Favourite Movies

[Valium]

What are your favourite movies?
The movies that can evoke a strong emotional response are always the most memorable for me. The macho action flicks can be good for pure entertainment value, but they are rarely memorable.

My favourites:
1) The Road Home
An amazingly beautiful Chinese movie. Almost no action and little dialogue, but some of the most amazing visuals I have even seen in a movie and an incredibly heart-wrenching story. A simple story of love and innocence, yet in this simplicity lies the complexity that is life. The emotions are so strong you will know what the characters are thinking even before they have spoken and you can almost feel what they are feeling in their hearts. Even the toughest most insensitive guys will want to cry because this movie is so incredibly beautiful.

2) Groundhog Day
Unless you have been living in a cave for the last ten years, you’ve probably already seen this movie.

3) Love Actually
Definitely a chick flick, but a very good one. I never get tired of watching Keira Knightly.

Other great movies:
Leon: The Professional, The Last Samurai, Kill Bill, The Butterfly Effect, Ringu

 

[planetsmurf]

my personal favorites are the matrix series,the lord of the ring series,and the star wars 1-3, i also like the incredibles, saving private ryan

 

[richrad]

forrest gump, my all time favorite, it just has so much. i can watch it 24/7 and still cry everytime i watch it.

 

[mikes]

I remember seeing an amazing Chinese movie on CBC late night many years ago called "To Live". Fascinating , epic story of regular family spanning 3 generations.

Would love to find that again.

On the other side of the coin, I really dig "They Live", with Roddy Piper, featuring the longest, most ridiculous fist-fight scene filmed and the line I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum.

Oh, and Princess Bride.

 

[richrad]

I remember seeing an amazing Chinese movie on CBC late night many years ago called "To Live". Fascinating , epic story of regular family spanning 3 generations.

Would love to find that again.

On the other side of the coin, I really dig "They Live", with Roddy Piper, featuring the longest, most ridiculous fist-fight scene filmed and the line I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum.

Oh, and Princess Bride.

seen that movie "to live", good movie, too friggin long

 

[georgebushmoron]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Grease
5. Remains of the Day
6. The Downfall (Der Untergang)
7. Das Boot
8. The Empire Strikes Back
9. The Unforgiven
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors
11. Enter the Dragon
12. Groundhog Day
13. The Wedding Singer
14. Raise the Red Lantern
15. Kill Bill
16. Dirty Harry
17. Trainspotting
18. The Graduate
19. Excalibur
20. Clear and Present Danger
21. This is Spinal Tap

 

[richrad]

batman, spiderman, catwoman, the hulk, fantastic 4, x-men, haha im joking...

 

[georgebushmoron]

1) The Road Home
An amazingly beautiful Chinese movie. Almost no action and little dialogue, but some of the most amazing visuals I have even seen in a movie and an incredibly heart-wrenching story. A simple story of love and innocence, yet in this simplicity lies the complexity that is life. The emotions are so strong you will know what the characters are thinking even before they have spoken and you can almost feel what they are feeling in their hearts. Even the toughest most insensitive guys will want to cry because this movie is so incredibly beautiful.

Sounds great... where do I get it? I wanna watch it with the bitches.

 

[fastmustang]

Goodfellas
Full Metal Jacket
Scarface
Blade Runner in widescreen
Almost Famous
Pulp Fiction
All Pixar animation

 

[georgebushmoron]

Oh yeh, I forgot about "Goodfellas". That one was really good too, one of my faves.

 

[kokanee_68]

I liked "The Shawshank Redemption". "Saw" was also one I enjoyed and Im not really into that type of movie. But my all time favorite has to be "The Good,The Bad,& The Ugly".

 

[JustAGuy]

1. Badlands
1. Mean Streets
1. Days of Heaven

I can never decide which of the three I like the best, so they're in a three way tie for my favorite movie of all time.

 

[Hairball]

There are so many, and I like great movies with great, hot female actors. These are definately in my top 10:

1. The Piano............Holly Hunter ass looks good!!
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.......Juliette Binoche!
3. Stealing Beauty.........Liv Tyler!
4. Pulp Fiction...........Uma, Uma!!!
5. The Cider House Rules........ya gotta check out Charlize Theron!

