Preserved Topic: Movie Mania

Okay, so I haven't been here too long but I just went and saw Signs last night, which is a totally cool movie btw even if you don't normally watch "scary" movies (which I don't) and I was wondering... who are these people that post like crazy? (hehehe) So tell me!! Fav movies?

I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours! ^_^

Genevieve Hokanson
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Blade Runner and LOTR - even though one the first part has been released so far

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mhmm haven't seen blade runner yet

pulp fiction is a great movie
the big lebovsky is also fine!

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Hhhmmm?.mine fav movies are:

Leon
Seven
Terminator 1 and 2
Aliens (all)
Predator (first one)

There are more bu can't remmber there names.

But I haven?t been to the cinema for while now tho, I had a big rest from going there while at college and things. The last film I seen was ?Bad company? from a few weeks back, which was ok, but not that great. Just need to get out more :P



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Bull Durham - gets the most rewatchings in my household, bar none.
Lawrence of Arabia
Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction
X-men
Supertroopers - the young up-and-comer

Also I like all of the Kevin Smith Movies, yes even Mallrats.

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True Romance
Reservoir Dogs
The Blood of the Heroes (i think that is the title, maybe without the first "The". Rudger Hower is in it anyways and it kicks ass)

Hmm... lessee: 4 rooms, Usual Suspects, Magnolia, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Hudsucker Proxy, Vertigo, Reservoir Dogs, Trainspotting, Swingers, Jackie Brown, Casino, Fight Club, Anything with Peter Sellers, Out of Sight, Apocalypse Now...ummmm. The list gets too long too fast. Pulp Fiction and Magnolia are prolly my fav's though.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever seen "Love with the proper stranger" - it's a '60s movie(I think) with Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood. Great flick but I can't find it anywhere. And how was Signs? I like Shymalan(sp?)'s stuff, but I haven't made time to see the new one yet.

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cpk: Signs was awesome! I really love how that director does his shots. There were a few parts were I was squriming, as was my friend, and there's the part where you're like "No! Don't do that! Don't do that!! Ahhh!! Leave!!!" hehehe. I won't spoil it but I only saw that part through parted fingers lol. My former roomie and I each saw different parts so we discussed it later to get the "full" scoop hehe. Then again, the people next to us started laughin' at us...they weren't squirming so ::shrugs:: But it was WAY WAY WAY good! Actually, I was told it was quite scary which is why I wasn't planning on seeing it in the first place. I was pleasantly surprised. Scary but not something to give you nightmares that night. I slept like a baby last night ^_^

Hmm...as for my favorites. That's always such a hard question! I'll start with a few though (so different from all of yours! hehe)

Mulan
Miss Congeniality
XMen
Matrix
ALL The ST TNG movies
Lion King
Gladiator
The Patriot
The King And I (both versions)
Sleeping Beauty
Top Gun


Those are all I can think of off the top of my head. They are some of the very very few movies I can actually WATCH more than once. Most I don't want to see until I've completely forgotten. But I've watched Top Gun like...5 times in a row once. lol. I just love that movie!! ^_^

Genevieve Hokanson
Student Intern, GPB
http://einstein.stanford.edu
http://www.geocities.com/genevievescu/

Amadeus
Seven Samurai -- old b&w, very excellant once you get past the first hour
Memento -- finally got to this movie in it's entirety, the end really blew me away
A Man Called Hero -- *love* the final fight scene, very DBZ-esque
Enter the Dragon
The Crow
Ninja Scroll
Fong Sai Yuk / The Legend I & II

Let's see can't pick a fav but here's a few:

The Tao of Steve
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking barrels (love Guy Ritchie Flicks)
The Boondock Saints (the best movie no one's seen I think you can only rent in at blockbuster)
American Beauty




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Oh yeah, I forgot one. The greatest movie of all time :TMNT 2 - The Secret of The Ooze



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Oooh! A favorite films thread- woohoo!

Here's my faves, in no particular order:

Stalker
Chunking Express
Alien / Bladerunner
A Touch of Evil
Sonatine / Violent Cop

Sooo many... somebody stop me!

Oh yeah - Hi Genevieve!

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Favorite Movie of all time. . . STAR WARS - ESB!!!!!!

