# I'm going to Blockbuster. Movie Suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692 "2004-07-05T21:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/1 "2004-07-05T21:14:33Z")
I like comedies and horror flicks, and ratings aren’t and issue. So Dopers, got any movie suggestions for me? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/2 "2004-07-05T21:25:25Z")
Do you like Elvis? Do you like Bruce Campbell? If so, rent Bubba Ho-Tep. It isn’t terribly scary, but you could technically classify it as a horror-comedy. Bruce Campbell plays an aged Elvis Presley, still alive in an East Texas nursing home, where an ancient Egyptian mummy is preying on the souls of the elderly. It is definitely funny, and the real horror presented, moreso than the mummy, is coming to terms with old age. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/3 "2004-07-06T00:31:07Z")
House of 1,000 Corpses People Under the Stairs Dead Dudes in the House ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/4 "2004-07-06T00:48:47Z")
If you, for some unfathomable reason, haven’t seen _This Is Spinal Tap_, do yourself a favor and rent it. Get the DVD, if BB has it, and you can watch it a second time with the hilarious commentary. For a mix of “horror” and comedy, try _Dead-Alive_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/5 "2004-07-06T01:00:02Z")
[Club Dread](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331953/combined) for when you’re in the mood for some mindless horror comedy. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/6 "2004-07-06T01:46:48Z")
It’s not as well-known or mainstream, but I love _Greenfingers_, starring Helen Mirren and the ever-dreamy Clive Owen. Feel-good movie, funny, based loosely on a true story about a prison in England that started a gardening program. I really love that movie. Great ending. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/7 "2004-07-06T01:46:57Z")
Ah, this is right up the alley for the denizens of Cafe Society. Of course I will nobly refrain from aspersions about exactly which alleys they hang out in. Moving it on over… TVeblen, IMHO mod ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/8 "2004-07-06T04:52:44Z")
Death to Smoochy. ---
**Author:** ![x27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7993a0/32.png) [@x27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x27)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/9 "2004-07-06T05:25:13Z")
If I’m ever at a loss as to what to rent, I always go with a documentary. I’ve seen around 20 or so the past months (everything from theremins to full contact fighting to spelling bees and ex-radicals) and it’s a guaranteed good watch, pretty much everytime. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/10 "2004-07-06T05:56:52Z")
I have posted it before, but my favorite horror film is Mother’s Day…the first five minutes alone ought to grab your interest. It is an old(er) film, but I think I just read that if finally came out on DVD. For comedies, I like a lot of the “little” films that were not blockbusters in the theaters…especially some of the British independent films…Waking Ned Devine was good, Saving Grace was another…we just rented Along Came Polly and it was so-so (and that is being generous). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-blockbuster-movie-suggestions/253692/11 "2004-07-06T06:29:25Z")
_Army of Darkness_. If you only watch one more movie in your life, make it that one. Failing that, _A Fish Called Wanda_.