Woot. This should be interesting

Mine are the following: (Somewhat of an order)

Dodgeball: A true underdog story - That made me LMAO!

Napoleon Dynomite: He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove - This is a stupid, yet funny movie

HOLES - Great storyline, nice movie/book.

Meet the Parents/Meet the Fockers - A very funny comedy, watch out kids, second one is a little rated R.

And last but not least, National Trasure - Great movie, Thats all I will say

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/Tankster

Mine are (in no particular order)
1)Saving Private Ryan
2)Terminal
3)The Manchurian Candidate
and
4)Wind Talkers

1). Independence Day
2). Spider-Man 1 and 2
3). Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
4). John Q
5). Man on Fire

My list changes all the time, but these movies always slide in and out of my top 10.

1. It's a wonderful life
2. Somewhere in Time
3. The Matrix
4. When Harry Met Sally
5. French Postcards
6. Bladerunner
7. Sleepless in Seattle
8. The Joy Luck Club
9. There's something about mary (sick but hilarious!)
10. You've Got Mail (yeah, I like Meg Ryan movies!)

Bonus: Titanic, Gladiator

1) Contact
(This is a movie based on the Carl Sagan book)
2) Forrest Gump
3) Castaway
4) The Terminal

Yeah, I like Tom Hanks, but I just saw this Contact movie (literally, I just saw it about 5 minutes ago), and it really astounded me how the plot twisted and turned and still remained understandable. I'm going to go read the "Contact" book by Carl Sagan now.

Heres my list, with the 1st one being my favorite, and the 2nd one being my 2nd favorite.. And so on.
1. Lord of the Rings series
2. Matrix series
3. Farenheit 911
4. Spideyman 2
5. The Mask
6. Pirates of the Caribean
7. Gladiator
8. Fawlty Towers (Farty Towels aka Flowery Twats aka Watery Fowls aka Flay Otters, etc.)
9. Dodgeball
10. Napoleon Dynamite
11. All the Ace Ventura Movies
12. Runaway Jury
13. Star Wars Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones
14. National Treasure
and so on..

Last edited: Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 8:12:16 AM

Top 10 in no particular order;

Fifth Element
iRobot / A.I. (to me go hand in hand)
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Office Space
Matrix Reloaded
Man on Fire
Human Traffic
X2
Chrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dumbo

Pai, Blade Runner definitely gets an honorable mention :)

To Kill A Mockingbird

Citizen Kane

City Lights (Unsurpassed Charlie Chaplin masterpiece)

Being There

The Magnificent Seven

Amadeus

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Day The Earth Stood Still

JFK

The Conversation

Frankenstein (1932)

Bride of Frankenstein (1933)

The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurisawa)

Rebecca

Psycho (1960)

Gladiator

Solaris

Hannibal

Adaptation

The Party

Mary Poppins

Lawrence of Arabia

Gosford Park

In America

Blue Velvet

(in no particular order)
All movies with Denzel Washington are hell good movies :)

Jaws, Jaws 2... (dun dun...dun dun dun dun...dun dun dun... ;) )

Scary movie 1 & 2 & 3.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. LOL

Freddy VS. Jason & Alien VS. Predator

Predator

(also in no particular order)

CLASSICS:
- Citizen Kane
- Casablanca
- Ivanhoe (always shown on tv at x-mas eve in my country)
- Lawrence of Arabia (great movie)
- Ben Hur (love these epic like movies)

CONTEMPORARY MADE:
- Matrix 1 (the other two suck)
- Memento
- Vanilla Sky
- Magnolia
- Lars von Trier's movies (danish director), for example Singing In The Dark (with Björk as main actor)
- Dogville (also by Lars von Trier, with Nicole Kidman and swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård)
- Spirited Away (japanese animated film)

Here's some good ones played only on Turner Classic Movies:

Bad Day At Black Rock - Loaded with famous heavys. See a one-armed Spencer Tracy kick the crap out of Ernest Borgnine.

Come Live with Me - A young Jimmy Stewart and the most beautiful woman ever on screen, Hedy Lamar.

And an arthouse classic now on DVD:

KOYAANISQATSI - All images and music, no dialogue. An experience for the creative types.

