In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.
Five friends spend one lost weekend in a mix of music, love and club culture.
A martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
Some of them:-4wd (February 12, 2013, 09:23 PM)
Ah! A fellow horror-flick lover~! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (February 12, 2013, 09:40 PM)
I didn't even know that Old Boy was released outside Korea.
It's perhaps one of the more disturbed movies out there. Deeply disturbed...-Renegade (February 13, 2013, 05:05 AM)
I didn't even know that Old Boy was released outside Korea.
It's perhaps one of the more disturbed movies out there. Deeply disturbed...-Renegade (February 13, 2013, 05:05 AM)
+1! :tellme:
That bit of movie strangeness left my brain agitated for a day or two after I saw it. Very disturbing movie. It outdid the cult classic Videodrome for leaving you in a weird state of mind afterwards.-40hz (February 13, 2013, 05:29 AM)
If anyone really wants to have a giggle, maybe start a new thread and I can whip up a few phrases. It's a pity that the engine is discontinued with no plans of future developement though!-TaoPhoenix (February 13, 2013, 06:17 AM)
I see there are a lot of SF lovers, yet no one mentioned two works that are among the best (if not the best):
Solaris (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTkxMzE4NzcyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMDY4MTk4._V1_SY317_CR4,0,214,317_.jpg)-Attronarch (February 13, 2013, 07:39 AM)
(from the quantum physics lecture at the start of the film)
Let's talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time a direction. There is truth in flesh and the solid ground. The wind may be invisible, but it's real. Smoke, fire, water, light - they're different! Not as to stone or steel, but they're tangible. And we assume time is narrow because it is as a clock - one second is one second for everyone! Cause precedes effect - fruit rots, water flows downstream. We're born, we age, we die. The reverse NEVER happens... None of this is true! Say goodbye to classical reality, because our logic collapses on the subatomic level... into ghosts and shadows...
From Job's friends insisting that the good are rewarded and the wicked punished, to the scientists of the 1930's proving to their horror the theorem that not everything can be proved, we've sought to impose order on the universe. But we've discovered something very surprising: while order DOES exist in the universe, it is not at all what we had in mind!
A life form is growing out of pre-biotic fluids. It's not winding down into disorder, it's self-organizing. It's becoming something. What? An animal? A disease? What?
(static distorted borderline hysteric voice) This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.
Stardust (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/?ref_=sr_1):
Adventure, fantasy, (riskier) jokes, nice effects, decent storyline and last but not least a strong cast. I mean, who can say no to Michelle Pfeiffer with Claire Daines as backup?-Shades (February 14, 2013, 05:50 AM)
[Dead and Alive (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/?ref_=sr_1)]
It's a romantic horromedy (horror comedy). It mashes up a love story inside of a zombie apocalypse, but keeps things in perspective and makes fun of everything!-Renegade (February 14, 2013, 05:45 AM)
Have you seen Shaun of the Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/)-tomos (February 14, 2013, 06:24 AM)
Stardust (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/?ref_=sr_1):
Adventure, fantasy, (riskier) jokes, nice effects, decent storyline and last but not least a strong cast. I mean, who can say no to Michelle Pfeiffer with Claire Daines as backup?-Shades (February 14, 2013, 05:50 AM)
That was a BRILLIANT movie! I loved it! It's probably the closest thing to The Princess Bride, and very much comparable, though I couldn't say which I liked more. I've see TPB more times than I could count. (Used to stick it in while working - nearly wore out the tape.)-Renegade (February 14, 2013, 05:56 AM)
^Watched a relative's son and daughter sit through it a while back. They're 7 and 5 respectively. Not a tear in sight. Truth is, I think they were rather bored by it.-40hz (February 14, 2013, 07:11 AM)
Have you seen Shaun of the Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/)+1 - That was GREAT! I loved it! :Thmbsup:-tomos (February 14, 2013, 06:24 AM)-Renegade (February 14, 2013, 06:34 AM)
