Preserved Topic: Good Movies

hey:
i just got the 30day entertainment pass from Blockbuster (i am from usa), so I just come here and hoping to get a list of good movies, the ones I already seen and I think is awsome are:
stargate
the matrix
good will hunting
the green mile
brave heart
american pie
anylize this
odyssey (I spelled it wrong?)
...

well, if you have time, please give me a title or two.
oh, yeah, and if you want to rent Austin Powers, I want to recommadn you to save your money, it's kiddish, I felt in sleep.


thanx

Traffic
Unbreakable
Starman
Great Expectations
American Beauty
Seven
Gladiator
The Crow
Dark City
Land of Lost Children

"Tomb of the Pansy Krets Stinky"


one of my favs.

Tomb Raider

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I just saw "oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" and I recommend it highly, it was great! "Magnolia" was weird, but good, I liked it too. (I live in Sweden remember, I think we're always a few months behind the states on this stuff.)

Your pal, -doc-

Pulp Fiction

Queen of Hearts

Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Stired Up
American History X

Yep we are behind Doc...I will try to get my friend to record some movies off of pay-for-view to send to me...that way I will be ahead. Cost one of my friends to send a vcr tape and 2 t-shirts $75...can you believe that?

~sigh~ I couldnt sleep last night so I watched a movie about 4am
but now I dont know the name of it or the actors name.... it's a fairly new movie on HBO
about 2 cops that go undercover and there is a famous black guy as their boss...the guy they get close to ..trying to take down is CRAZY....and some really old man dying of heart problems...has a silver tube filled with mercury sewn into his stomach to smuggle it into the country to the crazy guy....then they kill him...take it out...and sell it to some guys for 100 million dollars in bonds for these guys to make a huge bomb with. One cop seems to be a wuss and one is major tough...the tough one (famous actor that I can't remember his name) dies in the end and the wuss cop rides off on a motorcycle with the money. It was a great movie but no idea what it's called.


Most of my favs have been mentioned so I won't repeat them


~Sanity is madness put to good use~

Princess Bride and anything by akira kurosawa

[edit] oh yeah, 12 monkeys and cube [/edit]

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Lion King
Independence Day

Dogma
Payback
Any Jackie Chan movie
The Whole Nine Yards
Highlander( an oldie, but a goodie)
Starship Troopers



The more I learn about people, the more I like my computer.

oh, damn, the movie "Pi" is made in Black and White, but it's considered an awsome movie to me!! really, I highly recommand if you didn't watch it!! the only thing I hate about it is that.. it's too short! and the ending kinda leaves you suspended.

hm, I dont think I saw unbreakable in blockbusters, and tomb raider is still in the theater, max.

Prayer of the Rollerboys

I've been wanting to see Pi for awhile.

Lessee... good movies...

Strange Brew (which is Hamlet, if you watch carefully)
The Commitments
MST3k: Final Sacrifice
MST3k: Pumaman
MST3k: Space Mutiny
MST3k: Mitchell
Blazing Saddles " 'Scuze me while I whip this out..."
The Frisco Kid
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Henry V
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (though I liked the book better)


The MST3k movies are damn hysterical. I know Mitchell, at the very least, is available on video.

Y'know, for a (very) short time, I was part of a 'movie club' where someone picked a movie that the others hadn't seen and would probably like. I was 'invited out' after I insisted on showing a Mystery Science Theater episode for my pick, because the movie, in its MST3k form, hadn't had a cinematic showing and was just a TV show. I can't fathom why they would shoot something down for such a hideously stupid reason. Buncha intellectual snobs.

Um, the point... ah, yes; DON'T BE LIKE THAT!

VERTIGO
PSICO
and you all know the others...

