Fave Flicks

We've done books and music so how about movies? Here is my "short" list...

Blade Runner, The Natural, John Carpenter's The Thing, Papillion, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Matrix, It's a Wonderful Life, The Untouchables, Raising Arizona, Patton, North by Northwest, Blues Brothers, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Brazil, The Quiet Man, and Incredibles.

To be continued...

Donnie Darko, Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Lost in Translation, Waking Life, Amelie, Mulholland Dr., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill, Fight Club, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Requiem For a Dream, Garden State

Many more, but I really like movies with twists. Probably one of the many reasons I love Lost so much!

3:10 to Yuma, Akira, Boondock Saints, Borat, Cars, Clerks, pretty much everything Kevin Smith makes, Gone Baby Gone, Gone in 60 Seconds, El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Michael Moore, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Ronin, Say Anything, Silence of the Lambs, Star Wars- Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Tombstone, The Usual Suspects, V for Vendetta...

CF two words 'Jersey Girl'

Tremors.

Return Of The Living Dead.

The Money Pit.

Anything with Don Cheadle in it.

My favourite movies ... of all time

Lilo and Stitch

High School Musical

Enchanted

Toy Story 1 + 2

Lion King


Stitch

My faves (in no particular order) are;

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Gone With the Wind

Devils Advocate

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Pirates of the Carriabean Trilogy

Twelve Monkeys

The Village

The Terminal

ummm loads more, but anything with a good story line, character development and a twist Never been bothered about special effects or "action"

I like David Lynch, Tim Burton and Woody Allen movies.. Especially Woody Allen, but his recent work kind of sucks. Oh and I love the Chronicles of Riddick ! It's not good as LOTR or POC for a sci-fi film, and will soon be a trilogy as well, I hope, but the landscapes are just fantastic

Lojozz wrote:CF two words 'Jersey Girl'

That's why it's "pretty much" anything Kevin Smith. Actually, I never bothered to see Jersey Girl.

Young Guns 1&2/ Star Wars all 6 /Pans labrynth /Spiderman2/ Serenity/ Princess Bride/ Gonnies/ Harry Potter/ Signs /Unbreakable

Aladdin.... watched it over and over when i was a kid, knew everyone's lines by heart...... never done that with any other movie, so that makes it my all time favorite.

These have already been mentioned.. Donnie Darko, Twelve Monkeys,LOTR,Gone with The Wind,Clerks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club,Unbreakable and The Princess Bride .

Not mentioned yet(off the top of my head) are Shrek, The Secretary,Rocky Horror Picture Show,The Sixth Sense,Apocolypto, In the Cut and The Notebook sob.

Xanadu
Come on people, it is about the roller skating daughters of zeus that come out of a painting to the soothing tones of ELO. What more can you ask for?

We all share a love of Lost but when it comes to movies, our tastes are so varied. I think that we would have trouble going to the movies together as a group, I doubt we could find one movie that we all could agree on!

Let's see, from Shamballa's list, I agree The Incredibles is a pretty wild and funny pixar movie.

From 1337Jacqui's list I would have to go for Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas, Jack Skellington is so cool.

CF, your list is huge but I can only go for Lord of the Rings from your list. Though to be honest I have not seen hardly any of those movies you listed.

LJ, Jersey Girl??? Actually that is my second favourite movie of all time! I know that begs the question of what is my first favourite movie of all time. Now that is easy to answer, every other movie apart from Jersey Girl.

Stitch a wonderful choice of movies ... sorry, oops, that was my list.

SP, you have a really broad range of fav movies, but out of your selection I could only go for Captain Jack Sparrow.

Eda, I too love Tim Burton, so that is the many I take from your list. The corpse bride was so cool and spooky.

Vincent wow great taste, I am torn between Spidey2 and all the HP movies, and Goonies and Star Wars and young Guns. Top selection!

Puchita, Do you trust me? I love Aladdin and think that a whole new world is the most amazibg sequence ever, and always remember bee yourself. lol

WTF, Shrek does it for me and also can cope with The Princess Bride.

Still a pretty diverse taste in movies! But that is good diversity is neat, but if we were to have a movie night, then we would have to go to a huge multiplex to keep everyone happy.

Banana's have to agree with you on your sole movie. Not because I like it or have even seen it, I haven't but it stars Olivia and as she is a fellow aussie, it gets my thumbs up. Though I think the Americans are getting a bit tired of all the Aussies in Hollywood!



