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    What are your favorite movies?

    Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by SB108, Jul 8, 2007.

    12 monkeys, Memento, Sin City, No mans Land, Behind Enemy Lines, and Me Myself and Irene are my favorites.

    Watching 12 monkeys always inspires me. It's one of those movies that has such a deep field of meaning. Also the scenes with Brad Pitt being crazy is hillarious.

    Edit: children of men too, that movie was awesome.
     
  2. Heather Louise

    Heather Louise Contributor Contributor

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    my favourite films would have to be:
    Titanic (yes i know obvious girly favourite :p)
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Hannibal
    both excellent films, i could watch them over and over and over again.
    The count of Monte Cristo just amazing
    The Labyrinth for all who have seen it, there needs no explanation.
    Beauty and the Beastonly the best Disnet film ever ever made, beats Lion King every time.
    Hitcher the origional version just a brillaint film again, i quite like ones about psychotic murderers :p
    Bram Stokers Draculaowww, it is sooo romantic, i cried my eyes out at the end :cry:
     
  3. Torana

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    Anything horror......
    Saw 1, 2 & 3 (all time favourite movies so far)
    Carrie 1 & 2
    ok well I know these ain't horror but they are good.
    Serenity
    Edward Scissorhands
    Ever After (a cinderella story)
    Romeo and Juliet
    Pay It Forward (absolutely brilliant movie.)
    Sixth Sense (another brilliant movie)
     
  4. Princes

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    Queen Of The Damned Classic brilliant movie.
    Interview With The Vampire A tasteful blend of Vampiric history.
    Dracula A classic gothic masterpeice.
    The Ring 2 One hell of a well told tale.
    Hellraiser 2 a classic horror at its best.
    9th Gate A tale of deeper truths
    Stigmata Makes the exocist look like watching Mr Spoon and Button Moon.
    28 Days later Gritty as hell.
    28 Weeks later Story continues with a dark feel.
    Lost Boys Only one of the most classic Vampre films ever made.
     
  5. Cogito

    Cogito Former Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

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    So many excellent movies over the years. I won't claim that these were my all-time favorites, but they stand out for me. Ask me another day, I'll probably come up with a different list.
    Forbidden Planet (1956)
    North By Northwest (1959)
    Psycho (1960)
    Goldfinger (1964)
    Blazing Saddles (1974)
    Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    Girl, Interrupted (1999)
    Spider-Man II (2004)
     
  6. Crazy Ivan

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    Little Miss Sunshine
    Blues Brothers
    Caddyshack
    Animal House
    What About Bob?
    Rent
    Moulin Rouge
    Newsies
    Chicago
    The Breakfast Club
    Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Casino Royale
    Tomorrow Never Dies


    ....obviously, by priorities go COMEDY and not comedy.
     
  7. Banzai

    Banzai One-time Mod, but on the road to recovery Contributor

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    Favourite movies... Damn...

    The Green Mile - One of my favouite King books, and a great movie
    Psycho - Just genius
    Serenity - The best of modern Sci-Fi
    300 - Nearly as good as the Graphic Novel
    Magicians - Mitchell and Webb are my favourite comedians
    Dracula: Dead and Loving It - Horror and comedy
    Donnie Darko - Gave me a migraine the first time I saw it

    Those are just the ones off the top of my head.
     
  8. Raven

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    Heres Mine.

    L.A. Confidential
    Batman (The Michael Keaton one)
    Star Trek II (The Wrath Of Khan)
    Still Crazy
    Saving Private Ryan
    Children Of Men
    Black Hawk Down
    Serenity
    Transformers The Movie (The 80s Cartoon)
    Gone In 60 Seconds (Nic Cage Version)
    Aliens
    Rambo (First Blood Part I)
    Enemy At The Gates
    Under World Evolution
     
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    ever after is the best moie of all time
    8 mile
    natural born killers
    get rich or die tryin
    resurrection
     
  10. LikeLightToTheFlies

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    Action movie buff myself:

    Braveheart
    Saving Private Ryan
    Gladiator

    Brilliant actors, even better movies.
     
  11. The Freshmaker

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    I'm going to narrow mine down to three.

