What are some of your personal DVD recomendation?

[darekIsAwesome]

Doesnt matter what genre..I have a list of about 20-25 dvds on netflix (soem i m not sure if i wanna rent) and wanted to see what other movies i should look into.

[Othergods]

Donnie Darko

and pretty much anything from David Lynch and David Cronenburg.

Brazil is also a good movie.

[EddieBelfour]

i agree with the cronenberg statement

i would check out some jim jarmusch movies: dead man, ghost dog, stranger than paradise

kurosawa movies: yojimbo, sanjuro

[starman9000]

Big Lebowski,
Rushmore,
Stripes
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Muppet Movie
Bridge on the River Kwai
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

[EddieBelfour]

bottle rocket is good

if your looking to see something funny pretty much anything with peter sellers would be a plus.

punch drunk love
the gator ragowski flick
swimming pool (honey dip is so fine in this flick)

[jaso]

I do Netflix as well. Here are some suggestions:
The City of Lost Children
Amelie
Donnie Darko (a must-own, actually)
The Seven Samurai
City of God
Amores Perros
Memento
In The Bedroom
In America

[Rig]

Family Guy DVD Collection...

[Othergods]

Check out some of these foriegn films also.

Visitor Q
Audition
Versus
Storm Riders
I strongly second The City of Lost Children

Donnie Darko can be bought for $9.99 at Bestbuy the last time I check and it is a must have.

[BigDirty]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes- Comedy Horror Musical.... really bad, but really funny, sequels include Return of the Killer Tomatoes, and Killer Tomatoes go to France

Killer Klowns From Outer Space- Another Comedy/Horror movie. A true classic, the name says it all

Super Size Me

Cowboy Bebop (DVD Session 6, Movie)- Session six includes my favorite 2 episodes (also the end of the series) Real Folk Blues Part One & Two. The movie is exactly that, plays like a 2 hour episode.

One Day In September- Documentary on the 1972 Munich Olympics

[norkusa]

Eraserhead

[cag1000]

I do Netflix as well. Here are some suggestions:
The City of Lost Children
Amelie
Donnie Darko (a must-own, actually)
The Seven Samurai
City of God
Amores Perros
Memento
In The Bedroom
In America


i 2nd 3rd 4th 5th city of lost children
fucking incredible movie
any hellboy fans out there check out this guy

[cag1000]

everyone talks about donnie darko but this what i think of it.

fucking bunny thing bugs me out and i wanna kill it
i have a huge fucking crush on maggie gylenhall
but i hate jake gylenhall cause he was fucking kirsten dunst
and i should be bangin her
so that equals disdain for donnie darko
although u gotta watch it once
those reasons keep me from revisting it and turn the channel when its on

[Demolition Man]

I would check out the "V" series (V, V: The Final Battle, and V: The Complete Series). Well worth it, great classic yet campy 1980s sci-fi. And how can you go wrong with a series that has Robert England in it! :D

[doubledown]

The Hole with Thora Birch and Kiera Knightly's perky boobies

Good suspsnse/thriller movie

[Tromack]

If you are a fan of anime, I would reccomend checking at all of Satoshi Kon's works.

Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo GodFathers.

Hell, even if you don't like anime, check them out. It will definitely change your mind, at least about Satoshi Kon.

[Tromack]

I do Netflix as well. Here are some suggestions:
The City of Lost Children
Amelie
Donnie Darko (a must-own, actually)
The Seven Samurai
City of God
Amores Perros
Memento
In The Bedroom
In America

I agree with you on everything (except I wouldn't say Donnie Darko is a must-own, it is good, but not necessarily a must-own).

I doubly agree with The City of Lost Children and Amelie. After watching them watch Alien Resurrection (again, if you have already seen it). I personally was underwhelmed by Alien Resurrection the first time I saw it, but after seeing those two movies my mind changed.

[Othergods]

everyone talks about donnie darko but this what i think of it.

shaq-fuing bunny thing bugs me out and i wanna kill it
i have a huge shaq-fuing crush on maggie gylenhall
but i hate jake gylenhall cause he was shaq-fuing kirsten dunst
and i should be bangin her
so that equals disdain for donnie darko
although u gotta watch it once
those reasons keep me from revisting it and turn the channel when its on

I have figured out your major problem with this film!!! You are lusting after the wrong girl, Jena Malone is way hotter than Maggie Gylenhall.

[friedram]

Gene Rodenberry (spelling)- Andromeda- Seasons 1-4
Hell Boy
The Punisher
Man on Fire
Berserk Series
Ninja Scroll
Star Trek DS9 Series
Master and Commander
HEAT (DeNiro, Al Pichino- spelling)
Hulk Hogan VS Wal-Mart (ok I made that one up)

[chickenhawk]

Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Boondock Saints
Snatch
Swimming With Sharks
Killing Zoe
Spaceballs (!!!!!!!!!!)
12 Monkeys
Sleep With Me
Raising Arizona
Big Trouble in Little China

There are tons more, but those are some good ones that I didn't see listed already.

[cag1000]

Gene Rodenberry (spelling)- Andromeda- Seasons 1-4
Hell Boy
The Punisher
Man on Fire
Berserk Series
Ninja Scroll
Star Trek DS9 Series
Master and Commander
HEAT (DeNiro, Al Pichino- spelling)
Hulk Hogan VS Wal-Mart (ok I made that one up)

fuck id go out and buy 10 copies of hogan vs walmart

as a nice segue anyone c southpark walmart episode premier last night

[Gameboy415]

Dirty Work.

Its the funniest movie EVER.

[rebenns]

Go to www.rogerebert.com
Then, go to the section called "Great Movies".
All of those are worth seeing. Many are worth owning.

[darekIsAwesome]

BUMP..but i also need to say some of the bets movies i have seen and highly recoment.

Lock, Stock , and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
^^both Guy Ritchie films. LSATSB is more "smart" and snatch is the funniest and coolest movie ever!
City of God-VEEEEERRRRYYYY GOOD movie
and ofcourse Pulp Fiction

My top 4 favorite films

[thestuff]

Equilibrium
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Kill Bill movies

Anything by wes anderson or charlie kaufman.

And, I also love most Mel Brooks comedys.

[Goodtone]

Brotherhood of the Wolf
Boondock Saints
Spider
24 Hour Party People
The Exorcist
Gattaca
Legend
The Cell
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Royal Tenenbaums
12 Monkeys

[flybrione]

Bubba Ho-Tep
Dead Alive
Evil Dead 2
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Spirited Away
Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill
The Rock
Godfather
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Seven
Dark Crystal
Tombstone
Enter the Dragon

Try out these

[xzafixz]

Enter the Dragon

Most overrated Bruce Lee movie ever, get Game of Death.

And Versus if they have it, best movie on the planet.

[P0ldy]

Donnie Darko is overblown cool-to-see-this-"indie"-film nonsense.

Guy Ritchie is dull.

Netflix unfortunately doesn't have Eraserhead.

It would help if you listed exactly what is already in your Netflix queue to see what kind of films you like. However, some films to see if you aren't looking for the "it's hip to watch these" films...

Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
Hud (1963, Ritt)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica)
A Woman is a Woman (1962, Godard)
City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
Persona (1966, Bergman)
Night and Fog (1955, Resnais)
Network (1975, Lumet)
Talk to Her (2000, Almodovar)

There are 10 great films to get you started.

[darekIsAwesome]

OK kool..by the way i just saw Donnie and Darko and maybe SPOILERS?::::







SPOILER::::::::::::::
but is the ending supposed to really mean anythign other than like becoming overwhelmed by the whole life and thought thing or whatever? Like its hard to explain but is there like a real obvious meaning or is one of those...that you can't really decifer..just post if i dont make any sense.

SPOILER END::::::::::::::::::::

[P0ldy]

Uh, I'm not sure what you're talking about, but he went back in time to save his girlfriend's life. Hence the "sounds like a superhero" line.

[Admiral Ackbar]

Get City of God. I've watched it for the third time recently, and I'm coming to the conclusion that is one of the greatest movies ever made.

[The Gifuto]

The "Ekin Trilogy" Stormriders (which was mentioned earlier), The Duel, and A Man Called Hero.

I'll also second that Versus nod. Not sure if it's the best movie on the planet, but its still damn good. Hopefully the have the "Ultimate" version.

[Reality's Fringe]

Death Race 2000 . Hands down one of the, if not THE, most unintentionally hilarious movies ever. I got the ones with some of the most hilarious cover art at a local used DVD/game store. I bought the only two copies there for a total of $6.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001R044O/qid=1099604187/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-9849509-0415326?v=glance&s=dvd

Just-Just- Look at the box art on it. What expression IS that?! :rofl:

[darekIsAwesome]

Looks like he had his picture on School picture day

[Eric467]

Dark City and Equilibrium are great flicks too.

[PapiChullo]

Requiem For A Dream
Belly
Eurotrip
The Usual Suspects
Friday
Kids

[CrimsonGeist]

Punisher, like the one based on the marvel comic? I thought it sucked.

Full Metal Jacket
Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Rings series
Kill Bill Vol1 and 2
Any Simpsons dvd
Any Family Guy dvd
And Futurama dvd
Memento
Spider-man????
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
White Chicks

[Duo_Maxwell]

Didn't bother to look through the other posts but if nobody said it yet I recommend:

Suicide Kings

I loved it and it can be had for around $6 just about everywhere.

[msdmoney]

Rushmore Criterion
Godfather Collection
Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box

[DukDUk]

Freaks and Geeks: You're here so you're probably a geek. This is an incredibly well written, touching and honest portrayals of highschool life. It was a short running series on NBC in the late 90's that got cancelled like everything good does.

I second the Wes Anderson and Charlie Kaufman recommendation, best quirky director, best writer respectively.

[thatstoobad]

here's some of what i would suggest. some has been mentioned, some hasn't.

-city of god
-rushmore criterion
-royal tenenbaums
-david cross: let america laugh
-dancer in the dark
-freaks and geeks complete series
-high fidelity
-wet hot american summer
-wild zero
-upright citizens brigade season 1
-mr. show volumes 1, 2 and 3
-this is spinal tap
-waiting for guffman, best in show, and a mighty wind
-dr. strangelove
-being john malkovich
-the big lebowski
-audition
-happiness
-annie hall
-finding nemo
-amelie
-american splendor

obviously there's many, many, many more that could be mentioned, but already listed more than i needed to.

donnie darko isn't that great.

[norkusa]

Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
Hud (1963, Ritt)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica)
A Woman is a Woman (1962, Godard)
City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
Persona (1966, Bergman)
Night and Fog (1955, Resnais)
Network (1975, Lumet)
Talk to Her (2000, Almodovar)

There are 10 great films to get you started.

Nice to see somebody with good taste in film. I agree with every single one of those. :wink:

You sure Eraserhead isn't on Netflix? I could have sworn it was on there at one point. That movie is a "must buy" anyway, so anyone would be better off just purchasing it from davidlynch.com instead.

[Parathod]

Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
Hud (1963, Ritt)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica)
A Woman is a Woman (1962, Godard)
City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
Persona (1966, Bergman)
Night and Fog (1955, Resnais)
Network (1975, Lumet)
Talk to Her (2000, Almodovar)

There are 10 great films to get you started.

Nice to see somebody with good taste in film. I agree with every single one of those. :wink:

You sure Eraserhead isn't on Netflix? I could have sworn it was on there at one point. That movie is a "must buy" anyway, so anyone would be better off just purchasing it from davidlynch.com instead.

