What are some of your all time favorite movies?

[Michael Jordan.]

Inglorious Basterds
Goodfellas
Robocop
Godfather parts I and II (couldn't really get into the third)
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Jaws

[Big Empty]

Forrest Gump, Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Wolf of Wallstreet.

[Katherine Robinson]

Schwarzenegger films have been my guilty pleasure.

I often think of Shawshank Redemption and Gladiator when I consider my favorite movies.

[timtonymanu]

12 Angry Men
Shawshank Redemption
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Reservoir Dogs
Back to the Future
2001: A Space Odyssey
Life is Beautiful

[MeloHype]

Pulp fiction
Alpha dog
American pyscho
Ricky Bobby

[leemajors]

2001
Once Upon a Time in the West
Seconds
Ikiru
High and Low
Blood Simple

[The Gemini Method]

Empire of the Sun

[Venti Quattro]

21 Jump Street

[baseline bum]

My favorites are probably Full Metal Jacket, American Psycho, Goodfellas, and Pulp Fiction. Everything else is in a lower tier.

[spurraider21]

Shawshank Redemption
My Cousin Vinny

I also have a weird affinity for the old nicholas cage action movies :lol. Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off

[baseline bum]

My Cousin Vinny


Shit, forgot that. And Clerks also. I can never get tired of either of those two comedies.

[Skyapples]

Off the top of my head American Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Escape From Alcatraz, LOTRs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Holy Grail and Life of Brian.

[Chewbacca]

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[CitizenDwayne]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Suspiria
Blow Out
Jackie Brown
Blade Runner
Dumb and Dumber
North by Northwest
Minority Report
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

[HI-FI]

guess I'll just go with the ones I still watch all the time and study

2001
Alien
Blade Runner
Star Wars
The Thing
American Graffiti
Dirty Harry
Punch-Drunk Love
Apocalypse Now
Rumble Fish
Taxi Driver
Rushmore
Vertigo
Days of Heaven

that's probably enough.

[The Gemini Method]

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly



Empire of the Sun



The Lost Boys



The Breakfast Club



Full Metal Jacket



Tombstone



The Dark Knight Rises



Goodfellas



The Untouchables



Thin Red Line


Silence of the Lambs

[spurraider21]

forgot to mention A Few Good Men

i'm also a sucker for tom cruise films in general

[spurraider21]

guess I'll just go with the ones I still watch all the time and study

2001
Alien
Blade Runner
Star Wars
The Thing
American Graffiti
Dirty Harry
Punch-Drunk Love
Apocalypse Now
Rumble Fish
Taxi Driver
Rushmore
Vertigo
Days of Heaven

that's probably enough.
good calls with Alien and The Thing. i usually forget to add those kinds of flicks to best movies lists. did you catch the shit-stained sequel/prequel to the thing? and alien for that matter :lol

[cantthinkofanything]

Good movies up thura

have to add Usual Suspects though

[cantthinkofanything]

also, City of God

[Fpoonsie]

Braveheart
The Last Kiss
Rushmore
Dumb and Dumber
Independence Day ( baseline bum )

[Rogue]

Lost in Translation
Iron Man II
Scoop
Match Point
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Love Song for Bobby Long
Manny & Lo
The Horse Whisperer
The Avengers

[pgardn]

Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Dumb and Dumber
Best in Show

And so many all ready mentioned. Good stuff.

[pgardn]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Suspiria
Blow Out
Jackie Brown
Blade Runner
Dumb and Dumber
North by Northwest
Minority Report
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

This movie scared my lower intestine out my digestive track.

[CitizenDwayne]

This movie scared my lower intestine out my digestive track.

Same here. Love that shit.

[HI-FI]

good calls with Alien and The Thing. i usually forget to add those kinds of flicks to best movies lists. did you catch the shit-stained sequel/prequel to the thing? and alien for that matter :lol
that Thing prequel/remake (?) was pretty bad. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a nice piece of ass but it ruins the whole tension and dynamic of Carpenter's flick by throwing in women. The worst though was the CGI monsters, it looks so fake, especially when compared to the Rob Bottin monsters from the original.