    Secretary
    Gone With The Wind
    The Boondock Saints
     
  12. Heather Louise

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    i'm going to another few, lol.
    of mice and men just an amazing film
    51st state an immense British comdey film set in Scouser Land!! not far from me!! it is hilerious.
    what lies beneath scary ass film
     
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    Red Heat
    Tombstone
    Maximum Overdrive
    Cobra
    Star Wars Revenge of The Sith
    Black Hawk Down
    Three Kings
    King Arthur
    The Crow
    6th Sense
    Die Hard
    Lethal Weapon 2
    Ghostbusters
    Underworld
    Under World Evolution
    Rocky II
    Rock IV
     
  14. Mango

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    I wish this thread didn't exist. I want to write, not talk about movies... but, considering I'm studying film, I'm drawn to this self-expres-structive of absurd film love/soul-fusion that no one will understand but I.

    Favorite movies:
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Sherlock Jr.
    Sullivan's Travels
    Under the Roofs of Paris
    A Canterbury Tale


    Note: It's because of film I wanted to write: explore structurally semiotic relationships of visual perceptiveness either invoked or impressed... etc.
    Every one of my poems subtitled is based on a movie.

    [/film revelation]
     
  15. Eoz Eanj

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    Transformers Robots In Disguise!
     
  16. Frost

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    Eoz hit the mark! Transformers dominates.
    And the latest Harry Potter to, for Emma Watson. Up and coming is also Bonny Wright or what ever her name is.
     
  17. Bick

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    Bicintenial(sp?) Man is by far my favorite movie :p I could rewatch that a thousand times.
     
  18. Gannon

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    Some of my faves, and in no particular order are:

    Lost in Translation
    Natural Born Killers
    Groundhod Day
    Beavis and Butthead do America
    Ghostbusters 1 & 2
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Fight Club
    Underworld
    Pulp Fiction
    Il Postino
    Leon
    Goodfellas
    Enemy at the Gate
     
  19. WhispWillow

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    One flew over the cuckoo's nest- Great movie, what more can I say

    Interview with a vampire- I found this movie to be brillantly done
     
  20. Stoner

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    Great thread. Here's my 2 coppers in no specific order.

    - Forest Gump
    - Unforgiven
    - Good Will Hunting
    - Pulp Fiction
    - The Hunt for Red October
    - Courage Under Fire
    - A Few Good Men
    - Wizard of Oz

    That would be some of my definite all-time favorites.
     
  21. luke_mushu_2010

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    My favorite movies are

    Mallrats
    Clerks 2
    Borat
    Dude, Where's My Car?
    Disturbia
    Live Free or Die Hard
    Grandma's Boy
    Jackass Number Two
    1408
    Scary Movie 1-4
    Saw 1-2
    Final Destination 1-3
     
  22. Christopher

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    Alright I'm gonna have to write down stuff that I actually haven't seen much of here...
    Indiana Jones (the whole trilogy)- Harrison Ford brings to this character such an element of suave and badass that should make Andy Garcia cry like a baby. And for me, every scene is unforgetable. A total man flick, though...ha.
    Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen- I've heard that some people had beef with these movies. Too cliché (in the way of staging some of the most ridiculous, albiet impossible heists conceived by humans?), too confusing, poor acting. Well I'm not really your source on acting or movie production, but all the characters in my opinion are played with aplomb.
    Hero (with Jet Li)- This one's a little different for me, but nonetheless special. The visuals in this film are absolutely stunning and moving to say the least. All cinematography includes a change of colors as the story changes. If you can't stand those float-in-the-air-forever martial arts scenes, well, stay away from this one, but other than that there is a lot happening here.
    Borat- If you've seen this movie, there are almost no words to describe it.
    George of the Jungle- Same with this movie. And also, I first saw this movie when I was about 9 or 10. I still laugh my ass off whenever Ape does anything.
     
  23. online.education

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    I could list quite a few, but Paris, je t'aime is my new favorite.
     
  24. TVDinner

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    The Shawshank Redemption
    Usual Suspects
    Godfather 1 and 2
    Goodfellas
    Pan's Labyrinth
     
  25. dushechka

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    Lessee..

    Band Of Brothers, A Scanner Darkly, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Alien, Aliens, Alien Resurrection, Dr. Strangelove, Little Miss Sunshine, Help!, Waking Life, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Batman Begins, The Matrix, Der Untergang, Das Boot, The Green Mile, Rocky, First Blood, The Great Escape, Harvey, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, It's A Wonderful Life, A Streetcar Named Desire, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Doctor Zhivago, V For Vendetta, Sargent York, To Kill A Mockingbird, Awakenings, Shawshank Redemption, Victory, Zodiac..

    Yeah, I have a lot of favourites.. o.0
     

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