MotM November: Suggestions

[keyodie]

As with BotM, here you can suggest any movies that you think should be the next movie of the month. About a week or so before the first day of November, I will post a poll with the movies that are up for nomination. What would be helpful is a description of the movie along with the genre and MPAA rating (if it's unrated, be sure to tell us).

Oh, and I was wondering... what do you guys think we should do about ratings? Are most of you allowed to watch R rated movies? And do you think horror and gore movies would be a bad idea for MotM?

OH. And what about foreign films? I think they would be a great idea, except they may be a bit hard to get for people who don't have netflix are bittorent.

I have 2 suggestions... The only problem is, most of you may have already seen them:


Fight Club
Genre: Drama, Action/Psychological Thriller, Dark Humor
MPAA Rating: R (For disturbing and graphic depiction of violent anti-social behavior, sexuality and language)
Summary:
When corporate drone Edward Norton can't sleep, his insomnia leads him to take desperate measures and introduces him to roguish rebel Brad Pitt. Together they stage impromptu (and brutal) parking lot boxing matches. But when other men join in the "fun," Pitt transforms the club from a group of men rebelling against conformity into a nihilistic cult of pranksters with greater malice in store.


American Beauty
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (For strong sexuality, language, violence and drug content)
Summary:
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is struggling to endure marriage to uber-realtor Carolyn (Annette Bening), an unfulfilling career and a sullen teenage daughter (Thora Birch). Deep into a midlife crisis, Lester becomes infatuated with a friend (Mena Suvari) of his daughter. Soon, he's quit his job and is working at a fast-food joint in this dazzling blend of social satire and domestic tragedy from director Sam Mendes that scooped up five Oscars.

[Hravan]

Just because it's my all time favourite film... (It even beats LotR *le gasp* )

The Boondock Saints.
Genre: action crime drama.
Rating: 18 for strong violence, language and sexual content. (Ok the violence is strong and the language is bad (I think they say the f word nearly 300 times) but the sexual content hardly anything..)
Summary:
Connor and Murphy MacManus (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus - see my banner for Sean.. ) are Irish fraternal twins in Boston. On St Patrick's Day the get mixed up with two members of the Russian mob in there local bar. They end up killing the Russians in self defence (look out for the best crappy Russian accents in the world). Then they supposedly get a message from God telling them to "destroy all that is evil so that which is good may flourish." So with their friend Rocco they go around killing all the bad guys in Boston all the while being pursued by FBI agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe).

It rocks. Just for Billy Connolly's performance it rocks...

However, I do know that it's almost impossible to get hold of it in the UK but I think it's quite easy to get hold of in the USA... It is on youtube though... (that's how I watch it unless I steal my friend's laptop and her imported region 1 DVD )

[keyodie]

Oooh that sounds interesting. And haha yeah, I still need more people's opinions on foreign films... They're just hard to get, that's the problem. >__<

Also, what if we assigned maybe 2 episodes of a TV show for "movie" of the month? Six Feet Under is a great TV show about a family that owns a funeral home, and it realistically shows America's relationship with death.

[keyodie]

Another suggestion...



Noriko's Dinner Table
Genre: Drama, Psych thriller
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Summary: (courtesy of Netflix) Unhappy with suburban life, 17-year-old Noriko (Kazue Fukiishi) spends more and more time on a Web site where she meets and chats with other teenage girls across Japan. But when she runs away from home, her new friends in Tokyo lead her into a dark world. She joins a group that gives her a new personality and family, only to find her dream life turn into a nightmare when a mass suicide of high school girls occurs.



This movie is actually a companion movie to "Suicide Club", which is another Japanese psych thriller/gore movie that is disturbing and really makes you think. Noriko's Dinner Table doesn't have NEARLY as much gore, violence, and shock value, though there are a couple here and there. However, I find them both to be equally thought provoking and disturbing. One of the aspects of the film is a family rental business that allows widows, seniors, etc. to hire people to "roleplay" as family members for a certain amount of time. However, sometimes the actors have a hard time getting out of the role, and so do the clients. There are many disturbing aspects to this film but it is a bit slow at times and runs about two and a half hours long. However, there are so many real emotional conflicts in this film that I really didn't notice. It addresses some problems in the modern family and society. It mainly addresses these problems that occur in Japan, but there are still similarities to those of countries all around the world.

[Caunion]

Well, seeing as I'm not fond of horror movies, I tend to steer away from those. But those might good ideas for MotM. Foreign movies are excellent as well. It'll be nice to see something that's not produced in America. I'll have one up sometime soon. Ratings is not an issue for me. As I'm sure, you already know, keyo