NetFlix Recommendations

DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
edited February 5, 2007 in The Big Picture
Yep. It's got nothing to do with still photography, but we can all enjoy some great cinematography! :D

I need to fuel my DVD queue for my morning workouts on my elliptical trainer.

Got any recommendations?
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    DavidTO wrote:
    Yep. It's got nothing to do with still photography, but we can all enjoy some great cinematography! :D

    I need to fuel my DVD queue for my morning workouts on my elliptical trainer.

    Got any recommendations?

    What kind of movies do you like?
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    What kind of movies do you like?


    All kinds. But what I want to know is what kind of movies you like. You know, try something new (or old, in your case!)

    Harry, I'm running on my elliptical trainer for 45 minutes every morning, so I go through a movie every other day. I'm willing to spread wide and try anything...
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  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    a strange mix:

    -Office Space
    -Blade Runner
    -No Way Out
  • marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    Le Mans
    Grand Prix
    The French Connection (the first one, not the second...never the second one)
    2001: A Space Odessy
    Apocalypse Now
    Dr. Strangelove
    Bullitt
    Ronin

    I second the recommendation for Blade Runner

    In my queue but films that I haven't seen include Hotel Rwanda, Soylent Green, Network.

    I would say Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but they don't have the The Road Warrior (I guess maybe it's not on DVD for some reason?), and there's no point in watching two without that one.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    I second those
    DJ-S1 wrote:
    a strange mix:
    -Office Space
    -Blade Runner

    Awesome flicks thumb.gif
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited January 31, 2007
    Any Eddie Izzard (Netflix has most of the good ones). Unless you don't like to laugh while training :D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    DavidTO wrote:
    All kinds. But what I want to know is what kind of movies you like. You know, try something new (or old, in your case!)

    Harry, I'm running on my elliptical trainer for 45 minutes every morning, so I go through a movie every other day. I'm willing to spread wide and try anything...

    Since you got some time to kill

    On the Waterfront
    Chinatown
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (in your case I would watch this one first)
    Dr. Strangelove
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Network
    West Side Story
    Shakespeare in Love
    The Wild Bunch
    Pulp Fiction
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  • colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    A few movies with a photography theme:

    Proof
    Not the newer one, but the 1991 film with Hugo Weaving as a blind photographer (!) and a very young Russell Crowe.
    Amazing film.

    High Art
    Fashion photographer burnout.

    Rear Window
    Jimmy Stewart, a telephoto lens, and Grace Kelly, by Hitchcock.
    Classic.
  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    colourbox wrote:
    Rear Window

    Grace Kelly.... wow... iloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflust

    She looked phenominal in that movie!
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    A few more for you
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Kill Bill vol.1
    • Kill Bill vol.2
    • Shawshank Redemption
    • Full Metal Jacket
    • Saving Priavte Ryan
    • Forrest Gump
    • Harry Potter (collection)
    • Lord of the Rings (3 of them)

      and, last but not least:
    • all availalbe seasons of "24" deal.gif
    Phew, this list will keep you occupied all the way up to Utah trip:-)mwink.gif
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  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    still more
    -Amadeus
    -Gladiator
    -Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    Wow, great advice!

    Some I've seen, a few that I think, "I should see that again," and quite a few that I haven't seen yet, and really should!

    More?
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  • pauly632pauly632 Registered Users Posts: 44 Big grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    A must see...
    If you like nature documentaries Winged Migration cannot be missed. It has some of the best cinematography I have ever seen. On top of the movie the making of it is just as brilliant. But don't watch the making first.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    pauly632 wrote:
    If you like nature documentaries Winged Migration cannot be missed. It has some of the best cinematography I have ever seen. On top of the movie the making of it is just as brilliant. But don't watch the making first.

    Pauly

    15524779-Ti.gif and March of the Penguins
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    Clay Pigeons
    Kung Fu Hustle
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Paths of Glory
    A Clockwork Orange
    Closely Watched Trains
    Out of Sight
    Groundhog Day
    Play It Again, Sam
    Platoon
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Lone Star
    Unforgiven
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2007
    colourbox wrote:
    A few movies with a photography theme:

    Proof
    Not the newer one, but the 1991 film with Hugo Weaving as a blind photographer (!) and a very young Russell Crowe.
    Amazing film.

    High Art
    Fashion photographer burnout.

    Rear Window
    Jimmy Stewart, a telephoto lens, and Grace Kelly, by Hitchcock.
    Classic.

    This reminds me that I've never seen Blow Up. :D
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited January 31, 2007
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,939 moderator
    edited February 1, 2007
    A lot of really great advice.

    I'll add a couple I've watched recently. Both are "surf" movies and fun to
    watch. Heck, I'll make it three.

    In God's Hands, Step Into Liquid and Riding Giants.

    Riding Giants focuses on the recent "big wave" phenominum. Think
    Maverick's. In God's Hands is pretty much about a group of surfers
    and their adventures in the world of surfing. Step Into Liquid is a
    narrated feature with several well known surfers--it's got a great
    sound track too.
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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    Das Boot (German)
    Dust to Glory (also cool to watch how they filmed it)
    The Great Escape
    Stalag 17
    The Professional (Leon)
  • ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    Ronin

    Lock, Stock, and Two SMoking Barrels


    These are my two favorite movies.....
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  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    History of the World, Part II
    There's Something About Mary
    Miss Congeniality (just the first one)
    The Wedding Planner
    Gone in 60 Seconds
    Apocalypse Now
    True Grit
    The African Queen
    Casa Blanca
    Men In Black I and II
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    The Pelican Brief
    Sabrina (1995, Harrison Ford)
    Sabrina (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden)

    The acting isn't so good, but if the plight of Viet Nam vets strikes you...
    Rambo (just the first one)
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited February 1, 2007
    unusual suspects-

    blue velvet-

    straw dogs-

    layer cake-

    any gene hackman movie-
  • TommyboyTommyboy Registered Users Posts: 590 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    The Departed (Feb. 13)
    Snatch MUST see
    Crash
    Goodfellas
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    gefillmore wrote:

    any gene hackman movie-


    Even Superman IV? mwink.gif
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited February 1, 2007
    DavidTO wrote:
    Even Superman IV? mwink.gif

    hah!-

    whoops!-

    I stand corrected-

    'almost any gene hackman movie'-
  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    marlinspike wrote:
    Le Mans
    Grand Prix
    The French Connection (the first one, not the second...never the second one)
    2001: A Space Odessy
    Apocalypse Now
    Dr. Strangelove
    Bullitt
    Ronin

    I second the recommendation for Blade Runner

    In my queue but films that I haven't seen include Hotel Rwanda, Soylent Green, Network.

    I would say Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but they don't have the The Road Warrior (I guess maybe it's not on DVD for some reason?), and there's no point in watching two without that one.

    Hah, a gearhead! Great recommendations. For a quickie, if they have it Rendezvous (amazing 9 minutes of a Ferrari getting wrung out in Paris).

    BTW, Road Warrior is (or at least was) on DVD--I have it in my collection.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402268/
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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    Papillon
    Blue, Blanc, Rouge (3 films, Kieslowski trilogy, I think in US it's Blue, White, Red)
    Left luggage
    Citizen Kane
    Bridge on the River Kwai
    Goodfellas
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  • mrcoonsmrcoons Registered Users Posts: 653 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    For a workout? Crank
    Mark
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    Whale Rider
    Casino Royale (the new one)
    Lost in Translation
    Sid.
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