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« on: March 05, 2005, 11:10:23 am » |
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I always find myself far away from the video store when I hear about something I want to watch, and then incapable of remembering any of said titles at said store. As such, I feel it is time to begin a movies thread.
Here's the favs that come to mind for me:
Fight Club: violent, thought-provoking, and funny. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: film by Guy Richie, more of the above. Snatch: Less of the above, but still quite comical.
Lawrence of Arabia: Great acting, epic story, long as a motherfucker. Doctor Zhivago: More of the above.
Clerks: Funniest Movie Ever
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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2005, 11:15:36 am » |
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My top five, in no particular order, are as follows:
A Time to Kill A Few Good Men The Shawshank Redemption (can you tell yet that I like court/prison movies?) The Fifth Element The Nightmare Before Christmas
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2005, 11:54:08 am » |
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A few of my favourites, which once again are in no particular order:
The Shawshank Redemption Fight Club Dr Strangelove A Beautiful Mind Life of Brian
Sort of Notting Hill - not a classic work of cinema, but pretty good nonetheless.
Other films worth seeing are Gladiator, Ocean's 11, Rounders, Love Actually and The Rock.
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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2005, 11:58:10 am » |
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These are my faves:
Raiders of the Lost Ark Seven The Sting Pee-Wee's Big Adventure The Princess Bride Fletch Ridicule (French) Gattaca Sling Blade
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« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2005, 12:11:50 pm » |
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Waking Life Mulholland Drive/Blue Velvet The Shining/2001/Clockwork Orange City of God Pi/Requiem for a Dream
For comedies, Old School, Harold and Kumar, and Freddy vs. Jason were all hilarious but I don't think they'd stand up to repeated viewings.
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« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2005, 01:16:39 pm » |
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The Big Lebowski Rounders Ocean's Eleven
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« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2005, 02:05:37 pm » |
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Some of my favourites:
- Shakespeare in Love - Moulin Rouge - Forrest Gump - Ice Age - Gandhi - American Beauty
Also: Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings
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« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2005, 02:07:41 pm » |
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Predator The Matrix The Ninth Gate Kill Bill 1&2 Pirates of the Caribbean
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« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2005, 02:09:12 pm » |
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Shaolin Soccer, and to a lesser extent Kung Fu Hustle (which was a little more serious, but still quite good nonetheless) Note that these are English subtitled releases. This bothers some people. Boondock Saints, which I've always thought of living out Cannibal the Musical / Orgazmo / Baseketball Mystery Science Theatre, 3000's first video release, "This Island Earth."
If you haven't seen these, then write them down on a slip of paper, stick it in your wallet, and next time amnesia hits you at the video store, you'll have a resource. And obviously I'm not listing strictly mainstream releases so I don't get OMG Th Bill and Ted?! like ne1 hasnt seen taht one lol.*
(Kung Fu Hustle doesn't actually get a US release until May, but Shaolin Soccer has been released and is already available)
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« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2005, 02:18:09 pm » |
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My favorite movie of all tiem would be Scarface.
Next in line are Heat, Lord of the Rings (Trilogy),The Omen, Rosemary's baby,The Exorcist #2 and Shark Tale.
Scarface has to be the best movie ever, IMO.
Movies I need to see include, The Godfather, the second part to The Omen, and the rest of the Exorcist movies.
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« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2005, 02:27:55 pm » |
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LotR, Star Wars, Godfather, anything with Johnny Depp, anything with Tom Cruise, etc, etc.
Ergo: all the good movies.
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« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2005, 02:41:47 pm » |
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Lots of stuff has been named already, so I'll just give a shout-out to Hayao Miyazaki, especially Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. (edit: for the purists, Miyazaki Hayao, Mononoke Hime, and Sen to Chihiro No Kamikakushi).
Oh, and jp's favorite is "Battle Royale", which is really good, if ridiculously violent.
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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2005, 03:24:42 pm » |
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In no particular order after the first-
The Shawshank Redemption O Brother, Where Art Thou? AIRPLANE The Nightmare Before Christmas American Beauty Braveheart Romeo+Juliet Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Anchorman Eyes Wide Shut Super Troopers The Usual Suspects Road to Perdition Les Miserables Good Will Hunting Requiem for a Dream The Princess Bride
As a rule, any movie that's got great setting, cinematography and score will make my list. Some of those up there (Crouching Tiger, Road to Perdition) are there for solely that reason. Others wouldn't be there were it not for the uncontrollable beauty that is Claire Daines.
Ellen Burstyn's "wanting to be on tv" monologue from Requiem for a Dream is my favorite acting performance of all time, followed by Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption.
A small part of me wants to love James Horner as a composer, then the rest of me beats that part up and reminds it that he's a theiving hack.
I'm getting that way about Thomas Newman, whose Shawshank score was immensely original and touching... but whose Pay it Forward, American Beauty, and a whole host of more recent scores all sounded the exact same.
