Would Anyone Suggest a Good Movie Please? (shameless vanity)

10/28/2009 | Skooz

[Skooz]

For a myriad of reasons, I have spent the last few months watching a movie most every weeknight. I have finally gotten my money’s worth from my Netflix account.

But, lately I have had trouble finding movies I think I will like. I scour Netflix and am having a hard time finding movies that interest me, though I know they are out there.

My interest runs from war movies to action flicks to quirky indy films to foreign art things.

Some of my favorite movies I have seen the past few months are Defiance, all of the Sean Connery Bond films, Sleeper, The Right Stuff, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Riding Giants, a Hard Day’s Night, and a few foreign artsy films whose names I don’t recall.

By far my favorite movie I have seen lately is Everything is Illuminated.

I have no interest in horror flicks, romance movies, teen gross out flicks or most movies made in the 1960s.

Could anyone be so kind as to suggest a good movie or two?

Thanks

[Shethink13]

Count me as one who found the “Shawshank Redemption” to be overrated.

To each his own, of course, but Morgan Freeman's performance is Oscar quality in this movie (IMO).

[Arizona Carolyn]

I want to see Amelia, but it hasn’t come to my area yet.

[eyedigress]

I’m sure everything has been mentioned. I hope “Bridge Over the River Kwai” and “Das Boot” made it.

[seoul62]

On face value, when I first saw the promotion clips for Pan’s Labyrinth: I thought it was a children’s fantasy movie. After viewing it, in no way was it a children’s movie or young teens. I would classify it as strictly for adults. Another one in that fantasy and dark drama catagory is the foreign film: Onmyoji, see it. I encourage you to see the others as they are equally interesting too.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

First off, Thanks for starting this thread.
My netflix queue was starting to get a little sparse and I've been able to fill it out for at least the next few weeks.

Second, I'd like to second a suggestion posted upthread.

One of the best movies I've seen is "Taking Chance".
Kevin Bacon plays Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, who volunteers to escort the body of a young Marine (Chance Phelps) who was killed in Iraq, and whose remains are being returned to the Marine's family.
I know is may sound cliché, but if you never see another movie, you really should see this one!

[Skooz]

Thanks for the recommendation. I saw that film on Netflix and considered renting it. Now I will.

I have taken many of the suggestions here and added them to my Netflix queue.

I already own or have seen many of the suggested movies (LOTR, The Lives of Others, Cinderella Man, Master and Commander, The Guns of Navarone, Horatio Hornblower, State of Play, Pan’s Labyrinth, Best in Show, Band of Brothers, Casablanca, The Fifth Element, Red River, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Cool Hand Luke, Braveheart, The Rock, Some Like it Hot, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, The Seven Samauri, Das Boot, etc etc), but others may have not, so it’s cool they were mentioned here.

I knew my fellows Freepers would come through with some great suggestions.