I like film noir.
I like film noir.
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there are so many movies i like... especially everything by George Lucas and Jim Jarmusch. a really nice film is Brazil by Terry Gilliam...
Pootie Tang FTW!
Clockwork Orange
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Blade
how could i forget... i like all movies by Stanley KubrickOriginally Posted by D'Sparil
and The Wall... what can i say, everything by Pink Floyd is perfect. the film is really great! Gerald Scarfe made the legendary animation passages... everybody, just watch it!
Do we have all day?-ALIEN,THE SHINING,1984,THE PRESTIGE,HALLOWEEN,THE GREEN MILE,THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.THE SKELETON KEY,THE DESCENT,SLUETH....AND ON AND ON.....
I wrote this up a while ago when a friend asked me my favorites but I had never defined them, so it's a quickly thought out shortlist:
1977 Star Wars
1979 Alien
1981 Indiana Jones
1982 The Thing
1982 Blade Runner
1984 Terminator
1986 Aliens
1987 Lethal Weapon
1987 Predator
1987 Robocop
1987 The Princess Bride
1988 Die Hard
1988 Willow
1989 Cyborg
1990 Total Recall
1990 Tremors
1991 Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
1991 Terminator 2
1992 Reservoir Dogs
1994 Pulp Fiction
1994 True Lies
1995 Braveheart
1995 Johnny Mnemonic
1997 Event Horizon
1997 Fifth Element
1999 Boondock Saints
1999 Fight Club
1999 The Matrix
2000 Pitch Black
2000 Memento
2001 Lord of the Rings trilogy
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean
2003 Underworld
2004 Collateral
2004 Shaun of the Dead
2005 Lord of War
2005 Serenity
2005 Sin City
2006 V for Vendetta
2006 The Prestige
2006 Casino Royale
2007 Children of Men
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Memento
Matrix Trilogy
LOTR Trilogy
Batman Begins
The Prestige
And some random others I've seen in recent years which I'm not sure will stay in my list forever.
Children of Men
Collateral
Donnie Darko
Pirates of the Caribbean
Spiderman series
Michael Mann probably stands out as my most favourite filmmaker, I like all of his films, and the series he has produced. I've recently been watching Crime Story re-runs, which stars the ever watchable Dennis Farina and features one of the best mafia villains in Ray Luca (Anthony Denison); compulsive viewing before it unfortunately jumped the shark near the end of the first series.
Anyway, a quick and not particularly thought out list:
Manhunter
The Last of the Mohicans
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
The Hitcher
The Machinist
American Psycho
The Matrix
Fifth Element
The Lost Boys
Aliens
Memento
The Thin Red Line
Additionally, all those 80's teen movies by John Hughes, I basically grew up on those.
The Game
The Fifth Element
The Matrix (but not the sequels)
True Lies
Chicken Run (Aardman FTW)
Ocean's Eleven
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Whale Rider
The Pianist
Serenity
Catch Me if You Can
Aliens
Forgot to mention Vanilla Sky, a film I really like. But most people feel the opposite..
A few others that come to mind:
A Midnight Clear
Mother Night
Mystery Train
Go
Strange Days
Romeo Is Bleeding
American History X - not the easiest movie to sit through, but a great story.
Aliens
Night of the Living Dead (original)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Highlander (I actually like the 2nd one a lot too)
Akira (Japanese or the original dub only)
Transformers The Movie
The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Fifth Element
Run Lola Run
Aladdin
Space Balls
Ghostbusters
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
probably many many others too
I'll just post a few of my favorites that come to mind:
Umberto D
1984
Babe: Pig in the City
The Straight Story
Les triplettes de Belleville
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Zelig
The Elephant Man
The Station Agent
...and I could go on till tomorrow.
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Space Balls
Holy Grail
Galaxy Quest
just random names lol
@Hatesink - DarkStar is classic...right up there with Death Race 2000!
Yup Roger Corman classic starring David Carradine and sylvester stalone. Was the inspiration for both Mad Max and Carmageddon
Basically there's a cross country race in which you score points for hitting pedestrians (and probably also for finishing first). Most points wins.
