Now that finals are over, I'm going to have plenty of free time over the next few weeks so I will probably spend a decent amount of my time watching movies. Considering the success of similar forums in the past (Favorite Band and Favorite Candy) I figured I'd ask you all for suggestions. What are your favorite movies?
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Wow, just one? Ben Hur
"The revolution will be televised."
Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting in no particular oder.
"You can not use logic" -Gary Danielson of CBSec
fun fact: In "Good Will Hunting": The scene when Robin Williams is talking about his then deceased wives farting problem, was all improvised. I think that may have been why Matt Damon was laughing so hard the whole time.
~Because we couldn't go for three~
Depends on the mood, but if I have one movie to watch for the rest of my life, its Shawshank. If I'm in a sports mood Major League is usually the go to, but Any Given Sunday is a great movie (despite my hatred for Oliver Stone). When Al Pacino gives his 'inches' speech near the end of the movie, I get a little emotional-I'm man enough to admit it.
4-6 seconds from point A to point B and when you get to point B, be pissed off
Id also have to say Shawshank followed closely by An Officer and a Gentleman. If its sports I've always liked North Dallas Forty
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. Football is no different, the guys down in the trenches win the games, not the coach.
Smokey and the Bandit is hands down my favorite movie. I have the vast majority of it memorized I've watched it so many times.
After that I like the Pirate of the Caribbean franchise, along with the Jason Bourne movies. Don't forget Casino.
"You barrel of monkey nuts!" Bufford T. Justice
Casino is my favorite mob movie. I like it so much more than Goodfellas and couldn't care less about the The Godfather (s)
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I'd have to cut my list to just the movies I've paid more than once to see in the theatre, so The Matrix, Armageddon, and the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
On The Waterfront
Good taste, sir! I would add There Will be Blood and Mystic River as personal favorites, as well. If you're looking for a new release, Lincoln was phenomenal.
I second that. I saw Lincoln this week, it was excellent.
We should strive to keep thy name, of fair repute and spotless fame...
(Also, I'm not a dude)
And I can't forget my childhood favorites, Flash Gordon, Krull, and Empire Strikes Back
1.) Oceans Eleven
2.) Step Brothers
3.) Shooter
4.) The Other Guys
5.) Four Brothers
TV Shows
1.) Entourage
2.) The Big Bang Theory
3.) Duck Dynasty
The Other Guys was awesome! So many funny quotes.
"Even the way you fart isn't manly....it's like a baby blowing out a birthday candle! (Makes weak fart noise)"
"I'm One Bad Buckeye, and I approve this message."
"Did someone call 9-1 holy sh$t?"
"Are the rumors about you and Kim Kardashian true... No comment... BUT YES!"
The first time I watched the movie it wasn't that great, but I watched it a few more times and it instantly became one of my favorites.
+1 on "The Other Guys" Will watch it anytime it's on TV.
Overboard, Tango and Cash, Dante's Peak, Three Amigo's, National Lampoon's Vacation, Road House are good lazy day flicks....... if you're not expecting Oscar type perfomances
I can't pick just one!!!!!
In no particular order:
Black Sheep/Tommy Boy
Ace Ventura/Dumb and Dumber
Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs/Inglourious Basterds
Rainman/A Few Good Men/Risky Business
No Country For Old Men
Predator/Commando (But I could watch Kindergarten Cop just about any day)
Clerks/Mall Rats/Chasing Amy/Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back/Dogma etc.
Any Rambo/Any Rocky Movie
Requiem For a Dream
The Departed/Goodfellas/Casino
I'm sure if you were to ask me again tomorrow my list might look a bit different.
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Requiem for a Dream was SOOOO messed up.....but really good.
That movie just makes me feel dirty, like disgusting dirty. I still recommend that everyone has to watch it at least once...
A Clockwork Orange
All Wes Anderson films
All James Bond (except George Lazenby)
If it's too loud, then you're too old!!
maybe it's being a kid growing up in the 80s, but I've always had a soft spot for this one:
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Classic... Sadly my wife is 23 years old and she has never seen this movie... Deprived!
I would not be sad if my wife were 23 years old.
Valid point...
Its called envy...
