MUST SEE MOVIES - advice please - anything in the last 2 years
 

We've had 2 kids in the space of 3 years, and I'm let loose thank god, for 5 weeks while they're overseas.

Anyway, I need to catch up on movies, have hardly watched anything other than that cack Avatar in the last 2 years.

What's are MUST SEE movies of the last few years?

I've got out: Green Zone (Damon), and Robin Hood (groan, but had to really, Crowe) so far.

What should I see?

In Bruges (2008)

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Check out Felon. Really good gritty film that didn't get much publicity.

I saw The Town at the cinema on the weekend and that was pretty damn good.

Felon looks good. Anything with Ben Affleck involved directing or acting, I steer well clear of though. What are you thinking man!

Definitely. Thanks for reminding me, I read the review and never got that out either. :thumbsup

I don't understand all the hate for him. I really don't. It's rife on the SA forums too haha.

if you can handle it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806/

Grand Tarino

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Thanks mate. England stinks right now, I might come back in a few years.

I just watched a couple that I thought were good.

Ghost Writer - Ewan McGregor takes a job ghost writing a former prime ministers biography and ends up involved in a bad situation.

Hot Tub Time Machine - it is crazy, but very funny.

The Hangover - one of the funniest movies I have seen in years.

Crazy Heart - Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for his performance as a washed up country singer named Bad Blake.

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Just to prove most movies today are IMO crap. Look at the top earners 50 of 2010. IMO you have to get to the bottom to find anything worth watching. Get him to the Greek and Wall Street.

http://www.leesmovieinfo.net/WBOYearly.php

2009 was a better year. Up, The Hangover, Sherlock Holmes, Inglourious Basterds, Julie and Julia, Up in the Air and even a remake Taking...Pelham 123.

2010 has a long way to go. IMO.

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Machete
Sherlock Holmes

Harry Brown

Red - in the cinema at the moment

From Paris with Love

Repo Men

The Joneses http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285309/ class act

Robin Hood with Crowe was good. The sad thing is that no title comes to mind when you say a 'must see'.

Taken.... very good flick

Though not a huge DiCaprio fan, I loved Shutter Island and Inception. Then a few:

Unthinkable
Get Him to the Greek
The Crazies

A "must-see" is also Sunshine, which has got lovely soundtrack.

I have to agree to those.

I won't tell...

The Town is a must see. It's a cross between The Departed and Heat

Law abiding citizen... great flick, taken is awesome too as above

A Serious Man - great coen bros flick
The Experiment - worth seeing
Piranha 3D - actually a very good horror comedy 3D or not.
Fay Grim
Repo The Genetic Opera

Wow, you really need some help. Robin Hood?

Sunshine
Inception
Assassination of Jesse James
The Lookout
The Descent
Bronson
Moon
Transsiberian
The Fall
Before the Devil Knows you're Dead
A Prophet

for starters...I can't think of anything else right now. I would put Sunshine at the top of the must see list.

Middle Men

Nobody knows, a fantastic Japanese drama.

I just watched

A Prophet

over the weekend...wow, was seriously good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166/

Martyrs - french movie

high low

only one vote to middle men ? damn

KICK ASS!

It's a great movie! :thumbsup:thumbsup

Synopsis:
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.

It's hilarious, action-packed and well worth a rental!! Check out the trailer at the link above, you won't regret taking the time to watch this movie. :thumbsup

Green Zone was awful.

Thanks for the other recommendations, have written a few down.

hope this helps - some enjoyable movies, drama, blockbusters, fantasy and comedy

drama/thrillers:
Shutter Island
The Book of Eli
The Road
Gran Torino
The Blind Side
The Lovely Bones
Pride and Glory
Felon
The Hurt Locker

action:
Rambo
Wanted
Taken
Law Abiding Citizen
3:10 to Yuma


fantasy:
Avatar
The Dark Knight
Sherlock Holmes
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
Zombieland
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Watchmen
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Terminator Salvation
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

comedy:
Tropic Thunder
The Hangover

Every Day

The Reader

Yep, they are both great. Was gonna say Taken last night but couldn't remember the name of it.

Precious
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Gran Torino
Fish Tank
Shutter Island
An Education
Lars And The Real Girl

I would have to say that I would do a Cormac McCarthy novel to movie fest:

No Country for Old Men

The Road

No Country is definitely a classic in the same vein as:

The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

Those were the first two movies that came to mind for me. Good reccomendations :thumbsup


Really? I just saw this the other night and I did not like. Kinda started to get good around the middle and then went to blah. I had high expectations though, being it was made by Peter Jackson. Heavenly Creatures is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Heavenly Creatures this movie is not :(

But I do agree with some of your other suggestions. Watchment was amazing, Zombieland is pretty awesome and Tropic Thunder is pretty fucking perfect.

Ok, returning the first 2, going to get out 5 more.

Talk about kid in a chocolate shop, I don't know which way to turn.

the dark night, gran torino, the book of eli, zombieland, 3:10 to yuma, 10000 bc, armored, babylon ad, terminator salvation,...

Inception

The Experiment, RED, human centipede, The Book of El, Felon.......all these are great movies but still I prefer horror genre

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh...

Anything except "The Lovely Bones"...

I agree, that was BAD ASS !