What are some of your favorite movies?
Posted on: August 8, 2007 - 9:19pm
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What are some of your favorite movies?
Just wondering what some of your favorite movies are. I have a real love for movies that make you think, or are just really surreal and imaginative. Some favorites that come to mind:
The Butterfly Effect
Lucky Number Slevin
Pan's Labyrinth
Bridge to Terabithia
Those are probably my all time favorite movies of all time. The first two play great mind tricks on you, while the latter two make me very emotional.
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Edward Scissors Hands
Donnie Darko
Muppet Treasure Island
The Pianist
Haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth yet. Heard it'd good.
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It changes over the years but so far.....in no particular order
Terminator
Fight Club (I have seen this movie over 30 times now)
Young Frankenstein
Moulin Rouge
The Deer Hunter
Nueve Reinas
and the all time classic Citizen Cain.....i am sucker for old b/w movies.
I don't really have a static list of movies, but here are a few that come to mind.
Sunshine - I just saw this one, and I have to say, I enjoyed it.
Brazil
Idiocracy - It's supposed to be a comedy, but it scares the shit out of me.
Yellowbeard - It's what happens when Monty Python and Cheech & Chong get together and make a movie.
Children of Men
That's all that came jumping to the front of my mind.
Hmm, so many:
Donnie Darko
Secretary
Hellsing (not exactly a movie)
The Station Agent
Sleepy Hollow
Actually, there is many more.
Pan's Labrynth is excellent but I don't know if I could call it my favorite.
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The funniest movie of all time: Blazing Saddles
Colossus: The Forbin Project
The Andromeda Strain
The Lion in Winter
And The Band Played On
All The President's Men
Not actually a movie, but all six seasons of HBO's Oz
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A few on my list:
Fresh
Gross Pointe Blank
Kill Bill Vol. I&II
Say Anything
The Spanish Prisoner
The Crying Game
Full Metal Jacket
Aliens
Snatch
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
A Bittersweet Life
The Driver
Fight Club
Ong-Bak
Ratatoullie
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (was heavily dissappointed with Vol. 2)
The Way of the Dragon
Sword of Doom
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
Jesus Christ Superstar - I watched that movie over a year ago and have been obsessed with it since. I love the music. It's one of the few Jesus movies that doesn't kiss his ass. It's a fair film that anyone...Christian, Jewish, Atheist, Agnostic, whatever...anybody can watch it and enjoy it. I think it will only offend highly sensitive Christians and Jews.
Tommy - Love this movie. Love the music. It's weird, fun and entertaining and I love it.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Again, love the music.
Rocky - I have loved that character for as long as I can remember.
The Last Temptation of Christ - If Jesus was real, I wish he could have been like how Jesus would have been in this movie. I don't understand why Christians hate it. Actually, I do. They hate it because Jesus is shown as a human being.
The Phantom of the Opera - Awesome music, and very sad story.
I also love horror movies and Quentin Tarantino movies. I admit it, I love a lot of musicals. But the ones I listed are the only ones I like. And I realize there aren't a lot of straight guys who may like them, but I don't see how appreciating good music makes a guy gay, not that there is anything wrong with that.
lol...Look at me. I must think I'm a Christian message board. Of course, I'm sure atheists love to stereotype too.
Donnie Darko, Fight Club, The Whole Nine Yards, Pulp Fiction, V for Vendetta, Bad Santa, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dogma, Stuck on You, Young Frankenstein, Clue, Clerks, Jaws, The Breakfast Club, Good Will Hunting, The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Heavyweights, Cheats, Alien, Star Wars, Ocean's 11, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Stand by Me, Silence of the Lambs, American History X, Batman Begins, The Exorcist, Garden State, Super Troopers, Shaun of the Dead, Romeo + Juliet, The Terminal, E.T., Dumb and Dumber, Snakes on A Plane, Smokin' Aces, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, The Graduate, Rushmore, The Prophecy, Back to the Future, Office Space, The Last Starfighter, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Rules of Attraction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Stay, The Matador, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, This is Spinal Tap, 300...
I could go on, if necessary.
