Recommend your favorite movies

[indigoblade]

Starship Troopers.

it rocks! but iirc it's based on a book, which is probably better, is that why you're mad?

Yes, the book is several hundred times better then the movie. It's not all cheesy for one. For another the equipment that is described makes more sense then the way it is portrayed in the hollyweird version. For instance, instead of a ship dropping the kids off at the site they get launched out of the bottom of the ship that's in space. They are surrounded by a cocoon that absorbs the heat of reentry. Once they get to a safe altitude (ie no burn) the cocoon blows open and the guy free falls for a while. The shrapnel from the cocoon helps to hide the individuals signature so he won't be shot out of the sky. And get this, instead of a parashute they have rockets.  I won't give no more of the book away now. I suggest it even though we're in the movie area.

[Iason Ouabache]

Besides the cool stuff indigoblade just mentioned, they completely gutted the interesting political stuff from the book.  Yes, it was a libertarian's wet dream but it was well written.  Hollywood basically fucked Heinlein's corpse.  Starship Troopers is the reason why I'm glad that no one has tried to do a movie/miniseries based on Asimov's Foundation. I don't even want to think about how they'd fuck that up.

[Cain]

I thought the film was hilariously and self-consciously bad.

I mean, come on, they explicitly evoked a proto-Nazi militaristic state throughout the film, yet people protested most at the use of the Eagle symbol, which actually came from the Navajo.

Everything involved in Starship Troopers, from the fact it wasn't even orginally meant to be a film of the book, is tinged with horrormirth.

[Triple Zero]

yeah, what Cain said. as I said, I have no idea how the book compares, but if you think the movie is lacking political satire, you weren't paying attention.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I never read the book but I loved the film. Especially the way Verhoeven had expanded the "media-clips" theme he'd introduced in robocop and turned the whole thing into cheesy recruitment propaganda flick. I'm pretty sure this was intentional because it came off too well to be unintended. On the surface the film is corny but between the lines it's examining the way propaganda is used. And, for the time, the fx were were top-notch. If the eye candy is good enough I can appreciate even a plotless piece of shit on the strength of that alone.

[Ari]

Torsk på Tallin (tell me if you find subtitles for this!)

It took me only a few seconds to find .srt subs in English if that's what you were after.

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/153489/torsk-pa-tallinn-en

thanks
that's going to help spread this movie south 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just saw "American Zombie" and I liked it a lot.

[Xooxe]

Torsk på Tallin (tell me if you find subtitles for this!)

It took me only a few seconds to find .srt subs in English if that's what you were after.

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/153489/torsk-pa-tallinn-en

thanks
that's going to help spread this movie south 

Yeah, well I'm about to watch it now.

[Valerie - Gone]

I am going to name off lots of chick flicks. Because I am a chick and no one else has done it.

Ever After
10 Things I Hate About You
Titanic
Save the Last Dance
Made of Honor
Chocolat

Not chick flicks:
Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Forrest Gump
Final Destination 1 & 2 (because the deaths are funny)
Princess Mononoke
The Last Unicorn
Sleepy Hollow

Eh. Can't think of anymore off the top of my head. I think some of these have already been mentioned. Sorry 'bout that.

[Xooxe]

Torsk på Tallin (tell me if you find subtitles for this!)

It took me only a few seconds to find .srt subs in English if that's what you were after.

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/153489/torsk-pa-tallinn-en

thanks
that's going to help spread this movie south 

Yeah, well I'm about to watch it now.

Just watched it. The subs are shit but the film is brilliant. 

[rong]

i find the genre "period movies" ironic

[fomenter]

i am looking for a weird movie i saw it years ago and don't remember the  name i have tried to search for it by description with no luck,
with all the obscure and awesome movies in this list maybe someone will recognize it.

the movie takes place in a insane asylum it is in subtitles "Spanish" if i remember correctly, possibly from south America (not sure )
the beginning of the movie starts when the doctors do a head count and discover they have 1 to many  patients, they find the extra guy and ask him who he is and he says Jesus, they as him why if he is Jesus would he show up in a nut house and he said because if i claimed i was Jesus out there this is the first place they would send me. the rest of the movie is about his interactions with the patients and doctors and whether he is or is not Jesus.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i find the genre "period movies" ironic

Ironic... or just plain hilarious?

[Triple Zero]

i find the genre "period movies" ironic

I bet there's lots of women that monthly watch Chocolat, how's that ironic?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i find the genre "period movies" ironic

I bet there's lots of women that monthly watch Chocolat, how's that ironic?

That movie was cute, but I don't get what's so great about it.