Your favorite movie

[Canuk Pepperhead]

What movie is your favorite or has had an impact on you..Myself Im a big Stephen King fan and Im always going back and watching his movies..one of my faves is The Stand..Mind you I like alot of other movies but anything to me from Stephen king rules

[Hot Canuck]

Great subject CP...

Top Five:

High Plains Drifter
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Natural
Pulp Fiction
Debbie Does Dallas 2

[Omri]

Hard to choose just one or even a few... I LOVE movies!

Hmm...
Psycho
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Terminator
Soldier
Thelma & Louise
Schindler's List

And MANY, MANY OTHERS...

[Canuk Pepperhead]

Debbie Does Dallas 2 lol I wont argue there lmfao

[Omri]

Debbie Does Dallas 2 lol I wont argue there lmfao
I will! part one is way better.
BTW seen the new one?

[Canuk Pepperhead]

Ron Jeremy was the coach.... I think most have seen both lol

[Canuk Pepperhead]

ok the porn thing was funny but back to the movies lol

[Omri]

Good movies are endless. you know what's rare? a good TV series.

[Canuk Pepperhead]

I loved MASH growing up when it came to tv series
oh Southpark ruled till they quit killing kenny hehehe

[Canuk Pepperhead]

I wonder if I should start a tv series thread lol

[Omri]

OR we could just talk about it here.
It won't be the end of the world and it is your post, so... your choice.

I like a lot of shows, but none are actually good. the few I really like are kinda weird.
Yes South Park is awesome, but my taste is more like The Sopranos, New Tricks and I do admit to have an addiction to Doctor Who (downloading today's episode right now). there is this one British mini-series called Jekyll - purely brilliant! the lead actor (Nesbit) is a damn genius.

[dreamtheatervt]

I wouldn't call it my favorite movie, but a movie I highly recommend for comedy is Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/). It's a typical Mike Judge flick, a good bit of obvious comedy and a ton of stuff hidden in the background or things you don't catch the first time you watch it. Ever since I saw that movie I can't help but laugh everytime I hear the word "upgrade", and that cell phone commercial with Beyonce singing "upgrade" makes me lose it.

[DevilDuck]

I have to say Memento. I've never seen a movie done that way (before this).

Grifters was a good one as well.

[Chiliac]

Wow, that's a tricky one, there are a lot of good movies out there and I'm bound to forget a few...

I really like old scifi/horror flicks, from the silent ones to the 60's/70's "trash", especially the early Universal films and the 40's/50's monster stuff (you know, the Jack Arnold movies etc...) and the Hammer movies. There'd be too many to list, it would require a new thread I guess! :)

....and also:
Pulp Fiction
Memento
Fargo
Butterfly Effect
Ali G. inda House
Very Bad Things
9:11
Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead
all John Carpenter movies
Terminator Alien
An American Werewolf in London
Wild Creatures
Bang Boom Bang
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Big Lebowski
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[rainbowberry]

Please don't laugh but Return to Oz was my favourite film ever, then The Wizard of Oz second.

[DEFCON Creator]

A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
20 minutes into the future
El Cid
Event Horizon

[imaguitargod]

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure introduced Californian talk into our family thus changing the way we speak forever (something I told Burnie Cassey when I did his headshots) so that's on my list.

Terminator 1 and 2, Aliens, Airplane, The Back to the Future Tillogy, and The Big Labowski are all tied for first place.

[chilehunter]

favorite movie!? cant say jusy one. to many to list but heres some.
star wars
star trek
lord of the rings
underworld
chronicles of riddick
schindlers list
saving pvt ryan
platoon
FMJ
kellys heros
dirty dozen
saw(s)
planet of the apes
plus many more

if its suspense,drama,action,violence,things blowing up,female nudity - those are good movies :lol:
movies that are dumb funny like dumb & dumber,balls of feary or others like this I dont find off the wall/mockery stupid humor as funny movies or worth watching. but simpsons/family guy/south park mockery is worth watching.

[gardenkiller]

Top 5

The Crow
Fight Club
Event Horizon
Underworld
Storm Of The Century

[pepperfever]

Favorite movie is one about Native Americans "Wind Walker" yes it's an old one, about 1980. I would rather read as so many books get ruined or are diswappointing once they are movies. Stephen King is great but I don't care for horror movies, yeah showing my age...tell me a good story.

