Favorite Movies

What are your favorite movies?

My Top 3 are definately

1. Godfather 1 & 2
2. Goodfellas
3. Scarface

I love mafia movies... I've seen like every one ever made :)

Pacino and Deniro are the best

3 favorite movies are

1. American Pie 1 & 2
2. Snatch
3. :confused:

American pie 1 & 2
Wrongfully Accused
Ronin


:D

1. Black Hawk Down
2. Saving private ryan
3. Gladiator

War films are the best! Also the filming in these....

Originally posted by Damien
1. Black Hawk Down
2. Saving private ryan
3. Gladiator

War films are the best! Also the filming in these....


Thats an allright choice- there


but mine are......

Ronin
Oceans 11
Stickemen

:D

1. Scarface (It's too bad they discontinued the DVD because I want to buy it. Now I just settle for my downloaded copy.) "Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass....see if it fits." Man you gotta love Al Pacino.:D :D :D

2. Ronin

3. Enemy At The Gates (I love movies that have snipers and head shots.)

I haven't seen Goodfellas, The Godfather 1, 2, or 3. I really need to see them.

in no patrticular order........

Sleeper
Monty Python And the Holy Grail.
Schindler's List
Cassablanca
The Blues Brothers
American Pie 1+2
Titanic(but only because DiCrappyo drowns)

GATTACA
Pay it Forward
American Pie 2
Chocolat
OFFICE SPACE!!!!

1. Resivour dogs

2. Black Hawk Down

3. Human Traffic

honerable mention

Stickmen
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Happy Gilmore

#1: The Usual Suspects
#2: Reservoir Dogs
#3: The Rock, Face/Off, Broken Arrow, The Replacement Killers, Pulp Fiction, From Dust till Dawn, Natural Born Killers, Jackie Brown, Memento.

Oh nuts I must have been the goth @ high school to get this long list compared to the above (but here goes and in no particular order):

Yojimbo (aka Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo The Bodyguard - remade by Client Eastwood as a Fistful of Dollars and Bruce Willis as Last Man Standing)
Bladerunner (I'm the Replicant so go figure)
Alien (Haunted House meets Sci Fi)
Lawrence of Arabia
Trainspotting
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Pulp Fiction
Desperado
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Professional (aka Leon)
The Last Seduction
Red Rock West
The Matrix (how soon everyone forgets)
Mad Max 2: The Roadwarrior
Highlander (but none of the ridiculous sequels)
Farewell my Concubine
Belle Epoque (Spanish award winning film)
Indo Chine

Yojimbo - Haven't seen yet
Bladerunner - Director's Cut???
Alien - Ah yes!
Lawrence of Arabia - :sleep:
Trainspotting - Haven't heard of....
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Never got to see
Pulp Fiction - Same as above
Desperado - Once again same as above
To Kill a Mockingbird - :sleep::sleep:
The Professional (aka Leon) - Now here's an awesome movie!!!
The Last Seduction - heard of but never seen
Red Rock West -WTF?
The Matrix (how soon everyone forgets) - Yes, I forgot :o
Mad Max 2: The Roadwarrior - Thunder Dome was better
Highlander (but none of the ridiculous sequels) - true, true...

Never heard of any of the last ones! :D

I didnt think American Pie 2 was that good, I think the first one was alot better. There were a couple good parts though, like the lesbian scene :D that was funny

Some more honorable mentions for me are:
Terminator 2
King of New York
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Ronin
Casino
gladiator
Full Metal Jacket
Once Upon a Time in America (good movie, a little long, but DeNiro's always good)

Then there are also some comedies i like but they're not really masterpieces lol
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (the owner of the school comedy movies)
Revenge of the Nerds
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Cant think of anymore off the top of my head :)

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Rocketman (lol..)
3. The Score (or almost anything Deniro, Goodfellas, Ronin, etc)
4. The Usual Suspects

I love mafia movies too...but I've never seen any of the Godfather movies or Scarface, I really need to.....

mang, how can i jes narrow down the field to jes 3 titles? f*ck dat!

1 - spice world
2 - goonies
3 - top gun
4 - attack of the killer tomatoes


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Spice World?? :confused:

Goonies was great :hehehe: I love the fat kid

In no particular order:

American Pie 1 and 2
Lord of the Rings
Top Gun
The One
Kiss of the Dragon
Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Tomb Raider
Gone in 60 seconds
Ice Age

:D

Thanks Damien (I think) for the critque of my list. Some words of explanation:

Yojimbi is in black and white and in Japanese so a lot of folk haven't seen it (unless their students of foreign film) - Akira Kurosawa was a bit out there and his later movies particularly RAN (which is an incredible visual feast) are more accessible.

Bladerunner - the Director's Cut - the original has that wimpy ending and the appalling voiceover. Incidentally, another edit is due late this year.

