Favourite Movies?

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P1NKISPUNK

Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:17 PM

Though of course, your wonderful taste isn't at all in question, due to the fact of course that you are Browncoats..
Just wondering however, what your 5 favourite movies would be...
Y'know the fantasmic, life-changingly brilliant onces?

CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:34 PM

I have no 5 favorite movies, if I love it I love it and that is the way of things. When I love a movie I love no movie more than it, thus there is one big tie at the top.

Here are a few:
The Shawshank Redemption
The Crow
--I love the fact that though the movie is almost entirely killing people the story is really a love story, it is not about the killing, but the reason for it, and the power of that reason.
The Princess Bride
Aliens
--Newt is such a great character, I love the idea of a feral human. Almost the entire rest of the cast was good too. Other than Ripley none were mere stereotypes.
Lord of the Rings
--I consider it one three-part movie, after all Tolken considered the books one three part novel
Silverado
Real Genius
The Breakfast Club

There are a lot more that I find equally pleasing, but I’ve already listed more than requested.

EMBERS

Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
your 5 favourite movies would be...
Y'know the fantasmic, life-changingly brilliant onces?

(not in any particular order)
King of Hearts w/Alan Bates
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gee/gee12.html
Hard Day's Night the Beatles
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/
The Gods Must Be Crazy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/
High Fidelity
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/
Spirited Away
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/

okay...I confess:
I LOVE the original Star Wars, all of Harry Potter, and the early Disney cartoons (like Pinocchio), but I wanted to avoid those obvious blockbusters and childhood traditions like Wizard of Oz

ZOL

Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:55 PM

There`s a few movies but generally, I wouldn`t say I have a top 5, however 5 films I watch & rewatch (in no particular order) are :-

Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World - Russell Crowe

Fifth Elemant - Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman

Star Wars (episode 4)

Red Planet - Carrie-anne Moss, Val Kilmer

A Knights Tale - Heath Ledger (with Alan Tudyk)

I have others that I`m fond of too, but those replay most often.

5 others are:

Casablanca,
Joe vs the Volcano,
The Hunt for Red October,
Brazil
& The Rocketeer.

Darin (Zol.)

p.s. also like Princess Bride too

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:38 PM

Hmmm - 5 favourites or 5 life-changing? I'm gonna go for the latter for poops and chortles...

Mr Smith Goes To Washington - I was young, I was ill, I couldn't be bothered to turn over the channel and discovered that B&W movies ruled, and Jimmy Stewart was da bomb.

Jerry McGuire/Almost Famous - its a Cameron Crowe thing.

Fight Club - but I can't talk about it

Lost In Translation - that whisper at the end.

Sideways - Most recent example of a film that just spoke to me at the moment I saw it.

"I threw up on your bed"

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, March 28, 2005 1:12 AM

I can’t pick five favorites. Here are five movies that I can not look away from if they are playing…

Kitty Foyle
The Best Years of Our Lives
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Court Jester
The Dark Crystal

Yes, I know none of these were made in the last 20 years, sorry. I enjoy watching recent fliks too. I just have trouble remembering them, ya know? I’ve seen these others dozens of times, they’re like old friends, I know them well. The new kids, acquaintances, I always recognize them and I enjoy them, but I don’t know them well yet.

The Fifth Element is always fun as is Galaxy Quest and Princess Bride.
Say Anything
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Strictly Ballroom….LOVE, love, love, Strictly Ballroom!
His Girl Friday (1940)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Spirited Away…I could go on and on and on…

um, your turn p1nk

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PALADIN

Monday, March 28, 2005 3:17 AM

There are so many movies to choose from! I love movies! I love exclamation points!! Anyway, 5 of my favorites (in no major order) are...

Leon (the Professional)
Labyrinth
Ghostbusters
Aliens
Spider-Man

As I have seen Fifth Element mentioned a couple of times already here and I have mentioned Leon, I'd like to make a reccomendation to anyone who has enjoyed both or either of those movies. You should check out Wasabi. It is also made by Luc Besson (who made La Femme Nikita, Leon, and the Fifth Element). It's about a French cop (aptly played by Jean Reno) who travels to Japan for the funeral of his long-lost love.....and ends up fighting the Yakuza along the way. Great action and comedy.

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"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." -Book

REGINAROADIE

Monday, March 28, 2005 3:43 AM

Well, I actually have a very long list of favorite movies, but I don't want to give a laundry list of my DVD collection.

But in no particular order, these are my favorites.

AMADEUS- This film is everything I go to the movies for. Great drama, exciting characters, a sweeping epic feeling, a new way of looking at the world, plus one of the most killer soundtracks ever.

BACK TO THE FUTURE 3- I saw this movie when I was five or six, and since then, I've always wanted to be a filmmaker. When the DeLorean was being pushed by a runaway locomotive towards the edge of a ravine in a one in a million chance to get Marty home, I knew what I wanted to do in life. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to give someone else the exact same thrill I got when watching that.

CLERKS- This to me is independent filmmaking at it's finest, as well as a movie that sums up my generation.

AUNTIE MAME- This is a lesser known film from the 50's. I saw it when I was a kid, and I was fascinated by it's humor, it's style and it's emphasis on character. I had never seen a movie like that, and it has bar none the best female lead character in a movie. One of my dream projects is to remake the movie, since it has so much that could be improved upon.

RAGING BULL- I don't really need to explain it. It's Scorsese at his finest, and it's just an incredible, visceral experience.

As for movies as of late that has inspired me, I have to go with GARDEN STATE. I liken watching GARDEN STATE to that of a spiritual experience.

"NO HAI ES BANDAI. THERE IS....NO.....BAND. AND YET....WE HEAR A BAND."

FIVEBYFIVE

Monday, March 28, 2005 5:54 AM

Five favorites? That's pretty tough. I'm just gonna go top-of-my-head here, so these are just a rough 5 of my favs:

(No particular order)

1. On the Waterfront - Best classic film ever. Period. Dunno why people love Citizen Kane over this.

2. Office Space - Great humor, great cast, and possibly the most quotable movie ever. Rarely a day at the copy center passes where I don't mutter 'PC load letter?'

3. Fight Club - A film to live your life by, if you dare.

4. Predator - Far from cerebral, but one of the most entertaining and ass-kicking films i've ever seen.

5. Battle Royale - Wow. Just wow. I remember the first time I saw this at a LAN party at about 3 in the morning, and thinking through the massive caffiene overdose that I understood it. Both shallow and impossibly deep, philosophical and ultraviolent. Oh, and it stars Takeshi Kitano on top of all that.

Recently nothing's caught my attention, except for "Shaun of the Dead" which in hindsight I should have added to this list.

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Paladin: So, no wacky zombie with a Hawaiian shirt, then?

BATMARLOWE

Monday, March 28, 2005 6:42 AM

OUT OF THE PAST
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1973)
GOODFELLAS
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

And many many more!

Like ANNIE HALL, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, THIS IS SPINAL TAP, THE RULES OF THE GAME

And many many more! And coming soon to a theatre near me....
SERENITY!

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