Movie suggestions
Oct. 4th, 2006 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflySo I'm looking for a movie to suggest for movie night. We're done with Dr. Who. (And I must say, our general reaction seems to be "meh") We may have new people, who may or may not be back next week, so ideally something standalone, not part of a TV series or anything. (Despite temptations to restart B5 after reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
autographedcat's post) Ideally something we haven't seen before.
Generally we tend towards SF/F, although not always - recent watches included The Big Chill and Animal House. (Well, I found outfordprfct had never seen either, and selenite had never seen The Big Chill!)
Ideally it'd be something fun like The Princess Bride or Willow, but that we haven't seen. Of course, asfordprct puts it, "if we knew of a movie like that, we likely would have already seen it".
So what the heck, I'll open things up for suggestions. No guarantee I'll try anything, but hey, suggest stuff.
autographedcat's post) Ideally something we haven't seen before. Generally we tend towards SF/F, although not always - recent watches included The Big Chill and Animal House. (Well, I found out
fordprfct had never seen either, and selenite had never seen The Big Chill!)Ideally it'd be something fun like The Princess Bride or Willow, but that we haven't seen. Of course, as
fordprct puts it, "if we knew of a movie like that, we likely would have already seen it".So what the heck, I'll open things up for suggestions. No guarantee I'll try anything, but hey, suggest stuff.
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:57 pm (UTC)I certainly did NOT let them see Animal House at this age!
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Date: 2006-10-04 06:23 pm (UTC)You can all but hear the dice rolling in Hawk the Slayer (and Jack Palance utterly chews up the scenery) but I still think it's a fun movie.
Lastly, Andrew McKee (of the Brobdingnagian Bards) recommended Yellowbeard to me, though I've yet to find it at Fry's where he found it. Considering the cast though, it sounds hilarious.
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Date: 2006-10-04 06:10 pm (UTC)Mirrormask - Fun, weird, don't expect it to make sense, but the script is great. Kid friendly, though some of the CGI effects may be a bit intense.
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Date: 2006-10-04 06:16 pm (UTC)And 1776, too!
Robert Shaw --_Swashbuckler_?
Date: 2006-10-04 07:10 pm (UTC)Not for kids, but...
Date: 2006-10-04 07:16 pm (UTC)V for Vendetta - a "comic book" movie that I would have brushed off, but my husband and a good friend wanted to see it and I was incredibly impressed.
Identity - This one will mess with your brain a bit. Can't say too much about it, as most anything gives away plot twists. Definitely has a good amount of violence, but it moves the plot forward and isn't gratuitous. Absolutely worth watching. John Cusack does a great job.
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Date: 2006-10-04 08:21 pm (UTC)I initially avoided it but based on a recommendation from
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Date: 2006-10-04 10:52 pm (UTC)And Sleuth, with Michael Caine and I-forget-who.
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Date: 2006-10-04 10:01 pm (UTC)For a short, but excellent hard SF anime, I recommend Voices of a Distant Star, a story of friendship and time dilation.
It sounds like you've done series stuff before, so I'll mention that The Adventures of Brisco County Jr is out on DVD now, and I'll simply point out that it is Bruce Campbell starring in a Sci Fi Western.
Oh, and speaking of Bruce Campbell, if you didn't get a chance to see it, Bubba Hotep is a lot of fun. Bruce is playing Elvis Presley in a nursing home trying to fight against a redneck mummy. Less suitable for kids, though.
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Date: 2006-10-04 08:02 pm (UTC)One of the few movies I've been to see because of newspaper reviews. Read reviews in two papers. Both were of the general format "title gives away the whole plot, but for some reason I can't figure out, I liked it". *g*
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Date: 2006-10-04 09:50 pm (UTC)We watched this a few days ago and we were gasping for breath it was so funny. Kids will likely enjoy it too, just for the slapstick.
More info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301126/
and
(*** warning - spoilers in this one ***)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_Of_William_Shakespeare_%28Abridged%29
- Tim
The Butcher's Wife
Date: 2006-10-05 12:02 am (UTC)Also there is Practical Magic - not so light, some violence, romantic comedy, with Lime in the Coconut!
For supernatural comedy, there is Young Frankenstein, which everybody has seen, and Love at First Bite, which some may not have seen. The latter unfortunately is only available with substitute dance music for the central dance number, but it still looks as good.