Film Recommendations

[bozzer29]

What... Eraserhead or Blue Velvet?? You into Jap horror movies? Check out a film called Audition... it tootles along with a fairly mundane story line and then towards the end just goes totally wierd! Very effective!

[solidfunkninja]

Eraserhead. Brown shorts time for lil' 8-year-old Solid.

I luuuuurve Japanese Horror. Actually, any foreign language horror really. It's just that Japanese filmmakers seem to have the better idea of what freaks us out. It's not so much the visuals as the sound that gets me. Brrrrr.

[bozzer29]

Yup agree with you there. I think its largely the way they pace their films, and often the sound track is fairly minimal... no cruddy "build-up" music etc. The original Jap version of Ring actually reminded me very much of a David Lynch movie.

[BigGinge101]

I'll go along with that about Audition. It's like a sweet little love story punctuated by sections of complete wierdness (man in bag), until the end when, HOLY SH*T!!! ocurs.

[spiff22]

i highly recomend "old boy" if you have not seen it. fantastic movie, and talk about a total mind f*ck of an ending. didnt see that one coming. oh and the hammer scene in the hallway!?!! amazing

[BigGinge101]

Is Old Boy a Yakuza film that had a limited cinema release late last year? If it's the one I'm thinking of I really wanted to see it but never managed to go. Sounds like I missed a really good one.

Talking of weird endings, has anyone seen Dead or Alive???
Now that has the wierdest ending I have EVER seen.

[spiff22]

i gurantee you will ove it. guy is kidnapped, framed for the murder of his wife and held for 15 years with no reason why, then one day he wakes up in a suitcase on top of a building with a phone and a wallet full of cash. he has 5 days to figure out why he was held, if he does his captive will commit suicide, if he fails he will kill someone close to him. really really violent, if you liked ichi you will love this

[SH4NX]

Sooooo many films to choose from

So in no particular order

Point Break - Even with Patrick Swayze & Keanu Reeves still a great movie
Leon
The Crow
Platoon
Shawshank Redemption
Green Mile
Heat
Donnie Darko- Wierd or what
Cross of Iron - WW2 set on Russian front

Could go on but wont

[baldienom]

as with most people have too many dvd's to choose from. so off the top of my head:
leon (extended version)
the crow
the usual supects
hard boiled
candyman
pulp fiction
fight club
jfk (extended version)

[Oxycutor]

Top 5 seems such a few number of films but here goes I guess in no particular order.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - And the other Dollars films

Band of Brothers & Saving Private Ryan.

The Terminator & Terminator 2

The Crow

Highlander - The original the less said about anything after the better - especially 2.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Blade Runner

LA Confidential

The Lord Of The Rings

Star Wars


Ok that's 10, but I could have picked so many more

[chapaz]

films has to be

all 3 matrix films
all 3 original starwars films
Leon

and just a personal fave Human Traffic...

Nice one brother!!!!!! Nice one ;D

[sice]

akira or ghost in shell or a strange one is devil man , good manga and anime are hard to find .

film wise , fith element ,matwix ,point blanc ,lord of the rings extended edition ,bullet proof monk ? ? ? ? ? ?

[chapaz]

i loved akira tht was a mint film i used to have the whole collection of guyver anime

[Moog]

Sice, chapaz you will boith get on with Mohogg & Big Ginge, they got into quite a conversation about Anime at the Big weekend! ;D

[Mohogg]

Mangaaaaaaaaaa!!! Still got the entire collection of Guyver on VHS and i've just got the third part of the new "Fist of the North Star" on DVD. Not to mention the vast collection of other Manga and Anime i've been collecting for about the last 15yrs or so.