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Reaver4k
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Okey.... Snice most of the Movies in North America are kind of boring and lame. Does anyone have the names of any good None North American Movies..
Here are the ones that are all ready on my list:
Der Untergang
The Grudge(The Japanese version)
Winter War
Stalingrad
Das Experiment
Kairo
Here are the ones that are all ready on my list:
Der Untergang
The Grudge(The Japanese version)
Winter War
Stalingrad
Das Experiment
Kairo
Comments
[i]Amilee[/i] - Damn good movie, among the best.
[i]Wonderful Days[/i] - Some of the prettiest special effects you'll ever see, utilising real models, CGI and hand drawing.
[i]Chicken Run[/i] - What can I say? It's halirious.
though some you may have to adjust your brain for the vernacular
try :
The Dish
The Castle
The Year my voice broke
Priscilla Queen of the Dessert
Proof
theres also 'Leon' or as its known in the US 'The Professional', an action flick with a soul. (Not an AU product before someone decides to knitpick me)
Just dont expect some sort of action flick or vapid story from anything Aussie. Most Aussie stuff of any quality is deep and rich in character and story rather than effects and budget. Even the original Mad Max was low budget even if it was 'light' on story.
28 Days Later ------Amazing modern horror by Danny Boyle
A.I. --------Far better then anyone ever gives it credit.
Abyss, The ---------James Camerons Best work
Akira ----------Best "cartoon" ever
Animal House ---------One of the funniest movies ever.
Bad News Bears, The -------Worth it alone for Walter Mathau
Bad Santa -------- Simmonds you should see this NOW
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker -------- A great video
Batman The Movie (1989) -------It's batman dammit.
Big Lewbowski, The -------- The Cohen brothers third best movie, fucking great.
Birds, The -------A masterpiece from Hitchcock
Black Hawk Down --------Beautifully crafted modern War movie.
Blazing Saddles -------Hold up better then any other comedy ever.
Carlito's Way -------A 4 minute steadicam shot that goes up and down elscalators. Brilliant. oh and Pacino rocks.
Chasing Amy --------Kevin Smiths Best
Clerks ------A must see for anyone who has had a crap job.
Court Jester ------Fantastic Oldie.
Cranes are Flying, The --------One of the best if not THE best Russian film of all time.
Dark City ------ Third best movie of 1998
Die Hard ------Its Die Hard.
Dogma ----------If your religious see this flick
Donnie Darko ---------Fantastic Sci Fi flick
E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial ------- Its ET. watch and cry.
Edward Scissorhands --------- Tim Burtons Best
Empire of the Sun --------- Best Spielberg film ever.
Evil Dead 2 - Dead by Dawn -------- Bruce Campbell baby.
Fight Club ------- Its Fight Club, it speaks to a generation.
Forrest Gump -------- Fantasitc flick
Free Enterprise --------- a must see by EVERY FAN OF SCI FI.
Gattaca ------ One of the best science fiction movies ever, from the guy who did Truman Show
Good Will Hunting -------- Fantasitc acting and writing and directing.
Goodfellas --------- Scorsees Best
Goonies, The --------- Greatest kids action flick :)
Graduate, The -------- One of the best movies ever made.
Great Escape, The --------- the movie that inspired chicken run
Grosse Point Blank ------- Funny, smart and witty.
Heat ------- micheal manns best, till collatoral that is
High Fidelity ----------- One of my favorites.
JFK ------- Great Editing.
Jurassic Park ----------- its Jurassic Park.
Last Starfighter, The ----------- A great sci fi flick
Lawrence of Arabia ---------- The best movie EVER made.
Leon - The Professional ---------- A hitman teaches a 12 year old his trade.
Lost in Translation -------- the best film of last year
Mallrats ------- My favorite Kevin Smith Film.
Matrix, The --------- Its the Matrix. The good one.
Memento -------- FANTASTIC FLICK
Minority Report ---------- awesome film.