'Pinzers ah Powwar' I also have a confession to make. Everytime Angela An is on the news and my wife is nearby I will say that line.
I was thinking about doing a similar post but on TV Shows.
Some of my favorite movies:
Memento, Se7en, Shawshank Redemption, American History X, Matrix, Blow, Pulp Fiction, American Pie's (Original Cast), ThanksKilling, How High, Old School, Any Given Sunday, Gladiator, anything with Chris Farley, favs would be Beverley Hills Ninja and Almost Heroes... shit plenty of others.
Favorite TV shows:
The Office, Dexter, It's Always Sunny in Philly, Friends, Entourage, BMS, The Walking Dead, Man Vs Wild, Dual Survival, Arrested Development, South Park... Need to start watching: The Wire, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad.
I've seen Mrs.Doubtfire over 300 times. I think this is my favorite movie.
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God, this is the nastiest "favorite" topic yet. Choosing favorites here is damn near impossible. With that said, some of my favorites:
For some reason I expected to see Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb on your list.
That one's pretty high up there, as well. Another one that I forgot is Jean Pierre Melville's Le Samouraiï, Le Doulos is pretty stellar, as well.
Obviously you like Kurosawa, you a fan of Sanjuro or Yojimbo?
"Because the rules won't let you go for three." - Woody Hayes
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Great list and I feel like more people need to know about In Bruges. Maybe they do know about it, but I get the sense it's almost criminally underrated as far as movies released in the last five years go.
Is that the one w/ Colin Farrell?
Yep, that's the one.
Wife forced me to watch it before we actually went to Bruges and I just couldn't get into it. Then spent the entire trip in Bruge saying "This place looks nothing like the movie!".
"Anything easy ain't worth a damn." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
I couldn't stand it either. Couldn't understand a word anyone was saying.
Caddy Shack is a classic. Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dangerfield. Great stuff.
Do you get a bowl of soup with that hat?
oh, looks good on YOU though
the kids are playing their tail off, and the coaches are screwing it up! - JLS
Did someone step on a duck?
Anaconda.
Yes, I know- my Dad and I love crappy mutant monster movies, disaster films, and westerns.
Anaconda is an unitentional classic. All star cast- JLo, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Owen Wilson, Eric Stoltz. Jon Voight does an accent that is supposed to be...well, I've never figured out what. The accent literally doesn't exist on Earth. It has great backstories, too.
For example, Owen Wilson was supposed to have a scene where he swam shirtless in the river. The director sent him a trainer who devised a workout routine and a diet to get him in excellent shape. Owen blew it all off. On the day of filming the scene, he took his shirt off. In his words, there was a long pause where nobody spoke, then the director quietly said "I think your character is the type of guy who swims with his shirt on..."
GREAT MOVIE.
The Godfather
Shogun
Slap Shot
1, The Big Lebowski
2, The Empire Strikes Back
3, Reservoir Dogs
4, Leon: The Professional
5, Cool Hand Luke
6, The Good, the Bad & The Ugly
7, Rear Window
8, The Matrix
9, The Dark Knight
10, The Crow
"Sherman ran an option play right through the south" - Greatest.Civil.War.Analogy.Ever
Since everyone else is listing all the usual suspects (Usual Suspects is a great movie too btw) I'm gonna suggest a few amazing movies you might not have heard of or have bothered to see. Every movie listed below NEEDS to be seen at least once in your lifetime:
1) City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
#20 on the IMDB all time top 250. It isn't just one of my favorite foreign films, it is also one of my all time favorite flicks. Drug life in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, this movie needs to be seen by everyone.
2) Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (1988)
#76 on the IMDB all time top 250, this is a movie about love, life, and of course movies in post WW2 Italy. If you don't shed a tear at the end of this one, you don't have a soul.
3) The Mission (1986)
This excellent film stars Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro. Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, this movie chronicles the destruction of the Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay and Brazil in the 18th century. The plot may sound boring, but it is an amazing story of loss, redemption, and tragedy. The final scenes of the film is one of the most heartwrenching I have ever seen.
4) Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samura) (1954)
# 17 on the IMDB all time 250, a poor Japanese village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. Directed by one of the greats, Akira Kurosawa, this is another MUST WATCH.
