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[Peoplesoft bloke]

Man Bites Dog
The Navigators
Control

[Lucy]

Blues Brothers
Animal House
The Fisherking
Labarynth

[Archangel]

Trainspotting
pulp fiction
the deerhunter

(plus the Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, ful metal jacket, "as good as it gets")

[NickFitz]

• Lola rennt

Also on Film 4 about a month ago, but the bastards put it down at 75 minutes so I missed the last 5 off the recording (it's an 80 minute film). Bloody frustrating, I can tell yer

Hardly any point watching it if you miss the ending - you have my commiseration

[Sysman]

Alternatively...

• If...

On Film 4 tonight (well tomorrow really, as it's at 1:05)

• Lola rennt

The last is sold dubbed into English under the title Run Lola Run, but I strongly recommend that you use the DVD menu to switch to the original German, and turn on the English subtitles if (like me) you don't actually know German

Also on Film 4 about a month ago, but the bastards put it down at 75 minutes so I missed the last 5 off the recording (it's an 80 minute film). Bloody frustrating, I can tell yer

[TimberWolf]

Galaxy Quest

Star Trek Episode 18

[Lucy]

24 Hour Party People
Dogs in Space
My Life So Far
Les Choriste

Series:
Drop the Dead Donkey
Duckula
The Trap Door
Life On Mars
Just Shoot Me

[wobbegong]

K-Pax
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction

Or for something different, try
Planet Terror
Starship Troopers
Dark Star

Edit: no mention of American Beauty yet? Superb film

Arrgggh! I can't believe I forgot Dark Star, a classic.

[wobbegong]

Sin City is unfeasibly sh!t, and the Pirates of the Carribean films aren't worth the plastic they're stamped on. Other than that, suggestions not bad.

I liked the style of Sin City, an original idea for a film, OK the storyline was limp but what do you expect from a 'comic book'?

P-O-T-C = Lighthearted "Sunday afternon" escapism. After a good lunch an a bottle of wine I don't want to 'think' or 'be challenged', I want to veg and be entertained.

[Marina]

.. the Pirates of the Carribean films aren't worth the plastic they're stamped on ..

The first one wasn't bad. But the second was too muddled, manic, and self-parodying for my taste, although the octopus-faced villain and other special effects were good.

Haven't seen the third, but apparently it's a hopeless mish-mash, dreadful even compared with the second, in the same proportion as that is to the first.

[Bagpuss]

and the Pirates of the Carribean films aren't worth the plastic they're stamped on. Other than that, suggestions not bad.

When the concept comes from a Disney Ride you can expect the film to be carp. For good J Depp films see:

Sweeney Todd
What's eating Gilbert Grape
From Hell

[gingerjedi]

Sin City is unfeasibly sh!t, and the Pirates of the Carribean films aren't worth the plastic they're stamped on. Other than that, suggestions not bad.

It’s the 80th best film of all time according to the public.

Obviously its not your thing, that doesn’t make it bad.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

[IR35 Avoider]

What about the one where he plays a wounded US civil war soldier taken in by a bunch of nuns or schoolgirls (?). "The Beguiled" was it called?

Oh and talking about Clint and Nuns, "A Mule for Sister Sarah" - great theme tune and entertaining film.

The Beguiled - yes, probably my favourite Clint Eastwood film. Wounded enemy soldier in a girls boarding school where both the girls and teachers take a fancy to him. Is he a danger to them, or they to him?

[Ruprect]

What is so wrong with guns and naked hot chicks?

Are we talking about the same film? That comic book tosh with bruce willis? Admittedly I was watching a hooky copy from china, but still it is carp..

[Moscow Mule]

Sin City is unfeasibly sh!t,

What is so wrong with guns and naked hot chicks?