Your Favorite Movies

[Ace Rimmer]

Title says it all. I briefly searched and didn't find anything so here goes.

Mine:

• Back to the Future (first one)
• Lord of the Rings (all)
• Anything by Pixar
• Both Spiderman, and probably the third
• All of the rest of the recent Marvell Movies, minus Hulk
• Any Spaghetti western
• Every Die Hard
• The Longest Day
• Superman: The Movie (1978)
• Spaceballs
• The Gambler (Kenny Rogers as...)
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Matrix Trilogy
• Highlander (first one)
• Pretty much any Bond Movie
• Young Guns (both)
• All four Lethal Weapon
• Pick an Indian Jones
• Con Air
• Matchstick Men
• Dirty rotten Scoundrels
• ¡Three Amigos!
• The Mummy/Mummy Returns
• Braveheart
• Meet Joe Black
• Oceans Eleven/Twelve
• Gods and Generals
• Armageddon
• The Sixth Sense
• Jurassic Park I/III
• Both Pirates of the Caribbean
• The Ten Commandments (:shock:)
• Both Conan movies
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Blues Brothers
• The Great Outdoors
• Ghostbusters (first one)

[MrBunsy]

Blimey that's a long list. Personally, I much preferred the book rather than the film of Jurassic Park, although it was pretty good. A film of Prey could be brilliant. And also spotted matchstick men on your list! That was completely different to how I'd been expecting it, but very good.

Some of my overall favourites are:

• Shaun of the Dead,
• Carry on up the Kyber
• Italian Job (original, remake was crap)
• First Matrix
• Dougal and the Blue Cat
• Any good James Bond

[Ace Rimmer]

That "mmmmmmph" tick that he makes in Matchstick Men is a running joke in my house. My wife isn't that compulsive, but enough to get a laugh out of it every now and then.

...and books, what are those?

[Feud]

*Red Dawn (Wolverines!)
*Hotel Rwanda
*Dr. Strangelove
*Batman Begins
*Mad Max/Road Warrior
*Mean Girls (yes, that's right, it's hillarious, wanna fight about it?)
*Serenity (best sci fi movie ever)
*Almost anything involving zombies (serious or comedy)

[xander]

In no particular order:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Yozhek b Tumani (The Hedgehog in the Fog -- this is a short Russian film, only 10 minutes, but one of my favorite things)
Solaris (the original Tarkovsky version, not the crappy remake with Clooney)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I know -- it is universally hated by Trek fans, but I rather like it, though I couldn't possibly say why)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Serenity (and the rest of Firefly, if I am allowed to include that)
Russian Ark (this movie can seem a bit dull, but it is technically amazing -- the entire thing was shot in a single two hour long shot)
My Neighbor Totoro (good, clean fun; cute, too)
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Dr. Strangelove

Those are the films that come to mind immediately. There are others that I like, but these are the ones that I can watch over and over again.

xander

[Hyperion]

- Transformers The Movie.
- Battle Royale.
- American Psycho.
- Memento.
- Star Trek 2 + First Contact.
- Die Hard 1 + 2.
- Matrix 1.
- Aliens.
- Predator.
- Ghost In The Shell.
- A Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Street Fighter 2.
- The Hunt For Red October.
- War Of The Worlds (original)
- Clash Of The Titans.
- 300.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
- Dune.
- Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back.
- The Shawshank Redemption.
- Akira.
- Blade Runner.



etc etc...

[xander]

- Transformers The Movie.

That was an awesome movie, and it had Orson Welles in it!

xander

[Sirthomasthegreat]

Dune was one amazing movie. Absolutely loved it.

[The GoldFish]

It depends how you define favourite, because there are some movies which I want to watch again and again, but there are some which I've only watched once and can't bear to watch again.

Bor lei jun (aka Gorgeous)
Maverick
Man On Fire (the remake)
Mona Lisa Smile
Mortal Kombat (it's fucking amazing!)
Moulin Rouge
Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (gave me faith that amazing movies could still be made)
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (I would say that it's better than ^)
Sahara
Sin City
Sleepy Hollow
The Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption
The Thomas Crown Affair (the remake)
Two Weeks Notice
V for Vendetta
Wimbledon (I know, I know, shut up!)

[daset]

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[Hyperion]

- Transformers The Movie.

That was an awesome movie, and it had Orson Welles in it!

xander

That IS an awesome movie... £2 brand new, so bought it again, girlfriend was begging me not to open it up in the restaurant (lost count of how many times i've owned this movie). Little apprehensive about the live action version this july though.

[Gen. Ripper]

Rushmore
Life Aquatic
City of God
J.S.A
Sympathy for Mr Vengence
Sympathy for Lady Vengence
Oldboy
Princess Monokoe
Infernal Affairs (1-3)
Real Fiction
What Dream my Come
Happy Together
The Edukators
La Haine
Manhatten
A Fistfull of Dollars (and others)
Chunking express
The Road Home
American Splendor
π
The Sun
Downfall
Broken Flowers
Me, You and Everyone we Know
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Brotherhood


mm thats some :p

[martin]

Hmm, a hard one...

Basically any Bond movie (goldfinger being the best )
The Incredibles (pixar FTW)
Dune (movie and books)
Jurassic Park
Cube (and hypercube to some extent)
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Insurrection (seeing a theme here?)
XMen (just the first one)
Serenity

That seems to be it for now.

[KingAl]

It's a regular Browncoats convention!

Which leads me inevitably to say:

• Serenity
• A Clockwork Orange (and indeed most Kubricks, but this is the primus inter pares)
• Nochnoy Dozor
• The Fifth Element (anyone who derides this film has no soul)
• Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill vol. I
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Italian Job (the orignal, naturally)
• Once Upon A Time In The West (incidentally, I've an irrational attraction to OUAT in Mexico, but I couldn't call it a favourite)
• POTC
• Get Carter (and not that Stallone crap)
• Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge
• Life Aquatic and The Royal Tenenbaums
• Blade Runner - Directors Cut (the voice-overs never worked...)
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (probably For A Few Dollars More, too, but Fistful is too obviously a remake of a Kurosawa and doesn't feel very 'westerny')
• V for Vendetta
• Anything by the Pythons
• Donnie Darko
• Apocalypse Now

In line with xander's definition of favourite, these are ones I can watch over and over. I love them all for such different things that I couldn't decide on a 'best'. I note I've been fairly harsh on comedies - Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueler, Kung Fu Hustle and a whole ream more probably ought to be in there otherwise.

[Church]

A tough one, this

My all-time favorite movies (no particular order:

Lord of the Rings (all)
Das Boot (I have 4 different versions of this movie)
Run Silent, Run Deep
A Bridge Too Far
Die Hard (All three)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Bodyguard From Beijing
Office Space
Major League
PCU
Star Wars Ep. IV
Star Wars Ep. V: Empire Strikes Back
The Matrix (the first one. I liked the others but the first one was the best IMO)
The Big Lebowski
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Shawshank Redemption
The Abyss
Jurassic Park (the first one; never saw the other two)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Batman Begins
Highlander (the first one)
Army of Darkness
Gettysburg

There are a number of others I like, these are the ones that immediately come to mind

-Church