5) The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) (1957)
#117 on the IMDB all time 250, this film directed by the famous Ingmar Bergman is set in medieval Sweden. A knight returning from the crusades finds his country ravaged by the plague. A contemplative existential film that lends film many motifs, most notably the knight's famous encounter with the grim reaper. A game of chess ensues to determine the knight's fate...
6) Paths of Glory (1957)
#55 on the IMDB all time 250, Paths of Glory, is one of Stanley Kubrick's early films and definitely worth seeing. If you haven't gone back before Dr. Strangelove, you are really missing out. Kirk Douglas stars as a French officer during WWI who must deal with the absurdities of the First World War.
7) Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (1948)
A post war Italian man down on his luck finally gets a job, only to have his bike stolen. Knowing that he won't be able to keep his new job without his bike, the man and his son attempt to retrieve the bicycle from the thief. This is one depressing movie, but another all time great you gotta see. #91 on the IMDB all time movie list.
8) Chinatown (1974)
This #78 on the IMDB top 250, directed by Roman Polanski, stars Faye Dunaway and Jack Micholson in one of my favorite of his roles. A film noir set in last 1930s Los Angeles, what seems to be a dispute over water rights leads to much more... The AFI listed this film as the number 2 mystery film of all time.
9) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
#100 on the IMDB top 250, this POW war film classic stars Alec Guiness and directed by David Lean (famous for his epic flicks Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago) chronicles the construction of a bridge in Burma by British POWs, and ironically enough, the allies trying to destroy said bridge.
10) The Great Escape (1963)
Charles Bronson. Steve McQueen. James Garner. Richard Attenborough. I don't really need to say much about this AMAZING film, but #110 on the IMDB all time list is probably my favorite WW2 and even war film of all time. British and American POWs attempt to escape from a German POW Camp. Steve McQueen is so good in this movie.
You have some great films on that list! CIty of God is brilliant.
Thanks! City of God is so so so so brilliant. I highly recommend it to everyone whenever movies come up and someone needs a rec.
Very nice list, but I've never much liked Bicycle Thieves. I've always thought Umberto D. was De Sica's best work.
Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I hear ya... this was just sort of a "best of" list of classic films that perhaps most people haven't seen before. I'm sure you watched Bicycle Thieves before Umberto D, no? I kinda actually like Yojimbo more than Seven Samurai, but everyone has to start somewhere.
I actually saw Umberto D. before seeing Bicycle Thieves, and maybe my expectations were too high when I finally did see Bicycle Thieves. I think Seven Samurai is Kurosawa's best work, but anyone who says Yojimbo or The Hidden Fortress gets no argument from me.
Yojimbo is exceptional, but it's not as sublime as Seven Samurai. True to the comment in the Criterion Collection's Guide, I was "so engrossed that I was angry I had to get up and switch DVDs halfway through".
After watching A Fistful of Dollars, it's pretty obvious why Kurosawa sued the hell out of Leone--that film was a shot-for-shot ripoff.
Ran is very good, as well. I own Rashomon, too; just haven't gotten a chance to watch it.
I have to agree with Jim on Yojimbo - I much prefer it to Seven Samurai, if for no other reason I prefer Toshiro Mifune in it. Rashomon is good, but you have to survive the first 20 minutes or so. Ironically, I was just talking to someone at work today about the relationship between Kurosawa and spagetti westerns (including your own preference and The Magnificant Seven).
"The revolution will be televised."
Dang! A man of taste. Love City of God. Lil' Ze was a bad child/man/thug.
Once Were Warriors is one that flies under the radar. Outstanding.
The Mission. Awesome story, wonderful soundtrack.
I'll have to dig that one out of the vaults, thanks for stirring my memory on that one.