Was it a sequel? I liked Shaun better when he still was alive: movies.netflix.com/ShauntheSheep-Curt (February 14, 2013, 05:54 PM)
A film really doesn't have to be "great", (as proven by some of your lists!), it is more important if it appeals to something in you, I think.-Curt (February 14, 2013, 05:54 PM)
I'm seconding this, sometimes my subconscious just wants to be fed stuff, emotionally, even if it has a couple of disastrous plot holes. Superhero movies are the best case example here. My other posts above are the same - they might not score all 5 out of 5, but they address something I want dealt with, even if a bit unevenly.A film really doesn't have to be "great", (as proven by some of your lists!), it is more important if it appeals to something in you, I think.-Curt (February 14, 2013, 05:54 PM)
good point Curt - in the last years I have thoroughly enjoyed some films that are really not so great. I mean the story or acting or something resonates with whatever is going on with me at that particular moment. OTOH a film can be super made or maybe technically brilliant, but not connect with the viewer - or simply not have much of a heart (last Almodovar film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189073/) comes to mind - but maybe it 'connects' with someone else...)-tomos (February 15, 2013, 04:14 AM)
Maybe somebody can help me out with this one. It's a 2009 American film called The Limits of Control. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135092/).
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I can't decide if this is an unusually clever movie - or just a send-up of Bergman's style.
(I strongly suspect it's a complete put on to see how many film buffs fall for it - but maybe I'm missing something?)
Anybody else out there manage to sit all the way through it like I did? :huh:-40hz (February 13, 2013, 07:22 PM)
Half of the movie takes place in your head, because you are trying to make sense of what is happening.
Initially I didn't think I'd make it past the 10 minute mark but at ~25 minutes it started to get interesting, (I am so shallow :-[ ) - I have to say I started to enjoy the film even after that all to brief interlude with Paz.-4wd (March 02, 2013, 07:37 PM)
I think it comes down to the difference between art and entertainment. Some movies are entertaining. Some are genuine works of art. Occasionally you'll find one that's a rare combination of both.
But in the end it's not so much a matter of what's "good" or "bad." It's just a matter of what you like. And since our tastes evolve - and at what stage in your life you find yourself liking it.
There are no absolutes here.-40hz (February 16, 2013, 12:57 PM)
@Ren: LOL! And touché. ;D ;D ;D :Thmbsup:-40hz (March 03, 2013, 07:49 AM)
And since our tastes evolve - and at what stage in your life you find yourself liking it.
The Man from Earth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
Just a guy telling a story (the setting and supporting characters are irrelevant).
But the guy is 14,000 years old and it's a great story. Most entertaining.-AndyM (March 03, 2013, 09:56 AM)
The Man from Earth-AndyM (March 03, 2013, 09:56 AM)
The Shawshank Redemption (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)-tn_dang (March 04, 2013, 02:25 PM)
... K-Pax (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) - which is also highly recommended.-40hz (March 03, 2013, 01:52 PM)
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One of my favorite movies of the last year or two is Cry of the Owl (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034302/) -- the 2009 version with Paddy Considine. I just love it.-mouser (March 04, 2013, 03:13 PM)
@Wraith - good stuff! And you've got Dark City - one of my favorite sleeper sci-fi flicks!
I love it when they bring that film noir look to sci-fi like they did in The Thirteenth Floor (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5). Which is also highly recommended.-40hz (March 10, 2013, 06:30 PM)
Strange Days is one that you really like, or you don't-wraith808 (March 10, 2013, 10:59 PM)
Strange Days is one that you really like, or you don't-wraith808 (March 10, 2013, 10:59 PM)
Liked it. :-* The story was good. But Juliette Lewis's performance as his drug fueled rock star ex-girlfriend was amazing. Forget the legs - which are very nice btw. This lady can sing! Thought I was watching a cross between Tina Turner and Gracie Slick watching that scene. Oh yeah!
