Rock Lobster wins by a large majority on the best film mentioned so far.
Genius.
My offering on a very different tack ... "Mifune".
Children of Men.
Limited showing in Cinema's, but I thought it was excellent...bit dark and depressing, but a good DVD film I reckon.
I have a thing for Scandinavian films (no, not the ones Lob Rockster is thinking about). "After the Wedding" and "As it is in Heaven" were great recent ones. Something I definitely miss here in Zurich are my "foreign" films with English subtitles. Hard to get on video, or from a mate. Need to import from an English speaking country.
I own it on DVD and think it is great, but i've only managed to watch it 1.5 times so far.
as for showing it to kids.. are you mad?!
Has anyone seen his latest, The Fountain, yet? Far more mainstream I imagine, but I've yet to watch it.
Children of Men I watched last week. Conceptually interesting to say the least.....
But I thought it was odd that a British police officer would be addressed as "corporal"....
On the flip side, how about some films you really shouldn't watch? Some I've seen recently are just the pits:
Unfinished Life - Robert Redford as grumpy bumpkin father-in-law of runaway beaten widow Jennifer Lopez who's daughter looks after bedridden Morgan Freeman. Oh dear god, please stop.
Goal 2 - watched Goal 1, and thought it was quite good, for a film set in Newcastle. I'm from Newcastle. Compare it to a real film and it was terrible. Goal 2 is set in Madrid, and I had no affinity at all with it (since there were no Geordies), so I saw it for what it really is - utter tosh.
Two for the Money - Matthew Macaougnueaghey(wife says 'yay!') and Al Pacino(I say 'Get in!') in the worst film ever made. On watching, I actually thought that I could make a film that was better, and I can't even hold a camcorder straight.
Aeon Flux - The film was so bad that I actually got sick of looking at Charlize Theron in various PVC and Lycra outfits.
Catwoman - The film was so bad that I actually got sick of looking at Halle Berry in various PVC and Lycra outfits.
Actually - I just remembered that I watched Apocolypto recently and it was ace. Really good. It's fully subtitled, but the pictures say more than words for most of it - you could fit the dialogue for the entire 3 hours on the back of a postcard. Visually stunning and action packed (after the first half hour).
Please nobody make the same mistakes I did. Life is just too short for cheap wine and bad films.
My public duty is to warn people off:
Bubba Hotep
Ultraviolet (The film was so bad that I actually got sick of looking at Milla Jojovic in various PVC and Lycra outfits)
As they say, 3 hours of my life that I'll never get back.
No way, I loved Bubba Hotep
They'll never go jabbing needles in their arms.
No, only seen Pi, which was also fantastic, gritty as f**k, paranoid, anxiety-ridden.
Kill these 3 films... burn all copies.
1. Raising Cain (Directed by Brian "De broken teeth" Palma)
2. Waterworld (Starring: Kevin "I've got a great Arse me" Costner)
3. Gerry (Starring: Matt "The Twat" Damon)
On the subject of waterworld... why did that bitch wait for 3 hours to tell Kev Costner that the kid had a tatoo of the map on his frickin back. If she had spat it out at the start there would have been no need for the frickin film. Grrrr
Things to run from: Anything with Jennifer Lopez. (Gigli, brrrwrwrw I cringe just thinking about it).
Magnolia (There's 4 hours I'll never get back)
Road Hogs (why am I plagued by awful movies on airplanes)
I dunno I loved Lopez in "THE CELL", brilliant film !!!!!
Magnolia has to be up there with one of the best films I have watched.
Road Hogs... Surely your own fault for watching that dude.
Bah! One decent movie doesn't make up for all the other loads of crap she's done.
I question your sanity if you think Magnolia was one of the best films you've ever watched.
I have no control over what films they show on Lufthansa.
Snakes on a plane
and
the Da Vinci Code are well worth avoiding.
Serenity was good to watch, and led me onto watching the telly series
Also Wallace and Gromit, curse of the Were.Rabbit.
Its ok my friend, I just happen to disagree with you. Deal with it.
Ok, only joking.
But seriously..... I would have put the lufthansa mask on and gone to sleep, that film had "RUN" written all over it.
And Magnolia really was a wonderful film, I thought it was fantastic.
And I think the bad films J-Lo made do not detract from the fact that she has a great ass. And look... at the end of the day... in her own words:
"Love my life and my public
Put God first
And can't forget to stay real
To me it's like breathing"
She's deep man.
I wish, I wish, I wish I could sleep in planes. Luckily I had a few cocktails down me so I didn't see the end of the movie.
And I've heard people say that about Magnolia before. It's really either a "you love it" or "hate it" film. But I'm also always a little jaded as I, 100%, hate Tom Cruise, I kind of find him offensive to my very being.
'Letters from Iwojima' and 'Flags of Our Fathers', both by Clint Eastwood, the first from the viewpoint of the Japanese (kind of sad, and about how the imperial HQ sometimes withholds information from generals, and how most soldiers are just ordinary guys conscripted into fighting when all they want to do is stay home, make a living and love their families) and the second from the viewpoint of the Americans (mostly about how they're not heroes but because they're soldiers in a war, they're forced to do or coerced into doing certain things; and how facts are often distorted to suit the government's purpose of the day).
Both were worth my time. Thanks to slow-hand Clint.
Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley (son of one of the flag raisers) is a fantastic read. He didn't find out that his father was one of the group in the picture, until he had passed away ...