~Because we couldn't go for three~
Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, just about any comedy made after '83
If Denard Robinson isn't careful with spooning all that food into his mouth, he's going to end up lookin' like Whoopi Goldberg
Sports Movie/Comedies: Caddyshack, Major League, Slapshot, Bull Durham
Sports Movies: Hoosiers, Rudy, Remember the Titans, The Natural
Action: Bourne 1 & 3, Shooter, any Guy Ritchie movie, Casion Royale, Skyfall
Drama: Mystic River, Hotel Rwanda
Mob movies: Godfather 1&2, Casino, the Departed, American Gangster
Heist Movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Usual Suspects, Ocean's 11 & 13, Thomas Crown Affair, The Sting
Comedy: Ted, Dumb and Dumber, Hangover
Lebowski Movies: Lebowski (it deserves a unique category)
When told OSU set school record for 50+ games this year, UFM said "That's good. We're gonna break that next year."
Tremors
Kevin Bacon's best movie part ever:
If Denard Robinson isn't careful with spooning all that food into his mouth, he's going to end up lookin' like Whoopi Goldberg
I prefer the one where I don't have to look at his face.
Here are a few (not in order)
Blade Runner
Godfather I and II
Millers Crossing
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Mean Streats
Raging Bull
Unforgiven
the Insider
Quiz Show
Chinatown
The Shining
Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
Donnie Darko
The Verdict
Good, Bad and the Ugly
The Last Emperor
No Country for Old Men
There will be blood
City of God
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Here are a couple of more that I forgot:
The Wild Bunch
The Getaway (1972 version)
Pulp Fiction
The French Connection
The Seven Ups
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
Ghost Dog
Dead Man
Lawrence of Arabia
Barry Lyndon
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
hard-to-find/rare 80's flicks ...
GLEAMING THE CUBE (kinda involves 80s' skateboarding)
&
RAD (about BMX bike racing)
and there's always YOUNGBLOOD (awesome hockey movie with Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze & Keanu Reeves)
upvote 4 million times for Rad!!!! A$$-sliding, hahahahaha
When told OSU set school record for 50+ games this year, UFM said "That's good. We're gonna break that next year."
A Gleaming the Cube Reference? Joshy wins 11W on 12\13\12.
4-6 seconds from point A to point B and when you get to point B, be pissed off
I managed movie theaters for a long time, so for me this is probably simultaneously the most talked about and hated subject of my life. Really it comes down to my mood the day you ask me, and even what I've watched recently, and even then it has to be broken down by genre. I'm more of a fan of underrated Comedy/Horror movies like Idle Hands and Monster Squad. I was a huge fan of Sean of the Dead and when I went to see it in the theater, I think I was the one of 5 people in the theater. It felt like an OSU mens basketball game.
Explorers is probably one of my favorite movies of all time though. 12 year old Ethan Hawke, Bobby Fite, and River Phoenix as Kids that discover a way to make an intergalactic space ship and go on an adventure. I don't know too many people that have seen it, but if you want to pick something up on Amazon, I highly recommend it.
Also, True Romance is the most underrated of all of Tarrentino's work.
Bound is the Wachowski Siblings best movie too.
-The Aristocrats!
No love for True Romance??????
Quentin Tarantino script directed by Tony Scott starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, and an interrogation scene between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper with James Gandolfini in the room? This movie is why James Gandolfini was chosen for the role of Tony Soprano.
that is a good one for sure.
Wedding Crashers!
if anyone gets a chance, a new movie, might be at redbox, watch LAWLESS. absolutely awesome movie. Had a few of my buddies all talking about this, i'm kind of a skeptic and it turned out to be top 5.
the town, if no ones seen that, you need to watch it
dumb and dumber
remember the titans
i don't think from paris with love is in my top 5 but i really like those action packed thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat.
I agree completely about Lawless. Not a masterpiece by any means, but an absolutely awesome new film. Certainly much better than the score it got on metacritic.
I dunno; I found it to be pretty lacking, personally. I thought that Hardy's talent was pretty much wasted, Shia Lebouf's perennially overrated, and the film just didn't feel cohesive to me. Really bummed me out, too; as I was hoping it could avenge Michael Mann's epic fail in Public Enemies. I love period pieces like those, though, so I'm hoping the horribly-titled Gangster Squad does better--it looks like it might be a decent enough "popcorn" flick.
Lawless is an awesome new movie. One of the few these days. I liked when Tom Hardy popped that guys adams apple. Lol. Good stuff.
