Seen any good movies lately? - Films you MUST see

[Exan Yuen]

Ah, yes. That would be Eraser Head. An old one, but I recently bumped into it at a garage sale and quickly PURCHASED it. Unlike our footpad friend Pavlovich...A very creative movie with excellent sounds that will make your flesh crawl.

 

[mjp]

the first series of Carnivale - i'm up to episode 7 and loving it.

Don't love it too much. HBO or the producers or whoever pulled the plug on it before the story is resolved. Same thing they did with Deadwood.

 

[ROC]

No time to watch movies.
But have stolen the occasional moment to watch "We need girlfriends",
I first saw it on Youtube then found out they have their own website.

I found this to be really funny.
Watch them in order and see what you think.

http://weneedgirlfriends.tv/

 

[taxidriver]

I saw Knocked Up last night and truly enjoyed it, except for when they showed the crowning stage of birth and showed it twice in less than thirty seconds. Then again, I may have just been very happy because I had found (and bought) a copy of Run with the Hunted shortly before seeing the movie and I had been looking for the book for a while.

 

[slimedog]

Trees Lounge

Not much of a movie guy but that one was great.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I just saw a small IFC movie mentioned within this thread, "You Me and Everyone We Know". Very simple clever yet a brilliant idea and story. The music was great, the filming was extremely creative for what was probably a low budget and it was funny.

 

[bogthing]

Not much of a movie guy but that one was great.

Yes, I agree. I loved the characters. Particularly Stan and Jackie. Buscemi got them spot on, they reminded me of folks from Peaches Cafe, Tiny's Heat Wave, The Brass Rail...

 

[Red Sparrow]

Don't love it too much. HBO or the producers or whoever pulled the plug on it before the story is resolved. Same thing they did with Deadwood.

i read that HBO was going to make 2 2hr cable movies to close out all the storylines, but that was a while ago and i haven't heard anything about it since.

let's be...optimistic? :o

i just finished up twin peaks season 2, at least it had the chance to finish the storylines before getting canned.

 

[mjp]

i read that HBO was going to make 2 2hr cable movies to close out all the storylines, but that was a while ago and i haven't heard anything about it since.

Well I would like to be optimistic, but history teaches us that no such thing will happen.

 

[Black Swan]

Just watched Ask the dust. I like it very much. At first I thought the main actor a little to muscular to play the poor writer Arturo Bandini but the setting was great and the atmosphere was interesting. Selma was beautiful as the Mexican waitress. I can see why Bukowski would love Fante. Very good story and true to the book. I am reading 2 books at once (Catcher in the rye )by Salinger and Run with the Hunted by we know who...

 

[ROC]

Not Catcher in the rye by Stephen King?
Or that wonderful version by Barbara Cartland?

;)

Sorry... couldn't resist.

I must see Ask the dust. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[number6horse]

"Babel" - One of the best films I've seen in a long time. There are moments in this one that will stay with me forever (I don't think I will ever hear "September" by Earth Wind & Fire the same way again). Lyrical, lingering camera shots, a multi-thread narrative that gently coalesces at the end, music that supports but never outshines any given scene, and a heartbreaking performance by Rinko Kikuchi.

 

[ROC]

Yes, Babel. Just saw it myself.
A really beautiful film.
I also appreciated the fact that all the 'loose ends' were not conveniently tied up at the end.
More like watching a snippet of life... rather than the normal Hollywood shite.

 

[Chromiak]

I'm just waiting patiently for the Simpsons movie to come out.

 

[Bukfan]

Are'nt we all?...:)

 

[bongobill]

i finally got around to this one
thought it was pretty good

 

[ProfessorRiffs]

One of my favorite movies. Very stylish but still very heavy.

 

[bospress.net]

Really disturbing/funny movie, but best to watch it by yourself. I watched this with my girlfried (now wife) and she did NOT think that this was a good movie. I think the fact that I loved it disturbed her more than anything.

Bill

 

[Black Swan]

Just rented "The Secret". I found it very irritating. Same old formula in a new wrapper. I saw it as a capitalism hat trick although positive thinking is necessary... for hope.

I saw "Volver". I liked it quite a lot. Interesting development.Contemporary with a touch of old.

My opinion

 

[Erik]

The Wire

Finally got around to season 1 of THE WIRE on DVD.
(OK so I'm out of touch.)
Remarkable stuff.
Something is happening to TV nowadays, beats the movies by light years.
Might have something to do with the actual DVD-format...

 

[adrian]

Has anybody seen a movie called 'My Name Is Joe'? It's a Scottish movie made around 2001 about a recovering alcoholic and general rough lad, trying to keep away from his former life but finding himself getting dragged back into it through no particular fault of his own

Funny, sad and true to a lot of people's lives, it was filmed in the slums of Glasgow I believe, and a number of the extras and a few of the speaking part actors were from the estates the movie was filmed in

The main actor was the guy that played the drug dealer Mother Superior (on account of the length of his habit) in Trainspotting

Well worth a look, although some may need to turn on the English subtitles function

 

[BEAST]

I saw "Volver". I liked it quite a lot. Interesting development.Contemporary with a touch of old.

very good movie...i really enjoy penelope cruz in spanish roles, she's just much more at ease as an actress...

recently i haven't seen too much, but i did see "The Valet" and "Paris, je t'aime" awhile back which i really enjoyed, both french, the first a pretty hilarious comedy, second being a bunch of different tiny love stories

i'd recommend both (well all three including volver)

edit: also, I saw "You Kill Me" with Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni, very good dark comedy about an alcoholic hitman trying to sober up

 

[Olaf]

Pan's Labyrinth! - Visually amazing, the narrative is very good too; set near the end of the Spanish Civil War. It tells the story of young Ophelia, her pregnant mother, living under the rule of Spanish Fascists; yet Ophelia lives out her life mixed between child fantasy and war reality.

Great film! With worth watching...

 

[taxidriver]

I saw Hairspray last night and I'm going to watch Pulp Fiction this afternoon for some extreme John Travolta role contrast action.

 

[mjp]

Hairspray being the role closer to John's real personality...

Oh, did I say that out loud? Shame on me.

 

[d gray]

anyone see that GG Allin documentary called 'hated'? fun for the whole family!!!:D

 

[slimedog]

I've seen it, it good to see where the Backstreet Boys got their inspiration from.

 

[adrian]

GG Allin was a failed 80's big hair would be pop star

 

[d gray]

I've seen it, it good to see where the Backstreet Boys got their inspiration from.

yeah, i think they toured together in the 80's

 

[bogthing]

I saw the GG Allin show at a hell-hole in Providence years ago. I watched for about twenty minutes, and then had to go outside. However, I would have loved to see him in the Backstreet Boys line-up.

Not to thread-jack but anyone remember the piano player "Sweet Pie"?