I guess Prometheus was doing the same thing with Alien, but least it had Ridley on board. Prometheus is a tougher call for me because I really dug the look and atmosphere from Ridley, per the par, so there are some great visuals and ideas, but the script is a mess. I watched it again and could barely sit through parts of it. Hopefully they find a way to fix it up with this sequel, it has its work cut out for it though.


there are 3 other films I thought about adding to this list, John McTiernan's hat trick of Predator, Die Hard and Hunt for Red October. Those are some of the best genre films and McTiernan was on a roll back then.

[spurraider21]

prometheus was fine standalone... i hate how they tried to shove as many alien references in there as they could while also having stupid shit like zombies.

speaking of shitstained sequels, did you see Predators with the pianist dude?

[slayermin]

True Romance
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Sunset Boulevard
Tokyo Story
Ikiru
Taxi Driver
Black Narcissus
Leave Her to Heaven
Late Spring
Red Beard
Trainspotting
The Player
Nights of Cabiria
Bicycle Thieves

[leemajors]

True Romance
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Sunset Boulevard
Tokyo Story
Ikiru
Taxi Driver
Black Narcissus
Leave Her to Heaven
Late Spring
Red Beard

Trainspotting
The Player
Nights of Cabiria
Bicycle Thieves

the last one they did together :cry good stuff

[DJR210]

Childs Play
Step Brothers
Robocop
Terminator 2
Goodfellas
Blood In Blood Out
Grandma's Boy
Due Date
The Hangover
The Foot Fist Way
Scarface
Casino
Bad Santa
Friday
Napoleon Dynamite

[Thebesteva]

Was about to jokingly post Justin Biebers film never say never. When I went to google it I saw the lowest score in the history of The Internet Movie Database.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1702443/

Holy shit a 1.6!!?? Even Freddy Got Fingered got a 4

[DJR210]

Was about to jokingly post Justin Biebers film never say never. When I went to google it I saw the lowest score in the history of The Internet Movie Database.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1702443/

Holy shit a 1.6!!?? Even Freddy Got Fingered got a 4

Don't forget the Katy Perry movie. Classic for the ages.

[resistanze]

Goodfellas
Fargo
Godfather 2
The Usual Suspects
Memento
Terminator/T2
Alien

[The Batman]

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[CubanSucks]

Braveheart, LotR trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Master and Commander, The Graduate, Lawrence of Arabia, Goodfellas, Doctor Zhivago, Stand By Me, The Good Bad Ugly, Ben Hur

[purist]

Godfather I n II
Saving private Ryan
Brave heart
Rudy
Outlaw josey wales
It's a wonderful life
Friday night lights
Goodfellas
Fast times at ridge mont high
Remember the titans
Field of dreams
Two mules for sister Sarah
One flew over cuckoos nest
Billy jack
American graffiti
Blazing saddles

[Wild Cobra]

I'm obviously different than most of you.

I like "Man From Earth" as my favorite all time movie. Relatively new, and only a 5 figure budget, but thought provoking.

http://www.manfromearth.com/Images/MFE-Home-Page-Background.jpg (http://www.manfromearth.com/index2.html)

[Nbadan]

Saving Private Ryan
Requiem for a dream
Aliens
Animal House
Blues Brothers
Cape Fear
Titanic
American Graffiti
Apocalypse Now
The Dark Knight
American Beauty
Forrest Gump
Jurassic Park

[Thread]

Aliens

I thoroughly enjoy the depiction of U.S.M.C. in this film:::

*Paxton shows a bent to whiney cowardice, but, then returns to duty in defiant heroic action.

**The Lieutenant is doubted from the get go & is carried, scorned & ridiculed, but then exhibits extreme bravery as he joins with a subordinate in taking many of the aliens with them when they go.

