Movie Recs

It all started when I hit my limit on wildernessguru's action films...

I'm no fragile flower when it comes to movies, but this week while watching Army of Darkness (don't tell me you like it, please, I still want to respect you in the morning) I couldn't take it any more. Partially this is because Army of Darkness is just that bad, and partially it's because the last three weeks' entertainment choices have included:

( Click for the bloodbath. )

I've had it.

He's bitched and moaned about my Lord of the Rings marathon, groaned over my I, Claudius (though he got interested enough to ask me about it later), whined at Olivier's King Lear, walked out on and complained from the next room about West Side Story, avoided Evita! (he did love Cabaret), and put out a "get this movie out of my space" vibe when I bought Fantasia.

Now he's just going to have to deal with my kind of movie.

In my post entitled "This is war" I asked you guys to recommend movies of a nature that wildernessguru hates. This includes subtitles, slow-moving dramas, Shakespeare, musicals and... let's just say he fled from the delightful original Japanese Shall We Dance? Light-hearted romance (especially with subtitles).

Some people picked movies that would cause any human to keel over dead (read the descriptions here) and some of those I haven't included because most were movies wildernessguru liked and I hated. Ha.

But many of you recommended movies that sound really cool. I can't wait to see them, I thought I'd share them with you all. (Note: I'm still updating the list.)

The Movie Recs

First a rec for a listing of various foreign films, check 'the screening room'.

Also, check out the Dogme95 movement for the antithesis of the action blockbuster.

( Ah, the subtitles WG hates. )

( Black & White Dramas, light on the action, heavy on the acting (WG loves Hitchcock, you see) )

( Television shows WG hates. )

( Shakespeare. Guaranteed to drive him up a wall. )

( Musicals. Yes, he walked out on West Side Story. )

( Nice, British-y Dramas )

( I'll have to look these up again )

( Bollywood! )

In all fairness, so you can see that WG's not all bloody action all the time, here's what else he's brought home. (Also, I get frustrated in stores of all kinds, too many options, so if I don't bring a list I generally leave. This has left him in charge of the movie selection.)

- A really interesting and beautifully filmed documentary about the history of surfing
- A respectful and touching documentary about paraplegics who play Rugby in wheelchairs
- A painful and sensitive documentary about people who jump off the Golden Gate bridge, with footage of the suicides
- A documentary about the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war and his take on war and politics
- The famous Michael Moore documentary "Bowling for Columbine."
- An illuminating documentary about the credit card industry that made me want to cut up every credit card and send credit card applications back with the words 'fuck you' across the envelope