Must Watch Movies Recommended By Digitians

[ajaybc]

here's a list of my personal favs: clerks, clerks 2, southpark bigger longer uncut, the 40 year old virgin, groundhog day, scary movie (1st part), american pie (1st & 2nd part), hot shots 1 & 2, dumb & dumber, duck soup, shrek 1, 2 & 3, forrest gump.

Click,American Pie 1,2 & 3,The Hitch.......cant remember the rest

[Pathik]

Into the Wild - 8/10

[shri]

'The Kingdom' . Good movie. Its about the bombing of american facility and its investigation in saudi arabia.
Do watch 'A crude awakening: the oil story'. Its a documentary on the depleting oil resource.

[prasad_den]

The Bank Job (Warning: Nudity)
Based on a true story, this movie is really good.

[ajaybc]

can anyone give me a list of the best comedy movies...i have seen a lot..but dont seem to get enuf of them..

Rush hour 1,2,3 are also gud.Of these the first part is the best

[Faun]

District B13 - Its one of the French movies you will see.
Genre: Action

Yeah Banlieue 13
nice action packed free running movie, with not so goood story and subtle twists at the end

The good ones have already been discussed. Let me recall some :-

Mar adentro (Spanish) - Inspired by true story, based on euthanasia(mercy killing) and CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy)
Dear Frankie (Scottish) - Has Gerad Butler in it. Watch it with subtitles as the scottish accent is a bit heavy on ears no mater how good you are at english
Snow cake (Canadian)
Cidade de deus (Portuguese) aka City of god - guess you must have already seen it by now.
Питер FM (Russian) Thats Piter FM... its actually the name of a fm radio channel in st. petersburg, russia - cute movie.
Khuda ke liye Quite impressed by the way they handled the subject, that too in Pakistan!
Hitler: The rise of evil - A MUST watch if you haven't till yet. Its not about the war. Its about how Hitler rose to power. You need to watch Robert Carlyle's performance as Hitler to believe it.
Das Leben der Anderen known as The Lives of Others lengthy but interesting German movie.
Sophie Scholl - The final days another german movie which is very highly rated by I wasn't quite impressed by it.
Open Your Eyes - Spanish - The original inspiration for Vanilla Sky.
Phoolan Hasina Raamkali Its one more from Gunda's director Kanti Shah, but you can skip it.

And Korean movies. But you already are a Korean king!

ps - pm on the way

thnx for the recommendations. I was out of net cuz of BSNL.
Here is one Icelandic movie thats filled with nice music and humour 101 Reykjavik

Mystic River

another nice movie

Finally watched Resident Evil Trilogy in Full HD
One word Awesome

honestly u should look at 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later
RE 1 is the only one that was anything closer to good.

[praka123]

saw "John tucker must die" average movie

[abhi_10_20]

The Forbidden Kingdom Quite a good one.... watch if you are a Jet Li, Jackie fan.. both of them in the same movie for the 1st time i think

[sam9s]

honestly u should look at 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later
RE 1 is the only one that was anything closer to good.

Absolutely true RE 1 was the only one that can be said once worth, rest were crap.....
Nee way latest installment in my bag is 28 weeks later,......... well as ally says if considering just the entertainment factor, superb movie even better than the original, but if u look from my critic eyes ....loads of flaws and unbelivable irritating holes that made my experience from awsome to good. few small eg..

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The women containg the last Rage virus was left alone without no security....stupid and that too not qurantined.......here kids were qurantined but she wasnt.....beats my logic....

How can her husbands key card dispite of the fact he was controlling the infra be allowed to have access to medical areas that too the restricted ones....

and that scene where the entire population was stuffed for their own protection....... for me it was a bit immaturly done, they were kind of qutantined, and in that scenario did you see how loosly the enterance/exit points were guarded and locked...........

lots more but I'd rather limit my discuession...............

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Over al the movie was good........

Entertainment factor....Allys POV......7/10
Criticall Analysis........Sam POV........5.5/10

T159 whats your take........


PS :: @Third Eye, Pathik, ajay....whats the point of writing just the movie name.........if after 100 pages of core movie discuession somebody just writes "Godfather.....Good move".....what difference does that make........atlest put some views, discuess some points man.......I dunno pardon me if I am stretching this too much.......

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Just watched The Kingdom. Now this is what I call a movie with almost no considirable flaws. Politically we can go on and on about how acurately the situation in Saudi was portrayed, but give an take it was fairly convayed without much of the american hype. The last line which was whispered............. quite brilliantly summed up the movie for me........Both aspects are not too different, its just the ideology that differs.

Now coming to the technical aspect. Technically movie did not deviate much considering that its a movie and it has to keep the aderline rush going through the viewers keeping the facts as close to real as posible. But the last shootout (though beautifully crafted ) was a bit too much, given the fact of number of terrorist, fireing up ammo RPGs from all sides and ends (and height as well. height playes a vital role in these kind of shootouts)......were taken out by the FBI team of 4 without even a single hit to themselves, let alone they could have surrvived.........

Over all an ultimate movie, and a must watch....

Entertainment Factor ... 7/10
Critic Factor ........ 7/10

Over All definately 7/10....

[Faun]

^^Yeah 28 Weeks Later has some flaws but not as much as RE has. Though the original soundtrack and character were nicely crafted. All I heard in RE was some ATB or Marilyn tracks in background when there was some fight scene, that was kinda lol.
But the adrenaline factor was absolute in 28 weeks later. I was thrilled throughout the movie.

Mine fav is 28 days later, Boyle directed it intelligently and with decent plot. 28 months later is coming and guess what this time Boyle is directing it

[a_medico]

28 days later remains my fav too. And I love Marilyn Manson music in RE1. RE1 overall was quite enjoyable. Didn't quite enjoy RE2and3.

