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Favorite Movie(or Movies)

Scape_Scrub11

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I just want to start a thread on everyones favorite movie(I'm very bored right now.....) I would have to say I love comedies, and that my favorite movie is Happy Gilmore, but Gladiator and The Shawshank Redemtion are close seconds (notice those are not comedies)

Sorry if there is another thread like this.....
 
Favorite movies, man there are a ton: Star Wars a New Hope, Independence Day, Gladiator, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy for my serious picks. Then I get into goofy stuff like space balls, Monty Python, UHF.
 
I honestly don't think I could ever pick a top 10 movies or even top 50. There are a lot of great movies out there. Some off the top of my head that stand out right now

LOTR Trilogy
Braveheart
City of God
Pan's Labyrinth
Amelie (Very good movie)
300
Conan the Barbarian
Big Lebowski


The list could go on for a long, long time.
 
Well, I have three categories when it comes to favorite movies.

Animated - Castle in the Sky, Laputa
Action - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Comedy - I'm not sure. There are so many...
 
I don't have a list of favorite movies because it's constantly changing and also depends on my mood. However, I'd be willing to tell you what I thought were highly overrated movies:

Napoleon Dynamite
The Royal Tenenbaums
Lost in Translation
Devil Wears Prada

I'm sure I'll think up a couple more. But those four are somewhat recent movies that just didn't live up to the hype.

THESE movies, though, are definitely worth your valuable time:

The Prestige
Young Guns
X-Men 2 (I loved X3 as well, but recognize that the second movie was better)
Spiderman 2 (I did NOT love Spiderman 3. That movie put sand in my va-jay-jay)
Batman Begins (a bit long, but a great start to the next generation of Bat-films)
Saw
Superman (the original, not the magic-cellophane-throwing sequel, nor the super-computer baddie sequel, nor the abortion-on-reels sequel, nor last summer's Stalkerman Returns)
 
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Man with Two Brains
Spider-man Strikes Back
Plan 9 from outer space
Tootsie

Bannister
 
Hmm... Lets see:

The Blues Brothers
Secondhand Lions
The God of Cookery (I've yet to meet someone else who's seen it...)

Close seconds: Totoro, Ratatouille, Hoodwinked, LotR, National Treasure, Howl's Moving Castle.
 
Airplane!
Star Wars - I'll stubbonly refuse to call it Episode IV: A New Hope
Thief - the movie that introduced me to the music of Tangerine Dream, which lead to my discovery of electronic music in general
A Clockwork Orange - or pretty much any Stanley Kubrick film
Monty P-ython and the Holy Grail - I had to toss a hyphen in the title to post it
Baraka

-David
 
davidlhsl said:
A Clockwork Orange - or pretty much any Stanley Kubrick film
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Yes, I'm mesmerized by Kubrick's films. Just this week I finally saw Barry Lyndon. Beatutiful, gorgeous, and the music, in tandem with the images, is pure Kubrick glory.
 
I'm going to go with Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Incredibles, but I can't put them in a definite order.

In addition to being three of the best genre movies ever made, they've got three of the most amazing soundtracks ever scored.

I haven't seen X-2, X-3, or the newest Batman or Superman flicks, but for my money, The Incredibles is about 10 times as good as any other super-hero movie ever made.
 
jaques said:
I haven't seen X-2, X-3, or the newest Batman or Superman flicks, but for my money, The Incredibles is about 10 times as good as any other super-hero movie ever made.
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And you'd be right. Though I might say 2-3 times as good.
 
Uprising knows how to pick 'em!

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Serenity
Amelie
Sin City
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Empire Strikes Back

I'll think of more later, when I'm not watching Black Snake Moan and focusing on Christina Ricci. :drool:
 
I'll start off by disagreeing with EJ on 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and 'Napolean Dynamite' - both are exceptionally good movies. They're the kind of movie you either 'get' or you don't.

My favorites are probably:

Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting
Aliens
Titanic
The entire Star Wars series
The Lord of the Rings series
Mystery Men
The Matrix
Hoosiers

One movie I've recently seen that sucked was X3...total crap. I wasted 2 hours of my valuable time watching that crappy movie.
 
Animated Ghost in the Shell, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(2005 rerelease) Howls Moving Castle,
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Non Animated Seven Samurai, P-yscho{original} Aliens 1 and 2, Shawshank Redemption
 
Some of my favorites.

All Sean Connery James Bond films, The Godfather, The Star wars series, LotR series, Indiana Jones movies 1 and 3 (The Temple of Doom belongs swimming with the fishes), and Terminator 2.
 
I don't have a favorite movie, but there's some movies I really like:

LOTR trilogy
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(Soon to be) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Shooter(just watched that yesterday, great action and bloody movie)
Happy Gilmore
Longest Yard (the newer version w/ Adam Sandler and Chris Rock)

There's probably a lot more out there but I can't think of them.
 
Wytefang said:
I'll start off by disagreeing with EJ on 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and 'Napolean Dynamite' - both are exceptionally good movies. They're the kind of movie you either 'get' or you don't.
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It's possible to 'get' a movie and still not think it's worth all the hype. I understood ND just fine... I just didn't think that it was the OMG!!! everyone made it out to be. It's similar to a Picasso painting... I understand exactly what Picasso was doing with his cubist style paintings. I understand the idea of exploring time through motion. I just don't like those paintings. Intellectually I understand them, but they don't do anything for my soul.

Wytefang said:
One movie I've recently seen that sucked was X3...total crap. I wasted 2 hours of my valuable time watching that crappy movie.
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Apparently I have GOT to see a therapist because I can NOT for the life of me understand why people hate this movie so much. Is it because I'm a huge X-Men fan that I'm willing to forgive them anything as long as they put my favorite characters on the screen? I don't think so... I'm as discerning, if not more so, than the next guy... but what is it about ME that makes me unable to see X3 as a bad movie? I'm through defending it... I really am... now I just want to know what's wrong with me.
 
Don't worry ej, I did'nt think X3 was total crap it just was no where near the level as the other ones......


Office Space is another great movie...
 
Um let's see

Fight Club
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Toy Story 1&2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars IV & V (the Ewok's in VI was the beginning of the end)
Back To The Future Trilogy
The Matrix I
Babe


That will do pig, that will do.
 
I'm disappointed that no one has taken the time to tell me what's wrong with me.
 
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