I really need to find the Christopher Lee heavy metal Charlemagne album.

I want to see a British movie called 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare'

I might even write it myself.

In regards to Rutger Hauer, what about The Hitcher? And for Stallone and Hauer how about Nighthawks?

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Uh, yeah....Sir Christopher is the ****ing man. Goddam.

My favorite Christopher Lee role is as Skull the leader of a gay motorcycle gang (The Road Reamers) in the little known severely under rated Serial(1980). One of my favorite movies.

Those of you who didn't like Whiplash may like this version better:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a21...a/not-my-tempo

Can anyone recommend a realistic thriller? No prolonged shoot-outs or guys walking away from explosions or cheap twists. I liked the first half of Prisoners, but then it got absurd, but something along those lines is what I'm looking for.

Try The Secret In Their Eyes. Won 1 oscar and is ranked #139 on IMDb top 250, I guarantee you wont be dissapointed, is a flawless movie that matchs the criteria youre looking for. Let me know what you think of it later

Seven
Zodiac
Shutter Island
Talented Mr Ripley
Argo
No Country for Old Men
American Psycho

If you don't mind subtitles:


Headhunters
Oldboy
I saw the devil
The Chaser

Ahem

Outstanding recommendation.

Hollywood is remaking it. The cast and crew are outstanding but they'll do really well to come close to the original. It really ires me that so few people are willing to see a foreign language film with unknown actors that it's economically viable to remake a, as you say, flawless film.

Talking of which, Infernal Affairs or it's U.S remake . I preferred the original, but since the latter is a very close copy, it took the "thrill" out of the "thriller". Both meet your criteria. It's more of a "thriller" than TSITI which leans towards "mystery". Either way, you'd love them both.

If you want a political thriller, The Lives Of Others is the GOAT film. It doesn't feature shootouts but it's certainly gripping.

Yes the Lives of Others is fantastic I love it


Currently halfway through A Touch of Sin and I am enjoying it a lot. Didn't know who this Jia Zhangke guy was before the movie but I'll have to check out his other movies. Beautiful stuff. Just noticed it was on netflix now i'm slightly perturbed I rented it

I'd co-sign all these, though American Psycho might be out of place given his specification that he's looking for something realistic.

If subtitles are okay, definitely seek out Tell No One (it's on Netflix instant). If you like it, try Red Lights and Lemming (also French).

If you haven't caught the 70s classics, a lot of them hold up really well, and lean far more towards realism than explosions. Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor, Duel, Charley Varrick, Deliverance, Assault on Precinct 13, etc. Must see films, all.

Worst recommendation ever. This movie is hysterically bad. If you want every single cliche thrown into a movie, a plot that makes no sense, a stellar cast completely wasted, and the biggest groan you ever uttered when the big reveal is disclosed, then watch this movie. Watch Richard Roeper's review of this movie, because it was very entertaining.

http://www.richardroeper.com/reviews/redlights.aspx

Chef

A bit of a disappointment here. This was obviously a love child of Jon Favreau (he stars, directs, and he wrote it). It follows a chef for a high-end restaurant who gets a bad review, implodes, gets fired, and tries to get his life in order after that. There are way too many arcs that aren't completed, most egregiously the Scarlett Johanson one. She plays the hostess who sort of has a thing going with Favreau. The best scene in the movie is him cooking for her and her giving him the come **** me eyes, but really she's just making love to his food. It's a wonderful scene, and may be worth watching just to see her doing her thing alongside the cooking. All the cooking scenes are fun to watch, and made me hungry despite just having finished a big dinner. Unfortunately about half way through the movie, they have a strange conversation, and then we never see her again. Big mistake.

The middle half of the movie is him getting a food truck from Robert Downey Jr. (again, a weird cameo that didn't go anywhere), and driving across the country making food along the way. It felt like a really extended montage, and I was very bored throughout this sequence. The big arc that it solves is his relationship with his son, which honestly I didn't care about, especially with so many other interesting options. After the montage is over, the movie wraps up a couple loose ends in a nice bow with a quick 5 minute ending that doesn't really make sense, and still leaves a bunch of things unanswered.

If you are a big foodie, then you will enjoy this for the cooking scenes, but as a movie, I felt it fell a bit flat.

Finally, somebody watches A Touch of Sin. Jiang Wu is fantastic in it and it really is a fantastic juxtaposition of the problems of modern China with elements of classic Chinese literature such as The Water Margin.

The one Chinese movie I want to see is "Black Coal, Thin Ice".

For thrillers, in the vein of Zodiac, I thought the Korean film Memory of Murder was amazing.

Nice, wp.

Gone Baby Gone, Blood Simple, Fargo, Body Heat, The Silence Of The Lambs, The Long Good Friday, Into Thin Air starring Ellen Burstyn (it's dated, but still very good), and going way back The Day Of The Jackal.

+ Get Carter 1971

Yup, love that one too. The remake was a sin.

Had to double check I wasn't reading legend's review of Whiplash again

I was talking about the French film. Yes, the DeNiro movie is wretched.

Ran out of time to edit original post. Great companion pieces between Korea and US :

Memories of Murder
and
Zodiac


Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
And
Mystic River

Pretty sure ScarJo and RDJ did those cameos as a favor (Iron Man and all). If they weren't stars I doubt you'd be expecting resolutions to their stories. And RDJ's scene was really funny imo.

I liked the movie a bit more than you, and wholly agree about the cooking scenes (it makes a grilled cheese sandwich look like the Holy Grail of food). They were almost as delectable as Big Night.

I really loved Chef.

i also really enjoyed payback the directors cut (much darker then the theatrical release).