Lets talk movies!!!

[Never_Scurred]

Yay! My favorite topic!
whats your top ten favorite movies of all time and what good ones have you seen lately?

Mine-
1. Battle Royale
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Hard Boiled
4. Brain Dead(Dead Alive)
5. The Thing
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. Nowhere
8. Pink Flamingoes
9. Scum
10. Visitor Q

alternates-
Aliens
Malcolm X
Ken Park
Kids
Pulp Fiction
Bad Taste
Menace II Society
L.I.E.
Story of Ricky
Untold Story
The Firm(Gary Oldman classic)
Ichi the Killer
Gangster No. 1
Brother
Nekromantik
The Killer
A Better Tomorrow 1, 2(just for that nasty ass shootout at the end)
Dawn of the Dead
Sleepaway Camp
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer


Good movies i've seen lately(well, last year-I don't go to the movies much)
Mysterious Skin
The Aristocrats
Me, You, and Everyone We Know
Sin City
Aftermath(A great movie for getting rid of someone who doesn't want to be gotten rid of)
Open Water
Its All Gone Pete Tong
House of the Dead(Damn straight I said it, the best comedy i've seen in awhile)
Team America
Orgasmo

[neorichieb1971]

Not gonna go into specifics but -

Die hard
Aliens
True romance
The Professional (leon)
Heat
Stand by me
Matrix
Terminator 1
Robocop
Fists of Legend (Jet li)
Kung fu Hustle
Sin City



I would give thumbs up to -

Any Sergio Leone movie
Bladerunner
Big
40 year old virgin


Cant think of anymore right now, there are too many.


Did Scum get a release in the USA?

[Never_Scurred]

Did Scum get a release in the USA?

Yeah, it did..as part of the Alan Clarke Boxed Set from Blue Underground.
It has both versions of Scum(can't decide which is better, both are damed good), Firm, and the kickass Made in Britain. It also has Elephant and a documentary about Alan's life. Good stuff. I owned the PAL versions of both Scum and Firm but its good to have versions now that I can loan to friends to watch.
Can't believe I forgot to mention the 40 Year Old Virgin...

[Andi]

Don't forget The Road Warrior.

Man. I can't believe you guys.

[bwod1e]

Terminator 2
Star Wars
Fear and Loathing Los Vegas
The Pianist
Total Recall (arnie fuckin rocks full stop)
Truman show
Forest Gump
Back to the Future
The People Under The Stairs
Goonies

ohhhh so many good movies could be listed

[Rob]

Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind again yesterday. Still great.

I'll refrain from mentioning any childhood favorites except Big Trouble in Little China and Alice in Wonderland (Disney ver.).

Some movies that made in impact on me (or just enjoyed) in recent times:
Amelie
Donnie Darko - to get these two out of the way!
Festen
Taxi Driver
Red (entire trilogy really)
Corpse Bride
Mysterious Skin
Swingers
Grosse Pointe Blank
Ran
Some Kind of Monster (ha!)

I typically do not like heavy sfx movies like Star Wars or LOTR. Have a special loathing for most action movies (car chases - woo!), esp. James Bond. Surprised myself by liking the Dirty Harry movies, though.

[Axon]

Behold my crap list.

1.End of Evangelion
2.Good Burger
3.Cowboy Bebop:Knockin' On Heaven's Door

I don't have the time nor the will to rent every acclaimed movie from the past so usually whatever I see and think is great is what becomes one of my favorite movies but those three will always be what comes to my mind when I'm asked about favorite movies.

[JBC]

I love movies too much to figure out my top ten or even list just ten of them - So instead i've compiled a short list of some of my favorites. These are basically movies that mean alot to me personally i guess you could say.

