fav. movie?

[Mao Tse Tung]

i thought this up while posting in the fav. tv show thread.so post ur fav movies

my list:

mallrats
clerks
slc punks
american beauty

and some others,those r the most recent seen by me.....

there isnt a thread on this already,is there?

 

[ComradeDavo]

here's mine:

The Last of the Mohican's
The Thing
Blade Runner
Monty Python search for the holy grail (is that the right title, can't remeber!)
the 3 Naked Gun films and of course the Star Wars trilogy.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

These are real fine films: (in no particular order)

Das Boot
Airplane!
Dark Star
Raising Arizona
Get Carter

I'll stop there, I could go on all night...

 

[animepornstar]

pascal's ride on la peripherique

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Very hard to choose, but my current fav film would be "if"(1968 d. Lindsay Anderson)

 

[Strik]

Originally posted by Mao tse tung

there isnt a thread on this already,is there?

Yes there is and I started it.

It is called I'm so original, Favorite movies?

Oh well some of my favorites are:

Braveheart
Leon the professional (extra long version)
Traffic
The Godfather I,II,III
Saving private ryan

 

[WarandPeace]

umm, lets see...

Schindler's List
Vertigo
Psycho
Amadeus
Godfather I, II
Lawrence of Arabia
Raging Bull
Dr. Strangelove
One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest

umm, can't remember anymore now. But spielberg's schindler's list will always be my favorite of all time.

 

[allan]

The Deer Hunter
On Deadly Ground
All the "Dirty Harry" Movies
Apocalypse Now
Deep Cover
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
The Stand
Unforgiven
Enemy of the State
Saving Private Ryan
The "Indiana Jones" Movies
Star Treks II and VI
The Star Wars Trilogy (and I'm sure the others will be too, as they come together--quite a story they make)
Pulp Fiction
Return to Paradise
1984
The Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles

And as for the classics:
North By Northwest
The Manchurian Candidate
Casablanca
The Time Machine
The Dirty Dozen
Cool Hand Luke
Doctor Strangelove
The Magnificent Seven

 

[WarandPeace]

Originally posted by allan
The Deer Hunter

Apocalypse Now

And as for the classics:
North By Northwest
The Manchurian Candidate
Casablanca
The Time Machine
The Dirty Dozen
Cool Hand Luke
Doctor Strangelove
The Magnificent Seven

I'd think Apocalypse is a classic as well

If you liked The Magnificent seven, then what about The Seven Samurai?

 

[Mikoyan]

A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
All Monty Python movies
La Haine
Alien II
Predator
The Thing
Marx Brothers: An evening at the Theatre
From dusk til Dawn
Star Wars episodes 4-6
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Plan 9 from outher space (it's so HILARIOUS!)
Dune
2001: A space odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
Beavis and Butt-Head do America
Das Boot
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Lock, Stock and Two smoking Barrels
Snatch
The Rutles: All you need is cash
The Filth and the Fury
that's all folks, for now...

 

[allan]

I never saw "the Seven Samurai", although I've heard about it and would want to. Is that supposed to be the same basic story but in feudal Japan?

"I'd think Apocalypse is a classic as well"

Very true, I guess I was thinking of classics as more from an era than "classic" quality. In the latter category, "Apocalypse" (and "the Deer Hunter", and I think "Shawshank" as well), would be "classics". Dirty Harry too....

 

[The Balrog]

1) The Truman Show.
2) The Jerk.
3) (That movie where Steve Martin is that fake preacher)
4) Liar Liar.
5) From dusk til dawn( I THINK)
6) Predator
7) Scary Movie 2
8) Scary Movie

I could go on......

 

[WarandPeace]

"I never saw "the Seven Samurai", although I've heard about it and would want to. Is that supposed to be the same basic story but in feudal Japan? "

Yes. Actually the samurai story was seen that it could be a western and thus ripped for it.

Originally posted by El Présidenté
1) The Truman Show.
2) The Jerk.
3) (That movie where Steve Martin is that fake preacher)
4) Liar Liar.
5) From dusk til dawn( I THINK)
6) Predator
7) Scary Movie 2
8) Scary Movie

I could go on......

