With all the new movies coming out on DVD, which ones do you recommend, which ones sucked???
If there is a new movie that blew you away, let us know about it, OR if a new movie sucked, let us know about it so we don't get stuck renting it.

First Off, I want to say that the Cohen Brothers are absolute geniuses. If you haven't seen the movie "No Country For old Men" GO RENT IT!! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!! This movie is so good and the acting is superior! Now I know why this movie won an acadamy award it rocks. Actor Javien Barden plays an awesome villian. Look out for future movies with Javien Barden, This guy is an amazing actor.

There will be blood comes out soon. Have not seen it but heard good things.

I was impressed with Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York and ever since then have made an attempt to see his movies.

This is a subjective topic but fun nonetheless.

I rarely see new movies or movies in general. Guess I'm old school but it is great when one of my favorites makes it onto DVD.

Top two favorite movies on my list:

"King of Hearts" & "Fried Green Tomato's"

I'd be curious to see a show of cyber hands of those who have seen both of those movies.

Seen them both.

Mrs. KSKD loves them both. I liked parts of them, but very likely would not have initiated the viewing!

Heck, we are doing the video junk food thing, going to watch SG-1, "The Ark of Truth".

I love the Coens and agree that the acting in "No Country" is superb. In fact, for 2/3 of the film I was riveted. Then...it took a left turn where I'm like, "Wha...?" (I'm not going to give details that might spoil the film for those who haven't seen it.) Maybe they were following the book, or maybe it was just the Coens having fun with their audiences. Their films often do take left turns.

"There Will Be Blood" is a superb film, but it's a pity to see it on a tiny screen. The photography is spectacular. Daniel Day-Lewis's performance is just mesmerizing. Some people have claimed, remarkably, that they find the film slow.

Andrew

My taste in movies over the years has really changed. Heck the number of new movies I watch in a year is probably less than 3.

The only series of movies I've had any interest in is Harry Potter. Mainly because my kids and wife totally love them. When the final book was released my daughter and wife were downtown at Powell's waiting in line for 3 hours. Our daughter dressed up like Albus Dumbledore.

My wife and I spent turns during that weekend reading the final book aloud. It was a fun time and rather intense. It will make watching the movies that much more enjoyable.

But outside of the HP movies I'm pretty much a non-movie watcher.

"No Country for old men" is an Awesome movie. Although I have to admit, I didn't get the ending of the movie, it just kind of ended!

Oh man!

For some reason, I just don't like Harry Potter. The premise is good, but it just doesn't click...

Bummer too as the stuff is very well produced, IMHO.

Duck Soup

Has anyone seen "american gangster" with Denzel Washington??
I've been wanting to see this movie for a while, but always pass it up when I'm at the video store.

These are the movies in recent months that I have seen and really enjoyed. I don't go to a movie and or rent a movie if I don't think it won't be worth my time and money. With that said I was not dissapointed with any of the following movies the last one on my list is my favorite movie in a very long time rarely does a movie have you cracking up throughout the movie and in tears at the very end.

Note: movies ranked from least favorite to most favorite ie all movies I highly enjoyed and would reccomend to most movie watchers.

Cloverfield
Paranoid Park
Dan In Real Life
Into the Wild
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Juno

Oh, there is one of these kinds of movies I really like.

"What's Eating Gilbert Grape!" Love it. Watch it every so often. IMHO, it's kind of a bizzaro world "Fried Green Tomatoes" kind of movie.

Sorry, but I think it's a must see.

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was good. Very good.

I've about 30 hours of footage I shot for a documentary of my own. I just got a Macbook Pro.

Lookout youtube - here I come.

Ditto Roger's "Duck Soup". The Marx Brothers at their best are damned funny.

Just streamed "Serenity" last night...pretty good. Makes me want to go back and check out "Firefly" which I understand it is based on.

Favorite Western is "The Cowboys". Can't beat the Duke.

My All-Time Most Favorite? Probably "North by Northwest". Non-stop entertainment on multiple levels. And women don't look beautiful in movies today like they did in the '50s.

Chickenjuggler, did you know that a feature film is in the works based on "A Fistful of Quarters?" I met the director when he came to open night at Cinema 21 - he said it's in development.

Cool film, I agree. I was into the arcade games bigtime when Donkey Kong came out - although I was never that good at them. Wasted a lot of quarters on Pacman, Gorf, and Donkey Kong. Arcade video games actually inspired me to learn how to write computer programs, so it may not have been such a bad investment.

