movie recommendations thread

CHANGEinWAVES

list movies you've seen that you'd tell your friends to see.
also if you can, add a description or a trailer link
spread the word!

Life Support on HBO
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and a AIDS activist in the black community.
http://www.hbo.com/films/lifesupport/synopsis/

Jearlpam0925

Recently...

Milk
Wrestler
Gran Torino
Revolutionary Road
Doubt
Waltz with Bashir
Wendy and Lucy
Sludog

QuarterToTen

Sexy Beast
The Limey
The Sweet Hereafter
Secrets and Lies

LONGRD

I just saw a preview of PBS's upcoming Native American series call We Shall Remain, it'll be a 5-part series that runs in April-May. Documentry/Reenactment, part of the Amercan Experience Production series. Keep an eye out on that.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/

CHANGEinWAVES

LongRd. wrote:

I just saw a preview of PBS's upcoming Native American series call We Shall Remain, it'll be a 5-part series that runs in April-May. Documentry/Reenactment, part of the Amercan Experience Production series. Keep an eye out on that.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/

this looks good thanks for posting the info.


**i made sure to sign up for the reminder

kenny olav

I 2nd Gran Torino. Looks likes there's a lot of decent films coming out this year. And a slew of shit too, but that goes without saying. So maybe I won't say that next year. Nah, I won't be able to help myself.

arq

Gran torino
Taken
Slumdog millionaire
Dawn of the dead (old but I looove zombie movies)
Persepolis
And a lot of fogetable movies.

CHANGEinWAVES

Reservation Road (very sad and very intense)

On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello - beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Their favorite team, the Red Sox, is playing - and, hopefully, heading for the World Series. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Lucas' mother Ruth Wheldon, Dwight heads towards his fateful encounter at Reservation Road. The accident happens so fast that Lucas is all but unaware, while Ethan - the only witness - is all too aware, as a panicked Dwight speeds away. The police are called, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways, as do Grace and Emma. As a reckoning looms, the two fathers are forced to make the hardest choices of their lives.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3467706649/

CHANGEinWAVES

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Documentary
Admist the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation that is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's efforts to show that world of Calcutta's red light district. To do that, they inspired a special group of children of the prostitutes of the area to photograph the most reluctant subjects of it. As the kids excel in their new found art, the filmmakers struggle to help them have a chance for a better life away from the miserable poverty that threatens to crush their dreams
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2965045529/


this was a very moving documentary, you really worry about the future of these kids by the end of the film.

intodeep

If you liked the first underworld i would check out the newest one. I enjoyed it a lot. Much better then the second one.

also i really liked revolutionary road. It is an uncomfortable movie, but a very good one. not one if you like happy endings.

rrivers

Kenny Olav wrote:

I 2nd Gran Torino. Looks likes there's a lot of decent films coming out this year. And a slew of shit too, but that goes without saying. So maybe I won't say that next year. Nah, I won't be able to help myself.

Gran Torino is great. My wife and I are about halfway through "Slumdog Millionaire" and I'm enjoying it so far. Really interesting premise.

"Taken" is a fun, entertaining movie too.

covered in bliss

The most disturbing documentary ever:

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/thegre ... opsis.html

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo is a shocking exposé of a decade-old epidemic of kidnapping, rape and torture of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often carried out with impunity by gangs of armed militias, these atrocities leave survivors traumatized and isolated - shunned by society and their families, and suffering lifelong health effects, including HIV.

It's being aired again next week and it's on HBO On Demand right now.

If anyone knows anything about weapons smuggling, please PM me.

BlackThirteen

I'm with everyone and say Gran Torino
Other than that:
The Wrestler
Crank (It's one of my favorite straight up action movies of all time)
Infernal Affairs (It's the movie the departed was a remake of)
Chocolate (It's a Thai action movie. Once again really great fight scenes but the story is a bit lacking)

Those are the few I can think of right now.

