Favorite Films Thread

[Cakes]

(Post was originally a top five, but two films I recently viewed surpassed two of the films I originally posted here. I am too lazy to do the write-up on the two new ones, so I'm leaving this at three.)

My three Favorites-

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Charles Durning)
This Coen film is loosely based on "The Odyssey." Three chain gang escapees travel through Depression-era Mississippi in search of a treasure. They meet all sorts of characters on their way.
This here is a highly quotable and enjoyable film.
The blue grass soundtrack is superb (this coming from a rap and classic rock fan, mind you).
Pappy O'Daniel and Delmar O'Donnel- hilarious characters.


Apocalypse Now or Apocalypse Now Redux
(Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Albert Hall)
Either version works for me. I personally enjoyed the 49 additional minutes of Redux (pushing the movie close to three and a half hours). True, the dinner with the French dragged. However, it added to the hallucinatory and chaotic nature of the film.
I love the psychedellic, Tangerine Dream-type music here.
As someone who once read and enjoyed mythology, I loved the Odyssey-like nature of the movie.
It is a celebrated film. Won Academy Awards for Cinematography and Sound. Robert Duvall was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. It lost the best picture category to "Kramer vs. Kramer" (which nobody ever puts on their top 10 lists).
Ranked 28th on the AFI Top 100.
This movie captures the psychological terror, the battles, and the chaotic nature of the Vietnam War.
Martin Sheen is Captain Willard, an Army captain assigned to "terminate with extreme prejudice" a renegade colonel. Willard journeys up a river into Cambodia to terminate Colonel Kurtz. What starts as a standard journey becomes more and more terrifying, horrific, and surreal.

The Big Lebowski
(Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, John Turturro)
That's two Coen films in my top four.
Bridges plays Jeff Lebowski aka "The Dude", a stoner lost in the 1970s who likes to bowl. He is mistaken for a millionaire of the same name. What follows is a kidnapping, a botched payoff attempt, and bowling.
The plot is just an excuse to richly develop strange characters.
The memorable lines here are bountiful.

[jetophile]

The Coen Brothers rule. How can you forget their first flick, 'Blood Simple'?! I'm a cinephile. I don't even know where to start...
The Seven Samurai
Taxi Driver
Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion
Harold & Maude
The Bride of Frankenstein
Fanny & Alexander
The Seventh Seal
A Touch of Evil
Too many to list, but let's keep going. :)
I don't believe in snobbery when it comes to art and film, just like I don't believe anyone should be above toilet humor. If you love the medium, you gotta love all the genres and all the crappy stuff, too. I'm a big fan of horror flicks and movies that are so bad they're great; but the movie has to be SO bad it defies description. Horrible acting, horrible diaglogue, horrible special effects. The Green Slime - one of the best worst films ever made. You can see the freakin' string on the guys "space suit" when he's outside the "space ship" (a garden spigot!). Dialogue like, "Get those women and children out of here!" - when there aren't any children. The "threat" is this squeaky, life sized squid/vegetable that stands there and does nothing - except squeak.

[nicolab]

my favourites (in no particular order)

blazing saddles
young frankenstein
life of brian
a clockwork orange
the wicker man
withnail and i
toy story

[Drew]

Old School
Anchorman
Waiting...
American Pie Series
Terminator Series
The Punisher
Mystic River
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Road Trip
Shrek, Shrek 2
Die Hard Series - Some of my favorites right there
Pirates of the Carribean

yeah, I got alot.

[Cakes]

I don't believe in snobbery when it comes to art and film, just like I don't believe anyone should be above toilet humor. If you love the medium, you gotta love all the genres and all the crappy stuff, too. I'm a big fan of horror flicks and movies that are so bad they're great; but the movie has to be SO bad it defies description. Horrible acting, horrible diaglogue, horrible special effects. The Green Slime - one of the best worst films ever made. You can see the freakin' string on the guys "space suit" when he's outside the "space ship" (a garden spigot!). Dialogue like, "Get those women and children out of here!" - when there aren't any children. The "threat" is this squeaky, life sized squid/vegetable that stands there and does nothing - except squeak.



I was in a store the other night and I saw something called "The Gingerbread Man" starring Gary Busey. A cookie that kills people!

"Blood Simple" would make my top 100, and maybe top 50. I figure I've seen over 800 movies. I might actually try to figure it out exactly over the course of this year. I'd take a movie review book and go through one letter at a time. I'd do all the movies that start with "A" (probably while watching a MLB game) and write a one-line note next to them.

(At one time I did register for a film class at college. I attended it the first day, but had to drop the class when it conflicted with a class I needed for my major. Later, I considered transferring to Florida State to major in film. So, I like this film stuff, you could say. I can appreciate an arty film as much as a toilet humor movie like "Dumb and Dumber.")

[Cakes]

Anchorman


I love lamp.


Waiting...