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2005, 03:28:09 pm » |
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I can't possibly narrow it down to such a brief list, but it doesn't surprise me at all that most of my favorites have already been named (seeing as you all have such good taste ;-). The list is ever-changing but this is what I came up with:
- Fight Club (best quotable movie ever) - The Big Lebowski (I've seen this at least 15 times) - Snatch (I'm one of the few ppl who actually find it better than Lock Stock) - The Fifth element (good call, Ephraim) - Pi (this movie was responsible for me seriously wanting to become a director for over a year)
Some of the ones not yet named: - Braveheart (gotta love big men in skirts) - Lost Highway (Matt, how could you name Mulholland Drive and not this? ;-) - The Straight Story (OK, an atypical Lynch flick but it really touched me) - LOTR trilogy (I don't care it's popular...it's friggin' brilliant) - Irreversible (the rape scene is one of the most disturbing scenes ever caught on tape) - A Clockwork Orange (I hope this one speaks for itself) - Full Metal Jacket (ditto) - Alien series (yes, ALL of them, muthafuckaz) - Girl, Interrupted (no, I won't go into that) - Il Postino (pure poetry on the silver screen) - Dog Soldiers (OK, so this may not be briliant but it was the most fun I had in a long time when I saw it)
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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2005, 03:40:32 pm » |
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Chaos Theory: Just don't see Beginnings. That stinkbomb still burns my throat.
I also completely forgot some of the great stuff I saw recently:
Ed Wood: Johnny Depp as the worst moviemaker of all time and Martin Landau as Bella Lugosi. This movie is just ridiculous
Dolemite: This movie started the blaxploitation genre, where the protagonist (or "mack") is undeservingly punished by police officers ("brought down by the man / white devil / mothafucka") and has random sex with white girls. He somehow finds time to save the day as well. Being white makes this movie extremely hillarious.
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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2005, 04:05:19 pm » |
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We've got the Collections / Trilogy's: - The Godfather 1,2,3 - LoTR 1,2,3, - Alien 1,2,3,4 - Predator 1,2 - Cube 1 and 2: Hypercube (BRILLIANT, especially the first one)
Singles: - Lost in Translation (my favorite) - Groundhog Day - Sophie's Choice - Philadelphia - Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail - American Beaty (Kevin Spacey rulez) - Festen (Danish I believe)
Manga: - Akira (Ofcorze) - Spirited Away (This one is REALLY good)
I really love the way Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson communicate and act in Lost in Translation. The setting and camerawork are just amazing.. The soundtrack is really great... A must-see!
Further I guess i really like the humorously depressed style of acting by Bill Murray or Kevin Spacey, with the first one being the best in that.
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« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2005, 04:17:02 pm » |
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Romeo and Juliet Tromeo and Juliet. Kinda hard to find. I thought it was worth it, but some people had a difficult time coping with what they were seeing. From the same company, there's the Toxic Avenger series. So long as you don't spend any money on it, and go into it with low expectations for seriousness, you should enjoy it. Don Hertzfeld's (I probably butchered his name out of bad memory) Rejected cartoons (not quite a movie, but available on DVD) are so classic - as are most of his works. Particularly the one about the guy who keeps getting shut down by women (not on the Rejected CD, I saw it on a film festival special). Bram: wasn't Dog Soldiers the werewolf movie, the one with atrocious costumes and worse-than-B-grade acting, budget, and... well... everything? If so, same here, but I think you have to have an appreciation for "bad movies" to really enjoy that one, whereas Cannibal the Musical and Orgazmo were funny regardless. And I guess Army of Darkness goes without saying for excellence, though I'm a little surprised it took so long to get on this list...
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« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2005, 04:38:20 pm » |
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Most of my favorite have already been listed but I can't leave this forum without adding Twilight Samurai: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/twilight_samurai/One of the better films I have ever seen. The acting and cinematography are nothing short of spectacular. The story is about a lower level samurai and how he survives in daily life near the end of the edo period and into the Meiji Period. It is subtitled but is well worth it.
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« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2005, 05:39:22 pm » |
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For your viewing pleasure...
Audition Battle Royal Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon LotR Pulp Fiction
Ugh, this reminds me to get back some DVDs loaned out.
