NSR: What's your top 5 movies of the last 15yrs?

[Dark Savante]

OK, as usual the board has gotten incredibly dull because of the INT break so how's about a little off topic convo.

Movies to be precise. Let's get an insight into the minds of fellow United fans.. *shudders. Let's see what floats your boat :D

Mine.

1. Memento
2. Donnie Darko
3. The Usual Suspects
4. The Matrix 1&2(2 for concept)
5. ummm...Scary Movie 1 (I found that hilarious at the time)

I got a few more... but thems the 5.. Let's see what yall got to offer.

[GrodZilla]

Okay... let's go then.. I'll opt for something different I think....

1. Gladiator
2. Lord of the Rings FOTR
3. Braveheart
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Just love it :D)

I see DS went for the "weird" kind of films... I liked both Memento and Donnie Darko, although I'm pretty sure i didn't understand the latter fully. But I think everyone can see what does it for me ;)

[Beckham7]

1.BlackHawk Down
2.Snatch
3.Shawshank Redemption
4.The Matrix
5.Super Troopers

[listen_up_fergie]

I don't really have a top 5 list, but some films worth mentioning are Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, and Napoleon Dynamite :D

[Toon³]

I don't really have a top 5 list, but some films worth mentioning are Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, and Napoleon Dynamite :D

I have a shoot on sight policy for anyone who likes this movie....better steer clear of the north east :D

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Only 5 and 15 years? :mad: :D


The Matrix
The Pianist
The Insider
American History X
The Life of David Gale

[GrodZilla]

I don't really have a top 5 list, but some films worth mentioning are Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, and Napoleon Dynamite :D

magnolia may have been the weirdest film I have ever seen. I KNOW I didn't get that one... It was 4 or 5 years since i saw it and thar frograin still makes me wake up in the middle of the night screaming(no not really, but it makes me shudder every time I think about it)...

[littleman]

I don't really have a top 5 list, but some films worth mentioning are Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, and Napoleon Dynamite :D

Ai ai, pretty similar tastes there ;)

I'd add Memento to the mix. City of God.. Mweh, I really can't come up with a top five.

[billyireland]

1. Clerks (my favourite movie ever, along with 'M')
2. Twelve Monkeys
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. City of God

(6. Leon)
(7. Glen Garry Glennross)
(8. The Big Lebowski)
(9. Memento)
(10. Requiem for a Dream)

Sorry, I hate seeing people put 10 names in 5-name lists, but I couldn't resist. ;)

[billyireland]

magnolia may have been the weirdest film I have ever seen. I KNOW I didn't get that one... It was 4 or 5 years since i saw it and thar frograin still makes me wake up in the middle of the night screaming(no not really, but it makes me shudder every time I think about it)...
Ever seen Blue Velvet? Far more messed up than Magnolia, by a distance. The psychoanalysis of it is 10 times weirder again!

[GrodZilla]

Ever seen Blue Velvet? Far more messed up than Magnolia, by a distance. The psychoanalysis of it is 10 times weirder again!

I haven't yet... But now I'll have to... First thing this weekend I think(you have to fill it with something else now)

It's a race, life is.. most messed up when you die win :D

[listen_up_fergie]

magnolia may have been the weirdest film I have ever seen. I KNOW I didn't get that one... It was 4 or 5 years since i saw it and thar frograin still makes me wake up in the middle of the night screaming(no not really, but it makes me shudder every time I think about it)...

I didn't really think Magnolia was all that weird...just a little different.

If you want weird, watch Mulholland Drive. Throughout the movie I was hoping that the sooner or later everything would come together and the movie would make sense...the movie ended and I was left thinking to myself, what the ******** just happened? Thank God for the girl-on-girl action in the movie, or else like the 2003 CL final, it would have been a complete waste of an hour and a half.

