Here are some other movies I would highly recommend:
- Die Hard (1988):
New York cop, John McClane, goes to California to meet his estranged
wife, Holly, at her work Christmas party. The party gets hijacked by
German terrorists (the main bad dude played by Alan Rickman) and it is up
to John McClane to save the day by knocking them down one by one
and yelling, "Yipee ki yay mofo!" a few times. Best Bruce Willis
movie(s) ever!
- Dear Frankie (2004):
Okay, this might be a "chick flick" but j'adore! It is a really sweet
movie about a single parent who writes letters to her son posing as his
father. Very cute movie start to finish.
- The Mist (2007): Ah The Mist, one of the most fail-safe movies out there. Kind of like The Man From Earth,
it is one of those movies that very few people can possibly dislike.
If you have not seen it, chances are you will enjoy watching it! It is
based on Stephen King's novel of the same title. People go about doing
their business as usual but then all of a sudden this enormous mist
creeps up over the land and strange creatures/ monsters start to emerge
from it and start killing people in horrific ways. GREAT monster flick.
- Cube (1997):
I really like this movie because there is nothing quite like it out
there. Several people are kidnapped and placed into a massive Rubik's
cube/ maze. They seem to have been individually selected based on their
skills: there are 2 child prodigies, 1 doctor, 1 police man, 1 escape
artist, and 1 architect. Just a really intriguing movie that I highly
recommend.
- Rope (1948):
Probably one of my favourite Alfred Hitchcock movies. Simply put, this
movie is about two boys who commit murder and throw a dinner party to
covertly celebrate, with the body hidden in plain sight. "[We have
committed] an immaculate murder...We are alive, truly and wonderfully
alive!" Among the guests, they invite their favourite professor, played
by James Stewart, who senses that something is amiss. There is a lot
of tension and as the night wears on, the boys start to lose their
confidence. This movie plays with a lot of the themes from
Friedrich Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals: Superior humans vs.
inferior humans, superior humans being above 'morality' in the
conventional sense of the word, etc. It is the tension throughout this movie that makes it one of my all time favourites.
- Conversations With Other Women (2005):
Okay, another "chick flick" alert but I personally really, really,
appreciate the place this movie is coming from. I think I read
somewhere that men generally find it more difficult to watch because of
the split-screen format. The entire movie is split-screened so we see
what is currently happening on one side of the screen and what had previously taken
place on the other (this is possibly a spoiler, sorry!). It is driven
by a dialogue taking place between the two main characters (Helena
Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart) at a wedding. It is a very flirty
movie because it does not give everything away, you have to sort of
figure it out along the way. It touches on the complexities of human
relationships; companionship, monogamy, first love, forgiveness, guilt,
growth, change, nostalgia, etc. Really love this film!
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