Moulin Rouge -------- Great love story
Notorious --------- hitchcocks best.
Officespace -------- how we all feel sometimes
On The Waterfront --------- marlon brandos BEST performance
Pink Floyd's The Wall --------- get stoned, enjoy.
Red Dawn ---------- the russians invade america and kids fight back.
Ref, The ---------- the greatest christmas movie ever.
Reservoir Dogs -------- Tarantinos best
Robocop --------- MUCH more then an action flick here.
Ronin ------- Amazing car chases, poor sound but great visuals
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Pluto Campaign :D
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tesca Campaign :D
Royal Tenenbaums, The -------- Rushmore redux
Seconds --------- Harlan Ellison once said this was the best Science Fiction movie ever.
Seven ----------- Awesome
Shawshank Redemption, The ----------- One of the best movies EVER. Number 2 on IMDBs list
Spaceballs --------- Must see by all genre fans
Superman: The Movie --------- Its superman
Tape ---------- AMAZING indie flick by Linklater
This is Spinal Tap ---------- Its spinal tap.
Three Kings --------- Amazing modern war flick.
Tigerland --------- Schumachers best
Usual Suspects, The ---------- Mind blowing.
Virgin Suicides, The ---------- it will fuck you up for the rest of the day, its THAT good.
Young Frankenstein -------- Still funny after all these years.
hows that for starters.
And I must agree with the Leon coments. Absolutely one of the best films ever.
Other foreign films I have heard good things about are
The Hidden Fortress. A japanese film that George Lucas has said was a great infulence to him during the produciton of Star Wars
and Das Boot - A German film about the crew of a U-Boat during WWII.
P-51 Baby! ;)
Love that shot of the boy on the tower as they pass by... :eek:
[B]I knew what he said and choose to ignore it in favor of stating movies that are good in general, regardless of nationality as that makes no difference if a movie is good or not. [/B][/QUOTE]
I seen about of those movies you have listed:)
Now those Starship Trooper Moives, Never herd of them
Hilarious low budget comedy :D
Oh, right, my suggestion is Hero, preferably the DVD translation.
[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215369/]Shower[/url] also comes to mind, for entirely random reasons.
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Being John Malkovich
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind.
also, while not immensely deep, "Men in Black" (It's still one of the best)
And where's the Godfather (not 3)?
Otherwise, a very complete list :D
[B]I knew what he said and choose to ignore it in favor of stating movies that are good in general, regardless of nationality as that makes no difference if a movie is good or not. [/B][/QUOTE]
k
And i agree with you on a great number of those movies oyu have listed - especially Chasing Amy as KS's best.
But your list is also missing Braveheart (IMO) a very excelent film.
Worf
Schindler’s List <- One of the best uses of the medium to date
2001 <- IMHO the defining film of sci-fi
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead <- A must see for any fan of ole Bill
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy <- no explination needed
Monty Python and the Holy Grail <- there’s your non-US film for you
Here are my guilty pleasures:
South Park – Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Dazed and Confused
Any of the Austin Powers movies
Shaun of the Dead was hilarious :D
I thought 2001 was a rather slow, sleepyish movie... still liked it
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy <- no explination needed
Seen those two...:)
another list is coming peeps so chill :P
the first came from my own dvd collection, the next will be from my memory.
gotta love being a filmmaker :)
[B]The Truman Show was great, even if it is American.[/B][/QUOTE]
It was written by a NZer, as I recall.
Schindlers List -------- Perfect film
Rushmore -------- The best film from 1998
Saving Private Ryan ------- The Second best film of 1998
Braveheart --------- Excellent battle scenes
Hud --------- One of the best performances i have ever seen from Paul Newman and he is already fantastic
King Kong ---------- The original is such an important film its hard to state reasons why.
Baraka --------- Beautifully shot film, almost like a documentary (kinda is)
The Seventh Seal --------- amazing film from sweden
The Killer --------- the very best film from John Woo
Hard Boiled ------- second best from Woo, better then anything he has down in the US
The Last Laugh --------- The best silent film ever.
