What are some of your favorite movies?

[Kamikazie]

I'm trying to find some good movies to watch and I can't think of any on my own that I haven't already seen 4-5 times. I don't care if they're 30 years old or still in theaters, I want to see a damn good movie.

 

[xombine]

No Country For Old Men

First one that came to my mind as I watched it recently, but the amount of possibilities to suggest is endless. You could just go to the "Last Movie You Watched" thread. :/

 

[Pesmerga]

Sunshine

The Dark Knight

Batman Begins

Blade Runner

Fight Club

Serenity

Lawrence of Arabia

Pulp Fiction

Sin City

The Pianist

The Prestige

The Illusionist

The Incredible

Toy Story

We Own The Night

 

[Kamikazie]

But that just tells me what a person just watched, not really what they'd recommended watching. :/

 

[hot564231]

The Thing.

 

[MJ12]

Baby Geniuses

 

[Warbie]

Check out Jacob's Ladder - it's a very cool, dark, twisted and trippy movie. Also, Barton Fink and Withnail & I. I like movies with a edge to them

 

[Deleted member 56031]

The Godfather
The Godfather II
A clockwork orange
blade runner
american psycho
apocalypse now
the dark knight
back to the future
the thing
terminator 2
children of men

i'll probably think of more later

edit:
american beauty
american history x
one flew over the cuckoo's nest

 

[StardogChampion]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

http://www.criticker.com/?fl=6239

 

[Yorick]

Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Thing, Harold and Kumar, Memento, Garden State, Serenity, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight

Runners Up: Fight Club, Children of Men, Sin City, Aliens

 

[hot564231]

You made Fight Club a runner up!

YOU BASTARD! You dirty little philistine bastard

 

[Yorick]

You made Fight Club a runner up!

YOU BASTARD! You dirty little philistine bastard

Book's about 300 times better. It's a great movie, but I can never get past that fact.

 

[hot564231]

Wait? There a book?

 

[Yorick]

Wait? There a book?

...Yes. Go buy it. Chuck Palahniuk is the author. Then buy his other books: Choke, Lullaby, and Invisible Monsters in particular.

 

[hot564231]

Well, it does explain why the movie was well written.

 

[Lucid]

Apocalypse Now
The Dark Knight
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Platoon
Jarhead
Hamburger Hill
Rambo
Children of Men
300
Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven
Troy
Braveheart
Sin City
Donnie Darko
Jurassic Park
Back to the Future
ET
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Matrix
Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th Parts 1 + 2
Terminator 1 + 2
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Titanic
Aliens
Goodfellas


Basically all movies I could rewatch over and over again.

 

[Yorick]

I forgot Lost in Translation.

 

[joule]

http://www.criticker.com/?fl=6231

 

[Combine_Advisor]

Borat:Cultural learnings of America for making benefit of glorious nation of Kazahstan
Signs
Hitman
Meet the Spartans
Profesionalac (serbian movie (it rocks))
Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay
and much more

 

[Asknoone]

Lost in Translation
American Beauty
Dark Knight
The Thing
L.A Confidential
Shawshank Redemption
Ghostbusters
Heat
Lion King
Planet of the Apes (original)
Terminator 1
Pulp Fiction

 

[knut]

Brazil - darkly wonderfull and humorously unique from one of the brains behind Monty Python, Terry Gilliam. A homage to 1984, if you will. Robert DeNiro also appears as a deranged special forces plumber. See the film for him alone.

Clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU&feature=related

28 Days Later - a bleak, depressing but beautifully atmospheric portrayal of Britans downfall in the wake of a rage-inducing virus. See it for the fantastic camera work and the brooding, moody soundtrack (<3 Godspeed/East Hastings) or just for an excellent romp through a post-apocalyptic ''zombie'' infested UK. I know it isn't a zombie movie, but for characteristics it's really the only modern 'infected humans om nom nom/beat on fresh humans' film I can think of that is actually really good in this day and age. Note: I haven't (but do seriously want to) seen REC yet so my opinion on modern day zombie films is subject to change as soon as I pick that DVD up, oh, tomorrow or so.