Lethal Weapon 2 (I'm gonna get im', Roge! I'm gonna get im' and i'm gonna... fuck em'!)
Die Hard With a Vengence
American Psycho
Hard Boiled
Aliens
A Nightmare on Elm St part 3 - Dream Warriors
The Golden Child
Predator
Live and Let Die
The Terminator
John Carpenter's The Thing
Joe Dirt
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Zoolander
Police Story
Commando
Kill Bill vol.1 and 2
Collateral
Coming to America
Escape from New York
Bad Boys 2
Goldeneye

As far as good movies i've seen lately - Weather Man (excellent movie) and Crash. Mission Impossible 3 was... entertaining and has a really kickass bridge fight. War of the Worlds from last year is really really good until you see what the aliens look like annnnnddd... i'm really excited about Miami Vice.

OH, and as a warning. DO NOT WATCH ULTRAVIOLET unless you are like me and just... REALLY like Milla Jovovitch (even though she was in those crap Resident Evil movies. Which i've watched like 20 times apiece just to stare at her... moving aroung... and kicking things. And stuff. *drools*)

[DC906270]

a mix if my favourites/ones ive enjoyed lately :

The Godfather 1, 2, 3
Taxi Driver
City of God
Batman Begins
V for Vendetta
Lord of War
Tombstone
The Fly
Angel of Vengeance
Man on Fire
Falling Down
Glengarry Glen Ross
Zombie
Wall Street
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Scarface

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Can't do a top ten.

Stigmata
Casino
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Jacob's Ladder
All Tim Burton Films (Yes that includes Mars Attacks)
Rushmore
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Great movie Rob, even though her hair dye got kinda annoying to me after repeated viewings.)
Truman Show
Man on the Moon
Sin City (It's so bad ass)
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2
The Royal Tenenbaums
Jackie Brown
City of God
Taxi Driver
Being John Malkovich
Life Aquatic
The Elepahnt Man
Buffalo '66
A Beautiful Mind
Ghostbusters
Kids
Bully
Reservior Dogs
King Kong (2005)
LOTR Trilogy
True Romance
Heathers
Barry Lyndon
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
2001: a space odyssey
American Psycho
The Empire Strikes Back
American Graffiti
Clockwork Orange
Adaptation
Willard (2003)
Repo Man
Natural Born Killers
Akira
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Batman Begins

Only movies I've seen recently and liked are Capote, Cinderella Man, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .

Next movies to check out are Everything is Illuminated and Karakter. Anybody watched those yet?

[mice]

Grosse Pointe Blank

Anything with John Cusack makes my day, and this is probably his best.

The precious few:
- Kung fu Hustle
- Shaolin Soccer
- Aliens
- Alien
- Predator
- Terminator 1
- All those Cube movies

[Soulo]

Hanabi
Sonatine
Zatoichi
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Metropolis (anime)
Full Metal Jacket
The Warriors
Pulp Fiction
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Airplane
The Naked Gun
Star Wars 4, 5, 6
Aliens
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Hellraiser
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Evil Dead 2
Braindead

[howmuchkeefe]

Some of my favorite comedies:

Half Baked
Dirty Work
Orgasmo
Dumb and Dumber
Tommy Boy
Johnny Mnemonic (never bring a gun to an Ice T on a bungee cord fight)
Invincible (made for TV, featuring Billy Zane but not his hair)

[Rob]

Anything with John Cusack makes my day, and this is probably his best.

Yeah, for some reason it's really rewatchable. Good soundtrack too. The "Live and Let Die" part: classic.

[MadSteelDarkness]

Some all-time faves:

Repo Man (my absolute favorite film for twenty years now)
Goodfellas
Once Upon a Time in the West
El Topo
Ghost Dog
Shaun of the Dead
Down By Law
The Big Lebowski
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil (although it's tough to watch these days. What was once out-there Orwellian satire seemed all too close to home the last time I saw it.)
Suspiria (although the death scenes in Opera are cooler)
Excalibur
The Thing (Carpenter remake)
The City of Lost Children
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman remake)
Jackie Brown
The Usual Suspects
The Wild Bunch

...and I could go on and on...

This past week I watched:

The Stuff (Kung-Fu Garrett Morris! Paul Sorvino as a crazy, racist militia leader! Too awesome...)
An American Werewolf in London
Fight Club
Don't Look Now
X-Men 3 (Not as bad as I'd heard, but not nearly as good as I'd hoped)
and a shit ton of old Chuck Jones cartoons.

