If you like musicals and comedies maybe you would enjoy Southpark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, as long as you dont mind ALOT of cussing. Let me just say i envy you getting to watch Pirates and Zoolander for the first time on the same night.
Everyone will laugh at me for this one…
OK, so I like Jackie Chan. I like the revenge plots (you killed my master, now I will learn the Snake technique and avenge him, you will die) of the 70’s, the big budget action movies (Police Story) of the 80’s, and the masterpeices (Drunken Master 2) of the 90’s.
I don’t expect too many people to join me with this fascination.
However, yesterday I saw the film Miracles. This film was a response to the criticism that Jackie is a one-hat filmmaker. I was awe-struck. Great engaging characters, hiliarious moments, you may cry at the end! I know you have seen Rush Hour or Rumble in the Bronx, give Jackie one more chance and rent Miracles!
You’ve probably seen all these twicks but here are the ones I rent over and over:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Strangelove
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
and the great political BBC mini-series with Ian Richardson - House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut
Well, as promised, I rented Pirates and Zoolander – plus a third movie, which I’d never heard of but came across when I was looking for Pirates (which I guess has been out for a while! I was looking for shelves and shelves of it, and it was only about a half-shelf’s worth) --**On Edge**, a mockumentary about figure-skating, a sport I’ve been following avidly for more than 15 years. I’ve got to figure out who I was talking to recently who was teasing me about this, and tell him or her that the movie he or she said should have been made, has been.
So, anyway, I watched that first – very fun, fans of the sport will really enjoy some of the cameos and in-jokes, others will enjoy having their prejudices reinforced. 
Then I watched Zoolander, which really is pretty damn funny. The fate of Derek’s posse was great, and I loved all the bizarre cameos – I almost shit when David Bowie popped up.
Pirates maybe this afternoon – it looks like it’s going to be a miserable, cold, rainy day here.
To respond to some of the suggestions made: Pythagoras, I’ve seen all but three of the films you mention, and liked them all, so I’ll definitely look for those three, since you seem to have intuited my taste!
bookbuster, the only Jackie Chan flicks I’ve seen are Shanghai Noon, which blew me away, and Shanghai Knights, which I didn’t hate quite as much as a lot of people did. I’ll keep an eye out for Witness
Silent Movie, Arsenic and Old Lace, Brazil, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – all great flicks!
Keep the suggestions coming, gang – I’m going to print out this thread and keep it in my purse for future trips to the video store.
bookbuster – **Miracles[b/], not Witness. I’m not going to even try to figure out that synaptical short-circuit; apparently I was only looking at coding, not content, when I previewed.
I love the oddball, offbeat cult flicks, and here (once again) are three of my all-time faves:
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Withnail & I(1986; set in 1969). Honestly, the funniest funny/sad movie ever made, full of the sort of dialogue that fans love to quote in long stretches. Two destitute, long-unemployed actors living in a London slum leave the city for a weekend in a primitive country cottage owned by one of the actor’s rich, gay uncle – and, as the cliche goes, “hilarity ensues”. (Actually, the hilarity sets in immediately; the whole thing is a howling riot.) Rent the Criterion DVD if you can find it (2 minutes’ worth of dialogue snipped from the original U.S. release and VHS version, plus a wonderful documentary, and a superior anamorphic transfer of the film.) The improvised “Withnail” drinking game that some fans are said to play (basically, trying to keep up with the on-screen boozing) is absolutely lethal.
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The Wicker Man(1972). Often cited by critics as one of the very best horror movies ever made (or, alternatively, as the best British horror film), it’s not really a conventional horror flick at all – as it’s more accurately described as a musical detective thriller/murder mystery and religious melodrama, with an art-house sexploitation sensibility and a uniquely haunting soundtrack. Made partly by naifs who had never before directed, acted (all those Scottish villagers/extras, that is; the cast includes Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee) or composed music for movies, but it all comes off wonderfully.
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Dark Star(1974). John Carpenter’s storied UCLA (or was it USC?) student film that he, uh, reconfiscated to develop and release. Co-creators included Dan O’Bannon, who would later go on to write “Alien” – a story that shares a certain similarity to this one. The fractured plot: a skeleton crew of four hippy burnouts doggedly pursue their mission, which is to travel endlessly through space, seeking “unstable planets” to destroy with their nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, these unkempt space hippies get on each other’s nerves, tire of their finite stocks of comic books and porn, accidentally jettison their supplies of toilet paper, and take on board a “pet alien” – a cute critter obviously made on the cheap with a red beach ball with big feet attached to it. As is the case with “Withnail,” the plot isn’t half as important as the characterizations and great dialogues – like when the captain attempts to reason with a sentient (but malfunctioning) nuclear bomb which becomes obsessed with questions of epistemology and metaphysics. Made on a near-zero budget, this flick has a special appeal for stoners and/or former philosophy majors and fans of the sort of electronic primitivism that characterized the dawn of the computer age.
So twickster, how was Pirates for you?
I actually curled up and read for a couple of hours last night – :eek: – so haven’t watched it yet – probably tonight, though.
I saw Gothika last night and liked it a lot. Much better than I thought I would.
I also saw School of Rock and got a major kick out of it.