Andrew

" Chickenjuggler, did you know that a feature film is in the works based on "A Fistful of Quarters?"

NO! That's great! It's good doc making and I wish that team the best.

chris taylor sez:

>>"King of Hearts" & "Fried Green Tomato's"

I'd be curious to see a show of cyber hands of those who have seen both of those movies.<<


*raises hand*

I have seen both of those. Great movies, both.

Watched Dan in Real Life last week. Pretty good movie. Man, I could live out there!

We also watched Why Did I Get Married? A Tyler Perry movie. It was pretty good too.

My favorite movie of all time; Patton.

Second favorite; Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I have both of them and try to watch them at least a couple times a year!

New DVD releases -- my short reviews

1) "Into The Wild" - Best of the lot.
2) "No Country" - Nuff said.
3) "Michael Clayton" - Up there with the top 3.

Others . . .

"Things Lost In The Fire" - Not bad, but flawed filmmaking.
"Gone Baby Gone" - OK if you can overlook some unbelievable premises.
"Dan In Real Life" - Amusing, but forgettable.
"King of California" - Less amusing, more forgettable.
"Darjeeling Limited" - If it wasn't for the "SUICIDE ATTEMPT" flashing every time Owen Wilson appeared on screen, this would be a pretty good film.

As for an "oldie", let me recommend "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." Far better than all of these movies put together.

My all time favorite movies are:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
&
Apcyolpse Now but only with Coppolla's wife's companion piece docu called Hearts of Darkness. It is almost better than the film itself as it is all about the making of the movie and what a horror it was to finish the film.

While watching Michael Clayton, I was kind of puzzled as to why Tilda Swinton got her award...

...then I saw that final scene. I watched that scene 10 times in a loop. Awesome acting.

Hey Skybill, do you like "The Life Of Brian" as much as Holy Grail? I often get the two confused.

Animal Crackers

You Can't Cheat An Honest Man

and for its production value being so far ahead of its time,

The Wizard Of Oz

Citizen Kane
Spartacus
Best Years of our Lives
The Godfather
Glengarry Glen Ross

Dr Strangelove
Manchurian Canidate (orginal)
This Boys Life
October Sky
Donnie Darko
Boondock Saints
Starship Troopers

Andy, “The Life of Brian" is OK, but between the two I like the Holy Grail better. I think it is more "warped" which I like!

Shyguy, I had forgotten about October Sky.

I liked that movie as I can relate to it because one of my hobbies is flying high power rockets. Although I haven't done it for a few years, and my certification has expired, I'd like to get back into it soon. I still have all my motor casings and rockets.

I have never seen with Jake Gyllenhaul that has been a dissapointment. He is one of the few young people in Hollywood who truly has a long successful career ahead of him.

Whats cool about the movie October Sky is that it is a film that the whole family can sit and watch and enjoy together. No questionable content and it holds the attention of the younger generation as well.

I don't know what it is about older films ie black and white films but rarely does an older film hold my attention as it seems all to phony and too much of a "all is well" attitude when I know fully that "all is not well".

No questionable content and it holds the attention of the younger generation as well.


Speaking of questionable content- WARNING- don't watch the movie "WALK HARD" with parents or young kids, JUST TRUST ME! There is a lot of nudity including a very long, close up penis shot.It was very embarrassing watching it with my 75 year old grandma. Talk about an uncomfortable situation. Whats interesting is that the movie industry has no problem showing boobs in movies, yet you never see weenies in movies, thats why I was shocked and very embarrassed while watching "walk hard"

Here are my desert island movies:

Shadowlands
Luther
Somewhere In Time
Dirty Harry

Herb

I've never seen the movie "Herb" is it any good?

Not touching that one.

If it exists, it probably has a great Nixon cameo appearance in it.

Herb

Nixon, your favorite homophobe and anti-semite, has a full part in the movie.

Here's another clip from the movie and here's the full trailer.

Enjoy.

Getting the discussion back on track now---

Here are my ten favourites *not* in order of preference:

0001) The Dream Is Alive (IMAX documentary about space exploration)
0010) Footloose
0011) Grease
0100) Koyaanisqatsi (on Laserdisc)
0101) October Sky
0110) Phantom Menace (if only for Jar Jar Binks)
0111) Rad! (a BMX film)
1000) Star Wars (original 1977 version, preferrably on Laserdisc)
1001) Tron
1010) Wayne's World

And let's not forget:
1011) anything Looney Tunes, particularly pre-1980s-ish.

