[OT] I'm bored! Post some of your favorite movies to rent.

[Foolio]

The Ogre - a World War II movie starring John Malkovich as a French soldier/POW
Blood of Heroes - a bleak post-apocalypse Rutger Hauer / Joan Chen film
Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead - A great gangster movie with Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, and Christopher Lloyd.

 

[Starman]

Props to kkoie for mentioning Blue Velvet. In fact, if you're in the mood for a good mind f**k, rent any David Lynch film (except Dune, avoid it at all costs) and you won't be disappointed.

Starman

 

[Welverin]

here's a couple more

The Negotiator
The Bourne Identity

 

[kkoie]

Thanks for the compliments on my suggestions

Starman, yeah Lynch's stuff is great. I love Lost Highway... but it can be so frustrating when your attempting to make sense of it. I think thats why Mulholland Drive is better. A tad less frustrating.

 

[Wayside]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Wuxia, yeah!

I'd say ditch Crouching Tiger, check out Fist of Legend and Fong Sai Yuk instead.

 

[Starman]

Thanks for the compliments on my suggestions

Starman, yeah Lynch's stuff is great. I love Lost Highway... but it can be so frustrating when your attempting to make sense of it. I think thats why Mulholland Drive is better. A tad less frustrating.

Heh heh. Lost Highway was the first Lynch movie I ever saw. I watched it three times I think the first time I rented it. After that I knew I had to watch everything else he had done.

Starman

 

[Holy Bovine]

Rent yourself some REALLY bad 50's sci fi and horror and MST3K the heck out of em...

That can be even more rewarding than watching an actual good movie...



~Sheri

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A friend of mine got a gag gift for his birthday - a DVD of the Phantom From 10,000 Phathoms a terrible 50's 'horror' movie about a radioactive monster that hangs around a beach killing people and guarding a glowing rock (I can't make this stuff up). Some highlights of the MST3King we did;

After 5 people are killed the local sherrif looks at the main male lead and says
'I think its about time we did something!'

The female lead gets a towel from a closet to take a shower, the male lead sneaks into her house while she is in the shower. Her father shows up and says she'll leave the 'men' to talk and promptly goes and waits in the closet!! I couldn't breath I was laughing so hard!

Right at the beginning of the movie the sherrif and male lead encounter a sneaky guy carrying a speargun skulking around in the bushes on the beach. When someone turns up dead from being shot with a speargun the sherrif immeditaly suspects the male lead

The female lead's father talks to his secretary and says "Miss Smith you're an intelligent woman, bitter prehaps...' One of us pipes up "..Quite ugly too." We howled at that one too.



Anyway some good movies to rent include

Spirited Away - don't just rent it - buy it. It really is that good.
13th Warrior - ditto.
Jaws - Robert Shaw is too cool in this not to like it.
The Imposters - if you like slapstick (and Oliver Platt) you will like this.
Grosse Point Blank - the poetry scene is too funny to be believed!

 

[Alzrius]

I must agree. The cinematography alone makes for one of the most impressive films I've seen. Please note, though, that while the pace is a notch above 2001, it is NOT an action film. Some scenes are intensely visceral , but they are spine-chilling rather than butt-kicking. I could go into how the pacing is paritally a reflection of the flow of the river and vice versa, and all the other things that can be read into from this film, but I would not wish to dilute the experience.


On the other hand, you might hate it.

The movie was good, but I didn't find it so unbelieveably good. This is because in high school we read the book it was based off of first, and then the teacher showed us the film immediately afterwards to make a comparisson, which was the first time I saw it.

Apocalypse Now is based on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The original novel can be read for free here: http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/congo_heart.html