Favorite Movies
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<div class="IPBDescription">changes from the other one I promise</div> Well unlike the other topic, where you can pick only one movie, please list here any number of movies you really like, and would like to share with the community. While you are at it, present us briefly the movie, and any comment you would like.
<b>Leon the Professional</b>: The movie talks about how leon, a hitman, helps out Mathilda, a 12 year old girl who sees her family slaughtered by cops involved in drugs, and how they entertain a relationship.
<b>Requiem for a Dream</b>: Harry Goldfarb and his friends get involved in drugs to get money. And it doesn't turn out well. Meanwhile, Harry's mom gets pills to lose weight so she can get a red dress to be on a tv show.
<b>The Devil's Advocate</b>: Kevin Lomax is a very talented lawyer, and when he gets news from John Milton that he can get "promoted" with better cases and more money, he jumps on the deal, without thinking back about his surroundings/way of life, nor why he is such a talented lawyer (never lost a case)
<b>Road to Perdition</b>: Michael Sullivan is at the service of the mafia, and everything degenerates when his mentor's son sets him up, killing his family, yet missing michael and his son (michael as well). They both go to Perdition seeking refuge while escaping Peter Rooney
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<b>Leon the Professional</b>: The movie talks about how leon, a hitman, helps out Mathilda, a 12 year old girl who sees her family slaughtered by cops involved in drugs, and how they entertain a relationship.
<b>Requiem for a Dream</b>: Harry Goldfarb and his friends get involved in drugs to get money. And it doesn't turn out well. Meanwhile, Harry's mom gets pills to lose weight so she can get a red dress to be on a tv show.
<b>The Devil's Advocate</b>: Kevin Lomax is a very talented lawyer, and when he gets news from John Milton that he can get "promoted" with better cases and more money, he jumps on the deal, without thinking back about his surroundings/way of life, nor why he is such a talented lawyer (never lost a case)
<b>Road to Perdition</b>: Michael Sullivan is at the service of the mafia, and everything degenerates when his mentor's son sets him up, killing his family, yet missing michael and his son (michael as well). They both go to Perdition seeking refuge while escaping Peter Rooney
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<b>Grave Of The Fireflies</b> (Anime): An extremely moving anime film from the creators of My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. It tells the story of two young children in japan during the second world war. And basically shows their life, running away from their "evil" aunt and so on. I defy anyone that wouldn't cry during this. It's an excellent piece of filmmaking and a beautiful piece of writing.
<b>Donnie Darko</b>: Well, you probably all know it, fantastic indie film about a young(-ish) Donald Darko's mad mad life with an imaginary bunny rabbit. Absolutely fantastic work in comparison to the crap that's usually churned out.
<b>My Neighbor Totoro</b> (Anime): Amazing kid's film about two children and their adventures with "Totoro" (Mei, the young girl in the film, can't pronounce "Troll" so it came out as "Totoro"). Fantastic animation and a great storyline make this film entertaining for everyone and a joy to watch.
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<b>Pitch Black</b> Im not sure if Im the only one who likes this movie or not. A group of space travelers crash land on another planet. It seems unhibated, until the sun goes down....
one of the best endings ever IMO
Saving Private Ryan: Rent it.
LotR: TTT
****
Edit: Could someone please tell me why snat/h is sensored?
LotR: TTT
****
Edit: Could someone please tell me why snat/h is sensored? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
becuase it has a derogatory meaning toward the female sex organ in american slang.
The Green Mile: Book is better, Tom hanks is a prison guard in the 1930s or so.
Band of Brothers: Awsome WW2 action, really good b/c everything in this 10 hour movie actualy happed in real life. Its very accurate. Directed by Stephen Speilburg and Tom Hanks. I have the dvd box xst. Im happu.
Appleseed: Japanese Manga film by the same directer as ghost in the shell. Film seems a little crapy to critics but its more of an intellectual film that you have to think.
The Matrix" The first one. ANd if you dont know waht its about well....