Others:
*Close Encounter of the Third Kind
*Snatch
*Pulp Fiction
*Resevior Dogs
*Last Temptation of Christ
*Lock Stock and 2 smoking Barrels
*Run Lola Run
*Star Trek Movies

Man there are just too many! I could go on all day about my favorite movies.
Have you guys ever been to Ain't It Cool ?

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Godfather 1,2 & 3
Devil's Advocate

and any Bond film..


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Lots of things that have allready been mentioned and Pi

Several movies I like...

Most everything from Kevin Smith, Stanley Kubrick (sp?), and Warren Miller.
Most anything with Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Sean Connery, Arnold Schwarzanegar (sp?!? lol), Dustin Hoffman, Sandra Bullock <-- hot , and... that's about all I can think of right now...

As for the movie that gets watched over and over and over the most here... Probably Dances With Wolves. Or Apocalypse Now Redux lately.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

[edit: Oh yea, can't forget Monty Python, duh, lol]

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Yeah, I was wondering when Star Wars was going to get mentioned...

Let's see, the Monty Python flicks, Bond movies, Ben Hur... those are just off the top of my head.

Out of the recent movies I've seen, LOTR would have to be one. There's a Korean movie called "Dalmaya Nolja" (don't ask me to translate that). It's about a bunch of gangsters who hide out in a Buddhist temple. That's one of the best Korean movies I've seen lately. There's also JSA (Joint Security Area, about North and South Korean soldiers at Panmunjeom), which is probably the best "modern" Korean film, and I also really liked "Chunhyangjeon," which is a film based on a traditional Korean love story.




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OMG! This is so my area! Where do I start:
*Every movie by Robert Zemeckis
*Every movie by Spielberg
*All the Star Wars (although the little shit in Episode 1 pisses me off!)
American Graffeti
*Most Martin Scorsesse films
*All films by John Cameron
*All Tom Hanks films
Whats Eating Gilbert Grape
This Boy's Life
One Hour Photo
*Everything by M. Night Symalan (although isnt much yet, but his making a name for himself! )
MIB and MIB 2
*All Indy Jones films
*the Mummy movies
*Most CG movies, particulary Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc
Twister
.....and so many more movies that would make this page HUGE with all their names. When I get time and this post is still going Ill post them up:d But in the mean time I have a script for a film of my own to go learn and storyboard.
....watch this space....

Some good stuff posted so far, so I'll reiterate some, but....


All of Star Wars, but in particular ESB

The Indiana Jones trilogy

(both of the above will always hold a dear place, no matter how many technical flaws and/or bad acting moments get identified )

Anything by the Coen brothers.....in no particular order -

Rasing Arizona
Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
O Brother Where Art thou?
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski..
Barton Fink...

I mean...do movies *get* better than those?

(and still in no particular order - )
True Romance
Legend
To Kill a Mockingbird
Reservoir Dogs (piss on this fucking turd....)
Bad Lieutenant
Good Fellas
Good Will Hunting (yeah yeah, matt damon....)
Tombstone
The Breakfast Club
Less Than Zero
(..ok, and all those other brat pack classics.....)

The Graduate
American Grafiti
Magnolia
American Beauty (kevin spacy is GOD)
LA Confidential
Man on the Moon

Conan (the Barbarian...not the Destroyer...)

The Dark Crystal
Labyrinth

Enemy at the gates (even if the historical accuracy has been slighty changed)
Saving Orivate Ryan
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket

Money Pit

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Natural Born Killers

Benny and Joon

uh.......I better stop now



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• the original cut of blade runner (all other releases ruin the movie, don't believe the hype)
• taxi driver
• crumb
• donnie darko
• the big lebowski

Hoboy. Favorite movie...has to be the Matrix.

Under that...comes a flood. I like most of the old Hollywood films...like Moby Dick, Cleopatra, Ben Hur, The African Queen, etc.

Any and every B-movie...yup, I'm a B-movie freak...esp. the Evil Dead series...

Sci-fi, until you die.

Westerns....yup. Clint Eastwood - the Outlaw Josey Wales...yup. Gotta love the Duke - John Wayne. And the all-time classic with Charles Bronson...anything with Charles Bronson...

Anything with Sean Connery...the one and only Bond.

The list goes on...

Hehe I forgot Monty Python too...but !!!! I LOVE THEM!! Haha!! Life Of Brian...that end scene? On the crosses and singing? Even if you're religious, you gotta admit that stuff is too funny. : okes:: stop taking yourself so seriously! You'll get a hernia!

