Movies?

[TaintedB]

finally someone said it.

LOL, sorry, didn't know you were waiting.

 

[LunarKitten]

My all time fav switches between The Big Sleep and The African Queen.

Yup, I'm a big Bogie fan

 

[catalina_francisco]

Damn, I know I will forget some but for a few while suffering insomnia and not functioning on all brain cells:

Salmonberries
The African Queen
Dirty Dancing
Strictly Ballroom
Gone With The Wind
The Hours
Moulin Rouge
Nell
Contact
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
The Mirror Has Two Faces

Catalina

 

[Cherrysweetdeal]

As some of you kids know, I got a scholarship to film school, which is all yay and everything, but I'm pretty darn sure my movies won't do so well, because I have....different taste. So I'm just a tiny bit curious, what's everyone's favorite movie?

Hmmmm either lock stock and two smoking barrels....nightmare before christmas(tim burton is absolutely brilliant) or princess bride...

 

[ghosst_K&H]

Way too many to list, even by genre.

Off the top of my head I'd say

Usual Suspects

Star Wars Trilogy (IV V VI) (so sue me)

Indy Jones I & III

Flash Gordon wins my Uber Camp scifi award

Bad Taste wins my best of the worse films ever award (A must see for cheezy horror/scifi film fans)

Aliens...gotta love any move that has Bill Paxon in it.

LOTR triolgy

Near Dark

Fright Night (again sue me)

Princess Bride

Johnny Dangerously (I can't help but crack up at this)

Happy Gilmore

Undercover Brother

Slashers (Funny ass horror movie produced by Fangoria, also a must see)

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

 

[TaintedB]

Damn, I know I will forget some but for a few while suffering insomnia and not functioning on all brain cells:

Salmonberries
The African Queen
Dirty Dancing
Strictly Ballroom
Gone With The Wind
The Hours
Moulin Rouge
Nell
Contact
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
The Mirror Has Two Faces

Catalina

Me too for Moulin Rouge and the Bogart films. A lot of these and titles other people have mentioned I have not seen, although I clearly see I need to add "Dirty Dancing" to my "must see" list.

 

[jasonlf]

For me, it's: Saving Private Ryan

Best. Movie. Evar.

 

[curiousjen]

Hmmmmmmmm. this is always coming up in conversations and I never have a satifactory answer, mainly because my memory is so appalling. So rather than saying my "favorite movie" because thats just impossible I will do the thing that some people seem to be doing and say "here's a list of films I think are good."

In no particular order:

City of God
Romeo and Juliet (baz lurman version)
Fiddler on the roof
Charlie and the chocolate factory (original version)
The basketball diaries
South park the movie
The life of brian/holy grail/ anything python really
The hours
Casablanca
On the waterfront
Life is beautiful (deffo a probable "favourite" contender)
Bodysong (everyone should see this film once stoned and one sober)
Anything with jeromy irons in it mmmmmmmmmmm jeromy irons
The wicker man
Raging bull
Last house on the left
Doctor zchivargo (sp?)
Double Indemnity

I could go on and on so I'll stop now although I've a feeling I may edit this several times!

 

[chris9]

My favorite ever is the BBC production of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'. The book became my favorite book after watching the movie when I didn't have it and crave for the story. And now I can watch it always again and everytime it is just great taking my mind away from icky stuff, relaxing me a lot and despite being 5 hours takes less time then reading the book (again).

Besides I like watching love stories, best with dancing in them, but also good if cheesy enough...
And how could I forget 'Princess bride'? I don't have that one so maybe that should go on the 'to buy' list as I haven't watched it in years.

And then, once every year, around christmas, watching 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' is a must in my family. Very nice movie!

 

[arctic-stranger]

Thumbs up for Little Big Man! Loved that movie.

WORD!

 

[Marquis]

Some favorites that come to mind are:

City of God
Akira
American Beauty
Eyes Wide Shut (as well as most Kubrick movies I've seen)
Matrix
Terminator 2 (and a few other Arnold movies)
Being John Malkovich
Quills
Fight Club
La Dolce Vita
Dangerous Liaisons (the Malkovich/Close version)
Cube
Ran
Amadeus
Taxi Driver
Paid in Full

 

[landcruisergal]