***The hot chick pilot of the other aircraft is the most intense as she is not only a fine pilot, but, a true U.S. Marine. When she realizes she is lethally threatened she does not cower, uh, uh, she immediately reaches for her sidearm. Yeah. Now there is a wing"man."

I'm sure the State Dept. & the Marine Corp had oversight here, but, they didn't need it. Cameron took care of it.

[leemajors]

Oh, I also like Marathon Man quite a bit.

[Splits]

Very Bad Things
The Truman Show
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Butterfly Effect

[Thread]

Oh, I also like Marathon Man quite a bit.

Yep, yep, never grows old. Both Scheider & Devane are at prime there, & lethally abrupt & slick. The flashbacks dealing with boys' father are well done & not obtrusive. Olivier is a bit heavy handed, but, his ill adivsed foray into the diamond district of NYC makes it all worthwhile.

[leemajors]

Yep, yep, never grows old. Both Scheider & Devane are at prime there, & lethally abrupt & slick. The flashbacks dealing with boys' father are well done & not obtrusive. Olivier is a bit heavy handed, but, his ill adivsed foray into the diamond district of NYC makes it all worthwhile.

Yup, DER WEISSE ENGEL!!

[irishock]

Memento
Godfather
Departed
Sixth Sense

[Floyd Pacquiao]

gladiator
brave heart
full metal jacket
saving private ryan
black sheep
dumb and dumber
gran torino

[Thread]

gran torino

Why this one, Pac?

[Thread]

The triple redoubt..."Zulu"

Dedicated to Deads

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[Sybok]

5 Deadly Venoms
Game of Death
Bloodsport
Sniper
My Cousin Vinny
Terminator
Predator

oh and Snatch

[Avante]

Cool Hand Luke.....what we've got here, is....a failure to communicate.
King Kong 1933....oh no, it wasn't the planes that got him, it was beauty who killed the beast.
The Godfather...I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Roadhouse...I thought you'd be bigger.
The Warriors...Warrioris come out and playyyyyy.
The Roadwarrior....he came out into the wasteland, a burned out desolate man.....
Casablanca....here's looking at you kid.
On the Waterfront....you don't don't understand, I could have been somebody, I could have been a contender, instead of a bum, which I am.
Citizen Kane...Rosebud

[CitizenDwayne]

Citizen Kane...Rosebud

Damn straight

[Thread]

Cool Hand Luke.....what we've got here, is....a failure to communicate.

The closing frame is the payoff as the inmates have retrieved the "Photoshoped" photograph of Luke & the two bar girls from the trash where one had ripped it into 4 pieces before throwing it away in a fit of pique when they thought that "Luke" had sold out. The photograph is now taped together, whole once more.

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[Dallas]

Citizen Kane is the one I find a little overrated.

[The Reckoning]

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[The Reckoning]

Giant is amazing. elizabeth taylor used to be a fine piece of ass.

favorite mel brooks movie is men in tights.

the bridge over the river kwai.

casablanca is a classic.

terminator 1 and 2

aliens was better than alien imo but all together a different genre

who could forget predator?

office space. enough said.

gladiator was the last great blockbuster before cgi ruined everything.

braveheart

Gettysburg is a great film imo. i highly recommend it for history buffs. i think it was the largest civil war reenactment fight ever.

lonesome dove if you have absolutely nothing to do

the patriot was the same year as gladiator but still great.

matrix is a masterpiece.

the man who would be king (author of the jungle book) as i said in a previous thread

one flew over the cuckoos nest

ben hur

lawrence of arabia. albeit pretentious in its delivery, i still see it as for what it was as some sort of ode to gone with the wind in its theatrical style.

pretty much everything put out by stanley kubrick was pure genius.


that's all i can think of for now. and yes the OG star wars trilogy is the shit.

and in all honesty i think casino is way too long and uncomfortable. goodfellas was a better, more compact version of casino imo. but i'm not a critic so whatever.

