I'm ashamed to list my favorite movies. Everyone will just laugh at me. But honestly, Titanic is my favorite movie of all time.
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I'm ashamed to list my favorite movies. Everyone will just laugh at me. But honestly, Titanic is my favorite movie of all time.
[QUOTE=ihoopallday]I'm ashamed to list my favorite movies. Everyone will just laugh at me. But honestly, Titanic is my favorite movie of all time.[/QUOTE]
Wow, you nailed it with your first sentence.
My Top 25 favorite films would just be an absolute mess. Even coming up with a solid 15 is a stretch for me. Being a good movie is only a part of what makes up a favorite for me. Sometimes movies that just remind me of things I've experienced in real life (or of eras I've lived) is enough to find its way onto my list of faves. For some, remembering where I was or who I was with when I first watched it is enough.
My current favorites (aka films I own I'm mostly likely to pull out and re-watch tonight, off the top of my head):
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Crash
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. Garden State
6. Before Sunrise
7. Back to the Future Trilogy
8. The Social Network
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Sideways
11. The Shawshank Redemption
12. Snatch
13. Gangs of New York
14. Airplane
15. Office Space
There's quite a few classics that I haven't been able to ever really get into and appreciate that more or less disqualifies my opinions on movies in general. Namely, I'm not a big fan of The Godfather series. To be clear, that doesn't mean I think it's a bad series and that I have many criticisms for them, they just weren't my cup of tea.
[B]These are 25 of my favorites..[/B]
Pulp Fiction
Adaptation
Waking Life
Rounders
The Fountain
Chinatown
Cool Hand Luke
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8 1/2
Almost Famous
The Dark Knight
Sideways
Lenny
The Big Lebowski
After Sunset / Before Sunset
The Godfather I & II
Serpico
Goodfellas
Apocalypse Now
City of God
Wall-E
Double Indemnity
Amores Perros
My 25 favorite films:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Gladiator
4. The Godfather
5. Blazing Saddles
6. For a few Dollars More
7. The Godfather Part II
8. Unforgiven
9. High Plains Drifter
10. Shawshank Redemption
11. There Will be Blood
12. Major League
13. Hot Fuzz
14. Goodfellas
15. Pulp Fiction
16. Office Space
17. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
18. Heat
19. Die Hard
20. Dirty Harry
21. Supertroopers
22. patton
23. Zoolander
24. Slap shot
25. Fargo
[QUOTE=AngelEyes]My 25 favorite films:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Gladiator
4. The Godfather
5. Blazing Saddles
6. For a few Dollars More
7. The Godfather Part II
8. Unforgiven
[B]9. High Plains Drifter[/B]
10. Shawshank Redemption
11. There Will be Blood
12. Major League
13. Hot Fuzz
14. Goodfellas
15. Pulp Fiction
16. Office Space
17. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
18. Heat
19. Die Hard
20. Dirty Harry
21. Supertroopers
22. patton
23. Zoolander
24. Slap shot
25. Fargo[/QUOTE]
I remember laughing hysterically when I first saw this scene.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgC10cVfqg[/url]
[QUOTE=ihoopallday]I'm ashamed to list my favorite movies. Everyone will just laugh at me. But honestly, Titanic is my favorite movie of all time.[/QUOTE]
who cares what they think?
My random list in progress:
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Bad Boys
Madagascar
Toy Story
Rumble in the Bronx
Juice
Boyz in the Hood
Hero
IP Man
Limitless
Gone With the Wind
Guess Who's Coming Home for Dinner
[QUOTE=Just2McFly]who cares what they think?
My random list in progress:
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Bad Boys
Madagascar
Toy Story
Rumble in the Bronx
Juice
Boyz in the Hood
Hero
IP Man
Limitless
Gone With the Wind
Guess Who's Coming Home for Dinner[/QUOTE]
PowerGlove you are the epitome of weaksause.
[QUOTE=Just2McFly]who cares what they think?
My random list in progress:
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Bad Boys
Madagascar
Toy Story
Rumble in the Bronx
Juice
Boyz in the Hood
Hero
IP Man
Limitless
Gone With the Wind
Guess Who's Coming Home for Dinner[/QUOTE]
:biggums:
[QUOTE=Mr. I'm So Rad]All of you will have Spring Breakers on your list by this time next year. If you don't then you pee sitting down.[/QUOTE]
Your infatuation is skewing your overall judgement.
[QUOTE=ZeN]PowerGlove you are the epitome of weaksause.[/QUOTE]
Or I actually have the ability to like movies outside of the IMDB top 250.
[QUOTE=Just2McFly]Or I actually have the ability to like movies outside of the IMDB top 250.[/QUOTE]
IMBD has nothing to do with my list. Any similarities are merely coincidence.
