Well maybe this should be in the “My Humble Opinion” area, and if so, they can move it. As far as I could see, this thread doesn’t already exist, so since I for some odd reason love making lists, I’m gonna start it. Just name your favorite movies, and by this I mean name movies that you really truly enjoyed and that “moved you” (as they say) or made you think, or that fascinated you. I’m looking for people with a not-so-typical list of fav’s; people that actually like to think when they watch a movie. I’m not some “film” snob, I just know that a lot of people (probably the large majority) don’t like movies that aren’t simple to grasp. So, I’ll start with my list below:
everything (w/ the exception of 1) by David Lynch (especially stuff he both writes and directs)
Drugstore Cowboy
Apocalypse Now
North by Northwest
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Night of the Hunter
Pulp Fiction
Repulsion
M
Star Wars trilogy (no, not that fucking trash that “director” George’s sorry ass is releasing as the first 3 ep.s) (pardon my language but I feel strongly about that)
Midnight Cowboy
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
The Ice Storm
Grapes of Wrath
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (laugh it up)
The Kingdom (actually a tv mini series but released kinda like a movie)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Short Cuts
Foreign Correspondent
The Limey
Smoke
Spanish Prisoner
Red Rock West
Rushmore
The Man Who Wasn’t There
There’s so many more that will come to mind 5 minutes after I post this, damn!!! It’ll be really good ones too!! Oh well.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Hi Opal!
I can’t believe that:
- I just did a “Hi Opal!”
- I was the first one to do it in a thread with lists.
- Hi Opal!
Dammit!
seven samurai
the Godfather
The lion in winter
Yojimbo
Stand and deliver
singing in the rain
Dumbo
the hidden fortress
Ice age
Snow White
Spirited away
Paper moon
Toy story 2
The mahabharata
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction
true romance
death and the maiden
akira
dead ringers
the fly (cronenburg)
network
perfect blue
bladerunner
taxi driver
kwaidan
2001: a space Odyssey
grosse pointe blank
straw dogs
the vanishing
crumb
The Indiana Jones Triology
The Star Wars Triology (Strictly no prequels.i`m with asomihiteon this.
The Untouchables
Dumb and Dumber
Top Gun
Shrek
The Godfather
Raging Bull
American Beauty
Traffic
Fargo
The Iron Giant
Some Like It Hot
The Days of Wine and Roses
City Lights
Chicago
Tin Men
Aleksandr Nevsky
Fantasia
Singin’ in the Rain
Sanjuro
Aelita, Queen of Mars
The Great Dictator
The Graduate
and of course. . .
The Wizard of Oz
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Dazed and Confused
The Longest yard
Father Goose (Cary Grant)
The Natural
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
Breaking Away
My Cousin Vinny
Chocolat
Band of Brothers
Mulan
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
To Catch A Thief
A Christmas Story
Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather
LA Confidential
A Night at the Opera
The Thin Man
Bringing Up Baby
Gunga Din
The Man Who Would Be King
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Seven Samurai
Life is Beautiful
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
A Perfect World
Toy Story
Das Boot
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Mr. Roberts
The Elephant Man
Goodfellas
Sleuth
Singin’ in the Rain
A Clockwork Orange
More to come later on, I’m sure. These were just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
**A Man for All Seasons
The Seven Samurai
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
A Night at the Opera
Spartacus
The Day of the Jackal
The Flight of the Phoenix
Charade
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
The Star Wars Trilogy
Th Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Guns of Navarone
The Terminator
Aliens
RoboCop
The Lost World** (1925 version!!!)
Metropolis (restored versions, and I like Moroder’s, by Gosh!)
**The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
King Kong
Gone with the Wind
The Great Escape**
Apocalypse Now
Boondog Saints
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Basketball
Ghostbuster
Alien/s
Alladin
SW:TESB
Drunken Master
Being John Malkovitch (sp?)
Ghost in a Shell
Armor of God
I’ll leave a whole bunch off and feel bad about it later but I’ll do my best anyhow.
Indiana Jones trilogy
Back to the Future trilogy
Sense and Sensibility
Scarface
The Piano
Adaptation
Dead Poets Society
Igby Goes Down
Some Like it Hot
Godfather trilogy
O Brother Where Art Thou
Van Wilder
Pirates of the Carribean
Spaceballs
Mallrats (specifically the gameshow scene)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Shrek
Aladdin
Tombstone
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Forrest Gump
Serendipity
Phone Booth
Gerry
The Princess Bride
You’ve Got Mail
Lord of the Rings (presumably) the trilogy
Catch Me if you Can
Sh*t, I just lost my entire list while previewing (with coding and everything) waaaah.
Henry V (Kenneth Branaugh)
A man for all Seasons
Casablanca
The African Queen
To Sir With Love
Fantasia
Lilies of the Field
Cabaret
Arthur
Jurassic Park
Psycho
Sleuth
Wuthering Hieghts
Crimes of Passion
The Wizard of Oz
Sabrina (original version)
Becket
Barfly
Amadeus
Alien
The Elephant Man
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sweet Bird of Youth
A Streetcar Named Desire
Ladyhawk
The Sting
Only #1 is in order (at this moment anyway)
Please forgive any errors, but after the first unfortunate incident concerning preview, I am going to dispense with my usual routine and just submit.
What, nobody has listed Army of Darkness or Transformers yet?
For shame!
I did. Well, I am.
Army of Darkness
Transformers
UHF (the Weird Al movie)
Dracula: Dead and Loving it
Super Troopers (the funniest film I’ve seen)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Willow
The Seventh Seal
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Office Space
The Shawshank Redemption