Stitch

Oh stitch i feel like you speak my language holmes!


I personally like Prince Ali and Friend Like Me, and I always played Iago when we reenacted scenes. drawing blank as far as lines go.... but play that mug and I'll make you feel like i wrote the thing.

Chinatown
V for Vendetta
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars IV, V, & VI
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
The Shining
Tombstone
Pan's Labyrinth
28 Days Later
Sunshine
Memento
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
Dial 'M' for Murder
Rear Window
The Exorcist
Ringu
The Others
Alien
Donnie Darko
The Matrix
Fight Club
American History X
American Beauty
Glen Garry, Glen Ross
Resevoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
The Village
Clerks
Dogma
Mallrats
Empire Records
The Queen
Notes on a Scandal
Gone Baby Gone
Saw
Farenheit 9-11
Sicko
Bowling for Columbine
Halloween
The Fog (the original not the remake!!)
Escape from New York
The Silence of the Lambs
Suspiria
The Innocents
Crash
Gladiator
The 300
...I could go on and on but I won't.

Needless to say, I'm a movie freak.

AngeloComet wrote:Tremors.

Return Of The Living Dead.

The Money Pit.

Anything with Don Cheadle in it.

This is Michael Gross standing in my kitchen (that's me with him)after he came to dinner April 17,1990.This was during the time he was on Family Ties.Also the year it ,(Tremors) came out.
Just thought since you listed Tremors as one of your favorite movies,I would do a little name dropping.

Some of my favorite movies are:

Tremors(of course )
Fried Green Tomatoes
O brother Where Art Thou
Patton
A Beautiful Mind
Identity
Hoosiers
Titanic
Somewhere in Time
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Scull

I love "slapstick" comedy, so here is my short list of them: Dumb and Dumber, Naked Gun 1, 2.5, and 33 1/3, Not Another Teen Movie, Major League, Hot Shots 1 and Part Duex, and Kingpin.

Action Hero Movies are also great, like: All three Spidermans, Transformers, and Ironman.

I am also a helpless romantic. I do like Titanic and The Notebook.
HaHa

MollyCocktail wrote:...I could go on and on but I won't.

Needless to say, I'm a movie freak.

She is quite the cinemaphile. Between the 2 of us we likely have 2500 DVDs.

OK, so I was being a little flippant with my list. . . but I do genuinely love Tremors and Return Of The Living Dead.

(The Money Pit I can live without. And Don Cheadle has been in some total clag.)

I'm at work at present, so can't see the picture. Will come back later and have a look.

From memory, Michael Gross is the military nut, right? He also starred in Tremors 2: Aftershocks. If you ever see him again (unlikely, I appreciate) you can tell him that small exchange of dialogue he shares with Kevin Bacon about "cannon fuse" has been much-quoted by me to anyone who'll listen for years.

Kevin Bacon: "What kind of fuse is that?"

Michael Gross: "Cannon fuse."

Kevin Bacon: (Bemused) "What do you use it for?"

Michael Gross: (Deadpan) ". . . For my cannon."

Genius.

Hmmmm...tough one.

Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back (before they were raped,,,um, I mean re-mastered) and retitled Episodes 4 & 5

Citizen Caine (there's a reason its on so many top-10 lists)

Die Hard

Hunt For Red October

Free Enterprise

Young Frankenstien (That's Frahnk-en-steen)

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

Pirates of Caribbean (only the first one)

Nightmare Before Christmas

Johhny Dangerously

Naked Gun

Airplane

You And Your Vas Defrens (a 1944 Army VD film)

SunburnedPenguin wrote:My faves (in no particular order) are;



Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Twelve Monkeys

The Village

The Terminal

ummm loads more, but anything with a good story line, character development and a twist Never been bothered about special effects or "action"

Love those movies. Also I love Forest Gump

I just watched Southland tales. I totally didn't know what the hell was going on but I would still recommend it. Thought there were some interesting lost links regarding time bending and two people from different times coming into contact.The Rock was awesome as was Justin Timberlake ...whoda thunk?

wow Justin timberlake and awesome seems to go together as much as Michael and intelligent AND Hurley and anorexic

Stitch

I'm going to watch Hellboy II today. I'll give you my opinion on it later.