They say that David Lynch never revealed how he created the baby for that movie. That kind of always freaked me out a little bit. The only two Lynch movies I ever really appreciated were Elephant Man and Lost Highway. The rest are either too weird or too cheesy. I wonder what would have happened if he would have taken George Lucas's request and made Return of the Jedi.


Anyway, my recommendations are:

Buffalo' 66
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Yellow Submarine

Sorry I don't have a list of a 1,000 movies.

Edit: If you haven't taken a philosophy course yet, you might want to check out the film Waking Life. It's a good introduction into certain themes that you'll have to learn about when you take the course in college. However, if you have taken a philosophy course, avoid it all costs. You'll get incredibly pissed off at how pretentious the film is. It's like the asshole kid in class that responds to every question, and thinks that just because he's the only one responding, he's the only one who knows the answer.

[SenorWooSuavA]

Dead Alive, it is a good look at an up and coming Peter Jackson and definitely MORE BLOODY than Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 combined

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Here are some good movies to look for.

MASH
Way of the Gun
Bride of Chucky
The Matrix Trilogy
Shrek
Day After Tommorow
Scarface
Godfather Trilogy

[biggestinuyashafan]

i say scarface. just watched that movie all the way through (never had the chance to watch it before), it is a great gangster movie if you like those.

[Scorch]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002OXRSG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I thought this would be a pretty stupid movie, but it was freaking hilarious. It pokes fun of extremely hardcore christians that try to live their life by the book.. it's hilarious.

[kaji7p56]

Midnight Cowboy
Fight Club
Midnight Express
Angel Heart
Anything Martin Scorsese
Anything Charlie Chaplin
Anything Terry Gilliam
Citizen Kane
The Thing
Evil Dead Trilogy
The Dead Zone (Walken)
The Deer Hunter
The Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra)


Tv Series

The Wire (HBO)
The Sopranos
Dead like Me (Showtime)
Oz (HBO)
The Shield (FX)
The Dead Zone (meh)

There are hundreds and hundreds of great stuff to get on Netflix.

[Riptard]

Anyone know when the special edition of donnie darko comes out :?:

[MorbidAngel4Life]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002OXRSG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I thought this would be a pretty stupid movie, but it was freaking hilarious. It pokes fun of extremely hardcore christians that try to live their life by the book.. it's hilarious.

And come on, you know, for the obvious reason: MANDY MOORE IS FUCKING HOT!

[doubledown]

Anyone know when the special edition of donnie darko comes out :?:

check the other thread in DVD deals....called Donnie Dark DC:Coming soon :roll:

Feb 2005

[Nirvanaguy777]

Anything that kevin smith has worked with

[fieldkillah]

Straw Dogs
Man Bites Dog
Suspiria
They Live

[jetblac]

Death Race 2000 . Hands down one of the, if not THE, most unintentionally hilarious movies ever...
I Just rented that yesterday, Haven't watched it yet. It came highly recommended.
MY LIST:
American Psycho
The Killer (John Woo's Best and it will stay that way)
Clerks (Not the cartoon version)
Airplane
Unbreakable (The Grapevine says they're scripting part 2)
I just want to second a few movies:
Being John Malcovich
City of Lost Children
Equillibrium

[craven_fiend]

give Mystic River a try

[Reality's Fringe]

Death Race 2000 . Hands down one of the, if not THE, most unintentionally hilarious movies ever...
I Just rented that yesterday, Haven't watched it yet. It came highly recommended.
MY LIST:
American Psycho
The Killer (John Woo's Best and it will stay that way)
Clerks (Not the cartoon version)
Airplane
Unbreakable (The Grapevine says they're scripting part 2)
I just want to second a few movies:
Being John Malcovich
City of Lost Children
Equillibrium

Take the day off, get some piza and watch it. Trust me. Report back when you do!

[doubledown]

How about we just list our favorite movies....sheesh.