I bought this on a recommendation from this forum. I did laugh at some things, but this was pretty bad. That Justin Long gave one wooden performance. For those who don't know about this movie- if you like lots of cursing, sex jokes, and no plot, you'll like this.

[3rdAnd15Draw]

The Shining
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Godfather 1 & 2
American Psycho
Reservoir Dogs
Donnie Darko
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrells
Snatch

[ButtleMan]

Platoon
Godfather 1 & 2 as well
Original Star Wars trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Glory
The Sandlot
Full Metal Jacket
Caddyshack

[statjeff22]

Casablanca
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Godfather 1 & 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
M*A*S*H
Patton
Office Space
When Harry Met Sally
A Clockwork Orange
Young Frankenstein
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rear Window
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Chinatown
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Maltese Falcon
L.A. Confidential
Some Like It Hot
High Noon
Back to the Future
Stalag 17
Charade
Bonnie and Clyde
The Great Escape
This Is Spinal Tap
Singin' in the Rain

That's 28, and I'm sure I've left out plenty! Considering the thousands of movies that have been made in the sound era, that's not so many!

[Cakes]

A video store in my town is shutting down in a couple weeks. All the movies in the store are for sale. I spent at least an hour there on Monday night looking for some hard-to-find movies.
I bought these movies on VHS:
Naked Lunch
The Vanishing (the 1988 original thrilling foreign version; the 1993 Hollywood remake [by the same director] with Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges is universally acclaimed as mediocre at best)
Heathers (Winona Ryder, Christian Slater)

I haven't seen any of the above (aside from the Hollywood remake of The Vanishing), so I figured I'll get 'em on VHS. If I like 'em, I'll buy the DVDs.
It's better this way, in case I don't like them.
Borders had copies of Criterion Collection DVDs of Naked Lunch and The Vanishing (1988). They were going for $35 and $25, respectively.

[typeOnegative13NY]

The shining
goodfellas
blood in,blood out
bad boys (sean penn)
die hard
star wars
LOTR
The Warriors
the exorcist

[The Mariner]

Pulp Fiction
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Fight Club
High Fidelity
Dr. Strangelove
Snatch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

There are probably more but that's all I can think of right now.

[Cakes]

As far as DVDs are concerned, I recently bought the Director's Cut of Donnie Darko. I figured I'd throw that weird film up a flagpole and see if it waves.

Today I picked up:
Walk the Line (the two-disc collector's edition)
Vertigo
Mulholland Dr.
Southern Comfort

As a rap fan and a guy who generally does not like love stories, I initially had little interest in Walk the Line. Alas, I ultimately saw it in theaters in February. I highly enjoyed it. Reese Witherspoon must win the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was just that good. Her and Joaquin Phoenix were superb.
(Witherspoon gets my vote for 2nd best ever looking woman in a film, following Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde. Witherspoon is striking with darker hair.)

I was looking at Halliwell's Movie Guide and that book is extremely skimpy on assigning stars to movies with their rating system. They only gave The Wizard of Oz three stars out of four. Return of the Jedi got one star. (I like hard markers.) Over 23,000 movies are reviewed in the book. I was looking at the four star pages towards the end of the book (and saw nothing I disagreed with). I didn't sit there and do the math, but it appeared that they gave four stars, on average, to about four movies per year.
What I'm getting at is Southern Comfort received four stars.

Here's the review from my VideoHound movie book:
A group of National Guardsmen are on weekend maneuvers in the swamps of Louisiana. They run afoul of some of the local Cajuns, and are marked for death in this exciting and disturbing thriller. (Powers) Boothe is excellent in a rare exploration of a little-understood way of life. Lots of blood. If you belong to the National Guard, this could make you queasy.

This is an R rated movie from 1981. It has a superb ending with words from an angry Cajun. The movie was disturbing because it featured white-on-white racism. The film also works as an allegory of the Vietnam War. I found the movie to be equal to or better than Deliverance (also a four star movie) and it does not have a "squealing pigs" scene.

[hiker]

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Its a Wonderful Life
Million Dollar Baby
Cinderella Man
the Shining
Caddyshack
Ed Wood
the original version, Dawn of the Dead
Guns for San Sebastian
Dirty Harry
the Gauntlet

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Every mel brookes movie ever made

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Waiting for Guffman
Taxi Driver
Godfather II
Empire Strikes Back
Usual Suspects
12 Angry Men
Seven
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Psycho
Silence of the Lambs
Dirty Dozen
A Fish Called Wanda

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"This one goes to eleven"

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Strangely so does mine :wink:


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[Learn To Swim]

Lock Stock and 2 Smoking BarrellsI saw that a couple of weekends ago when nothing was on TV. I'm glad I did, it was pretty cool.