In no particular order:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Fargo (1996), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Double Indemnity (1944), The Lives of Others (2006), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962), Its a Wonderful Life (1946), It Happened One Night (1934), Citizen Kane (1941), Raging Bull (1980), Chinatown (1974), The Lives of Others (2006), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Hustler (1961), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
I'm a sucker for old westerns, film noir, Frank Capra and John Ford.
Support your local sheriff. Funny as heck.
'See that washer? I just shot a bullet through it.'
That was funny. An even funnier, but no longer PC, comedy western = Blazing Saddles.
Funny story on Blazing Saddles. They were concerned about releasing the movie and they had Richard Pryor preview it to get his reaction. He knew they were concerned about it offending people and he said at the end, 'You white people are crazy'. Not an exact quote, but his premise was that they were more worried about the reaction and Pryor saw the humor in it for what it was meant to be.
I don't think James Garner ever did a bad movie.
"It's just another case of there you are". ~ Doc (1918-2012)
The Lives of Others is amazing. I remember being pissed off to all Hell in the 2007 Oscars when it beat Pan's Labryinth, then I saw it and shut the Hell up.
Pan's Labryinth was great. Those two great foreign language movies were released during a two year period - 2007/08? - that was pretty strong, with a few decent movies even coming out of Hollywood for a change, The Departed, There Will be Blood, No Country for Old Men.
2006 was probably the best year for film since 1994 (Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King). You had The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labryinth, The Lives of Others, Babel, and United 93.
2008 was better than 2006 in my opinion. Both years were very strong at the top, but 2008 was a lot deeper. Some of my favorites from 2008: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Class, Chop Shop, The Secret of the Grain, Tell No One, Frozen River, Let the Right One In, Still Life, The Band's Visit, Wendy and Lucy, I've Loved You So Long, Shotgun Stories, Jar City, Gran Torino, Woman on the Beach, Tuya's Marriage, In Bruges, Snow Angels, Felon, The Unknown Woman, Irina Palm.
I'll go with the ones I'll watch every time they're on TV:
Outlaw Josey Wales No Country for Old Men
Patton Rear Window
Goodfellows Close Encounters
Field of Dreams The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Gran Torino Forbidden Planet
Fear Strikes Out Pale Rider
Last of the Dogmen Maverick
"It's just another case of there you are". ~ Doc (1918-2012)
All great movies from all of you. Most of my favorites have been mentioned above, just would like to add a few not mentioned which I like:
Van Helsing
The Longest Day
Midway
Ghost
Scrooge
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
I thought I was the only person still alive that loved "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon".
I loved "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" as well as "Fort Apache" & "Rio Grande". All three were directed by John Ford!
Ten of my favorite films of the 2000's . . .
I loved Drive, but have found it so hard to convince people to watch it. The first question for any movie is "whos in it?" and once you say ryan gosling, most people immediately shut down.
I hate that you listed Wendy and Lucy on here, not that its not a fine movie, but as a dog lover, it pains me to even see the title.
Quality list overall though.
What's wrong with Ryan Gosling? I had no idea people had issues with him. I liked drive a lot btw...great movie.
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
LIFE, Ghostbusters, Wedding Crashers, Coming to America
And Caddyshack…
Best hangover movies: Lord of the Rings Trilogy
You can fall asleep for a while and wake up to something intereting happening no matter what. Doze off again and wake up to something else interesting....eat something in time for Sam to drop the bread off the cliff (that part always makes me hungry) go back to sleep and wake up again in time for Frodo to ditch the ring along with Gollum into the fire from which it was forged. By this time my hangovers gone and I'm pumped up and ready to continue the weekend bender.
Now that football season's over for the Buckeyes....does it get much better than that?
"I'm One Bad Buckeye, and I approve this message."
Ten of my favorite films of the 1900's . . .
Barry Lyndon was an underrated gem - good call.
I need to break out the Kubrick blu ray collection and put that one on. I havent seen it in years!
Underrated by some yes, but not by all. Barry Lyndon is currently #79 on TSPDT's The 1,000 Greatest Films.
Another movie underrated by many, but apparently not by TSPDT is McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971).
After perusing the TSPDT list and seeing Hodge's list (above), I'm convinced that I must check out Andre Rublev.
