Netflix/Blockbuster Online: Movies that you should add to your queue.

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all,

Oldboy, 2003 was reccomended by lapoker17.
"If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?"

plot:
An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment.

From the Neo-realist movement:

Ladri di biciclette (1948)

"Why should I kill myself worrying when I'll end up just as dead?"

Antonio Ricci, unemployed for over two years, is overjoyed when he's finally given a job putting up posters. There's a catch, though - he needs a bicycle as a requirement of the job, so he pawns the family linen to get a pawned bicycle back. He goes off to his first day's work, truly happy for the first time in years - and the title of the film gives away what happens next...


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Just finished Old Boy at work...really good.
Didn't see the ending coming at all.

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Remember your life before and life after watching.

[Wu36]

Apologies, I seem to suck at images today, no time to fix them right now.

The Remains of the Day
"In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature. "
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Relatively big release, but thought I'd mention it for the younger posters (like myself). I didn't watch it until after I read 'The Unconsoled' by Kazuo Ishiguro. Great movie, some relatively big actors show up (Superman w/ functional legs, Lena Headey, Hugh Grant etc..)

Raise the Red Lantern
"Songlian's mother: Rich man? If you marry a rich man, you will only be his concubine.
Songlian: Let me be a concubine. Isn't that the fate of a woman? "
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Following the book adaptation theme this time with a Chinese writer (Su Tong). I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Gong Li, that is all.

Tony Takitani
"Not half bad, Tony Takitani"
The interweb isn't helping with quotes and I'd rather not go watch the movie again, so that'll have to do.
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Same theme, Murakami this time. If you don't like his style I'd avoid this one.
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Remember your life before and life after watching.

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Wow, that's next in my queue, looking forward to seeing the difference after watching it [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Here's another powerful movie:

The Sea Inside
Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.

Padre Francisco: Freedom without a life is not freedom.
Ramón Sampedro: A life without freedom is not a life.
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Ramón Sampedro: When you can't escape, and you constantly rely on everyone else, you learn to cry by smiling, you know?

[Freakin]

my queue is about 30 movies longer....

i love you all

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

itd be awesome if someone made a sticky of all the movie threads in oot, lounge and eld.

[registrar]

Nihilists! F**k me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.


Obviously everyone has seen this a million times but it's the only one I could find both a quote and picture from.

Other films you should see not already covered:

Performance (1970)
A Fistful of Dynamite
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (yeah, everyone has seen this too but I love the quote: "There's two kinds of people in this world: people with guns, and people who dig. You dig.") ooh and I can find a picture




No End
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086961/ This is something pretty good I watched recently. Mindlessly depressing as you'd expect from a Polish work of art.

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Videodrome



Nicki Brand: Got any porno?
Max Renn: You serious?
Nicki Brand: Yeah. It gets me in the mood.
[looks through casettes]
Nicki Brand: What's this? "Videodrome"?
Max Renn: Torture. Murder.
Nicki Brand: Sounds great.
Max Renn: Ain't exactly sex.
Nicki Brand: Says who?

[DontRaisePlz]

Less art, more action.

Hard Boiled



Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.

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Might be too mainstream, but whatever, I don't think everyone's seen it, and it's good:

Go



Ronna: I need a favor.
Todd: Wow, I didn't know we'd become such good friends, because if we had, you'd know that I give head before I give favors and I don't even give my best friends head so your chances of getting a favor are pretty [censored] slim.

Zack: It really didn't go as bad as it could have.
Adam: A girl is dead, Zack.
Zack: I didn't say it went perfectly.

Tiny: Her contact lens. it's stuck on the end of my dick
Marcus: Was it hard or soft?
Tiny: What, my dick?
Singh: The contact lens