Scarface
Godfather
Pulp Fiction

Horror:
Dagon
N. Elm Street
Halloween
F13th
Wrong Turn
House 1000 Corpses (I liked it)
Texas Chainsaw (both versions)
Dog Soldiers
Ginger Snaps
Wicker Man

these lists can go on and on

[P0ldy]

Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
Hud (1963, Ritt)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica)
A Woman is a Woman (1962, Godard)
City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
Persona (1966, Bergman)
Night and Fog (1955, Resnais)
Network (1975, Lumet)
Talk to Her (2000, Almodovar)

There are 10 great films to get you started.

Nice to see somebody with good taste in film. I agree with every single one of those. :wink:

You sure Eraserhead isn't on Netflix? I could have sworn it was on there at one point. That movie is a "must buy" anyway, so anyone would be better off just purchasing it from davidlynch.com instead.
Yeah, I'm sure. Unfortunately there isn't a Region 1 DVD, so they don't have it. Yeah, it can be bought off his site for about 40 bucks as a Region 0 (-free), but Netflix is too cheap to buy something not produced by a major studio. They have just about all of his other films, though.


The only two Lynch movies I ever really appreciated were Elephant Man and Lost Highway. The rest are either too weird or too cheesy.

Edit: If you haven't taken a philosophy course yet, you might want to check out the film Waking Life.
I can see how you could find something like Blue Velvet or even Mulholland Drive cheesy, but in the end I just see it as beautiful filmmaking. Mulholland Drive especially over Blue Velvet, perhaps because of Naomi Watts amazing, AMAZING performance. (Where was Roger Ebert's "one of the greatest female performances ever on film" praise for her, I wonder.) And Lynch's camera is so purposeful, so controlled, so subtle that it shows the viewer the underbelly of the film before you reach the end. Watch the scene where Betty goes to the set to meet Adam, the director. The opening MCU shot filming the singers, then the camera zooms out slowly revealing the sound board, the first hint of falsity of the scene, and then pulls back even more to reveal that it's in a movie studio (another layer of falsity), the entire scene is simply stunning.

And you are spot on about Waking Life. Couldn't stand that postmodern existentialist we're-nothing-but-a-collection-of-monads nonsense.

[Parathod]

Blue Velvet was what I was referring to as "too cheesy" (along with Twin Peaks and Dune). I actually own Mulholland Drive and I do appreciate Lynch's little touches, but the overall film I just can't understand. My one friend is a director (T. Lang) and he keeps urging me to watch the movie over and over, but after two times watching it, i'm convinced that i'll never quite grasp what Lynch was trying to portray with the film. The odd part about the whole thing is that I understood Lost Highway the first time I seen it, and my friend has yet to "get it".

[P0ldy]

Yeah, a director friend of mine doesn't like Mulholland Drive either because he "doesn't like movies [he] can't understand."

It's actually not that difficult, though.

*Spoilers* for people who haven't seen it and desire to.

It's first and foremost an indictment of Hollywood. I originally thought to compare it to The Player, but Altman's film is a satire, whereas MD is just a surreal, condemning portrayal. Ok, so we have Betty, young wide eyed beautiful blonde exceptionally talented actress. Her narrative collides with Rita's, who's a helpless, lost, cumbersome woman that is now attached to Betty. So enter Adam, the director, who serves for Lynch as somewhat of a talented director who's being beaten back by the corporate forces that you never really see, and are just ordered to follow (hence the middlemen, the guy in the wheelchair (an Oz figure), everyone falling over themselves not to displease these guys who start or shut down productions. Enter the cowboy, kind of a caricature of these corporate faceless order-men who has no talent in making films, but Adam still has to do what he says.

Cut to the two guys at the restaurant. They serve just mainly as a function in the narrative to introduce the restaurant and the man behind it (kind of a Dreammaster, you might say). Now cut to the hitman. This guy's a halfassed screw-up, someone who came to Hollywood looking for something more than a silencer and wound up doing what he had to do to survive.

"I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this... dream place."

