What are your favourite movies ?

[blunthead]

27. Taxi Driver
28. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
29. Lust for Life
30. The Flight of the Phoenix

31. Bringing Up Baby
32. The Philadelphia Story
33. It's a Wonderful Life
34. The Natural
35. Miracle on 34th Street
36. Casablanca
37. The Maltese Falcon
38. Gone With the Wind
39. The Mist
40. Misery
41. Needful Things
42. The Green Mile
43. Forrest Gump
44. Philadelphia

 

[GNTLGNT]

Open the pod bay doors HAL.

 

[kingricefan]

I have seen Taxi Driver several times and it seems to get better with age. I've mentioned this a few times before in various threads but I'll do it again. The academy award nominations for best picture in 1976 were:

Taxi Driver
Network
All The Presidents Men
Bound For Glory
Rocky

And the winner is: Rocky (WTH - nothing against Rocky, but seriously - best picture over those other 4?)

The Academy members can't resist voting for the 'little guy'.

 

[kingricefan]

Pretty self-explanatory really.

My Top 10 (liable to change depending on mood, except probably No.1):

10- Alien 3
9- Starship Troopers
8- Highlander (hence my avatar)
7- Watchmen
6- Conan The Barbarian (the Milius version)
5- Mad Max
4- Bram Stoker's Dracula (the Coppola version)
3- The Shawshank Redemption
2- The Green Mile


1 (My favourite movie, by quite a margin)- John Carpenter's The Thing

I'm with you on your top 4 (especially 4-I love how they used the old-fashioned ways for special effects in this movie, it would be a perfect movie if not for the casting of Keanu Reeves). By the way, I just snarked on you in Last To Post Wins.......

 

[kingricefan]

This picture reminds me of the original cover of The Running Man!!!

 

[GNTLGNT]

This picture reminds me of the original cover of The Running Man!!!

 

[kingricefan]

Yeppers! That's the one!

 

[kingricefan]

Inception- aside from the miscasting of Ellen Page, it's perfect.
Casablanca
Misery
Fried Green Tomatoes
Shawshank Redemption
Bram Stoker's Dracula-Woeful miscasting of Keanu Reeves, otherwise perfect
The Dark Knight- try to take your eyes off of Heath Ledger's performance!
The Color Purple
Pulp Fiction-crackling dialogue, great storyline(s), awesome acting!
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

 

[CriticAndProud]

Pretty self-explanatory really.

My Top 10 (liable to change depending on mood, except probably No.1):

10- Alien 3
9- Starship Troopers
8- Highlander (hence my avatar)
7- Watchmen
6- Conan The Barbarian (the Milius version)
5- Mad Max
4- Bram Stoker's Dracula (the Coppola version)
3- The Shawshank Redemption
2- The Green Mile


1 (My favourite movie, by quite a margin)- John Carpenter's The Thing

Actually, I'm gonna remove Starship Troopers and Alien 3 and put in Forrest Gump and Silence of The Lambs respectively. Starship Troopers and Alien 3 can be 11 and 12.

I've got more to add. These are 11-20 in no particular order.

Mad Max 2
The Silence of The Lambs
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Psycho 2 (1 is a bit further back on the list probably, sorry Hitchcock purists, I prefer the sequel)
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Forrest Gump
Starship Troopers

 

[AchtungBaby]

For me it's a tie between Kubrick's The Shining and Harry Potter series....followed by everything else....

 

[blunthead]

31. Bringing Up Baby
32. The Philadelphia Story
33. It's a Wonderful Life
34. The Natural
35. Miracle on 34th Street
36. Casablanca
37. The Maltese Falcon
38. Gone With the Wind
39. The Mist
40. Misery
41. Needful Things
42. The Green Mile
43. Forrest Gump
44. Philadelphia

(Holy f, forgot...see?)
45. The Silence of the Lambs
46. Hannibal
47. Guilty Conscience
48. The Wolfma
49. The Player

 

[Grandpa]

Too many to list, but I can't put this down without explanation. Sorry.