[Omri]

Favorite movie is one about Native Americans "Wind Walker" yes it's an old one, about 1980. I would rather read as so many books get ruined or are diswappointing once they are movies. Stephen King is great but I don't care for horror movies, yeah showing my age...tell me a good story.
What's old about 1980?

[rainbowberry]

I would rather read as so many books get ruined or are diswappointing once they are movies.
I agree with you, also I've seen the film first then read the book and it's never the same. The one film that I really think didn't let the book down was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I saw The Chronicles of Narnia too but I preferred the original.

[cheezydemon]

In the spirit of the OP, I can't get over

THE MIST

which I watched again last night. Frigging Awesome.

By far the best stephen king adaptation ever.

[imaguitargod]

I would rather read as so many books get ruined or are diswappointing once they are movies.
Ugh don't even get me started on this escpecially when it comes to comic book to movie adaptations....

[cheezydemon]

Ugh don't even get me started on this escpecially when it comes to comic book to movie adaptations....

That is what was so awesome about the Mist.

It is my favorite short story, and aside from some very minor changes, it was completely true to the original work.

[HotPeppersFlyFishing]

I like a ton of movies but if I had to select say 5 or 6 all time favs they would be (in no order)
Gladiator
To Kill A Mockingbird
A River Runs Through It (gee wonder why?:lol:)
Deliverance (a creepy what would you do in this situation :lol:)
The 10 Commandments
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
The entire Star Wars saga
Braveheart (Im part Scot/Irish)
Of Mice and Men (with Malkovich and Sienise)
Ok more than 5 or 6 :)

[chiliman]

Two of my favorites that are yet to be mentioned:

Raising Arizona ("Sometimes I get the menstual cramps real hard")

and

Napolean Dynomite

[GrumpyBear]

ok, further proof that i am in fact a girl (and a girly-girl no less..) is that i will never get tired of watching the pride and prejudice mini-series...
other faves:
shawshank redemption
and ideal husband
star treks 1 4 6 8 and 9
office space
all the aliens...*sigh*even avp...
...and oh so many more...

i think i'll start a book thread now...

[Omri]

ok, further proof that i am in fact a girl (and a girly-girl no less..) is that i will never get tired of watching the pride and prejudice mini-series...
other faves:
shawshank redemption
and ideal husband
star treks 1 4 6 8 and 9
office space
all the aliens...*sigh*even avp...
...and oh so many more...

i think i'll start a book thread now...
Girly girl, but great taste in movies.

[bentalphanerd]

Damn - a fave movie is hard to pick.

mostly i like eclectic doccos.
but if i'm going for escapism its hard to avoid a bit of 007
for a thriller i like a John LeCarre...(still way better to read the books though)

for cartoon/animation
Samurai Jack
Futurama
Wallace & Gromit

for getting twisted in front of the screen....

Natural Born Killers
2001 space odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Mars Attacks
Jackie Chan - The Legend of Drunken Master

.......& about 40 others :D

[dreamtheatervt]

mostly i like eclectic doccos.


I got two for you then. American Movie (get the DVD with special features so you can watch the movie they make in the movie) and Spellbound. If you looked up "unintentional comedy" in an encyclopedia, American Movie would be the definition.

[cheezydemon]

I like a ton of movies but if I had to select say 5 or 6 all time favs they would be (in no order)
Gladiator
To Kill A Mockingbird
A River Runs Through It (gee wonder why?:lol:)
Deliverance (a creepy what would you do in this situation :lol:)
The 10 Commandments
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
The entire Star Wars saga
Braveheart (Im part Scot/Irish)
Of Mice and Men (with Malkovich and Sienise)
Ok more than 5 or 6 :)

I'm sorry the entire star wars saga? The new ones made me sick. From the annoyingly unloveable new characters, to the unrealistic and unbelieveable stunts that would heve never made their way into the first ones, to the unbelieveably bad CGI....which part was your favorite?

[imaguitargod]

I'm sorry the entire star wars saga? The new ones made me sick. From the annoyingly unloveable new characters, to the unrealistic and unbelieveable stunts that would heve never made their way into the first ones, to the unbelieveably bad CGI....which part was your favorite?
Bwahahaha! Boy you hit the nail on the head. Ugh, those movies were a tragidy for the most part.

[cheezydemon]

Yes, you are right to say "for the mosty part". They couldn't screw it up completely, but damn! They sure tried.