M --------- Dark.
Battleship Potemkin -------- Sergei Eisenstein was a genious on par with Einstein
Back To the Future -------- Gotta go back in time.
The Dark Crystal ------- Jim Hensons masterpiece
Being John Malkavich ---------- Spike Jonze and Charlie Kauffman. Brilliant.
Fargo -------- The Cohen brothers best Film
The Godfather ---------- The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2 ---------- The Godfather Part 2
Casablanca ------- Play it again Sam.
Jaws ---------- two perfect films in one package.
The 400 Blows ---------- Truffauts masterpiece
Pulp Fiction ---------- Interesting flick.
The Bicycle Thief --------- The best Italian Neo-realism movie, Scorsees favorite flick.
Raiders of the Lost Ark --------- Best action movie ever.
The Third Man --------- the best movie ever on the BFIs top 100, and its real hard to argue it.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ---------- Best screenplay ever and two PERFECT performances from Paul Newman and Robert Redford
Patton ---------- Patton
Taxi Driver ---------- Brilliant film. Just Brilliant
rear window ----------- my second favorite hitchcock flick
psycho -------- brilliance.
To kill a mockingbird -------- Gregory Peck at his VERY best
Trainspotting -------- The best Brittish film from the last 25 years.
Amadeus --------- Worth all eight of its oscars
Roman Holiday -------- My moms favorite film and its damn good to boot
The Game -------- Wish i could go back to the first time
Raising Arizona ------- The second Best Cohen brothers movie
Millers Crossing ------- So incredibly good for a film i suspect none of you have ever heard of.
Catch Me if You Can --------- Brilliant
the mancurian canadate -------- Holds up better then that damn remake
Punch Drunk Love --------- PT Anderson's best work
Apocalypse Now ---------- Apocalypse Now
[B]I think he was asking for non US movies, but as for The Abyss being Jame's cameron's best film all i can say is *cough*The FIRST Terminator*cough*
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Other foreign films I have heard good things about are
The Hidden Fortress. A japanese film that George Lucas has said was a great infulence to him during the produciton of Star Wars
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Terminator isnt his best by far. Its really not that original(he was sued by Harlan Ellison hence why he now has that credit). Not saying it isnt good, its fantastic, but not his best. True Lies and Aliens and even Titantic are better because he grew as a filmmaker.
And The Hidden Fortress IS star wars. they are so similar he practically ripped them off. and made a better movie :)
[B]For jack :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Oh yes! ;)
How about THEY LIVE, even as low budget as it was...
;)
[B]Terminator isnt his best by far. Its really not that original(he was sued by Harlan Ellison hence why he now has that credit). Not saying it isnt good, its fantastic, but not his best. True Lies and Aliens and even Titantic are better because he grew as a filmmaker.
And The Hidden Fortress IS star wars. they are so similar he practically ripped them off. and made a better movie :) [/B][/QUOTE]
I though The Abyss had to many antagonists. I mean it had aliens threatening to wipe out the human race and it had crazy military guys with nukes.
Titanic seemed to me to much of a ripoff of A night to Remember. (Apparently Cameron has a nack for this)
I was not aware True Lies was a Cameron film however.(Havn't seen it in years) but yes, it is a great film.
And I have to refrain from calling Aliens his best (though I love the movie on its own) because I always thought the Queen was a stupid idea. I much prefered the engineered bio weapon feel of Dan O'Bannon's/Ridley Scott's original Alien concept. Especially with the people being turned into eggs for the next generation. Interesting little factoid though, rumor has it James Horner said he would never work with Cameron again after Aliens. oops.
Oh, and another source of "Inspiration" for Star Wars was a series of books called the Lensmen books. It has people able to access a hidden energy field to manipulate one's evironment.
The funny thing about that comment is that they did work together, so james horner is a LIAR!