Favorite movies?

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Personally I'm a fan of Quentin Taratino and Kevin Smith when it comes to writers, and then my favorite movies are the Die Hard and Star Wars movies, and no one can forget Hackers.
 
In random order:
Platoon
Gladiator
Serenity
Master and Commander
Amelie
We're from the future (russian one)
 
^ Not entirely convinced that's such a bad thing.

Anyway.

some random movies from the top of my head

Blade Runner
1931 Dracula
Plan 9 from Outer Space
District 9
Goodbye Lenin
Solaris (Tarskovsky's version)
Tideland
 
Titanic
Sweet November
Wanted
V for Vendeta
Saw
Banlieue 13 (The best movie ever. Everyone must see this movie!)
Clockwork Orange (legend Movie. Everyone must see this movie too!)
Silent heel.
Exorcist (The first movie. Not the second!)
 
Completely forgot Blade Runner and V For Vendetta, and Clockwork Orange looks great. Downloading it right now.
 
These are my favorite because my son and I worked on them:
Up in the Air
Meet Bill
The Game of Their Lives

Otherwise, Magnolia and a host of others.

Such threads as these are ever changing, too far reaching, and dumb.
 
12 angry men (original from 1957 and remake from 1997)
Wuthering Heights
V for Vendetta (or for my last name lol)
The man from Earth
The legend of 1900 (truly awesome)
The Order
The Notebook
Tod McFarlene's Spawn
Sin City
Schindler's List (magnificent)
Ronin
Pulp Fiction (hehe)
Inherit the Wind (1960 & 1999)
Dark City
Black Snake Moan (yup, really good movie)
Remember the Titans

Anyone care to vote ? :)
 
1. All TARANTINO movies for sure.

2. Classics:
-- Godfather
-- Die Hard
-- Fight Club
-- Full Metal Jacket
-- Leon
-- Back to the Future
-- Shawshank Redemption
-- Terminator 2
-- Vanishing Point
-- (many others)

3. Fscked up movies (I like movies when they mess with Your brain in a positive way):
-- Lost Highway
-- Machinist
-- Butterfly Effect
-- Shutter Island
-- Pi
-- Deja Vu
-- Inception
-- Memento
-- Requiem for a Dream

4. Spy-like movies:
-- Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum
-- Shooter
-- Breach

5. 'End of the world' movies:
-- Day after Tomorrow
-- Mad Max
-- I am Legend (with alternative ending from YOUTUBE.COM)
-- Waterworld
-- 28 Days/Weeks Later

6. Less known nice movies:
-- High Fidelity
-- Private Parts
-- Pirate Radio

7. Other good movies (various plots):
-- Dark Knight
-- Departed
-- Chaos
-- City of God
-- Italian Job

8. 'Kinda no-brain' nice movies:
-- Crank
-- Machete
-- Shoot'em Up
-- Hangover

9. Serials
-- Californication
... and a lot more from IMDB TOP 250: http://imdb.com/chart/top
 
drhowarddrfine said:
Such threads as these are ever changing, too far reaching, and dumb.
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I don't think they are dumb. The can open up new movies,topice or points of view to people. In that way they are good.

For example, I never heard of any of your movies so I will look them up.
 
Well, to cut through the crap here is the autoritive list of the best movies ever :)

Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore 1988)
Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman 1982)
Smiles of a summer night (Bergman 1955)
The Godfather (I and II in particular) (Francis Ford Coppola 1972-)
LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson 1997, based on the novel by James Ellroy, the King of crime noir)
Battleship Potempkin (Sergei Eisenstein 1925)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Down By Law (Jim Jarmush 1986)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino 1994)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie 1998)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen 1981, terrific movie, especially for those who did their service on a submarine)
 
roddierod said:
I don't think they are dumb. The can open up new movies,topice or points of view to people. In that way they are good.
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The reason it's dumb is that "favorites" change over time, are forgotten and become long lists resembling thousands of films and you might as well be scanning through Netflix or IMDB or the AFI's Top 100 list. A very helpful thread I visit on another board is a "Movies I've seen" where people will bring up something they rented or saw in the theatre recently and their opinion of it. These become just a few films at a time that can be digested better rather than pages and pages of repetitive suggestions like this one will turn into.
 
Carpetsmoker said:
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Solaris (Tarskovsky's version)
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Lem himself thought that Tarskovsky missed the whole point of the story in his movie, I feel the same way being a big fan of the book. The later remake by americans was just abysmally bad.
 
I've always been a horror movie fanatic. You guys already mentioned most of my favorites but here goes (most are horror):

The Exorcist
In the Mouth of Madness
Nightmare on Elm Street (including the sequels although they are a bit cheesy)
Halloween, and especially the much maligned Halloween III: Season of the Witch, I consider it one of the best if not THE best Halloween movie
Terminator 1 and 2
Pi (was already mentioned but deserves another, especially amongst nerds)
House (the 80s B-movie, not the modern ER drama)
The Omen (the original)
Videodrome
Scanners
Mulholland Drive
They Live - definitely check this one out, one of John Carpenter's lesser known gems
Fright Night (the 80s one, not the remake)
American Psycho
Clockwork Orange
The Shining - classic
The Matrix
Donnie Darko
Goodfellas
Scarface
The Sixth Sense
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
Hurricane Streets - a pretty cool movie about kids growing up in New York City

That's it for now although I know as soon as I post this a whole flood of movies will enter my brain.

BTW, cool topic.
 
Dictator (2012)
Kill bill
Nights of cabiria
The road (fellini)
Taxi driver
Saving private ryan
2001: a space odyssey
Full metal jacket
Safety last!
Modern times
The circus (chaplin)
The great dictator
The pianist
Stalker (1979)
Requiem for a dream
The good, the bad and the ugly
No country for old men

I'm also a big fan of old silent movies!
 
In one word: classics.

In more words: it varies greatly. From Love Actually to From Dusk Till Dawn, from La Dolce Vita to Starship Troopers, from Bridge on the River Kwai to The Godfather, from Back to the Future to Highlander. If I have to name one favourite, I suppose it has to be Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 
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