"Howard the Duck"

This Movie is a "Quack-Up"

I hope your joking TEMPER! I made the mistake of watching this God-awful movie because it was FREE on the On Demand Movies. What an absolute piece of garbage.
This movie is so bad it probably killed Lea Thompsons career. At one point in this movie Lea Thompson actually wants to have sex with this duck, and she looks in his wallet and finds a Duck condom" _STUPID!
A Kick in the nuts would be much more enjoyable than this repulsive movie. Im surprised George Lucas name was on the credits of this movie. No wonder it hasn't been released on DVD!

"Must see movies"--aah I thought It meant "Best movies".

Ok. Here are movie's I'll stop and watch when channel surfing:

Bloodsport
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Terminator (any of 'em)
Any John Wayne movie
Any "Dirty Harry" movie
Robocop
How The West Was Won
Spaceballs
Hunt for Red October
Footloose
Top Gun
Red Dawn
Rounders

Those are great movies, but you left out the Bob Hope - Bing Crosby "Road Pictures". and original Star Wars .

Nwokie--

See #1000b (8d) on my list above.........

Sorry, I missed that.

In the Line of Fire
By Dawns Early Light
Six Degrees of Seperation
The Shining
Goonies
And The Band Played On
Testament
The Andronema Strain
The Day After

I tend to like older movies.

Must-see, in my opinion, in no particular order:

The Graduate (1967) Dustin Hoffman/Anne Bancroft

Double Indemnity (1944) Fred MacMurray/Barbara Stanwyck

Vertigo (1958) James Stewart/Kim Novak

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Gloria Swanson/William Holden

All About Eve (1950) Bette Davis

Midnight Cowboy (1969)Jon Voight/Dustin Hoffman

North by Northwest (1959) Cary Grant/Eva Marie Saint

I can watch any of these over and over...

Oh boy - here we go again. Of course, my list changes based on what I have stubled on and been reminded of via Comcast.

Stranger Than Fiction has now made it to my top 20 of all time.

Magnolia is still my #1.

Godfather I and II

The Shining was a great note Shyguy. I agree.

Just about anything with Tim Roth, EDWARD NORTON IS THE MAN!!!, all Kubrick and Lynch films ( Especially Mulholland Drive - DUDE! ).

Liked Into The Wild. Quite a bit. The audiobook was mesmerizing.

12 Angry Men is fantastic. Even the recent updated version holds up well.

Film I am most looking forward to seeing - Arrested Development - COME ON!

"Arrested Development"

Is that the movie based on the short story inspired by Trixter?

Forgot about Magnolia.

On a side note does anyone know of a place to find all region DVD box sets of television series from the UK? Been hearing alot about Skins and want to check the show out.

Shyguy:
This series can be found on eBay, but not for region 1 (US and Canada)!

I had the same problem with "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" series, it was region 2 and also in PAL rather than NTSC. I bought a very cheap (and it looks it) Coby #224ss DVD player* and "hacked" it...easy to do.

*about $27 at Amazon.

1. Turn on
2. Open the DVD tray
3. Press STOP on the remote.
4. Press 70
5. press MENU
6. Use keypad to enter region code (0=all)

Note: make sure there is no DVD in the tray before you perform the steps above.

Other model hacks easily found on the web.

Thanks Jr Tech. I think that my brother has a Coby DVD player. Smaller than the average type players on the market.

Jr_Tech!!! You are the only other person that I have ever heard mention "Reggie Perrin", Gawd, I loved that show, it's Brilliant! Can I come over and watch it with you? I'll bring some Dandelion wine (Or can you just make me a copy?).

My partial list of faves not mentioned yet:

Big Lebowski
Office Space
The Thin Man films
National Lampoon's Vacation
Christmas Story
5000 Fingers of Dr. T
The Long, Long Trailer
Shawshank Redemption
Knocked Up
Once
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
48 Hours
Trading Places
A Fish called Wanda
The Birds
Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!
Guess Who's coming to Dinner?
An Affair to Remember
The Enchanted Cottage
The Bad Seed
Bonnie And Clyde
Fight Club
It's a Wonderful Life
Chinatown

(I'm pretty sure I could quote most of Lebowski, Xmas Story, Ferris, and Vacation word-for-word. And that's just sad.)

