What's your favorite movie?

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discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:31 am

I was going through the forums, and I noticed that there were a lot of "What's your favorite music" threads going around. While that's good and all, I'm curious about what movies people like.

Plus, I need some good movie recommendations. I've seen too many and good ones are hard to come by now.

Any genre is alright, just keep 'em coming!

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:36 am

Hard question, can't name only one. But here's my top five, not in any particular order:

The big Lebowski
Waking Ned
Network
The Godfather (Part 1)
The Godfather (Part 2)

Ateo · Post by **Ateo** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:43 am

I prefer to categorize my preferences by director.

I like the following directors (in no particular order):

Tim Burton - Beetlejuice by far his best
Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels by far his best
Katherine Bigelow - Strange Days by far her best
Clive Barker - Hellraiser by far his best
David Cronenberg - Naked Lunch by far his best
John Carpenter - The Fog by far his best

avenj · Post by **avenj** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:39 am

Lost Highway
The Doors
Falling Down
Natural Born Killers
Phonebooth

steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:51 am

Am I the only one that actually likes Tron? It is definitely my favorite movie followed by The Doors and Get Shorty.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:04 am

Boondock Saints
Go
Dazed and Confused
Top Gun

some others

shm · Post by **shm** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:13 am

Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels (yes, Guy Ritchie rules)
Boondock Saints
Snatch (yes, Guy Ritchie rules)

Mirrorball · Post by **Mirrorball** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:16 am

Very obvious but I like them.

Jaws
The Raiders of The Lost Ark
Star Wars (the original trilogy)
The Hunt for the Red October
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Anything directed by Woody Allen, especially Radio Days
Dangerous Liaisons
Almost Famous

elboricua · Post by **elboricua** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:28 am

Wow, I have several. Here they are in no particular order.

The Usual Suspects
The Devils Advocate
Payback
Aliens
Highlander --drivel to some but I enjoyed it. The sequals were deplorable
Powder
Goodfellas
The Godfather 1 and 2 --They should have stopped there

Bogo · Post by **Bogo** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:49 am

Equilibrium
Back To The Future part 1
Tommy Boy
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Matrix

vificunero · Post by **vificunero** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:29 am

Well a favourite movie could be "A fistful of dollars" by Sergio Leone.
But generally I like spaghetti western and asian movies like for example:
Zhang Ymou (Red lanterns)
Kitano (Hana Bi, Scene at sea, Sonatine)
Kurosawa
Jackie Chan: Police Story.
Coppola: The godfather saga.

And of course: Terence Hilll and Bud Spencer movies. (They Call me Trinity).

mondauge · Post by **mondauge** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:36 am

I like:

Star Trek
Star Gate
Matrix
NGE
Lilo and Stitch

and many many more.. there is no definite best movie

mondauge

Ateo · Post by **Ateo** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:50 am

steel300 wrote:Am I the only one that actually likes Tron? It is definitely my favorite movie followed by The Doors and Get Shorty.

Tron kicked ass!

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:42 am

Bogo wrote:Equilibrium

Hell yeah, that was one under-hyped, under-rated kick-ass-athon.

My favourite movie is the Shawshank Redemption. Nothing touches it for sheer surprise or rewatchability.

Lilo and Stich is also an absolute classic. And now that I've watched Ice Age nearly fifty times with my son, it's starting to grow on me. (The dodo scene and Sid rescuing the melon is classic.)

psyqil · Post by **psyqil** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:50 am

elboricua wrote:The Usual Suspects

Yeah, that was great, I also liked Singer's X-Men movies and am really looking forward to the Dark Phoenix story in pt.3

other faves include

Waking Life
Memento
Battle Royal
Hsia Nu
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Disney's Fantasia is great work
Shrek was fun
Requiem for a Dream!
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi ( the colours, the music, ...aaahhhh!)
of course Fight Club, Animatrix, LOTR, 2001 (actually all of Kubrick), that Kevin Smith stuff, Dark Star, ...
Jackie Chan! I love that guy, ever since I first saw him 25 years ago!

Hm, this is mostly stuff I watched the last year, I must have forgotten some really great movies...

pranyi · Post by **pranyi** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:52 am

The Winter Light (by Ingmar Bergman)
The Celebration (Festen - by Vinterberg)
My Night at Maud's (by Eric Roehmer)
Quills (by Philip Kaufmann)
Full Metal Jacket (by Kubrick)
No Mans Land (by Danis Tanovic)

quiconque · Post by **quiconque** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:08 pm

"Ground Hog Day". It's not the best movie ever made, but I like it anyway... oh, "Full Metal Jacket" and "Priscilla, Queen of The Desert" were really good. "Hedwig And The Angry Inch", as well...

vificunero · Post by **vificunero** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:09 pm

psyqil wrote:
elboricua wrote:The Usual Suspects
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi ( the colours, the music, ...aaahhhh!)

Hisaishi is a great composer like Morricone. I love their music.

Brother Dysk · Post by **Brother Dysk** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:30 pm

The three colour series (Rouge, Blanc, and, um, blue

)
Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run
The Life of Brian
The Wall
Dr Strangelove

Spawn of Lovechild · Post by **Spawn of Lovechild** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:27 pm

I like movies, but the two most important ones are:

JFK
Gandhi

ed0n · Post by **ed0n** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:38 pm

hmm.

Hey dude wheres my car

I've seen too many movies so I can't really tell which one was that I liked most.

ed0n · Post by **ed0n** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:38 pm

Oops double post sorry.

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:24 pm

Sixth sense
Mononoke Hime
Chobits (edit: i just remebered that this is a series

)

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:33 pm

Hm...

Captain Blood (Errol Flynn... great movie

)
The Green Mile/The Shawshank Redemtion (Only good movies by Stephen King)

Other than that I like lots of movies.
Laters move I saw was Ong Bak which kicked ass!

pranyi · Post by **pranyi** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:52 pm

Brother Dysk wrote:The three colour series (Rouge, Blanc, and, um, blue )
Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run
The Life of Brian
The Wall
Dr Strangelove

I love all of them (but I like blue most out of the three parts.)

The only three DVD films I have is "The Wall", "The Life of Brian" and "Open You Eyes".

Another favourite movie coming to my mind is the "Chungking Express".