Preserved Topic: Favorite film?

I'm sort of a film fanatic. Although my selections for American films to be seen in theaters has gone down the drain since being in Japan, it doesn't bother me all that much. Although I don't enjoy much of the Japanese variety.... I do get into a lot of other foriegn films.

Anyway, my question/survey.....

What's your favorite flick?... and a brief "why"....

I can never pick one favorite but here are a couple of them...

The Crow: The imagery and the storyline.

The Cell: The imagery is amazing. Especially in the dream sequences.

Great Expectations: The story and the whole feel of the movie. Like it a lot. (Gwenyth Paltrow helps too.)

Gladiator: No explanation here. Combo of fighting and a good plot. Can't miss.

Monty Python's Holy Grail: Well, does this need explanation. Can quote the movie line for line. How sad.

Fight Club - Fighting, storyline, & the narration
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Cuz Hunter S. Thompson rulez!
The Big Lebowski - I love the scene where they empty the urn into the wind....

My favorites:

• Top Gun
• Face-Off
• The Rock
• All James Bond movies.

Theres no real reason why I like those type of movies, I just do. I suppose its the wanna be secret agent/super army man in me.

hrmm.... remind me not to go to the movie store with Jestah...

Not in any order:

The Crow: the comic is better, but the movie did a good job. good choice krets...

Pulp Fiction: don't ask why

Lock, Stock, and two smoking barrels: i can't get enough of this movie...

Mad Max: !

Desperado: Salma Hyek and Antonio Banderas in the same movie, it doesn't get much better. sorry it's just my favorite take off on El Mariachi (good movie as well, $7000 bucks to make, robert rodriquez rules)

The Excorcist: who's gonna argue that? best horror movie...

The Cell: Amazing computer art...another tip of the hat to krets...

Akira: best anime, story, animation

Princess Mononoke: tied for best anime, great story, great animation

Fight Club: just a fun loving movie, everyone rips on it for being all about the fights and gore, not many take a deeper look (read the book)

Duck Soup: for that matter any of the Marx brothers movies...greatest comedians of all time...no contest...

Monty Python's Meaning of Life: and the holy grail but i wanted to be original...

The Nightmare Before Christmas: tim burton is the stop motion god...

Ace Ventura: best jim carry movie...

The Fifth Element: cool story, cool costumes, Milla Jovovich is hot, very bladerunnerish scenes (i'd put bladerunner in my list but it did a horrible job of retelling Do androids dream of electric sheep?)

The Matrix: good stuff...

i could go on forever...was this just supposed to be one movie?...just wait until i have my movie collection in front of me...
-
j




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Geez whats wrong with my movies? I always forgot the matrix and Mission: Impossible (the first not the second)

What do you like taxon.

Naming just one is next to impossible but if I had to:

Twelve Monkeys

Bruce Willis' character is incredibly credibly human.
Brad Pitt's insanity provides an awesome diversion from all the insanity.
It's dark and twisted with the hope of something more that almost was.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Johnny Depp. And those people are so quirky and wierd and real.
After all, isn't being normal a myth? Everyone has problems. Does
anyone know anyone who's really normal? I don't think I do.
Lastly, Johnny Depp.

Well I never miss the opportunity to plug my favorite movie:

CLERKS

Anyone see it? Was made for 80K by a first time filmmaker and his buddies.
Black and White.
A Comedy.
Won the Sundance Film Festival
Got 4 stars in the New York Times even though it has the world's WORST acting.

Others in no order:
Pulp Fiction
Wall Street
Citizen Kane
Platoon
Cool Hand Luke
Pappillon

War movies definetly are my love out of all movies. My favoritest (is that a word) movies are:
[list]
*Saving Private Ryan- This movie on DVD is the best it even sound great on the pseudo suround sound theater that I have rigged. Plus how else can you expericence what those poor guys went through without getting you ass blown off.
*Full Metal Jacket- I think this was the first movie that made me want to join the military. Don't ask me why.