Aliens. Best of the Alien series. Seriously? No CG critters at the time, and it looked that good?

To Have and Have Not. Lauren Bacall. Smoulder. End of line. As Humphrey Bogart goes, I'll be a heretic and say I prefer this to Casablanca.

Memento. Kept my brain engaged all the way through. Not your typical movie.

Psycho. Put the horror in "horror movie" and changed film-making forever, in several ways.

LA Confidential. Gripping twisting plot, wonderful acting, immersion in the period. Not a perfect movie, nothing is, but it was darn close.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Sure, call me a willing participant, just part of the masses. It was wonderfully done - especially the first one.

Silverado. Takes all the Western cliches (minus the Indians, which is okay by me) and does them up right. Great, likable cast.

Terminator, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Shawshank, Green Mile, the Bourne series. All great flicks that I can watch just anytime.

And finally, go ahead and snort, but....

Star Wars. You youngsters just don't understand because it's just one more slopped-together and, in revisions, over-edited film. But when it came out in the original form, it was truly, truly, groundbreaking. There had been nothing else like it before, and it was a quantum shift in how movies were made. Grandma and I saw it four times in the first month it was out. It was just that stunning for its time.

 

[Moderator]

Too many to list, but I can't put this down without explanation. Sorry.

Aliens. Best of the Alien series. Seriously? No CG critters at the time, and it looked that good?

To Have and Have Not. Lauren Bacall. Smoulder. End of line. As Humphrey Bogart goes, I'll be a heretic and say I prefer this to Casablanca.

Memento. Kept my brain engaged all the way through. Not your typical movie.

Psycho. Put the horror in "horror movie" and changed film-making forever, in several ways.

LA Confidential. Gripping twisting plot, wonderful acting, immersion in the period. Not a perfect movie, nothing is, but it was darn close.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Sure, call me a willing participant, just part of the masses. It was wonderfully done - especially the first one.

Silverado. Takes all the Western cliches (minus the Indians, which is okay by me) and does them up right. Great, likable cast.

Terminator, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Shawshank, Green Mile, the Bourne series. All great flicks that I can watch just anytime.

And finally, go ahead and snort, but....

Star Wars. You youngsters just don't understand because it's just one more slopped-together and, in revisions, over-edited film. But when it came out in the original form, it was truly, truly, groundbreaking. There had been nothing else like it before, and it was a quantum shift in how movies were made. Grandma and I saw it four times in the first month it was out. It was just that stunning for its time.

Star Wars was one of those never-to-be-forgotten movie experiences. My (ex)husband and I walked out of the theater after seeing it the first time and right into the ticket line to go see it again. Had never done that before or since for a movie.

 

[skimom2]

Star Wars. You youngsters just don't understand because it's just one more slopped-together and, in revisions, over-edited film. But when it came out in the original form, it was truly, truly, groundbreaking. There had been nothing else like it before, and it was a quantum shift in how movies were made. Grandma and I saw it four times in the first month it was out. It was just that stunning for its time.

Absolutely. I was 9 at the time, and it seemed like it changed everything. My dad took us to see it over and over again (and this was at a time when going to ANY movie was a big deal to us--lol). There was just nothing like it. I still love that movie (and Empire. That's the one I was three times in one day--just kept getting back in line).

 

[VampireLily]

in no particular order:

- The Shawshank Redemption
- Stir of Echoes
- The Usual Suspects
- The Color Purple
- Fallen
- Crash
- American Beauty
- Carnival of Souls
- The Changeling (George C. Scott)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Lucky One
- Velvet Goldmine
- The 40 Year Old Virgin
- Dead Poets Society
- Nosferatu ( 1922 )

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Kill Bill 2
Dr. Strangelove
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Braveheart
Jackie Brown
Star Wars: A New Hope
Ghostbusters
The Dark Knight
Seven
Raging Bull
Malcolm X
The Fugitive
The Matrix
The Shawshank Redemption

I've been working on this list for a while. There are still a lot of movies I need to watch.