Favourite movies

Years ago my daughter and I decided to watch this movie thinking it wouldn't be very scary being a kids movie and all:



We were wrong.

It creeped my daughter out and I have no doubt it would give quite a lot of kids nightmares.

I really don't think they created the movie with children in mind.

//On this forum I would recommend
Come and See (second world war from perspective of russia)
Happiness (weird black comedy)
Jagten (people hunting a guy who they think is a pedophile)
Naked (weird black comedy)
There Will Be Blood (main character is pretty emotionless only interested in personal gain)

Barry Lyndon (1975)
Boyhood (2014)
Brighter Summer Day (Taiwan, 1991)
Close-up (Iran, 1990)
Come and See (Russia, 1985)
De ofrivilliga (Sweden, 2008)
Fanny och Alexander (Sweden, 1982)
Happiness (1998)
High and Low (Japan, 1963)
The Host (Korea, 2006)
Ikiru (Japan, 1952)
Jagten (Denmark, 2012)
Körkarlen (Sweden, 1921)
La grande bellezza (Italy, 2013)
Last Picture Show (1971)
Love Exposure (Japan, 2008)
Metropolis (Germany, 1927)
The Mirror (Russia, 1975)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Naked (1993)
Satantango (Hungary, 2004)
A Separation (Iran, 2011)
Scener ur ett äktenskap (Sweden, 1973)
Smultronstället (Sweden, 1957)
Stalker (Russia, 1979)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Werckmeister harmóniák (Hungary, 2000)
Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Yi Yi (Taiwan, 2000)

And my top 5 animation movies are:

Feherlofia (Hungary, 1981)
Mary and Max (Australia, 2009)
Mind Game (Japan, 2004)
Only Yesterday (Japan, 1991)
Spirited Away (Japan, 2001)

Reaper wrote:The Collector (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1sL7QWL5c


Mr Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXfbVIFc6t4


They're my top 2 favorites. I might list some others later maybe.

I like psychological thrillers and some of the more sadistic horror movies involving torture. I also like dramas (particularly courtroom dramas). I'm not into comedies much, rarely do I watch sci-fi's and I'm definitely not into romance.

I should add here that I don't mind some of those Disney movies. Though, I usually only watch them on the odd occasion with my daughter. Some of them are actually pretty good.

I saw the collector now. It was a good movie and thanks all for sharing. WIll see what will be my next movie to see.

Alien
Repulsion
Eraserhead
The Doom Generation
Ichi the Killer
Melancholia
Antichrist
Shadow of a Doubt
I Stand Alone
Barton Fink
Taxi Driver
Liquid Sky
Multiple Maniacs
The Silence of the Lambs
Blue Velvet
Dressed to Kill
Dancer in the Dark
Wild at Heart
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Something Wild
Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
Videodrome
Happiness
The Shining
Kill Bill 1 and 2

and more I've probably forgotten.

naps wrote:Shadow of a Doubt
I Stand Alone

Is that your fave Hitchcock? Its mine...wouldn't say its his best (Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, would at least come before), but its my fave.

Do you like Irreversible and Carne? I thought Enter The Void was vastly overrated (never saw Love) and clearly the product of a man too comfortable and drugged out these days to wallow in the sewers of France, or maybe it'd just be too un-pc these days to expose the side of France the government wants to hide.

it sounds cliche but i really liked the exorcist

What do you like about it? I've never understood why its so great. When I was a kid and I went with my mom shopping in town or shopping centers, she'd leave me at HMV (sells films, music, games, etc) and she'd get me a few films I wanted when she come back. Well when I was about 11 and one of the films I wanted was The Exorcist, my mother said I couldn't watch that it'd be too much, annoyed I look around and choose this film with this cover;




This was fine to get me ...relatedly to topic it is one of my fave films.

I wish I had watched The Exorcist as a kid, by 11 I had lost any of the little faith I had in the Jew-Christian god and Christianity, but still remnants remained and I no doubt would have had a much different experience than when I finally watched it at about 20/21.

ya i watched it while still being raised in the climate of religion

but actually, what i liked about it (and still do to some extent) was just the setting and atmosphere

also, i prefer subtle creepiness over blatant gore kind of horror so ya...

like little things, like the guy falling down the stairs and dying, etc. things that play on superstition, those sorts of things.

Dazz wrote:

naps wrote:Shadow of a Doubt

Is that your fave Hitchcock?

Yep. It's the only one that got under my skin.

Do you like Irreversible and Carne?

Irreversible was too edgelord. After "I Stand Alone" I was expecting something intelligent and emotionally visceral. I own it, but I will never watch it past the fire extinguisher murder in the opening. Did you know that new guy Superior is in the gay club scene? He's the mary taking a nightstick up his ass. "Enter the Void" I like, if only for the audaciousness of it. It's OK on first viewing, subsequent viewings are boring. However the Love Hotel scene at the end is a knockout, if you ask me. I watch that part a lot. I like when he floats out of the hotel for a moment to take in the Tokyo vista. It's like he's getting one last look. It affects me emotionally.

maybe it'd just be too un-pc these days to expose the side of France the government wants to hide.

France. Land of cheese and Nazi's

-The Butcher

Carne is not available in the US, but seeing it is way up on my bucket list. Considering I think I Stand Alone is a masterpiece, would I be disappointed?

I have Love, watched the first 20 minutes. Maybe I'll finish it one day when I have nothing better to watch. Noe thinks he's some kind of provocateur but he's really just a punk who's unfit to wipe von Trier's ass.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:it sounds cliche but i really liked the exorcist

The Exorcist is flawless. I should have added it to my list.

Also "Funny Games". Recommended highly for this forum. I prefer the German version because I don't like the last shot in the US version.

naps wrote:Carne is not available in the US, but seeing it is way up on my bucket list. Considering I think I Stand Alone is a masterpiece, would I be disappointed?

Carne is basically the beginning of I Stand Alone where The Butcher narrates his life with the photographs, its certainly worth watching and I don't think you'd be disappointed.

Only Irreversible and Love are available here (incest must be a no no for the censors here) and the former is a dvd from almost 15yrs ago.

BTW Naps have you ever read; Journey to the End of the Night? It always comes to my mind when watching I Stand Alone.

naps wrote:The Exorcist is flawless. I should have added it to my list.

Would you at least agree that Regan/Linda is annoying before possession?

naps wrote:Also "Funny Games". Recommended highly for this forum. I prefer the German version because I don't like the last shot in the US version.

Isn't it supposed to be shot for shot? The only reason I can think of to watch the US version is that it has prettier psycho teens, one of whom was a sociopath in a decent, watch once, film called Simon Killer.