;D-40hz (March 11, 2013, 07:20 AM)
Hang'em High (http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film490679.html)-kilele (March 11, 2013, 08:09 AM)
As for "Sniper", I really liked that when I first saw it, but I'm not sure that I'd like it if I saw it again. I think I've changed a lot, and that would colour my view of it.-Renegade (March 11, 2013, 09:19 AM)
Hang'em High (http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film490679.html)-kilele (March 11, 2013, 08:09 AM)
MAJOR ASS-KICKING FLICK! :Thmbsup:
I used to have the sound track to that. Great music and amazing film!
High Plains Drifter
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY <<<< Damned if that's not one of the best flicks ever!
The Outlaw Jose Wales
The Clint spaghetti westerns are just fantastic! Huge fan of them here! :D :Thmbsup:-Renegade (March 11, 2013, 09:19 AM)
pretty much any Western or other flick with Clint Eastwood in it was going to be worth watching.agreed, seems like the guy can't make a bad movie-IainB (March 11, 2013, 03:54 PM)
That is a good one. :Thmbsup: I'd add Serenity to that list also, and Westworld.-wraith808 (March 11, 2013, 06:41 PM)
Movies with Sean Connery are practically all in the same league as the Clint Eastwood movies. 'In the Name Of The Rose' is a great movie from S.C.-Shades (March 12, 2013, 07:44 AM)
Movies with Sean Connery are practically all in the same league as the Clint Eastwood movies. 'In the Name Of The Rose' is a great movie from S.C.-Shades (March 12, 2013, 07:44 AM)
*cough* Zardoz *cough*
:P-4wd (March 12, 2013, 08:26 AM)
Movies with Sean Connery are practically all in the same league as the Clint Eastwood movies.-Shades (March 12, 2013, 07:44 AM)
Movies with Sean Connery are practically all in the same league as the Clint Eastwood movies. 'In the Name Of The Rose' is a great movie from S.C.-Shades (March 12, 2013, 07:44 AM)
*cough* Zardoz *cough*
:P-4wd (March 12, 2013, 08:26 AM)
Hahahahahah~! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (March 12, 2013, 08:32 AM)
At least you got to admire the comely and wholesomely sexy Ms. Jenny Agutter in that one.True, but Sean Connery in diapers is pretty enticing to some people as well.-40hz (March 12, 2013, 01:07 PM)
Really, what's not to like about Zardoz?-mwb1100 (March 12, 2013, 04:09 PM)
Zardoz! OMG - Even Barbarella came off looking good by comparison to that orphan.
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ohmygodohmygodohmygodipromiseillneverwatchitagainohgodipromiseipromiseipromise!!!!!-40hz (March 12, 2013, 01:07 PM)
For cheezy but enjoyable I'll take the original (1976) Logan's Run any day.-40hz (March 12, 2013, 01:07 PM)
For cheezy but enjoyable I'll take the original (1976) Logan's Run any day.-40hz (March 12, 2013, 01:07 PM)
Hey, I happen to love Logan's Run! :-*-app103 (March 12, 2013, 07:07 PM)
Really, what's not to like about Zardoz?-mwb1100 (March 12, 2013, 04:09 PM)
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals. Despite being pursued by the henchmen, Fred finds the time to flirt with Helena, blow a safe, rob a train, evade the hapless Metro police and start a rock band ...