You've probably already seen/heard of this, and theres no good clips on Youtube anyway, but it's a favourite of mine so there ye go.

Dead Man's Shoes - It's taken me 3 years to watch this film but I finally got around to it earlier this year sometime and it's now possibly one of my favourite films. A harrowing tale of revenge on a bunch of wannabe drug-pushing yobs in a quiet Peak District village in England. Supurb acting all around and some truely fantastic confrontations between ex-soldier Richard and the gang of bullies who have been tormenting his mentally-disabled brother for the last however-many-years.

Clip;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selOpuDua-k

More later, maybe. (?)

 

[DEATH eVADER]

The 'Burbs
Vantage Point
American Pie
Clerks
Terminator
Apollo13
Death Proof
Kill Bill 1/2

Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Thing, Harold and Kumar, Memento, Garden State, Serenity, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight

Runners Up: Fight Club, Children of Men, Sin City, Aliens

It looks like you have the same taste in Movies, I might have to watch the films in bold (haven't seen yet)

 

[Blackthorn]

Don't wanna do a whole list, so I'll just post my current favourite.

Amores Perros

 

[Gray Fox]

Fight Club
American Psycho
Amelie
Doctor Strangelove
Falling Down
12 Monkey's
Memento
Children of Men
True Lies
Oscar
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Some other movies I like, but aren't my favorites

Total Recall
Last action Hero
Terminator 2
Batman Begins
Pure Luck
Charlie Wilson's War
The Prestige
Pulp Fiction
Desperado
Alladin
Hunchback of Notre Dame
12 angry men
Jurassic Park

 

[Yorick]

It looks like you have the same taste in Movies, I might have to watch the films in bold (haven't seen yet)

Eternal Sunshine and Garden State are both adorable. Fight club is very damn good. And The Big Lebowski is ****ing hilarious. You should definitely check them out.

 

[xcellerate]

Jesus Camp
An Inconvenient Truth
Babylon A.D.
Ultraviolet
Jason vs Freddy
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Gigli
Norbit

 

[Iron Kat]

V For Vendetta
The Matrix (original)
Hellboy
Hot Fuzz

 

[kineaesth]

Ultraviolet
Gigli
Norbit

Some of the worst movies I can think of, to be honest.

 

[xcellerate]

Some of the worst movies I can think of, to be honest.

no wai

 

[Pesmerga]

****ing Norbit?

 

[xcellerate]

...tell me somebody has a working sarcasm detector.

 

[Remus]

Jesus Camp
An Inconvenient Truth
Babylon A.D.
Ultraviolet
Jason vs Freddy
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Gigli
Norbit

I actually liked that movie....

 

[hot564231]

I didn't think Pluto Nash wasn't that bad either.

it's not groundbreaking but i thought it was a decent movie.

 

[Kamikazie]

After these long lists it looks like a trip to BlockBuster and some Netflix rentals are in order.

 

[Qonfused]

My top two are American Beauty and The Iron Giant.

Others:

Lost in Translation
Requiem for a Dream
Little Miss Sunshine
One Hour Photo
The Breakfast Club

 

[Krynn72]

Borat:Cultural learnings of America for making benefit of glorious nation of Kazahstan
Signs
Hitman
Meet the Spartans
Profesionalac (serbian movie (it rocks))
Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay
and much more

I pretty much hated every movie in your list. Congratulations.


Combine Pesh's list with Yorick's list, only add Yorick's runners up into the real list, and add V for Vendetta, and then thats my list.

 

[ríomhaire]

Children of Men
No Country For Old Men
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Sin City
The Incredibles
Wall-E
Gataca
28 Days Later

 

[Kadayi]

The Big Lebowski

This . :thumbs: