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Suggest a film like Sideways, Darjeeling Limited, Garden State....

Dirty rotten scoundrels
A very long engagement
Amelie
Rain man
Shrek 1, 2, or 3
Kung Fu Panda
 
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Me too, wonderful little film. If youll pardon the pun.

I really fancy him :o
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Something's gotta give
... great humour, so true in the comment on humans, nothing too intense, tiny bit of travel: you will really enjoy
 
The Life Aquatic
Napolean Dynamite is a bit like that, so is Little Miss Sunshine and Donnie Darko, sort of.
 
Thanks for the suggestions, keep em coming. I've got about half o dozen of your suggestions downloading now (thank god for xbox360 streaming avi's on to my big tv).

Last night I watched Slumdog Millionnaire. Easy going it was not...but a great film it was!
 
Not really following the brief but if you like quirky films & have enjoyed Wes Anderson's stuff I suggest you get yourself a copy of Harold & Maude. It's about a morbid teenage boy who doesn't really get along with other people & for fun fakes elaborate suicides to mess with his socialite Mum. He meets a spirited old lady at a funeral & they become friends. It's pretty much one of my favourite films & seems to be really under seen. As a bonus there's a really good Cat Stevens soundtrack too.
 
My recommendation would be Etre et Avoir - a French documentary charting a year in the life of a rural French school. A wonderful film which has humour and certainly says something about the human condition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/etre-et-avoir.shtml

We watched a large chunk of that on my course - it's VERY good especially if you're interested or work in education.

They copied me a DVD of the whole thing but I never got round to watching it. :o then again, I have a film/book/tv programme backlog the size of the North Face of the Eiger.
 
Just you let you know, I am slowly following up on the recommendations in this thread. Watched Adaptation last night and really enjoyed it :cool:

Thanks! :)
 
Just you let you know, I am slowly following up on the recommendations in this thread. Watched Adaptation last night and really enjoyed it :cool:

Thanks! :)

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I always like to point to that film when people slag off Nicolas Cage. While I think he's a shit action actor, I actually think he's brilliant at playing deadbeats and so on.

I love the writer's convention scene.

"What if I wrote a story where nothing happens... you know, just like real life?"

"Wait - NOTHING HAPPENS in real life?"

My mate reminded me the other day of when we went to see that in the cinema and I was laughing embarrassingly loudly in that scene...
 
I get a bit worried about these types of films because sometimes they are excellent and sometimes they are boring and kookyfied. Garden State was one of the most annoying films I've ever seen, cheer the up JD fromScrubs! God he was so miserable, I pretty much hated him. I hate him in The Last Kiss aswell, he seems to love doing these films about the human condition or whatever, shame they're all boring.

He could've been in Lost in Translation too, the most boring film about selfish people ever.
 
He could've been in Lost in Translation too, the most boring film about selfish people ever.

Abso-fucking-lutely!
I hated that film, never understood why people liked it! Fucking horrid people being lonely..... maybe cause you're fucking horrid people don't like you!!!
 
Saw 'Lars & the real girl last' week. Excellent stuff about a oddball guy who falls in love with one of these. Could so easily have been cheap laffs & dick jokes but it's really delicately handled & actually pretty moving in places.
 
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