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
does anybody find movies that take place in subways or on trains (or in train stations) particularly enjoyable like I do?-40hz (March 13, 2013, 01:04 AM)
Switching gears for a second, does anybody find movies that take place in subways or on trains (or in train stations) particularly enjoyable like I do?-40hz (March 13, 2013, 01:04 AM)
I saw a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick - or maybe it was Stephen Segal - same stuff, different name ---- it was on a train. Pretty bad movie. Good for 14 year old boys though.-Renegade (March 13, 2013, 09:49 AM)
For me it's not enough to have a train scene or have the train be just another locked room gimmick. It has to be an integral element to the story. Von Ryan's Express for example. Or The Great Train Robbery. In those, the train introduced unique elements that much of the plot depended on.-40hz (March 13, 2013, 11:01 AM)
For me it's not enough to have a train scene or have the train be just another locked room gimmick. It has to be an integral element to the story. Von Ryan's Express for example. Or The Great Train Robbery. In those, the train introduced unique elements that much of the plot depended on.-40hz (March 13, 2013, 11:01 AM)
Not sure if the Hunted's scene will satisfy you in that regard, then. True, it's not a locked room gimmick- it's a flowing scene in a Japanese Bullet Train. You have to see it... it doesn't really lend itself to words.-wraith808 (March 13, 2013, 11:05 AM)
I also like "The Warriors" quite a bit - it's kind of a subway movie. I remember watching it on "Joe Bob's Last Call", and he had an MTA map that he used when coming back from the commercial breaks to show exactly what the progress of the Warriors was:-mwb1100 (March 13, 2013, 01:42 AM)
I miss Joe Bob.-mwb1100 (March 13, 2013, 01:42 AM)
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Best by date with my star ratings:
The 39 Steps 1935 (British thriller) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll *
Bullitt 1968 (American dramatic thriller) Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset ***
Bagdad Cafe 1987 (American comedy) Jack Palance ****-sword (March 13, 2013, 10:54 PM)
Just added to my top list. Less than 10 minutes long and absolutely brilliant. It's called Paperman and it's by... Disney?
:Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:-40hz (March 28, 2013, 07:16 AM)
Just added to my top list. Less than 10 minutes long and absolutely brilliant. It's called Paperman and it's by... Disney?
:Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:-40hz (March 28, 2013, 07:16 AM)
If you liked that one, you'll probably like this one (http://vimeo.com/6523852) too.-app103 (March 28, 2013, 11:56 AM)
The thread What are your favorite movies? (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=34007.0) is pretty active at the moment,
but I thought I'd add this one just for stuff you've seen lately (good or bad).-tomos (March 28, 2013, 02:37 PM)
Just added to my top list. Less than 10 minutes long and absolutely brilliant. It's called Paperman and it's by... Disney?
:Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:-40hz (March 28, 2013, 07:16 AM)
If you liked that one, you'll probably like this one (http://vimeo.com/6523852) too.-app103 (March 28, 2013, 11:56 AM)
That was really cute. But a part of me doesn't like it because the cynic in me says that would never actually happen in real life. It's too implausible. Too scripted. But it sure is a cute, romantic idea.-Deozaan (March 28, 2013, 03:09 PM)
That was really cute. But a part of me doesn't like it because the cynic in me says that would never actually happen in real life. It's too implausible. Too scripted. But it sure is a cute, romantic idea.-Deozaan (March 28, 2013, 03:09 PM)
Well, neither would Paperman. :P-app103 (March 28, 2013, 03:33 PM)
It's Springtime. Get yourself out there and fall in love. :)-40hz (March 28, 2013, 04:04 PM)
It's Springtime. Get yourself out there and fall in love.It ain't for lack of trying.-40hz (March 28, 2013, 04:04 PM)-Deozaan (March 29, 2013, 02:24 AM)
... or on trains (or in train stations) particularly enjoyable like I do?-40hz (March 13, 2013, 01:04 AM)
Switching gears for a second, does anybody find movies that take place in subways or on trains (or in train stations) particularly enjoyable like I do? (Freudians can feel free draw their own conclusions about that... >:D)-40hz (March 13, 2013, 01:04 AM)
Seconds is one of those quietly chilling movies (like Videodrome) that doesn't hit you right away. It's only after a day or two when you find yourself still thinking about it that the creepiness of the story becomes fully manifest.-40hz (April 18, 2013, 03:46 PM)
