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Rental, big screen, TV, on cable and so forth.............what have you seen, what do you recommend?
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This weekend I happened to rent one of the best movies I've seen in a while. Very off-beat and on a disturbing topic, not for everyone. Excellent cast and characters.

A comedy which will make you cry, very deep and moving.

Running with Scissors
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/runningwithscissors/

Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_Scissors_(film)

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Based on the memoir Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, the film is a semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood. His (Joseph Cross) mother (Annette Bening) (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), an eccentric man with an eccentric family.

At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself in Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family and befriending Neil Bookman (Joseph Fiennes), Finch's 33-year-old adopted son. The two soon begin an open and consensual sexual relationship.

The story is one of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree is kept up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.

A couple of flix from the film noir genre:
- Somewhere in the Night (1946)
- The Big Clock (1948)

Stupid and intelligent at the same time.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Nightmare before Christmas

The Wall

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Casino Royale

As Good As It Gets. Jack Nicholson 1997. Always makes me feel Good.

One of Jack´s lines describing a typical woman:

"I think of a man - and then take away reason and accountability."

Box of Moonlight....Big Fish

+1 on Livi's.

Tom Cruise in Collateral was fantastic.

Meet the Fokkers.

The Birdcage.

Night at the Museum. (kid friendly and cute).

Dodgeball.

3 days of the condor. robert redford. seventy-something.

I can't remember the director, but I saw a B movie called "French Maids". I know it sounds like porn. It wasn't. I mean, yeah, it did have some nudity and lez action, but it was art. Yeah, art. Seriously, it wasn't porn. Actually kind of a messed up movie.

Also check out Deathstalker II, if you can find it. Tongue-in-cheek b-movie that makes fun of itself relentlessly and truly should be labeled comedy.

Saw "No Country for Old Men" this weekend. Typical Coen brothers and quite interesting...don't go if you like nice, neat endings.

"Fido" is a quirky take on zombie films.

"Infernal Affairs" should not be missed. Makes "The Departed" look like a bad copy. Which it was.

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Originally Posted by berettafan (Post 3597149)

3 days of the condor. robert redford. seventy-something.

+1, my favvorite:D

Last flick I saw:
The World's Fastest Indian. Pretty decent film about Speed Week.

Some of my "top 10" films I highly recommend:

Comedies:
- The Birdcage
- Army of Darkness (aka Evil Dead 3)
- The Princess Bride

SciFi / Horror:
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Brazil
- The Birds
- Lord of the Rings Triolgy
- Matrix Trilogy
- Stargate

Drama:
- Dead Poets Society

Documentary:
- Endless Summer
- Lime Rock Park - The Secret Valley of Racing
- Once Upon a Wheel

Action/Adventure:
- The Great Escape
- Indiana Jones Trilogy
- Jurassic Park (just the first one)
- Point Break
- Top Gun

Classics:
- The Maltese Falcon
- Casablanca
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- On the Beach
- Rebel Without a Cause

Car-related:
- Bullitt
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
- Gumball Rally
- Duel
- The Italian Job
- Any Bond Flick

Animation:
- Snow White and the Seven Drawfs
- Monsters Inc.

Idiocracy

Deadwood Series

Beerfest

Reign Over Me

How about "Head"

thats a fun one to watch on hallucinogens

Most recently "Pan's Labyrinth".

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Originally Posted by Flatbutt1 (Post 3597353)

Most recently "Pan's Labyrinth".

that was an excellent movie!

Ski School
PCU
Blues Brothers
Beer League
American Pie
Clerks

Pirates of the Caribbean
Overboard
Raising Arizona
Saving Private Ryan
Cars
Highlander
E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial

My personal favorite off-beat movie - "Withnail & I"