Hollywood Babylon

[sab]

Hello from the basement, I'm here pleading for movie recommendations. Any help? SWF with VCR but no cable ISO movies in the style of the following movies I have seen and perhaps moderately enjoyed:

• Space Movies: (Starship Troopers, Lost in Space, Event Horizon)
  
• Submarine Movies: (Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, U-571, Below)
  
• Undersea Alien Movies: (The Abyss, Sphere)
  
• Natural Disaster Movies: (Twister, Volcano)
  
• Unnatural Disaster Movies: (The Andromeda Strain, Outbreak, The Stand)
  
• Wilderness Disaster Movies: (A Perfect Storm, Limbo, K2)
  
• Expatriate or Colonial Movies: (Out of Africa, Gorillas in the Mist, Gandhi)
  
• 70s or Early 80s Romantic Dramas: (Kramer vs. Kramer, Author Author, An Unmarried Woman)
  
• War Movies: (Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Enemy at the Gates)
  
• Heist Movies: (The Thomas Crown Affair, Heist, Nine Queens)
  
• Psychological Thrillers: (needs no introduction...)
  

That'll do it for now. Vote early, vote often. Thank yew.

Comments

[qowf.livejournal.com]

No movie stuff here, but glad to see you're back.

Call ptpatricia if you can today. She needs to talk to you. She called me last night wondering if you were okay.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I don't have her number! tell her to call me, will you? Or e-mail me her number? Thaaaaaaaanks.

Re:

[qowf.livejournal.com]

I just text messaged you her number. Let me know if you got it.

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

Get ahold of some copies of Cowboy Bebop and watch them. You will be a fangirl, I tell you what.

[laurakaye.livejournal.com]

I think you might enjoy eXistenZ- directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jude Law and, er, a ton of other Canadian people. Jennifer Jason Leigh, I think. Doesn't really fit any of these genres but spans many of them- kind of cyberpunky.

Have you seen Sneakers? That's an enduring favorite, a combo of heist-movie and spy-movie.

If you can find a copy, and are in the mood for something quieter, you might enjoy Don McKellar's Last Night, which is about the last night of the world and how people spend it.

(if you like these, I've got more...)

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

* Space Movies: Outland, Forbidden Planet, Enemy Mine, All the Alien movies, especially 2,
* Natural Disaster Movies: I have a book rec here, "Lucifer’s Hammer" by Niven and Pournell
* Unnatural Disaster Movies: Infinitemonkeys recced that new one 32 days or whatever. Night of the Living Dead, that John Carpenter one where Jesus was a mathematician, On the Beach – the black and white one with Fred Astaire, please.
* Wilderness Disaster Movies: Alive (I think, soccer team plane crash in the Andes), The Flight of the Phoenix (I can’t tell you how much I adore this one), plane crash in the Saudi desert
* Expatriate or Colonial Movies: A Passage to India, The Far Pavilions, Shogun. Tai-Pan was pretty, but bad, the Four Feathers, also pretty but bad, Kim, Gunga-Din, Beau Geste, Black Robe,
* 70s or Early 80s Romantic Dramas: On Golden Pond
* War Movies: I just saw and was impressed with "We Were Soldiers", Hart’s War also sucked less than expected and had a plot twist, Saving Private Ryan IS that good, Platoon, if you haven’t seen it, The Green Berets, because you just HAVE to, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Stalag 17, the Hill, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen (fun), Kelly’s Heroes, A Bridge Too Far, The Eagle Has Landed, Tora, Tora, Tora, The Eye of the Needle, (there are so many good ones from the 60s and 70s. Basically, if you see David Niven or Michael Caine in the cast, it's probably worthwhile.)
* Heist Movies: Three Kings, Taking of Pelham, One, Two, Three
* Psychological Thrillers: the Innocents (Which IS Turn of the Screw), Midnight Lace, Spellbound, Rebecca, Gaslight, The Lodger,

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

I will add the spagetti western to your list. You need some of these badly.

Try The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly to start. If you hate it I will speak no more on the subject.

[unsated.livejournal.com]

Cyberpunk Movies: Bladerunner, Brazil, Johnny Mnemonic, THX 1138, New Rose Hotel

Dystopian Future Movies: 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Soylent Green, Equilibrium

Anime: Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, Spirited Away

Trippy Time Travel Movies: Le Jette/12 Monkeys, Donny Darko, Millennium

Spy Movies: SpyGame, Three Days of The Condor, Sneakers

Weird Math Movies: Pi

[quasiradiant.livejournal.com]

huh. i suck at categorizing. but there are movies i have been watching. yes, indeed. kubrick, especially: clockwork orange, dr. strangelove (maybe my all time favorite movie?), eyes wide shut (fucking weird). also, how about 'rear window'? that's a psychological thriller!