Can you recommend a good movie?

[fbrend123]

1. The Illusionist (2006)
2. The Holiday (2006)
3. Under the Tuscan Sun (2004?)
4. Any John Ford flick w/ John Wayne and/or Henry Fonda
5. Island in the Sky w/John Wayne (1956)
6. Passionada (don't let the title turn you off) (2003?)
7. The John Adams HBO miniseries (excellent!)
8. Keeping Mum (hilarious british black comedy) (2006)
9. I AmDavid (2005?)
10. Friendly Persuasion (1956)

For starters........

[SHADOWFOX]

Foreign Film Recommendations:
Stalingrad by Joseph Vilsmaier
Nowhere In Africa by Caroline Link
Ripley's Game by Liliana Cavani
The Day of the Jackal by Fred Zinneman
Amen by Costa-Gavras
In America by Jim Sheridan
Infernal Affairs 1, 2, 3 by Andrew Lau
Mongol by Sergei Bodrov
Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Death at a Funeral
Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore
Malena by Giuseppe Tornatore
Whale Rider by Niki Caro
No Man's Land by Danis Tanovic
City of God by Katia Lund
All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar
Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Motorcycle Diaries by Walter Salles
Y tu mamá también by Alfonso Cuarón

And finally....
Any Akira Kurosawa films

[Tom Slick]

Waking Ned Devine
Dr. Strangelove
Planet Earth (series)
Chinatown (Nicholson movie)
In The Heat of The Night
Oceans Eleven
The Grapes of Wrath

not for kids:
Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels
Snatch (sequel to lock stock)
Fight Club

I'll also get on an actor kick and choose movies that a particular actor has been on. Netflix is great.

[steve-u]

I second Hoosiers, Field of Dreams, and Seabiscuit as being a great movies even if you are not that much into sports. Rocky and Rocky II are also great. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [Steve Martin and John Candy] and My Cousin Vinnie are a couple of my favorite comedies. Also very much liked National Treasure and Night at the Museum which are true familiy movies that you can watch with anyone. The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li was very enjoyable and another family movie. For science fiction the original Alien is hard to beat as is the original 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still and more recent Sci Fi movies Serenity [based on TV series Firefly], Iron Man, and Transformers are 3 I gladly own. Constantine with Keanu Reeves and Hellboy were very enjoyable though some could class these as being near horror. John Wayne made a ton of good war and western movies if you like him. I also like the Die Hard series and Jason Borne series action movies. I can't remember how many times I have watched the Hunt for Red October with Sean Connery.

Steve

[Gator95]

Two very funny movies (both brits)

Death at a Funeral
Run Fatboy Run

Neither are probably suitable for watching with the kids, but both are laugh out loud funny.

[OpaDC]

If you're a fan of foreign films, you might like movies with Audrey Tautou. This is the girl from The Da Vinci Code. Most of her movies are chick flicks, but foreign ones tend to be a little different then American ones. (Yes I watch chick flicks too!)

[billwmeyer]

Movies

I tend to like action adventure type movies. I don't like horror, unless you are talking classic horror (old black & white stuff), and I don't like slasher stuff. I don't go to the movies often. My favorites that I can think of right now, are "Air Force One", "Space Cowboys" and "Armagedon". The "Bucket List" was very good too. I have been thinking of renting some Abbot and Costello Movies, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies too.

Bill

[Kristofor]

If you're canceling cable perhaps you'd be interested in some series on DVD as well? If so and you haven't seen them already I can recommend a number of the HBO/Showtime series. The Wire might be my favorite, but about the first 4 seasons of the Sopranos, Deadwood, Oz, Dexter, Brotherhood were all enjoyable Sleeper Cell, The Tudors were okay(they all have some rough language and themes, but Deadwood is probably the worst if you prefer not to have f-bombs in your entertainment). On the comedy theme Entourage, Weeds, and Dead Like Me were pretty good.

The nice thing about watching series from premium channels (or PBS) rather than broadcast is that they're shot/edited for a straight through run. With broadcast TV you can tell were the commercials were and on some series you even get to watch 3-5 seconds over after the place where the break was. This is something that nearly ruins the experience for me.

For actual movies I've run down several of the AFI top 100 lists and tended to dislike more than I enjoyed, so you might not want to trust my taste...

[Alex Franke]

We're probably going to be canceling cable pretty soon, so it's time to load up the NetFlix list!

Can you recommend 1 or 2 good movies? (Not just a link to an online list, but rather a personal favorite or two. Like, what's the best movie ever made?)

Edit: Feel free to add/edit here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...eX3gJ37NkYjxaA

The only thing we don't really like is horror, but pretty much everything else is a go -- including foreign (Babette’s Feast), oldies (Gaslight), classics (Godfather), war (Saving Private Ryan), comedy (MIB), fantasy (LotR), animation (Toy Story), even the occasional chick flick (Steel Magnolias), etc, etc.

Feel free to comment on your favorites!