User:Harena/Movies to Watch

Movie recommendations from Mel and other people:

• 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
  • Life Is Beautiful ( La vita e bella )
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Adaptation.
• 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
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Bill Murray
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Court Jester
• The Player
• Strange Days
• Dogma
• 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
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
• Analyze This
• Being John Malkovich
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Wzl says: ennhh...)
• Topsy Turvy
• Bubba Ho-Tep
• Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
• 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
• Glory

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!)
• Studio Ghibli:
  • Grave of the Fireflies (depressingish)
  • Porco Rosso (Approved by Kitten!)
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Panda! Go Panda! (Pre-Ghibli; random sillier "Totoro prototype")
  • Only Yesterday (slower, more reflective and nostalgic)

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)