ROFL! yeah i go on too :crazyeyes

 

[animepornstar]

seven samurai is about ten times better then the magnificent seven. i had seen the magnificent seven before i saw seven samurai and i was suprised by how much better the original was.

 

[duke o' york]

Ran
Once upon a time in China
Land and Freedom
Hudsucker Proxy (well, all the Coen films)
Cool Hand Luke
Le Dîner des Cons
Grosse Pointe Blank

And erm, others I can't be bothered to list. I would like to take issue with those people who chose Schindler's List as a great film. Now I'm not telling you what you should think here, but ultimately the bare film, once stripped of its issues about Nazi cruelty, is fundamentally dull. And the film is far too long. There are a few set piece scenes but the rest is just packing in between them. It is reminiscent of the old epic films in this respect. Cecil B De Mille would take the skeleton of a plot and stick a couple of immense battle scenes in, filling up the rest of the film with ill-conceived low-budget packing having blown all his (and the studio's) cash on the battles with thousands of warriors. Computer-generated images will save filmmakers a fortune should they ever try to resurrect this kind of film and hopefully this money will be redirected into producing a decent story and good dialogue.

 

[VanOranje]

1) Taxi 1 & 2 (Extremely cool "France" Movie)
2) Saving Private Rian (WAUW)
3) Alien (s) 2 & 3 (All great sci-fi FLICKS)
4) Predator (1) & (2) (The book of Predator 2 is better though)
5) Nikita (the org. france movie is much better as the american remake)
6) Leon
7) All movies of chaky chan (I hope I write it ok)
8) 3 kingdoms (a very nice movie about the start of CHINA)
9) Terminator 1 & 2
10) BLADE

I could go on forever but this are the ones who float on the surface of my BRAIN. Also all the movies of Mr. Schwarzeneger are also ok even Commando. His first action movie.

 

[VanOranje]

I forget

Conan the barbarian & Conan the Destroyer

THE BEST TWO MOVIES EVER MADE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by VanOranje
7) All movies of chaky chan (I hope I write it ok)

OMG!!!
It's the bizarre and twisted lovechild of Jackie Chan and Chaka Khan!

 

[Simon Darkshade]

In Schindler's List, Neeson and Fiennes have electric screen/stage presence, and go off well together. Kingsley does well too.
A lot of ground already covered by others, so I'll chuck in my two bob:

if
Wilde
Michael Collins
In the Name of the Father
Romper Stomper
All the old Clint Eastwood ones (Western and Dirty Harry)
The Seventh Seal (Go Max Von Sydow!)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (John Wayne told to show some awe )
Spaghetti Westerns, particularly, DJANGO, the man with the machine gun in the coffin
Christopher Lee Dracula films (the early and good ones)
The Mission (OUTSTANDING!)
Full Metal Jacket
Das Boot
Triumph of the Spirit (Willem Dafoe, not Leni Riefenstahl)
Metropolis
Triumph of the Will (as a study of propaganda techniques)
Manchurian Candidate
Ferris Buelers Day Off
The Flodders
Johnny Suede
My Own Private Idaho
L.I.E
Strangelove
****oo's Nest
Fritz the Cat
The Longest Day
To Hell And Back
Peter's Friends
Some French film about the events in Algeria late 1950s
Taxi Driver ( Watch it 20 times in row, and then go walking the streets )
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Wild East (Russian Western with bikers and circus dwarves)
Platoon
The Dear Hunter
Papillon
Wall Street
My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstromm)
EXCALIBUR!!!!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTE CLASSIC
Catch-22.
Midnight Cowboy
Deliverance
The Ipcress File
The Fourth Protocol
Fatherland
The Day of the Jackal
The Odessa File
The Boys from Brazil
The Italian Job ("Fellas, I got an idea.")
A Fish Called Wanda
Look Back in Anger (Burton and Branagh versions)
The Usual Suspects
The Professional
The Visitors
The Bridge (v. good WW2 German)
Starship Troopers (If only for the amusement value of the crypto fascist uniforms)
Escape From Sobibor
Some sub thriller with Rutger Hauer and Martin Sheen
Ten Days that Shook the World
Field of Dreams

I'll have to think, and then add more.

Feck!!!!!
I forgot Land and Freedom, a very, very great pic

 

[Mikoyan]

How did i know the Aussie would list Romper Stomper?