I need a movie recommendation

[Relztrah]

Typically male I like shoot-em-ups, action/adventure, high tech movies. And typically female my wife likes chick flicks, historical drama, tearjerkers, etc. But we both enjoy comedies so I need some suggestions for a movie we both can enjoy. We LOVED The Man Who Knew Too Little with Bill Murray, HATED There's Something About Mary...if that helps. Any suggestions? Oh yes, it has to be over a year old so that I can get it in the cheap section (or use my freebie coupon) at Blockbuster.

Thanks,
Relztrah

[PrntRhd]

Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains.
or
Monty Python anthology from the TV series. (12 disks)

[yawningdog]

As a huge fan of the dark comedies, I recommend Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, and Suicide Kings.

[josemavicente]

you may want to find BATTLE ROYALE, a korean (?) flick wherein people ar eplaced into a relality show like survivor but the catch is they have to kill each other in some island. the second twist is that in that island they're given really dumb weapons like newspaper rolls, tweezers, etc. :D

[FrankSG]

My favorite movie by far (I don't know if I'm going to spell it right) is Shawshank Redemption.

[Donn]

Considering your combined tastes:


1. Like Water For Chocolate, made in Mexico, directed by James Berardinelli

2. Mullholland Falls (Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, John Malkovich) NOT to be confused with Mullholland Drive. In a similar vein: Bullit, directed by Mike Nichols, with Steve McQueen--this is the original car chase movie, even though the French Connection is KNOWN for it's car chase scene, Bullit is the original.

3. Ditto the Mothy Python TV Anthology. Barnes/Noble had it on sale for $200 for the box set. However, I'd also recommend Monty Python: The Meaning of Life...almost threw up my dinner from laughing so hard.

4. If you can find it, I believe the movie is called The King of Hearts, starring Alan Bates and Genevieve Boujold, from 19....73? An amzing story line, touching and howlingly funny at times.

5. For an action movie if you can beat T1, Aliens 2, or the first Predator, let me know. After the first time I saw Aliens 2-- I thought I had been hit by a truck.

6. If you want to just enjoy something, a good story, fantastic camera work, a REALLY good story and character portrayal....Dersu Urzala by Akira Kurasawa. You might or not know that the America movie The Magnificent Seven (Stebve McQueen, Yule Brenner) is the adaption of the Kurasawa movie The Seven Samurai.

7. Skin Deep starring John Ritter (1983? 84?), hilarious, this was a Blake (Pink Panther) Edwards movie, and some of the schtick (comic mechanisms) used in this movie were lifted from the last Pink Panther movie because Peter Sellers passed away just as they started rolling.

That should keep you kids busy for a while.

Best//Donn

[Budfred]

Dersu Urzula AND Seven Samurai are 2 of the best films ever made!!:cool: :cool:

[karatekid3d]

The Last Samurai and One Hour Photo are probally two of my favorite all time movies.

[map]

One of my favorite movies is in the comedy $1.00 section. The title is After Hours. Take the strange trip into this movie. Rosanne Arquette and Teri Garr are in it. It is funny and bizarre with a lot of satire. When you come back to reality at the end you will say, "Wow! That was so weird."

[Orion]

My (as well as my wife's) favorite movies out of all the few movies we both like are (in order)

True Lies (arnold schwarzeneggar...or whatever, the gov.):
Action with strong comedy, and arnie saves his relationship! guy pretends to be computer salesman, is in fact an undercover operative, tom arnold is his sidekick. wife disillusioned, finds other guy (car salesman) pretending to be secret agent, hubby finds out, wins wife back and gets kidnapped....etc...wife learns how to use (read: drop) an uzi!

American President:
just enough reality to keep from corniness, and just enough comedy to keep from turning my stomache. romance with touch of...whatever political movies have...and comedy. single president finds a romantic match in a member of the opposing party's lobbying committee.

Undercover Blues
mostly comedy, but also action. two retired spies with baby child get recalled to action, and are most amazingly nonchalant about it...think avengers with a family.

Dave:
another comedy/romance/political. pres has heart attack while getting frisky with mistress, so the secret service calls in a dead ringer from his car salesman job, and he balances the budget, wins the heart of the pres's wife, makes everyone happy, etc...

hope that helps...I know it's hard to find compatible movies...everythings either "too actiony" or "too corny/sappy"
Orion

edit: almost forgot! "Chocolate" turned out to be surprisingly likeable to me! some of the music is great...didn't think I'd like it, but it felt "real" somehow...I can't abide "corniness"

[jeeza]

"The Man Who Would Be King", starring Sean Connery and - I am not quite sure - Michael Caine.
It's an adventure story, but a very unusual one. It's a kind of epic.
The settings are the region in the neighborhood of Afghanistan, somewhere between Afghanistan and the Himalayas. Forget today's Afghanistan, think Afghanistan end of 19th, beginning of 20th century.
These two adventurers are starting out on a journey and they reach a small country, very difficult to reach as it's a very mountainous environment, and very closed to western civilization.
Circumstances would have it that one of them gets to be King...
And the sentimental side isn't left out either. There is a love story in it too...
A movie which you won't forget easily.

