your favorite movies

[reminisco]

5 more movies i love and would watch anytime:

1. Heat
2. Yojimbo
3. Double Indemnity
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Adaptation

[Neoteny]

I'm going to show my absurd side on this one, just watch me...

Closer
Garden State
Inside Man
No Country
Superbad (I can't help it)

No particular order, of course.

I could probably turn gay (genetically, of course) for Jude Law and Clive Owen. I don't know why...

[spurgistan]

Hmmm, you really liked 2007, didn't you, Neo?

Completely arbitrary list:
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
The Seven Samurai
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver

How the f*ck did I go from Kubrick to Kurosawa to Monty Pythonto Coppola to Scorcese?

[reminisco]

I'm going to show my absurd side on this one, just watch me...

Closer
Garden State
Inside Man
No Country
Superbad (I can't help it)

No particular order, of course.

I could probably turn gay (genetically, of course) for Jude Law and Clive Owen. I don't know why...

still haven't seen Closer all the way through. got about half way through it. always meant to finish it, but was watching it with a girl i was seeing at the time, we, um, got distracted, and our affair fizzled before I got the chance to finish it.

all of the other movies are great. i gotta love Garden State... i mean, i grew up in Jersey. Inside Man was a phenomenal heist picture, one of the few that kept me guessing right up to the end. No Country was great, and Superbad... damn, that was one of the best comedies ever made... i usually don't laugh for the entire 90 minutes of a comedy. in fact, it's been shown through tests (like, legitimate sociological study) that most people CANNOT keep laughing for longer than 45 minutes. which is interestingly correlated with the professional stand-up set -- clocking in at 50 minutes. of course, feature length films are defined as being 90 minutes in length (in the last 20 years, 80 minutes has become the minimum cut-off, but by the old school definition...)

so comedies are already in a losing position, and often times will stack the best gags in the first 45 minutes of the picture. i tend to find myself either laughing at the first 45 or the second 45 minutes, when i see comedies for the first time in the theater (if they're funny). but Superbad... i couldn't stop laughing for the entire movie. defies the "laws" of comedy.

[reminisco]

5 more movies i love and would gladly watch again:

1. Brick ---- (an excellent homage to Dashiell Hammett novels)
2. In The Company of Men ---- (Neil Labute's masterpiece)
3. Three Kings ---- (everything David O. Russell makes is awesome)
4. The Goonies ---- (i mean, i know you've all seen it)
5. La Haine ---- (english title: Hate -- an absolute must see, Mathieu Kassovitz's masterpiece)

[Nataki Yiro]

The Prestige was pretty good, but I hate when movies have little replay value. It's like Deja Vue, once you've seen the secret it just isn't as good...

[tubaman]

Yeah, but it's fun seeing it again and knowing why everything's happening. It makes way more sense. But that is true, it kind of loses it's element when it loses the surprise factor.

[jonesthecurl]

Hmmm, you really liked 2007, didn't you, Neo?

Completely arbitrary list:
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
The Seven Samurai
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver

How the f*ck did I go from Kubrick to Kurosawa to Monty Pythonto Coppola to Scorcese?

Well, none of those movies made my list but love them all.
and you know, kubrick's doing well on this thread - If someone lists The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut (do i hav that title right) we've virtually got the set.

[reminisco]

Well, none of those movies made my list but love them all.
and you know, kubrick's doing well on this thread - If someone lists The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut (do i hav that title right) we've virtually got the set.

we're forgetting, of course, Paths of Glory and The Killers -- two other perfections in film-making. (we can skip Spartacus for all i care, a good picture, but nothing compared to the rest of the library. oh, and did anyone list Full Metal Jacket?)

[jonesthecurl]

(we can skip Spartacus for all i care, a good picture, but nothing compared to the rest of the library.

I'll skip Spartacus
No, I'll skip Spartacus
(come on, join in!)

[Jenos Ridan]

1) The Original Star Wars Trilogy

2) All three LOTR moives

3) All the even-numbered Star Trek films (2, 4, 6)

4) The Indiana Jones Trilogy

5) The Pink Panther movies

there always has to be on ornery person who can't resist listing more items than the thread suggests. congratulations, you win the prize this time!

maybe i should list my top 86 most favorite films.

*Bows graisously, then takes to the podium and beings to give the "I Refuse to be Restained!" speach.*

[Jenos Ridan]

I actually found it quite entertaining and well made. It was merely a documentary on how Neo-Darwinism denies all other theories access to science. Darwin challenged the theories of his day and was successful. If anyone challenges the theories of our day they are silenced. Is that what science is about? Silencing ideas that we personally don't like...

