Recommend me a DVD

[V8mate]

Not up to much tomorrow night, so Mrs V8 says I should secure us some DVD entertainment.

Had a look through the recent releases list on Amazon and have seen most of the stuff released in the last couple of months.

So any recommendations for films from the last few years which may have passed me by?

No particular genre in mind, but it must fulfill the 'well made movie' criteria; no pulp.





(Other PHers are more than welcome to hijack this thread to fulfill their own 'recommend me a DVD' exercises)

[Ciaran]

Have you seen In Bruges? Or what about a classic - Leon?

[V8mate]

Seen both

Thanks for your suggestions though


Perhaps I should add, that I'm not a big TV/movie watcher; so hopefully this won't end up being a thread full of 'seen it, seen it' responses.

[toasty]

If you can handle subtitles, I have a large list of films to suggest.

Tell No One, Pan's Labyrinth & The Lives of Others were particularly good.

I'll leave it to others to suggest English Language films.

Edited by toasty on Friday 11th September 21:49

[sstein]

As already said Pans Labyrinth, it's a masterpiece.

Also Del Torros The Orphanage is a beautiful film.

Abres Les Ojos, the original version of vanilla Sky. This is very, very good.
Martyrs. This is stunningly good.
Dark water (original). Not the remake it's terrible.
Acacia
Garden State
Brick

Edited by sstein on Friday 11th September 21:58

[sprouting]

Die Hard 4

Latest Indiana Jones film

Heat

Ronin

[sstein]

sprouting said:

Die Hard 4

Latest Indiana Jones film

Heat

Ronin

Die Hard 4 was terrible. John Mclane versus a fighter jet and he throws a taxi at a helicopter. Rubbish.

The latest Indiana Jones film was a big disappointment, it was decent up until the last 30 minutes or so.

[4hero]

The Fall

[Pesty]

Rambo

[Rarst]

a scanner darkly, £2 from asda.

[bean455]

Taken

[taldo]

bean455 said:

Taken

i enjoyed this, good movie

[BigAlinEmbra]

Something a bit different, and topical given those two young lads recently in court is "Boy A".

I'll try not to spoil it too much by just telling you the story, but lets just say it flips the idea of child killers on it's head. Not gruesome, but very clever.

[mat13]

life of brian, still as good now as it was back then. Or if you want something a bit more action based and a very clever film try luck number slevin

[Mr Heathen]

Old Boy
Primer
Frailty
The Man From Earth
The Devils Rejects

[Ross1988]

Crash is a decent film

[toasty]

Ross1988 said:

Crash is a decent film

The 2004 Paul Haggis one is good but the 1996 David Cronenberg is kack.

[zac510]

sprouting said:

Die Hard 4

Latest Indiana Jones film

Heat

Ronin

He said 'no pulp'!

[911DM]

Mr Heathen said:

Old Boy
Primer
Frailty
The Man From Earth
The Devils Rejects

Interesting. I know two of those - "Old Boy" and "The Man from Earth".

They couldn't be more different but I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend both. The twist in "Old Boy" caught me out (that's not given anything away!).

Depends on what mood you're in as in what film you want to watch.

A chap on the "greatest films" thread put forward "La Haine". I remember that when it was shown on one of Mark Kermode's film nights on BBC2 about 20 years ago. Loved it.

I must say, those "Kermode" film nights were brilliant. "Rabid", "Assault on precinct 13" and amongst others quite a few obscure Gerard Depardieu (sp) films.. or was that another channel...

[Scraggles]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858486/

The Battle For Terra

animimation - looks good