[Orion]

::whacks self in head::

I can't beleive I forgot my wife's and my favorit movie of all time! The Princess Bride is a wonderful movie, and it's got everything. it's kind of a romance with a touch of drama, and kind of an action adventure flick with a touch of romance. andre the giant, cary elwes, mandy patinkin, billy crystal, etc. are all wonderful additions to the cast...it's rather your typical boy loves girl, girl falls in love with boy, boy leaves to find fortune, boy ambushed by pirates (whom we all know leave no prisoners), girl claimed by scheming prince, girl kidnapped, stranger chases, swordplay and wrestling inconceivably occur, battle of dizzying intellect ensues, narrow escape, betrayal and capture, torture, six fingered man revealed, occurance of mostly death, disillusioned miracles, rescue, bluff, vengeance, and make up movie. there, I think that's detailed enough to make you want to see it, and vague enough that you'll not have it spoiled. I've not met anyone yet who has seen it and disliked it, so I would guess you'd like it too. (though, if I'm wrong, I will hereby apologize and completely fail to reimburse you for the money you spent renting it.)

have funa dn good luck!
Orion

[Whyzman]

I will second Orion's suggestions of Princess Bride,True Lies, and Chocolate...

Also, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels...Michael Caine and Steve Martin.

A Knights Tale...Heath Ledger (Thoroughly enjoyed! And, you gotta watch it all the way through the credits. ;) )

Noises Off...John Ritter, Carol Burnett...

My Favorite Year...Peter O'Toole

These are not in any special order...

[Ghost_Hacker]

hmmmm....

Princess Bride....Proably the best "$1.00" comedy you could get.

Babershop... ( the "carwash" of this decade.) the 2 guys who steal the ATM had me rolling :D

Can't think of any other comedies right now........

[Ghost_Hacker]

Oh, one other I really liked...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? .....an adventure/musical comedy. Not everyones cup of tea but it might surprise you :)

[Whyzman]

Little Shop of Horrors...the remake with Steve Martin and Bill Murray in the dental chair...hehe...the songs are worth the price of admission...

Speaking of musicals...I did enjoy Moulin Rouge...Nicole Kidman...

[Donn]

Let me add Enemy Of The State, and two animated classics: Tron, and The Small Planet.

Best//Donn

[Orion]

you know, I loved the music in moulin rouge, but I had a hard time watching it. I like movies with...shall we say...a less abstract tinge to them. this one had a plot, but it was just....weird...it's like a kaleidoscope with music. good music, but nonetheless...
Orion

PS: is TRON considered animated? wonderful movie...but it won't be as good (if good at all) to anyone not familiar with the way a computer works. I know my wife certainly didn't get most of it...To people who are hardcore fans, however, TRON 2.0 (the computer game) is in my opinion worth it just for the story line. it's like a fully developed sequel, only you get to be in it!

[Donn]

Sorry to offend senseibilities by calling Tron 'animated', it was the only word I knew of to call a movie without live actors. what di you actually call it.

Best//Donn

[pave_spectre]

Originally posted by Donn
Sorry to offend sensibilities by calling Tron 'animated', it was the only word I knew of to call a movie without live actors.

Without live actors? Is this the same Tron movie I've seen where the guy gets sucked into the computer by the wierd lasery deal? I recall it being done entirely with live actors!:confused: It just had a weird set.

[jabarnutcase]

Lot of good suggestions above....

Sometimes when I'm bored, two of my all time favorites in the "oldie but goodie cheap section" are the original Arthur with Dudley Moore and Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

......"funny stuff"

[jeeza]

An extremely funny movie with Dudley Moore was "After Hours".
I recommend it.

[map]

After Hours with Rosanne Arquette and Teri Garr? It had Griffin Dunne.

[jeeza]

Griffin Dunne ? You may be right, map.
It's a name I don't remember from any other movie, maybe that's why I mixed it up with Dudley Moore's, and also as I remember that actor looked very much like Moore.

[map]

Griffin Dunne was also in Who's That Girl. OK it was a bad movie, but I still like Dunne. He should do more. I haven't heard of him lately.

[map]

By the way, Jezza, you are the first person I've met who liked the movie!! I try to get people to watch it but they always turn it off before the end. The ending is so great! They just don't get it. :)

[Donn]

I thought Tron was animated, maybe I missed that it was live-acted with a weird set. That was the old days, ah, herbal days, for me.

Best//Donn

[Budfred]

"Tron" was partly animated and revolutionary animation for the time...

[pave_spectre]

Yeah that sort of wireframe 3D thing. Had one of the Bridges in it and that guy from Babylon 5.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by Whyzman
Also, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels...Michael Caine and Steve Martin.
I have seen that one. Hi-larious !!!
It is obvious those two had a lot of fun acting in that movie.:cool: :p
I noticed a particular scene where Michael Caine had some difficulty repressing his own laughter - Steve Martin's antics were that funny.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by map
By the way, Jezza, you are the first person I've met who liked the movie!! I try to get people to watch it but they always turn it off before the end. The ending is so great! They just don't get it. :)
The end is a finale in minor, you could say. Or in minor 7th.
It's an anticlimax. If you have watched the whole movie, it should make you burst out with laughing (mixed with pity for the movie's hero)...

[Whyzman]

Originally posted by jeeza
I noticed a particular scene where Michael Caine had some difficulty repressing his own laughter - Steve Martin's antics were that funny. The "Rupricht" (sp) scenes, especially at the dinner table had my jaw and stomach knotted up...I thought I was going to herniate a disk when he asked to be excused to go to the bathroom...:D

I have it on DVD, but will still stop to watch if I happen to see it replaying on cable...