Genevieve Hokanson
Student Intern, GPB
http://einstein.stanford.edu
http://www.geocities.com/genevievescu/

Luxo_Jr- you should have just said any movie that has been backed by a major studio and has been been force feed to the public by saturation bombing of trailers and TV spots. Zemeckis and Spielberg come on now dont be afraid to broaden your horizons and try on a few flicks that you dont think will fit. all Tom Hanks films ????? JOE VS THE VOLCANO?????? COME ON NOW put the crack pipe down and tune into showcase once in a while.

My altime FAVORITE movie is "The Crow" which was brandon lee's last film, then obviously my second would be the sequal, "The Crow: City Of Angels" with Vincent Perez and Iggy Pop. I haven't seen the third crow "Salvation" yet, but I hope to sometime... I really have no great intentions of watching it.

btw, the crow has one of the best sound tracks ever, I highly recomend it... city of angels had an ok sound track too...

edit: btw for a long time my fav movie was terminator 2 just cause of its screen play, really good acting too... it has also a good soundtrack,

and almost any ridly scott movie, like ALL the aliens, those were great... the hellraisers were goodens, blade runner was ok...

interview with the vampire and queen of the damned were great! once again perez is in queen, playing marius... vanilla sky was great, braveheart was great,

predators were great, now a story to tell! my mom met the guy that played the native american billy in P1, and got his sig for me... i keep it safe, my mom met him at a political meeting in louisville he plans on running for governer... and what a coincidence, so did jessy ventura, and they were in the same damn movie, well aint that some shit? and P2 was good, adam jones the guitarist of TOOL designed the interior to the predator space ship, very talented man....

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[skimming over the list .. and not seeing what I would expect to be on anyone's list here]

come on peeps!

The Usual Suspects .. if you haven't seen it .. you will be hooked .. you will have to watch it over and over .. just like I have .. and everytime you watch it you find something new .. a new angle that you didn't notice before .. the Usual Suspects is my all-time favorite movie


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Star Wars movies, every one of them
Any badly dubbed 70's kung-fu flicks
John Woo's Hong Kong flicks (his Hollywood movies are good, but Hong Kong ones are so much better) This guy is, without a doubt, the best action director of all time.
anything directed by Akira Kurasawa
Casablanca
Dead Man

Without trying to sound too, uh, trendy(?), just add DL's list to Mikey Milker's list, subtract What's Eating Gilbert Grape (just bloody awful) and add Godfather trilogy. That's my movie collection. It's almost creepy.

I also have this affinity for Charlie Chaplin movies...call me strange if you like, I'll understand.




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As I recall, usual suspects was second on my list...... Mr Sose(sp?) still scares the crap outta' me. Yeah, Spacey is god....along with Clapton I suppose.
DL: did you see The Man who Wasn't there? How did you think that stacked up to the other Coen films?

Oh yeah, and I don't think anybody mentioned Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet. Love that one.

Oh oh oh!! The Usual Suspects is a REALLY good movie!! ^_^

Genevieve Hokanson
Student Intern, GPB
http://einstein.stanford.edu
http://www.geocities.com/genevievescu/

Stuff I'll always watch if it's on:

Run Lola Run (CPrompt beat me to it! Neat concept, great execution.)
Strange Brew (It's Hamlet! No, really!)
The Commitments (A great cast, and one of the best soundtracks out there.)
El Dorado (John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan.)
Joe vs. The Volcano (Yes, really. Just watched it again last night, in fact. Might be a little... subtle for some, since it doesn't have a lot of shootouts/car chases/foul language...)
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh; great film!)
Supercop (Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh!)
Aliens (Prefer this one to the others; at least they can defend themselves...)
Star Wars (Eps 4-6, though I did enjoy the big battle at the end of Ep 2)
My Blue Heaven (Steve Martin as a hood. Good stuff...)
L.A. Story (Another Steve Martin movie...)
The Matrix (Reset the bar for sci-fi action movies with its effects)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart. Only ten 'scenes' in this film if you watch!)
Monty Python (Pretty much anything from them is okay with me!)
Hudsucker Proxy (Yep, it's a good'en.)
The Shawshank Redemption (This one, too...)
Spite Marriage (An old Buster Keaton silent movie. Amazing stunt work and a great comedy!)



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I forgot:

History of the World: Part 1


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