I have no life. Or TV programming. I'm not sure if one begat the other or not, but that's not where I'm going here. Because of a combination of the 2, I watch a lot of movies.
I have 3 favorites (I know it's against the rules- I tell my kids all the time that "favorite" means "only ONE that you like better than the others")
- Kung Fu Hustle
- V For Vendetta
- Leon The Professional
I hate movies that are put on a pedestal as the best movie in the entire universe that has ever been and ever will be made. I won't watch (most of) them for that reason.
My favorite actor is Simon Pegg. I can't stand lots, but Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are at the top of the list.
So, what's your favorite movies? Actors? Do you avoid a certain type of movie or watch them all?
On the creepy front:
Angel Heart (love me some Micky Rourke)
Event Horizon
Wow, I know I'll forget some but...
- Urban Cowboy
- Pulp Fiction
- Shawshank Redemption
- Memento
- 40 yr old Virgin
- Elf
- Almost Famous
- The Color Purple
- E.T.
- Office Space
- Let's Go to Prison
- The Pianist
- The Shining
- There's Something about Mary
- Sixteen Candles
- Lord of the Rings
There are so many good movies it's hard to pick favorites but the bad movies have to out number the goods by at least twenty to one.
Three of my favorite:
Man's Favorite Sport?
Grand Prix
An American in Paris
The Big Lebowski
DISNEY!!!
The Mummy
Gone With the Wind
The Departed is really good, as well.
Original Post by fortiusAfter The Decline of Western Civilization Part One, the original Suburbia, Dogs In Space, Smithereens, and for good measure you should download the 20 minute film "Heavy Metal Parking Lot"--more of a metal movie than punk, but you will learn via one young man that the punks all actually came "from Mars".And that there was a point in history where young women were dying to meet Rob Halford to "jump his bones", little did they know!SLC Punk: Salt Lake City Punk, essential movie to understand the punk era in the 80's!
Great Rock & Roll Swindle probably won't help anyone understand anything, but it contains some very funny stuff.
I tend to mostly like horror movies, and them some stuff I'm not sure how you would categorize like Forbidden Zone (surreal and offensive musical made by Richard Elfman and Oingo Boingo), Liquid Sky (low budget sci-fi movie involving aliens, heroin, and killing people with orgasms), "Cinema of Transgression" (Lower East Side artist types in the late 70's early 80's making demented films with handheld cameras), Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (go-go girls just generally causing trouble) and John Waters movies (usually over-the-top satires of Baltimore life involving Divine)
I also like Ratatouille, Willard, and Ben, because they are rat oriented films.
Original Post by fortius:SLC Punk: Salt Lake City Punk, essential movie to understand the punk era in the 80's!
Holy crap, I completely forgot about that movie!
So epic.
The Departed was good.. as was Willard.
Oh, what about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Schindler's List, Mississippi Burning, Amistad, the Life of David Gale...
Shawshank Redemption I can watch it every time it comes on, Shakespeare in Love, Grease, se7en, Moulin Rouge, Indentity. I could go on and on.
The Dark Knight, anyone???
And just because its a new, MULTI million dollar massive blockbuster doesn't overshadow its credibility.
MAJOR brilliance in that film!!
Also, The Godfather, LOTR, Candy (Australian indie film with the late Heath Ledger), Sin City, Gangs of New York, Schindler's List...anything that makes me cry
There are no objective criteria to use when judging a movie's worth.
- cabin fever
- kung-fu hustle
- fergully
- lets go to prision
- step-bros
- vertigo
- semi-pro
- the hills have eyes
- rear window
- charades
- clockwork orange
- ring
- donnie darko
- saw
- 12 angry men
- bye bye birdie
Snatch
Beautiful Mind
Unbreakable
-among the many
Original Post by carryonandon:
Current top 3:
YES... Hot Fuzz... i did like that. Kung Fu Hustle too.
The Manchurian Candidate (the one w/ Denzel)
V for Vendetta
Remember the Titans
I really liked The Da Vinci Code.
I really like some documentaries too.I like a lot of comedies but usually comedy specials (like Kathy Griffin) -- i don't really count those as movies though.
Most of my favorites have already been listed. The only movie I can think to add is Lawrence of Arabia. But it is better if you read T.E. Lawrence's autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom first. The movie stands on it's own. But the action is more meaningful with the historical background in your mind.
- Shaun of the Dead
- Requim of a Dream (don't do drugs kids!)
- Edward Scissorhands
- John Carpenter's "The Thing"
- Hot Fuzz
...''The House Bunny'' hihi :)
The Big Chill
Goonies
Grease
Shirley Valentine
The Eyes of Laura Mars
Casabanca
RHPS
Little Shop of Horrors, either one
The Usual Suspects
Fargo
Goodfellows
Parenthood
My Blue Heaven
Audrey Rose
Any old B horror movie
Love the older movies. Anything with Shirley Temple, Vincent Price, Audrey Hepburn and Kate Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Gene Kelly.
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