The Kingdom was awesome. I think it didn't get the attention it deserved. Even I came to know about it quite late. Also love few of its instrumental tracks.

I am finding Korean movies just like Bollywood movies. Good thing is, they use the songs in the background and not as item numbers. Songs from My Sassy Girl, The Classic and Windstruck were quite hummable.

My Sassy Girl - Was quite funny. And there were quite a few scenes in the movie which I could relate to with my life. So found it even more amazing. Babe is to die for! She turns up in every alternate korean movie. I think she is Korea's Aishwarya Rai.

The Classic - I wonder why they haven't done the remake of this movie in bollywood yet. It would be a big hit. Loved it. And the babe is good. Few scenes are quite touchy.

Loved the fart song and the scene where the hero meets the heroine after the war and the song in the background.

Is there anyway I could get the songs from Classic and Sassy?

3-Iron - Quite unusual. Still researching few things about the ending. But the movie was mesmerising. So was the song Hafsa by Natacha Atlas which is there throughout the movie. Searching for it.

Windstruck - Was a masala movie. Ending was typical bollywood style, Kajol gets Salman type. But was enjoyable. Loved the Korean Rap track when the babe shoots the car. Babe has become a bit plump(or so I thought?).

Il-Mare - AWESOME. I had seen The Lake House before and enjoyed it. The Lake House was made in 2006 and Il-Mare in 2000. Still, the look of Il-Mare was so fresh. The movie itself is much better than The Lake House, which ain't a bad watch either.


If I were into Bhatt Productions in bollywod, i'd remake most of the korean movies(but without Emraan Hashmi in it).

[xbonez]

anyone who has read the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers and is looking fowd to the movie? I saw the trailer and it seems awesome...too bad its releasing on 12/12/08...a long wait

[ring_wraith]

Saw IronMan yesterday. It is now officially my 2nd favourite super-hero based movie, after Batman Begins.

[xbonez]

^^yeah, iron man is awesome!

[sam9s]

ok next movie that goes in my bag is "The Bank Job" . Man there was only one thought going around on my mind while watching this movie........."Did all this really happen!!!!!" It was so thrilling edge of the seat matter that it was kinda hard to believe..............well atleast the events were crafted beautifully. Good politicall mixup, and to think it all actually happened made the experience more engrossing.
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There was scens I really want to bring in to notice, where the informer at the terrace drops the walkie talkie accidently, which actually saves the guys robbing..................you know what........... that realy was a freaking coincident (in the context of the real events). Had this movie be fictious I would have definately criticized this particular move. (It actually looked a damm cheezy way to save the robbing guys......)
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Over all 7/10......Definately Worth a watch.......

[xbonez]

21 and Rounders - both awesome movies...the former is about Blackjack counters from MIT, the latter about Matt Damon a poker player.

[Renny]

The good, the bad and the ugly .

[Faun]

The good, the bad and the ugly .

aye aye blondie

[Maverick340]

Hmm .. so current favs seem to be
1.The Bank Job - really need to see this one !
2.IronMan - dont tell me its better than spiderman !
3.21 - seems to have an awesome storyline .. mm

[xbonez]

^^ i'll arrange them for you:

iron man > 21 > the bank job

[legolas]

Watched "The forbidden kingdom". Jackie chan and Jet Li combo. Was really good!!!

[sam9s]

^^ i'll arrange them for you:

iron man > 21 > the bank job

cant compare Iron Man and bank Job........ Totally Different genre, different aspect all together........... I loved Bank Job, Iron man as well but from a totally different perspective.........Iron man is pretty good for a super hero movie. Bank Job on the other hand is one of the best Heist movie I have seen...........

[ajayritik]

Is The Bank Job viewable with family? No nudity etc?

[eggman]

Yeah....a bit of "nudity" in it......it was essential to plot however
My recommendation:
Primal Fear

Great acting by Edward Norton

[sam9s]

Yeah....a bit of "nudity" in it......it was essential to plot however
My recommendation:
Primal Fear

Great acting by Edward Norton

I'd say its far more than a "bit"...........to give a clear picture.......it clearly shows the tities lots of times......

And Primal Fear is an Awsome movie.....Would definately go in one of best twists in a movie.......

[Ethan_Hunt]

The Prestige.El Magnifico movie.

I have always respected Christopher Nolan as a director.This movie just proved his vision to be far beyond my imagination.Outstanding performances by all the actors.Hugh Jackman especially & big applauds to Christian Bale as well.Michael Cane,I salute you sir.Rock solid performace as usual.More than what I had seen in Batman Begins.Amazing movie & storyline was brilliant.Although the cloning concept was a bit dodgy.But apart from that the film was an absolute treat.

[GameAddict]

Recently saw "Point Break" (90s action/thriller Keanu movie) and "The Orphanage" (Spanish movie from the guys who made "Pan's Labyrinth").

Enjoyed both!

[xbonez]

i arranged them merely on basis of entertainment value...while all the three movies are from varied genres, the aim of a movie is to entertain, and thats what i rated them on. though it goes without saying that this is merely my personal opinion. you may think differently

i found bank job bank-heist wise not too gud since their planning was quite crude....if it comes to sheer innovation of plan, the inside man winds hands dows

cant compare Iron Man and bank Job........ Totally Different genre, different aspect all together........... I loved Bank Job, Iron man as well but from a totally different perspective.........Iron man is pretty good for a super hero movie. Bank Job on the other hand is one of the best Heist movie I have seen...........

[iMav]

Annapolis, great movie

[Third Eye]

Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of fleet street

Great movie. Cinematography was awesome so does the story. Too much music and gore though.
A must watch.