[abyzmul]

Dawn Of The Dead (original)
Cemetary Man
Evil Dead II
Dead Alive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Night Of The Living Dead (original, although 1st remake wasn't too bad)
Searching For Bobby Fischer
The Last Starfighter
A Christmas Story
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Donnie Darko
Fantastic Planet
Waking Life
Shaun Of The Dead (sig)
Aliens
Rocky III
Fistful Of Dollars
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
Fight Club
City Of Lost Children
Greedy
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Back To The Future
E.T.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Willow

I guess I have to stop now or I probably won't stop for a while.

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Dawn Of The Dead (original)
Cemetary Man
Evil Dead II
Dead Alive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Night Of The Living Dead (original, although 1st remake wasn't too bad)
Searching For Bobby Fischer
The Last Star Fighter
A Christmas Story
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Donnie Darko
Fantastic Planet
Waking Life
Shaun Of The Dead (sig)
Aliens
Rocky III
Fistful Of Dollars
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
Fight Club
City Of Lost Children
Greedy
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Back To The Future
E.T.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Willow

I guess I have to stop now or I probably won't stop for a while.
ET was the only movie that ever made me cry.

[Cman55]

Independence Day
Casablanca
Mobsters
Tremors 2
The Usual Suspects
Platoon
Predator I
Where Eagles Dare
Ocean's Eleven (Original)
Terminator 2
Analyze That

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Independence Day
Casablanca
Mobsters
Tremors 2
The Usual Suspects
Platoon
Predator I
Where Eagles Dare
Ocean's Eleven (Original)
Terminator 2
Analyze That
TWAT!? TEMORS 2? Interesting

[abyzmul]

TWAT!? TEMORS 2? Interesting
Tremors 2 is funny as hell. It would have been on my list if I had kept going.

My favorite line, from Burt after he destroys a Graboid with a magnum .50 cal round:

[smugly] "Doin what I can with what I got."

[typeOnegative13NY]

Dawn Of The Dead (original)
Cemetary Man
Evil Dead II
Dead Alive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Night Of The Living Dead (original, although 1st remake wasn't too bad)
Searching For Bobby Fischer
The Last Starfighter
A Christmas Story
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Donnie Darko
Fantastic Planet
Waking Life
Shaun Of The Dead (sig)
Aliens
Rocky III
Fistful Of Dollars
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
Fight Club
City Of Lost Children
Greedy
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Back To The Future
E.T.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Willow

I guess I have to stop now or I probably won't stop for a while.Yeah,i forgot the original Chainsaw Masacre in my list. First horror movie I ever saw. Saw it really young and it scared me for quite some time. I never saw the re-make,is it worth a rent?

[hiker]

Thanks for the memory jog, Abyzmul. I wanted to mention Cemetary Man myself, but I couldn't remember the name. Now that was one f'ed up movie:grin:

[USAFJETSFAN]

War Movies
Saving Private Ryan
Patton
Bridge over the river Kwai
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Dear Hunter
Black Hawk Down

Comedies
Animal House
Porky's
Stripes
Young Frankenstein..put the candle back
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Caddyshack
My Cousin Vinny 2 utes

Drama
Godfather 1 and 2 (3 sucked pissed they made that shit)
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Scar Face
Carlito's Way
Star Wars old ones New Hope and Empires Strike Back (3rd Ewoks killed it)
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky
Goodfellas
Unforgiven


Here are just a few I can remember what do you think..

[BIG COUNTRY]

Braveheart
Goodfellas
Michael Collins
City of God
Major League II
Old School
Anchorman
Ali G in da house
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
Scarface
My cousin Vinny

I probably have more if I think

[Cakes]

War Movies
Saving Private Ryan
Patton
Bridge over the river Kwai
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Dear Hunter
Black Hawk Down

Comedies
Animal House
Porky's
Stripes
Young Frankenstein..put the candle back
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Caddyshack
My Cousin Vinny 2 utes

Drama
Godfather 1 and 2 (3 sucked pissed they made that shit)
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Scar Face
Carlito's Way
Star Wars old ones New Hope and Empires Strike Back (3rd Ewoks killed it)
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky
Goodfellas
Unforgiven


Here are just a few I can remember what do you think..

You have a good list. I've seen 18 of these. I did not care for Raging Bull. It was well made and I can understand the love for the film, but Jake LaMotta is a repugnant man and, quite frankly, the story bored me.

[Cakes]

Here are my twenty favorites in alphabetical order

Apocalypse Now
The Big Lebowski
Bonnie and Clyde
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
A Clockwork Orange
Deliverance
The Empire Strikes Back
Fargo
The Night of the Hunter
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
The Searchers
Sideways
Southern Comfort
Star Wars
Unforgiven
Vertigo
Young Frankenstein

[Cakes]

bump this thread

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I gotta throw in "army of darkness" as well

[GreenHornet]

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:lol: :lol: I love when people do that, there's so many funny ones like that!

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:rofl: good stuff

[GreenHornet]

That one is a crack up

[Cakes]

Yes, that was quality.^