User:Harena/Movies to Watch

Movie recommendations from Mel and other people:

• Adaptation. (Jarne recommends this one too)
• Still Crazy: has in common with Spinal Tap that it's about a legendary nonexistent rock band, but the story is more of a drama than a comedy
• Bill Murray
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Court Jester (Jarne recommends this one as well)
• The Player
• Strange Days
• Dogma (Sorcy reccomends this one as well)
• High Spirits
• The Usual Suspects
• American Beauty (n.b. Woozle didn't especially like)
• Moulin Rouge (Wzl says: hope it's better than the music)
• High Fidelity
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• K-Pax
• Orange County
• Little Voice
• Robin Williams:
  • Dead Poets' Society
  • Insomnia (Jarne recommends, but he liked the original one slightly better)
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
• Analyze This
• Being John Malkovich
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Wzl says: ennhh...)
• Topsy Turvy
• Bubba Ho-Tep
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Truckers (based on Pratchett novel)
• MirrorMask
• Mars Attacks (so bad it's good!)
• Johnny & The Bomb (based on Pratchett novel. It's a mini-series, not a movie, but close enough!)
• Fifth Element
• Gattaca (Sorcy kinda reccomends this one. It's not life changingly amazing, but it was pretty fun.)
• Glory
• Three to Tango (recommended by Swingerzetta & Talia)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Harold and Maude (recommended by Ritzy and Sor!)
• Thank You For Smoking (also recommended by Rtizy, Sor, and Jarne)
• Devil Wears Prada (kinda-sorta recommended by Swinger)
• The Fountain (also recommended by Swinger)
• Stardust (based on a Neil Gaiman book. Recommended by Everybody (where Everybody is Talia & Rtizy)(Finally finished book!)
• Dangerous Minds
• Freedom Writers
• V is for Vendetta (*SO* reccomended by Sor!)
• Runaway Jury
• Nell (set and filmed in North Carolina about a woman who grew up in the wild)
• Big Fish (Tim Burton Goodness)
• Everything in Illuminated (recommended by draz)
• Waking Life (recommended by Jarne)
• A Scanner Darkly (recommended by Jarne)
• Shawn of the Dead (Zombies!) & if i like it then, (Reccomended by Sor as well, because it is *awesome*)
• Hot Fuzz

from Sinaas

• demands recommendations from Sinaasappeltje:
• Zwartboek
• De Tweeling
• Hable con ella
• Todo sobre mi madre
• Dancer in the dark
• Hukkle
• As It Is in Heaven( Sa som i Himmeln)
• Amelie (also recommended by Jarne
• Life Is Beautiful ( La vita e bella )

Animé

(?) = not sure if it'd be good for me

• Fruits Basket
• FLCL / Furi Kuri/ Fooly Cooly (?) (CRAZYHEADTRIPOFDOOM!)
• I My Me! Strawberry Eggs! (?)
• Lain (not undepressing)
• Dogtato
• Love Hina (?)
• Excel Saga (?)
• Daa Daa Daa (?) (any relation to the song?)
• Naruto
• Shaman King
• One Piece
• Scrapped Princess
• Godamer (robots!)
• Galgeiger (?)
• Azumanga Daioh
• Tokyo Godfathers
• Utena
• Invader Zim (not 'anime', but animated! so there! MOOSE!) (Sor reccomends the little bits she's seen, and sez that we should watch it together)
• Studio Ghibli:
  • Grave of the Fireflies (depressingish)
  • Porco Rosso (Approved by Kitten!)
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
  • Howl's Moving Castle (Sor sez: Go read the book, I still haven't seen the movie to tell how good it is)
  • Panda! Go Panda! (Pre-Ghibli; random sillier "Totoro prototype")
  • Only Yesterday (slower, more reflective and nostalgic)(also recommended by Aeire! Good enough for me!)
  • The Cat Returns (has Tim Curry, among others!)(Recommended by Rtizy)

Already Seen

A very incomplete list

• Studio Ghibli:
  • My Neigbor Totoro
  • Spirited Away
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Castle in the Sky
• Babe (and Pig in the City)
• The Princess Bride (and the book)
• Matilda (and the book)
• James and the Giant Peach (read the book first)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1970s version)
• Star Wars parts I, IV,V, and VI
• Star Trek I-n
• Toy Story
• LotR (complete)(and the books. repeatedly. like over 20 times over the years)
• Chicken Run
• Time Bandits
• Shawshank Redemption
• Edward Scissorhands
• Yellow Submarine
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• Donnie Darko (made my head hurt like math!)
• Schindler's List
• Galaxy Quest
• Inside Man (whoaa. Awesome Movie. Loved it.)
• Memento (twisty-brain-hurt-in-a-good-gotta-watch-it-again-way)
• Lost in Translation (surreal)
• Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit ("I'm Crackers about Wallace & Gromit, Cheese!)
• Sweeney Todd (Humorous Macabre)
• The Prestige (Magician Rivalry as you have never seen it before!)
• Babel (Intense & Odd but left lots of loose ends)
• Little Shop of Horrors (Gee, you think this movie was influenced by the RHPS at all?)(oh & btw, 2 Fronds Up!!)
• Children of Men (whoaa. heavy movie, but very well done.)
• Snatch (The Accents! The Hijinx! The Tangled Web that tied up neatly in the end!)