this film about post apartheid S. Africa got their inspiration.

Shutter Island is an excellent film though, check it out.

Nifty midfielder for Everton, but it was Francois Pienaar who led the Springboks to victory.

Not Freeman's finest hour though, I grant you. Still, when you're CV included "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Shawshank Redemption", you're allowed a mediocre effort every now and again.

For a non-fiction fild, I would utterly recommend "Senna" to anyone, even if - like me - you're not especially interested in F1.

Absolutely spellbinding, and such a character (not to mention an incredible driver) compared to the dull as ditchwater "Rent-a-quote" chumps that populate F1 these days.

[Future17]

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For a non-fiction fild, I would utterly recommend "Senna" to anyone, even if - like me - you're not especially interested in F1.

Absolutely spellbinding, and such a character (not to mention an incredible driver) compared to the dull as ditchwater "Rent-a-quote" chumps that populate F1 these days.

Senna =

I'm not much of an F1 fan either, but Senna is a sporting icon.

[The Modfather]

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Anti-Christ

Is that the Lars Von Trier film with Willem Dafoe?

That film genuinely freaked me out!! The scene where.....I can't even talk about it! Couldn't watch anymore after that scene.

Some of my favourites that haven't been mentioned -

Ferris Buellers Day Off
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Mystic River
A Bridge Too Far
The Untouchables

Could quite easily reel off 100 films here so I'll stop.

[Dinkydoo]

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Is that the Lars Von Trier film with Willem Dafoe?

That film genuinely freaked me out!! The scene where.....I can't even talk about it! Couldn't watch anymore after that scene.

Yep, thats the one :

The most truly disturbing, yet (bafflingly) intriguing, film I have ever seen.

For a "favourite" I've only actually brought myself to watch it once more after the first time, and if you saw the uncut version then I'm sure you'll know why!

The first time I watched it for some reason the talking fox totally freaked me out - to this day I cannot pinpoint why and no other film has ever done that to me. Hence why, for me, it has to be up there as a "favourite" - after all the best movies are the ones that really make you 'feel'.

[GhostofBolivar]

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Senna =

I'm not much of an F1 fan either, but Senna is a sporting icon.

Similar films...

When We Were Kings
Fire In Babylon

[Pete]

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Top thread boys


Guity Pleasure - Notting Hill. Quite like a 'chick flick', usually a bit of totty on show and easy to watch.


I should be embarassed about having watched Titanic in excess of 50 times, but am no - Cannae wait for it at the Cinema in 3D!

Have to agree. You can't beat a bit of big black ass!

[Skanko79]

Watched "Limitless" at the weekend, was decent.

[Gatecrasher]

i think it may have already been mentioned but i watched Men of Honor on Monday and thought it was brilliant.
Full Metal Jacket
Ferris Bueller day off