[Thread]

Giant is amazing.

the man who would be king (author of the jungle book) as i said in a previous thread

one flew over the cuckoos nest

***Absolutely on GIANT. & it is all brought together there on toward the finish with the fist fight in the diner. A clean account of man. It has by turns a decided lightness and then terrible violence and takes place in front of Hudson's family, his wife & in particular his daughter. Taylor bears witness in stoic silence as the girl is torn apart at the sight & sounds of the savage beating her father endures at the wiles of a stout man who is square in mind & deed.

It's a fine turn for George Stevens. A true American masterpiece.

***Yes, this is the second time you cited "The Man Who Would Be King" and my heart soared each time. One of the finest films ever put on the screen. It is indescribable perfection and a white paper on man.

***Nicholson lingers & loiters too long & it takes "Chief" to save him for himself & for us the audience. It is one of the greatest comeback victories in film history.

[Proxy]

2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Children of Men
Chungking Express
The Conversation
Drive
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
There Will Be Blood
The Thing
Upstream Color

[Thread]

The Conversation

Yes. Very underrated film. A quiet, studious effort that ramps up savagely at the end. A "small" film, said to be an ingenious choice by Coppola after the Godfather(s).

[CitizenDwayne]

The Conversation

Good choice. Literally everything with John Cazale in it is a masterpiece.

[gnsf0946]

Good choice. Literally everything with John Cazale in it is a masterpiece.

Yup, he was great in Dog Day Afternoon aswell, shame he died so young

[DPG21920]

This is next to impossible. There are so many. Really depends on the mood I am in, but:

The Big Lebowski: My favorite movie of all time
Spaceballs/Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Love Mel Brooks and I can watch both of these over and over.
Stand By Me: Great story that resonates throughout time
Star Wars: Love sci-fi and well..
The Matrix: One of the rare times I walked out of a theater completely blown away.
Django Unchained: Love most of QT's work and despite much argument from others, probably my favorite QT film.
Jurassic Park: As far as big blockbusters go, this one stands out to me because of the sense of wonderment invoked.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Love horror genre and this is probably my favorite.
Silence of the Lambs: Just an incredible film.
The Cabin in the Woods: Thought this was genius.


As far as guilty pleasures:

Bloodsport: JCVD is making any list of mine in some form.
Monster Squad: Childhood favorite
Tombstone: First western I ever saw in a theater because I'm not a western fan, but loved Doc


There are literally hundreds of other movies, but this is what comes to mind right now.

[Fpoonsie]

Tombstone: First western I ever saw in a theater because I'm not a western fan, but loved Doc


Why would you consider Tombstone a "guilty" pleasure?

[DPG21920]

Because I don't like Westerns...meant for me, not universally.

[Thread]

Stand By Me

Gloriously lit---not by the (boys), but, by "Ace"---Keifer Sutherland. He provides the edge, the patent danger. The certifiable town psychopath. Keenly aware & latent jealous of "Gordie's" late brother, the town star QB, portrayed almost magically by John Cusack, at the peek. He's dead by the time these events take place, but, he's (alive) in the characters that remain,,,his parents who "haven't put the pieces back together", the cruel but keenly aware town grocer, the aforementioned psycho, & "Denny's" wounded brother who is now loitering the dead twixt the missing (Brower boy) & "Ace" who himself is pursuing murder & mayhem without an ounce of regret.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Why this one, Pac?
For this scene alone, tbh...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8iT1UHnjI&amp;sns=em

[HI-FI]

Gloriously lit---not by the (boys), but, by "Ace"---Keifer Sutherland. He provides the edge, the patent danger. The certifiable town psychopath. Keenly aware & latent jealous of "Gordie's" late brother, the town star QB, portrayed almost magically by John Cusack, at the peek. He's dead by the time these events take place, but, he's (alive) in the characters that remain,,,his parents who "haven't put the pieces back together", the cruel but keenly aware town grocer, the aforementioned psycho, & "Denny's" wounded brother who is now loitering the dead twixt the missing (Brower boy) & "Ace" who himself is pursuing murder & mayhem without an ounce of regret.
it's a great movie. it seems like Stephen King's short stories make better adaptations, perhaps because there's a lot more breathing room for the filmmakers to make it work as cinema.

