Favourite Movies

[Swguy]

A few off the top of my head....

Blade Runner... asks the ultimate question: What is it that makes someone human

The Game... keeps you guessing right to the end

Airplane!... kick-started a whole new genre of comedy, plus introduced us to the hilarious side of Leslie Nielsen

Men With Brooms... Classically Canadian movie, and one that's proud to show it

The Centre of the World... examines the human condition and the need for comapnionship.

Crash, from 1996... interesting study into what lengths people will go for excitement

Mortal Kombat... certainly not the best movie of all-time, but for some reason, this movie is infinitely re-watchable

Somewhere In Time... Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in a story of love that spans decades


SWG

 

[tatman]

all time fav......american history x has to be in there!!!

 

[georgebushmoron]

Damn I also forgot about "Se7en". I saw that movie 4 times!

And as for "Gladiator" - didn't like that movie. It sure was homoerotic. Especially the scenes of the muscle-bound gladiators dripping with sweat (and probably glistening with oil) staring at each other sitting around the campfire eating lamb.

 

[LonelyGhost]

I must be old ...

Lawrence of Arabia ... great story, acting, cinematography
A Bridge Too Far ... great actors, action, some funny lines
Dr. Zhivago ... ah, regret ...

'modern' stuff:

The Matrix ... still makes me think
Good Will Hunting ... good story from all sides
Pirates of the Caribbean ... depp was funny, kiera was sexy ... good fun.

weird but good:

The Last Seduction ... Linda Fiorentino makes dating a whole new experience
Romeo is bleeding ... another cautionary tale
After Hours ... what happens when geeks go out at night ...

Honourable mention:

Last of the Mohichans ... good action, less talking please.
Braveheart ... same

Best Actor that's not gibbled:

Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot versus Dustin Hoffman in Rainman versus Billy Bob Thorton in Slingblade.

Best Actress:

Holly Hunter in anything ...

 

[FuZzYknUckLeS]

The Usual Suspects and Memento stick out in my mind.
Brilliantly written.

Usual Suspects

Fenster: I don't know anything about no fuckin? truck.
Cop: Oh, yeah? Well, your friend McManus told us a different story altogether.
Fenster: Oh, is that the one about the hooker with the dysentery?

Cop: I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.
Hockney: Really? I live in Queens, did you put that together yourself, Einstein? Got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?

Verbal: How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?

Fenster: So who the goddamned piss-hell stole the fuckin' truck?
Hockney: What?
Fenster: Who stole the fuckin' truck?

Memento

Natalie: What's the last thing that you do remember?
Leonard Shelby: My wife...
Natalie: That's sweet.
Leonard Shelby: ...dying.

Natalie: But even if you get revenge you're not gonna remember it. You're not even going to know that it happened.
Leonard Shelby: My wife deserves vengance. Doesn't make a difference whether I know about it. Just becuase there are things I don't remember doesn't make my actions meaningless. The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it? Anyway, maybe I'll take a photograph to remind myself, get another freaky tattoo.

Natalie: Is that what your little note says? It must be hard living your life off a couple of scraps of paper. You mix your laundry list with your grocery list you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast.

Natalie: You know what one of the reasons for short term memory loss is? Venereal disease. Maybe your cunt of a fucking wife sucked one too many diseased cocks and turned you into a fucking retard.


Nowdays, if I can simply sit thru any flik without guessing how it ends in the first 15 minutes, its a good flik. And there aren't many.

 

[planetsmurf]

i forgot to add sin city,marv was just cool and alien vs predator

 

[aznboi9]

sex island
dinner party
jenna unleashed
ass angels
hardcore

 

[planetsmurf]

No votes for "Showgirls" yet??

maybe if showgirls was a porno i would vote for it but just being a softcore flick i will have to pass

 

[georgebushmoron]

oh yeh, "Last Exit to Brooklyn". Damn good movie and book also (originally a book). Brutal.

"Black Robe" - gritty movie about Europeans clashing with Aboriginals of North America. What a effin tragedy!!! I think this was a Canadian movie?

"Dances with Wolves" - like Black Robe but gone Disney in that distinctly stupid Hollywood way, but fun to watch.

 

[kohinoor]

Rounders
Silence of the Lambs
Indecent Proposal
Gladiator
Forrest Gump
Any Pixar movie
Matrix Reloaded

 

[dick9994]

Back to the Future I, II, and III

Hey, what can I say....gotta vote for the BC boy, Michael J Fox.