I love McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), definitely my favorite from Robert Altman.
I recommend TSPDT to anyone looking for lists of great films. Their lists include The 1,000 Greatest Films, The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films, 250 Quintessential Noir Films, and Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own, which is a list of 250 mostly obscure, mostly overlooked, and/or mostly unloved films. The first two lists are updated every January.
If you do check out Andrei Rublev (1966), don't stop there. Andrey Tarkovsky is a great director. Another great film of his is Stalker (1979).
I think Mystic River is sweet. Tombstone. Billy Madison. The Punisher (if you also would like to play the punisher drinking game, you drink everytime somebody gets punished, figureatively or literally.. be careful), Taken because it's hilarious, Terminator 2!!!!!!!!!! and Terminator 1. Commando. Kindergarten Cop. Prometheus. Happy Gilmore. Dirty Dancing, Rango, Point Break!!! (Off topic, I think everyone would agree on this site we all know who the original "Johnny Football" is:
"Guys this is Johnny Utah!!! Won the Rose Bowl with the Ohio State Buckeyes!" F yeah.) what a great list everyone has going.
I like football
Coming to America
Waterworld
Cabin Boy
Ishtar
Dune
It
D. Anthony
the Godfather I and II
foreign film -Before the Rain..
Forgot to add Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell at his finest. Oh and Roadhouse w/ my man Swayze. And He Got Game haha. Damn, theres too many movies to list really. I'll enjoy any movie that keeps me entertained, I'll admit there are even some chick flicks I don't mind.
3 Ninjas, Jurassic Park and Jaws as well.
Rocky, loves, Emily! Rocky, loves, Emily! Rocky, loves, Emily!!!
I like football
Hey little horsey....want some hay??!?
Give it to tum-tum, he'll eat anything. NOT POOP!
If Denard Robinson isn't careful with spooning all that food into his mouth, he's going to end up lookin' like Whoopi Goldberg
Animal House
Hunt for Red October
Jason Bourne collection
The Matrix
Dumb and Dumber
Apocalypse Now
Good Fellas
Casino
Full Metal Jacket
Shakiest Gun in the West: Oldie but goodie
The Green Berets : John Wayne
Shawshank Redemption
History of the World Mel Brooks
Alien/Aliens
The Terminator
The Killing Fields
We Were Soldiers
Das Boot
The China syndrome
Duel
Haven't seen anyone mention these yet...
Favorite sports movies:
Major League
Field of Dreams
Glory Road
Any Given Sunday
The Best of Times
The Replacements
Miracle
Necessary Roughness
The Sandlot
Bad News Bears (the original)
"I like to kick Michigan's ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum."
Given my druthers, I'll turn to The Big Lebowski over just about anything. But I like a lot of movies, generally.
Taquitos.
The Maltese Falcon
Bringing Up Baby
Animal House
Patton
Highlander
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Christmas Vacation (Gold Bless you Clark W. Griswold)
The Thin Man
The Great Escape
1776
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Automatic upvote for mentioning Patton.
"Anything easy ain't worth a damn." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
I'm a huge fan of Charlie Kaufman, to include:
Other films I hold in high esteem:
I just watched Old Boy and the Sympathy for Mr and Lady Vengeance movies. Not what I expected going in but quite interesting.
You can kill a fly with your slipper or a cannon. Either way, the fly dies. -Ramzy
Oldboy was brilliant whereas the next two in the vengeance trilogy fall far short of that. I mean they were interesting enough but not nearly as compelling to me.
Off the top of my head.
The usual suspects
Lucky # Slevin
Man on Fire
Aces Wild
To Kill a Mockingbird
~Because we couldn't go for three~
I forgot The Shawshank Redemption
-facepalm-
~Because we couldn't go for three~
can't believe nobody's mentioned Silence of the Lambs yet.
I must have masturbated to the weird prison scenes 38 + times total in my lifetime. Wait, did I say that out loud?
j/k!
really - I'll go with Operation Dumbo Drop.
double j/k!
