Preserved Topic: Good Movies (Page 2 of 3)

Payback
Face Off
Skulls
Bone Collector
Gone in 60 Secs
The Craft
Bring it On
In Crowd
Fast and Furious (yes i know in theatres I just saw it, really good)
Air Force 1
Speed
What Lies Beneath
All Scream/I know movies
Buffy (yes it was a movie, kinda campy though, not like the series)
Seven
Vertical Limit
The Cell
X-Men
Reindeer Games
Exit Wounds (don't know if its out yet)
Miss Congeniality
Billy Madison
Bagger Vance

pfft...

most of you people have no taste for good film....

gotta agree with you on that one taxon....

(of course, that would be an OPINION)

george clooney is a complete ass witih no talent. (that, on the other hand, would an indisputable FACT)

while we're on the coen brothers kick, let's not forget

fargo
raising arizona (nicolas cage *used to* be cool....)

hudsucker proxy


and then....

bad leuitenant (harvey keitel is practically a god)

reservoir dogs (quetin terentino's only good film...)

midnight in the garden of good and evil (john cusack, kevin spacey...)

la confidential


uh....mind is blanking here......more later





[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 07-04-2001).]

mmm... much better.

mbridge, there are several versions of Army of Darkness on dvd. There's a special two disk set that's rare and collectible that's I've been trying to get for a while. That movie is a classic.

Another recommendation from me would be John Carpenters The Thing. Classic horror schlock.

I don't like Jim Carrey's style (he overplays), but he is absolutely FANTASTIC in the excellent movie
The Truman Show
DL-44, I'm with you man....

classics: anything with the Marx brothers, Humphrey Bogart, Sophia Loren, Bruce Lee

of course, as mentioned,
we've got

the indiana jones triology

star wars trilogy

and we can go with things like -

conan the barbarian

excalibur

ladyhawk


umm......

Man on the Moon - excellent. jim carrey may overdo a lot of things, but you *will* believe that he is actually andy kaufman when you watch this...

the last temptaion of christ

scarface

casino

anyone say Godfather yet?

goodfellas

and I reiterate: Miller's Crossing

(vr - bruce lee and sophia loren I'll give you...but humphrey bogart wasn't an actor.....)

lol @ dl - maybe not, but he is fun to watch

grumpy old men

Grumpy old men II

Oh, and 'The profesional' not the one with Silvister Stalone <--SP?

everybody needs a swamp bear

Where do I start:
Gladiator
Titanic
Braveheart
The Professional
Freddy Kruger movies
The Blair Witch Project
Streets of Philadelphia
Spielberg movies
James Cameron movies
Scorsese movies
What LIes Beneath
every Tom Hanks movie
Indiana Jones trilogy
Star Wars all four of them
The Cell
Almost Famous
Dumb and Dumber
Scary Movie
all Tim Burton movies
Paradise Road
Armageddon
James Bond movies
definitely the two MUMMY movies
Notting Hill
Mission Impossible 1 and 2
any PIXAR STUDIOS film
The Sixth Sense
Poltergeist
Muriel's Wedding
Kiss the Girls
Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Stargate
Contact
...can't think of anymore....

and of course...my very first film.

-=Luxo Jr.=-

Doin' wierdassed animations since 1986

what's eating gilbert grape

true romance

kalifornia

tank girl

Y'know, as people keep putting The Cell on their lists of good movies, it calls something to mind for me:

What the Hell is up with people bringing their young children to violent, R-rated movies? The last two times I went to see an R-rated movie in the theater, some idiot brought at least one small child with them. At "Blade", there was a five-year-old in the audience. He was crying and hiding his face while his presumed (step-)father watched the movie. At "The Cell", an entire family, with at least four kids under eleven, came in during the movie. Weird thing is, those kids -didn't- react to what was going on onscreen, which was far more disturbing than Blade (vivisected horse; graphic, violent sexual images).

What is it about having an adult with you that makes sado-masochistic necrophilia 'okay' for a child?

BTW, The Cell was not what I would call a "good" movie. Yes, it was visually interesting, but the story took the easy way out too many times.

[This message has been edited by Wangenstein (edited 07-06-2001).]

Army of the Darkness...?
save your phoking time and money, I am telling your seriously, I watched it, I wasted $1 (I am in the 30-day rental plan), not just that, I losted like 90 minutes of my life, I coulda vacuumed my room 10 times with that much time.

