Must buy DVD's

[Dr Mindbender]

I like movies. What i hate is the landmine field of shite that is HMV and Virgin, because lets be honest theres a lot of bad films out there that you only watch once and then turn into £17 dust collectors. For my benefit, and everyone else's what are your 'must buy' movies, by which im referring to absolute essentials, not the okay ones.
My list would include-

-Kill Bill 1 & 2
-Reservoir Dogs
-Pulp Fiction
-Clockwork Orange (RIP stanley)
-Full Metal Jacket
-Platoon
-Trainspotting
-The Excorcist
-The Omen Series
-The Alien series
-Terminator 1 & 2

probably a lot more poignant ones i should be ashamed for forgetting, but theres just some!

[Sir Aunty Christ]

I have these out of your list:

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting

From my own collection I'd recomend:

Blade Runner
Donnie Darko
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
True Romance
Casablanca
Once Upon a Time in America
The Usual Suspects
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Rebel Without a Cause
Apocalypse Now

[hajduk]

Originally posted by Ulster [email protected] 13, 2007 05:52 pm
I like movies. What i hate is the landmine field of shite that is HMV and Virgin, because lets be honest theres a lot of bad films out there that you only watch once and then turn into £17 dust collectors. For my benefit, and everyone else's what are your 'must buy' movies, by which im referring to absolute essentials, not the okay ones.
My list would include-

-Kill Bill 1 & 2
-Reservoir Dogs
-Pulp Fiction
-Clockwork Orange (RIP stanley)
-Full Metal Jacket
-Platoon
-Trainspotting
-The Excorcist
-The Omen Series
-The Alien series
-Terminator 1 & 2

probably a lot more poignant ones i should be ashamed for forgetting, but theres just some!
go on my topic partisan movies from ex yugoslavia and see some movies about revolution :D

[Dr Mindbender]

im not necessarilly referring to political movies bear in mind, also non-partisan ones.

[Mariam]

American History X
12 Monkeys
Snatch
Fight Club
V
Paradise Now
added to some of your list.

I can't think of anything than those right now..
Oh yeah..Hamlet the one directed by Branagh.

[Organic Revolution]

3000 Miles To Graceland
Green Street Hooligans
300
Bomb the System
Fourth World War
Man On Fire

[Bat]

I think you should see the three great elia kazan movie

1.viva zapata!
2.on the waterfront
3.east of eden

[Saint Street Revolution]

A Clockwork Orange, first and foremost
American Hardcore
Donnie Darko
Saving Private Ryan
War of the Worlds
Top Gun
Napoleon Dynamite
Super Troopers
300

[Bat]

also see these:

dr.starngelove
the ruling class
thief
in cold blood
good will hunting
evil dead
exorcist(1973)
midnight cowboy
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
eraserhead
the elephant man
mulholland dr.
inland empire
blue velvet
wild at heart

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 01:32 am

Top Gun



Uh?

Can you spell 'reactionary shite'?

Or is this just a post modernist thing because its documents a homosexual fighter pilot in denial in a machoist environment?
(the Tarantino analysis from one of his other movies but I forgot the name of it :huh: )

EDIT:
here is the scene I'm referring to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjOWtwUQmU

[hajduk]

MAN BITES DOG whatch this and tell me what do you think

[Saint Street Revolution]

Originally posted by Ulster Socialist+August 14, 2007 05:44 pm--> (Ulster Socialist @ August 14, 2007 05:44 pm)
Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 01:32 am

Top Gun



Uh?

Can you spell 'reactionary shite'?

Or is this just a post modernist thing because its documents a homosexual fighter pilot in denial in a machoist environment?
(the Tarantino analysis from one of his other movies but I forgot the name of it :huh: )

EDIT:
here is the scene I'm referring to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjOWtwUQmU [/b]
Eh, it's a good movie. I've liked it before I knew about Leftism so I don't really care. I've always like military movies, especially the Air Force.