Too many.....
Tank Girl
Preaching to the Perverted( great soundtrack)
Like Water for Chocolate, Chocolate, Babettes Feast, Tampopo.
The Cook, The Thief,His Wife and her Lover. (5 about food and passion)
Dogma & Chasing Amy ( for Ben's monologue." I love you, and not in a friendly way")
Troma movies, Muppet movies, Evil Dead 1-3,Friday 13ths ( even the bad 80's ones)
The Boys from Brazil
The Castle
Kama Sutra
Dusk to Dawn( most Tarrantino stuff)
Stormship Troopers
He Died With A Fellafel In His Hand

 

[curiousjen]

Some favorites that come to mind are:

City of God
Akira
American Beauty
Eyes Wide Shut (as well as most Kubrick movies I've seen)
Matrix
Terminator 2 (and a few other Arnold movies)
Being John Malkovich
Quills
Fight Club
La Dolce Vita
Dangerous Liaisons (the Malkovich/Close version)
Cube
Ran
Amadeus
Taxi Driver
Paid in Full

How could I forget fight club??

Yes, add that one to my list!

Quills is pretty hot shit as well.

 

[SlyKitten]

Elephant Man
Nikita
A Clockwork Orange
Night of the Living Dead (though the original Barbara just makes me want to slap her silly!)
ReAnimator
Phantom of Paradise
And in the cheesy goofball absurd category: Dodgeball, Zoolander.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

 

[Marquis]

I forgot Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

I loved that flick.

 

[canadiancutie]

City of God
Romeo and Juliet (baz lurman version)
Fiddler on the roof
Charlie and the chocolate factory (original version)
The basketball diaries
The life of brian/holy grail/ anything python really
The hours
Casablanca
Life is beautiful (deffo a probable "favourite" contender)
Raging bull
Last house on the left
Doctor zchivago (sp?)
Double Indemnity

I love you now and feel as though we should marry. true story.

 

[canadiancutie]

did anyone see I heart Huckabees?

 

[landcruisergal]

Oh more..
Run Lola Run
The Professional
Assassin
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Seven Samuri

 

[curiousjen]

I love you now and feel as though we should marry. true story.

My brother has just finished a film degree and Owen is a film freak too. I'd love to take credit, but its mostly their combined effort that got me my taste in films.

Also, I don't think I could afford another wedding

 

[canadiancutie]

My brother has just finished a film degree and Owen is a film freak too. I'd love to take credit, but its mostly their combined effort that got me my taste in films.

Also, I don't think I could afford another wedding

Haha that's super fly. Congratulations on having good taste

 

[jasonlf]

I can't watch Romeo and Juliet.

Makes me too sad

 

[Netzach]

As some of you kids know, I got a scholarship to film school, which is all yay and everything, but I'm pretty darn sure my movies won't do so well, because I have....different taste. So I'm just a tiny bit curious, what's everyone's favorite movie?

Go watch "Clerks" 10th anniversary edition with extras and "Baaadassss" by Mario Van Peebles for some really inspiring tales of long shot indie success.

 

[ShyGuy68]

A few of my favorite movies, in no particular order

Sin City
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Dogma
The Boondock Saints
Intermission
Sideways
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Once Were Warriors
Patch Adams
Shrek
Pulp Fiction
The Cooler
The Commitments
The Blues Brothers

 

[canadiancutie]

Go watch "Clerks" 10th anniversary edition with extras and "Baaadassss" by Mario Van Peebles for some really inspiring tales of long shot indie success.

hah I got into the film school Kevin Smith dropped out of (vancouver film school woo), but they didn't offer as much money as the one I'm going to. Either way, Jersey Girl made me hate him. Agreeing to make the Degrassi movie didn't help.

 

[Netzach]

hah I got into the film school Kevin Smith dropped out of (vancouver film school woo), but they didn't offer as much money as the one I'm going to. Either way, Jersey Girl made me hate him. Agreeing to make the Degrassi movie didn't help.

I think none of his post-clerks movies needed to be made, the ideas were already IN clerks and that's about as much air time as they needed

...see Baadass though, it's really really good. Probably the best thing I rented lately.

As for all time faves?

All About Eve (they don't do scripts like they used to)
Fireworks (Hana-bi) (gangster picture gone poetically metaphysical)
Amadeus
La Strada
Woman in the Dunes
Jules and Jim

The visuals of Murnau until I get bored by the creaky stories

Something I saw at a festival called "The Terrorist" a sri lankan picture that got championed into some limited distro by I believe it was Nicolas Cage...

Dog Day Afternoon (they still don't do scripts like they used to)

Germany 99-0 (Jean Luc Goddard, the only one of his that I really liked)

All time faves are hard to pin down. The films I remember, the ones that blew my mind are not necessarily the ones I want to watch over and over. That's a different list, with some overlap.