Taxi Driver, and a hell of a lot more.

the cell
the fifth element
groove
high fidelity
lock stock and 2 smoking barrels
trainspotting
princess mononoke
edward scissorhands
pi
gladiator
go
grosse point blank
pushing tin
the exorcist
lord of the flies
being john malkovich
the crow
dark city
vampire hunter d
heavy metal
clockwork orange
doom generation
wizards
brazil
soilent green
chasing amy
boiler room
clerks
suburbia
life is beautiful
hudsucker proxy
one flew over the cookoos nest
taxi driver
requiem for a dream
fight club
seven
matrix
kite
pulp fiction
slc punk
usual suspects
alien(s)(3)(resurrection)
run lola run
blade runner
american beauty
way of the gun
traffic
wizards
apt pupil
american history x
robin hood men in tights
everything monty python
stargate
brave heart
anything else kevin smith
taxi driver!!!
silence of the lambs
the abyss
rocky horror picture show
everything kubrik!!!!
desperado
el mariachi
magnolia
payback
princess bride
most anything jim carrey

i could go on forever...but...i'm hungry...



netmosisdotcalm n. - from latin netmosisusdotuscalmus - fuck it all.

Wow...I dont think I could recall the name of EVERY movie I had ever seen like Netmosis.

My list of favorites are odd.

Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
The House of Yes
Mononoke Hime
Gummo

Some of these have been mentioned but are worth repeating:

Blade Runner (dir cut)
Dark City
12 Monkeys
The Crow
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ed Wood

DAS BOOT!

I'm just adding ones that weren't already listed here:
The Lost Boys
Shawshank Redemption
Four Rooms
28 Days
Exorcist

Taxon-Hellya Prayer of the Rollerboys!
*chants "Corey Corey Corey"*

Can't believe I forgot... The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!
Or... UHF!

millers crossing

barton fink

very bad things

hi fidelity

rob roy

man in the iron mask (gabriel byrne, john malkovich...even the fact that leonardo dicaprio is in it can't fuck them up...)

...just a few off the top of my head at the moment

Barton Fink..... good one.

Life of Brian
Good Morning Vietnam
Dead Poets Society
Circle of Friends
Great Expectations
From Dusk Till Dawn ("chicken pussy!")

Heck, there are some goodies around.

Btw taxon, Das Boot...do you know by chance who made the synchronization?

Has anyone mentioned Dr Strangelove...?

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but Snatch is a really good film. I've watched it six times already.

those weren't all the movies i've ever seen, just the good ones that are out on dvd/vhs now.
relain: everything kubrik.

oh yeah:
young poisoners handbook
nightmare before christmas
12 monkeys
snatch (comes out tomorrow!!! at blockbuster, where i live...yeah...)

netmosisdotcalm n. - from latin netmosisusdotuscalmus - fuck it all.

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I just gotta jump in here with my all time favorite: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Supposedly there is another Indiana Jones movie being tossed around as a possibility. Anyone heard any rumors about it?

Some other favorites old and new ... Gone with the Wind, Meet the Parents, Full Metal Jacket, Aliens, Terminator 2, Amadeus ... hmmm, I guess more old than new, don't get out much.

BeeKay
Murphy's 50 Laws of Combat Operations
14. Never share a foxhole with someone braver than you.
31. If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.

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The Big Red One

..did any one say The Big Labowski (sp?)

I love the 2 e's = The Last Emperor & Empire of the Sun

... but my all time fav has got to be "Clash of the Titans", and every time I see it, seems it gets better and better 'cause the animation looks older and cheesier as time goes on! That movie rocks!

Army of the Dead (As a comedy, not as an action-adventure as it is intended to be. Then again, there is no way in hell this is on DVD. Wow, just reread this topic, and timothymcnulty knows whats up!)

Well...Lux and me have got a piece of good news. We won tickets to go see the melbourne red carpet premiere of Final Fantasy. I have no idea what the movie is about, but at the moment I really couldn't care less.




In the beginning, there was the word...and the word was 'God', although by the time it reached the other end of the phone line... the word was 'Gznd'

The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover

and....

Eraserhead

Hey, Skaarjj, when are you going to see it? I'm really curious about that movie... mind giving your opinion here when you've seen it?

from dusk till dawn

clooney is just so damn cool ...

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





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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.

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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.




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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!

--------------

...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...



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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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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

I watched What Planet Are You From with Gary Shandling and Annette Benning on TV last night ...... it's was a cool movie


~If a cow laughed hard enough, would milk come out it's nose?~

DL,
I was going to agree with you about your comment that "he played the same character in all of them" but the more I thought about it, that may be true for most of them, but I don't think that holds true for "African Queen".

Sorry Shi, I haven't seen that movie, but Gary Shandling????

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Movie

This is a link about it. It really is a good movie

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