Mystery Men with Ben Stiller is underrated. Billy Madison should've won an Oscar. And Rambo is the tits
ahh what the? haha dude, Joshy you're always one of the most random posters on here. I mean that in a good way, though. That line about Silence was pretty funny. btw Mystery Men is a good movie, I recommend it because Ben Stiller is pretty funny, and Claire Forlani! she's just smoking hot to me! Stiller plays the guy with no real powers except he's angry all the time. Forlani is a waitress. She's kind of under the radar, but I've always found her to be sexy, (pics coming)...
Great thread btw, MTOTS
Yeah - she's amazing.
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
TDKR
^^^^This!!
Midnight Run
To kill a Mockingbird
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
Terms of Endearment
The Verdict
Fargo
upvote for Mockingbird
I admittedly did not read every post because there are far too many, and they are classics indeed! Has anyone dropped Big Trouble In Little China? Kurt Russel at his finest!!! How about BloodSport? These are some timeless classics I grew up watching!!!
Bloodsport is a good one.
Stagecoach
Fort Apache
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
True Grit (original)
The Shootist
You seem to be a John Wayne-iac. Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the film that he said "Ruined the legend of the Old West", The Wild Bunch? I liked The Searchers, but I had a hard time getting over its racism toward American Indians, Dead Man does a great job with that culture.
I've never seen The Wild Bunch but I've heard it was really bloody and so I probably wouldn't like it. That's the reason I didn't care for another John Wayne film that some people like, Big Jake. There is an art to portraying death in a violent showdown without being needlessly gross. Some films tend to glory in this sort of thing and I think it's rather juvenile. But that's just one man's view.
Regarding The Searchers, Ethan's racism is the reason he's an "anti-hero" and not a hero in the traditional sense. What John Ford was going for here was that the only way to defeat someone as ruthless as Scar was to find someone equally ruthless. But that man wouldn't be the kind of guy you want at your family dinner either, which is why Ethan wasn't invited in at the end when everyone came home. It's the key scene in the film: Ethan is standing outside watching everyone else enter the house to celebrate Debbie's homecoming. Then when all of the desirable people are in, they shut the door, leaving Ethan outside. It's also cinematic symmetry because the film opens with Ethan's sister-in-law opening the window to see him riding toward the house. Ethan is not supposed to be a likable character, which is why Duke's performance was so exceptional: he played against his usual role with a sinister edge that many didn't think he had in him. Of course, if they had watched Red River they would have seen it already, but I think that one had been forgotten because of all the "good guy" movies he did.
Last thing, I wasn't the person who downvoted you. I appreciate your comments.
Whoa, that is an exceptional breakdown of that movie! Never really thought of it that in-depth, but it does describe a lot of John Wayne's character in that film.
You are correct in your assertation of The Wild Bunch being very violent. It was Peckinpah's critique of Ford's (as he called it) "glorification of violence", and in the light of the Vietnam war being faught at the time, it was his way of trying to illustrate the true horror of gun violence. Personally, I find it to be one of my all-time favorite Westerns. Very recommended, if you can get past the violence.
By the way, my favorite pro-Indian film is Geronimo: An American Legend. Wes Studi is incredible. Probably not historically accurate but fun nonetheless.
Criminal lack of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz in this post.
I'm not sure who gave you the downvote but it was totally unwarranted as your comment was a completely factual statement.
"Anything easy ain't worth a damn." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Just watched it again a couple days ago. Laughed at the same stupid stuff for the twentieth time. Why can't there be more like it? Need to laugh, life is too short.
That one is a family tradition every year. And yeah, I still laugh each and every time. " Shitter's full!"
Ten of my favorite "cult" films . . .
Eraserhead was one of the craziest cult films I ever saw...
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
Always wanted to see Ghost Dog, never seen a lot of Jarmush's work; love Dead Man.
How has Big Trouble in Little China not been mentioned? It's a classic. Oldboy is also excellent.
No horse$#!t, Jack.
"The revolution will be televised."
A few of my all time favorites:
Mash
Last of the Mohicans
Finding Forrester
The Bourne Trilogy
Any Sean Connery Bond movie
Harvey
Original Wizard of Oz
Original True Grit
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Upvote for Last of the Mohicans.
Some Like it Hot is one of my favorites that I haven't seen listed yet. So many great movies listed that I have to keep updating my Netflix queue.
