fav movies

[Wolver]

The boondock saints 1&2
Scarface
Avatar
Captain america the first avenger
Braveheart
Con air
Johan falk (swedish police serie)

[maxpower]

Captain America made the list of your favorite movies of all time? Really?

[Wolver]

yes and i'm waiting on the avengers

[maxpower]

yes and i'm waiting on the avengers

Don't get me wrong, I'll see just about any comic superhero movie that comes out, and I'm totally psyched to see The Avengers (it opens here in the US in like 5 weeks). I saw Captain America, and it wasn't bad. I was just curious that a movie that has only been out for like 8 months in the US, and probably even less time in Europe, made your list of all-time favorites.

[LibertyHarkness]

Alien
Metropolis
Planet Terror
Platoon
Scarface
Aliens
Night of the Dead/Dawn of the Dead (original ones)
Snatch
Braindead
Dog Soldiers (bad ass english werewolf film)
300 (awesome visuals and change of shooting style that has influenced so many current films)
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Man Bites Dog
Bat 21
Enemy Mine
Big Trouble in Little China

just a few of my favoutire films that comes to mind

[Stavros]

Rather than list as I have done already the directors and films I most admire as a total film experience, here are some films which are favourites but which cannot match the depth and artisty of the works of Ozu, Bergman, Bresson, and Tarkovsky.

Bullitt (Peter Yates, nineteen sixty-eight)
The French Connection I (William Friedkin, 1971)
The Driver (Walter Hill, nineteen seventy-eight)
(three films with mesmerising car chases, but which are also superbly directed and acted, with tight scripts and which, above all, tell a story that bears repeated viewing).

The Bourne Trilogy
The presence of Brian Cox and Albert Finney with their awful American accents is a major flaw in the trilogy but as action-adventure films also with thrilling car chases the Bourne films are great entertainment. The first Bourne film was made with Richard Chamberlain in 1988, I have never seen it so don't know how it compares to the later version.

Clint Eastwood -I have no sympathy with the politics or the violence, but the Dollars films, the Dirty Harry films, and particularly Play Misty for Me (1971), are all examples of story telling with a minimum of fuss, a lot of concentration, and outstanding scripts and acting.

Mission Impossible I-IV -though uneven in quality, these films are a great way to pass the time.

[GroobySteven]

Bullitt (Peter Yates, nineteen sixty-eight)
The French Connection I (William Friedkin, 1971)
The Driver (Walter Hill, nineteen seventy-eight)
(three films with mesmerising car chases, but which are also superbly directed and acted, with tight scripts and which, above all, tell a story that bears repeated viewing).
Great choices. Include "To Live and Die in LA" as one awesome car chase also (Friedkin again)




Clint Eastwood -I have no sympathy with the politics or the violence, but the Dollars films, the Dirty Harry films, and particularly Play Misty for Me (1971), are all examples of story telling with a minimum of fuss, a lot of concentration, and outstanding scripts and acting.
We have similar tastes. Add for me "Once Upon a Time in the West" as the best of the Dollar films (without Clint) and of course "Unforgiven" anchoring the violence of the Dollar films in a bit more reality.

Others:
Once Up a Time in America (Leone's second finest film)
Get Carter (original)
Angel Heart
The Name of the Rose
Cinema Paradiso
Jean De Florette/Manon de Sources
Kingpin (greatest comedy of all time)

[RallyCola]

Just WOW to some of the movies listed here. I thought my list would be the odd one here, but avatar, con air, the name of the rose, kingpin, big trouble in little china. i didn't expect movies like that. btw, avatar was total shit.

spaceballs
the shawshank redemption
fight club
the usual suspects
the silence of the lambs
the devil's advocate
office space
seven
forest gump
pulp fiction
the princess bride
raising arizona (the only nicholas cage movie i can enjoy)
inception
ferris bueller's day off
the dark knight
club paradise
airplane! (only part 1...part 2 was shit)
wall street (only part 1....part 2 was shit)
wag the dog
memento
the rocky horror picture show
the matrix (only part 1...2 and 3 sucked ass)
labrynth
finding nemo
stand by me
the crying game
a christmas story
LOTR (any of them but this is quickly dropping off the list as time goes on)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
the truman show

[LibertyHarkness]

LOL spacaeballs :)

its interesting what people enjoy in movies ..

generally i enjoy scifi/fantasy/horror or true life stuff .... things like romantic comedies, comeidies generally are not my cup of tea ..

with horror i am fussy as well it has to be old skool style ,, none of this american teen slasher shite ..

