Top 10 Fave Movies - Besides Serenity
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UPDATED: Sunday, April 5, 2026 17:38
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wow...yeah, we need to introduce these youngens to real movies! 
I'll dig up a few relevant threads and post them here. We've had some grand discussions about movies....grand!
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Listed alphabetically:
- Beverly Hills Cop 2
- Blues Brothers
- Die Hard
- Indiana Jones (Raiders and Last Crusade; don't like Temple/Doom)
- The Natural
- The Postman
- Star Wars (all 3 in the original trilogy)
- Terminator 2
- Top Gun
- Wind
And, of course, Serenity. 
(Some runners-up would include Memphis Belle, White Men Can't Jump, the original Terminator, the Patriot, Miracle, Reservoir Dogs, Ghostbusters, Scrooged, and many others that escape my mind just now...)
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It's so hard to choose a top 10, they keep changing. As of now though, here are my top 10 favorite movies (in no particular order).
--LOTR (brought Tolkien’s world to life with astonishing realism and amazingly managed to stay true to the spirit of his books)
--Classic Star Wars (back when Lucas was still a young visionary director, before he was seduced to the Dark Side by CGI and his own arrogance)
--Chinatown (an homage to noir that manages to be one of the best noir films ever made--and in color! Beautifully dark)
--Shaun of the Dead (still the funniest movie I have ever seen, while managing to be scary, too)
--2001: A Space Odyssey (I was really disappointed in this the first time I saw it; felt it had been overhyped. Second time through, I appreciated their adherence to the realism of space travel and the beautiful cinematography as well as the still-impressive special effects. Story still makes no sense though, and HAL was the only sympathetic character, IMO)
--The Wallace & Gromit short films (much better than the new full-length feature, IMO--though that one was fun, too)
--Dark Star (very weird and very darkly funny)
--Saving Private Ryan (arguably the best US WWII film)
--Rashoman (fascinating exploration of the nature of truth)
--Princess Bride (weird, touching, and funny)
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This is in no particular order:
Collateral
Lord of the Rings (1 and 3)
Vanilla Sky
American Psyco
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Last Samurai
A.I. (Artificial Intelegance)
Chasing Amy
Kill Bill Vol.1 and 2
Memento
I know there are three movies on there with Tom Cruise but he has become a damn good actor and I am not afraid to admit it.
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In No Order:
1 Amadeus
2 Brotherhood of the wolf
3 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
4 Goodfellas
5 Bram Strokers Dracula
6 The Replacement Killers
7 The Whole 9 Yards
8 The Thomas Crown Affair
9 Sliding Doors
10 Good Will Hunting
11 Boy its hard to come up with only 10
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American Psyco
i suggest reading the book. It's one of my favorite books, and i've been forcing people to read American Psycho, and, well, it's had mixed results. It is, after all, incredibly graphic.
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In no particular order:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. If you like witty verbal comedy, this is probably one of the funniest things you'll ever see.
Hard Day's Night - The Beatles at their movie best. They actually had fabulous comic timing.
Quiz Show - Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro and Rob Morrow. Really involving and as one reviewer put it - watching Ralph Fiennes go down in flames is riveting.
Last Night - Don McKellar, Sandra Oh. Six hours left until the end of the world and normal people spend it in wacky ways. This movie was also written and directed by Don McKellar and he doesn't waste one single second of screen time. It's a beautiful piece of work.
X-men2 - Yeah, I'm a lifelong sci-fi geek and proud and this was a damn good movie.
The Mummy and The Mummy Returns - Good, fun romps with an awesome cast. Either of these is my go-to flick when I want to just sit back and be entertained.
Strange Days - Ralph Fiennes and Angela Basset. One of Ralph's most memorable and underrated performances in an excellent, underrated movie.
Big Fish - Tim Burton makes things that are visually stunning, as usual. Ewan McGregor is compelling, as usual. An excellent story about how much of reality is perception and the importance of a good story.
Star Wars - Probably I would choose Empire Strikes Back, but that would be purely sentimental. It was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema on the big screen. I was four when it came out and my father took me to it. A guy's hand got cut off. That kind of thing *totally* didn't happen on Sesame Street. It was the Coolest Thing Ever.
A Muppet Christmas Carol - Because I love the Muppets and this is their best work. I watch this every Christmas and it makes me cry *every* single damn time when Kermit comes home after Tiny Tim died! Also, putting Gonzo and Rizzo together as the narrators was inspired.
I could probably go on for pages of honourable mentions, so I won't. I *do* so love movies!
S.A.
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no particular order
Gone With the Wind
First Indiana Jones
LOTR Trilogy
To Kill a Mockingbird
L.A. Confidential
Saving Private Ryan
The Sum of Us
Spirited Away
Ride with the Devil
Star Wars
and about 10000 more...
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In no particular order…
Patton
Das Boot
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Spaceballs
The Hunt for Red October
Cross of Iron
Bravo Two Zero
Flight of the Intruder
Good Morning Vietnam
Black Hawk Down
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Originally posted by meangoldfish:Quote:
American Psyco
i suggest reading the book. It's one of my favorite books, and i've been forcing people to read American Psycho, and, well, it's had mixed results. It is, after all, incredibly graphic.
Yeah my friend said that he read the book and that it was one of the most graphic books that he's ever read. He said that some parts are hard to stomach. So i have some aprehention about reading it. I might get around to it though.
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