CHANGEinWAVES

Another Documentary I watched today:
Unchained Memories

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives presents dramatic selections from the extensive Slave Narrative Collection through on-camera readings by over a dozen actors, interspersed with archival photographs, music, film and period images.

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/unchained_memories/

Enkidu

Born into Brothels is amazing. Our daughter is adopted from Calcutta so it's kind of hard to watch.

Older movies I like to recommend - Funny Bones, Galaxy Quest, Truly Madly Deeply.

I haven't seen Gran Torino yet, but it looks great.

CHANGEinWAVES

Enkidu wrote:

Born into Brothels is amazing. Our daughter is adopted from Calcutta so it's kind of hard to watch.

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i'm glad to hear that others have watched this... i seem to watch it every time it's on.

I can see why it would be hard to watch for you.

CHANGEinWAVES

Ganja Queen

documentary
Schapelle Corby is living every traveler's worst nightmare -- convicted in 2005 of smuggling marijuana into Indonesia, the 30-year-old Australian is serving a 20-year sentence in a cramped prison.

Now a film debuting on cable television HBO on Monday goes behind the scenes at the dramatic trial that gripped Australia, initially strained ties between the neighboring countries and left people asking: "Did she really do it?"
http://www.hbo.com/docs/docuseries/ganj ... index.html

intodeep

This weekend I saw Coraline & Waltz With Bashir. Both were good for different reasons.

Coraline is a movie for kids it is an animation movie. I checked it out though because it is based on a book by Neil Gaiman (stardust movie & sandman comics) his stuff is usually pretty imaginative and Coraline was definately that. If I had a niece i would definately take her to see this.

Watlz with Bashir was pretty damn good. I can see why it is winning so many awards. I really got into this movie and got caught up in the story. Pretty intense ending.

CHANGEinWAVES

just watched the first part of Che
I can't wait to see the second part!!!
I'll keep you posted

Drop The Leash 10

i watched dead man walking for the first time last night. un-fucking-believeable. one of the best movies i have ever watched.

JordyWordy

The Ladies Man.

GREAT on a night in.

Heineken Helen

nothing but the truth... witjh kate beckinsale, sounds shite but is actually really really good.

CHANGEinWAVES

WOW!!! I've just started watching CHE part two
I highly recommend these 2 movies.

http://www.ifcfilms.com/viewFilm.htm?filmId=1236

so well done.

rrivers

I saw The Wrestler yesterday and enjoyed it.

intodeep

Che1 and Che 2 are playing at a theatre in town. I want to see it but don't know if i have 4.5 hours in a movie theatre in me. We'll see.

I watched Taken last night. It was exactly what it looks like it would be very predictable but entertaining. A lot of bad guys die.

I'm gettin dragged kicking and screaming to see Friday the 13th tonight :(

CHANGEinWAVES

intodeep wrote:

Che1 and Che 2 are playing at a theatre in town. I want to see it but don't know if i have 4.5 hours in a movie theatre in me. We'll see.

I watched Taken last night. It was exactly what it looks like it would be very predictable but entertaining. A lot of bad guys die.

I'm gettin dragged kicking and screaming to see Friday the 13th tonight :(

I was lucky enough to have Che1 and Che2 on demand. Watched em from my couch with a break inbetween for the office
I was glad I could rewind cause the subtitles went fast.

Hitch-Hiker

Everyone just watch Raiders of the Lost Ark repeatedly. It's all you'll ever need in a movie.

CHANGEinWAVES

I'm having trouble admitting this... I just watched 'Definitely, Maybe' and really liked it!! :oops:

mfc2006

we recently rented "The Visitor". great, great movie. i liked it so much i went out & bought it! i can't remember the last time that's happened!

rrivers

mfc2006 wrote:

we recently rented "The Visitor". great, great movie. i liked it so much i went out & bought it! i can't remember the last time that's happened!

I watched that on Monday. I enjoyed it a lot too.

mini_tb

It's not brand new or anything, but I guess, in the grand scheme of things with the earth being billions of years old and what not, it's probably still pretty recent history... Shaun of the Dead!! God, How I love this movie!!!