[Richctdude]

Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Slum Dog

[RallyCola]

LOL spacaeballs :)

its interesting what people enjoy in movies ..

generally i enjoy scifi/fantasy/horror or true life stuff .... things like romantic comedies, comeidies generally are not my cup of tea ..

with horror i am fussy as well it has to be old skool style ,, none of this american teen slasher shite ..

spaceballs is the funniest movie ever made and i can recite every line without even watching it.

i don't really like romcom stuff...boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl in the rain, boy cries, its implied that boy gets blowjob...too standard.

i like horror stuff...just not enough to include it on a favorites list.

[Wendy Summers]

Mine in no particular order:

The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fifth Element
Serenity
50 First Dates
Princess Bride
Baby Mama
Bowfinger
The Jerk
The Producers (the original)
A Night at the Opera
Dark Crystal
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2
Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2
Children of Men

I feel like I'm missing some :(

[joephant]

Here it is alphabetically,

American History X
Blade Runner
Big Lebowski
Boondock Saints
Bourne Movies
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Gattaca
Love, actually (I know, but it makes me laugh)
Matrix
Memento
Midnight Run
The Professional
Pulp Fiction
Requiem for a Dream
The Ring (1 of only 2 movies that ever actually freaked me out)
Silence of the Lambs
Tombstone
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (its slow, but give it a chance)

I can't remember if there was a limited number we were supposed to list, but it was hard to whittle it down this far. A lot of great flicks I had to leave off, and I know I forgot some greats.

[tiramisu]

rogue adventures 25

[jfk84000]

the godfather 1 & 2
apocalyse now
the dark crystal
usual suspects
les tontons flingueurs
la tendresse du maudit
the 10 commandments
the phantom of the opera (the one with lon chaney)
king kong (the one by schoedsack & cooper)
the last samourai

[suttonporksword]

Alien
Metropolis
Planet Terror
Platoon
Scarface
Aliens
Night of the Dead/Dawn of the Dead (original ones)
Snatch
Braindead
Dog Soldiers (bad ass english werewolf film)
300 (awesome visuals and change of shooting style that has influenced so many current films)
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Man Bites Dog
Bat 21
Enemy Mine
Big Trouble in Little China

just a few of my favoutire films that comes to mind

we could have a great night with popcorn!!

[RallyCola]

rogue adventures 25

i was waiting for someone to make it about porn. i actually was going to say hazel does hollywood in my first reply, but figured i'd keep it clean

[Vic]

I've been on a waiting list to rent from adultdvdempire.com for this movie; has anyone seen it? It looks smokin' hot, and I have been impatiently waiting; really, I can't wait to see it!!!:( My motivation is the cum drinking, ass-drilling T-girl on the cover! I suspect that this is the reason for the such a long wait!

[Vic]

I'll post my porno referenced movies to a different subject the next time!

[buttslinger]

I see some great ones and some stinkos, it's really hard for me to put down faves without including
Bridge on the River Kwai
Casablanca
Hitchcock
sentimental faves
Journey to the Center of the Earh
Jason and the Argonauts
Golden Voyage of Sinbad
(I was into Caroline Munro long before I knew why)

[russtafa]

insidious,other guys,sparticus blood and sand,rise of a foot soldier ,warrior,once were warriors ,something about marry,taxi driver,pale rider,rome

[maxpower]

I apologize in advance for the length of this list. I have close to 600 movies in my collection and it's hard to make a short one. I notice that I seem to share similar tastes with RallyCola and joephant.