P.S. I wouldn't have said anything flyfishing, except that the rest of your list was so great. This just stood out like a rotting pile of poorly made prequels!;)

[bentalphanerd]

Star Wars...I dunno I think those new episodes...

they really could have fit a bit more meaningless emotional drama into it, i mean they had the wooden characters all set up & more than enough pathetic, two-toned dialogue. The script worked well in the first season of General Hospital & has given Days of our lives plenty of good years. They could have milked it for way more emotion.

I was more than a little disappointed.

[talas]

erm difficult but...

The Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the rings triology
Aliens
T2
The Third Man
Casablanca
Citizen kane
Amadeus

[rainbowberry]

Amadeus was brilliant, it seems really old now, well it was.

[POTAWIE]

I love old 80's comedies especially anything with John Candy. My fav is probably Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Also any Clint Estwood movie except that crappy musical western:lol:

[HotPeppersFlyFishing]

I'm sorry the entire star wars saga? The new ones made me sick. From the annoyingly unloveable new characters, to the unrealistic and unbelieveable stunts that would heve never made their way into the first ones, to the unbelieveably bad CGI....which part was your favorite?

well i should have said the original series and parts of episode 2 and most of episode 3 the 1st 1 yeah i have to agree yuck that little kid as Anikan bleech and Jar Jar well I wont even start on that :)

[HotPeppersFlyFishing]

Opps I forgot to add Beyond the Sea to my list the kevin spacey pic about Bobby Darin

[Omri]

Saw 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan' the other day and laughed so hard I almost pissed myself. :lol:
One genius movie! :D

[chilehunter]

omri - the trailers for that movie looks like its a really funny movie, its on my list to watch, good to hear its funny.

[chuk hell]

THE DARK BACKWARD

[millworkman]

Boondock Saints

[AL C.]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A Clockwork Orange
Creepshow
Enemy Mine
The Shining
The Return of the Living Dead
........ my top six.

[chuk hell]

The Return of the Living Dead



love that one.

Some of my fave "cult" movies:

EL TOPO
ERASERHEAD
REPO MAN
FORBIDDEN ZONE
RIVER'S EDGE
THE DARK BACKWARD
SWEET MOVIE
EVIL DEAD ( 1 & 2)
SANTA SANGRE
LUCIFER RISING
DOCTOR CALIGARI
BLUE VELVET
VIDEODROME
RE-ANIMATOR
ROADIE
THE APPLE
THE ROAD WARRIOR
DANGER DIABOLIK!

[chuk hell]

I wouldn't call it my favorite movie, but a movie I highly recommend for comedy is Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/). .

This movie is more scary than it is funny ( and it's really funny) because it's actually happening!

[Sickmont]

love that one.

Some of my fave "cult" movies:

EL TOPO
ERASERHEAD
REPO MAN
FORBIDDEN ZONE
RIVER'S EDGE
THE DARK BACKWARD
SWEET MOVIE
EVIL DEAD ( 1 & 2)
SANTA SANGRE
LUCIFER RISING
DOCTOR CALIGARI
BLUE VELVET
VIDEODROME
RE-ANIMATOR
ROADIE
THE APPLE
THE ROAD WARRIOR
DANGER DIABOLIK!


Whoa! Chuk you just named off most of my movie collection. Good taste indeed!

[bentalphanerd]

but, but where's..

Clockwork Orange
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Natural Born Killers
Naked Lunch
2001
Apocalypse Now
The Legend of Drunken Master (go on look it up lol)
Mars Attacks
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Dr. Strangelove

...ok that'll do for now :P

[Sickmont]

but, but where's..

Clockwork Orange
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Natural Born Killers
Naked Lunch
2001
Apocalypse Now
The Legend of Drunken Master (go on look it up lol)
Mars Attacks
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Dr. Strangelove

...ok that'll do for now :P

Hey Bent, you ever see the Crippled Masters? That ones a keeper too!

[bentalphanerd]

Hey Bent, you ever see the Crippled Masters? That ones a keeper too!

is that jackie chan too?

[Sickmont]

is that jackie chan too?

No, it was made in 1979. Go check it out if you can. It's a riot.

[bentalphanerd]

lol Drunken Master was '78...Jackie Chan is gettin on in years.

I'll look up Crippled Master tomorrow...late now, drunk etc lol

[moyboy]

It hasn't been mentioned yet so i'm a bit scared....

The stargate movie & the TV show.
I loved the movie and then got hooked on the show. It started lose me in about season 8.

