Good Movies You would Recommend Others to Watch

The Departed

The movie ran for 2 hours and 30 mins. The movie was just fantastic till 2 hours and 22 mins. The last few mins, I dont know what happened to scorsese, I guess he just wanted to finish the movie quickly and just shattered whatever I was thinking of how the movie will end. But I did not like the ending and I think the climax is a bit contrived for such a beautifully shot movie. I think this is the best movie of 2006 so far, i wont recommend it for the best picture oscar, but may be best direction. Never was I bored except for that triangular love story part.

Leanaro as a tough guy, I thought he wont do justice but he pulled it off wonderfully well. And boy Jack nicholson was out of the world. I dint quite like matt damon's performance. Surely not his best but its by far Leanardo's best performance ever. I strongly recommend it to action lovers and scorsese lovers. But this movie is not scorsese's best, taxi driver and goodfellas were much better. And this movie was almost a film-noir :)

Another movie I recommend is 12 angry men. 12 people, one room, 90 mins of just dialogues. The actors were unbelievably natural and you should not miss even a single dialogue. The way Fonda convinces the remaining 11 people in the room was just fantastic. One of the best movies I have ever seen and I storngly recommend this to everyone :thumbsup:

will scorcese ever get an oscar...he must have got many!

may be he gets an award for life time achievement! :roll:

The Departed by Martin Scorsese.
Awesome movie. I havent watched the original Infernal Affairs but this was a worthy remake. Awesome awesome movie. Matt Damon...GOD he rocks!!! Never knew Di caprio could be soo good. Catch the movie when you can guys!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

It has already entered the Top 250 :shock:

8.6 is a bit too much for this movie, I would have beeen happy with 7.5. Or may be I am the only one who hated the climax !!

I wasnt too upset with the climax though my hubby and friends werent too thrilled with it either. If you think about it, anything else is like leaving ends loose.

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Originally Posted by Nerd

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

It has already entered the Top 250 :shock:

8.6 is a bit too much for this movie, I would have beeen happy with 7.5. Or may be I am the only one who hated the climax !!

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do u really believe imdb ratings? :roll:

IMDB, ratings are given by users, normal movie going fans like u and me. For me its quite a benchmark. Movies over 7.5 are usually good and there are very few movies I thought did not deserve such a high rating.

There are movies which I feel are really good but the rating would be around 7.0, even then I dont have any complaints. Also for me any movie over 8.0 is outstanding no matter whether its 8.9 or 8.0 !!

If you look at rottentomatoes, they post reviews from magazines, which on most occassions try to tear the movie apart. 100% movies in rottentomatoes has to be out of the world. But there are exceptions. A movie called blood simple has been termed 100% fresh by rotten tomatoes and the movie stinks !!

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Originally Posted by Nerd

IMDB, ratings are given by users, normal movie going fans like u and me. For me its quite a benchmark. Movies over 7.5 are usually good and there are very few movies I thought did not deserve such a high rating.

There are movies which I feel are really good but the rating would be around 7.0, even then I dont have any complaints. Also for me any movie over 8.0 is outstanding no matter whether its 8.9 or 8.0 !!

If you look at rottentomatoes, they post reviews from magazines, which on most occassions try to tear the movie apart. 100% movies in rottentomatoes has to be out of the world. But there are exceptions. A movie called blood simple has been termed 100% fresh by rotten tomatoes and the movie stinks !!

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ofcourse...i know imdb is user rating and it must be best!

but only hollywood films are rated correctly...the classics in other languages doesnt enter top 250 ...with akira krashwa as exception!....rating is good!..but top 250 movies are really not 250...may top 250 hollywood movies!

how do u d/load movies...torrents?

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A movie called blood simple has been termed 100% fresh by rotten tomatoes and the movie stinks !!

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mmm.... I kind of like Coen Brothers' movies.. well, most of them.. Film Noir but throw in some really funny dialogue, bizarre events/turns, some surrealism...
I thought 'Intolerable Cruelty' was bad though and 'Hudsucker Proxy' was also not amongst their best...

Any 'Big Lebowsky' fans here??

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but top 250 movies are really not 250...may top 250 hollywood movies!

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Exactly !! But there are a lot of foreign films which were RELEASED in the USA and they have entered the Top 250. Life is beautiful, city of god, Der Undertang, amelie etc.., Lagaan is in the top 50 sport movies :)

I loved their Fargo and that made me watch blood simple, but it dint live upto fargo for some reason. May be this one was way too slow :evil: