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[Mindmaker]

A Beautiful Mind (Drama, Biography) - Psychological Drama about a mathematical genius.
The Green Mile (Drama, Crime, Mystery) - Criticizing the death penalty and adressing religion in a modern light.
Road to Perdition (Drama, Adventure, Crime, Thriller) - My favorite mafia movie.

If you enjoy loosing a tear over a movie, or just deeply saddening drama, watch one of those.

V for Vendetta (Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller) - Quote goldmine.

Anything from Monthy Python - Abstract and weird humor, which most people won't find funny.

[Il Palazzo]

Anything from Monthy Python - Abstract and weird humor, which most people won't find funny.

There are people who don't like them? Must be those Austrians - teutonic humour and all.

[Mindmaker]

Anything from Monthy Python - Abstract and weird humor, which most people won't find funny.

There are people who don't like them? Must be those Austrians - teutonic humour and all.

Well I've met a lot of them. I'm always suprised when I find somebody who actually likes it.
British humour in general doesn't seem to be enjoyed here at all. The issue seem to be, that Austrians don't enjoy deadpans and any form of abstraction.

[Vector]

Ah, A Beautiful Mind was pretty good.

I recommend reading the plays Proof and Arcadia if you want to get deep into mathematician-ness, though.  I think there's a movie version of the former, if not the latter.

[Mindmaker]

I shall definitely watch Proof. There's always time for some good movies.
The plays will have to wait, as I still have a heap of books to read.
I'll try to find some room for them, when I pick up the more classical literature again.

[Azkanan]

Road to Perdition (Drama, Adventure, Crime, Thriller) - My favorite mafia movie.

You must be new here.

*redirects him to the Godfather series*

Anything from Monthy Python - Abstract and weird humor, which most people won't find funny.

Blackadder. Watch it. You'll die of laughter.

[fqllve]

Also:

2046 (romance) Chinese

Have you seen the "prequels" - "In the mood for love" and "Days of Being Wild"? It's definitely worth it, not only because they're all wonderful pieces of cinema on their own rights, but also to gain more insights on the characters involved.
"Chungking Express" is another great work of Wong Kar-Wai's, and unlike the previously mentioned three, rather joyous.

I haven't gotten around to Days of Being Wild yet, and I hadn't even heard of Chungking Express. But I'm definitely going to watch that. One of my favorite things about his movies is how beautifully melancholy they are so I'm interested to see how he handles happiness.

The best film I've watched recently is Federico Fellini's 8½. A rather meta semi-autobiographical film about a internationally acclaimed director with writer's block who can't seem to escape the flurry of people asking for his opinion. Incredibly well-done. In hindsight, not sure why it wasn't on my top ten list.

If you haven't, you should definitely check out La Dolce Vita. It lacks the surreal dream-segments of 8½ but the story of the journalist who will never find love seemed truer to me. Mastroianni stars in it as well.

[Retro]

Also:

2046 (romance) Chinese

Have you seen the "prequels" - "In the mood for love" and "Days of Being Wild"? It's definitely worth it, not only because they're all wonderful pieces of cinema on their own rights, but also to gain more insights on the characters involved.
"Chungking Express" is another great work of Wong Kar-Wai's, and unlike the previously mentioned three, rather joyous.

I haven't gotten around to Days of Being Wild yet, and I hadn't even heard of Chungking Express. But I'm definitely going to watch that. One of my favorite things about his movies is how beautifully melancholy they are so I'm interested to see how he handles happiness.

Chungking Express was great. Forgot I'd watched it actually until it came up in the thread, but I thought it was fantastic. If Michael Bay wants to actually make good intensified-continuity stuff, he really needs to borrow a page here.

Mastroianni stars in it as well.

Sold. Although I've heard it's three hours, so it might be a bit until I've got the spare time.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Numbers do not denote any particular favor of one item over another. These are just ten movies that have reached the highest of praise from me.
1. 12 Angry Men (Courtroom Drama)
2. Pulp Fiction (Crime Drama)
3. Snatch (Crime)
4. Spirited Away (Animated Fantasy-Adventure)
5. Kill Bill [Volumes 1 & 2] (Action Thriller)
6. The Descent (Horror)
7. No Country For Old Men (Crime Thriller)
8. Dawn Of The Dead [Original and Remake] (Zombie Horror)
9. Zombieland (Zombie Comedy)
10. Shaun of the Dead (Zombie Romantic Comedy)

[ext0l]

1. A Better Tomorrow
2. God of Gamblers
3. Infernal Affairs
4. The Departed
5. Big Trouble In Little China
6. Fearless
7. The Italian Job
8. Shaolin Soccer
9. Kungfu Hustle
10. Drunken Master

Mostly HK films.

[Max White]

Anybody seen 'The men who stair at goats' lately? I realy enjoyed it, right up untill the very last scene when they totaly killed everything the book stood for... He should have run into the wall.

[FuzzyZergling]

Anybody seen 'The men who stair at goats' lately? I realy enjoyed it, right up untill the very last scene when they totaly killed everything the book stood for... He should have run into the wall.

I loved the whole thing, including the final scene.

[atomicwinter]

1. Fistful of Dollars
2. For a few dollars more
3. The good the bad and the ugly
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Mannaja
6. Children of Men
7. Dirty Harry
8. Men behind the sun
9. Downfall
10. Das Boot

[Max White]

I loved the whole thing, including the final scene.

One of the the points of the book was that anything involving 'psionic powers' was either easily disproven, or told in a story. Clouds in the desert come and go, and if you watch one for long enough it will burst. If you stair at a man and tell him to attack you, yes he is going to be a little freaked out. If you poke somebody in the head, and say that will die at an unknown time by an unknown cause, then dam straight they will, we all will!

I guess when taken out of context and looked at as a movie the last scene still is fitting, but that kills the emersion.

[Retro]

I would have preferred if Ewen had hit the wall at the end. To find out that it was all real was... well, it sort of ruined the entire rest of the movie for me. I got that you were supposed to be like OH MY GOD AWESOME if you saw the trailers where he couldn't do it, but honestly, it was just a film-ruining moment.