[rascal]

Cool Hand Luke
The Great Escape
The Incident
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Jason and the Argonauts

[spurraider21]

For this scene alone, tbh...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8iT1UHnjI&amp;sns=em
a guy with a gun threatening unarmed dudes was never impressive to me tbh

[Fpoonsie]

a guy with a gun threatening unarmed dudes was never impressive to me tbh

He's old as shit and there's several of them. This isn't the fucking Expendables.

[Bender]

I never got why Goodfellas was listed so often in any "greatest movies" list....

[Thread]

The Incident
The Incredible Shrinking Man

rascal, with two rare gems. Grand citations.

The first was suppressed at release, and the second has a stoic ending. You think he'll be made whole again. Uh, uh. He's defiant though.

[Thread]

I never got why Goodfellas was listed so often in any "greatest movies" list....

I agree. It's goodPERIOD

[Thread]

He's old as shit and there's several of them. This isn't the fucking Expendables.

& upon reflection shows the power of a deadly weapon. They're brave & easily reckless when there are no weapons, but, when just one is produced the risk is nowhere near the reward and so they're never even tempted to rush Eastwood. It is indeed a seminal moment & Pac hit it upon request.

[TheAdmiral#50]

Halloween ('78)
Outlaw Josey Wales
Saving Private Ryan
Heat
The Big Lebowski

just a few.

[Thread]

Heat

It has holes, huge holes, but, it has something enduring. The young kid who drives the getaway at the bank heist is substantially built before he's brutally ended. So when DeNiro comes for him over a short order range, he's got no other choice, his long suffering & fiercely loyal wife be damned.

I like the drive-in movie scene as well for it's viciousness.

Near last, but, not least is Sizemore. Here he is everything, dedicated to "Neal"...there is nothing else. And last is Trejo who may OR may not have rolled over on Neal. The silhouette of his "Anna" is a frightening reminder of where this movie dwells. DeNiro erases it for Trejo,,,just like that.

The shootout in L.A. after the bank reminds one of that real shoot out they had about that circa where the perps were dressed in suits & armor, sorta like Sizemore is as he careens to & fro---finally crossing the last line by using a child as his armor.

[Thread]

Halloween ('78)

It was Pleasence, always Pleasence. He built & brought this American staple to us & then implored us to recognize "Michael" for what he was. Sold it on a different plateau from where the slash & burn pile sustained. He was a serious actor who took the role seriously, made it into something far beyond what was intended and took "Michael" with him. We didn't have to see "Michael" butcher like the others made us see. Pleasence told us everything we needed to see.

[Michael Jordan.]

the Novel that went along with Halloween was interesting too.

[Michael Jordan.]

Godfather Part II. Can never get sick of that movie.

[LkrFan]

Mo Betta Blues
Life
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Love Stinks
Batman Trilogy
Titanic
Friday
Menace II Society
Boyz in the Hood
Undercover Brother
Ghost

[Clipper Nation]

The Tape
fify

[LkrFan]

fify
:lol

[Texas_Ranger]

Inglourious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
Léon
Star Wars (original 3)
Dark Knight
Schindler's List
Shawshank Redemption
Inception
City of God

there's a lot more. Like old John Woo movies (The Killer, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow...), LOTR, Matrix, Fight club, Aliens, Terminator 2, Rocky,...

I don't really have a favourite.

[spurraider21]

Wedding Crashers, Superbad are probably my two favorite modern comedies. Hangover as well

[Proxy]

Yes. Very underrated film. A quiet, studious effort that ramps up savagely at the end. A "small" film, said to be an ingenious choice by Coppola after the Godfather(s).

where's your list, man?