Purgatory: TNT Western starring (cant remember his name, guy who played General garrison in BlackHawk Down) All the dead great western figures such as Billy the kid, Wyat Erp, Buffalo Bill, etc after they died they all went to purgatory for one last chance for salvation.
Contact: People say this film sucked but I like it. About the first contact with aliens. but if you havnt seen the film. The aliens are nothing you expect them to be. In fact only one human sees an alien and the film never shows the aliens true form. Just see it its good.
<b>The Matrix Reloaded</b>: I don't think I need to explain this one...
<b>Drunken Master:</b> <i>(Not Legend of Drunken Master)</i>Wong Fei Hong is sent to train under his uncle, a wine guzzling master famous for crippling his students. Desperate to escape this brutal teacher's cruel regime, he flees but is confronted, humiliated and beaten senseless by a hired assassin. Angry, ashamed, hungry for revenge, the wayward Fei Hung returns to his drunken master.
The Boondock Saints: 2 religious Irish brothers take the law into their own hands and go around assassination high progile criminals in Boston
There is a sequal comming out too.
Its called the Second Coming
<b>Fight Club</b>: You do not talk about Fight Club.....
A man recieves a birthday gift from his brother, it's a gift in which he promises a thrill like no other.
The gift is a game, run by a private company, the game costs thousands of dollars, however, after signing up for it and walking away, people start coming after him, and killing people that he's with.
<i>Wasabi</i>: The girl is 20, it's Jean Reno, and the girl is his daughter. Plus he eats Wasabi by the fingerful.
<i>Fifth Element</i>: Luc Besson owns.
I'm pretty sure I don't need to explain why <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. All I could say for ten minutes after seeing The Matrix Reloaded (except for my shriek of anguish at the ending) was "Oh my ******* god. That was ******* amazing".
<b>Fight club</b>
Brilliant. Unfortunately, I thought I was never going to see it (I didn't think it was my kind of movie) so I let someone spoil the story for me, which in the process told me that it <i>was</i> my kind of movie, so I in effect saw it the first time for the second time <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
<b>Metropolis</b>
It's an anime. It's about a not-too-futuristic-but-still-in-the-future city called Metropolis, in which robots are commonplace. Yeah, that doesn't make it sound too original, but it was truly brilliant. There was a whole lot of other stuff in there which I can't really describe adequately, and the rest I can't describe without spoiling the storyline.
btw,
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->My Neighbor Totoro (Anime): Amazing kid's film about two children and their adventures with "Totoro" (Mei, the young girl in the film, can't pronounce "Troll" so it came out as "Totoro"). Fantastic animation and a great storyline make this film entertaining for everyone and a joy to watch.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Did you see the dubbed version or something? In the Japanese version, Totoro was most definately a Totoro, not a troll (everyone who referred to him\them called him a "totoro".). But anyway, I loved this movie too <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
[edit]Oh, while we're at it, <b>5n47ch</b> (*cough* sorry, but you know what I mean) was brilliant, too <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->[/edit]
[edit again]Ooh! Ooh! Just remembered. <b>The Sixth Day.</b> It's an Arnie sci-fi action movie about human cloning. It's got enough action to be entertaining, but also a good solid plot and enough in it to make you think.[/edit again]
Saving Private Ryan: Rent it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
then don't post here. It's to show everyone a list of movies, if they didn't see it and want to, then they just can go rent it or something. Else, they just will never know.
<b>Saving Private Ryan</b> is the movie of a group of 5 or 6 (I'm not sure) soldiers during WWII who try to save a Private named Ryan and return him back home.
Mei was the first to meet Totoro, and being young she couldn't pronounce "Troll" in japanese so then on she told everyone it was called "Totoro". Trust me, this is a little background into his odd name and it does get brought up in the film as well <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
And i've seen the japanese sub version of it.
Much love to Richard Kelly for coming up with this little masterpiece.
<b>Speed</b> - Just a constant action sequence. Great stuff!
<b>The Score</b> - Not many people have heard of this, surprisingly. Probably because there is more talk than there is action, great movie though about a professional thief who is offered a job in his home town, but one of his golden rules is never to operate in his town.