[Never_Scurred]

Some all-time faves:

Repo Man (my absolute favorite film for twenty years now)
Goodfellas
Once Upon a Time in the West
El Topo
Ghost Dog
Shaun of the Dead
Down By Law
The Big Lebowski
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil (although it's tough to watch these days. What was once out-there Orwellian satire seemed all too close to home the last time I saw it.)
Suspiria (although the death scenes in Opera are cooler)
Excalibur
The Thing (Carpenter remake)
The City of Lost Children
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman remake)
Jackie Brown
The Usual Suspects
The Wild Bunch

...and I could go on and on...

This past week I watched:

The Stuff (Kung-Fu Garrett Morris! Paul Sorvino as a crazy, racist militia leader! Too awesome...)
An American Werewolf in London
Fight Club
Don't Look Now
X-Men 3 (Not as bad as I'd heard, but not nearly as good as I'd hoped)
and a shit ton of old Chuck Jones cartoons.

Ghost Dog was ill. Prolly the only watchable Jarmuch film i've seen
Shaun of the Dead, of course

Nice Avatar by the way, Bub and the Greek Salad speech was the only good things about Day of the Dead(well, the gore was cool too)

[Jon]

Some all-time faves:

El Topo

Dear God man! Another Jodorowsky fan? Very interesting movie.

[Dale]

My favirit movies

1.Kung Pow Enter the Fist
2.Versus
3.The Thing
4.Strange Brew
5.Oldboy
6.Evil Dead 2
7.Boondock Saints
8.Pulp Fiction
9.Army of Darkness
10.Monty Python quest for the Holy grail
11.Diehard
12.Last man Standing
13.Toy Story
14.Goonies
15.Jacob's Latter

Pretty varied list.

[DEL]

I tried listing my favourites, got carried away and reached 50.
= Too much! So I won't bore you with it.

(I saved my list though, as it'll be useful on a rainy day).

[sjewkestheloon]

some films i like:

eternal sunshine
pulp fiction
audition
labirinth
everything is illuminated (excellent film)
batman 1,2 and hte most recent one
most tim burton especially big fish
kiss kiss bang bang
terror firma

hell i could go on for days. i never really do best of lists unless it's over a beer with mates as i never get a truely representative list and it frustrates me.

i love good films.

[MadSteelDarkness]

Ghost Dog was ill. Prolly the only watchable Jarmuch film i've seen
Shaun of the Dead, of course

Nice Avatar by the way, Bub and the Greek Salad speech was the only good things about Day of the Dead(well, the gore was cool too)

Thanks man. Yeah, Day... is probably my least fave of the four Dead films (well, I guess kind of tied with Land... actually), but it's still a good time.

As far as Jarmusch films, have you seen Down By Law? Yeah, it's a slowly paced film, but there's a ton of priceless bits in there. Also: Tom Waits

Dear God man! Another Jodorowsky fan? Very interesting movie.

Oh, yes. Alejandro is a madman, no doubt about it. El Topo is my personal fave of his, but I like everything else of his that I've seen (I still haven't caught The Rainbow Thief or Fando Y Lis).

[Jon]

Dear God man! Another Jodorowsky fan? Very interesting movie.

Oh, yes. Alejandro is a madman, no doubt about it. El Topo is my personal fave of his, but I like everything else of his that I've seen (I still haven't caught The Rainbow Thief or Fando Y Lis).

The only other film I saw by Alejandro was "The Holy Mountain"...insanity.

[Neon]

Half Baked
Dirty Work

Keefe has bad taste in economic systems and movies. Oh snap.

I'm only just starting to research into movies (and politics) but here's some decent stuff:

Army of Darkness (Director's Cut)
Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Alright, fuck alphabetizing this, Pulp Fiction
Full Metal Jacket
Kill Bill, mostly 1
Led Zeppelin - DVD (video quality is shit)
March of the Penguins (sad)
Schindler's List (very sad)
Super Troopers
Office Space
Akira
Victor Wooten live at Bass Day '98 (for guitar/bass players)
Steve Vai - live at the Astoria, London (same)

This list needs more pretentious art films

[MadSteelDarkness]

Dear God man! Another Jodorowsky fan? Very interesting movie.

