Kingdom of Heaven

Children of Men ( I think that's the name, it has Clive Owen in it)

Dumb and Dumberer

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Departed, Deja Vu, The God Shepherd, 12 heads in a duffle bag, Lucky number Slevin.

Last King Of Scotland

Prestige is a good dark movie with lots of twists

OMG My Cousin Vinny!! Probably won't get it from Netflix since it's on TV all the time and I can recite every word of it. If you ever meet a trial attorney who tells you that they haven't seen that movie at least 50 times and loved it, they are either lying or they are a terrible trial attorney!

OK I just looked this one up and the idea of Justin Timberlake in a movie scares me a little. Anyone else seen this one?

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Sigh, Please PM murderer He works for NetFlix and could tell you the top rated rentals and steer you in the right direction.

Kingdom of Heaven is a great choice, but you have to make sure you get the Director's Cut. The theatrical version isn't very good (maybe a 6), but the DD is near perfect and IMO is Ridley's Scott's BEST film. Yes, better than Gladiator. Jtown'sother pick with Children of Men is also a great choice. Beyond that here are a variety of other suggestions off the top of my head:

Adaptation
Sideways
25th Hour
Letters From Iwo Jima
Bridge to Terabithia
Volver
Pan's Labyrinth
The Fountain

Leon: The Professional

people aren't very good at reccomending intelligent comedies w/ the exception of sideways and adaptation

Yea Gilla, I suppose I could try. Just a note,you really don't want to get into this argument with me, considering it is one of my favourite movies. This has been posted before, but here it is again:

Children of Men is one of the best movies of the year for me. It was pretty much perfect. Alphonso Cuaron does an unbelievable job, and the two scenes that everyone is talking about definitely deserve the buzz: the car scene is just amazing, and the war zone scene is also spectacular. Technically speaking, Children of Men is perfect. It is an absolutely beautiful movie and technically perfect film-making. The plot is very simple, but the message is loud and resonant. The film is set in the dystopian world of the future, and the outlook is very, very bleak, but the movie actually sends a message of hope. Children of Men is definitely a movie that requires some heavy personal interpretation, and I would agree that seeing it more than once is pretty much a must if you really want to give it meaning.

The whole movie is shot from the perspective of Theo, every single scene. If he is not actually speaking, the scene is still viewed from his perspective (the scenes that he is not actually engaged in dialogue are shot by having him eavesdrop on the conversation). When Theo dies, the movie ends; it is very simple but yet very profound. Initially Theo is very cynical and has pretty much submitted to being a part of the dying world. After a series of events, and when he finally discovers what Kee really is, his view on life changes drastically and the rest of the film becomes their search for hope. I personally like a film to require me to do a lot of thinking, rather then being spoon fed the answers. Children of Men is a perfect example of this. Nothing is explained, and everything is left up to the viewer. We are dropped in the middle or a word where pro-creation is no longer possible, and the youngest person on the planet is 18 years old. We don't know why the world is in shambles, and we don't know why women are infertile; which is the way I like it. The film isn't about the infertility of women, so why go into detail about it and present something totally ridiculous? Explaining all of this would have greatly hindered the film, IMO.

To me, the ending had the perfect mix of ambiguity and closure. As I said earlier, when Theo dies, the movie must end. For those of you who think the ending is not a positive one, I beg to differ. Theo dies a happy man -- the main goal of his life was to give Kee the opportunity to meet up with the human project, and as far as he knows when he dies, he has done exactly that. He also knows that the youngest person currently alive, and thus the person who has become the beacon of hope for all of humanity, is named after his own deceased child. When the tomorrow emerges from the fog, we can suspect with at least some certainty, that the human project is real, and Kee and Theo have succeeded.

Showing her getting on the boat, having a shower and a meal, and finding out whom or what the human project really is, is a terrible ending. That would be classic Hollywood spoon-feeding the audience. I like to be left thinking when I come out of a movie. How did the world get like that? Why can't women have children anymore? What is the human project? What is it a metaphor of? Good ending, great movie and most definitely one of the best of 2006.

I will be honest and say Caine seemed a bit odd when he first appeared, and I wasn't sure if I liked him or his character. His wife serves no purpose as far as I can tell, and I still haven't found a reason for her being there. After I thought about Jasper for a while, I realized that he is an essential character and I totally did a 180 about Caine, so hear me out.

Caine's character is clearly the only one having any fun in the movie, and although I didn't realize this while watching the movie, that is exactly what he represents. He is just about the last remaining sliver of true fun on the planet. If you recall the night before he was killed, it was of Theo overhearing Jasper basically telling Kee Theo's life story in a nutshell. He mostly speaks of the good times experienced by Theo; times when he was most likely having fun with his life, which is something he most certainly has NOT experienced in more recent times. In the morning, Theo watches possibly his one true friend get shot and killed, all the while still managing to have some fun. It appears as though Jasper knows Theo is watching and wants to give him one last message, which may not be clear but it at least resonates in positive terms. "Have fun, be positive, take care of Kee, you guys can do it, I have faith in you." These are the things I think Jasper would have been saying to Theo has he had once last chance. Anyways, you may see that as a bit of a stretch, but this movie is filled with meaning and metaphor, so it's there if you really want it to be.

I thought Clive Oqen was excellent in both Closer and Inside Man, and I think he very much continued the trend here. I just loved him as Theo; he portrayed the undoubtedly cynical nature of much of the remaining human race quite chillingly, but then he was able to switch gears to our emotional tragic hero very seamlessly. I'm not sure; maybe you just don't like his presence, which is perfectly okay. It just happens wit some actors, no matter what they do or what other people say you don't get them. I have actually heard that he is getting some Oscar buzz, and I do agree with it, although it is extremely unlikely he will get nominated.

Despite my love for the movie, I can understand if people do not like it. To say it is a bad movie, is another story, but I like how you just said you don't like it. You don't have to like it. I do realize that I have taken the optimistic approach, and maybe that is why I like it so much. To me the scene where everything literally stops and Kee and Theo make their way through the crowds is one of the most important ones in the film. It is where I realized that the movie wasn't about how bad the world IS going to be in 25 years, but rather a look at how bad it COULD be, and I tend to agree -- you never know what might happen. Look at what has already happened. Yet this last 15 minutes provide nothing but hope. The fact that hope still exists in that world, which is about as bad as I could ever imagine the world getting, is enough for me to view Children of Men as a powerfully thought provoking and positive film with both a warning to take care of the world and each other, and also to never let hope fade.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail!