Films you should watch, books you should read

Post by **Zyx** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:28 pm

What?! You play games requiring humans? That is so old fashion.

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:14 pm

you should see a "chicken park" film - an embarassing parody of "jurassic park" - it`s probably one one worst films ever made (at least of those watched by me). Because it`s from early 90`s, and totally forgotten (what a shame!) it`s rather hard to get now (non avaliable by e-mule etc.), but I believe you can still lend it somewhere in the big stores.
Its soooooooo CRAP that becomes good !!! Look for it hardly and believe me, you wouldn`t be disapointed! especially, if you`re on bad humour!
It`s REALLY very very bad, so I recommend it!!

Christopher · Post by **Christopher** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:33 am

Some movies I suggest:
Last Hurrah For Chivalry (my all-time favorite)
Braindead
Battle Royale
Story Of Ricky
Wallace & Gromit movies
City Of Lost Children

Some movies I don't suggest:
Manos: The Hands Of Fate
Night Train To Terror
Starfire Mutiny
Demonicus
Grim

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:18 pm

you mean Peter Jackson`s Braindead? i seen it. Totally deviated & perverted film !!

Christopher · Post by **Christopher** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:11 pm

Yes, Jackson's Braindead. It was the basis of my old email address.

Post by **linflas** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:19 pm

ahhh BrainDead.. but i prefer "Bad Taste"

These movies are quite similar but "BadTaste" has something amateurish i enjoy more and a great scenario : invaders collecting human flesh to make new hamburgers.

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Thu May 18, 2006 6:28 pm

You should definitely see Donnie Darko and maybe also Funny Games. Second one is hard stuff, though.

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Thu May 18, 2006 6:56 pm

right, here it goes:
"Bad leutanant"
best american film of the `93

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:49 pm

If you watch Braindead or Bad Taste today, you REALLY wonder how ANY company could give that guy $600.000.000 for The Lord of the Rings... Though that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them.

Finally saw Sin City on Monday - great movie.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:56 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You have no idea how much my friends and I hated bad leutentant, to the poitn that we put it on our 'top five films we hate' list. Not that there was anythign extra specially wrong with it,. maybe we were just in a mood for soemthgn good and it was just soooooooooo bad!

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:59 am

Umm, well, I'd recommend the movie Dragonheart ^^

And.. I -like- to hate talking zombies? Would that work?

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:52 pm

On Arte ( a programme on tv here) there was a documentary.
It is called: Surplus oder Konsumterror (SURPLUS: TERRORIZED INTO BEING CONSUMERS) very nicely done with music and speech..made me think and laugh.
There is this very very old film about Perseus? who gets the magic-cap, is fighting an awesome looking medusa, uses her head, gets to ride a pegasus, battles skeletons and , if I remember correctly, rescues a woman from a sea god monster. Great film, but again, I do not know the title...

Has Spaceballs been mentioned?

Post by **Ameena** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:29 pm

I think you're thinking of "Clash of the Titans"...

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:56 pm

Ameena, thanks. That is the movie! (1981)one of the last Stop motion effect films.(haven't seen it for ages, so it could not live up to expectations)

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri May 26, 2006 1:10 am

Harryhousentastic

Don't forget the sinbads and the other Harryhousen great Jason and the Argonauts

Post by **Ameena** » Fri May 26, 2006 1:50 am

*resists the urge to point out the typo there*

Well stop-motion is still used...it just doesn't seem to be use in combination with live-action. Wallace and Gromit, for example, and "Corpse Bride"...both of which I watched yesterday (again) so I'm kinda thinking about them atm hehe.

Des · Post by **Des** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:52 pm

I just watched MirrorMask on DVD - a fantasy from Jim Henson Studios but with a British cast (written by Neil Gaiman).

See this link for more details http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/

No gore as it's a "family" movie but I still think it might appeal to DM fans (I thoroughly enjoyed it).

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:09 am

oh, I forgot to mention "Bloody Sunday", wchich I was on in cinema few years ago ! It was good too !

WarShrike · Post by **WarShrike** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:53 am

I have a penchant for fantasy/sci-fi/horror.

