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I've just signed up for Amazons dvd rental thing and only managed to add 9 titles this morning. Can you recommend some movies that you think I should see before I die. Preferrably with a link to amazon.
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I would recommend adding everything wot Kubrick done, that you haven't seen. Everything he touches is just golden and worth watching. I saw Barry Lyndon for the first time this weekend, and it was absolutely incredible. Every single shot of the film was beautiful, every moment perfectly pitched. It's basically film about how this Irish dude infiltrates English society and RUINS EVERYTHING because the Irish are a bunch of money grubbing, potato-faced bog trotting jerks with no regard for anyone but themselves and no skill at anything except lying and self-preservation.
So yeah. Apart from the entire Kubrick... have you ever seen Seven Samurai? That's a definite 'watch before you die' movie. For some reason it always gets lumped into lists of dreary classics that noone can be fucked to sit through, but it's actually incredibly fast paced, very funny and at least as exciting as Raiders of the Lost Ark. It is three hours long - but that's only 20 minutes longer than DaVinci code, and it's really watchable all the way through.
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Yellowbeard - Carry On film, but made by the Pythons + Peter Cook + Marty Feldman + Cheech & Chong. Lots of people think it's crap, but they haven't got a fucking clue so ignore them.
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battle of algiers brick pretty persuasion lone wolf and cub wu tang live on stage (whatever its called) metropolis that mountain man film with robert redford.
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quote: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Funny Games has been sitting in my Amazon basket for a while, although I haven't pressed the go button yet. It does look OK, though.
It's a really horrible depressing movie. But, at least it's not bland.
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on that link to the burning there are some more interesting films listed - Cannibal Holocaust, The Beyond, Zombie Flesh Eaters and The House By the Cemetary are probably must-see if you want to get an overview of sleazy Euro-horror, but then, you know, few people do. Few people do.
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