To name a few off the top of my head:
Forrest Gump
V for Vendetta
Fight Club
Shawshank Redemption
Turman Show
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It's a Wonderful Life
Idiocracy
Thirteen Days
A Bug's Life
Brokeback Mountain
Scary Movie 4
An Inconvenient Truth
Saved
King Kong (2006)
Far From Heaven
Life of Brian
Koyaanisqatsi
The Trip to Bountiful
Pride and Prejudice
The Birds
Perfume
The Bird Cage
Monster
The Polar Express
The Meaning of Life
American History X
Frosty's coming back someday. Will you be ready?
Snatch
Gladiator
Matrix
Forest Gump
Equillibrium
City of Angels (yeah, I am an atheist... so what?
Shrek (animated)
Princess Mononoke (anime)
Dragon Heart
Braveheart
Donnie Darko
Contact
Escaflowne (anime)
The Shawshank Redemption
Amores Perros (Spanish)
Amelie (French)
Battle Royale (Japanese)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lets see..
fifth elementDr. StrangeloveSongs from the second floor (weird existential danish film)The Birdspretty much anything by CoppolaDark CityGrindhouse (yes, I like campy film) anything by Greenawayyou'd think i could come up more, being a film student and all..
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Straw Dogs
Songs From the Second Floor
Bad Boy Bubby
Umberto D.
Slaughterhouse Five
Heaven Help Us
Repo Man
V for Vendetta
"You are 'atheist' simply you are PSYCHO or IGNORANCE. That's why even youself feel like not EXIST on this world."
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Death and Rebirth/The End of Evangelion
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
And I'm aware of the irony of an atheist choosing these movies: particularly Eva, since it has more Judeo-Christian imagery than the Bible
Good night, funny man, and thanks for the laughter.
I forgot to add: Angel Heart
Dune
Blue Velvet
Dr. Strangelove
The Lion in Winter
Touch of Evil
Kiss Me Deadly
Body Heat
(And the Star Wars movies. *Hangs his head in shame*)
"Tis better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." -Lucifer
Oh wait, I just realized I had missed a very important movie:
Suburbia. The old one, not the new one.
If god takes life he's an indian giver
Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth)
The Lion In Winter
Andromeda Strain
Anchorman
Bourne Identity/Supremacy
Lots of others I can't think of right now.
(Side note to Susan and Nero: The Lion in Winter was done here recently by a community theater group. I was really excited about it and mentioned it to several people I worked with. NO ONE had ever heard of it!!)
Henry II of England kicked serious ass. Did he not have an Archbishop slaughter in a church? He also chose his priest based on how speedily he said the mass. Henry was known to read reports from his treasury while the priest gave mass, and once spat out the host because the wine had gone to vinegar.
In fact, England was nearly put under interdict seven times during his reign. He was not much of a Christian.
Ohyeah, I like Katherine Hepburn because she always sounds like she is on the verge of dying of a stroke.
"Tis better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." -Lucifer
Memento
Resevoir Dogs
Kingpin
Glengarry Glenross
The Graduate
Heavy Metal
Vampire Hunter D
Serenity
Sin City
The Spanish Prisoner
Norbert ... (Just kidding)
Showgirls ... (Sorry, not kidding)
Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
I just watched Pan's Labyrinth. It will take a while to get that crazy hand/eyeball monster out of my brain. Who comes up with that twisted stuff?
"Tis better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." -Lucifer
Pan's Labyrinth was pretty awesome.... When I watched it I was expecting a harry potter kind of movie... but I was surprised. I didn't even know the movie was on my own language! So that made it even better
Egad! That's a classic.
My favorite line: "It's 1183! What are we, barbarians?"
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Fight club
The fifth element (completely hand made sets!)
Almost nothing made in the past 5 years or so
The godfather
The 13th floor (maybe just because I saw it when I was young.)
The lawnmower man. (I guess I'm just a sucker for shitty sci-fi)
Snatch
I find it interesting that only one person listed the matrix.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell.
So many movies, once you start to think about them, and of course in my case look over my collection, i mean i left out so many, godfather 1 and 2, goodfellas, Heat, memento, the Machinist, Dr Zhivago Fiddler on the roof, Enter the Dragon and fists of fury, original King Kong, original dawn of the dead, 28 days, Scarface, Zorba the greek, Krull (yeah i know shitty sci fi) the Dark Crystal (yes i know more shitty sci fi) Apocalypse now, platoon, M.A.S.H., Shawn of the dead, Casablanca, and so so so many more.
Awesome list. We should party.