Your favorite movie? (Page 3 of 6)

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Last edited by jc (2009-12-03 08:31:19)

My fav movie of all times is Hellraiser, That movie is super cool

My fave films - The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Back to the Future trilogy.  Corenominal will testify that I can watch the same film over and over again (much to his chagrin sometimes!) 

I also like a good zombie film, just so I can hear Philip (corenominal) keep saying "Brains" in his zombie voice - makes me laugh every time

James Duval not Robert Duvall. They aren't related. You did mention Robert in THX. My bad for the confusion. BTW, happy Zombie Bunny Day!

Hard to choose one movie, how about:

Last of the Mohicans ("Just stay alive, I'll find you..." + best movie theme tune of all time)
Heat (do not have anything in your life you cannot walk away from the moment you feel the heat around the corner..)
Black Hawk Down ("We just lost the initiative...")
LOTR Trilogy (I think you'll find it's MY precious...)
Bourne Trilogy ("Get some sleep Pamela, you look tired...")
The Motorcycle Diaries (how did they not kill themselves on that old wreck??)
Volver (Cruz as the sexiest housewife/mum EVER)
The Green Mile (anyone else want to kick Percy's teeth in?)
Downfall (grim and gripping)
The Shawshank Redemption (sticking it to The Man)

...I could probably list a top 20 if you want to broaden it a bit from one!

just finished Street Kings, fuck me what a ride, best Cop movie i've seen til now.

I never was any good at taking orders

You should really see The Darjeeling Limited (also by Wes Anderson) if you haven't done that already.

Also, the Monty Python films, Meaning of Life, Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail is very funny.

Lars von Trier-film Direktøren for det hele (The Boss of it all; I will see Riget sometime soon... ),

There's a lot of nice non-comedy-films too: Das Leben der anderen (Lives of others), Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (Edukators), Pedro Almodóvar-films (Carne Tremula etc. ), Les quatre cents coups (The 400 blows), Kunsten at Græde i Kor (The Art of Crying), Mitt liv som hund (My life as a dog; I've got a lot of swedish favorite films, so I just mention this one, I guess you haven't heard of them anyway ), Office Space and so on...

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Last edited by jc (2009-12-03 08:31:45)

My favorites:

The Big Chill
The Last of the Mohicans
Dirty Dancing
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Saturday Night Fever
American Graffiti

Not exactly new movies but great soundtracks, it all depends on your taste in music.

I'm afraid I must base this off of the movies I have seen the most.
When I lived in Hong Kong (from when I was 2-4 years old), my parents recorded 'Top Gun' on the television.  Funnily enough, it had Mandarin subtitles and was edited for TV (less graphic sex scene).  I must mention that at the time, there were no TV shows for my demographic,  (Sesame Street, etc) so basically, for those two years,  'Top Gun' was my kiddie shows.  Not exaggerating, I saw it over 100 times over 2 years, and loved it every time.  Seeing it many years later into my teens, I find that it got even better, and more awesome, (and even a little funny). 
My second movie comes from my days at prep school.  I must mention that whatever activities boarding school students do on their own time and with limited internet (no social networks, or online games, to keep the internet fast) can get repetitive and boring quite quickly.  So what do we do? We exchange movies or watch the ones we have over and over.  My movie that was running almost non stop in my room?  'Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy'.  It got to the point where I watched it so much, even when I was doing something else, like napping instead of homework.  (I love the commentary tracks on that DVD!) 
Honorable Mentions include:
Nacho Libre: Cute, fun movie with good acting, even if it does have some potty humor.(with or w/out commentary, and watched in similar circumstances as HHGttG)
The Star Wars Movies: Original trilogy first, but I have a small place in my heart for Episodes I-III, because they complete the story
The Lord of the Rings: Great adaptation of the books.  Just wished they did something for 'The Silmarillion'.
(Argh! there are so many more that I should mention!!!)