@App - Wow! That looks very cool. Can't believe I missed that when it came around. :)-40hz (April 18, 2013, 03:46 PM)
a recent rerun made me remember yet another favourite of mine:
Robert Altman's Gosford Park ♥ In my mind it is within Top 50.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280707/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosford_Park
You may need to love the classic British understatement culture, to fully appreciate this genre. Some people have said the film isn't funny. However, when I re-saw it last week I was literally ROTFL, when the policeman (played by Stephen Fry) again and again tried to introduce himself; it was just so hilarious! I am big fan of British humour on film and tv, and Gosford Park is not at all boring - even though Robert Altman is an American....-Curt (June 14, 2013, 01:23 PM)
i f-ing love stephen fry. Check this clip out, it floors me!a recent rerun made me remember yet another favourite of mine:
Robert Altman's Gosford Park ♥ In my mind it is within Top 50.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280707/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosford_Park
You may need to love the classic British understatement culture, to fully appreciate this genre. Some people have said the film isn't funny. However, when I re-saw it last week I was literally ROTFL, when the policeman (played by Stephen Fry) again and again tried to introduce himself; it was just so hilarious! I am big fan of British humour on film and tv, and Gosford Park is not at all boring - even though Robert Altman is an American....-Curt (June 14, 2013, 01:23 PM)
Stephen Fry is definitely hilarious in Gosford Park but the movie is so much more than humor. Altman has a gift for building little worlds out of characters which are so engrossing the plot is almost irrelevant. Much like my other favorite Altman movie, MASH, it's almost disappointing because I could watch another hour of those people doing whatever in that little world.-Vurbal (January 14, 2014, 10:18 AM)
I'd add the 1990 psychological thriller Jacob's Ladder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) to the list.
I'll avoid any discussion to keep the "go in cold" crowd happy. :P
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"Once Upon a Time in the West": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West
A masterpiece. No need to add further words.-Giampy (December 19, 2014, 06:15 PM)
+1! Awesome flick.-40hz (December 19, 2014, 07:54 PM)
Music from 1:50 to 3:50-Giampy (December 20, 2014, 06:05 AM)
This is close to one of my favorite movies of all time, along with it's companion OUTI America. I went into both of these movies stone cold, and both times, as I was approaching the end of the movie, it hit me how crazy good everything was. It just pounced upon me like that after 2+ hours. What an experience. I've tried so hard to try to understand what sergio leone is doing in these movies, but it's quite hard to explain. Of the last 15 years, these two first-time watchings were probably my favorite movie experiences. It usually takes me a lot of retrospect and analysis for me to call someone a genius, but by the end of these two movies, I was already thinking "This mutherf----r is goddamn genius."+1! Awesome flick.-40hz (December 19, 2014, 07:54 PM)
Among several unforgettable episodes, the following episode is the one that mainly touched me.
Music from 1:50 to 3:50, and especially the explosion of music at 2:43, always give me gooseflesh:-Giampy (December 20, 2014, 06:05 AM)
(Both characters are sitting on floor between the book stacks, half in the bag, and killing a bottle of Christmas Party champagne.)
Hepburn: Tell me, skipper,
why have you never married?
Don't you like women?
Tracy: Oh, yeah. Sure, sure. I like women,
specifically as a sex and specifically.
Hepburn: But not "pacifically"
enough to get married.
Tracy: Oh, no, no. That's not it at all.
I just never found anyone willing to put
up with me. Except Caroline, of course.
- Would you like more champagne?
Hepburn: No. What about "Caroline, of course?"
Tracy: Caroline?... Caroline was a model.
Hepburn: Mm-hmm.
Tracy: 5'9" in her stockinged feet.
Hepburn: You had occasion to measure her?
Tracy: Among other things.
i've watched Gosford park.-superboyac (December 23, 2014, 03:15 PM)
I want to go back and rewatch Chinatown.-superboyac (December 23, 2014, 03:15 PM)
Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)-bit (October 03, 2015, 03:48 AM)
Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)-bit (October 03, 2015, 03:48 AM)
One of my favorite movies of all time. I saw this as a young kid with my father and was blown away.-mouser (October 03, 2015, 09:19 AM)