DU movie recommendations: what should I go rent RIGHT NOW

[iconoclastic cat]

DUers: Mrs. IconCat has requested that I pick tonight's flicks. I am unfortunately drawing a big blank.

Since DUers are so knowledgeable, maybe you can help. What are some great movies that I should pick up?

Hurry! I have to leave pretty soon!

[mrboba1]

1. what genre?

[redqueen]

4. Good question

I don't feel right making suggestions when I don't know what you like or are interested in seeing tonight.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Heya, redqueen! Good to hear from you.

Seriously, we are all over the road: Horror, drama, Cohen bros, etc.

Off the top of your head, any favs?

[redqueen]

12. Ooooh

Have you seen The City of Lost Children?

[iconoclastic cat]

14. Yep! Loved it! Once at Music Box, once on DVD

We loved that movie. Just don't see it with the English dubbed in, like they have on the VHS.

[redqueen]

16. Well since you said drama

Have you seen Cold Mountain yet?

[mrboba1]

20. We just saw

Butterfly Effect.

I liked it. I know others will probably not though...

It kept me all tense all movie long...

[redqueen]

25. Oh I liked that one, too

Kutcher was really good in it, I thought.

Didn't get to watch the alternate ending though. :(

[mrboba1]

31. there was an alternate ending?

shit - I missed that!

[redqueen]

37. Infurating

Isn't it?

I'll end up renting it again... if my awesome bro doensn't buy it, that is.

[seventhson]

46. Butterfly effect = both endings are good -- but I liked the commercial one

better than the director's cut.

The Director's cut is awesome, but I prefered the other ---- I LOVED having a CHOICE of endings.

Brilliant marketing move actually.

This film got slammed by critics unfairly IMHO.

Kutcher was great (altho it took me about a half hour to believe anything he did -- then I LOVED him)

I think that this film will get great word of mouth and do well in DVD.

[iconoclastic cat]

5. Well, Mrs. IconCat and I are fans of many genres.

We can see Alien one night, then Adaptation the next. We just want it to not suck.

Off the top of your head, mrboba, any great flicks.

Thanks!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. Lost in Translation, The Original Manchurian Candidate, Seventh Seal

Spirited Away, Spinal Tap, Animal House, Best In Show, Big Lebowski, Fire Walk With Me

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Wow, CStheT, we're on the same wavelength.

We've seen all of those! Any others?

[He loved Big Brother]

18. If you liked Spirited Away...

My Neighbor Totoro is my suggestion. A kids film, but so hilarious and beautiful, also done by mayazaki. It's my absolute favorite flick.

Princess Mononoke is also Mayazaki, but for adults. Stunningly beautiful (and I liked it's socialist undertones).

I just saw Head of State and plan on buying it. Highly recommend.

Barbershop is great as well. I own it and have watched it a few times.

I dunno, for some reason I am into comedies lately. To offset the collective "mood" lately, I suppose.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. Also Castle in the Sky, Princess Nausicaa (which you're not gonna find)

Kiki's Delivery Service (also for kids but great) and Porco Rosso

[redqueen]

28. All of Miyazaki's movies are great.

All of them.

[He loved Big Brother]

38. edited, oops

[progressiveBadger]

44. Just got Spirited

from Netflix... gonna watch it tonight or Saturday. Can't wait to see a movie that has the second highest score of all time from metacritic.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. Princess Mononoke, Brazil, Nosferatu, Ran, Seven Samurai, Kwaidan,

Baron Munchausen, Ghost Dog, Amélie, City of Lost Children, Metropolis, Raiders of the Lost Arch, The Long Riders, Apocalypse Now, Up In Smoke

[tigereye]

24. nice picks Chavez!

you sound like my husband, the former film student.

How about Smoke Signals? from the Sherman Alexi stories. That's pretty good.

[seventhson]

34. You missed Kurosawa's "Dreams"

THAT is an incredible film.

Watched "Being There" the other day and that was great.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

43. I love the 1st sequence - with the personified cherry blossoms

and the foxes' wedding!

[seventhson]

45. I love it all.

But that one is very special. The soldier in the tunnel is one of the great antiwar pieces ever and the anti-nuke piece, given the bombings there in Japan - is awfully moving.

The mountain climber's death dream is incredible.

[seventhson]

48. Spiritied Away creeps me out - but it is brilliant - my 9 year old

watches it whenever I can afford to rent it

[skypilot]

3. "Happy Accidents"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208196/

[Worst Username Ever]

6. ok

kill bill
mystic river
2 weeks notice
master and commander
matchstick men
big fish
bruce almighty
phone booth
gangs of new york
runaway jury
minority report
oceans eleven
50 first dates
bowling for columbine
along came polly
insomnia
unfaithful
the ring
21 grams
old school
a beautiful mind
frailty

[redqueen]

8. Okay, since it doesn't matter what...

Best in Show!