Oh, yes. Alejandro is a madman, no doubt about it. El Topo is my personal fave of his, but I like everything else of his that I've seen (I still haven't caught The Rainbow Thief or Fando Y Lis).

The only other film I saw by Alejandro was "The Holy Mountain"...insanity.

The Holy Mountain is awesome. Extremely self-indulgent, but awesome nonetheless.

I highly recommend Santa Sangre. It's much more of a straight narrative, but still works with a lot of the themes present in his other works, particularly El Topo. It also heavily references both Psycho and The Hands of Orlac (!).

[howmuchkeefe]

Say what you will of socialism, but Dirty Work was awesome! It was elemental humor at its finest. It was dumb, but smart dumb, done better than it was in Burn, Hollywood, Burn, that's for sure. I think it's in the spirit of Mel Brooks.

Half Baked was a very consistent, comparatively lull-free movie, and I'm comparing it to Dirty Work, Airplane, and every Farrelly Bros. or Woody Allen movie I've ever seen. I'm having problems anticipating your objections to it.... what kept the movie from being a successful comedy, in your opinion?

EDIT: In terms of consistency, I rate Half Baked slightly better than even Brain Candy, which is also a very good movie that I should have put on my list.

[Fost]

Last few films (not necessarily recent releases) I've enjoyed:

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: My favourite of the 3 revenge films by Park Chan Wook, although most people seem to like the other 2 better.

Shopgirl: Had a kind of 'Lost In Translation' vibe about it, and I was just in the right mood.

Attack The Gas Station: I just love this film. Especially the guy who carries a big stick around and always attacks the biggest person in any fight no matter what else happens.

The Twighlight Samurai: Not a martial arts film, but a period drama piece. Just cool though.

Pieces of April Kind of expected this to be rubbish, but it ended up bein a heartwarming melodrama. I can't actually believe I just said 'heartwaming melodrama', because that sounds shit.

The Life Aquatic: Not many people seem to have enjoyed this, but the bit where he's asked if his wife is the brains behind Team Zissou, then what's he? and his friend says "He is the Zissou!" cracks me up for some inexplicable reason.

Dirty Pretty things: Really cool story about imigrant workers. Chewitel Eijiofor (the bad guy from Serenity) is absolute class.

Hmm, too much melodrama - I'm getting old! So I'll finish off with the last film I watched: I've probably seen it loads of times, but I just picked up the special edition of 'Escape From New York' for a fiver. That film is fantastic, and Kurt Russel rocks in it!

"Snake Plissken. I heard a' you, heard you were dead..."

[Biteme]

These are the movies I enjoy.
Star Wars
The Empire Stikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones-The Last Crusade
Shaun of the Dead
Secret of Nimh
The Last Starfighter
Dark Crystal
Once Upon A Time in America
Kung Fu Hustle
The Goonies
The Shawshank Redemption
The Hudsucker Proxy

Thats all I can think of right now.

[Never_Scurred]

These are the movies I enjoy.
Star Wars
The Empire Stikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones-The Last Crusade
Shaun of the Dead
Secret of Nimh
The Last Starfighter
Dark Crystal
Once Upon A Time in America
Kung Fu Hustle
The Goonies
The Shawshank Redemption
The Hudsucker Proxy

Thats all I can think of right now.

All goodies!
Especially The Last Starfighter..thats a slept on classic...

[Davey]

I'm not big on movies, or threads where people just list shit, but what the hell:
The Big Lebowski
Pi
Snatch
American Beauty
Boogie Nights
A Christmas Story

Honorable mentions:
Dr. Strangelove
Fight Club
Office Space
Pulp Fiction

Stuff I watched recently and liked:
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Thumbsucker (nothing great, but I loved Keanu Reeves's character)

[Never_Scurred]

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Man, I thought this was another pretentious indie art film, but it was funny as hell. If they had marketed it right it could have made some more coins at the box office. Those kids were the best thing about the whole film, especially that lil boy who kept going on about his poop.