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries!"

(I've got no idea how to spell those berries in english. Krets, help me out )

One good obscure film is Jake and his women.
Alan Alda as a writer who keeps having conversations with the women of his life.
Trouble is that some of 'em is only present in his own mind....

Which brings me to "MASH" the movie of course.

oh, and of course a bunch of above mentioned scifi, anime and action stuff...


<edit> had to add "The Killer". John Woo, need I say more</edit>


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ok, here we go:

i have sen clerks, but it doesnt rate that higly, IMO.
i love:
pulp fiction - i love interwoven storylines.... an a bit of symbolism never goes astray
the usual suspects - anyone else thing that kevin spacey is one of the best actors ever?
fight club - brad pitt - yummy! *ehem* i mean, i love the way it challenges the common man.
the matrix - special effects, and a storyline? who wouldve thought it possible?
12 monkeys was good too, thanks for reminding me, bugimus!
lock stock was good too, so was snatch, but they were both pretty similar....
american beauty impressed me too....
and so did life is beautiful, that has to be one of the best movies ever.
amd i guess ill stop there...

I have to mention that I like Payback w/ Mel Gibson also...

"that's just meeeean" - James Coburn "Payback"

that's what i forgot!

12 monkies!

great movie...i was trying to remember what i had on my shelf and that's another one of them...bugimus reminded me...



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me love you long time...

Blazing Saddles - Best damn movie EVER! (I have the DVD and the picture is so good, you would never know it was made in 1974)

Fight Club - Uh duh

Gladiator - Great flick

The Maxtrix - Obviously a kick ass movie

Office Space - What a 'knee slapper' =)

Tommy Boy - Fucking hilarious

Have I gone senile? The greatest movie ever: Happy Gilmore.

all my favs are not suitable to mention on this forum! nudge nudge wink wink! LOL

~Vp~

Road trip, office space (my friend and i can do a great Milton/boss skit), gladiator, seven (really good movie),

Well, I might as well post a few of my own...

Apocalypse Now
Usual Suspects
Gladiator
Fight Club
American Psycho
HEAT
A Few Good Men
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the original)

And a whole bunch more... some have been listed by others, some have not.


I'm going to list the next one for if you're bored on a Sunday night...
"The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" ... yes, that's just one movie.
I will say this..... and it may deter you from seeing it...
but...
I didn't say it was "good".

Movies that will c*****n you up.


Ran by Akira Kurosawa
Wavetwisters
The Red Dwarf Don't know why i like this movie, but i do
Seven
The English Patient

The English Patient..... good call Optic

of course SE7EN...i keep forgetting all the good ones...



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Severval of mine are listed already so I won't repeat them.

I also really liked...

The Green Mile

9 1/2 weeks ~hides~

Withnail and I... the funniest film ever. It actually gets funnier the more you watch it.

Two out of work alcoholic actors living in swinging 60's London decide to 'take a holiday' in one of their gay uncle's remote country cottages...

My favourite line

"Are you the farmer ?... excuse me, are you the farmer ?"
"Stop fu**ing saying that Withnail, of course he's the fu**ing farmer.. he's on a fu**ing tractor !"

My joint favourite is (and I cannot spell the name properly).. Koyanamstachi. No characters, no dialogue, just a collage of moving images that tells the story of human creation and our ultimate death. It also has a beautiful soundtrack by Philip Glass. A must see for any of the resident asylum stoners..

For my all time favorite, I'd have to pick: Braveheart

It's a classic IMHO.

Also:

Forrest Gump
Gladiator
Iron Monkey (I now have the DVD...woohoo!)
Ninja Scroll
The Mummy (the DVD is awesome)
The Matrix
The Legend (old Jet Li flick)
Aliens
The Usual Suspects

Last year I had the honor of attending a talk given here at my school by Chris McQuarrie (the writer of The Usual Suspects). He talked about the movie and working with Bryan Singer. He also showed Stephen Baldwin's screen test and a screen test of the interview scene.

