Movie suggestions, please help!

I was recently mocked mercilessly for the limited movies I have seen by my girlfriend. I was hoping members could give me some good suggestions. Apparently, I am lame for not having seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and a few others. I was hoping you could give some answers to the following genres...

I realize this has already been asked, just hoping for a fresh perspective or two.

1.) All time favorite
2.) Comedy
3.) Action
4.) Drama
5.) Documentary
6.) Anything else a 23 year old should see...
7.) Foreign, don't mind the subtitles at all

Help me! I don't care if you only have one or two suggestions, I have not seen a good movie in a long time and just bought a a HUGE TV. Do not assume I have seen the movies you suggest, I have been to busy from 18 till now to see much of anything. Thanks guys and gals, I appreciate it!

reply to post by Raustin


Drama
Orlando
Around the Bend

Horror
The Prophecy (entire series)
Bless the Child
Close your Eyes
Stigmata
The Village

Action
Dark City


Comedy
Young Frankenstien
Kung Pow!
1941
The LIfe Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Oh man, i think young Frakenstein is the only one I have seen on your list.... Puttin on the Ritz (happy retarded monster voice!) Love that one! I'm going to have to look at the others since you obviously have good taste! THANKS!

1.) All time favorite
The Big Lebowski

2.) Comedy
The Big Lebowski
Strange Brew
The Search for the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
Life Aquatic
The Darjeeling Limited


3.) Action
can't think of anything that is a must see....maybe the following,
300
Sin City
Children of Men

4.) Drama
Code 46
The Legend of the Fall
Reign Over Me
Gattaca

5.) Documentary
The Bridge

6.) Anything else a 23 year old should see...
Old School

7.) Foreign, don't mind the subtitles at all
Nightwatch
Daywatch

Blazing saddles is up there in my favorites. As for the life Aquatic, was I the only one that got hit by that movie?? My friends and I always say that now, damn swamp leeches. Thanks for the reply, I like your style sir, or madam, damn ATS anonymity!

If you like the Life Aquatic, you would really enjoy the Darjeeling Limited. Same feel, same director. It actually really made me want to go to India.

reply to post by Karlhungis


Nice, I get made fun of for liking the life aquatic by people that consider themselves 'deep'. I'll have to rent the movies you recommended out of spite!

I'm curious.... what do "deep" people enjoy? I would think that the humor in the Life Aquatic would be a bit more "high brow" than most comedies. Then again, I am not a self proclaimed "deep" person.

I'll just tell you my favourites, no sure if you'd like them

++Comedy/Romantic comedy
Legally Blonde
Miss Congeniality
The Holiday

++Horror
The Ring
The Gift
The Skeleton Key
The Others
Silent Hill
Urban Legends

++Sci-Fi/Action
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Contact (this is a must watch)
ID4
Alien (quadrilogy)
Alien Vs. Predator
The X-Files
The Day After Tomorrow
The Happening
Armageddon
The Core

++Classics
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Pollyanna

++Cartoons
Anastasia
Treasure Planet
Shrek
Mulan
The Lion King

++Monster movies
Anaconda
Godzilla
Deep Rising
Jurassic Park

reply to post by mandrake


Ahhh thank you my friend. I just watched the Happening and liked it a lot. It seemed a little slow at times, but I sort of got lost in it. I suppose I do this a little to frequently in books and movies, but at least I get what I pay for! Thanks for the suggestions! I'll look to rent them all.

reply to post by Raustin


1. All time favorite: ET the Extraterrestrial, Hair (1979)

2. Comedy: Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles

3. Action: Indiana Jones movies, James Bond movies (personal favorite Octopussy)

4. Drama: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

5. Documentary: Roger and Me (Before Michael Moore became radical)

6. Anything for a 23 year old: Full Metal Jacket,

7. Amele (spelling, it is a French film about a young woman who plays matchmaker), Y tu mama tambien

Watch the Classics by.....

Orson Wells
Otto Preminger
Alfred Hitchcock
john Ford
Fritz Lang......M
Stanley Kubrick
Ed Wood

And you will be the one mocking your GF.

And to be a super mocker.....

Bicycle thieves...De Sica
Battleship Potemkin...Eisenstien
Seven Samuri....Kurosawa
Seventh Seal....I. Bergman


These films/directors wrote all the film licks ages ago. Almost everything else after these classics is just entertainment.

And thanks for allowing me a shameless plug.
I had a small part in this one; Frank Miller is a genius
www.youtube.com...
Just in time for Xmas.

[edit on 14-12-2008 by whaaa]

reply to post by Raustin


I think what we are all stating here is you don't have to be stuck watching teen vampire films, mindless remakes, and every superhero film (although the superhero genre is very well made nowadays). Go to the foreign film selection or the classic sections and you can find many of the classic films. When you watch Casablanca for the first time, it will feel as if you have seen it a dozen times as there are more quoted lines from this movie than any other I can think of.

I also think the movies of the late sixties to the late seventies were a mini golden age. Taxi Driver, The Godfather Part 1 and 2, 2001 a Space Odyssey are but a few from that era. The classics by the directors named by whaaa are not to be missed.

For your girlfriend, there are many women actors from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were not little girls like the ones out now, but strong and independent women. Greta Garbo, Claudette Colbert, and many others to numerous to mention. She will look at the profession very differently after watching those strong women.