American Beauty
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
The Blues Brothers
The Bourne Identity
Brazil
Caddyshack
A Christmas Story
A Clockwork Orange
The Dark Knight
Dirty Harry
Dr. Strangelove
Fargo
Fight Club
Fletch
The French Connection
Full Metal Jacket
The Godfather (1 & 2)
Goodfellas
Happiness (1 of the 2 most disturbing movies I have seen)
The Hunt for Red October
Jaws
The Jerk
M*A*S*H
The Matrix
Mean Streets
Memento
Midnight Run
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Natural Born Killers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Parents
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Planet of the Apes (original)
The Princess Bride
The Professional
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Saving Private Ryan
Requiem for a Dream (the other most disturbing movie I have seen)
Reservoir Dogs
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
Something Wild
Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
The Sting
Stop Making Sense
Taxi Driver
This Is Spinal Tap
Unforgiven
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
Wall Street
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the 1st movie I can remember seeing in a theater)

[Nicole Dupre]

Memorable quotes from Magnolia - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHOX7rDOsuM)

[RallyCola]

I apologize in advance for the length of this list. I have close to 600 movies in my collection and it's hard to make a short one. I notice that I seem to share similar tastes with RallyCola and joephant.


we do have similar tastes as i do enjoy several of the movies you listed though they didn't make my list.

now is laisa lins is your #1 favorite tgirl of all time, we could be twins

[maxpower]

Memorable quotes from Magnolia - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHOX7rDOsuM)


I like Magnolia, too. It's emotionaly draining to watch it, especially the scene with Tom Cruise and Jason Robards.

[maxpower]

we do have similar tastes as i do enjoy several of the movies you listed though they didn't make my list.

now is laisa lins is your #1 favorite tgirl of all time, we could be twins


She's not my number one, but she is definitely sexy.

[Vic]

Okay, I've finally seen the movie that I waited for with deep anticipation. I didn't recognize Carmen Cruz on the cover as the TS that appeared to be drinking cum, and busting ass! She definitely rose to the occasion, unfortunately there was no cum drinking, the fluid was saliva, but she did drill into dude's asshole. Much of the DVD was retro, but that was okay, it was all good. I would rate the disk as a 7.5. My general pleasure is driven from feminine looking TS's that that top, but fuck the hell outta their men! This one was close, but there wasn't as much punishment as I anticipated!?! I liken SM sex to action adventure movies, but that's just my S&M mentality!

Peace,

Vic.

[Dino Velvet]

The Exorcist

http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/82011/theexorcistmay11.jpg

[broncofan]

Double Indemnity, The Vanishing (Dutch version only), The Seventh Seal, Love and Death, Requiem For a Dream, Chinatown.

[Token Williams-Black]

Gangster movies and sports movies...those are my favorites. I enjoy the good urban comedy as well.

South Park...Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. That title could be used for "something else"...

[ptyseminole]

The Godfather 1 & 2
starwars (episodes 4-6)
Saving private Ryan
Shawsank Redemption
American Pie 1

[satchelgoat]

Spartan
The Fountain
Idiocracy
Transformers The Movie
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Top Gun
Beauty and the Beast
Spy Game
Choke
Dodgeball
Edmond
Gladiator
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Top Gun
Mini's First Time
Redbelt
Thank You For Smoking
The Crow
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
What Just Happened

[Stavros]

Double Indemnity, The Vanishing (Dutch version only), The Seventh Seal, Love and Death, Requiem For a Dream, Chinatown.

I would go along with most of those, but I have never understood the appeal of Chinatown, can you or someone explain why it is so high up on many people's lists of great films? I am not a Jack Nicholson fan and have never liked Faye Dunaway either.

[south ov da border]

gattaca
southland tales
fear of a black hat
Miller's crossing
twenty bucks
Dead men don't wear plaid
Truck Turner
three the hard way
donnie darko


There's a lot, some of them have already been named...

[Ben]

The boondock saints 1&2
Scarface
Avatar
Captain america the first avenger
Braveheart
Con air
Johan falk (swedish police serie)

Too many to name.
Well, Blade Runner. A lot of sci fi stuff. I remember liking Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie Predator as a kid. Saw it recently. Couldn't watch it. Thought it was pretty bad. Well, your tastes change, eh.
I really liked Donnie Darko.
I mostly follow directors. I like a lot of John Carpenter's stuff and Tobe Hooper. (Albeit Tobe Hooper didn't do anything as good as his seminal film Texas Chainsaw.)
I liked the Godfather Part II.
Difficult to come up with a concise list though -- ha ha!

[Yvonne183]

I only have one favorite movie.

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

[robertlouis]

I only have one favorite movie.

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

Worth getting the soundtrack album too, Yvonne - stands up pretty well without the movie.

[Yvonne183]

Worth getting the soundtrack album too, Yvonne - stands up pretty well without the movie.

I like the music from the movie, love the accordion sound.

[robertlouis]

I like the music from the movie, love the accordion sound.

