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Movies you love that others need to see.

thinksigns

thinksigns

SnowFlake
I didn't want to hijack the other movie thread. I pulled up all the movies I've rated on Netflix and remembered some great movies that I don't think many people have seen.


Frailty
A Simple Plan
Triangle (weird name - awesome movie)


Let's hear yours.
 
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RiXaX

New Member
Quirky and has some profanity, but brilliant in delivery and logical thinking...The Man Who Sued God
 
oldgoatroper

oldgoatroper

Roper of Goats. Old ones.
Waking Ned Devine (also called Waking Ned)

Storyline

When word reaches two elderly best friends that someone in their tiny Irish village has won the national lottery, they go to great lengths to find the winner so they can share the wealth. When they discover the "lucky" winner, Ned Devine, they find he has died of shock upon discovering his win. Not wanting the money to go to waste, the village enters a pact to pretend Ned is still alive by having another man pose as him, and then to divide the money between them.


Quite amusing and entertaining and with a very unexpected twist at the end...
 
oldgoatroper

oldgoatroper

Roper of Goats. Old ones.
Cube

Storyline

Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.


Shot on an extremely low budget -- only one set and one wardrobe -- this movie's WTF factor is very high and will pull you right in...
 
oldgoatroper

oldgoatroper

Roper of Goats. Old ones.
Empire of the Sun

Storyline

Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

When I came out of the theatre with my girlfriend in the '80s after seeing this movie, I said to her "I think that was possibly the best movie I have ever seen." I still think that, today.

If you are not moved by the "Cadillac of the sky" scene (which represents the tentative promise of an impending release from a seemingly hopeless struggle), then you don't have a heart.
 
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tsgstl

tsgstl

New Member
My taste is a little out there as well:

Millers Crossing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/
My all time favorite movie. It makes a lot of top 100 list, but whenever I bring it up 80% haven't seen it.

Bronson http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172570/
Actually the movie could be better. But it is a trues story and Tom Hardy's performance makes it a must see

The Royal Tenembaums http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/
This is another movie that you would think more people have seen. Almost every actor is or was A list.

Blue Velvet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/
Pretty disturbing but that's probably why I like it.

Requiem for a Dream http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/
OK this is EXTREMELY disturbing, maybe more so than anything I have ever seen. But if a movie sticks with you for over a week then it did it's job.

Time Bandits http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/
I have to include this movie. The first movie I memorized, I have seen it probably 100+ times.

I agree with "Empire of the sun" hard to believe a Stephen Spielberg flick would make a list like this but I never see it and I don't think I have ever seen it on cable.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362766/
 
oldgoatroper

oldgoatroper

Roper of Goats. Old ones.
In the mindless, pure-fun-to-the-point-of-almost-cartoonish-but-based-on-real-world-events category...

The Gumball Rally


A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.

It's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine. ​


From which we get the famous line:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDaONrHK1f8


And on a totally irrelevant note, I fell in love with the theme music of this movie from the moment I heard it. Odd, when considering that, at 17, I would have never considered listening to that genre of music at the time.
 
mikey-Oh

mikey-Oh

New Member
Great Recommendations oldgoatroper and tsgstl!

Had the soundtrack to Bronson's on rotation for several weeks.
 
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