Recommend Movies

[chionos]

Another Dark City can, high five!

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[Vyk]

There's a specific version of Dark City you'd want to watch though, and I believe it's probably the director's cut. But whichever it is, be aware that ONE of them opens with a narration that completely spoils the ending for some dumbass reason. I learned of this after watching the one that did not have this, and while looking at posts about it learned that the movie experience was totally ruined for a lot of people

[chionos]

The director's cut is sans the opening narration, so that's the one you want to see. The opening narration was added in post-production as an afterthought by the bigwigs to make the movie more accessible, but as any fan of DC knows, its "inaccessibility" is what makes it interesting and beautiful.

[Shiny]

Godfather and Godfather 2.

As much as he should, he will never watch those. He hates gang related films.

I'm not a movie fan at all, but there is some that I absolutely loved. I'm not gonna include comedies because everyones humour is different (Freddy Got Fingered is the funniest piece of television I have ever witnessed). If you haven't seen them, I'd recommend:


District 9
Avatar (which everyone has seen)

I could go on but those are what I'd recommend. I know for a fact that anyone within reason would have a an amazing time looking at them.

I said older than 2008 and I am pretty sure he as seen both.

I actually got him to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fifth Element, and Labyrinth already. He loved them all. He said smurf no to Shawshank though.

Out of these lists he's also seen The Matrix, The Goonies (any one born is the 80s and 90s has seen this) Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, Ghostbusters (the first one only apparently) Jurassic Park, Mortal Kombat, all Pixar movies, all Will Smith movies, all the Underworld movies, and all the super hero movies listed. That's actually really sad. What has he been doing for years?!

I will start off with Dark City, because I actually haven't seen that either and it's been on my to-watch-list since 2008. xD Thanks all! Keep 'em comin'.

[Vyk]

Excellent first choice. Just watch out for that non-director's cut version

[blackmage_nuke]

Back to the Future
Indiana Jones

[chionos]

After Dark City, whatever you think about him, you should watch a Robin Williams movie. I'll recommend which one in an edit. Just because.

EDIT:
If you don't (or he doesn't) like Williams' particular brand of tomfoolery, he's also been in quite a few movies in which he doesn't play himself (go figure, right?).

Of those, I'd recommend:
What Dreams May Come**
Dead Poets Society***
Bicentennial Man**
The Fisher King***
The World According to Garp**

[Vyk]

I've always hated that he got type-casted like Jim Carey. Maybe he should have teamed up with Adam Sandler who also got tired of the type-casting, made his own studio, used the type-casting to his advantage, and then landed in Spanglish. Which was a phenomenally well done departure

I know Williams was in things like One Hour Photo and Good Will Hunting. But sadly I haven't seen any of those, and nobody I know has seen any of that stuff. His deviations are not readily available and I hate that. I'm gonna freakin pirate some Robin Williams movies or something >.> And maybe Spanglish

[Colonel Angus]

Everyone who's recommending Tom Cruise needs to go pound sand.

Dark Knight Trilogy
King Kong (2005)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Mallrats
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Baseketball
Team America: World Police
The Other Guys
Goonies
Ghostbusters
Poltergeist I & II
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Bachelor Party
ET
Step Brothers
Batman
Batman Begins
Spiderman Trilogy
Predator
T2
Rocky I-IV
Smokey & The Bandit
Cannonball Run I & II

[Vyk]

Everyone who's recommending Tom Cruise needs to go pound sand.

Hey! Hey. Hey... Legend is a Tim Curry movie~

Tom Cruise just happens to be in it...

Though Vanilla Sky and Minority Report are not horrible movies. Just happen to cast a horrible person/actor x_x

[Mo-Nercy]

Speaking of Adam Sandler and breaking out of typecast roles, Punch Drunk Love is excellent too.

[Jess]

A few off the top of my head that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
Terminator
Terminator 2
Robocop (the original)
Twelve Monkeys
Pulp Fiction
28 Days Later
The Green Mile

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

28 Days Later, definitely.

[Shiny]

Everyone who's recommending Tom Cruise needs to go pound sand.

Hey! Hey. Hey... Legend is a Tim Curry movie~

Tom Cruise just happens to be in it...

Though Vanilla Sky and Minority Report are not horrible movies. Just happen to cast a horrible person/actor x_x

Tom Cruise is a great actor. Magnolia is a testament to that. Eyes Wide Shut wasn't bad either.

I've always hated that he got type-casted like Jim Carey. Maybe he should have teamed up with Adam Sandler who also got tired of the type-casting, made his own studio, used the type-casting to his advantage, and then landed in Spanglish. Which was a phenomenally well done departure

I know Williams was in things like One Hour Photo and Good Will Hunting. But sadly I haven't seen any of those, and nobody I know has seen any of that stuff. His deviations are not readily available and I hate that. I'm gonna freakin pirate some Robin Williams movies or something >.> And maybe Spanglish

I've seen a lot of his films over the years, and I actually just re-watched One Hour Photo last night. His performance is really really good but the movie really isn't anything spectacular. Good Will Hunting is a classic if you can get past some of it's pretentiousness and Ben Affleck, ew. Excellent writing that. Insomnia was also interesting, I saw it years ago so I can't remember entirely if it was good or not but it was kind of weird seeing him be a villain. I think he's better at playing a side kick or hero like in Jumanji.

[Shorty]

He is a great actor. People just let the fact that he's an asshole get in the way of admitting it.