Need recommendations

[opinionatedfan]

I need to update my Blockbuster queue and I'm out of ideas. I usually add anything that I see in previews or friends recommend so I figured this group would be good to ask. What I'd like to add would be good action flims, comedies and some family movies. Give me a list of your favorites so I can add anything we haven't seen yet.

[Stubblecat]

Ooh... That's a tough one.

I'd perhaps Google up a few lists of some of the best-reviewed films of the last 20-30 years. My personal tastes border on the eclectic, so I'm always quick to recommend excellent foreign or indie films. Granted, a lot of people hate subtitles and the like...

Here's a foreign suggestion (not sure if Blockbuster would carry it though. I'm biased against Blockbuster, to be fair):

If you like Martin Scorcese's The Departed, why not go seek out the film on which it was based: The Japanese film Infernal Affairs. The story is almost completely identical, and the only major change is that a certian major character lives at the end of the Japanese version, allowing 2 excellent sequels.
Actually, it's a prequel and then a sequel. But they're still awesome, and you get to essentially continue the story of the characters that you saw in The Departed.