OT: What are some of your favorite movies?

[Squids]

Let's say not necessarily in order or ones that you think are perfect or anything. But, movies you like enough to want to see a few times.

Here's some of mine:

Swingers
Glenn Gary Glenn Ross
Big Lebowski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Groundhog Day
Adaptation
Being John Malkovich
Vanilla Sky
Office Space
Cast Away
Old School
Minority Report
AI
Close Encounters
Star Wars
Matrix
Most Hitchcock films
Most Woody Allen films
Most Bogie films
Shawshank Redemption
12 Monkeys
Sixth Sense
Eyes Wide Shut (and most Kubrick films)
Shine
Mosquito Coast
Truman Show
Rainman
Graduate
Barfly
Diner

There's others but those are ones I'd own on DVD. I guess since Lord of the Rings is pretty stellar too. But, there are a lot of films I like. The ones above in particular.

How about you? Do you like the soundtrack? The actors? The writing? Directing? Or all?

I just watched Eternal Sunshine. I thought it was brilliant. Jon Brion did the soundtrack which I thought was great and I am going to pick it up soon. The film is well acted, well directed, well written... I can't believe I missed this in the theatre. I recommend it if you are into a wild mind bending trip.

[Caleb]

Oh God - I'll have to get back to you on this one.


Caleb

[clueless]

In no particular order, and for no particular reasons...

"Most Woody Allen films" - indeed
The Wages Of Fear
A Man Escaped
Ho!Criminal Face
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Ladykillers*
The Hill
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
The Conversation
Dark Star
Solaris*
Don't Look Now
Funny Games
Withnail & I
The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Party
at least 50% of Pink Panther films...
Perfect Friday
Get Carter*
Five Easy Pieces
Funny Games
The Vanishing*
Memento (shallow and tricksy, but clever)
Cat People*
The Maltese Falcon
The Fiend Without A Face
The Beast Must Die
Spinal Tap
Lost In Translation
Groundhog Day
Barefoot In The Park (ok, so I'm soft...)
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Mon Oncle
Diva
Jour de Fete
Amarcord
La Dolce Vita
Au Bout de Souffle*
Les 400 Coups (et seqs)
Le Samourai
Kings of the Road
Fitzcaraldo
In the belly of the whale
The Wings of Desire* can you BELIEVE the remake of this?!?! jeeeeeeeez...
Dog Day Afternoon
er...The Blues Brothers...
Les Valseuses
Wild At Heart
Goodfellas
Duel

I expect there are a couple of hundred more

*NOT the (usually) lame beyond belief latterday Hollywood remakes ffs

[Reverend Rhythm]

My two altime favorites are:

The Princess Bride and Young Frankinstein. I think I end up quoting those two movies more than any other.

[Squids]

My two altime favorites are:

The Princess Bride and Young Frankinstein. I think I end up quoting those two movies more than any other.

Yes, two great ones. Abbe something?

[Reverend Rhythm]

Ovaltine?

[Rellik]

Adaptation was a really scary movie not in the usual sense but it was not exactly fun

[Kim Lajoie]

Some of my all-time favourites, that I can remember right now...

Adaptation - Stories within stories! Love it!
Human Nature - Crazy weird premise leads to absurd plot twists!
Being John Malkovich - Just straight twisted.
Vanilla Sky - Lovely colours, music, plot twists.
Pi - Simply awesome.
Requiem For A Dream - Simply awesome.
Fight Club - Just an all-round great movie.
Spy Game - Can't remember why I enjoyed this one.
Basic - Engaging mystery/thriller.
Eternal Sunshine ftsm - Weird psychedelic love story.
Cube - Great low-budget exploration of character.
Cypher - Top-class mind messing (with Lucy Lui!)
The Matrix - Fun sci-fi action romp.
Kill Bill - The colours! The colours!
The Usual Suspects - Classic twister.
Starship Troopers - I really need to see this again.
The Virgin Suicides - Another one I need to see again.
12 Monkeys - Another great twister!
Blues Brothers - Simply classic.

That's all I can remember for now. I like movies that mess with my mind.

Forever,




Kim.

[bluedad]

the godfather 1&2
american beauty
brazil
the man who would be king (just a great story)
harold and maude

[Caleb]

I'll try and jot down some.

Near Dark - loved this horror movie. It's where I got the name Caleb from by the way.

Requiem for a Dream - tore me to shreds and left me bleeding on the carpet.

Steel Magnolias - sorry guys, but Sally Field's crying scene is one of the best I've ever witnessed. She could wring tears from a stone.

Aliens - one of the most quotable movies I've ever seen. "Get away from her you BITCH!"

Highlander - because there can be only one.

Shame - a small Australian movie that I found quite disturbing.

Posseidon Adventure - greatest disaster movie ever.

Long Kiss Goodnight - The reason Die Hard isn't on my list. What a movie!

Fight Club - WOW!

The Usual Suspects - WOW - again!

Seven - Forgot this on first go. Love to see a movie where the untalented duck woman gets her head chopped off. Die Gwynneth die!

Princess Bride - this is so classy it hurts.

Groundhog Day - thanks for reminding me guys. This really makes me laugh.

DUNE - I know, I know, but I can't help it. I'm in love with this film and with Paul Attreides in general.

Lord of the Rings trilogy - I was never a massive fan of the books but the movies - yes!

Starship Troopers - apologies to all, but I loved the sheer off-hand violence of this. Class act.

Finding Nemo - so farking funny.

Harry Potter - the first definitely. Still deciding on the others. I'm still trying to work out if these movies were created for kids or for adults. I have my doubts.

AI - if you only had the first ending, this was a magnificent movie. Unfortunately the following 300 endings were so abysmal they ruined the whole film. If it just ended naturally with the boy suiciding off the building into the water this would definitely by one of my favourite movies. So dark and very adult. Not a kids movie.

And talking about kids movies, here are my favourites:
Dark Crystal
Neverending Story
Labrynth
(there's probably some more I can't think of - I'll add them later)

Caleb

[bluedad]

And talking about kids movies, here are my favourites:
Dark Crystal
Neverending Story
Labrynth
(there's probably some more I can't think of - I'll add them later)

Caleb

I meant to put Neverending Story; and forgot all about Labyrynth.
Just saw 'the Incredibles' this weekend - great stuff!

[Guy Smiley]

Off the top of my head:

Saving Private Ryan
LOTR
Seven
Pulp Fiction
Phenomenon
Anything from Pixar.

There are many more, but not coming to mind right now.

It's interesting that some people are mentioning Eternal Sunshine... I loved that movie, but thought I was the only one who went to see it...

Ciao mein.

[whyterabbyt]

Casablanca
Stalker
Wings of Desire
Ghost World
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Donnie Darko
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Harlequin
Heathers
Virgin Suicides
The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane
Battle Royale
Tank Girl
Repo Man

[opiadream]

the good girl
very bad things
the lord of the rings
all the austin powers movies
a clockwork orange
scenes from the class struggle in beverly hills
stardust memories
sleeper
his girl friday
plan 9 from outer space
wizards
fritz the cat
the tin drum
a christmas carol (simms)
whatever happened to baby jane
little foxes
time bandits


to name a few
and in no particular order

[Beardedone]

I hardly have time to keep up with Music. I see maybe two or three movies a year so it's sparse;

Master and Commander "The Far Side of the World" - actually apeak in the world of the greatest historical novel series ever. Graet movies but the books are even better ride.

"Almost Famous"

"Aliens"

"Tom Dowd and the Language of Music"

"The Big Lewbowski"

Pat Metheny Group "Speaking of Now"