<b>Speed</b> - Just a constant action sequence. Great stuff!
<b>The Score</b> - Not many people have heard of this, surprisingly. Probably because there is more talk than there is action, great movie though about a professional thief who is offered a job in his home town, but one of his golden rules is never to operate in his town. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
i agree with you 100% excpet speed which sort of sux...
but the score is GREAT Edward norton is fantastic. (ed norton is the main guy in fight club)
and robert de niro never fails to impress... an absolute masterpiece...
and yeh the rock is equally as good... sean connery is bada$$ as ever and nic cage is his usual self (some find him wooden i thin he is charismatic personally)
my contribuition
<b>Knockaround Guys</b> - this is based around Matty Demerit *played by Barry pepper(saving private ryan sniper)* and his fatheris this mob boss and he needs some work done and one of mattys mates does it and he **** it up and then they all coem to this hick filled town (by they all i mean Barry Pepper,Seth Green,Vin diesel,some other geezer)
i dont want to explain or say anymore other then.. well in my video shop which is the second largest in UK... itonly had 3 copies of it.. it was HEAVILY under publicised but i thought it was FANTASTIC
<b>8 Mile</b>what can i say im Em's #1 fan as it is... and this is great all the characters are well played and it is fantastic.. yo dont belive me? look at the awards it has won...
<b>Dr. Strangelove</b>: Dark comedy are funny and dark. This one is also very good.
<b>Kentucky Fried Movie</b>: Straight up funniest movie evar! Think Naked Gun X10 and with nudity.
<b>Roger And Me</b>: The movie that finally proved exactly when the blood back was open. (it's only open on Mondays and Tusdays.......and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays. Saturday and Sunday they're closed)
<b>Eraserhead</b>: The perfect addition to any late-night freak-out session. Seriously this movie is weird to the max.
I'm not even gonna go into the anime movies that are good, there are just too many.
It's an anime. It's about a not-too-futuristic-but-still-in-the-future city called Metropolis, in which robots are commonplace. Yeah, that doesn't make it sound too original, but it was truly brilliant. There was a whole lot of other stuff in there which I can't really describe adequately, and the rest I can't describe without spoiling the storyline. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe a little clarification is necessary here. Filmbuffs may think of the original <a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0017136' target='_blank'>Metropolis</a>, a black and white film by Fritz Lang which is nowadays considered one of the first science fiction movies ever.
A good fifty years later, the comic Metropolis was created by Osamu Tezuka, one of the fathers of modern manga, after seeing a few pictures of the movie. This manga, in turn, was converted for the <a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0293416' target='_blank'>big screen</a> by Katsuhiro Otomo, who's well known for his own creation, Akira.
So, in short, I suggest you take a look at both movies of the name. They share very little, but are both considered classic representatives of their times sci-fi.
Sean Connery is NOT THE ORIGINAL JAMES BOND....
BOB HOLNESS of Block Buster fame.
"I'll have an R please Bob"
Matrix Reloaded-Very good sci-fi. and very good fight scenes
Dude, have you seen <b>Logan's Run?</b>. I guess Equlibrium is a remake.
<b>Fightclub</b>
<b>The game</b>
If you folks want to watch some scary sci-fi (other than alien):
<b>Event Horizon</b> A spaceship named "Event Horizon" is propelled through space with a some sort of black-hole-drive-warp-sys, that makes the travel through a paralell universe full of devilry, then the ship come alive or something and all the crew err... dies. Then, 10 years later, a recovery mission finds it and all hell brakes loose when they understand what happend onboard the ship.
Lots of creepy scenes and some very far out stuff. Very, very bloody, yet very scary.
Sam Neill and Lawrence Fishburne
<b>Sphere</b> A spaceship of unknown origin is found on the sea bed, and a team of scientists are send down to check it out. Inside the ship, which probably is of human origin, they find a huge sphere. What they don't know is that the sphere can make dreams come true. That include nightmares.
The gellyfish scene pwns!
Al Pachino, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jacson.
and then there is <b>****</b>, wich has a derogatory meaning toward the female sex organ in american slang.