What Are Your Favorite Movies?

In no particular order, every single one of these films must be seen in one's life according to me :

Gattaca
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Virgin Suicides
Goodfellas
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Zatoichi
C'est arrivé près de chez vous
Underground
The big lebowsky
A Clockwork Orange
Mysterious skin
Mullholland Drive
Abre los ojos
Léon
Lost Highway
Las Vegas Parano
Twelve Monkeys
Hana-Bi
Sugarland Express
Fargo
Being John Malkovich
Alien 3
Una giornata particolare
Road to Perdition
Paprika
Tokyo godfather
Dogville
Manderley
Dark City
Chicago
Le Roi et l'Oiseau
Delicatessen
Old Boy
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Taxi Driver
L.I.E
Heat
Dobberman
Pierrot le fou
The death of Mr. Lazarescu
American Psycho

And for everyone that put Vanilla Sky instead of Abre Los Ojos, I hate you
 
Some of my favourites(list time!)
Aliens
Godfather 1+2
Eternal sunshine of spotless mind
No country for old men
Once upon a time in the west
Amelie
Leon
Princess mononoke
Totoro
Shawshank redemption
Rear window
mad max 2
Good and the bad and the ugly
Seven samurai
A perfect world
Evil dead 2
Lucky number slevin
Fifth element
American beaty
Fight club
 
Yay random lists about movies. I'm good at this one. In no order whatsoever:

Living dead series
Evil dead 2
Godfather Trilogy
A Boy and his Dog -Morbid but very plausible...minus the talking dog.
Star Wars Original Trilogy
LOTR Trilogy
Mad max 1 and 2-Fallout fans understand this.No explanation needed.
Pandorum
Event Horizon
Phantasm 1 and 2-The Tall Man rocks!
John Carpenters the Thing-Scary as hell when I was a kid. SFX masterpiece.
Burial Ground-Classic English zombie flick in a Mansion.
The Stand
Book of Eli
Full Metal Jacket
Jarhead-Pretty good mental look at a soldier deployed.
Idiocracy-I see this happening. This movie made me laugh the entire time almost.
Pineapple Express-Perfect stoner movie IMO. It even tops Half Baked in my book.
Demon Knight
Iron Man 1 and 2



The list goes on. I can never pick a favorite.
 
Most of my favorites have been mentioned by others except for my number one spot.

Memento

Fuck I thought that was one of the best movies ever. Original story and I loved how the movie was shown out of order Pulp Fiction style. It made soo many scenes that much better and gave you a great feeling when details became clear and you went "Ahhhhhh!"

No one else liked this film?!?
 
I recently watched In Bruges and Kick-Ass and both definitely fall into my top 10 favorite movies ever.
 
You know what are really enjoyable movies? The Jason Bourne flicks. I just watched the whole trilogy and it's really good, it's way better than any James Bond crap I've ever seen. The story is more focussed on the character than is usual for this genre. Really good stuff. Check it out if you haven't done so yet.
 
verevoof said:
Am I the only one who found Eraserhead to be boring?
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I wouldn't go into a David Lynch film looking to be swept along by a story. Haven't seen Eraserhead in a loooong time, but it did drag.

Watched Blue Velvet the other day, that's a great Lynch one. His movies have this way of starting out fairly normal, and slowly, gradually slipping more and more into complete surreality, and they usually all have a mind blowing "holy-shit moment" that just makes smoke shoot out of your ears.

Which leads me to Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Anybody ever watch his films? I'm not going to say I enjoy them in the traditional movie going sense, but his movies really evoke a panoply of humanity - spiritual, funny, introspective, gory, profane, disgusting, sensual - it's got it all. I'm not going to pretend half of it makes sense, or that I get all the religious imagery, or that it's not really self-indulgent LSD fueled wankery. But I've never seen movies before I couldn't get out of my head like El Topo and The Holy Mountain. There's some really powerful imagery in those films.
Not for the squeamish or pious or probably anyone not under the influence of hallucinogens.
 
Redemption said:
Blade Runner, The Book of Eli, and Idiocracy, in no particular order.
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Saw The Book of Eli recently, left me feeling a bit indifferent, really. Tries to hit the right notes for a post-apocalyptic movie but stays just too predictable, or didn't make me interested. Which is sad because I wanted to like it, Denzel is a good actor usually and he did what he could with the role. Gary Oldman wasn't bad either.

The Road was better, although even that didn't reach any great level in the end.

I did like The Pacific, the miniseries on HBO about WW 2 in the Pacific. Had some good episodes.
 
Woaah, The Pacific, i totally forgot about it. I only saw the pilot and liked it a lot. I've also seen Band of Brothers, so this would be a natural continuation.
 
The Godfather trilogy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Green Mile
Batman (1989)
Scent of a Woman

Nothing else come's into my mind at the moment.
 
MutantScalper said:
Saw The Book of Eli recently, left me feeling a bit indifferent, really. Tries to hit the right notes for a post-apocalyptic movie but stays just too predictable, or didn't make me interested. Which is sad because I wanted to like it, Denzel is a good actor usually and he did what he could with the role. Gary Oldman wasn't bad either.
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Has a few nice easter eggs, like the "A Boy And His Dog" poster in the room in which he's forced to sleep.

I want that poster...
 
TaapLuup said:
Most of my favorites have been mentioned by others except for my number one spot.

Memento
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That movie would be close to the top of my Most Overrated list. It's a gimmick movie with a stupid ending. Every movie Chris Nolan has ever done is overrated, but Memento is the most overrated of the lot.

Cimmerian Nights said:
Watched Blue Velvet the other day, that's a great Lynch one. His movies have this way of starting out fairly normal, and slowly, gradually slipping more and more into complete surreality, and they usually all have a mind blowing "holy-shit moment" that just makes smoke shoot out of your ears.
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I watched Blue Velvet a couple of years ago, and I had exactly the same reaction. Even the "normal" parts are subtly strange, but those intense scenes sneak up on you and punch you in the gut. He does it with any powerful emotion - love, hate, fear...

My DVD has Siskel and Ebert's original TV review in the extras, and Ebert was morally appalled by how horrible that scene with Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, and the the oxygen mask was...he thought it was one of the most degrading roles any woman had ever had to play in a movie. 8-)
 
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