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Dunno if this has been done before but I wouldn't mind broadening my horizons and watching films that people in this community recommend.
Doesnt have to be a blockbuster action flik like transformers (although I've heard that good  ), just an interesting/provocative/intruiging film that you would recommend your friends to watch. As of late i've been looking away from the high-budget blockbuster and looking for interesting independent films and documentaries.
I just watched "The Bridge (2006)"
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This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material.[/b]
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Suicide is a very sensitive subject that touches the lives of many people and I cant help but feel torn between 2 opinions on the matter: 1) suicide is a completely selfish act that destroys the friends and family of those involved AND 2) that the person could not end his/her suffering by any other means and such suffering is possibly a sever mental illness (bi-polar, severe depression, schitzophrenia) of which there are not many effective medical treatments.
It's a tad obscure idea, of filming the bridge for a whole year only to document the demise of the poor souls and also interview those family and friends left behind.
but enough of that..... what films do you recommend other PSBians should view to open their minds?
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01-07-2007, 11:00 PM
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havent watched them yet cos they're still yet to come out but im sure simpsons movie, die hard 4 and bourne ultimatum will be good ones!
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01-07-2007, 11:10 PM
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The Constant Gardener
Wildflower
Blood Diamond
All had a significant educational/emotional effect on me
Will definitely check out The Bridge Bunyack, having 2 close relatives commit suicide and battling with manic depression my whole life brings that subject close to home.
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02-07-2007, 08:33 AM
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The Hairy Bird - Not well known but its a brilliant female empowerment movie without being toatally feminist... plus its SO funny...
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02-07-2007, 08:55 AM
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Beerfest was pretty funny
Also
Crude - the abc doco about oil. very eye opening.
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02-07-2007, 07:15 PM
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EVERYONE MUST WATCH "CUBE"
Low Budget Canadian sci-fi film worth viewing
Director:Vincenzo Natali
Writers:André Bijelic (written by) &
Vincenzo Natali (written by)
Release Date:4 March 1999 (Australia)
Genre rama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline:Fear... Paranoia... Suspicion... Desperation
Plot Outline:7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Awards:13 wins & 6 nominations more
followed by = Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) and Cube Zero (2004)
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02-07-2007, 07:21 PM
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+1 for Cube!
And this aint something I saw recently, but always makes me think whenever I do see it - American Beauty.
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02-07-2007, 07:56 PM
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Look for a film called 'The Game' starring Michael Douglas.
I'm sure it was a blockbuster in it's time but its a couple of years old now and was sitting on the back shelf of the shop. I saw it about a year ago, made me think about where i was headed in life a bit.
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02-07-2007, 07:56 PM
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Watch the Godfather series at least 4-5 times until you actually understand it 
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02-07-2007, 08:27 PM
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+1 cube
-1 for cube 2
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02-07-2007, 08:28 PM
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nothing will ever beat the original
low budget and pure awesomeness
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02-07-2007, 09:07 PM
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Donny darko is another great one.
Green street hooligans
The football factory
Boondock saints
those above are fairly good movies
big fan of Danny Dyer (actor in football factory) too
Willow if you wanna go back to your childhood
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02-07-2007, 09:07 PM
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+1 cube
Secretary
Silent running
Das Boot
Drunken Master 1+2
Police Story
Once Upon a time in China 1-4
Wong Fei Hung (awesome Jet Li action)
Leon aka The professional
Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (Dreamship Surprise)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Psycho Beach Party
etc
etc
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02-07-2007, 09:09 PM
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Not a whole heap of plot involved, but good movies.
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02-07-2007, 09:23 PM
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+1 for Donny Darko.
Watched that shortly after reading a book about the theories relating to time travel, written in laymans terms by an astrophysicist. Went together well
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02-07-2007, 09:26 PM
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Donnie Darko is good but the extended one which I watched after the original cut adds too much info and spoils it a bit IMO If you haven't seen it watch the original cut.
also watch Bubba Ho Tep
lol
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02-07-2007, 09:44 PM
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The Departed.
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02-07-2007, 11:31 PM
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Transformer! worth paying 15 bucks to watch on the bigscreen.
grow up watching the cartoon now it on the big screen. awesome.
btw don't pay to watch shrek3.
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02-07-2007, 11:36 PM
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04-07-2007, 10:10 AM
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+1 The departed
+1 The Boondock Saints
+1 Blood Diamond
Also
In Too Deep
Man On Fire
The Knockaround Guys
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