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A recent film should have been released in cinemas no more then 18 months ago, a not so recent film should have been released no less then 18 months ago.

I liked Wall.E and Resident evil apocalypse

I'd have to say Wall-E is my favourite recent film, as well as the best film ever, in my opinion.

In recent films... I found Horton Hears A Who to be quite emotional (I get touchy with these 'child-like' things). Twilight was very good, too. And Stardust, which I recently watched, was very good. I think that's about it for recent films, though.

My favorite recent films are covered in the top ten of 2008 topic, but so far as non-recent goes:

A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Oddessy, The Big Lebowski, Gerry, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Requiem For a Dream, Eraserhead, Mulholland Dr., The Life Aquatic, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine..., Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, Alphaville, Memento, Aliens, The Machinist, Rosemary's Baby, A Shot In The Dark, Apocalypse Now.


That about covers it. Basically anything -not- directed by Brian de Palma.

Not recent:

Aliens, Alien, Blue Velvet, Buffalo 66, La Belle Et La Bette, Brick, Spirited Away, Fight Club, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dark City, LOTR trilogy, etc...

Basically anything -not- directed by Michael Bay.

Fight Club and the LotR movies were good.
However, Animal House is the best movie ever made.


Also Dazed and Confused.

Man on the Moon

Nightmare Before Christmas

Spirited Away

Kung Fu Panda

Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)

Wall-E

Dark Knight

recent: dark knight
not recent: 12 angry men

TRANSFORMERS IS THE BEST MOVIE...


..MEGAN FOX MAKES THE FILM

I really liked Yes Man, but not much else recently.

As for not-so-recent, Be Kind Rewind, Dan in Real Life, and The Truman Show. I have a thing for movies that make you laugh as well as really hit you in the face as a beautiful piece of work. You don't really expect Jack Black, Steve Carrell, and Jim Carrey (respectively) to do that, but hey...

I want to see Synecdoche, New York but I can't find it anywhere.

OneSevenNine wrote:I really liked Yes Man, but not much else recently.

As for not-so-recent, Be Kind Rewind, Dan in Real Life, and The Truman Show. I have a thing for movies that make you laugh as well as really hit you in the face as a beautiful piece of work. You don't really expect Jack Black, Steve Carrell, and Jim Carrey (respectively) to do that, but hey...

I want to see Synecdoche, New York but I can't find it anywhere.

I saw that this past June. wonderful, wonderful! movies I have recently seen and enjoyed watching: Sin City, [/i]The Dark Knight[/i] I saw for the 3rd time today. oh yeah, Gandhi too, last month, of course.

movies I saw a looooooong time ago: too many to name, I named most of em on some thread on the old forums. main three: [/i]The Pagemaster[/i], Hero (w/ Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung), The Bugs Bunny & Roadrunner movie

I just watched Oldboy (2003).

This is a Korean film with English subtitles and my god was I impressed. It was a deep, complicated and confusing story that slowly explains itself bit by bit, which left me in awe. The acting was superb and I don't know what else to say, other than watch it.

wedgie wrote:I just watched Oldboy (2003).

This is a Korean film with English subtitles and my god was I impressed. It was a deep, complicated and confusing story that slowly explains itself bit by bit, which left me in awe. The acting was superb and I don't know what else to say, other than watch it.

They're remaking it, WITH WILL SMITH!

Ah so it seems. That would be...interesting. I think it would be a real stretch for Will Smith to play such a role though. :/

EDIT: I've also just watched The Pianist. It was pretty long, and I'm not much a fan of war films anyway, but this was a well made film that carried some real emotions home.