You guys are leaving out one of the funniest movies of all time!

DUMB AND DUMBER- I have seen that movie probably over 20 times, and its just as funny the 20th time as it was the first time. I'm not a big Jim Carey Fan, but this movie brought me tears because I was laughing so hard. That could quite possibly be the funniest movie ever madE! My cousin almost pooped his pants the first time he saw it because he was laughing so hard!

"5000 Fingers of Dr. T"

An interesting little movie that stays with you, but also proves that Dr. Seuss books should never be turned into live-action films.

"National Lampoon's Vacation"

This is a travelogue of my car trip last summer - minus Christie Brinkley

" Dr. Seuss books should never be turned into live-action films."

Green Eggs And E. Coli

Osama's In Pajamas

How The Grinch Stole His Sports Memorabilia Back At Gunpoint

One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

The Hump Known As Trump

If I Ran The Knicks

The Cat In The Hat That Fell In The Applebee's Deep Fryer

Oh The Places You Won't Go Because Of Tougher Immigration Laws

Horton Hears A Who Via An Illegal Government Wiretap

Hop On Spitzer

Mrs_merkin said:

"I'll bring some Dandelion wine (Or can you just make me a copy?)."

Ah! but the Nettel wine is MUCH nastier than the Dandelion !

Let me look, I think that I ended up with 2 copies of this series from a guy on eBay (I complained when copy 1 did not play on either my Panasonic or Sony player), the first was region 2 (England) and PAL. The second was region 0 (all regions) but still PAL instead of NTSC. Both will play on the "hacked" Corby dvd player, and the region 0 will play on *most* computer DVD drives as well. I would be happy to send you the region 0 copy.

@CJ:

Also: The Al Gorax ("I speak for the trees!")

Obviously I stole it. But it was funny.

Oh...well, I made mine up myself, so neener neener.

ChickenJuggler that was great stolen or not.

I had forgot about Dumb and Dumber.

"So your sayin I've got a chance"
"Wanna here the most annoying sound in the world"

Jr Tech--

Do you know if any of the Cobys have something like/similar to the "magic menu", à la the Apex AD600? ;o)

Obvious greats:
M*A*S*H*
The Godfathers (I'm even OK with III)
Dr. Strangelove
Fargo
Advise and Consent

I call your attention to:
The Killing (1956 Kubrick race track robbery caper)
Blood Simple (Coen brothers' first)

Secret shame:
Howard the Duck (I, too, am trapped in a world I never made)

Secret shame - chick flick edition:
Strictly Ballroom

Secret shame - guy flick edition:
District 13 (French future post-apocolypic martial arts thing. Amazing stunts)

And recently:
La Vien Rose
No Country
There Will Be Blood

I miss not having Sundance and IFC. It used to be taken for granted that Friday nights were spent at home watching great undiscovered indie and foriegn movies. If you have either of these channels on your cable or satellite don't ignore them as they can at times provide a wonderful offering of what film should be.

Strictly Ballroom is NOT a chick flick! It's Baz Luhrman and dancing and a cult classic...Love it!

If you're planning on renting "into the Wild" skip it, that movie was AWFUL. It could have been an awesome movie but it wasn't, infact I was counting down the minutes for that painful movie to be over.
And If I have to hear that stupid Eddie Vedder song"Big Hard sun" I'm going to pull my hair out! It seemed like every 15 minutes that song came blasting on during the movie, WTF, do we really need to hear that song Every 15 minutes?? Another reason why I didn't like that movie was because Sean Penn(the director) had a HUGE man crush on the actor. This movie could have been more homosexual than Brokeback Mountain. If you've seen the movie, you know what Im talking about! Im sure most 15 year old girls LOVE THIS movie, but for everyone else, DON"T RENT IT!

I agree that the Eddie Vedder songs leave a lot to be desired, and may even turn people off, but still, unless your buns are made of steel, you gotta see the film!

Sean Penn should stick to acting, not directing. The book is a million times better than the movie.
Skip the movie and read the book, and If you've already read the book, read it again, much more enjoyable!

Is Sean Penn kinda one of those people in Hollywood that you either love him or hate em.

Can't wait for Milk.