 

[agentman]

1. Fight Club
2. Predator
3. Ace Ventura
4. Carlito's Way
5. Se7en
6. Casino
7. Die Hard

 

[ghostie]

I like some of the Hollywood movies that have a bit of a philosophical bent to them. Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is really the modern classic in this regard, IMHO.

The shear number of quotable phrases from that film is realy quite astonishing too. They list a number of them at IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/

(for those that haven't seen it, Little Bill is Gene Hackman, Will Munny is Eastwood, and Ned is Morgan Freeman)

My three favorites, in order, are:

Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
Bill Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
[aims gun]
Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.
Bill Munny: Yeah.
[fires]


Bill Munny: Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess he had it comin'.
Bill Munny: We all got it comin', kid.



Bill Munny: I seen 'em, Ned, I seen the angel of death, he's got snake eyes.
Ned Logan: Who Will, who's got snake eyes?
Bill Munny: It's the angel of death, oh Ned, I'm scared of dyin'.
Ned Logan: Easy, partner, easy.
Bill Munny: I see Claudia too.
Ned Logan: That's good, Will, that's good you saw Claudia, ain't it?
Bill Munny: Her face was all covered with worms, oh Ned I'm scared, I'm dyin'. Don't tell nobody, don't tell my kids, none of the things I done, hear me?
Ned Logan: All right, Will.


This one doesn't really have as much of a philosophical bent to it, but I think it is most people's favorite quote from the film:

Bill Munny: Who's the owner of this shithole?
Skinny Dubois: I, I am. I bought the place from Greeley in '79 and
[Will shoots him]
Little Bill Daggett: You, sir, are a murdering son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!
Bill Munny: He should have armed himself if he was goin' to decorate his establishment with my friend.

 

[ghostie]

On this same topic, I also really like Terence Mallick's "The Thin Red Line". IMHO, this is probably the deepest, most reflective movie to come out of Hollywood in 20 years... maybe ever.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/

On IMDB the first review starts this way: "This film is three hours of movie poetry. "Saving Private Ryan," though brilliantly made, is a jingoistic cartoon by comparison."

I strongly agree with that sentiment. Once you get into the film, and see what it is really about, it's like a visual poem... or a meditation on the nature of man. It's just brilliant in my view.

Some of the best lines are:

First Sgt. Edward Welsh (Sean Penn): Property. The whole fucking thing's about property.

Colonel Gordon Tall (Nick Nolte): Look at this jungle. Look at those vines, the way they twine around, swallowing everything. Nature's cruel, Staros.

Private Edward P. Train: [narrating] What is this great evil? How did it steal into the world? From what seed, what root did it spring? Who's doing this? Who's killing us? Robbing us of light and life. Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known.

 

[wolverine]

The Godfather trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Unforgiven
Amelie
Untouchables
Sin City
Batman Begins
X-Men and X2
High Fidelity
Taxi Driver
Fight Club
Desperado
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Terminator and T2
Trainspotting
Heathers
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Matrix (I'm ignoring the two sequels)

 

[sexysynners]

Imo

From the ever so yummy Quentin Tarantino Collection~(acting & producing)
Reservoir Dogs
4 rooms
Kill Bill Vol.I & II
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Little Nicky

Damn good movies~
Goodfellas
This girls Life
What women want


From the sexy Kate Hudson files~
Almost Famous
How to lose a guy in 10 days



From the Kids closet~
Incredibles
Series of Unfortunate Events
Cinderella

And most recently, CRASH.
This movie will leave you in shock and amazement thoughout the most it. Awsome movie.

 

[kehoe]

The Hunt for Red October
A Few Good Men
American Beauty
As Good As It Gets
Bull Durham
Slap Shot
The Graduate
In the Heat of the Night
The Gauntlet
Smokey and the Bandit
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Scrooged
48 Hrs
Taxi Driver
Midnight Run
GoodFellas
TopGun
The Natural
Jaws
Saturday Night Fever
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I didn't think I had more than 10 or 15 movies that I really loved but I banged these off in two minutes. Gotta narrow it down I guess.

 

[majikcalgary]

Dogma
Good Will Hunting
Scary Movie
40 year old Virgin
Planes Trains and Automobiles
American Beauty
US Marshals
Chasing Amy
Me, Myself, and Irene
Kiss the Girls
Se7en
Good Fellas
True Romance
L.A. Confidential
Gladiator