I am now watching the spin off show -Stargate Atlantis.

Movies:

The lord or the rings trilogy
The X men trilogy
Gladiator
Fight club
The shrek trilogy
Ace Ventura (pet detective) 1 & 2
The blair witch project - The original. No.2 was crap....
Die hard 1,2,3 & 4
Shooter
The Bourne Identity trilogy
Super troopers

I could go on for hours.

TV shows:

House
Supernatural
NCIS
Stargate

[rainbowberry]

The shrek trilogy
Ace Ventura (pet detective) 1 & 2




I agree, they've got to be in my top ten, along with Dumb and Dumber.

[Chiliac]

RB, have you seen Wall-E yet?

[rainbowberry]

No I haven't, have you?

[Chiliac]

Yeah, a few days ago.

It's a great Pixar movie - if you are into that kinda stuff. The story is pretty clever and Wall-E is soooo adorable.

It's definitely the best animated movie I've seen in a while. The test of time will have to prove me right or wrong, but atm I'd say it's the best Pixar movie there is.

Watch the Super bowl-trailer on YouTube and you'll get an idea of what I mean. A must see for the young at heart!

[Sickmont]

My daughter is been trying for weeks to get me to go see Wall-E.....she says i'd absolutely love it....especially since i'm 'such a nut'(her words not mine)

[Hot Canuck]

I forgot one - Excalibur...

[Sickmont]

I forgot one - Excalibur...

Man, i love the soundtrack for that movie....fits the film wonderfully.

[Hot Canuck]

Man, i love the soundtrack for that movie....fits the film wonderfully.

Yeah - I can't believe I had forgotten it. One of those movies I can watch over and over...

[chuk hell]

Man, i love the soundtrack for that movie....fits the film wonderfully.

"Let the boy try!"

Great movie. Still needs a special edition release but the current one does have a nice commentary from Borman.

BTW, Crippled Masters is a hoot!

[xgrafcorex]

yay repo man! haha That movie was nothing like I was expecting it to be. We rented it a while back because it looked funny to see Emilo trying to look tough on the cover. Great movie though.

For me..

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane!
Spaceballs
Alien/Aliens
Predator
Natural Born Killers

kinda hard to think of some of them..I haven't really been able to watch any movies for months.

[gardenkiller]

First off....CHUK....Videodrome is a GREAT flick....second, what the heck is with all of you loving A Clockwork Orange? Don't get me wrong I am cool with everyone having their own taste, but I just don't get the appeal of that movie at all. I rewatched it three times to try to love it, but dang, I think I would rather watch Steel Magnolias....No thats a lie, but close.

[warscout2]

what about

The Matrix
Real genius
point break
blazing saddles

[Sickmont]

ok, since it was brought up in another thread, i definitely am a fan of Basket Case.

Also:
I'm gonna git you sucka
Amazon women on the moon
Kentucky Fried Movie

[imaguitargod]

Kentucky Fried Movie
I absolutely hated that movie.

[DickT]

The English Patient.

[Sickmont]

I absolutely hated that movie.

Odd, and you love Airplane!, which was written by the same people

[imaguitargod]

Odd, and you love Airplane!, which was written by the same people

I know. Airplane was stupid but spofictiocated at the same time. KFM was just stupid.

: shrugs :

[cheezydemon]

what about

The Matrix
Real genius
point break
blazing saddles


To each their own indeed.... A little too much Keanu in your 4 for me.;)

[chuk hell]

what the heck is with all of you loving A Clockwork Orange? Don't get me wrong I am cool with everyone having their own taste, but I just don't get the appeal of that movie at all. I rewatched it three times to try to love it, but dang, I think I would rather watch Steel Magnolias....No thats a lie, but close.

Well, I've always thought it was a very compelling movie. Not in my top 10 or even top 20 but still an undeniable classic. great social commentary/satire and I think McDowell is brilliant in it.

While not my favorite director by a longshot, I do have a lot of respect for Kubrick's work and this is one of his better films, IMHO.

I don't know how old you are, but if you are younger I can see how it would seem rather dated. Other than that, I think it's a great film. The book is pretty good too. :)

[arkangel06]

best comedy: kill bill vol1 and vol2

best military training scene:full metal jacket

most realistic flight: behind enmey lines

[moyboy]

I saw WANTED the other day with Angelina jolie and i didn't mind it but it was all a bit hard to swallow.

