What movie has made your jaw drop that I probably haven't seen?

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Anonymous wrote:the name of the rose
shawshank redemption

Shawshank is one of my all-time faves.

Is there anyone who hasn't seen that one though?

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Sophie's Choice
Kramer v. Kramer

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Just went through all of the suggestions and saw some great previews! Can't wait to start watching them. Thanks for the suggestions and let me know if you have more.

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Night of the Hunter - probably one of the scariest movies ever made. Spike Lee has Radio Rahim do an homage to Robert Mitchum's tale of love and hate in "Do the Right Thing."

The Lives of Others - fantastic look at life inside the East Bloc before the wall came down. And the ending? F**king amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the name of the rose
shawshank redemption

Shawshank is one of my all-time faves.

Is there anyone who hasn't seen that one though?

I haven't, but I just added it to my netflix! I don't really keep up with movies, so a lot of these so called popular movies I've never heard of. I'm going to be adding a bunch more to my netflix que.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, she said movies she likely hasn't seen, so I'm not sure why people are recommending these huge blockbusters?

Well, Gladiator was big, but I don't remember it staying with me. I want to see it again now because I think I was distracted the first time, and I had a hard time with his family/kid/whatever happened to them... Gladiator poster, what was it about the movie? Haunting?

As a parent, I found it haunting because he held his family close in his heart, as did his fellow gladiator friend, despite all the violence and tragedy they experienced. I don't think I would have felt that way were I not a parent at the time. I also found Russell Crowe's "A Brilliant Mind" even more haunting. He should have won the Oscar for that one. I do have a sibling with schizophrenia and found it to be an eye-opener, even with its "creative" differences from the real story.

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L'Amistad. I balled my eyes out in the ship scene. Almost had to turn it off it was so disturbing.

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Anonymous wrote:This version of Jane Eyre:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229822/?ref_=nv_sr_1

It's one of my favorite books, and I was very impressed how good it was.

I saw this one. I did like it but I wouldn't say it was jaw dropping or stayed with me. I also like the BBC version - more true to the book.

Not jaw-dropping but definitely stayed with me.

Which BBC version did you prefer 1983 or 2011. Timothy Dalton was way to pretty to play Mr. Rochester and Zelah Clarke was way too dumpy to play Jane. I really like Ruth Wilson as Jane, but Fassbender has Stephens beat as a more compelling Rochester hands down. (Compare the two in the aftermath of the fire. Stephens is way too flip.)

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Anonymous wrote:American History X
Murder in the First

Both Ed Norton and Kevin Bacon should've received Oscars for their roles in the respective movies.

OMG yes. Ed Norton was scary as hell in that movie. The curb scene....shudder.

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Anonymous wrote:beasts of the southern wild

Plus 1. Also loved the Jane Eyre movie mentioned above. Sixth Sense, of course!

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Wings of Desire

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Incendies

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This version of Jane Eyre:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229822/?ref_=nv_sr_1

It's one of my favorite books, and I was very impressed how good it was.

I saw this one. I did like it but I wouldn't say it was jaw dropping or stayed with me. I also like the BBC version - more true to the book.

Not jaw-dropping but definitely stayed with me.

Which BBC version did you prefer 1983 or 2011. Timothy Dalton was way to pretty to play Mr. Rochester and Zelah Clarke was way too dumpy to play Jane. I really like Ruth Wilson as Jane, but Fassbender has Stephens beat as a more compelling Rochester hands down. (Compare the two in the aftermath of the fire. Stephens is way too flip.)

2006, didn't see 83 version. Stephens was flip, but I think that also made him more vulnerable. But I do think Fassbender is yummier.

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Boxing Helena

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Anonymous wrote:Searching for Sugar Man

Jaw-dropping but in a great way

It's a documentary.

I was saddened when I heard the director had died. I loved Sugar Man and would have loved to have seen more of his work.