Good Movies You would Recommend Others to Watch

[Querida]

I just saw Wedding Crashers yesterday...it was shocking, lewd yet hilarious! I recommend it to those who didn't mind american pie and the like...

[ramsri]

Another movie is Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner, slow but good...

right - 'Dances' is one of the *greatest* westerns of all time. kevin costner made his directorial debut with this film, and won oscars for best director and best picture and was nominated for best actor! must be some kind of record. and add to all this the fact that the film won seven oscars beating out competition from the likes of 'Ghost', 'Goodfellas', and 'The Godfather Part III' which were at the oscars the same year. stunning achievement.

City of god - set in Calcutta is another nice movie....

based on dominique lapierre's novel of the same name, right? anyone read it?

[abbydoss1969]

Another movie is Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner, slow but good...

right - 'Dances' is one of the *greatest* westerns of all time. kevin costner made his directorial debut with this film, and won oscars for best director and best picture and was nominated for best actor! must be some kind of record. and add to all this the fact that the film won seven oscars beating out competition from the likes of 'Ghost', 'Goodfellas', and 'The Godfather Part III' which were at the oscars the same year. stunning achievement.

City of god - set in Calcutta is another nice movie....

Dances with the wolves is not western! It is anti-western.
It is made from the Point of view of the native Americans. Traditional westerns are made from the Pov of white guys, trying to conquer the frontier, with the natives being the villians.

based on dominique lapierre's novel of the same name, right? anyone read it?

[abbydoss1969]

Another movie is Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner, slow but good...

right - 'Dances' is one of the *greatest* westerns of all time. kevin costner made his directorial debut with this film, and won oscars for best director and best picture and was nominated for best actor! must be some kind of record. and add to all this the fact that the film won seven oscars beating out competition from the likes of 'Ghost', 'Goodfellas', and 'The Godfather Part III' which were at the oscars the same year. stunning achievement.

City of god - set in Calcutta is another nice movie....

based on dominique lapierre's novel of the same name, right? anyone read it?

Dances with the wolves is not western! It is anti-western.
It is made from the Point of view of the native Americans. Traditional westerns are made from the Pov of white guys, trying to conquer the frontier, with the natives being the villians.

[NM]

Ramsri..I haven't read the book.......is it good??

[ramsri]

Dances with the wolves is not western! It is anti-western.
It is made from the Point of view of the native Americans. Traditional westerns are made from the Pov of white guys, trying to conquer the frontier, with the natives being the villians.

good point! that's exactly what makes the film a modern classic - the fact that it didn't fit into any of the subgenres or parodies of a western. in that sense, it was in a completely different mould, breaking away from the kind of steretypes that one associates with films of that genre. and one gets a sense of this central theme pretty early on in the film, when john dunbar (costner) is asked why he wants to be posted on the frontier, and he replies:

I want to see the West ... before it's gone!

if you liked 'Dances', check out 'Open Range' another beautifully made western. this one has costner teaming up with robert duvall and annette bening.

[ramsri]

Ramsri..I haven't read the book.......is it good??

it's very good. probably one of lapierre's best works, second only to 'freedom at midnight'.

[alwarpet_andavan]

City of god - set in Calcutta is another nice movie....

based on dominique lapierre's novel of the same name, right? anyone read it?

Isn't it City Of Joy?

[alwarpet_andavan]

Dances with the wolves is not western! It is anti-western.
It is made from the Point of view of the native Americans. Traditional westerns are made from the Pov of white guys, trying to conquer the frontier, with the natives being the villians.

That's pleasantly surprising AND interesting.
Wish HW made war movies also without imposing the American viewpoint. We do have (anti)war movies like Platoon, but at worst they glorify American genocide and at best take into account only the Amercian cost of war, and not the costs of the victims

Even in Apocalypse Now, the story has just two view-points - that of the Americans and the French.

[NM]

AA : yes it is City of Joy, as pointed out by A ratchasi earlier...

Ramsri : I will get the book.......i liked the movie very much!