@ Blind Cide:

H.O.W....O.N....E.A.R.T.H...D.I.D...I...F.O.R.G.E.T...K.O.Y.A.N.I.S.Q.A.T.S.I...!.!.!.? X/ 8o

Of course I forgot to mention Koyaanisqatsi, made in the early 80's. One of the most wonderful movies ever made. Especially I love its music. Made by most innovative and pioneering composer Philip Glass. It's like a never ending 'fugue', continuously repeating itself. But every here and there it takes a new turn as the flickering high-speed flow of images (sped up a 100-fold times) reaches new perspectives. :P

Great movies BC! I don't think I've seen "Come Live with Me". I'll have to take a look.
Anyone like Kurisawa's "RAN"?

Last edited: Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 9:52:55 PM

I love horre movies. :)

In no order !
1. Hearts & Soul
2. Breakfast Club
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1 & 3)
4. Hero
5. Lord of the Rings (series)
6. Sleepless in Seattle

I would have to say that some of my favorites are...

Contact
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws (only Jaws 1)
Magnolia
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
(Actually, just about any Coen brothers film)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Johhny Depp makes my heart flutter)
The Matrix (only the original)
Blade Runner
Saving Private Ryan
2001
Apollo 13
Shrek 1 (good fun for adults and kids... A difficult balance done to perfection in this movie)

Fargo
Magnolia
Pulp Fiction
Apocalypse Now
Spinal Tap
The Godfather
The Graduate
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas

I absolutely LOVE that movie!! The animation is truly amazing.. I havn't seen Koyaanisqatsi in awhile, but I do remember really liking it the first time around..

My all time favorite is 'Radio', that was such a touching movie. :(

I watched I, Robot last night. What a great movie, but the book was better. I also watch "The russians are coming, the russians are coming!" since it was based about and hour and a half away from where we live. Damn was it funny.

Hola!

My faves in no particular order:

* Edward Scissorhands
* What's eating Gilbert Grape
* Heathers
* Some Kind of Wonderful
* Monty Python & the Holy Grail
* One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version)
* 1984
* A Clockwork Orange
* Hellraiser (parts 1 - 4 ONLY, they are the only ones made by Clive Barker himself)
* Fritz the Cat
* I, Robot
* Roger & Me
* The Evil Dead (Parts 1 & 2)
* Halloween
* Blow
* Kill Bill vol's 1 & 2
* The Color Purple
&
* Silkwood

Hope yall had a great Christmas!

Bcd

Last edited: Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 4:33:36 PM

Oh yeah, LOL! Me forget to mention "Truth or Dare?".

NOT the Madonna movie but the horror flick of the same name. It was a campy third-rate production that is such a terrible movie me have to laugh. Me want that movie... Probably never see that one again. In one part of the movie they have a car crash scene which I could've sworn used Matchbox cars edited in for the special effects... A MUST SEE if you're into cheesy campy movies!

This subject tells a lot about the age of the respondant

Missing from the list: (although Ny has a good list)

The Passion of the Christ
Apocalypse Now
Wethering Heights
Platoon
Purple Rain :-)
Brahm Stokers Dracula
Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music
The Last Emperor
Genghis Kahn
Dr. Zhivago
Saving Private Ryan
Blazing Saddles :-)
It's a wonderful life
more to come....

What do you guys think is the best war movie ever ?
I would say Saving Private Ryan !

LOTR trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
Nat'l Lampoons Christmas vacation
Caddy Shack
Billy Madison
Dogma
Life of Brian
Major League
Tommy Boy
Master and Commander
Smoke Signals
Last Samurai
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Kill bill 1 & 2
Rudy
Traffic
Breakfast Club
Gone in 60 seconds

Last edited: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 6:03:04 AM

GO MEMPHIS!!!! Gone is 60 Seconds is the greatest movie B) Shelby Cobra 500 going 90 mph hit the red button, the suspecte is going 120, 130 hes gone. LOL!

Man, there are so many good ones, it's tough to come up with a short list. But here's an attempt at mine (I'll probably think of more after I post this)

10 of my favs In no particular order:

Alien & to a lesser degree, Aliens (the 1st sequel)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Terminator (only the 1st one. 2 & 3 were so-so) -- Ahnold's best role IMHO, since he acts like a cyborg to begin with
E.T.
Contact
Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai)
Blade Runner
Spirited Away (amazing animated film)
2001: A Space Oddyssey
The Professional (called Léon in Europe)

BTW, good lists from everyone!

Last edited: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 7:41:33 AM

Good lists OM and Mem
I totally forgot about Shawshank Redemption! I believe I suggested it to OM too....

The funniest thing I ever heard was when a young married couple we were talking to at a party told us what their fav movie was of all-time.
My wife and I knew then that we were old foggies!!! They said it was American Pie!!!! We laughed but then realized they were serious.
It was a funny movie, but to be your fav of all-time??? Hey, I should talk, I put There's something about mary on my list of favorites...
but it was the groundbreaking film that started that whole sick humor genre that the American Pie series has driven into the ground.

By the way, Porky's was a similar sick type of humor movie that I enjoyed when I was very young.

Yes Pai, you did suggest it to me, and I'm glad you did and I finally got around to seeing it! Very powerful movie.

Though, nothing wrong with humorous and silly movies being some of your favorites. One classic comedy that should be on my list is It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World First time I saw it, it had me in stitches! I realize it's considered an awful movie by comedic standards, but something about the pure stupidness of it just made me laugh.

Last edited: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 7:57:58 AM

1) You Got Served
2) Waterboy
3) Friday Night Lights
4)...TELETUBIES!!!! XD XD lol jk.

@OM
Yes, It's a Mad World is a classic (many critics did like it, so it wasn't as bad as some would think). There was a recent remake but it didn't hold a candle to the original.

I agree that comedies can be ranked as high as dramas as some of the best movies ever. I think most people underestimate how difficult it is to be funny on film and thus shrug off the entire genre when filling out ballots come Oscar time. There's an old saying among actors, "Dying is easy...Comedy is HARD!" Too many brilliant comedic performances have been snubbed by the Academy thru the years! Here's a fact that proves it... Only one actor has won Best Actor for a comedic performance since 1978 (over 25 years!!).. That was my paisan Benini for his work in "It's a beautiful Life". The last American actor to win the Best Actor for comedy was Richard Dreyfus for his amazing work in the Goodbye Girl. Ironically enough, he beat out another great comedic performer that year in Woody Allen for his turn in Annie Hall (which won Best Picture).
What was the last comedy to win Best Picture? Must be Annie Hall. Tom Hanks did get nominated for BIG but lost. Peter O'toole nominated for one of my favs, My Favorite Year but lost. Jim Carrey should have won one of two Oscars but has not even been nominated yet!!! He might win this year for a semi-serious job in my fav movie of 2004...Eternal Sunshine of the SPotless Mind".

Last edited: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 8:20:05 AM

Tin cup

kingpin (Big Ernie)

Fletch

Escape from Alcatraz

Napoleon Dynamite, hands down. I could watch that everyday.

Saving Private Ryan - Makes me appreciate what others have safcrificed for me.
Fight Club - Much of Tyler's philosophy rings true...scary.
Tombstone - Val Kilmer is pimp, and you gotta luv when Kurt Russel goes on his rampage at the end (Hell's comin' with me!!!)

^I would have guessed Pimp's Up Ho's Down: Director's Cut. :)

My favorites:
1)Tom Clancy The Hunt for the Red October(a book too)
2)Spider-man 1
3)Spider-man 2
4)Pirates of the Caribean
(not in any order)

ALL TIME

Overall Favorite: Lord of the Ring trilogy
Best Action: Matrix Trilogy and The Borne movies (Next generation 007)
Best Drama: The Passion of the Christ,
Best Romance: Casa Blanca *Here's looking at you kid... ;), HERO, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Best Suspense Thriller: Ju-on (The Grudge)
Best Comedy: Lair Lair, and Around the world in 80 days

Last edited: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 12:23:54 PM

It scares me how many folks listed "National Treasure".

Really.

Oh yeah,
"Stalag 17"

Wal

Oh, and anything Pixar (except A Bug's Life)

& The Blues Brothers,
Mister Roberts
Dr. Strangelove
American Grafitti
Escape From New York
A bridge Too Far
The Great Escape
Purple Rain

I'd better stop now...

Wal

If I was going to be stuck on a deserted island (assuming I have a DVD player and a TV on said island) these are the movies I would bring with me to watch over and over again, in no particular order:

Lord of the Rings (All 3)
Matrix (first one is best but I'd bring all 3)
Shawshank Redemption
Full Metal Jacket
The Negotiator
Dumb & Dumber
It's a Wonderful Life
Forrest Gump
Major League
Enemy of the State
Rush Hour 2
Maverick
Revenge of the Nerds
Monsters Inc.
Oceans Eleven
I Robot
A Christmas Story
Pulp Fiction
Tommy Boy
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Fast & the Furious
Slingblade
Tommy Boy
Maverick
The Fast & the Furious
Fight Club

Good list wal. Bruckheimer is the anti-christ.