- Betty, Naomi Watts

So as these places and characters interweave through the first hour and 50 minutes, Betty, who's a good person, helps Rita as much as she can, even growing to love her. She doesn't meet Adam because she promised to take Rita somewhere. They go to "Rita's" house and see something, a dead body it seems. Rita starts wearing a wig to imitate Betty's natural hair color, who she wants to be, to whom she's most grateful, whom she loves. So post-lesbian sex scene, they go to the Club Silencio. They listen to a woman sing Llorando ("Crying"), are brought to tears, and then watch her fall over, the song keeps playing, never having sung a note.

"Il n'y a pas de orchestra."
"There is no band, and yet we hear a band."
"It's all recorded."
"It's all a tape."

- Club Silencio owner

This scene shows both Betty and Rita losing their innocence. They already loved each other, but now their eyes are open to the real world, i.e., they see Hollywood for what it is as well. Naomi and Laura's acting during this scene is just great.

So Betty pulls open her bag and finds the cube. Then in the bedroom, Betty disappears, and Rita is there, and turns the key into the cube. This is kind of like a pandora's box for dreams: once you open it, the dream ends.

Cut to Naomi Watts getting up in bed. Knock on door. "Diane, where have you been?" She's just woken up from the hour and 50 minutes that we've just watched, watching her dreams. We find out that the real Naomi, Diane, came to LA after winning a jitterbug contest (remember the opening scene, remember her winning, remember the people standing behind her after she won). Her acting was never really good, she didn't have much talent. But she found Camilla, supertalented, who kind of liked her and helped her originally.

In the dream, she morphs Camilla into someone who is clinging to her instead of her clinging to Camilla. She became what she wanted Camilla to be - a good person. Instead of not meeting the hotshot director like she did, Camilla/Laura Elena Herring blew off Diane when she needed her. She tried to drive her away instead of being a good person. Diane morphs herself into someone with all the talent, instead of being a helpless, lost, cumbersome woman that she is in real life. She gives the name "Camilla" in the dream to someone who is being pushed to the top by the Oz-like hazy corporate execs that you never see. She's fine with that, knowing she has real talent, because she's in love with Rita, and that's more important to her. Camilla/Laura Elena Herring never thought this way, like Diane wanted her to. And Camilla becomes "Rita" in the dream probably because Diane came to Hollywood with Rita Hayworth as an idol, one of the biggest women ever in Hollywood, wanting to be that big. Obviously, she couldn't.

You see her masturbating and fantasizing about Camilla, really pounding herself doing it. (Little tidbit, Lynch actually made Naomi masturbate for the shot, and she kept saying 'Fuck you, David' as she was doing it.) So then at the party all the characters are shown in real life and you see where Diane got them from in her dream. The shot from Mulholland Drive/Mulholland Dream overlooking LA is a throwback to A Star is Born, the Judy Garland biopic film from '54.

In the end, Naomi blows her brains out after paying for Camilla to be killed. The "little people" as some people call them are her parents, chasing and ridiculing her for never making anything of her life.

So, yeah, I put this together after my 3rd viewing of the flick.

[Duo_Maxwell]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.

[P0ldy]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.
Difference between Mulholland Dr and something like Donnie Darko is that there's substance to MD's complexity, making it worthwhile. And all of Lynch's projects are rather weird, so it's not like it's a gimmick or he's writing out of character. It's just Lynch. Some people have a problem with "it's just Lynch", though, and it's understandable...

[CrimsonGeist]

Yeah Dr.Strangelove too

[MadMrBacon]

I highly recommend Waking Life. A great head trip. Also Dazed and Confused and Slacker.... basically anything Linklater is going to be good.

[xzafixz]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.

Mulholland Drive was terrible, I can't stand the mentality that some people have about movies whereas if you don't understand it, or need to watch it 10 times to understand it, it is automatically awesome.

[zionoverfire]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.

Mulholland Drive was terrible, I can't stand the mentality that some people have about movies whereas if you don't understand it, or need to watch it 10 times to understand it, it is automatically awesome.

