OT: Movie thread

[Boom Boom Apathy]

After a hard, yet successful year, I'm taking a few days off just for myself. What are some must see movies? Specifically comedies/action/drama or any awesome movies overall.

My ATF's

Memphis Belle
Die Hard (#1 and it's a Christmas Movie to boot)
Princess Bride
Joe Dirt
My Cousin Vinny
Multiple James Bond Movies
Terminator 2
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump
Escape from NY
I'm sure I'm missing about 20, but those stick out. h

 

[raynman]

After a hard, yet successful year, I'm taking a few days off just for myself. What are some must see movies? Specifically comedies/action/drama or any awesome movies overall.

Recent releases or any era?

EDIT: Some I've seen in the past couple years that were pretty decent include
Mud- solid
Midnight Special- really neat kid/alien movie
Fury- intense war movie about a tank crew
Mad Max: Fury Road- if you haven't seen this it should be the next movie you see if you want action
What We Do In The Shadows- mockumentary about vampires in New Zealand, so damn funny
Beasts of No Nation- Idris Elba rules all
Straight Outta Compton- acting was so good
Birdman- absolutely insane, same director made The Revenant which is also insane
Boyhood- immensely satisfying movie, shot using the same actors over 15ish years so you see a kid essentially grow up
Nightcrawler- Jake Gyllenhal is creepus maximus and it's nuts
Grand Budapest Hotel (pretty sure Joakim Nordstrom played a bellhop in this movie when he was participating in Movember)

 

[Stickpucker]

After a hard, yet successful year, I'm taking a few days off just for myself. What are some must see movies? Specifically comedies/action/drama or any awesome movies overall.

Snatch
Big trouble in little China
Godzilla (new one)
Space balls
Blazing saddles
The new hobbit movies
Star wars 7
Guardians of the Galaxy
Caddy shack
Scrooged...bill murray version

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

the big lebowski
coming to america
waiting for guffman
best in show
the big short
not movies but the sherlock series if you havent seen it, each episode is basically a movie and there are 9 of them

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Snatch
Big trouble in little China
Godzilla (new one)
Space balls
Blazing saddles
The new hobbit movies
Star wars 7
Guardians of the Galaxy
Caddy shack
Scrooged...bill murray version

Can't believe I forgot those 2.

 

[Joe McGrath]

If you like satire and gangster movies, see Johnny Dangerously.

Stickpucker and Boom Boom hit on quite a few of my favorites though. Not the Hobbit movies though. Clerks 2 sums up my feelings on LOTR in general. Oh yeah, Clerks, see that.

 

[Unsustainable]

Jeremiah Johnson (1972 Robert Redford)
Red Dawn (1984 Patrick Swayze)
The Outlaw Jose Wales (Clint Eastwood)
The Book of Eli (Denzel Washington)

Spies Like Us (Chevy Chase)
The Burbs (Tom Hanks)
Every movie written / directed / acted in by Harold Ramis

 

[raynman]

the big lebowski
coming to america
waiting for guffman
best in show
the big short
not movies but the sherlock series if you havent seen it, each episode is basically a movie and there are 9 of them

Sherlock series is awesome. Thought it was going to be cheesy but it turned out to be really damn good.

 

[GooGooMuck]

The Arrival was awful. Amy Adams is good, but the script is horrendous. It's as if a group of middle school girls got together and said "We're gonna like make the best sci-fi movie EVER! It's gonna be like sooooo deep." It is unbelievably stupid. I can't understand all the good reviews.

If you're into ham handed simplistic messages, a slow pace (Amy Adams staring at letters for minutes at a time) and an ending that any person still awake can see coming from a mile away, this is your movie. Ugh.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I love the Lord of the Rings, but I do not care what anyone says. The Last Samurai was by far the best movie of 2003, and it is an abortion of a travesty that the Academy just gifted pretty much every award to LOTR because it is a popularity contest.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Snatch
Big trouble in little China
Godzilla (new one)
Space balls
Blazing saddles
The new hobbit movies
Star wars 7
Guardians of the Galaxy
Caddy shack
Scrooged...bill murray version

You and I have compatible taste in movies.

Are you single?

 

[Dishface]

Cheers guys

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Jeremiah Johnson (1972 Robert Redford)

Red Dawn (1984 Patrick Swayze)

The Outlaw Jose Whales (Clint Eastwood)

 

[Roboturner913]

some of my favorites of the last decade or so:

The Machinist - Christian Bale is a factory worker who can't sleep and is losing his mind. Really dark, but really good.

3:10 to Yuma - Originally an Elmore Leonard short story. There are two versions, 1957 original and a 2007 remake with Russell Crowe, Bale, Ben Foster. Both are excellent but the remake is probably the better overall experience, unless you really enjoy old movies.