The cell, to me, hmmm, it's not like bad, but it's not my taste, I like scientific movies like Stargate, Odyss (saw it long time ago, it's about underwater and the guy went very deep with suits and met aliens) and Mission to mars is good in my opionion. Starwar the phantom ... is pretty cool too, but I think they have spent too much film-time on the racing part, eww? (they were prabably advertising for their starwar racing game)

The last thing you should do is take Army of Darkness seriously...

Taxi 2 (french title) (so commic though!)

Mybe its just me because I haven't seen it listed but you can't miss Coyote Ugly

Wanna go little bit old for a comic title? like back to 80's?

UHF starring Al Yankovic.




[This message has been edited by lallous (edited 07-06-2001).]

UHF did absolutely nothing in the theaters, but is a huge cult hit (that is to say, a lot of people like it now, not that fringe religious groups watch it just before committing mass-suicide).

It's a great movie, as is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, also from the '80s.

I am surprised no one has mentioned one of my favorite all time movies, "The Last Unicorn." That is one of the best Anime movies ever (as far as Im concerned)

And Quarath, I think I can live a couple of hundred lives and never see Coyote Ugly. Ick!

let me second that coyote ugly comment carlton!

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...legend

labyrinth

Wangenstein, what you mean take army of the dead seriously?

Oh, I saw labyrinth, the visual effect is awsome (it's from george lucas, what you think?) the storyline, hehe that movies' been written for 10- year old kids I bet, but "As the world falls down" by david bowie was well worthed my time!!

akira & kite

"have you rubbed your duck today" 25 cents.


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Definitely Legend and Labyrinth !!!

*yes* labyrinth was written for children.....as was a little flick by the name of Star Wars....


doesn't mean it's not a great movie.

just an opinion of course

Legend is wonderful. I have to see that every few months. If you get a chance check out the European version with the Jerry Goldsmith score. (tho I am partial to the Tangerine Dream score myself)

The *only* problem with Legend is that it stars Cruise... but I still love the movie despite that blemish.

Has no-one mentioned Back to the Future yet?? I'm both shocked and amazed.

--brokensig of [peer]--

I meant, you have to watch Army of Darkness knowing that it is joking about being a serious horror movie. Tongue-in-cheek, if you will.

bug - while I certainly do hate tom cruise, he is young enough in legend that he hadn't become a complete ass yet.....so it's easy to get past the fact that it's him he has actually done 3-4 movies that were quite good (hard as it may be to believe ; )

never got into the evil dead/army of darkness movies.....they just don't do it for me.

~ducks and covers~

carlton - haven't seen the european version. is it just the music that is different?

Pi
Cube
Clock Work Orange
Fight Club
Lèon (aka The Cleaner, aka The Professional)
Pulp Fiction

DL - here are some links for the Legend Fan.
Review of Jerry Goldsmith Score
Review of Tangerine Dream Score
Legend FAQ

The Legend FAQ will give all the info on the various versions. You would be surprided. The European version is edited differently. Also the Amaerican TV Version has added footage that the original release didnt have.

hey thanks carlton - never knew

{{edit}}I knew tangerine dream did the score for the american version...didn't know there were so many different versions...



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 07-09-2001).]

There is alot of crap in this list :P From Dusk Till Dawn was the worst movie ever made, what a let down. Along side that is Adam Sandlers 'Over Board' and now 'AI' *inhibit gag reflex*...

Some great films that were mentioned were 'The usual suspects', 'Princess Bride', and of course the 'Evil Dead' trillogy which contains 'Evil Dead' 1 and 2 and the last part 'Army of darkness'.

One I didn't see (maybe I missed it) is 'Ninja Scroll' which is without question the best Anima film ever made!!

'Keeping the faith' was Ok, as was 'Little Nicky' for a laugh. There was also another film with chris rock, silent bob, jay, ben aflick, etc... where chris rock is the 14th apostle and ben aflick is an angel banned from heaven, can't remember the name, but it was good.




-It never hurts to always be right-

drac- Dogma is the movie you're talking about.

timothy - OOOOOOHHHHHH, ok...it's a cult classic.....

in that case, I *loved* all three...





?Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative? -- Oscar Wilde

Say what you want about Bogart, but "The African Queen" was a great movie.

And so was "Casablanca"

And don't forget "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
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[This message has been edited by briggl (edited 07-16-2001).]

yeah, but.....he played the same damn character in all of those

kind of like john wayne........

that's not acting....it's 'reading'

heh.

?Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative? -- Oscar Wilde

whether bogart read or not does not detract from either the movies or his performances.. lucky for him he got to be in some great movies in which his character 'fit' right in

yup, I'll agree with that

as long as we agree that he had no actual acting talent



?Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative? -- Oscar Wilde