The whole thing is televised as a sort of gameshow (victims families can win prizes) like The Running Man.
also looking at my old VHS collection is Dr. Strangelove which was a stroke of pure genius, along with the (can it even be called a documentary) The Atomic Cafe.
Has no one mentioned Army of darkness yet?
Hail to the king baby.
that's got me thinking of Duke Nukem 3D - which stole half it's line from that.
And the other hand from another true er...classic?
They Live
(it's so bad it's great!)
ooh! how about -
Big Trouble in Little China
Tango and Cash
Jacob's Ladder.
That's a movie that I definitely want to see, but had bad luck doing so. Once I started watching it at a party, but playing a Wii overrode it.
Then I borrowed a friends copy, and the f'in video skipped and would not continue playing past the part where Private Pyle is losing it on the toilet with his rifle.
A great movie, really creepy at the end too (gotta love Micky). Also, I happened upon Jacob's Ladder on a recommendation from someone that told me it was inspiration for Silent Hill. Now it's in my top ten with a great performance by Tim Robbins.
Here's some:
OI! This is considered the best moment in the film by most, but it has some disturbing images and is a big spoiler for the film. WATCH at your risk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZN60mBeaQ
Here's a trailer for the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTJJz...elated&search=
Clue (Has two of the best 'that guy can play anyone' comedic actors - Tim Curry and Michael McKean)
on the McKean note "This Is Spinal Tap" is great
not a movie, but there's gotta be some Red Dwarf fans on these forums too right?
i love Red Dwarf... the book(s) and series are great!
I love the Norweb bit.
"He's dead. They're all dead. Everybody. Is. Dead. Dave."
"See this hand? It is mine. See these shiny things? They are mine."
...and to think I prolly never woulda found out about it if PBS hadn't decided to air it over here. Although they gave it (literally) a random time slot, so we'd be like "Holy Sh*t" Red Dwarf is on!
Last space scifi I got hooked on was Farscape. Never saw past season 2 because I'm too broke for cable and my HDD filled up near the end of season 2
Growing up in the granite city, it was probably the most thought about show we hankered for all those adolescent and teenage years. The mixture of hilarity with space travel, and they really did manage a lot with the budget, was what people like me needed (girl geek).
I never did catch the 9th season, as my family moved over to BC before it aired. Over here the stupid SPACE IMAGINATION STATION, a subsidiary of the Sci-Fi network for Canada, has not picked up Red Dwarf, nor Babylon 5 for that matter. BABYLON FREAKIN 5!!! WTF
Oh Harry you PLONKER!!
I used to be a trekkie, but at the moment my favourite series is SG-1 (going through the first few seasons that I never saw).
My ULTRA-favourite TV series is 24. good ol' Jack Bauer
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
The 2 Greatest war films of all time.
my favorite one is Duel... it's perfect!
Saw Kung Fu Hustle last night. Nothing owns more than axe-wielding top hat wearing gangsters who dance
Shaolin Soccer also good (earlier film by the same actors)
Just saw Disturbia along with Shooter recently at the theatre. The former was an OK current-gen take on Rear Window, though not as good it had the intensity at points.
Shooter was a jumbled mess of an action film. Had the 'been there, done that' feel to it, and the last 30 minutes had the characters jumping to about 10 new places. I was thinking to myself that I'd rather be at home playing STALKER than watching it, as the Ukranian game has better gunplay than the movie did.
Glad somebody else could see that Disturbia was a ☺☺☺☺ty remake. I'll just watch the original (tho the remake with Christopher Reeves was really good too).
Except that Rear Window was boring when compared to say...Vertigo or North by Northwest.
What is your favorite movie?
mine is a tie between "man on fire" and "The Big Lebowski"
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. That movie is a classic!
hmm so many great movies! But I'll call my favorites the ones that inspire me the most in my living and my creations:
Blade Runner
Memories
The Truman Show
Navrat Idiota
Hmm there are much more... but I guess these ones more frecuently visiting my mind than the rest.
Take a good look above!
seriously....
The remains of the day
The prestige
The piano
The Shawshank Redemption
Alien
The Shining
1984
The Elephant man
Educating Rita
Predator
Sleuth
Abigails Party
Secrets And Lies.
Topsy Turvy
Halloween
Driving Miss Daisy
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