Yes but momento was good and that look several watching, but then of course you understood it by the end of the first time through, all the other times I watched it was to look for clues I missed. Other than that, I never really enjoyed movie like Mullolland DR, just a bit to wierd for me.

[xzafixz]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.

Mulholland Drive was terrible, I can't stand the mentality that some people have about movies whereas if you don't understand it, or need to watch it 10 times to understand it, it is automatically awesome.

Yes but momento was good and that look several watching, but then of course you understood it by the end of the first time through, all the other times I watched it was to look for clues I missed. Other than that, I never really enjoyed movie like Mullolland DR, just a bit to wierd for me.

Momento is filed under the movies that you can only truely enjoy once. The same with all the M. Night Shamylan movies.

[zionoverfire]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.

Mulholland Drive was terrible, I can't stand the mentality that some people have about movies whereas if you don't understand it, or need to watch it 10 times to understand it, it is automatically awesome.

Yes but momento was good and that look several watching, but then of course you understood it by the end of the first time through, all the other times I watched it was to look for clues I missed. Other than that, I never really enjoyed movie like Mullolland DR, just a bit to wierd for me.

Momento is filed under the movies that you can only truely enjoy once. The same with all the M. Night Shamylan movies.

hmmm, I find as long as I watch it with someone who hasn't seen it I find it quite enjoyable each time. :D

[xzafixz]

I didn't care much for Mulholland Drive either, not because I couldn't understand it, like you said it wasn't that hard (epecially after a 2nd viewing). However, I don't like it when it seems like the writers and directors go out of the way to make a film overcomplicated seemingly on purpose, to me Mulholland DR. is one of those films.

Mulholland Drive was terrible, I can't stand the mentality that some people have about movies whereas if you don't understand it, or need to watch it 10 times to understand it, it is automatically awesome.

Yes but momento was good and that look several watching, but then of course you understood it by the end of the first time through, all the other times I watched it was to look for clues I missed. Other than that, I never really enjoyed movie like Mullolland DR, just a bit to wierd for me.

Momento is filed under the movies that you can only truely enjoy once. The same with all the M. Night Shamylan movies.

hmmm, I find as long as I watch it with someone who hasn't seen it I find it quite enjoyable each time. :D

Well I guess during those occasions it could be fun, but otherwise, I would never be sitting by myself rewatching The Village, the whole premise of the movie, the shock value is gone.

[zionoverfire]

Oh I totaly understand not rewatching the village, I don't watch M. Night Shamylan movies a second time but I find momento different because I like to watch people try and puzzle through it.

[vanlandw]

24 season one and two and three when it comes out in december

[xzafixz]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force dvds, don't know if thats been mentioned but should be.

[zionoverfire]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force dvds, don't know if thats been mentioned but should be.

I'll follow that up with Sealab 2021 my favorite of the 2 :D

and Full Metal Jacket, although I think I might have already posted that

[Raikoh]

Btw, anyone have any good asian or foreign recommendations? Particularly 'Action' Or 'Wuxio type, such as Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Princess Blade.

[Devin]

I don't know if these were mentioned before, but I recommend these...

The Animatrix
X2: X-Men United
Armitage III: Poly Matrix
Star Wars Trilogy Box Set (IV,V, & VI)
Princess Mononoke

[The Successful Dropout]

confidence

[Scorch]

On December 27th, walk into any DVD store in the United States and buy the following three movies.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (or wait until the director's cut comes out, whatever)
Garden State
The Terminal

IMO the best three movies this year.

[kaji7p56]

confidence

Did you ever watch "Heist" with Gene Hackman? Pretty much the same plot but executed much better. PLus, it came out way before Confidence.
Go watch Heist.

[basketkase543]

Memento
Butterfly Effect
Super Size Me
Spellbound

[The Successful Dropout]

confidence

Did you ever watch "Heist" with Gene Hackman? Pretty much the same plot but executed much better. PLus, it came out way before Confidence.
Go watch Heist.


watched and enjoyed plenty :D thanks for reminding me that I had this title