oh god. you don't want to know...
red dragon so i could see ralph fienns nekked haha
j/k
i dunno nothing comes to mind that wasn't/isn't terribly recent...

That would have to be Young Frankenstein or Murder by Death.

Something funny, with a lot of camera/sound subtleties, like Shaun of the Dead, or Snatch

OR a super cheesy b-movie, like Dawn of the Dead (original) or Evil Dead.

Sin City was awesome on big screen. hmm. I could think harder but I should be doing me problem set :p

The Fountain, definitely.

Or y'know... anything with zombies.

Something very visually tantalizing like Sin City, Mirrormask, or Pan's Labyrinth.

Seriously.

I would have to pick ELVES, a bad b-movie horror film starring GRIZZLY ADAMS' Dan Haggerty as a chain smoking renegade, loose cannon mall cop turned mall Santa out to solve a mystery involving a young virgin, Nazi genetic experiments, and magically summoned elves. The truth is more horrible than you could suspect. Or maybe you could, I don't know.

Serenity.

But then, that's been done...

Or maybe Fight Club.

Serenity... but I would have alternative motives for doing so.

300.. but only if it was IMAX.

Master and Commander (really needs to be see in a theater).

Hero

Fight Club, Princess Bride....

But you knew that. ;)

Silent Hill, Iron Monkey...

-Tod Browning's Freaks
-Irreversible (I saw it first on the big screen and on the little screen it doesn't have nearly the same effect)
-Microcosmos
-Oldboy (there has to be one Korean movie on this list)

-not necessarily in that order

Winged migration.

But then again, I am a NERD.

I'm getting my parrots tattooed on me tomorrow! Heehee! Yay birds!

You might consider Blood Diamond. Here's what it delivers: violence, romance, intrigue, and a believable, well-scripted and well-acted personal transformation that opens possibilities for social transformation. And it's all based on a situation that really exists.