[Dark Savante]

Funny, I've watched quite a few of the films peope are calling head ********s and didn't find them that bad.. for me, Matrix 2 has been the most complex film I've ever watched... I remember the disccussions at the time and even websites dedicated to it with forums full of really smart people..even a few professors (lol) aruing over what the Matrix is and symbolizes...everyone coming up with their own interpretations of what the architecht said and all adamant that they were right.. matrix 3 destroyed it all.... seems it was too big a project for the writers :(

[billyireland]

I didn't really think Magnolia was all that weird...just a little different.

If you want weird, watch Mulholland Drive. Throughout the movie I was hoping that the sooner or later everything would come together and the movie would make sense...the movie ended and I was left thinking to myself, what the ******** just happened? Thank God for the girl-on-girl action in the movie, or else like the 2003 CL final, it would have been a complete waste of an hour and a half.
That's David Lynch for you, he always makes really challenging movies. Mind you, I thought he went too far in Mulholland Drive, and just wound up throwing in THAT twist (which I still can't make any sense of) for the hell of it. And the guy who was never pleased with his coffee, that was just weak.

[billyireland]

Funny, I've watched quite a few of the films peope are calling head ********s and didn't find them that bad.. for me, Matrix 2 has been the most complex film I've ever watched... I remember the disccussions at the time and even websites dedicated to it with forums full of really smart people..even a few professors (lol) aruing over what the Matrix is and symbolizes...everyone coming up with their own interpretations of what the architecht said and all adamant that they were right.. matrix 3 destroyed it all.... seems it was too big a project for the writers :(
Yeah, but that's the thing, the Matrix - despite the complexity of the plot - was made in a simple enough narrative to follow; the movie-makers wanted you to understand mroe or less what was going on. In other movies (such as Mulholland Drive, for instance) David Lynch and his team spend the whole time trying to put you off and distract you. Unfortunately, I thought Mulholland Drive placed too much emphasis on this, and not enough on making it all come together at some stage.

[yossarian]

Yeah, but that's the thing, the Matrix - despite the complexity of the plot - was made in a simple enough narrative to follow; the movie-makers wanted you to understand mroe or less what was going on. In other movies (such as Mulholland Drive, for instance) David Lynch and his team spend the whole time trying to put you off and distract you. Unfortunately, I thought Mulholland Drive placed too much emphasis on this, and not enough on making it all come together at some stage.

I didn't think Muholland Drive did this nearly as much as Lost Highway. Now that film makes no sense whatsoever and I am convinced Lynch was being bizarre and obtuse for their own sake.

[billyireland]

I didn't think Muholland Drive did this nearly as much as Lost Highway. Now that film makes no sense whatsoever and I am convinced Lynch was being bizarre and obtuse for their own sake.
I actually haven't seen Lost Highway, although I have heard similar comments.

[Dark Savante]

Yeah, but that's the thing, the Matrix - despite the complexity of the plot - was made in a simple enough narrative to follow; the movie-makers wanted you to understand mroe or less what was going on. In other movies (such as Mulholland Drive, for instance) David Lynch and his team spend the whole time trying to put you off and distract you. Unfortunately, I thought Mulholland Drive placed too much emphasis on this, and not enough on making it all come together at some stage.
I see what you're saying, but (oh there's always gotta be a but :D ) the difference is that although Matrix 2 (specifically) has a path the writers lead you up [to a point] the variables from that point therein are insane and totally open to interpretation. I've never seen one film cause so much furore tbh. I didn't rate M.D that highly as a head********... Donnie Darko and Leaving Las Vegas especially... totally got me all messed up though. I've yet to see Blue Velvet I'll have to check it out.

You're on a movie course at uni right? Did they make you watch The Crying Game yet? :D :D :D

[yossarian]

I actually haven't seen Lost Highway, although I have heard similar comments.

I wouldn't recommend it....and I like Lynch's films. I really liked Muholland Drive and for whatever reason "got it" at the end....or at least to the extent there was anything to "get."

Like DS, I'm a big fan of Donnie Darko. I haven't seen the director's cut yet but I've heard it helps fill in some of the "huh?" gaps.

[Dark Savante]

II really liked Muholland Drive and for whatever reason "got it" at the end....or at least to the extent there was anything to "get."

Does that make us or them the wierd ones? :D