As a cajun gal, you should! :dancing:

[broncofan]

I would go along with most of those, but I have never understood the appeal of Chinatown, can you or someone explain why it is so high up on many people's lists of great films? I am not a Jack Nicholson fan and have never liked Faye Dunaway either.
I missed this one. It's a good point. I guess it stems from growing up in Los Angeles and knowing that despite the fact that it's a sprawling mess of a city, it was once a barren desert. So, it seems like such a mysterious thing when you find out that these powerful men are wrangling over (and killing over) water rights of all things. I also liked the mood of the film, as a modern noir where the police are cynically corrupt and one tycoon controls the entire fate of the city. I tend to like a lot of noirs for the simple reason that everything is inexplicably shrouded in mystery and people's behavior is much cooler and more suave than it ever could be in real life. But it's one of those movies that if I recommended it to someone I couldn't be sure they wouldn't tell me it was boring. As I am sure you know, it's a slow movie.

I also have always thought Jack Nicholson was a bit overrated. Those who think he's a great actor cannot explain to me what it is about him that's appealing. He always comes across as strange to me. When Daniel Day Lewis plays eccentric, I find his character compelling. When Jack Nicholson does the same, I find him implausible or bizarre.

[Dino Velvet]

(Albeit Tobe Hooper didn't do anything as good as his seminal film Texas Chainsaw.)


Chainsaw Massacre was the best but Hooper also directed other good films such as Salem's Lot and Poltergeist plus some fun ones like Eaten Alive, The Funhouse, TCM2, Toolbox Murders(remake), and a couple episodes of Masters Of Horror.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001361/

[broncofan]

Rather than list as I have done already the directors and films I most admire as a total film experience, here are some films which are favourites but which cannot match the depth and artisty of the works of Ozu, Bergman, Bresson, and Tarkovsky.

Bullitt (Peter Yates, nineteen sixty-eight)
The French Connection I (William Friedkin, 1971)
The Driver (Walter Hill, nineteen seventy-eight)
(three films with mesmerising car chases, but which are also superbly directed and acted, with tight scripts and which, above all, tell a story that bears repeated viewing).

The Bourne Trilogy
The presence of Brian Cox and Albert Finney with their awful American accents is a major flaw in the trilogy but as action-adventure films also with thrilling car chases the Bourne films are great entertainment. The first Bourne film was made with Richard Chamberlain in 1988, I have never seen it so don't know how it compares to the later version.

Clint Eastwood -I have no sympathy with the politics or the violence, but the Dollars films, the Dirty Harry films, and particularly Play Misty for Me (1971), are all examples of story telling with a minimum of fuss, a lot of concentration, and outstanding scripts and acting.

Mission Impossible I-IV -though uneven in quality, these films are a great way to pass the time.
Loved Bullitt, loved French Connection, never seen The Driver but will look into it. When I was a kid I read The Bourne Identity, and it was the only Ludlum book I read. It was pretty exciting. I found the version with Richard Chamberlain was pretty right on the money and true to the book. The Hollywood version was not at all. They both kept me entertained. I saw the one with Richard Chamberlain on television and I remember it being extremely long though.

[robertlouis]

I tend to follow particular Directors, even if their oeuvre can be somewhat uneven in quality, so most films by Louis Malle, Truffaut, Polanski, Kubrick, John Ford, Haneke, Christopher Nolan, Scorsese, Robert Altman, David Lean, Herzog, the Coen brothers, Peter Weir.

My favourite film of all is Kubrick's Paths of Glory, made in black and white in 1956. He never surpassed it.

[broncofan]

I tend to follow particular Directors, even if their oeuvre can be somewhat uneven in quality, so most films by Louis Malle, Truffaut, Polanski, Kubrick, John Ford, Haneke, Christopher Nolan, Scorsese, Robert Altman, David Lean, Herzog, the Coen brothers, Peter Weir.

My favourite film of all is Kubrick's Paths of Glory, made in black and white in 1956. He never surpassed it.
It's funny, I am not a huge movie buff, but I was talking to someone who is a Kubrick fan and I told them that I really liked the movie the Killing. It was an early Kubrick that reminded me a bit of some scenes from Reservoir Dogs (I know I should be saying that the other way around). I was shocked they hadn't seen it. Now here I go, haven't seen Paths of Glory. I'll have to take a look at it.