[Rage Against Right]

Easy Rider
Motorcycle Diaries
Forest Gump
Big Fish
American History X
City of God

just to add to the above, great movies (big fan of casablanca)

[Led Zeppelin]

City of God
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

[hajduk]

INDYANA JONES 1,2,3
JAWS 1
THE GOD THE BAD THE UGLY
RED HEAT
PREDATOR 1-replica from the movie -YOU UGLY MOTHERFUCKER
ALIEN 1
BATMAN 1-replica from the movie-DO YOU EWER HEARD FOR THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGH
FIGHT CLUB
DEEP BLUE SEA-replica from the movie-YOU SCREW WITH SHARKS NOW THE SHARKS WILL SCREW WITH US
FEAR AND LOTH IN LAS VEGAS-replica from the movie-WE BEEN ON HALF A WAY TO BARSTOWE WHEN DRUGS TAKE OVER
MATRIX 1-replica from the movie-ONE OF THESE LIFES HAVE A FUTURE, THE OTHER DONT
LORD OF THE RINGS 1,2,3-replica from the movie-BUILD ME AN ARMY WORTH OF MORDOR
STAR WARS 4,5,6,1,2,3
TRAINSPOTTING-replica from the movie-TAKE SOME SPEED MIGHT HELP
CONSTANTINE-replica from the movie-HI MY NAME IS CONSTANTINE,JOHN CONSTANTINE

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Children of Men
V for Vendetta
Man of the Year
Fatwa
Pancho Villa Starring as Himself

[RedHal]

Originally posted by Grandma Sweater+August 14, 2007 06:23 pm--> (Grandma Sweater @ August 14, 2007 06:23 pm)
Originally posted by Ulster [email protected] 14, 2007 05:44 pm

Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 01:32 am

Top Gun



Uh?

Can you spell 'reactionary shite'?

Or is this just a post modernist thing because its documents a homosexual fighter pilot in denial in a machoist environment?
(the Tarantino analysis from one of his other movies but I forgot the name of it :huh: )

EDIT:
here is the scene I'm referring to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjOWtwUQmU
Eh, it's a good movie. I've liked it before I knew about Leftism so I don't really care. I've always like military movies, especially the Air Force. [/b]
you should care, if you call yourself a lefty, or anarcho-communist. Politics is not a fad, you have to see everything polictically. You can't call a hyper reactionary piece like Top Gun a good movie, when it's entirely against your political beliefs.

This thread should be moved to chit chat, since the intent is to list "good" DVDs and have no political basis.

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by RedHal+August 16, 2007 10:03 pm--> (RedHal @ August 16, 2007 10:03 pm)
Originally posted by Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 06:23 pm

Originally posted by Ulster [email protected] 14, 2007 05:44 pm

Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 01:32 am

Top Gun



Uh?

Can you spell 'reactionary shite'?

Or is this just a post modernist thing because its documents a homosexual fighter pilot in denial in a machoist environment?
(the Tarantino analysis from one of his other movies but I forgot the name of it :huh: )

EDIT:
here is the scene I'm referring to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjOWtwUQmU
Eh, it's a good movie. I've liked it before I knew about Leftism so I don't really care. I've always like military movies, especially the Air Force.
you should care, if you call yourself a lefty, or anarcho-communist. Politics is not a fad, you have to see everything polictically. You can't call a hyper reactionary piece like Top Gun a good movie, when it's entirely against your political beliefs.

This thread should be moved to chit chat, since the intent is to list "good" DVDs and have no political basis. [/b]
Um, no it shouldn't. This forum is for discussion of films and literature in general, with a possible focus on political stuff. There are literally hundreds of threads that are technically about non-political films and they fit in perfectly well here.

Also, what's to stop this thread from becoming political? For people to discuss their favourite political (and non-political) films? You can't isolate and separate the two with regard to culture- everything can be read as political on some level.

Will post my list later.

[Saint Street Revolution]

Originally posted by RedHal+August 16, 2007 10:03 pm--> (RedHal @ August 16, 2007 10:03 pm)
Originally posted by Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 06:23 pm

Originally posted by Ulster [email protected] 14, 2007 05:44 pm

Grandma [email protected] 14, 2007 01:32 am

Top Gun



Uh?

Can you spell 'reactionary shite'?