Office Space
The Princess Bride
Lock Stock
Snatch
Scott Pilgrim
Shaun of the Dead
Sin City
Dark Knight Trilogy
LotR Trilogy
You can kill a fly with your slipper or a cannon. Either way, the fly dies. -Ramzy
If you like Shaun of the Dead, try Fido.
Xanadu
Breakin' 1 but not Electric Boogaloo
Beat Street
Krush Groove
16 candles
Breakfast Club
platoon
american history x
and new movie "end of watch" check it out
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." - John Wooden
Shaun of the Dead
Tombstone
Three Kings
Leon
Patton
Stalag 17
Sideways
The entire Naked Gun Trilogy (and the short lived Police Squad TV series it was inspired by)
Dave
District 9
Garden State
Flight of the Navigator
The Big Hit
Waiting
Spaceballs
So I Married an Axe Murderer
... just to name a few.
"Anything easy ain't worth a damn." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
JFUNK - good call on Flight of the Navigator! awesome 80s movie I forgot about that one. Patton, too.
Naked Gun as well - love that slapstick humor.
because it's near Christmas - I'll also say It's A Wonderful Life. Classic.
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Was trying to think of the title of this one when I did my originals.
Frequency
I'm a sucker for time travel/distortion flicks.
"It's just another case of there you are". ~ Doc (1918-2012)
Re-edited this list in no particular order
Killing Zoe
Rocky
Groundhog Day
Limitless
Buffalo 66
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Adaptation
Big Lebowski
Shawshank
Reign Over Me
Snatch/Lock Stock
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
forgot Back to the Future, and a few good Mel Gibson movies - Payback and The Patriot
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
I've always been a fan of The Road Warrior personally.
The Silence of the Lambs is still the only movie i will call perfect.
Only film to win best picture, director, actor and actress at the Oscars.
That is actually false. It was the third movie to win all four of those awards, and the most recent.
It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also won all four (all three movies also won best screenplay making them winners of Big Five).
We should strive to keep thy name, of fair repute and spotless fame...
(Also, I'm not a dude)
Trying to not be duplicitous, errr duplicative...umm, repetitive....
Cleary Anchorman is one of my favorites.
Others that haven't been said 50 times:
Shaun of the Dead
Midnight Run
Sling Blade
Singles
Primal Fear
Just One of the Guys (sue me)
Almost Famous
Snatch
I don't believe I saw one mention of Heat on this thread - how can that be ?!?! All the usuals are up there, but some others I love:
Collateral (best Tom Cruise movie nobody knows about)
Blow
American Gangster
Boyz n The Hood
Narc
Braveheart
Smokin' Aces
House of Flying Daggers
Good list!
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
Kill the Irishman- watch that movie, it's an awesome B mob movie about Danny Green back in the day in Cleaveland. Really enjoyed that one
Another all time great flick...
Inherit the Wind
"It's just another case of there you are". ~ Doc (1918-2012)
Lots of great movies on the list, and I'm not telling anybody that L'Atalante is better than Caddy Shack (although, clearly, it is). Here are a few that I think have been overlooked so far:
A Man Escaped --Bresson
A Touch of Evil/ The Lady from Shanghai --Wells
The Stalker --Tarkovsky
The Killing --Kubrick
The Searchers --Ford
Badlands --Mailick
Two-Lane Blacktop --Hellman
Inland Empire --Lynch
Farewell My Concubine --Kaige
Jaws --Spielberg
Another solid list. I really like A Touch of Evil, The Stalker, The Killing, and Badlands.
Touch of Evil is a great film and the last of the great film noirs.
The Lives of Others.
Goodfellas(It's way better if you read wiseguys by Nicholas Peligi)
Catch me if you can...
Shawshank
ALmost famous
full metal jacket
I read through this list and it covers a lot of movies, many of which I should add to my Netflix queue apparently.
I would also add a few others including: Gone With the Wind, Gangs of New York, Million Dollar Baby, Pretty Woman, Slumdog Millionare, Juno, Fargo (I think this one was mentioned), The Fighter
We should strive to keep thy name, of fair repute and spotless fame...
(Also, I'm not a dude)