Cheers

 

[fastmustang]

sex island
dinner party
jenna unleashed
ass angels
hardcore

PERBVERT

 

[Audrey]

The Passion of Ayn Rand.
House of Flying Daggers.
Garden State.
Lost In Translation.
Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Matrix trilogy.
Ray.
Last Samurai
Forrest Gump.
Almost Famous.
Good Will Hunting.
As good As It Gets.
High Fidelity.
Pixar: Monsters Inc.
Amelie.
Harry Potter: All.
Baraka.

 

[LutherBlissett]

Duck Soup
Eating Raoul
Psycho
Belle De Jour
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Big Lebowski
The Thin Man
The African Queen
Breathless
Chinatown
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Amarcord
Bedazzled
The Deer Hunter
Mean Streets
Big Night
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Eraserhead
Billy Liar
Repo Man
Manhattan
Day for Night
Taxi
Clockwork Orange
Raging Bull
The Freshman
The Graduate
Cuckoo’s Nest
Pinnochio
A Fish Called Wanda
Groundhog Day
This is Spinal Tap

 

[carynofwinnipeg]

Terms of Endearment.
All the Godfather movies.
Scarface.
Silkwood.

Caryn

 

[n2supersymmetry]

Ashes of Time
Hero
Hard-boiled
A Better Tommorrow (all of them)
Killer
The Returner
Wind and Cloud or StormRiders? (those of you who are chinese understand what I am talking about)
Shanghai Triad (the version with Andy Lau and Leslie Cheung)
Platoon
Hamburger Hill
Three Kings
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
Aliens (the second one)
The Insider (and I am total smoker too )
Casablanca
Rounders
Ocean's Eleven
Star Wars (All six sequential marathon)
James Bond (All of them)
Broken Arrow
Face Off
Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels
Europa, Europa
My Science Project
Revenge of the Nerds
American Pie
Airplane
The Name of the Rose
Pi
Dark City
Matrix ( only the first two)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Indiana Jones (All of them)
Once a upon a time in Mexico I & II
The Professional

 

[JustAGuy]

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.

Ghostie, a few posts before yours I posted my three all time favorite movies. Two of them, "Badlands" and "Days of Heaven" were directed by Terence Malick. After he made them, he was so disillusioned with Hollywood that he moved to Paris and didn't make another movie for almost 25 years. When he resumed making movies, he made "The Thin Red Line". While I do like it a lot, I don't think it quite compares to his first two. If you haven't seen them, I highly recommend them.

The first stars a young Martin Sheen and a young Sissy Spacek and is based on the true story of Charles Starkweather, an infamous 1950's serial killer. The second movie is one of the earliest movies Richard Gere ever made and though it's supposed to take place in Texas, it was actually filmed in southern Alberta. Both are sheer poetry for the eyes and there are scenes that will stay with you forever. No wonder Malick got disillusioned and gave up making movies. He made two of the greatest movies ever and neither was even remotely a commercial success. I imagine that he concluded the movie going audience are cretins who deserve the pap that Hollywood churns out most of the time.

For me, he's in the same category as the Coen brothers and Martin Scorsese. I'll eagerly see anything they direct because even when a movie isn't up to their usual high standard, it's still likely to be much better than anything another director might make.

 

[ghostie]

Ghostie, a few posts before yours I posted my three all time favorite movies. Two of them, "Badlands" and "Days of Heaven" were directed by Terence Malick. After he made them, he was so disillusioned with Hollywood that he moved to Paris and didn't make another movie for almost 25 years. When he resumed making movies, he made "The Thin Red Line". While I do like it a lot, I don't think it quite compares to his first two. If you haven't seen them, I highly recommend them.

Thanks for that tip. I actually haven't seen those movies, but I should and I will.

His filmography on IMDB shows only a few films.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000517/

He has this new film coming out pretty soon, "The New World". I've seen the trailer for it a couple of times in the theatres. I imagine it will be a brilliant film that most people don't get and which doesn't do much at the box office - like all his other films by the sounds of it!

I can't tell you how many people have told me that they find The Thin Red Line (if they have watched it at all), to be a slow boring version of Saving Private Ryan. That is just sacrilege in my view! It must have just gone straight over their heads! The Thin Red Line isn't even about war, it is just set in a war.

Anyway, I don't even bother arguing it with people any more. If they don't get it, that is their loss.

 

[samantha_van]

Anything with Brad Pitt!! Mmmmm oh baby!! But my top 3 favorite..
#1. LEGENDS OF THE FALL
#2. OCEANS ELEVEN
#3. TROY

Favorite movies with out brad pitt
1. Pulp Fiction
2. What dreams may come
3. Very bad things

Favorite Cartoons/Kids movies
1. Shrek 1 & 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Lion King

 

[majikcalgary]

I forgot about American History X which is quite good. I also forgots to mention Training Day... must have seen that flick like 5 times. Not too believable of a story when you think about it but a very powerful performance by Washington makes up for it.