Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject: Favourite films/movies?
We have a few music threads but none on films that I can find, so I was just wondering what you guys like to watch. What's your top 10?*
Some of my favourites are:
Sweeney Todd
Interview With The Vampire
Sleepy Hollow
Laputa (aka Castle in the Sky)
Nausicaa of The Valley Of The Wind
The Corpse Bride (are you sensing a Burton/Depp theme here? lol)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Kill Bill
Ginger Snaps
Labyrinth
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Alien (Ripley rocks!)
* top 17's, 4's or 43's also welcome!
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Last edited by princess_haru on Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:52 am; edited 1 time in total
hmm, I'm almost certainly going to forget some, but here are a few of my favourites that spring to mind:
-Apocalypse Now (possibly my all time favourite- about the most epic film I've ever seen)
-Magnolia
-Boogie Nights (PT Anderson is a don)
-Assault on precinct 13 (JOHN CARPENTER VERSION: stilted script, questionable acting but deeply ethereal)
-Taxi driver (bobby D at his best)
-The garden state (IMO somewhat overlooked/underrated as far as its full artistic depth is concerned)
-Forrest Gump (possibly the only film to have actually made me cry- that goddamn feather on the breeze...)
-City of God -the only film that, as soon as I finished watching, I watched again
-Pulp Fiction
-Terminator 2 (will never age)
-Chinatown
-Good Will Hunting (amazing screenplay, acting and soundtrack- RIP elliott smith)
-Requiem for a dream
-Bladerunner (see signature quote)
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-City of God -the only film that, as soon as I finished watching, I watched again
if you like that you should see tropa de elite(Elite Squad),not as good as city of god IMO but it shows the other side,of the police.
my favorites in no order
Sleepy hollow
Before sunrise
before sunset
love actually
a walk to remember
The breakfast Club
The boy who could fly
Along Came Polly
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
K-PAX
Corpse Bride
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Young Frankenstein
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Bicentennial Man
A Clockwork Orange
Se7en
Sin City
Predator
John Carpenter's Vampires
1. The Seventh Seal
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather : Part II
4. 2001 : A Space Odyssey
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Election
7. Taxi Driver
8. Do the Right Thing
9. Mean Streets
10. Blue Velvet
11. Chinatown
12. Raging Bull
13. No Country for Old Men
14. Fargo
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
16. This Is Spinal Tap
17. Casablanca
18. Jackie Brown
19. L.A. Confidential
20. The Big Lebowski
I just saw Pulp Fiction last night for the first time in ages - love that scene at the end where Samual J and Travolta stick their guns in the waistbands of their geeky shorts! I also love the way Tarantino plays with timelines so his films are never linear and boring.
Rodox wrote:
my favorites in no order
Sleepy hollow
Before sunrise
before sunset
love actually
a walk to remember
The breakfast Club
The boy who could fly
Along Came Polly
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
K-PAX
Corpse Bride
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Young Frankenstein
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Bicentennial Man
A Clockwork Orange
Se7en
Sin City
Wow, The Breakfast Club brings back memories Gotta love the "dandruff snow" lol! Yay for all the Burton on your list - I can't believe I forgot Nightmare Before Christmas! Love Sin City too - it's so dark and stylish.
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16. This Is Spinal Tap
18. Jackie Brown
I like movies.
Hehe, me too Everyone's lists are reminding me of films I haven't seen in a while and now I'm dying to watch them again! Jackie Brown's another great Tarantino film - he has a knack of making me enjoy films I normally wouldn't go near. I'm more into fairytales and horror than guns n gangsters, but for some reason I really like Tarantino films! Maybe it's because they're always presented like a classic story, and not a "slice of reality" or something... Lol, and what can I say about Spinal Tap? "But this one goes to 11!" *wets knickers*
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When you're strange
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Diary of Anne Frank
Star Wars[I II III]
Superman!
The Shining
The last Samurai
Singin' in the Rain
World of the Worlds
James Bond 007 =D
Sound of Music
Shrek
That's an awesome film. It has one of the few plot twists that actually managed to shock me - usually they can be seen coming a mile off
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Shrek
Shrek is the perfect anti-Disney film, I love it! I grew up on Disney and as much as I loved watching The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty etc, there's something really satisfying about seeing all of that schmaltz and all the stereotypes blown to bits by Shrek
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Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject:
matrix
event horizon
aliens
predator
hackers
12 angry men
garden state
underworld
from hell
blow
The Ninth Gate
Platoon
End of days
lock stock
snatch
trainspotting
Labyrinth
the monty python's
the rock
rain man
the fifth element
payback
Conspiracy Theory
die hards and lethal weps lol
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In no particular order:
Billy Elliot
Man on the Moon
Cats
Take the Money and Run
Annie Hall
Goodbye Lenin
About Schimit
Manhattan
Airplane!
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Bowling for Columbine
Young Frankenstein
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I also love the way Tarantino plays with timelines so his films are never linear and boring.
Gotta love the "dandruff snow" lol! Yay for all the Burton on your list - I can't believe I forgot Nightmare Before Christmas! Love Sin City too - it's so dark and stylish.
Everyone's lists are reminding me of films I haven't seen in a while and now I'm dying to watch them again! Jackie Brown's another great Tarantino film - he has a knack of making me enjoy films I normally wouldn't go near. I'm more into fairytales and horror than guns n gangsters, but for some reason I really like Tarantino films! Maybe it's because they're always presented like a classic story, and not a "slice of reality" or something... Lol, and what can I say about Spinal Tap? "But 