Or is this just a post modernist thing because its documents a homosexual fighter pilot in denial in a machoist environment?
(the Tarantino analysis from one of his other movies but I forgot the name of it :huh: )

EDIT:
here is the scene I'm referring to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjOWtwUQmU
Eh, it's a good movie. I've liked it before I knew about Leftism so I don't really care. I've always like military movies, especially the Air Force.
you should care, if you call yourself a lefty, or anarcho-communist. Politics is not a fad, you have to see everything polictically. You can't call a hyper reactionary piece like Top Gun a good movie, when it's entirely against your political beliefs.

This thread should be moved to chit chat, since the intent is to list "good" DVDs and have no political basis. [/b]
What the fuck?

My political beliefs, especially something like Anarchism which advocates complete freedom, should not stop me from watching a movie I think is good.

Fuck off, you can't stop me from watching a movie I think is good. You call yourself a Lefty? Petty Authoritarianism, trying to tell someone what they like is reactionary shite or whatever other bullshit you said.

[Saint Street Revolution]

Also, Top Gun isn't against Leftist beliefs just because it's about the fucking military, that's ignorant.

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by Grandma [email protected] 18, 2007 05:23 am
Also, Top Gun isn't against Leftist beliefs just because it's about the fucking military, that's ignorant.
The thing about Top Gun is, iirc, that it was produced with the US military- i.e. the military let the filmmakers use their stuff in return for a storyline that they approved of. This goes on in the film industry a surprisingly large amount of the time and means that filmmakers are essentially acting as mouthpieces of the state.

[Saint Street Revolution]

Originally posted by Mujer Libre+August 18, 2007 05:31 am--> (Mujer Libre @ August 18, 2007 05:31 am)
Grandma [email protected] 18, 2007 05:23 am
Also, Top Gun isn't against Leftist beliefs just because it's about the fucking military, that's ignorant.
The thing about Top Gun is, iirc, that it was produced with the US military- i.e. the military let the filmmakers use their stuff in return for a storyline that they approved of. This goes on in the film industry a surprisingly large amount of the time and means that filmmakers are essentially acting as mouthpieces of the state. [/b]
I see, I could agree with that. The movie doesn't seem tainted much by State influence, however. I wouldn't have known if you didn't tell me.

All the same, my central argument is that he can't dictate my preferences in movies, nor judge me as a pseudo-leftist because of them.

[Political_Chucky]

One sick ass movie is The Boondock Saints. Along with City of God, and Traffic, some of my favorite movies.

[Faux Real]

The Matrix trilogy
Final Destination trilogy
28 Days/Weeks Later
The Fast and the Furious (First only)
Finding Forester
Romero
Saving Private Ryan
Ghandi
Malcom X
Glory
Life
Barber Shop
Anything with Sean Connery
Pirates of the Caribbean (all)
Harry Potter 1 (only seen that one)
Coach Carter
Training Day
Resident Evil 1/2
Casino
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Titanic! :lol:
That's all I can think of for now that hasn't already been listed...

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Enemy At the Gates

[Saint Street Revolution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2007 06:47 am
One sick ass movie is The Boondock Saints. Along with City of God, and Traffic, some of my favorite movies.
Yeah, and the DVD set for that movie is supposed to really cool. I'm not sure about any of it's details.

Gonna have to add Boondock Saints as well as V For Vendetta to my list, both extremely good movies.

[Robespierre2.0]

I'm suprised nobody's mentioned The Story of Ricky.

It's probably the most awesome movie I've ever seen.

[marcocosm]

Y tu mama tambien, good movie!

[Pawn Power]

I don't have the desire to watch many movies more then once...and I sure as hell wouldn't pay 17 bucks to own a copy of one. The only exeption is movies in spanish for practice,

[Saint Street Revolution]

Forrest Gump
and while I'm at it The Sixth Sense.

[Tatarin]

Some good documentaries:

The Planet
Darwin's Nightmare
Death of a President
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Outfoxed

[Le People]

Breathless (1960), Bande A Parte, Natrual Born Killers, anything by Tarantino, Coffee and Cigarettes.