Some movies i recommend that havent already been mentioned:
-Men in Black
-Mobsters
-Event Horizon (Story was too long for the movie giving it a compressed feeling, but still good)
-Jason and the Argonaughts (Annother old film, like Clash of the Titans and good)
-Scary movie series (i love parodies, like "Not annother teen movie" that makes fun of Breakfast Club, which was also nice

)
-Black Hawk Down
-Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
-Jeepers Creepers 2
-Resident Evil (the sequel was kinda iffy)
-Evil Dead (the original, saw it first when i was in my teens, it scared the living **** outta me)

Books, again not yet mentioned:
-The Sword of shannara by Terry Brooks (and every other book in the Shannara series)
-The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Deaths Gate cycle series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
-The Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
-Cujo by Steven King
-Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
-A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (and its 2 sequels)

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:07 am

DragonLance = Fantastic...Kender are just the best

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Recently read the Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan, recommended and lent to me by a friend - very good. Now reading Garth Nix's Sabriel trilogy. Good so far...only partway through the first book atm though.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:47 am

Yeah, the weis/hickman stuff is generally good... Deathgate cycle was really good, never found it again to buy it, as was the rose and the prophet - never read the black sword trilogy though I always meant to and had the first one.

I can recommend the earlier david eddings stuff if i didn't already

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:37 pm

Hm, I never quite got what so many people loved about Dragonlance so much. Sure, the books were alright, but really nothing special to me, just standard fantasy novels.

One of my favourite fantasy novels is Tad Williams' series "Memory, Sorrow & Thorn", starting with The Dragonbone Chair. Probably the best fantasy I ever read apart from Tolkien. Highly recommended.

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:49 pm

Did I ever mention Pern? Love those books

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Kebes · Post by **Kebes** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:06 pm

If you want a really good fantasy read, I highly recommend the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn books by Tad Williams. Probably the best contemporary high fantasy. Also Otherland, a fantasy-scifi-real world dystopia, is very good

Cannot give any movie suggestions, since I don´t care about movies at all (well, with some exceptions of classic movies of course).

Kebes · Post by **Kebes** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:16 pm

I just noticed that Trantor wrote pretty much the same about Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. I really didn´t read your post before I was posting!

But there you are - good books deserve multiple advertisement.

WarShrike · Post by **WarShrike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:16 pm

I've read Dragonsdawn, the first i think of the Pern series, like it alot, will surely be looking for the others.

Post by **Ameena** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:19 pm

Dragonsdawn is the first chronologically, but not the first in the order they were written - that's Dragonflight. The order, as I can remember, is Dragonflight, Dragonquest, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums, The White Dragon, errrmm...then I think it's Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern, then Nerilka's Story, then Dragonsdawn, The Renegades of Pern, All the Weyrs of Pern, First Fall, The Dolphins of Pern Red Star Rising, The Masterharper of Pern, and the Skies of Pern. I think that's right but I may have misremembered the order of the last few. There's another one out called Dragon's Kin and there may be a few more little ones here and there. Nerilka's Story is actually in a book together with another story, The Coelura, which is just a random story unrelated to Pern.

Mindstone · Post by **Mindstone** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:08 pm

Has anyone watched Fear and loathing in las vegas? It's Terry Gilliam at his absolute trippiest and its hysterical in the darkest way possible.

That film is the one that convinced me that Johnny Depp is the best actor around at the moment, he is so damn versatile and the most watchable character in all those pirates of the carribean movies.

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:20 am

Fear and loathing in las vegas (book by Hunter S. Thompson)

I watched the film, read the book first, however.
so I did not get that much into the movie
(soundtrack is nice).

I would have read the book twice, but I lent it to someone and
I do not remember who, so I literally "lost" it for quite some time now.

Johnny Depp is excellent. He can surprise you.
Captain Jack Sparrow for example is so extreme, I do not know of
an apt actor who would manage to play the role in the way he did.

Post by **Ameena** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:36 am

Captain Jack Sparrow is very cool - he has all the best lines in both films, I think...fantastic

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