Recommendations!

[Zombiedude]

Twilight is a great comedy.

[gospel]

Saw a few movies I would recommend. Not all were groundbreaking or life-affirming, but they were worth a shot.

TV:
Mad Men - I know it's popular and all that, but the first few seasons are quite good.
Deadwood- Easily one of my favorite shows ever aired. The dialogue is sorta dense, but it's very worth it. Jesus, Ian McShane is worth alone.
Spaced - I've hear dit described as if QC was British and made into a sit-com. The humor is very British-dry, and it's filled with tons of movie (rare and popular) allusions.

Movies:
Cashback - Guy gets dumped, works at a grocery store due to his inability to sleep, re-established his artistic gaze, romantic stuff, etc.
3 Iron - A Korean film with almost no dialogue. Namely, the main character goes to peoples' houses when they are on vacation or out, uses the palce a bit, cleans it, and fixes stuff. He  eventually meets a girl whom is treated poorly by her husband. The two have a small excursion; things get complicated.
Broken Flowers - Bill Murray is always good for a laugh or smirk. Easily Jarmusch's more accessible of films. If you haven't heard of Jarmush--which I doubt--I'd give Dead Man a go.
Deadgirl - A strange, indie twist on the psyche-horror. Two adolescent, outcasted boys come across what is essentially a zombie girl. Morality is pondered if it is acceptable to screw her, and things escolate from there.
Reign Over Me - I was really, really surprised by this film. I'm not a huge fan of Adam Sandler, and I thought Punch Drunk Love was okay (tried a bit hard). Nonetheless, Don Cheadle coupled with numerous recommendations made me see it. I have to say, it was really good, especially considering it was a 9/11 (sorta) based movie. I haven't seen United 93, but I hear it's actually not as bad as it looks.
Visioneers - An entertaining, lightly-scathing "indie" comedy. it's worth a shot if you're in the mood for a not-quite laugh-out-loud comedy.
The Fall - It's fantastic. I think enough has been said here to affirm that.

[Jeans]

Hey to whomever said "Please Kill Me" above. Here are some others you may find enjoyable...

Totally Wired : Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews (reading this now; see also Rip It Up & Start Again)
John Peel: margrave of the marshes
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division
Kids in the Riot: High and Low with the "Libertines"
OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Big Star: The Short Life, Painful Death, and Unexpected Resurrection of the Kings of Power Pop
Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays
Go Now
Patti Smith : An Unauthorized Biography
Godlike
Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno

Add "Dance of Days" to that list. Washington DC hardcore punk history. Reading this book will basically explain to you why punk is awesome and why you should have an altar dedicated to Ian Mackaye in your house.

[Theriandros]

Movies:
Reign Over Me - I was really, really surprised by this film. I'm not a huge fan of Adam Sandler, and I thought Punch Drunk Love was okay (tried a bit hard). Nonetheless, Don Cheadle coupled with numerous recommendations made me see it. I have to say, it was really good, especially considering it was a 9/11 (sorta) based movie. I haven't seen United 93, but I hear it's actually not as bad as it looks.
The Fall - It's fantastic. I think enough has been said here to affirm that.

Speaking of United 93, it was an excellent movie, but I couldn't take it as seriously as intended because one of the actors playing a hijacker looked exactly like one of my high school teachers.

Also, regardless of story, The Fall is worth it just for the visuals.

[doombilly]

Add "Dance of Days" to that list. Washington DC hardcore punk history. Reading this book will basically explain to you why punk is awesome and why you should have an altar dedicated to Ian Mackaye in your house.

Cool deal, thanks.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

The Fall is worth it just for the visuals.

I would pay $100 just to watch the intro to The Fall in an IMAX theater or something like it. Naturally, i would be super stoned and it would blow my mind so thoroughly that i would never be the same again.

the movie, as a whole, is good (not great) but holy shit the intro is fucking....fucking....uh....SPECTACULICIOUS

[Theriandros]

The Fall is worth it just for the visuals.