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« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2005, 06:07:14 pm » |
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Forgot to add Passion of the Christ, The Day after Tomorrow and The Butterfly Effect to my list. The butterfly Effect was nothing short of brilliant (that kid in it was one tough son of a bitch), Day after Tomorrow had cool effects and I like natural disaster type movies (Including Twister and Tornado) and Passion of the Christ is the goriest (non-horror) movie I've ever seen 
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« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2005, 06:15:32 pm » |
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This list is a little old, but I still love all of these films:
24 Hour Party People Annie Hall (Woody Allen) Belle du Jour (Luis Bunuel) Breaking the Waves (von Trier) Crouching Tiger... (Ang Lee) Crumb (Terry Zwigoff) Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch) Eraserhead/Lost Highway/Mulhulland Drive (Lynch) Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris) * Top three best movies ever! Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata) Harlan County, USA (Barbara Koppel) Manhattan (Woody Allen) Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind/Spirited Away (Miyazaki) * Nausicaa is my favorite by him Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) Raging Bull (Scorsese) Ran (Kurosawa) Reservoir Dogs (Tarentino) Sick: the Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick) * not for everyone, but it is excruciatingly beautiful even if it isn't the easiest thing to watch Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch) Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley) The Cruise (Bennet Miller) * OMFG Awesome The Ice Storm (Lee) The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth) * I absolutely love this movie The Shining (Kubrick) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) Trust (Hartley) Wings of Desire (Wenders) * a little on the sappy side, but still What Happened Was (Tom Noonan) Woman in the Dunes (Hioshi Teshigahara)
A couple of honorable mentions: Momento (Chris Nolan), Bad Santa/Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff), Eternal Sunshine..., Deconstructing Harry, Lost in Translation
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« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2005, 09:18:24 pm » |
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- Lost Highway (Matt, how could you name Mulholland Drive and not this? Two reasons: 1. I was just looking to see which movies I liked enough to buy, and I don't have Lost Highway (because it's unavailable in this country for some reason?) 2. It's just not as good as Mulholland Drive. MD actually has a plot that makes sense. Lost Highway is just weird for no apparant reason.
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« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2005, 09:25:57 pm » |
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Battle Royale Spirited Away The Seven Samurai The Longest Day Fight Club Predator Ailens Dodgeball Duel Oh and of course Leon
EDIT: Akira and Rounders, dur. forgot. And Se7en
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« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2005, 09:47:59 pm » |
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« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2005, 09:55:10 pm » |
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Most of my favorites are already here
A Fish Called Wanda Fierce Creatures Office Space Blazing Saddles Robin Hood: Men in Tights
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« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2005, 10:33:43 pm » |
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Omitting ones that everyone knows that I like: After LifeAnnie Hall Chungking ExpressMarriage is a Crazy ThingOasisAnd of course, Grease Suffice to say, I am a huge fan of Asian art films, specifically Korean ones.
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« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2005, 10:50:22 pm » |
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Off the top of my sleep deprived head....
Rounders Akira The Godfather The Sweetest Thing (just ridicule me all you want but the Penis Song in the unrated version is hilarious and its all the more better by three hotties singing it) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (and no I am not talking about Saucemaster, Smmenen, and Cron in order :shock: ) Seven Samurai Swingers True Romance Kill Bill Robin Williams Live on Broadway Mallrats Dazed and Confused
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« Reply #27 on: March 05, 2005, 11:29:03 pm » |
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I have to relist some obvious ones
Fight Club Rounders Nightmare Before Christmas (probably my favorite movie) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Whos got a shoota?) Snatch Kill Bill 1&2
Some ones not listed American History X SLC Punk (awesome sundance movie) Se7en Gangs of New York Romeo and Juliet (new school, Leo one) Man in the Iron Mask Catch me if you Can Minority Report Hudson Hawk Vampire Hunter D Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Point Break Desperado Napoleon Dynamite
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« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2005, 02:09:19 am » |
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I've been keeping a list of every movie I've ever seen for the past few years, and adding any movie that I saw before I started keeping the list as I remember them, so I narrowed this down from them.
Foreign: Salaam Bombay! City of God, The
Action Con Air Equilibrium Face/Off Hunt for Red October, The Matrix Reloaded Rock, The Spider-Man 2
Science Fiction: Empire Strikes Back, The Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
Documentary: Spellbound
Comedy Galaxy Quest Ghostbusters Grosse Pointe Blank Groundhog Day High Fidelity In & Out K-Pax Man Who Knew Too Little, The Ocean's Eleven Office Space Wag the Dog What About Bob? Zoolander Zorro: The Gay Blade
Romantic Comedy: When Harry Met Sally American President, The Chasing Amy Dave It Could Happen to You
Drama: Schindler's List Forrest Gump Gettysburg Good Will Hunting Lost In Translation Mr. Holland's Opus October Sky Rain Man Shawshank Redemption, The
Mystery: Identity Memento
Animated: Toy Story Brave Little Toaster, The Emperor's New Groove, The Iron Giant, The
Independent: Clerks Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
Musical: Fantasia 2000 Muppet Christmas Carol, A Nightmare Before Christmas, The West Side Story
Sports: Rudy Sandlot, The
80s Nostalgia: Transformers: The Movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off Last Starfighter, The Tron War Games
Not Really Categorizable Almost Famous Battle Royale Librarian: Quest for the Spear, The Matrix, The One Night At McCool's Requiem For A Dream
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Bruce Army of Darkness Bubba Ho-tep Evil Dead Evil Dead 2 Running Time
Comedy Dr. Strangelove Montey Python and the Holy Grail Office Space Rocky Horror Picture Show Super Troopers Young Frankenstein
I am lazy American History X American Beauty Better Luck Tomorrow Edward Scissorhands Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Fight Club Kill Bill Memento Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Seven Suicide Kings The Matrix The Usual Suspects
I probably forgot some more.
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