[QUOTE=The Macho Man]Bad Boys 2 is clearly superior to the original.[/QUOTE]
:biggums: :roll:
[QUOTE=The Macho Man]It's funnier, better action, doesn't have that awful husky voice bitch.[/QUOTE]
The action in the first one was>>>>>>>
[QUOTE=The Macho Man]You're just saying crazy things now.[/QUOTE]
The second one was funnier but the impact the first one had on me was immense. I definitely liked insane airport hangar/drag race scenes better than the whole cuba thing.
[QUOTE=ZeN]Those 4 need to get more love.. particularly Chinatown.. :applause:[/QUOTE]
More love? Those are 4 highly acclaimed movies that get tons and tons of love.
[QUOTE=Graviton]Didn't put any of the classics there, honestly I find them slightly overrated. If you watch them without any nostalgia, as a film most of them would be pretty ridiculous, slow and boring. Except Apocalypse Now, that one is great. But ClockWork Orange, Chinatown and few others don't really hold up too well imho.[/QUOTE]
Can't agree with that. If you don't have a short attention span, then they're not slow and boring at all. You have to take into consideration when a movie was made, but a well f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking crafted movie is a well f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking crafted movie regardless when it was made. How the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck don't the classics hold up? They've stood the test of time... Maybe if you're too far caught up in the age of CGI, special effects, explosions, HD, 3D, modern tech, etc... then maybe they don't hold up to you.
[QUOTE=Jackass18]More love? Those are 4 highly acclaimed movies that get tons and tons of love.[/QUOTE]
I meant love shown in this thread, not in general. Those
4 aren't mentioned much in this thread, pre-my post.
I think people lean more towards movies from the decade they grew up in and I don't think we have many here who grew up in the '60s/'70s. Plus, I don't think they're movies that are on TV a lot (I can't remember the last time I noticed Chinatown or Dr. Stranglelove being on TV), and Apocalypse Now's run time might be a hindrance to some (Redux is like 3 and a half hours long).
[QUOTE=Jackass18]Can't agree with that. If you don't have a short attention span, then they're not slow and boring at all. You have to take into consideration when a movie was made, but a well f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking crafted movie is a well f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking crafted movie regardless when it was made. How the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck don't the classics hold up? They've stood the test of time... Maybe if you're too far caught up in the age of CGI, special effects, explosions, HD, 3D, modern tech, etc... then maybe they don't hold up to you.[/QUOTE]
Didn't really mean to sound like a kid with a short attention span, I appreciate those movies as works of art. And I am down for slow, methodical movies with good dialogue, amazing performances anc deep underlying themes, but nowadays I think you can have all that along with a little fun.
That's why I like Guy Ritchie/Tarantino movies, they can add all of that together and still entertain you.
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These movies would probably be included in my top 25... I don't think I saw
any of these mentioned in this thread...
Friday Night Lights TV Show >>>>>>>>>> Movie
Can't believe I forgot Collateral, that was one of Tom's best performances.
I just love movies about sociopathic killers, hit men or psychos, anyone got some recommendations?
[QUOTE=johndeeregreen]Friday Night Lights TV Show >>>>>>>>>> Movie[/QUOTE]
Haven't seen one episode.... I refuse to believe the show is as good as the movie.
maybe I'll have to do a little research on this...
[QUOTE=Just2McFly]who cares what they think?
My random list in progress:
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Bad Boys
Madagascar
Toy Story
Rumble in the Bronx
Juice
Boyz in the Hood
Hero
IP Man
Limitless
Gone With the Wind
Guess Who's Coming Home for Dinner[/QUOTE]
Wow no way that's really your favourite movies of all time. I dislike you a lot. This is why we can't have nice things. You are the lowest common denominator and enjoy the lowest form of mind numbing entertainment. And Hollywood feeds it you becaUse you're easy and you are many, like a blue collar worker helps feed the street walkers that set shop near his construction site.
[QUOTE=Riddler]Haven't seen one episode.... I refuse to believe the show is as good as the movie. [/QUOTE]
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[i]Excuse me?[/i]
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[QUOTE=Graviton]I just love movies about sociopathic killers, hit men or psychos, anyone got some recommendations?[/QUOTE]
The Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Psycho
American Psycho
Natural Born Killers
The Hitcher
Kalifornia
Cape Fear
Misery
Badlands
M
Saw
Frenzy
Summer of Sam
No Country for Old Men
Three Days of the Condor
Leon
Henry: Potrait of a Serial Killer - haven't seen yet, but heard good things
Bump
The Dark Knight
No Country for Old Men
Glory
The Departed
The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Longest Yard
Lord of the Rings
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Memento
Reservoir Dogs
Rear Window
Scarface
Good Will Hunting
Up
Toy Story 3
There Will Be Blood
The Social Network
Training Day
Raging Bull
Mystic River
3:10 To Yuma