Movies suggestions

Gummo.. i don't even know what to say about this

Sunset Blvd. .. a classic.. but great!

 

So Gummo is good? I know I've looked at it quite a few times and thought about renting it.

Oh and Blue Velvet looks good so I did add it.

edited- Well, I saw the trailor for Gummo and had to add it. Wow... is all I can say about that. Haha.

 

Heathers is dark and funny... and has Christian Slater when he was still young and hot.

Dead Man is wickedly weird... and has Johnny Depp, a soundtrack by Neil Young and is filmed in black and white.

 

Adaptation
Anything by Wes Anderson
Running With Scissors
The Squid and the Whale
Pi
Little Miss Sunshine
True Romance
Natural Born Killers
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Happiness
Storytelling
........and lots more I can't think of now.

 

Dark City (turn of the millenium) or Saturn 3 (80s).

 

anything you haven't heard of, especialy if its sciffy or anime. that's my bent anyway.

also small distribution 'forign' films. (does blockbuster even carry such things?)

mundane crap is mundane crap. to each one's own.

i'd go for something like an inconvenient truith too.
or the nobel project.
ghandi if you haven't seen it.
the rest of my all time favorites:
dark crystal, the 1954 disney animated fantasia
(i'd mention the origeonal full length uncut barbarella, but i doubt if you could find it, and i'm real sure you won't find it from blockbuster, hollywood, or netflix. goldie's maybe, but i kind of doubt even there)
i don't know anything about recent or current mainstream movies so i don't have any specific recomends there, other then 99.999% of anything mainstream has never turned out to be to my taste in just about anything.
oh there's something called membuko or something like that. i'd recomend that to, on the strenth of what i've heard about it. i just heard democracy now say they have a link to it on their website, so that would be one way to find out about it if your interested.
my personal favorites besides what i've already mentiond are euraopean and japanese train tapes. cause i'm a train nut. along with, however ironic some might consider this combination, i don't, but anyway, along with alternative everything, everything non.

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(it's not that i'm panning mainstream everything just to be panning mainstream everything. it's just that there is so much that is so much more wonderful that mainstream anything, that damd near anything 'mainstream', is such a complete waiste of time by compairison.)

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Oh shit yes... Happiness is THE dark comedy... that movie is amazing.

Good movies there, Smelly Socks.

 

I've seen Adaptation and it was good.... saw Running with Scissors last week (liked it), and have seen Little Miss Sunshine and Natural Born Killers and liked both of them. I'll look up the rest.

 

Well to answer your one question- they have a lot more selections online- smaller films, foreign films, more rare films, etc...

PS- They have Barbarella

 

oh man I love Barbarella.


You should rent The Secretary! I just rented it last week and it was lovley, and dark, and funny, and bondage-y...how all good films should be really...

or Hedwig and the angry Inch, or Deadman.

 

Barbarella psychedela.... man... that's a great movie

Hedwig is an amazing movie. Might as well rent Velvet Goldmine (the movie with the best soundtrack in the world) if you are renting Hedwig.

 

Godfather 1 and 2
Goodfellas
Casino
A Bronx Tale
Scarface
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Reservoir Dogs
Gotti
King of New York
Carlito's Way
Die Hard with a Vengance

 

oh yes, hedwig and the angry inch. run lola run. american beauty. take the lead (lighthearted), interview with a vampeir

 

The Secretary was very, very good. I caught it on Showtime late one night when I couldn't sleep (like always).

I'd recommend it. Very dark.

 

Goodbye lenin (great german movie)
Up and down (great czech flick)
Airplane (classic comedy)
St. Elmos fire (80s indie hit)
One flew over the cuckoos nest (One of the best movies ever!)
Donnie Darko (One of the better pyschological thrillers as of late)
The science of sleep (one of the better french directors)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (another instant classic from the aforementioned Gondry of France)
Caddy shack (a movie about golf that is actually good!)
Clerks (the best of the screwed up humor)

 

Goodbye Lenin is a lovely film, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest is one of the best movies ever made.

I just watched Natural Born Killers for the first time in a long time today, and man... I do love that movie.

Also, when it comes to just plain good movies which are not awfully popular... try:

Sleeper (Woody Allen is a great man).... might as well also watch "Manhattan".
What About Bob? (Very underrated Bill Murray flick)
Dr. Strangelove
The Labyrinth
The Truman Show
Fritz the Cat


...and foreign movies:

Amalie
Amores Perros
Burnt by the Sun
City of God
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
El Crimen del Padre Amaro
La Femme Nikita
La Vita e bella
Run Lola Run (as already mentioned in this thread)
Solaris (the Russian one, not the shit Americans made
Habla con Ella
Neokonchenaya Piesa dlya Mekhanicheskogo Pianino
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Todo Sobre Mi Madre
Nuovo cinema Paradiso
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Abre los Ojos
Seven Samurai
¿Qué he Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto?!
Lucia y el Sexo

 

Y Tu Mama Tambien was fucking amazing.

Pan's Labyrinth is my new favorite movie, but it doesn't come out on dvd until May. I would put it on your list now though.

Children of Men, too, was great, it's by the same director a Y Tu Mama Tambien. That won't come out for a while either, but you can always put it on your queue now.

 

Hermanitos de leche gueeeey!

 

Agreed, Run lola run was real cool
If you want some interesting cinematography, check out Hukkle. It is Hungarian, but mostly silent and has some really cool shots

I just could not get into Pan's Labyrinth. I was extremely disapointed in fact and thought the hype my friends gave it was over rated. There was not enough focus on this girls world and the labyrinth and to much on the war that surrounded her. I was thinking she would be immersed in this place for 80% of the movie at least and figured it would be bigger. I expected more fantasy, but it seemed like a B rate war movie for 80% of it, and the fantasy parts, if anything, felt tacked on and rushed. Not enough depth, her tasks were over before you got a chance to get used to her being in the labyrinth. I would have changed the movie 15 minutes in: when they are driving to the camp or whatever, obviously she is seeing her dad the leader or what not and Spain is in war. when she wanders off, the movie should take off into the labyrinth with occasional glimpses into the fathers/everyone elses side, not the other way around.

 

Thanks for the other suggestions everyone. Let's see- I own "what about bob?"- in fact, im such a dork... I watched it for about the sixth time last night and it was still good to me.

I love Run Lola Run. City of God I saw and liked as well as the truman show. I own and have seen eternal sunshine many times (like a lot).... own and like donnie darko and cookoos nest also. Have seen and like the godfather movies. Own and like reservoir dogs.... Saw and liked the good bad and the ugly. had added american beauty the other day. Ill look up the rest.

Oh and I've also seen City of God (good movie).....

Well I have added a lot of the movies named, including children of men in advance. I have 39 movies in there now. haha.