OPO: DVDs I Won't Want to Put My Drinkies On (or What Films Keep You From Passing Out?)

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Mum surprised me a new 27" TV and DVD player yesterday morn. Cynicism says tis prolly to try and subconsciously bribe me into staying in this sweaty armpit of a state. (No chance!) Now, I've a few more reasons to veg during weekends....but not enough DVDs. I'm about to join Netflix, and paw through their selection. So, tis over to you ILX luvvies to suggest DVDs I won't toss out of the window---WITH reasons.

Ready?

Set?

Go?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 16:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

Donnie Darko (he's a superhero! and emotionally weird! and it's got a great soundtrack! and ace performances!)

Once Upon A Time In The West (it's the best western ever and Claudia Cardinale is beautiful!)

Waking Life (existentialism! and mind-popping animation! and dreams! i can watch it over and over again!)

Koyanisqaatsi (isn't the wiorld beautiful? no! it's ugly! no, beautiful! isn't philip glass great? the most amazing images of the world you'll ever see!)

Jaws (it's about a killer shark! and has young richard dreyfuss!)

La Jetée (stupidly short and beautiful and french and somehow sci-fi and done almost entirely ins till images!)

Fight Club (porn for girls! existential angst for boys! ridiculous last hour!)

Being John Malkovich (absolutely insane but great!)

Grosse Point Blank (a romantic comedy about an assassin! with 80s alt.rock soundtrack!)

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 January 2004 16:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

Being John Malkovich (absolutely insane but great!)

Still willing to slap meself for spending cash in the theater to see this, as I dunno WTF it was supposed to be about

Grosse Point Blank (a romantic comedy about an assassin! with 80s alt.rock soundtrack!)

Cuteness, but Cusack aced better in High Fidelity.

There's millions (well, OK, hundreds) of us out there slurping OJ/lager/coffee....so more, s'il vous plait;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Twin Peaks box
LOTR boxes
party girl

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

And yer reasons, Gygax?

(already own the 2 current LOTR boxes, natch)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Millers Crossing (get the collectors edition for the extras) - this is winging it's way to me but I know the film backwards. It is snappy, subtle, humane, intelligent, complex and engaging, and the more you watch it, the better it gets.

The Good The Bad And The Ugly - since Once Upon a Time already got a drop, figured a mention of this is not amiss. It is, quite simply, the work of a genius. And it's easier to swallow than 'West. Another brilliant soundtrack.

Beau Travail - Beautiful and operatic. A seductive and convincing synaesthesia. The very end sequence is, I think anyway, one of the most remarkable in cinema.

Gimme Shelter - The well shot massively engaging documentary of the death of the hippie dream.

Happiness - So dark it's practically pitch black this is excruciating and also screamingly funny, especially if you watch it with some friends and some grass.

Manhunter - the first and the best of the Lecktor adaptations. Cox is an absolute genius as the good Doctor (check the "do you want to leave me your home phone-number Will…" scene) and the psycho, Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde, is just about as fucked as you can get. The Spinotti photography is of course, stunning.

Heat - another Michael Mann and Spinotti combo – Pacino and De Niro chewing up the scenery. Its got the greatest shoot out in modern cinema. Its got Val Kilmer looking like he’s still recovering from his Jim Morrison hangover. Its got Henry Rollins. Its got Jon Voight and Tom Sizemore. Fuck, what else do you need?

The Big Sleep – Bogart and Bacall setting the screen on fire set against a noir plot and a pacy, snappy dialogue littered with sparkling moments.

― @lex K (Alex K), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

gamera¡
i just snagged 2 gamera movies (dvd) from work and they are the best things ever (if you skip all the crap without monsters).

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

What's Gamera about? Never heard of it.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Tonight I'm gonna watch Princess Mononoke.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

to have and have not!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

(that movie literally prevented me from passing out last night)

(in a good way)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

gamera is a godzilla knock-off. although i do seriously love the movies and my office will never see these copies again - the suggestion was kind of tongue in cheek.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Just because.
The Princess Bride. Ditto.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

The Princess Bride. Ditto.

"As you wish..." One of my fave movies of all time, plus my first memory of the appeal of blondes (the farmboy, not the chick).

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

Baran Iranian boy loves girls whom everyone else thinks is a boy.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

("girls" should be singular)

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

It could only be improved if said boy was named idiot Pete.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

Remember hearing about that....always wanted to see it.

("girls" should be singular)

We always were....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

It's made by the same guy who made Children of Heaven about a poor pair of siblings with only one pair of shoes between them. That one is a little more fun/cute, but Baran is really quite amazing/engaging.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

Valley Girl (I just watched it again, it's campy, it's fun)
Second (third?) Ferris Bueller
Say Anything! (Um. yeah...)
Pirates of the Caribbean (natch)
Donnie Darko, absolutely

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

Say Anything! (Um. yeah...)

Speaking of that, Luna.....?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

Stop Making Sense. Easily one of the greatest concert films ever. If you like Talking Heads, this is pretty essential.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

Cannibal! The Musical!

the commentary is easily as entertaining, if not moreso, than the actual film.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

Started renting, and you're only allowed 3 each time. But I'm greedy: the more, the merrier!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Dammit, Nick went over 80% of my fave films in his list! So I'd second Grosse Pointe Blank, Donnie Darko, Being John Malkovich and Waking Life (well cuz I own them all for starters).

Also:
High Fidelity (Cusack! Jack Black being an ass! Loads of trainspottery music references! Makes me feel normal!)
Empire Records (just plain good fun teen film, plus you get to perv on Liv Tyler in a red bra and panties)
Swimming with Sharks (v. cool dark savage comedy with Kevin Spacey in it)
Mulholland Drive (spend 2 hours trying to figure out WTF is going on! Hurray!)
Pi (probably my most beloved favourite film EVER, has even eclipsed Withnail and I. Hypnotic, fascinating, intense, paced and shot wonderfully in grainy B&W 16mm. Love love LOVE it)

Oh and of course, all the Futurama box sets. Because ... well just because.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

High Fidelity (Cusack! Jack Black being an ass! Loads of trainspottery music references! Makes me feel normal!)

Just made me realise how much of a muso I (and most of my mates)am/are ....delish as it is!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

I fucken hate High Fidelity.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

I dont love you anymore Nick :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

Dazed and Confused Aside from the hazing (kind of), dead accurate about life in suburban Texas.

Me Without You Jen from Dawson's Creek+cute British actress grow up in the late-70s, follows them until adulthood, has Kyle MacLachlan.

The Straight Story My favorite Lynch film, I can't really express why

Cool Hand Luke Because Paul Newman is a badass.

The Great Escape So is Steve McQueen

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 16 January 2004 00:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

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