I saw TAKEN with Liam neeson on the weekend and i enjoy it very much. I've always liked Liam as an actor and he didn't disappoint.

[xgrafcorex]

ok, since it was brought up in another thread, i definitely am a fan of Basket Case.

Also:
I'm gonna git you sucka
Amazon women on the moon
Kentucky Fried Movie

I liked KFM..though I think Airplane was better. I'm gonna git you sucka was pretty damn funny too..same with Don't be a menace.. :lol:

[skealo]

A couple that are can't miss

Usual Suspects
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Tommyboy
Back to the Future
Fargo

[DickT]

I cannot believe I got no harrssment foe The English Patient post. Ok, this time I,m serious, I think this was a late 80's movie, it was a sleeper but I thought it was pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7C6-BUl0g0

[JayT]

Can't believe I never posted on this thread. I also can't believe no one mentioned my favorite movie: Tombstone. I also like: Rounders, Rocky II, The Fugitive, Fast and the Furious, Silence of the Lambs, and as others have said Natural Born Killers.

[DickT]

Can't believe I never posted on this thread. I also can't believe no one mentioned my favorite movie: Tombstone. I also like: Rounders, Rocky II, The Fugitive, Fast and the Furious, Silence of the Lambs, and as others have said Natural Born Killers.

We were all over Tombstone in movie quotes.....and yes great movie

[JayT]

Yeah I know I did manage to make it in on that thread. PM sent DickT.

[Sickmont]

Can't believe I never posted on this thread. I also can't believe no one mentioned my favorite movie: Tombstone. I also like: Rounders, Rocky II, The Fugitive, Fast and the Furious, Silence of the Lambs, and as others have said Natural Born Killers.

I've only got 2 problems with your list:

1)Fast and the Furious sucked because it spawned all kinds of teenage dumbasses coming to my shop and spouting stupid shit like this: "doooood.....i've blown a 911 twin turbo's doors off plenty of times.....i got nosss on my civic"
And my usual response? "please. whatever.:rolleyes:"

2)I honestly thought Natural Born Killers was basically a really, really bad 2 hour long music video


Other than that i agree with the rest of your list.

[cheezydemon]

Been reminded of a few classics by some of these posts.

Evil Dead 1&2...........&3!(you've gotta admit that army of darkness is a freaking classic!!!......"It's a trick, get an axe")

The Shining. What a perfect storm. The problem with most Stephen King movies is that they deviate so much from the book.

What makes the Shining so awesome is that it barely resembles the book. Kubrik was a mad man and a genius.

Stephen King hated the movie and so made a re-make a while back with that guy from "wings" in Jack Nicholson's legendary role........;)

[Sickmont]

Stephen King hated the movie and so made a re-make a while back with that guy from "wings" in Jack Nicholson's legendary role........;)

That HAD to suck....

[POTAWIE]

What about Undercover brother, and Old school

Someone actually liked Point break? Keano and Swayze both in the same film, what "acting":rolleyes:

[Elkie]

Been reminded of a few classics by some of these posts.

The Shining. What a perfect storm. The problem with most Stephen King movies is that they deviate so much from the book.

What makes the Shining so awesome is that it barely resembles the book. Kubrik was a mad man and a genius.


I LOVE that movie. It's a perfect movie to show people why I like Jack Nicholson. I have the book, and I really like what Kubrick did with it.

That HAD to suck....

I heard that it did. Haven't dared to watch it though.


Oh, and I really like Sweeney Todd. I prefer the original version though. Thank God for youtube.

[cheezydemon]

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are almost always a winning combo, but Sweeney Todd was a little to droll fo me. What is the original like?

[Elkie]

You can check it yourself, it's entirely on youtube.
It starts here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83F_OHrnhgo
Just follow the videos from that same user.

There are boring parts and great parts, but overall I like it a lot. The singers are professional ones, so the music is better.
If you ignore the women, anyway.

[JayT]

I just thought of a couple more. Leaving Las Vegas and Casino.

[Armadillo]

There are so many great movies. Top 5? Top 10? I will try.

The Blues Brothers
From Dusk til Dawn
Pulp Fiction
The Crow
Casablanca
The Sixth Sense
Kill Bill
The Leningrad Cowboys go America
The Big Easy
Lord of the Rings
Delicatessen
John Carpenter's Escape from New York
Twelve Monkeys
The Game
The Rock
The Fog


... a few more than 10, can't decide...