Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Netflix Queue

My queue on Netflix is running low, and I was wondering if I could have some suggestions for some good movies to order. I'm not a big movie buff, and I'm lost in a sea of titles! Help!

6 comments:

Brian said...

Here's a bunch, some of which you've likely seen. Serious drama, funny comedy, black humor, or just plain interesting.

Slums of Beverly Hills
Gladiator
Annie Hall
Once
Maria Full of Grace
American Pie
This is Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
Breaking Away
This Filthy World
The Godfather
The Sopranos
Harold and Maude
Lost in Translation
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Life is Beautiful
Reservoir Dogs
Goodfellas
Unforgiven
American Splendor
Fargo
Pulp Fiction

Hillary said...

Good luck with the surgery! Good idea to have movies queued up. I still say, check out the TV series "Dexter," available on disc. I am enjoying "Lost" on disc, but maybe you've already seen that. Brian and I just started "The Wire." I'm not much for police dramas, but this looks like it could have a lot of good intrigue.

"The Departed" was a hell of a good movie, too. Also "30 Rock" on disc totally cracked us up. Also the Bourne movies were excellent -- the last one was "eh" (unless you love action, cause that aspect was wonderful), but the others were multi-dimensionally non-"eh." Speaking of Franke Potente, there's always "Run, Lola, Run," which is very fun.

On the girlie movie side, I liked "Bridget Jones' Diary" a lot (but of course, I made it into my 30's without a husband or a kid -- maybe I related to it more than you will!), and "Love Actually." Speaking of movies with Hugh Grant, "About a Boy," was really good too. Oh, and "My Best Friend's Wedding" was actually a really fun movie.

Brian said...

I agree with many of Hillary's suggestions. I thought of a few more:

A Boy and His Dog
Like Water for Chocolate
Rear Window

The Mutant Penguin Herself said...

I just watched a good chick flick called "Dead Letter Office". Also, try:
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
In the Land of Women
Children of Men
Eastern Promises
Stardust (2007)
Happily N'Ever After
30 Days of Night
The Dead Girl
That should get you started.
Love, Mom

Brian said...

More suggestions:

Sixth Sense
Dog Day Afternoon
Super Size Me
The Devil Wears Prada
United 93
Million Dollar Baby
A Beautiful Mind
Braveheart
Forrest Gump
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs
Dances with Wolves
Driving Miss Daisy
Rain Man
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
The Deer Hunter
Rocky
The Sting
Patton
West Side Story

Do not rent anything with "Earnest" in the title, it will hurt your brain.

Brian said...

The Dead Poets Society
The World According to Garp
The Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally