movies to rent

[JediEmpressMel]

-Freeway
-Last Samurai
-Overnight Delivery
-Oceans Eleven
-The Usual Suspects
-Empire of the Sun
-Empire Records

[Craft Forums]

[tabularasa]

i forgot to add "spellbound" - documentary about the kids who go to the national spelling bee in d.c. really funny and absolutely wonderful!

[empressCrash]

If you want to laugh and cry - And God Said HA - is funny and touching.
When I'm depressed I will rent 42nd Street and Guys and Dolls.

[cyan]

Memento

[viggie]

there are so many that i would have said and i've lost track so please ignore and repeats:

in america
the magdalene sisters
lost in translation
bend it like beckham
real women have curves
big fish
zero effect
the big lebowski
waking ned devine
calendar girls
saving grace

[glassprincess]

I'd recommend:

The Princess and the Warrior
The Red Violin
Leon (Or known in the states as The Professional)
Babette's Feast
Waking Ned Devine
Shirley Valentine
All About My Mother
Lagaan

I have others - I seem to be on a foreign film kick lately. :)

[Mathias]

In my Netflix queue at the present moment:

1. House of Sand and Fog
2. Nosferatu
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien
4. Big Fish
5. In America
6. Mystic River
7. The Weather Underground
8. Harold and Maude
9. 21 Grams
10. Thirteen
11. Raising Victor Vargas

I watched the top three this weekend. House of Sand and Fog--good grief what a sad and conflicting movie.

[brdgt]

This is always a dry time of year for rentals so this list is a little sad.

In the past few weeks I've rented:

-Smilla's Sense of Snow (older movie, but I just read the book) - pretty good
-Y Tu Mama Tambien - didn't like it at all, artsy porn does nothing for me
-Paycheck - with expectations as low as I had, I was surprisingly entertained
-Big Fish - Edward Scissorhands version of Pleasantville, I didn't find it that interesting
-The Cooler - Nice little film, didn't take itself too seriously and a nice spin on an old story.
-Matrix Revolutions - Could it have been worse than Reloaded, yes.
-Man without a past - winner of Oscar for best foreign film (Finnish) - fabulous!
-Timeline - pretty bad
-Dirty Pretty Things - Amazing! I recommend this to anyone.

[Mathias]

Y Tu Mama Tambien - didn't like it at all, artsy porn does nothing for me

I thought it was a little more than artsy porn. ;) What about the themes of friendship and fidelity? It was a bit graphic, sure.

[brdgt]

I thought it was a little more than artsy porn. ;) What about the themes of friendship and fidelity? It was a bit graphic, sure.

Bored little rich yuppies that do too much drugs and have promiscious sex? hard for me to see them in any sympathetic light. It's not that it was graphic, I just don't porn that's disguised as art so that people don't "feel bad" about watching it.