(Because some wonderful DUers reminded me why I should rent this again...)

[He loved Big Brother]

10. Bob Roberts

:D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES THIS ONE!!!!!

Do it

[Butterflies]

11. Requiem for a Dream

great movie.

[mondo joe]

13. Truly, Madly Deeply

Funny sad and sweet.

And Alan Rickman.

What more do you need on a Thursday night?

[tigereye]

29. my favorite indie- movie rental lady

keeps telling me I should see that.

[mondo joe]

35. It's flawless.

Truly Madly Deeply is flawlessly written, acted and directed.

That's not to say it's for everyone. But IMO it dosn't miss a beat, and I enjoy every aspect of it.

[name not needed]

15. This is Spinal Tap

But these go to 11...

[iconoclastic cat]

17. Thanks everybody! Now I have about a dozen to pick from -- cool!

Thank you, everyone!

[Bolo Boffin]

23. In America

Fantastic movie

[redqueen]

26. Oh yes

That was lovely.

[bif]

27. Whale Rider

Saw it the other night. What a fine movie.

[bpcmxr]

30. I'm late to the party, but how about

Bubba Ho-Tep?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

[seventhson]

32. Me and my family loved The Butterfly Effect

We thought it was really inventive and actually very very cool. Would watch again in a heartbeat.

[arwalden]

33. Maurice... Beautiful Thing... Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert

[mondo joe]

36. HAIRSPRAY!

I like to watch Hairspray at least once each year.

[Reciprocity]

39. Has anyone seen the new Johnny Depp movie "Secret Window"?

Tagline: Some windows should never be opened.

Plot Outline: A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice".

[Spirochete]

40. Having read the story

ruined that one for me. Not that it was a bad movie or anything.

[CBHagman]

41. For future reference

Here are some other ideas to put in your rental list. Some of them are things that might have been overlooked by the mainstream media and/or never gotten to your local cinema:

comedies:
Cold Comfort Farm
Shooting Fish
Shall We Dance? (The Japanese version)
Eat Drink Man Woman
Jet Lag
Better Than Sex
Born Romantic
The Monster

drama:

I concur with the DUer who mentioned the Merchant-Ivory production Maurice. Definitely a wonderful movie, and so romantic.

And don't forget classics like:

To Have and Have Not
The Big Sleep
Key Largo (But not during hurricane season!) :-)
Stagecoach (1939 version; accept no substitutes)

[greatauntoftriplets]

49. Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best.

"Your post, Miss Poste".

"Something nasty in the woodshed", I think that was the line.

[Room101]

42. "7 days in May" -nt

.

[Jade Fox]

57. A little to close to reality right now!

But a great movie.

[seventhson]

47. OMG Mystic River!!! - I forgot. Penn and Robbins are incredible

A must see if you like drama

[seventhson]

50. Cold Mountain and "The Missing" are both GREAT too

[WoodrowFan]

51. Richard III

the one made in the 1990s set in sort of a 1930s fascist Britain! Either that or "The Complete Works of Wm Shakesphere, Abridged" which is a RIOT!!!

[TransitJohn]

52. Bend it Like Beckham

The Bear
Starship Troopers
Secondhand Lions
Hang 'Em High
28 Days Later
The Goonies

[Reciprocity]

56. Loved...

Secondhand Lions, The Goonies, and Bend it Like Beckham!!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

53. Anything with "Police Academy" in it. n/t

[citizen snips]

54. Kill Bill Volume 2.

n/t

[Chovexani]

55. Kikujiro

Might be hard to find, since it's a subtitled Japanese film. It's a Beat Takeshi film but it is a radical departure from his violent gangster films.

It's a sweet road movie about a little boy looking for his mother, and the shiftless jackass (played by Takeshi) who is sent as his guardian of sorts. They have all kinds of misadventures on the road, mainly because Takeshi's character is such an asshole. :P It's laugh out loud funny, poignant, and bittersweet all at the same time. Sort of like the Ed O'Neill movie Dutch, but with a brain. Definitely one of my favorite films.

If you can't rent it, Sundance and IFC run it every so often.

[Noodleboy13]

58. Miller's Crossing

Not the most famous of the Coen Bros. movies, but definitly has the snappiest dialogue.

[PittPoliSci]

59. Death to Smoochy.

Good comedy.

[JSJ]

60. mamet's "the spartan" n/t