Great Movies You Probably Missed. (Updating List)

[tifosi]

never added my previous recommendations?

well ok how about:
1. As Good As It Gets
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. The English Patient
4. The People vs. Larry Flynt
5. Scarface
6. Philadelphia
7. Stand by Me
8. Unforgiven
9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
10. The Royal Tenenbaums

 

[Xanthos]

Contact (1997)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.

Based on the novel by Carl Sagan, "Contact" is a film way ahead of its time. The only hint of it being a 1997 film are the computers shown in the film. Other than that, it's as modern as it could get even when you watch it in 2011. The visual effects are stunning and it looks better than some of the recent films more than a decade later.

And the visuals is just the tip of the iceberg. The story itself is intriguing making you look forward to how the film will end. Although the ending isn't as good as I expected it to be, the whole film itself is extremely satisfying.

Is "Contact" worth 150mins of your time? It is if you love Sci-Fi and theories about extraterrestrial life.

 

[ooolong]

Just watched 'I love you, Philip Morris', great movie! I'd like to recommend 'Dorian Gray' & 'Perfume: The Story Of A Murder'.

 

[我要买GT-R!]

Requiem for a Dream is seriously a good film.

 

[Lao_Funker]

Valerie and her week of wonders.

 

[Xanthos]

Requiem for a Dream is seriously a good film.

Yea. Everything about it is perfect isn't it?

 

[我要买GT-R!]

Yea. Everything about it is perfect isn't it?

sad life for every character in my movie...
fugging close to reality

 

[UptheToon]

It is awesome. I just watched it a few days ago.
Total mindfark.

i just watched Mr. Nobody. its a total mindfark movie. i was scratching my head all the way till the end of the movie. untill i realise (Spoiler Alert beyond this), he was just imagining all the plausible scenarios that could have happened with the 3 girls. that's all. lol.

 

[meltybread]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

In a January issue of The Onion, the comic newspaper's A.V. Club rated Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as the number one film of the 2000s, beating out the likes of Christopher Nolan's Memento and the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. The article states, "It’s the rare film that shows us who we are now and who we’re likely, for better or worse, forever to be."

It has been calculated to be the tied-for-second most critically acclaimed film of the 2000s (behind There Will Be Blood and tied with the three Lord of the Rings films) by virtue of its number of appearances on prominent 'films of the decade' lists.

watch it.

 

[我要买GT-R!]

i just watched Mr. Nobody. its a total mindfark movie. i was scratching my head all the way till the end of the movie. untill i realise (Spoiler Alert beyond this), he was just imagining all the plausible scenarios that could have happened with the 3 girls. that's all. lol.

srsly wtf movie
half way watching i heard architect then i was thinking of inception

 

[tidiii]

alot of movies with psychological backgrounds..i've watched a few while i was studying

i watched the prestiage when it was showing and..the cinema was kinda empty sadly..
the movie plot is too complex imo, my gf who watched the movie with me had no idea what was going out untill i explained that they were actually


spoiler

time travelling..

i've the book for the time traveller wife so i chose to skip it >.<

i'm at crossroads for book of eli thou
it looks really cliche and totally predicable and not that good of a movie.. :/

 

[AngryPiglet]

Frailty [2001]

Very nice movie.

Surprised you managed to mention Death Sentence into your list.

Love that movie too

 

[Xanthos]

alot of movies with psychological backgrounds..i've watched a few while i was studying

i watched the prestiage when it was showing and..the cinema was kinda empty sadly..
the movie plot is too complex imo, my gf who watched the movie with me had no idea what was going out untill i explained that they were actually


spoiler

time travelling..

i've the book for the time traveller wife so i chose to skip it >.<

i'm at crossroads for book of eli thou
it looks really cliche and totally predicable and not that good of a movie.. :/

The Prestige SPOILER ALERT






Prestige got time travel? I remember it's just doppleganger.

 

[Silverboi]

The Prestige SPOILER ALERT






Prestige got time travel? I remember it's just doppleganger.

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE PRESTIGE











Aren't they twins?!

 

[Xanthos]

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE PRESTIGE











Aren't they twins?!

The Prestige SPOILERS







There are 2 magicians remember? The original one (Christian Bale) are twins. While the other one (Hugh Jackman) who is trying to find the trick by Bale discovered/made a machine that creates a doppleganger of himself whom he drowned in the water tank after each trick.

 

[Silverboi]

Ah yes yes...I was thinking about the Christian Bale magician.

 

[Nalgene123]

1.The Cat's Meow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat's_Meow
2.The Deer Hunter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter
3.The Live of Others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
4.Love In Thoughts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_Thoughts
5.Goodbye Lenin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye_Lenin!
6.Stalin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(1992_film)
7.Taking Chance (Highly Recommanded for inclusion)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Chance
8.The Counterfeiters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(film)
9.The Killing Fields
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_killing_fields
10.Sophie Scholl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl_–_The_Final_Days
12.Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film)
13.Black Book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_(film)
14.Conspiracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film)
15.Knife in the Water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_in_the_Water_(film)

 

[我要买GT-R!]

The Prestige SPOILERS







There are 2 magicians remember? The original one (Christian Bale) are twins. While the other one (Hugh Jackman) who is trying to find the trick by Bale discovered/made a machine that creates a doppleganger of himself whom he drowned in the water tank after each trick.

erm i believe he drown himself after every trick and his doppleganger continues to live on and continues his life since when he first tested the machine, his doppleganger was projected somewhere far away while he himself never moved an inch.
I believe he made use of this to do the transporter man trick

 

[etzy89]

uh ya lol the movie had nothing to do with time travelling at all. zilch.

 

[azz909]

erm i believe he drown himself after every trick and his doppleganger continues to live on and continues his life since when he first tested the machine, his doppleganger was projected somewhere far away while he himself never moved an inch.
I believe he made use of this to do the transporter man trick

Not quite right. Here's what I read from IMDB forum, the original magician (played by Jackman) died when his doppleganger shot him on 1st try. The machine transported him to the other compartment while his doppleganger stayed on the tesla machine. The 1st doppleganger then made the rest drown at the tesla machine while he get transported and survived for more shows. I think in the book also explained.