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[Ikrik]

Alright, I see a ton of movies and I'm my friends "movie guy."  If someone wants to see a movie they let me know what they're in the mood for and I throw out some recommendations.  I have two websites where I find the majority of my movies.

Twitch

and

Film School Rejects

Both of which are different, Twitch has a higher focus on Asian films whereas FSR has some really awesomely written reviews. 
So there's where I find most of my films, I have another website which I'm not going to disclose because it's only horror and he's been throwing out some really bad recommendations lately and I might just cut him loose.

So, where do you mostly find the movies that you watch?

[HiFranc]

When I was a heavy film watcher I used to combine searches of Tesco DVD Rental (I was a member) with Amazon recommendations and, as I was with Orange[1] at that time, I used their WAP site to look up films.

[1] The sponsor of the Orange Wednesday 241 cinema tickets offer

[Be My Head]

http://rateyourmusic.com/films/

[De_El]

I mostly find out about movies via getting curious about an actor, or director or producer or editor, style, some element of a movie from something I've seen before and then wikipedia'ing for ages.  I'm not necessarily of the auteur school, but once I saw The Passenger I got really into Michelangelo Antonioni and saw lots of his films, and when I saw Solaris it made me curious about Tarkovsky.  Other times I'll pick a film style and watch tons of movies in a specific vein, like Nouvelle Vague or Italian Neorealism, or Chinese Wuxia or Hong Kong gangster. 

I guess I have a very historical way of looking at films.

[Blue Kitty]

Trailer Addict, the internet, tv, and other movies.

[Ikrik]

I've definitely done the being curious and then trailing them through RT and Wikipedia.  I wish I could name some people/films that transpired from this but none immediately jump out at me.

I picked up Ebert's book on Great Movies and so far I'm trying to watch as many as I can.  So far I've seen 41/100 and I feel pretty good about that number.  It got me to *finally* see such incredible movies as Peeping Tom (which I first heard about here), Ikiru, The Beauty and the Beast (the French version, not the Disney atrocity), Network, as well as The Seventh Seal.  I'll pick up his other two Great Movies books when I can although I hear that the third one isn't out yet.  Does anyone else find movies from books and can recommend any to try out?

[HiFranc]

I've definitely done the being curious and then trailing them through RT and Wikipedia.

RT?

[Ikrik]

Rotten Tomatoes.  I find it's a much better tool than IMDB and is usually easier for seeing if the movie is (generally) worth watching.

[Ozymandias]

The Beauty and the Beast (the French version, not the Disney atrocity)

hurf durf

[Alex C]

The great irony here to me is that Roger gave an absolutely glowing review to the animated version as well.

[KvP]

A good thing to do is to follow film festival coverage on a good site with more than one correspondent. Most anything that's anything will get some exposure at a film festival before it hits theaters. The amount of time is variable.

[KharBevNor]

hurf durf

Well the old one is better (We're talking about Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête right?). And I don't think you can criticise someone too harshly for not liking saccharine childrens movies. When was the last time you sat down and washed an animated disney film for pleasure?

[Ikrik]

I am talking about Cocteau's version.

And honestly i cannot enjoy any Disney version of any fairytale anymore.  I downloaded a giant torrent of all the old Disney classics and I tried watching as many of them as I could and I don't think I kept a single one.  They're great for kids but for my viewing pleasure I'd much rather watch The Iron Giant over anything Disney has put out.

[a pack of wolves]

I fucking hated Disney when I was a kid and I see no reason to change my mind now. Impressive technically and they have their interesting points (can you think of an easier way of explaining Orientalism than just saying "Disney's Aladdin") and all but I'd never watch one just for fun.

Midnight Eye is good for Japanese cinema and I use Cinemageddon for my trash fixes (they very often include lengthy information with the torrents), but mostly I pick up bits of information from random sources or frequently just end up watching what my girlfriend wants.

[beat mouse]

To be fair I watch Iron Giant over a lot of movies constantly.

Per topic of the thread though, the bulk of my friends are either film students or own several hundred DVDs so I suppose you could call any of us "the movie guy" in a broader social setting. I frequent IMDB and keep up with actors and directors I like, just browsing around often leads to fun discoveries. Apple trailers is usually pretty good as well, when it comes to current releases, and the Flixter ap on the iphone is handy for upcoming release dates. Ultimately though, I find that I am much less concerned about staying on the cutting edge of releases than I was say 4 years ago.

[David_Dovey]

I'd be quite prepared to sit down and watch Disney movies for pleasure quite often were it not for the songs. I've got nothing against musicals per sé but most of the songs in Disney films (especially those made in the 90s) just make me want to tear my dick off. The first 15mins or so of The Lion King are fucking flawless, right up to "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", urgh.

[Blue Kitty]

The last real Disney animation I saw was The Princess and the Frog, and I loved it.

[Buttfranklin]

Roger Ebert, and what other people recommend to me as being good.