We all forgot the obvious Monty Python movies! doh! Life of Brian, The meaning of life The holy grail I d also try and find the old BBC(was it?) series " The Hitchguider's Guide to the Galaxy" - beware, there's also a new version of the movie that is more pollitically correct, but the old version holds a lot more magic.
how could I forget those masterpieces? :redface: made me think of one more, not fully Monty Python, but at least Terry Gilliam stuff: Time Bandits :thumbsup:
I don't see it here, but if it's duplicated it only goes to prove how good it is: "Things to do in Denver when you're dead"
Damn all those great movies I am definately going to get the DVD version of Bladerunner then and well I hope it will then have the three (or is there more ?) versions of the film. Akira Kurosawa is smashing too. And Sergio Leones films are great too Well, it looks like, I have the original Dracula lying around , he he
If you`re going Kurosawa Yojimbo(story remade as A Fist Full of Dollars and then again as Last Man Standing) , Seven Samurai & Hidden Fortress are my picks. Staying in Asia i would like to draw your attention to kar wai wong: Days of Being Wild In the Mood for Love 2046. Beat Takeshi (Kitano) Boiling point Sonatine Hana-Bi Violent Cop Brother (more western, mostly shot in the US) Zatoichi Kim Ki-Duk 3-Iron (Bin-Jip) Spring Summer Autumn Winter Spring The Isle Hwal (The Bow) Bad Guy Samaria Miike Takashi Audition Ichi the Killer Gozu
There are seven known versions of the film, including the upcoming Final Cut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
If you can get past the crap special effects (totals about 5 minutes of the film), 'Quatermass and The Pit' is an amazing sci-fi/horror film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/
I Netflixed 2046 (because it had Zhang Ziyi :drool without seeing In the Mood for Love and it was really difficult to follow. It was really late at night, and with the subtitles (don't get me wrong, I enjoi subtitles) and the jumping around from present to future back to present and stuff, it was hard to get into...
A high-def version would be incredible! Much excitement here at the news, thanks for posting! :thumbsup:
i can recommend you following must seen movies: - Duel (spielberg debut 1971) - Deliverance - They Live - The Dead Zone (Chris Walken) - Body snatcher (1st remake, Donald Sutherland..) - The Fog (original) - Burnt Offerings - Castaway (Nicolas Roegg with oliver reed) - Don't Look Now - The Deer Hunter (Chris Walken) - One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Jacobs Ladder - True romance (Chris Walken, Hopper) - Blade runner (Rutger Hauer) - Alien - Lost Highway - Rumble Fish - Clockwork orange -2001: A Space Odyssey - Blue Velvet - Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jubilee The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle The Birds Sid & Nancy Saving Private Ryan Enemy At The Gates 24 Hour Party People Cape Fear (Remake) Casino 9 Songs 51st State 300 (in HD) Excalibur (in HD)
This isn't really a "classic" as it's 2 years old, however I think it will eventually be regarded as a very significant British film. "The Descent" really surprised me. It's by the director of "Dog Soldiers" (not a film I particularly enjoyed I must admit). It's a gorey movie of the highest order, but from the beginning you get the impression that it's going to be a rather sad chick-flick. A group of young women have almost all finished off their degrees, gone off and started working. One of them is married with a young daughter. Tragically, whilst they are having a get together this young girl is killed. It is a harrowing scene as the main character wakes up in hospital to discover that her husband & daughter were both killed in the fatal car accident. As a side story, it is implied (very subtly) that one of the other women was having an affair with the husband. Hence an immediate tension that carries on throughout the film. So, 1 year on they all decide to meet up in the US and go pot-holing (as you do). The team leader is the women who was having the affair and the film seems to be going along the direction of "main character enacts revenge against the other woman" or "they are forced to bond and all is forgiven". I literally didn't have a clue whilst watching it as I hadn't even heard of it before sitting down to watch it with my wife. There are clues, some rather more than obvious once you've seen the film and look back. But hey, we were tired! What looks like bloody finger prints on the rock could equally have been from a potholer who got trapped... so you think "okay, so there might not be a way out of this pothole then". They descend into what the majority of them believe to be a well known and mapped out series of caves and pot holes. However things take a turn for the worse when there is a rock fall. It's at this point that the leader explains they have actually descended 2 miles underground into an unmarked, thus far unmapped series of caves. She wanted them to be the first to name them, but it looks like she has led them all to certain death as that was the only exit she knew of. Again I was unsure of where the film was going next. The tension in the group was mounting and I was beginning to think that perhaps the entire group were going to kill this woman and just leave her undiscovered in the caves. One of those "dark secret to be kept among friends" films, like "Mean Creek" (another excellent film btw). Anyway, I was wrong! They gel together in adversity to ensure that, despite their predicament they will get out. So I started to get a bit bored (only for a minute or two) whilst I pondered over where this was all leading. Clearly to the surface - I thought! But I did think "this is from the same guy that did Dog Soldiers, so there has to be a twist surely?" Anyway, I don't want to spoil things, but I was SO wide off the mark with this film. Having not read the back of the DVD or heard of it before I couldn't have guessed that not long after this gelling together it all starts to seriously fall apart. Rarely do I find horror films where tension increases the more you see the perpetrator. In so many horror movies the trick is to hold the suspense by implying menace rather than showing it. Here the director (Neil Marshall) clearly decided that the characters have no visible means of escape, there can be no let up and the more you see of what is hunting them, the better! He ain't wrong either! It's a claustophobic "Predator", 2 miles underground with a bunch of chicks, faltering equipment and no map home! I tell thee, the best thing is that this is NOT Hollywood. It's a fairly good script, you get to know very quickly the tensions between various so called friends & you are left hanging onto the wrong threads as the main character becomes slowly unhinged. Once the film gets going properly it just takes you along like a rollercoaster bathed in blood! I've rarely enjoyed a better gore film.
hmmm am I the only one who has a weakness for the 80´s "adventure" films where it wasn´t the effects that made the film become great. But the story in its self ? like Wedlock, Conan, Red Sonja , Cyborg and so forth and many others ? Since I really feel, that the old "80´s" movies were great. Since the special effects wasn´t what made them great. And if you want great classic comedy, then I must recommend the DVD set of Olsen Banden 1 to 14. And if I remember correct then the Danish versions of the DVD set has English subtitles , and some other subtitles and dubs too. Olsen Banden But, if you are a film nerd/buff then you can also watch the Norwegian, Swedish remakes of the same series. The Swedish remakes are known as Jönssonligan
Try listen to the Danish audio then, and change the subtitles to German. Or what ever subtitle you prefer The Norwegian remake is the closest, but I recommend the original.
Here are two classics in the Viking movie genre "Hrafninn flýgur" (When the Raven Fly) http://imdb.com/title/tt0087432/ "à skugga hrafnsins" (The Shadow of the Raven) http://imdb.com/title/tt0095346/