Middle Men - Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, James Caan. Based on a true story of the first internet porn site and credit card bill service.

Black Mass - Boston mob flick. If you've seen "The Departed" this is more or less the same general story but supposedly more true to the actual events. If you have not seen The Departed then watch that one too.

Man of Steel - Granted, I'm a big Superman nerd, but this is the Superman flick I always wanted to see. it's not perfect but it's really, really, really damn good.

Interstellar - Complicated plot, but worthwhile. High-minded sci-fi in the vein of 2001 and such. If you have a big TV and surround sound system this is essential viewing.

Southland Tales - I'm staunchly of the opinion that everybody needs to see this. You may not like it, you definitely won't understand it, but it's campy as hell and a wild wild trip.

Gran Torino - Eastwood. Awesome flick, sort of a character study. Gets more and more relevant every time I see it.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

some of my favorites of the last decade or so:

The Machinist - Christian Bale is a factory worker who can't sleep and is losing his mind. Really dark, but really good.

3:10 to Yuma - Originally an Elmore Leonard short story. There are two versions, 1957 original and a 2007 remake with Russell Crowe, Bale, Ben Foster. Both are excellent but the remake is probably the better overall experience, unless you really enjoy old movies.

Middle Men - Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, James Caan. Based on a true story of the first internet porn site and credit card bill service.

Black Mass - Boston mob flick. If you've seen "The Departed" this is more or less the same general story but supposedly more true to the actual events. If you have not seen The Departed then watch that one too.

Man of Steel - Granted, I'm a big Superman nerd, but this is the Superman flick I always wanted to see. it's not perfect but it's really, really, really damn good.

Interstellar - Complicated plot, but worthwhile. High-minded sci-fi in the vein of 2001 and such. If you have a big TV and surround sound system this is essential viewing.

Southland Tales - I'm staunchly of the opinion that everybody needs to see this. You may not like it, you definitely won't understand it, but it's campy as hell and a wild wild trip.

Gran Torino - Eastwood. Awesome flick, sort of a character study. Gets more and more relevant every time I see it.

didn't he drop something absurd like 50 pounds for that role?

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

didn't he drop something absurd like 50 pounds for that role?

Yup, he lived off of a cup of coffee and an apple/can of tuna per day.

Bulked up to play batman immediately afterwards. I admire his dedication but he's had to have done damage to his body.

 

[Roboturner913]

The story is that the writer put a weight loss target in the script for a much shorter actor originally. They were going to adjust it to account for the fact that Bale was 6 feet plus and overall a bigger person as opposed to 5-8 or whatever it was written for, but Bale took it as a personal challenge that he could lose the original amount.

 

[The Stranger]

Snatch
Big trouble in little vagina
Godzilla (new one)
Space balls
Blazing saddles
The new hobbit movies
Star wars 7
Guardians of the Galaxy
Caddy shack
Scrooged...bill murray version

'member Chewbacca again?

 

[Unsustainable]

Yup, he lived off of a cup of coffee and an apple/can of tuna per day.

Bulked up to play batman immediately afterwards. I admire his dedication but he's had to have done damage to his body.

Bradley Cooper bulked up a ton to play Chris Kyle.

 

[Incubajerks]

Recent releases or any era?


Fury- intense war movie about a tank crew

Liked this, too bad many things were so inaccurate. Anyway is very hard to find very accurate war movies.

 

[Stickpucker]

You and I have compatible taste in movies.

Are you single?

I'm married but we can work something out if you're a hot Asian woman with a large trust fund and a good sense of humor.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I do indeed have a sense of humor.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I'm married but we can work something out if you're a hot Asian woman with a large trust fund and a good sense of humor.

You get those emails too?

 

[tarheelhockey]

You get those emails too?

My girlfriend has been emailing people?

 

[ONO94]

Jeremiah Johnson (1972 Robert Redford)
Red Dawn (1984 Patrick Swayze)
The Outlaw Jose Whales (Clint Eastwood)
The Book of Eli (Denzel Washington)

Spies Like Us (Chevy Chase)
The Burbs (Tom Hanks)
Every movie written / directed / acted in by Harold Ramis

Now there's an overlooked gem. An Mexican Gray Whale soldier left over from the War of Northern Whalers, whose entire pod had been harpooned by ruthless red-legged bandits--wandering the Western seas looking for peace. Along the way, being chased by a band of Red Legged fiends, he sends his enemies on Nantucket boat rides and finds friends in the unlikeliest of oceans. Full of great lines and great scenery...a true classic fully enjoyed while sipping a nice Anejo.