just joined netflix...recommend some movies

[lucas9000]

i'm sure this has been done before but suck me if you don't like it. my netflix queue is already long, but recommend some more movies that i can tack on to it.

[-Skeme-]

The Sting
Big Fish
Shaun Of The Dead

[KaneKungFu123]

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i'm sure this has been done before but suck me if you don't like it. my netflix queue is already long, but recommend some more movies that i can tack on to it.

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lawn dogs
beautiful girls
leon
run lola run
snatch
pulp fiction
being john malcovich
dumb and dumberer
legends of the fall
memento
once upon a time in mexico
the beach
trainspotting

[-Skeme-]

If he hasn't already seen Pulp Fiction or Memento he doesn't deserve Netflix.

[Phoenix1010]

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once upon a time in mexico

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Some good movies on your list, but I absolutely hate this one. I've never met anyone who thought it was even remotely worth watching either. Go for Desperado instead.

[lucas9000]

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If he hasn't already seen Pulp Fiction or Memento he doesn't deserve Netflix.

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i figured i'd just read suggestions that people make, rather than respond to each post with a "i've seen ___ already."

and yes, i've seen those many times /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[deacsoft]

It's very hard to recommend movies not knowing what you've seen and haven't. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[WillMagic]

I'm going to try and come up with a list of movies that not everyone has seen.

Being There
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Capturing the Friedmans
Festen (The Celebration)
Sexy Beast
Glengarry Glen Ross
Touch of Evil

Will

[Popinjay]

My Life as a Dog

saddest movie i have ever seen. it's great

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

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I'm going to try and come up with a list of movies that not everyone has seen.

Being There
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Capturing the Friedmans
Festen (The Celebration)
Sexy Beast
Glengarry Glen Ross
Touch of Evil

Will

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Good choice.

[Blarg]

Extremely sad. Also gut bustingly funny and cool in a lot of ways. Easily one of my favorite movies. When I came out of the theater after seeing it, everybody was practically gasping for breath, they were so astonished how good it was. We just couldn't believe it. It probably had the best audience response of any movie I've ever seen.

[Blarg]

Dude, people do make this post all the time. And always the same way, without telling us what they like. So that just makes people make kind of meaningless recommendations.

Tell us what you like -- like, genres or themes, or movies that are about certain things or whatever. Like, say, film noir or horror or comedy, or oldies sci-fi, or whatever, you know. Give us something to work with here!

[Blarg]

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I'm going to try and come up with a list of movies that not everyone has seen.

Being There
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Capturing the Friedmans
Festen (The Celebration)
Sexy Beast
Glengarry Glen Ross
Touch of Evil

Will

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Good choice.

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Yeah, I've seen almost all of those, and it's a very good list. I was surprised to see some of my favorites there which aren't cited that often -- Glengarry Glenross and Being There, among them. As to the rest, good show.

[bosoxfan]

Fandango

[Sporky]

here's a few:

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
waking the dead
shaolin soccer
motorcycle diaries

i currently have:
Amelie
Battle Royale
Word Wars

heard good things about all of those also, but haven't watched 'em yet.

[lucas9000]

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It's very hard to recommend movies not knowing what you've seen and haven't. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

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just recommend anything that's good.

[lucas9000]

people who haven't seen gggr should be stabbed with a brick.

[lucas9000]

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Dude, people do make this post all the time. And always the same way, without telling us what they like. So that just makes people make kind of meaningless recommendations.

Tell us what you like -- like, genres or themes, or movies that are about certain things or whatever. Like, say, film noir or horror or comedy, or oldies sci-fi, or whatever, you know. Give us something to work with here!

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i can go on netflix or amazon and they will spit out recommendations based on what i like. the cool thing about not limiting people by what i already like is that someone could recommend something that i would have never considered, but turn out to like a lot.

[Uston]

American Movie
The Iron Giant
Paths Of Glory
Riding Giants

[jba]

search for Jack Nicholson. anything you haven't seen.

[astroglide]

your friends and neighbors

[Uston]

Better or worse than In The Company Of Men?

[astroglide]

infinitely better

[ethan]

28 days later
amores perros
audition
blow
caddyshack
city of god
eddie izzard: dress to kill
a fistful of dollars (and for a few dollars more, and good-bad-ugly)
the hustler
ichi the killer
lock, stock, and two smoking barrels
the motorcycle diaries
miller's crossing
the professional
road to perdition
shaun of the dead
step into liquid
spirited away
the sword of doom
undercover brother

etc...

[Uston]

I'm sold. Unfortunately, Netflix doesn't carry it.

[Roan]

Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
8 Days a Week
Donny Darko

[astroglide]

it's worth renting/buying

[flatline]

The best thing about netflix is the awesome selection of foriegn and independent movies you could never find at the video store. I'd recommend Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

[DeezNuts]

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Amelie
Battle Royale
Word Wars

heard good things about all of those also, but haven't watched 'em yet.

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Word wars is great. Amelie is great. I also have Battle Royale sitting in my DVD player at home.

If you like documentaries, The Corporation is very good. The Korean movie OldBoy is stylistic and very good too.

DN

[tbach24]

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Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)

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meh

[Bulldog]

Just watched Word Wars and Battle Royale. Definitely some Scrabble/poker similarities. Although we haven't yet had a poker player nicknamed after his gastrointestinal condition...

Battle Royale was ooookay. I wanted it to be really weird and disturbing. It was near that edge but never really crossed it.