What Makes Drug Movies So Compelling?

[cragwolf]

Often films in this last group actually are overrated – but only by the 4.5 people that have actually seen them...

True, I've seen some really awful films in this category.

 

[hitssquad]

go see "the saw", best suspense horror flick since seven

Saw II.
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/Saw-2/trailer.php

 

[heman]

This is a very useful thread!Thanks Gokul for forming it!

Well guys i would love to hear your best choices for the movies which exposes American women sides,their psychology,thinking etc.etc.!
Well i saw Hitch,What Women Wants and quite liked them!
I want to hear name of movies which have similar side lines!

 

[honestrosewater]

This is a very useful thread!Thanks Gokul for forming it!

Well guys i would love to hear your best choices for the movies which exposes American women sides,their psychology,thinking etc.etc.!
Well i saw Hitch,What Women Wants and quite liked them!
I want to hear name of movies which have similar side lines!

Ever seen Misery?

 

[quasar987]

This is a very useful thread!Thanks Gokul for forming it!

Well guys i would love to hear your best choices for the movies which exposes American women sides,their psychology,thinking etc.etc.!
Well i saw Hitch,What Women Wants and quite liked them!
I want to hear name of movies which have similar side lines!

There are many movies that expose pretty much every sides of American women.. on the top of my head: Double Filled Cream Teens 5, Tight Teen Tails 3, Slut Puppies, Gooey Buns 2, Chunky School Girls 4, ...

There is no special psychology for American women; they all work the same way all around the globe. But here are three good movies I know of. The lesson is to be taken from what the guys do, actually.

Watch 'A Streetcar Named Desire' with Marlon Brando (10 red giant stars on the cosmological quasar scale). Marlon Brando is a sexy biach in this movie, while that 'Mitch' guy does all the wrong things with Blanche's sister.

Don Juan de Marco with Johnny Depp (8 stars). Has some interesting insights, but nothing extraordinary.

Titanic (10 stars) with Leo :!) Dicaprio. Same thing.

 

[JamesU]

OMG! a saw2! forst one scared me to death. yay! the first one was exellent though. definitely reccomend it.

someone posted cube earlier, alse a great movie. also, cube 2: hypercube, and the prequel: cube zero. exellent special effects

 

[quasar987]

Concerning the actual topic of the thread, I recommend watching (because they're my fav movies :!) )...

Requiem for a Dream - This is the kind of movie that after its over you spend 10 minutes staring at the blank TV creen. Totally mind-blowing. For optimum results, watch in complete obscurity. (10 stars)

Cidade de Deus ('City of God' in english) - Enigmatic title; just see it to see what it's about. This movie is to be watched with the lights on. (10 stars)

Raging Bull - A biographical film about the middleweight champ, the physically tough, but emotionally self-destructive Jake LaMotta. With Robert -the man- De Niro. (10 stars)

Pulp Fiction - No comment. (10 stars)

Fight Club - No comment. (10 stars)

Forrest Gump - No comment. (10 stars)

Other drug movies that totally kick: The Basketball Diaries (10 stars), Drugstore Cowboys (8 stars), Trainspotting (8 stars), Blow (7 stars)

 

[JamesU]

how could you have no comment on pulp fiction?

ok, reccomendations

casino
Jackie brown
kill bill 1&2
I'll post more later

 

[quasar987]

Cuz it needs no comment in the sense that everybody knows what pulp fiction, fight club and forest gump are.

Casino was kewl .

 

[JamesU]

million dollar baby

 

[arildno]

The beatiful adaptations of E.M Forster's novels by Merchant&Ivory are, IMO, some of the best "period pieces" ever made. Both "Howard's End" and "A room with a view" are great movies, and I must add to that list "Maurice" as well, probably the best gay lovestory ever brought on screen.

Sadly, Ismael Merchant passed away a few months ago.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

The beatiful adaptations of E.M Forster's novels by Merchant&Ivory are, IMO, some of the best "period pieces" ever made. Both "Howard's End" and "A room with a view" are great movies, and I must add to that list "Maurice" as well (sigh..)

Sadly, Ismael Merchant passed away a few months ago.

I'd forgotten how much I liked those.
My favorited comedies are - Kind Hearts and Coronets, Diner de Cons and Les Visiteurs (not the terrible American version), Dr Strangelove and most things Peter Sellers was in, especially Shot In the Dark and the other Pink Panthers.

 

[arildno]

Blasphemy!

A listing of comedies without "A fish called Wanda" at the very top??

That's just perverse..

 

[fuzzyfelt]

My mistake

 

[arildno]

You're forgiven.

 

[heman]

Well my favourite goes :

Pirates of the Carribean
Ace Ventura:Pet Detective
Gone in sixty Seconds
A Beautiful Mind

 

[GCT]

Recently saw Legend of 1900 on dvd, I think it was a great movie in its own right, not a great film to see with friends or family either...better if one watched it alone at the end of a long day with a nice glass of wine.

 

[zanazzi78]

Watch "Team America: World Police" It has to be one of the funnest movies I have ever seen. Beware; some of the content may be consider this movie to be "offisive". So don't say I did warn you.

I agree i`ve watched it about 5 times now and laugh so hard i cry every time Kim Jong Il comes on.

Watch it only if you like south park! I made my farther watch it and he asked me to turn it off (Heathen!) as he objected to all the swearing!

 

[Knavish]

Well, I'm not exactly a big fan of South Park, but I loved Team America..

 

[JamesU]

And it had great puppetry ;)

 

[heman]

And i quitted watching this movie after exactly 10 minutes coz of puppetry!

 

[zanazzi78]

And it had great puppetry ;)

And how funny is it to watch two puppets trying to do Karate!

And i quitted watching this movie after exactly 10 minutes coz of puppetry!

but the limitations of the puppets can only and to the humour.

One of my favourite scenes is with the Panthers ... worth watching the film for!

 

[hitssquad]

There is some interesting stuntwork in The Transporter 2. Four new film clips here (the Allocine page connects slowly at first; French is dubbed in):
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/Transporter-2/trailer.php

 

[honestrosewater]

There is some interesting stuntwork in The Transporter 2. Four new film clips here (the Allocine page connects slowly at first; French is dubbed in):
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/Transporter-2/trailer.php

I saw previews for that - it looks cool. Did you see the first one? Is it good?

 

[JamesU]

but the limitations of the puppets can only and to the humour.

yeah, actually, the puppets were supposed to be more life like. the creators cut down their abilities to add to the humor

One of my favourite scenes is with the Panthers ... worth watching the film for!

truly eccelent

 

[hitssquad]

Jean Claude van Damme IS Amelie

I saw previews for that - it looks cool.

It looks pretty slick (if you like slick, then slick = good here) to me. But I got the impression from the clips that a lot of the action was faked. The fight scenes all have the cameras cutting away too soon so you can't tell if what is suggested by the scene was really happening during the filming. IOW, in The Matrix the cast was trained to actually perform the fights so it would look realistic, and I don't think that was the case here.

The firehose was a unique and clever idea, I thought. The car jump was a great scene. Overall, the tone of the film seems to be Jerry lewis meets James Bond. The humor seems very French and therefore makes me wince. Maybe the best way to describe this movie is: Amelie with guns and luxury-performance automobiles.

Did you see the first one?

No. I don't watch movies very often. I think I might have seen a movie as recently as a few years ago.

 

[honestrosewater]

It looks pretty slick (if you like slick, then slick = good here) to me. But I got the impression from the clips that a lot of the action was faked. The fight scenes all have the cameras cutting away too soon so you can't tell if what is suggested by the scene was really happening during the filming. IOW, in The Matrix the cast was trained to actually perform the fights so it would look realistic, and I don't think that was the case here.

The firehose was a unique and clever idea, I thought. The car jump was a great scene. Overall, the tone of the film seems to be Jerry lewis meets James Bond. The humor seems very French and therefore makes me wince. Maybe the best way to describe this movie is: Amelie with guns and luxury-performance automobiles.

I remember the fighting in Brotherhood of the Wolf being very powerful, well-executed, blended perfectly with the sound and environment, and so on. They do Matrixesque effects too (heh, say that three times fast). My brother was familiar with one of the main characters, Mark Dacascos, as a martial artist. It's just a great movie all around. Maybe not your usual style - it's French - sumptuous, grand, some Frenchish humor, but if you're ever in the mood...

No. I don't watch movies very often. I think I might have seen a movie as recently as a few years ago.

Too busy drinking Cheez Whiz, I presume.

 

[hitssquad]

New Transporter 2 clip (Hospital Fight Scene), Rose:
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/Transporter-2/trailer.php

 

[loseyourname]

Requiem for a Dream - This is the kind of movie that after its over you spend 10 minutes staring at the blank TV creen. Totally mind-blowing. For optimum results, watch in complete obscurity. (10 stars)

I originally saw that movie during one of the late night showings at the Sunset Five with an ex-heroin and speed junkie. She had to leave halfway through the movie because it was bringing back so many bad feelings.

Cidade de Deus ('City of God' in english) - Enigmatic title; just see it to see what it's about. This movie is to be watched with the lights on. (10 stars)

Loved that one.

Other drug movies that totally kick: The Basketball Diaries (10 stars), Drugstore Cowboys (8 stars), Trainspotting (8 stars), Blow (7 stars)

You're pretty into drug movies, aren't you?

 

[JamesU]

I'm going to add SAWII to this list after just seeing it

 

[quasar987]

I originally saw that movie during one of the late night showings at the Sunset Five with an ex-heroin and speed junkie. She had to leave halfway through the movie because it was bringing back so many bad feelings.
Loved that one.
You're pretty into drug movies, aren't you?

Oh yes, most drug movies are great. As one IMDB reviewer of Requiem put it: "They make your soul cry."