It was one of the coolest experiences i've ever had.

the clou
(no more words)

Argh, ocb reminded me:

Baraka

also ocb, the spelling of the other movies is as follows: "Koyaanisquatsi" and "Powaqqatsi," they are also very good, but I think Baraka is the consummate example of that genre.

geesh! what? no mention of Fellini?
I thought you were all luni...

ah, he is one of my faves.. anything by him...great surreal visuals,
paintings in motion!

? 2001 A sPACE Odyssey...great flick, seeing it was made in the 60's
? My Dinner with Andre
? anything by Hitchcock
? Pappillon
too many to list........




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ah, alien, aliens, alien 3...forget resurrection...h.r. giger is a genius these movies do wonders to bring his aliens alive...



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In no particular order:

Yellowbeard. Best Pirate movie ever

Rapid Fire. Brandon Lee Super fast hands, expolsions

Independance Day. great effects

The Long Kiss Goodnight. Good action, Geena Davis

Seven. Sick, twisted, and the bad guy is absolutely correct ( in point, not method )

Operation Condor 2. Jackie Chan. Awesome fight scenes

13th Warrior. The Vikings remind me alot of some bikers I know

6th Sense. That Kid is spooky

Most of the other movies that blow shit up

Lots of em already listed but I'll give a few anyway:

Toy Story: a great film, more importantly brought me to the realization that I didn't want to be an architect
The Matrix: the most visually stunning and stylized American film of the last decade
Fist of Legend: Jet Li rocks
The Usual Suspects: amazing story-telling with one of the best endings EVER
Remember the Titans: overall the most quality film I've seen in a looong time, plus I'm a sucker for sports flicks
The Princess Bride: gets better everytime I watch it, plus I can practically quote the whole thing; thank God for DVD

Chris

Well, all my favorites have been covered except 'Pi' awesome movie about jewish mysticism and the universe.

Akira - Weird Ass movie, never quite got the ending, didn't make sense, but then again, neither did the end of Neon Genesis, Evangelion.

One major set of movies that nearly everyone has forgotten to mention: Star Wars I, IV, V and VI - Need I tell you why?

Fight Club - Twisted storyline...I love it!

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Life of Brian and Search for the Holy Grail - Monty! Python! What can I say, sick and twisted humour!

'And Saint Attilla raised the handgrenade up on high saying "Oh Lord, Bless this thy Hand Grenade thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy", and the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the Sloths and Anchovies and Orangutans and Breakfast Cereals and Fruit Bats and...'

'Skip a bit brother.'

'Er...Ah...Oh! Right. Then the Lord Spake saying "First shalt thou pull out the Holy Pin, then Shalt Thou count to three, no more, no Less. Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then procede onto three. Five is right out. One the number three, being the third number, is reached, Lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." '

Aaaaaaahhhh...Python.




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Ha, favorite movies....
So here is a french point of view, for everyone who wanna know!

My favorite movies:
-The cell : awesome. My eyes poped out of my head when i see this one.
-Se7ven: inspired me for a novella or two... rocking, nasty, gloomy!
-Green mile: in spite of everything that has been said on this film, I think it's the best movie adaptation from a book of king. Mysery and Dolores Clairborne was a really good one too.
-Dogma: laugh to death!
-Le diner de con: a french one, don't know if anyone know this one!
-Un air de famille: another one, a great one, sure!
-The Straight Story(Lynch): i cried on this one, really.
-The ninth gate: hey, no one seen this one? A really good esoteric story!
-Willow: best fantasy movie ever (with conan!)
-Legend:hu... second best fantasy movie.
-Lors of illusion: a REALLY good film from clive barker; never been in theater in france because it didn't hit american public enough...

So... there.
Back to work!


OMERA ~ romantic dreamer ~