What are your favourite movies (**BESIDES Serenity**)
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UPDATED: Saturday, March 25, 2006 16:52
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Originally posted by Gixxer:
Grosse Pointe Blank
The only chick flick you will ever hear Dan Akroyd threaten to shoot someone between the eyes and then fuck the brain hole.
Pure movie magic.
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Well I love these sort of lists, but this could go on forever. I'll try and just list my absolute favourites, and in no particular order:
Forrest Gump
Star Wars Saga ('cept Episode 1)
Titanic
Back to the Future Trilogy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Donnie Darko
Dark City
The Matrix
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
West Side Story
The Green Mile
The Truman Show
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Road to Morocco
The Paleface
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 1&2
Batman Begins
Spider-man 1 & 2
X2
Zoolander
Josie and the Pussycats
Dodgeball
The Ring
Father of the Bride
Unbreakable
Terminator 3 (yeah that's right, Rise of the machines!)
Superman
While You Were Sleeping
Austin Powers Trilogy
Galaxy Quest
Groundhog Day
Hot Shots 1&2
I Robot
Independence Day
Jurassic Park
Leon
Pieces of April
Garden State
The Mask
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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Dang, if these are the lists of "favourite" movies, I'd hate to see the lists of "pretty good" movies....
Okay, mine (in no particular order):
Unforgiven
Aliens
Star Wars (all six of them!)
Strange Brew
The Man in the White Suit
Princess Mononoke
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Grave of the Fireflies (no relation!)
Wings of Honneamise (Royal Space Force)
"It's a cow."
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My list will be another with a weird kinda' mix to it. Also if you enjoy rating movies and recommending them, may I suggest you check out filmaffinity.com You rate movies and then they show what movies other people with similar taste recommended (might I also point out that this another way to promote Firefly/Serenity). Ok well here's my list in no particular order:
-Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) first movie I saw more then once in the theater
-Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)
-Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans)
-Anything by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
-Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrman)
-A la folie, pas du tout aka He Loves Me He Loves Me Not (Laetitia Colombani) if you haven't seen this one you should really check it out
-All three Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson)
-The Dish (Rob Sitch) a lovely little Australian movie
-The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
-Army of Darkness (Sam Rami) BRUCE!!!
-The Adventures of Baron Münchausen (Terry Gilliam)
-The Mummy (Stephen Sommers) OK I know it's sorta' cheesy but damn it's entertaining
-Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
-The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
OK that's just a partial list, that I could come up with off the top of my head.
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Movies I love other than Serenity are (in no particular order - apart from Blue Velvet)
Blue Velvet
Hard Boiled (sub-titled not dubbed!!!)
Bubba Ho-Tep
Donnie Darko (original version)
Evil Dead 2 (Dead By Dawn)
The Empire Strikes Back
His Girl Friday
Pitch Black
Fight Club
Urbania
Once Upon A Time In America (Directors cut)
Memento
Lost Highway
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Apocalypse Now
Tremors
Happy Together & Ashes of Time (Wong Kar Wai rules!)
There's lots more, but I am at work, supposed to be working so...
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-Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
-Lord of the Rings
-Matrix
-Empire Strikes back
-X-men
-Pirates of the Carribean
-Goldeneye
-Knights Tale
-Dodgeball
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-Underworld1+2
-Harry Potter 1+2
The Bible's a bit fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.
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I think I will have to add one more movie to my list,
The Last Samurai
This is THE ONLY movie starring Tom Cruise I can stand to watch. It was also the only movie I ever cried at when I watched it, and I've watched many movies with sad parts (ie- Serenity, Braveheart, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan). If you don't know what I mean, go watch it and you will know. Truly under rated and amazing film.
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Even though I done this in the past, compiling a list of favorite films is difficult -- mostly because of the specific criteria used to judge a film.
If my criteria was simply how much I enjoyed a film, few films would outrank "Serenity", "Galaxy Quest" and the original "Star Wars" trilogy. (For example, there are great films included in my list which throughly depressed me -- and which I would never want to watch again -- as opposed to something like "Serenity", which I could watch repeatedly, and enjoy with every viewing.) So, my list is based on more than just an "enjoyment" factor.
I also believe that one should judge a film based upon their initial viewing of it (which in some cases, could be many decades ago) -- as opposed to what they thought of it after years of subsequent viewings.
Lastly, I believe every picture is better seen in a theatre -- so there could be some bias regarding films initially seen in a theatre* as opposed to films initially seen on TV.
That being said, here is my top 20 films...
1. Schindler’s List (1993)
2. Ben Hur (1959)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Hamlet (1948)
5. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
6. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
7. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
9. The Godfather (1972)
10. Star Wars (1977)/Return of the Jedi (1983)
11. The Sound of Music (1965)
12. The Big Parade (1925)
13. Casablanca (1942)
14. Gone With the Wind (1939)
15. Bambi (1942)
16. Aliens (1986)
18. Serenity (2005)
19. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
20. The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) (2001-2003)
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I couldn't believe no one had mentioned any of Coppola's Godfather films, but cartoon snuck it in. Other than that, all of you people seem to have great taste in movies (and TV shows, but we all knew that).
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I love so many!! I've seen over 1600 (yes, I know thats pitiful!) so its really hard to narrow it down but here it goes, in no particular order because that's just askin' too much!
*5th Element
*The Professional
*Grosse Pointe Blank
*Adventures of Baron Munchausen
*Clash of the Titans
*Bubba Ho-tep
*Fight Club
*Forbidden Zone (this is one f'ed up movie)
*Gummo
*Labyrinth
*LotR Trilogy
*Return to Oz
There are sooo many more but that pretty much covers the movies I can watch over and over again and never grow tired of them.
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