Lawrence of Arabia - has to be viewed for what it was. The Cinematography and location sets were something else compared to movies being made in studio sets at the time.

Trainspotting - you don't know Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie and Spud ? Get thee to a video store...

To Kill a Mockingbird - again a film against type. It was filmed in B&W after color films were in vogue. The material and the political setting of the time are almost as important as the film itself. You have to remember that at the time this was filmed African-American people were still expected to stand in certain places on buses for white folk or get off. (It won a Oscar for Best Picture)

The Last Seduction and Red Rock West are by the same director and are examples of femme-fatale/film noir. If you like movies that make you think and feature wicked twists of fortune.... then these are great...

Farewell my Concubine is a 3 hour odd epic in Mandarin. It is visually stunning and traces the story of two characters in the Peking Opera from the warlord era, through the Boxer and Cultural Revolution to the modern day.

Indo Chine features Catherine Deneuve and is set against the collapse of French Indo China and independence to Viet Nam. Again another stunning epic.

Belle Epoque is possibly the best film from Spain in the past two decades. It explores the depths of despair and pursuit of pleasure against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. Sexy, Funny and Tragic.

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
In no particular order:

American Pie 1 and 2
Lord of the Rings
Top Gun
The One
Kiss of the Dragon
Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Tomb Raider
Gone in 60 seconds
Ice Age

:D

WHAT!?! No Star Wars or Spaceballs!?! :eek::eek::eek:

Don't think too hard replicant! :p

Just thought I'd explain as some of the movies have probably never been seen by most folk...

And you do need to see Trainspotting... The writer of the novel Irvine Welsh has a cameo as Mikey Forrester...

Meet the Parents
Oceans Eleven
Austin Powers 1, 2 and 3

Originally posted by johnny

1 - spice world


Are we thinking of the SAME spice world :confused: :silly2: :silly2:

Also how could I forget Gone in 60 seconds :cry:

1. Fight Club
2. Star Wars
3. ...

Incedentally, I like the VO in Blade Runner, and would appreciate it if they'd release both versions, so at least I could make my own choice as to which version I want to watch. I haven't seen the original version in soooo long.... :(

the big lebowski
swingers

Trainspotting - what an eye opener that movie was. I tried reading the book but found Irvine Welsh's writing was too hard to comprenend :eek:

Originally posted by tazdev

I tried reading the book but found Irvine Welsh's writing was too hard to comprenend :eek:
Translation- If you took the swearing and mention of drugs & alchahol out the book would be thinner than your average 3B1 notebook
:finger:

It's not the "bad" language it was how the book was written. Which is as it is said in the movie.

If that is understandable:bloated:

hmm,

Fellowship of the Ring
All the Star Wars movies (all equal in their own way)
Black Hawk Down (although the book is better)
Bad Taste (an interesting Peter Jackson Movie)
Jurassic Park Series (yet again not as good as the books)
Resident Evil (bad movie, but the scariest movie I know of)

then there are of course others, but I can't think of them now

sarujin

Originally posted by sarujin

Black Hawk Down (although the book is better)


I think the book was much better than the movie because it went into much more detail and also followed what happened to Mike Durant following his capture. Also the notes at the end of the book make for good reading.

This was the first (large) book I managed to read from start to finish without a break.

-Bullit
-Two Lane Blacktop
-American Graffiti
-All the Highlander movies
-All the Endless Summer movies

1. negotiator
2. funny farm
3.saving private Ryan

you thought residnet evil was scary? ever seen silence of the lambs, or even seven? much better

Originally posted by sarujin
Jurassic Park Series (yet again not as good as the books)


This is totally true! The movie would be R if it was exactly from the books! :ylsuper

Resident Evil was another suspenseful blah movie....

Besides, after playing the games in the dark, which still weren't that scary, you get over it.

Casablanca
The Holy Grail
12 Angry Men
The Empire Strikes Back
Patton

Forgot a few:

Blade 1 and 2
Signs

:D

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
Forgot a few:

Blade 1 and 2
Signs

:D

:ylsuper

The main reason i forget these though was the filming. There is something about the choreagraphy they use in The Patriot, Gladistor, Saving Private Ryan, and Black Hawk Down.

Resident Evil was definitely very dark, with a very desolate outlook for the future.. and that made it a bit scary in my book.

A few of my favorites would be Saving Private Ryan, Seven, Memento, The Abyss, The Hunt for Red October, Fight Club.

Fight Club
Swordfish
The Professional

Originally posted by JD@af
Seven, MementoSeven was a great movie. In fact I might have to buy that one on DVD. Haven't seen Memento yet, but have heard that it's really good.

:D OOH OOH OOH - Go see Memento. It's awesome. :ylsuper

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
Seven was a great movie.