I would pay $100 just to watch the intro to The Fall in an IMAX theater or something like it. Naturally, i would be super stoned and it would blow my mind so thoroughly that i would never be the same again.

the movie, as a whole, is good (not great) but holy shit the intro is fucking....fucking....uh....SPECTACULICIOUS

Also, the wedding scene is good for this.

I would pay $5 to see the surgery scene while stoned in IMAX, though.

[StreetSpirit]

John From Cincinnati - easily some of the most entertaining and witty dialogue as well as a wonderfully vague and yet very potent story.

[pilsner]

Please take your friends who are Twilight fans to see Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in).  This is an especially good idea if you never want them to talk to you again.

If you do rent this try to get the Canadian DVD distributed by Mongrel or the 2009 American DVD.  Do not get the 2008 American DVD distributed by Magnolia, apparently the subtitles are completely fucked.  Alternatively, look for the proper subtitles online, if you are watching this on a compy.

[scarred]

oh my fucking god that is such a good movie no seriously

[pilsner]

Apparently the message Oskar taps into the box at the end is "puss" (Swedish for "kiss" according to Google Translate), and it was the actor's idea to do that.  Woah.

[scarred]

They also dubbed over the Eli's voice with the voice of a boy. What.

[pilsner]

Uhhh... there's a reason for that.  It will become apparent if you read the book.

[TheFuriousWombat]

So am I the only person that thought that movie was actually pretty bad?

[StreetSpirit]

Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[ViolentDove]

New China Mieville book, The City & The City is really good. Different vibe to the Bas Lag novels, more of a existential murder mystery a la Paul Auster or something.

[Aurjay]

I watched "let the right one in" when it was on Sundance ppv and still try to persuade my friends to give it a chance. By far one of the best vampire flicks ive ever seen and just completely different in every good way. ***spolier***

there was a topic thread on IMDB about the gender of the vampire. I've heard the book says its a boy thats been mutilated but the movie seems to make strong suggestions of it being a girl or even both. Either way still a great movie.

**edit** i lied i saw it on the internet not Sundance. There was a previous thread just about this movie.
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,21799.msg748828.html#msg748828 had to go to that thread to refresh my memory :/

[sean]

i nabbed a torrent of it to check it out when i was home two weekends ago. i was fairly unimpressed, it was kind of whatever. i think the rip i had though also had the shitty subtitles which really didn't help (the english was kind of whacked out). i feel that better subtitles wouldn't have improved the film significantly though.

edit: wait i just checked my copy and compared it to the link pilsner posted my subtitles were good. weird. maybe sweedish just translates oddly to english? i dunno doesn't change the fact i didn't care much for the film.

[Ikrik]

Some great movies recently, some of them documentaries. 

Right now I'm watching Control Room, which is about how Al Jazeera has portrayed the Iraqi war.  It's incredibly powerful the way they interview this one American whose beliefs are completely questioned.  It is really amazing, even if it's a little old and they talk about Bush and Rumsfeld a lot.

S21: The Killing Squad of the Khmer Rouge.  Or something to that affect.  It's these two survivors of this horrible prison camp who go back and look through stuff and one of them even talks to some of the guards there.  He tries to get them to see themselves not as victims but as the instigators of some of the horrible things they did, the guards, predictably, keep saying they were also victims.  It's another incredibly powerful documentary even if there is no conclusion.

Thirst is not a documentary but it is another absolutely incredible film from Chan-Wook Park, director of Oldboy.  If you like any of his other films this is something you need to see right now.  This and Let the Right One In are incredible vampire films. 

[Dimmukane]

Thirst is not a documentary but it is another absolutely incredible film from Chan-Wook Park, director of Oldboy.  If you like any of his other films this is something you need to see right now. 

Saw this, I concur.  While I was a huge fan of his visual flair in the Vengeance trilogy and I'm Not A Robot But That's OK, he still makes this movie distinctly his own without the flashiness of his previous films. 

[Daft pun]

The Trotsky

The best, well, most entertaining anyway, film I saw at this year's IFFR. The main character is a 17 year old kid who's convinced he's the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky, hilarity ensues.