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Title: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 19, 2014, 07:46:08 pm
I kind of like Sci Fi, fantasy type of movies like Dejavu, The Matrix, Now You See Me, The Last Castle, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Greenmile etc. Any good suggestions are welcome.  :-[
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: IchBin on February 19, 2014, 07:49:29 pm
Does it have to be movies? Or are TV series good too? Would highly recommend Fringe. Was a great Sci-Fi series.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 19, 2014, 07:58:19 pm
Quote from: IchBin – Does it have to be movies? Or are TV series good too? Would highly recommend Fringe. Was a great Sci-Fi series.

Thanks. I will take a look.

But since I have to use a slow connection. I would like some movies which are less than 2GB. Less than 1 GB, better. ;)
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: emanuele on February 21, 2014, 04:50:02 am
Considering I don't know 4 of the titles you mentioned, I'm probably not the best person to give suggestions... lol
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Bloc on February 21, 2014, 05:48:20 am
Scifi? My favorite too :) How about some recent ones?
- Looper
- Gravity
- Odd thomas
- Enders Game
- About Time.

Look them up on IMDB to see what they are about, maybe you find something interesting there.I liked them all, though About Time is a bit more drama than the others. Odd Thomas was a surprise, I only knew that actor from the Star Trek reboot, but he was great there too.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 21, 2014, 10:07:20 am
Finished Looper, Gravity and Enders Game. Will move on to other two. Thanks.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 21, 2014, 10:08:09 am
By the way, has HellBoy 3 released ? How is it ?
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Bloc on February 21, 2014, 04:52:51 pm
Hellboy3 is still being made, so no release until later this year I would reckon.

A few more worth watching:
- Elysium
- John Carter
- Oblivion
- Sunshine

:)
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 21, 2014, 08:15:23 pm
Thanks Colby. Already done with Oblivion. Will go through others. I normally try to get people's opinion on movies than IMDB listings. Help you get a better idea.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Bloc on February 22, 2014, 06:57:36 am
Agreed..some of these had a rather average rating on IMDB and was regarded by some critics as "failures" even , but as scifi movies they are all great. I can watch them more than once and for me that is a sign of a good movie. :) There are some turkeys though, like "After earth"..that one was just plain bad. Great CGI effects but the actors..ugh.

I am not sure which quality you see them in, but recommend 1080p bluray or at least 1080p BD rips with sizes 10gb+. Its just is so much enjoyable to get the dark areas in full etc.  especially on my eizo monitor which reveal bad areas pretty quick.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Jokerâ„¢ on February 23, 2014, 12:43:00 am
Lol, watched 'Last Vegas' yesterday. Nice movie.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 23, 2014, 07:59:24 am
@colby67 , I normally go for 720p movies.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Bloc on February 23, 2014, 12:27:00 pm
@meetdilip 720p is good. :) My TV has only 720p, so when I watch film there its perfectly fine. 

So, anyone you liked more than the others?
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: meetdilip on February 24, 2014, 04:41:26 am
My all time favourite is " The Matrix ". Also there is one Spilberg movie with Tom Hanks as hero. He was trapped in an US airport and is waiting extradition. The whole story deals with how he spend time. Sad I forgot that name.

My favourite actors are Denzel Washington, Jason Statham, Tom Hanks and a few others whose name does not come to my mind now. Yep, one more. The hero of Hitman.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Nao on February 24, 2014, 07:34:49 am
The Terminal. Written by the guy who wrote The Truman Show and Gattaca. Not his best work though!
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: emanuele on February 24, 2014, 02:18:56 pm
Cube! :D LOL
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Bloc on February 24, 2014, 02:46:04 pm
Quote from: meetdilip – My all time favourite is " The Matrix ". Also there is one Spilberg movie with Tom Hanks as hero. He was trapped in an US airport and is waiting extradition. The whole story deals with how he spend time. Sad I forgot that name.

My favourite actors are Denzel Washington, Jason Statham, Tom Hanks and a few others whose name does not come to my mind now. Yep, one more. The hero of Hitman.
Matrix is awesome. "The Terminal" didn't strike me as anything special, but it certainly was a bit unusual.

For Scifi though I would say my favs are the LOTR movies, I guess because of the books and all but I can watch them over and over.

Actually, if you like scifi with a bit of crossover, these are good too:

- Another Earth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/reference)
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Blindness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/reference)
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The Quiet earth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/reference)

Especially Another Earth is quite gripping, but the most fascinating for me was the Quiet Earth, australian weirdness. :)

It had David Hewlett in it + the walls..other than that I don't recall much of it  :D
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Nao on February 28, 2014, 01:51:37 am
The quiet earth and another earth are good movies with interesting endings yeah. Thanks for posting examples of movies that are lesser known. ;)
I have yet to see blindness though. Ironically. It looks so bleak.
Yesterday I watched Symbol (2009). An absurd Japanese movie sharing some traits with Cube. I loved it!
Oh, also Fermat's Room is a nice low key movie in the same style. (Well, more of a mind games movie.)

(So, bloc, no more protendo? You even removed your github accounts a couple days ago...)
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: Nao on February 28, 2014, 01:55:17 am
A good indie movie with SciFi elements I'd recommend too: Safety Not Guaranteed.
And Moon, of course. It was recently ripped off by a director I otherwise love.
Title: Re: Suggest some good movies
Post by: agent47 on February 28, 2014, 12:52:19 pm
Here's a list of the last few movies that I watched that I thought were pretty great:
Rush
Captain Phillips
Elysium
Gravity
Prisoners
The Conjuring