Your top ten must-see films

[Manikular]

I've just signed up to Love Film so ask you guys to give me your recommendations. Compared to music my film knowledge is terrible so I"m on a quest to watch at least three or four films a week; your help would be really appreciated!

[DJ Void]

My personal favourite films are:

Blade Runner
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Leon
The Virgin Suicides
Magnolia
Natural Born Killers
Glory
Run Lola Run
Mulholland Drive
Boogie Nights
American Beauty
Platoon
Edward Scissorhands
JFK
The Graduate
Taxi Driver
21 Grams
A River Runs Through It
Born On The Fourth Of July


I've been with Lovefilm since January 2009 getting through a couple of DVDs each week. From the 100 or so I've seen as a member I'd highly recommend the following:

Control
Dogville
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
Moon
The Hurt Locker
Three Colours Trilogy
4 Months, 3 weeks And 2 Days
Dr. Strangelove
In The Loop
Requiem For A Dream
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Hard Candy
Milk
Persepolis
Summer Of Sam
Pi
In Bruges
Coraline
Revolutionary Road
The Exorcist

[scheme]

dead mans shoes
ghost in the shell
inglourious basterds
there will be blood
the shawshank redemption
oldboy
super troopers
killing zoe
clerks
ong-bak
28 days later
talladega nights
kung fu hustle
godfather 1 & 2
wall-e
la confidential
red cliff 1 & 2
iron man
afro samurai
blow
edit - sneakers

[DJ Chemical]

Mesrine Pt 1 & 2
The Boat That Rocked
Mystic River
In Persuit of Happiness

[BURLEY MC]

A History of Violence
The Lives of Others
The Big Lebowski
The Wire Series 1 & 2 (but make sure they don't send you the bonus disk as one of your DVD's)

[evolucian]

Mesrine Pt 1 & 2

amazing.

[O-DoG]

fear and loathing in last vegas
blow
texas chainsaw massacre
evil dead 2
human traffic
star wars bizzle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
lord of the rings animated version (1978)
menace to society
good fellas
alice in wonderland DISNEY OOOOOOOOOOOHOOO

[O-DoG]

a clockwork orange too
american psycho as well

[Doubt]

Dead mans shoes
City of god
Life is beautiful
The Wrestler
The host
Goodfellas
Leon
Carlito's way
Mystic River

If u want good modern movie making, Eastwood is a great director to go for, Torino, Million Dollar baby, mystic river etc...

Old horror - Wickerman, TCM original, Halloween, The Shining, The thing, Night of the living dead (original - best black & white horror ever imo)

Brit flicks - Shifty, This is England, Dead mans shoes, anything by Shane Meadows.


Two great music biopics;

Walk the line - Jonny Cash
Control - Joy Division/Ian Curtis

[vyper]

Lovefilm have been great, i've got over 400 films in my list to watch yet :extrasmashedanagffi and watched 168 from them so far....a fair amount of viewing.

Heres my recommendations of the films i've hired from there:

Bronson
Ghost Town
Lord Of War
The Abandoned
The Boat That Rocked
Red Cliff
Gran Torino
The Hangover
Saw 6
Mesrine 1 & 2


Also worth considering:
Pathology
Hellboy 2
Death Race
kung Fu Panda
Battle Of Wits
Step Brothers
Shifty
Ice Age 1, 2, 3
Jack Said
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Up


Agree with alot of the suggestions already made, these a few personal favs of mine off the top of my head.

Ong Bak
9th Company
Event Horizon
Downfall
Terminator Salvation
The Last King Of Scotland
Days Of Glory
Stalingrad
Face Off
The Thin Red line
Boogie Nights
Jackie Brown

[Doubt]

How can u recommend Saw 6??? Fucking awful film.

[vyper]

How can u recommend Saw 6??? Fucking awful film.

For the same reason you recommended The Host....because you think its worth watching. Each to there own innit!

[Doubt]

For the same reason you recommended The Host....because you think its worth watching. Each to there own innit!

Fair enough.

The Host is an interesting take on the monster/state of emergency type films. It's refreshing to see one that isn't American and cliché. Nothing amazing but a good watch.

Saw 1 - Very good film
Saw 2 - Typical sequel
Saw 3 - More gore than the 1st 2
Saw 4 - Shit
Saw 5 - C'mon, this is getting silly now.


Saw 6 - http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/54/facepalming.gif

[O-DoG]

vyper has no taste.. deal with it xD

[BURLEY MC]

Oh Yeah and...

Let the right one in
Drag me to Hell

[Doubt]

Let the right one in is amazing. Beautifully shot.

Drag me to hell is funny.

[Misdemeanor]

Sunshine
District 9

Won';t bother repeating those already suggested.

[vyper]

Fair enough.

The Host is an interesting take on the monster/state of emergency type films. It's refreshing to see one that isn't American and cliché. Nothing amazing but a good watch.

Saw 1 - Very good film
Saw 2 - Typical sequel
Saw 3 - More gore than the 1st 2
Saw 4 - Shit
Saw 5 - C'mon, this is getting silly now.


Saw 6 - http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/54/facepalming.gif

vyper has no taste.. deal with it xD

:P

Sunshine
District 9

Won';t bother repeating those already suggested.

Forgot about those two, agree on both those suggestions. :bigglasses:

[SugaCube]

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs


LOVED this!!

[DJ Chemical]

amazing.

yeah, much more than I expected!

[m.c faze]

Ong bak
blade
halloween (the new one)
the exorcism of emily rose
hancock
human traffic
matrix trilogy
inglourious basterds
300
taken
2012

[Mantmast]

A Prophet is defnitely worth watching

[DJ Chemical]

Sugarhouse - can watch on iPlayer, really good!

Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. D is a young drug addict: smart, witty, desperate. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a deal with him. The two enter into an irrational, deadly game of cat and mouse. The tense drama escalates when local crime lord, Hoodwink, wakes up to find his gun missing.

Broadcast on:
BBC Two, 12:30am Saturday 13th March 2010
Duration:
90 minutes
Available until:
1:59am Saturday 20th March 2010
Categories:

* Films,
* Drama,
* Crime


Came out in 2007 altought I'd never heard of it before!

[Mantmast]

Sugarhouse - can watch on iPlayer, really good!

Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. D is a young drug addict: smart, witty, desperate. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a deal with him. The two enter into an irrational, deadly game of cat and mouse. The tense drama escalates when local crime lord, Hoodwink, wakes up to find his gun missing.

Broadcast on:
BBC Two, 12:30am Saturday 13th March 2010
Duration:
90 minutes
Available until:
1:59am Saturday 20th March 2010
Categories:

* Films,
* Drama,
* Crime


Came out in 2007 altought I'd never heard of it before!

Glad you reminded me about this - will check it out after work

[FINK]

pulp fiction
ghost in the shell
the blues brothers
jarhead
goodfellas
scar face
the matrix (only the first one)
leon (original)
fith element (fashion and art work) Story blowed a bit
crouching tiger hidden dragon

[m.c faze]

watchmen

[azonica]

Not my faves but a few off the top of my head

Let The Right One In
The Sting
Papillion
Moon
The Changeling
State Of Play
Burn After Reading
Seven Pounds
The Hurt Locker
A Prophet
Precious
Up In The Air
Man On Wire
A Scanner Darkly
Any studio Ghibli film

[Freak-Tone]

The Departed
Blood diamond
Things to do in Denver when your dead
The Business
Football factory
Friday
Layer cake
Dogma
Sin City
Batman begins
The Dark Knight

All good!!!

[O-DoG]

man on wire is absolute fucking madness