1001 Films that ARE worth watching. [start new threads for new films please]

[small_world]

Simply as I sat for about an hour last night looking for something to download and watch that either, I hadn't seen or didn't look like shite...
I ended up watching Pontypool which was fairly alright.

So, what SHOULD I watch?

[Neomod]

I did the same thing last night and ended up watching a documentary on Jack Cardiff...

...which in turn led to Black Narcissus[nb]this is not porn, philistines![/nb]

[Junglist]

PassThePopcorn has this entire collection for download. Not just the Pontypool, and Black somethingorother, but the published thing. Its well ace.

TRUFAX, fax fans.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

Super Troopers is a hoot.

[the midnight watch baboon]

get the Mesrines

[small_world]

Also a few weeks ago, I saw Hot Rod for the first time, and then spent the rest of the night emaling/FB'ing/texting shit to friends in an effort to get them to watch it... So, watch it (if you haven't).

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Super Troopers is a hoot.

Very much so. One of my favourite lowbrow comedies.

It probably counts as received opinion by now, but nobody should let any misgivings they have about gangster films or Colin Farrell put them off watching In Bruges.

[Catalogue Trousers]

The Big Hit. A truly deranged piss-take/loving homage of heist/gangster films from the year dot to the early 1990s, an eclectic cast that stretches from Mark Wahlberg to Avery Brooks, and an extended final cliff-hanger-upon-cliff-hanger sequence that evokes the best of Tex Avery and Russ Meyer. Love it.

[Maybe Im Doing It Wrong]

Helen, a 2008 British film by first time writer-directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. It's about a girl who goes missing and another girl from the same school who the police ask to impersonate her for a reconstruction. It's dreamlike and sinister and odd and very good.

[Serge]

The Three Colours trilogy, especially 'Red'. Bloody marvellous, and life-affirming without being in the slightest bit sickly.

[EOLAN]

Very much so. One of my favourite lowbrow comedies.

It probably counts as received opinion by now, but nobody should let any misgivings they have about gangster films or Colin Farrell put them off watching In Bruges.

It was my opinion that the writer/director was so firmly stuffed up his own ass that turned me off In Bruges personally.
And having Raglan Road midway through when it was absolutely no relvance. Sure why not just have Colin Farrell chasinga leprechaun to a rainbow so he can get a pot of gold while he was at it.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

It was my opinion that the writer/director was so firmly stuffed up his own ass that turned me off In Bruges personally.
And having Raglan Road midway through when it was absolutely no relvance. Sure why not just have Colin Farrell chasinga leprechaun to a rainbow so he can get a pot of gold while he was at it.

Gotta agree there. I thought the characters were plastered with too much Paddywhackery, at times I felt embarrassed for Gleeson.

[Johnny Textface]

A Single Man
Scott Pilgrim Vrs The World
Midnight Run

Best films I've seen this year.

[Maybe Im Doing It Wrong]

Gotta agree there. I thought the characters were plastered with too much Paddywhackery, at times I felt embarrassed for Gleeson.

That's Martin McDonagh's stock in trade though. He's like a walking, talking shillelagh, with a shamrock stapled to it. Despite being born in Camberwell.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

Scott Pilgrim Vrs The World

I think that's one of the worst films I've ever seen, for reasons I'd be too afraid to go into. But there you go.

[Johnny Textface]

I think that's one of the worst films I've ever seen, for reasons I'd be too afraid to go into. But there you go.

Don't be afraid! Have you seen 'Freddy Got Fingered'?

[Famous Mortimer]

Bump the Scott Pilgrim thread and I'll have someone to join in with me in sticking the boot to that film.

[Tiny Poster]

Bump the Scott Pilgrim thread and I'll have someone to join in with me in sticking the boot to that film.

But it's been 90 days - we'll get told off.

God that bit with the canned laughter is so shit.

[Nik Drou]

I think that's one of the worst films I've ever seen, for reasons I'd be too afraid to go into. But there you go.

Well, thanks for the bring-down all the same.

I recently picked up the Wachowski's adaptation of Speed Racer on blu-ray.



It's insane.

Now, there's certainly problems with the movie.  It's too long, the dialogue is ropey even for this kind of thing and the action sequences are so knowingly incoherent that it's impossible to invest in the outcome.  Matter of fact, every single frame is designed to hurl you out of the movie.  But then practically every shot is a certain shade of stunning.  It's probably the most extreme example of 'eye candy' that you're liable to find.  There's huge, huge colours here.  Even the title sequence is a beautiful kalaidascope, as if designed in apology for the muted palette of The Matrix and every dingy pseudo-noir that came in its wake.  There's also a lot of genuine laughs and even some great performances, plus it's nice to see an certain cynicism of large businesses.  It's the sort of film that ultimately benefits from its reputation as a box office disaster.  If it was a hit it'd possibly be insufferable, instead it's an endearing tribute to the Wachowski's dementedly misguided sensibilities.

Certainly worth a watch (I think it'd have to be on blu-ray to be worth it) and certainly something you won't forget in a while.  It has a chimp.

[Johnny Textface]

scott pilgrim annoyance

Well I thought it was great and a shame it didn't do big bucks at the box office.
Brilliantly directed and cut, full of original ideas, great soundtrack, funny oneliners and likeable characters and some retro chip music. What more could you ask for? (Don't bother answering that - looks like everyone hated apart from me - but theres nothing wrong with having a different opinion to everyone else...)

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I'm with you, Textface. Most fun I've had at the pictures all year.

[Nik Drou]

Me too.  It's a great film.

[Tiny Poster]

I'm with you, Textface. Most fun I've had at the pictures all year.

Ah! Speaking of which:

Four Lions

[Dark Sky]

This is usually the time when I pimp the strange, dark, surrealistic comedy which is Babe 2: Pig In The City.

[the midnight watch baboon]

"Blimey" ;)

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Old films are worth watching too. Old films such as Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Roger Livesey delivers a performance for the ages. Why he isn't among the upper echelons of classic British actors, like David Niven and such, I dunno.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

Well, thanks for the bring-down all the same.

I realise this is a thread about bigging up movies but SPvsTW disagreed with me so much that I had to say. Anyway, carry on.


Deep Water

[Ignatius_S]

Old films are worth watching too....

He's right you know!

... Roger Livesey delivers a performance for the ages. Why he isn't among the upper echelons of classic British actors, like David Niven and such, I dunno.

Livesey was an actor, Niven a star.

[Tiny Poster]

The Glass Key - based on the same material as Miller's Crossing, but infinitely better. And I used to love Miller's Crossing.

[small_world]

Well I actually hadn't really heard of Four Lions until I visited these lovely pages. Even then it took a while for me to actually watch it. Once I had though I inflicted it on all my friends.

I'd add (although it's probably a redundant suggestion)Primer