We talking the Pitt an Paltrow Seven??


I think it is supposed to lkook like this-------->Se7en :finger:

xXx wasn't too bad. Just saw it. Good action romp if you can suspend all beleif in reality.

Bend it like Beckham is also hilarious :D

Apocalypse Now
LA Confidential

Two that haven't been mentioned.

Oh, and JFK.

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi
Bend it like Beckham is also hilarious :D

Agreed. I'll second that. I didn't think it was going to be anything but was dragged along with friends. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The title doesn't really fit the movie, though.

fight club, a clockwork orange

Oh yeah, how can I forget, Rodney Dangerfield in "BACK TO SCHOOL".

"Call me when you have no class", hilarious, hahahahahahaha!

In no particular order...

A Midnight Clear (great WWII movie with Gary Sinese, Ethan Hawke, etc.)
Trainspotting
2001: A Space Odessey
Bubble Boy
Office Space
Pitch Black
What's Up Tiger Lilly?
City Of Lost Children (french film)
Amilee (french film)
Delecatessen (french film)
Leon The Professional
Memento
Fifth Element
Suburban Commando (Hulk Hogan Movie from the early 90's, only liked it cuz I watched it the first time I got stoned)
Anything with Mira Sorvino
Grosse Point Blank
License to Thrill (Ski movie produced by Gregg Stump)
Boiler Room
American History X
Requiem for a Dream
Pi (Actually the Pi symbol, same director as Requiem for a Dream)
Stir of Echos
Sixth Sense

No particular order:

Midnight Run (DeNiro fans, see this)
Pleasantville
Top Secret
Final Destination
Silver Streak
Shallow Hal
Super Troopers
Se7en (damned crash-boom sound almost got me evicted, though)
Signs
The Patriot
Toy Story 2
Trainspotting
Batman 1 and 2
South Park X-mas movie..

More but I can't think of them right now....

Ci5ic - you must have similiar taste in movies... first the Coen Bros and now...

Trainspotting (some US critics thought it was pro-drugs I mean did they watch the same movie ?)
Pi
Deli/City of Lost Children (have you seen Mediterranean?)
Grosse Pointe Blank
Licence to Thrill (Greg Stump woohoo!!)

I own Requiem/Momento on DVD (they are the last two I bought)...

Have you seen the following...
Cube
Dark City
Belle Epoque
Baraka (1992)

I've seen Cube and Dark City... Dark City was a cool idea, I just feel that Rufus Sewell is a horrible actor.

Cube was... meh... ('cept for the part where that guy get's "cubed" by the wire mesh).

Have you seen The Big Blue or The Crimson Rivers? Also Jean Reno films...

Also liked Run Lola Run and Anatomy (German films, same director).

I've seen The Big Blue but not the Crimson Rivers.

Have you seen Dazed and Confused?
Or the French Three Colors Trilogy? Blue White and Red
Or a French film called Tango?

Oh and Nil by Mouth?

Originally posted by ci5ic

Bubble Boy


are you serious? I thought that was one of the dumbest/stupidest movies every made. It was horrible imo

If we can work with classifications... ;)

David Lynch movies
George Lucas movies
Kevin Smith movies
Movies with Edward Norton
David Fincher movies (he is on probation on my list now because of Panic Room :mad: )
Movies where Brad Pitt plays a psycho
Stanley Kubrick movies
Movies with Harrison Ford made before 1996.

...

Originally posted by jay@af
... add:
Doug Liman movies. :)

Originally posted by jay@af
If we can work with classifications... ;)

Stanley Kubrick movies

...

THAT guy needs to be on probation for Eye's Wide Stupid... er... I mean Shut.

Originally posted by ci5ic
THAT guy needs to be on probation for Eye's Wide Stupid... er... I mean Shut. Uhh... I think you're gonna be waiting a while...
Date of death (details)
7 March 1999,
Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, UK. (natural causes)

Originally posted by jay@af
If we can work with classifications... ;)

David Lynch movies
George Lucas movies
Kevin Smith movies
Movies with Edward Norton
David Fincher movies (he is on probation on my list now because of Panic Room :mad: )
Movies where Brad Pitt plays a psycho
Stanley Kubrick movies
Movies with Harrison Ford made before 1996.

...

And gotta have:

Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
and Brian DePalma
:D :D

LOL, you mean gangster movies? :p

Oh, and I like movies with Ewan McGregor. :)

Here are my fav's (in no particular order):

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Initial D: 3rd Stage 'The Movie'
The Princess Bride
Ronin
Jackie Chan's Legend of Drunken Master
The Emperor's New Groove
Disney Robin Hood
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Gladiator
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Star Trek (any even number) but espeically VI: The Undiscovered Country
Waking Ned Devine

There are more, but those are the one's that spring to mind.