I would suggest you go see it (I'm assuming you haven't seen it because that would be just too good for you to see a movie then made a judgment about it). It has very good discussions between the leading people of Neo-Darwinism and those who reject Neo-Darwinism.

Have you seen any of the movies I posted?

It's a Wonderful Life is one of my favs. I watch it every Christmas without fail...

I've heard of this Expelled. Now I have to see it , no thanks to your synopis!

[Neoteny]

Hmmm, you really liked 2007, didn't you, Neo?

Completely arbitrary list:
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
The Seven Samurai
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver

How the f*ck did I go from Kubrick to Kurosawa to Monty Pythonto Coppola to Scorcese?

What can I say? I enjoy older movies, but I feel that quite a few lose their appeal to me due to differences in the time periods. Speaking of Kubrick, Clockwork Orange is genius in movie form, but I think it's already been mentioned. This is my ironic face.

I'm going to show my absurd side on this one, just watch me...

Closer
Garden State
Inside Man
No Country
Superbad (I can't help it)

No particular order, of course.

I could probably turn gay (genetically, of course) for Jude Law and Clive Owen. I don't know why...

still haven't seen Closer all the way through. got about half way through it. always meant to finish it, but was watching it with a girl i was seeing at the time, we, um, got distracted, and our affair fizzled before I got the chance to finish it.

all of the other movies are great. i gotta love Garden State... i mean, i grew up in Jersey. Inside Man was a phenomenal heist picture, one of the few that kept me guessing right up to the end. No Country was great, and Superbad... damn, that was one of the best comedies ever made... i usually don't laugh for the entire 90 minutes of a comedy. in fact, it's been shown through tests (like, legitimate sociological study) that most people CANNOT keep laughing for longer than 45 minutes. which is interestingly correlated with the professional stand-up set -- clocking in at 50 minutes. of course, feature length films are defined as being 90 minutes in length (in the last 20 years, 80 minutes has become the minimum cut-off, but by the old school definition...)

so comedies are already in a losing position, and often times will stack the best gags in the first 45 minutes of the picture. i tend to find myself either laughing at the first 45 or the second 45 minutes, when i see comedies for the first time in the theater (if they're funny). but Superbad... i couldn't stop laughing for the entire movie. defies the "laws" of comedy.

Closer just had some writing that really appealed to me. And the actors really made it work well.

DAN: I don't stalk. I lurk, and when I'm not there you look for me.
ANNA: How do you know if you're not there?
DAN: Because I am there, lurking from a distance.

LARRY: Have you ever see a human heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood! Go f*ck yourself. You writer! You liar!

LARRY: Feel free to call me The Sultan.

Superbad is apparently a love it or hate it film. I can understand why many don't like it, as the overall maturity level is about 16, but I think that that was the goal and it was pulled off so well that it deserves recognition, even if one can't appreciate the humor. I surely can...

"They're like little baby toes."

[joecoolfrog]

1) One flew over the Cuckoos nest
2) Godfather 1 and 2
3) Blazing Saddles
4) LOTR Trilogy
5) The Searchers

Impossible really just to pick 5 so picked one each from different genres.

[Pedronicus]

1. Scarface
2. Pinochio
3. Aliens
4. Lock Stock..
5. Oh Brother, Where art Tho?

[borox0]

I didn't think anyone else would have actually seen The Prestige before.

1. The Prestige
2. Gladiator
3. LOTR trilogy

Can't think of what the others would be.

[Nataki Yiro]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of my favs. Probably the best Homer retells ever...

[Pedronicus]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of my favs. Probably the best Homer retells ever...

What I especially like about it, is that if you freeze frame any part of the film - you would have an excellent image worth framing and hanging on a wall. Every shot is composition perfect.

[DRoZ]

Some of my favorites that havent been mentioned, in no particular order...

Rounders
Bubba Hotep
V for Vendetta
The Big Lebowski
Dawn of the Dead, the 1979 version... not the remake.

[Neoteny]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of my favs. Probably the best Homer retells ever...

What I especially like about it, is that if you freeze frame any part of the film - you would have an excellent image worth framing and hanging on a wall. Every shot is composition perfect.

Another good movie for quotes too...

"I'm the damn paterfamilias!"

[borox0]

Oh there's one called The Birds. It's pretty old but it's still a classic. Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense.

[Nataki Yiro]

Kung-fu movies...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Jet Li's Fearless
etc...

I'm hoping that Forbidden Kingdom is good...