Question Your Favorite Movies

[Tex]

So many favs.. here are some of my fav movies in no particular order:

• James Bond Movies (Connery best, Moore good too)
• Bourne Ultimatum
• Hunt for Red October
• 12 Monkeys
• Apocalypse Now Redux
• Apollo 11
• Das Boot
• 2001: A Space Oddysey
• Red Planet
• Hot Fuzz
• Blow
• Scarface
• Godfather I, II, III
• The Dark Knight
• Lord of the Rings (All of them are great)
• Braveheart
• Office Space
• Star Wars Saga

 

[flytandem]

The Great Escape
Bridge on the River Kwai
Apollo 13
edit: & Flight of the Phoenix.

and to mix it up with a bit of fun so it's not always serious,...
American Graffiti

 

[TSPenguin]

A very imcomplete and absolutely out of order list:

Twelve Monkeys
Serenity
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Grindhouse
From Dusk Till Dawn
Kill Bill
Jackie Brown
Natural Born Killers (although I would have prefered that they would have let Tarantino do it as he wanted)
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Sin City
Apocalypse Now
The Godfathers
Schindler's List
Fight Club
Memento
The Matrix
Se7en
Léon
American Beauty
American History X
Alien (More or less all of them)
Das Leben der Anderen
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Requiem for a Dream
Das Boot (the 293 minutes uncut version)
The Great Dictator
No Country for Old Men
Oldboy
Donnie Darko
Heat ( <- this should be very high up! )
Platoon
Into the Wild
The Big Lebowski
Trainspotting
Scarface
Children of Men
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
All Quiet on the Western Front
Network (1976)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
And Now for Something Completely Different
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
The Ladykillers
Burn After Reading
Men in Black
In the Valley of Elah
The Blues Brothers
Blow (2001)
Donnie Brasco
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Joyeux Noël (2005) (PLEASE watch this undubbed with subtitles, thank you)
The Devil's Advocate
The Untouchables (1987)
Goodfellas
The Fan (1996)
Sleepers (1996)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Ronin
The Good Shepherd
Mars Attacks!
The Fifth Element
8MM (1999)
Dogma (1999)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Syriana
Lord of War
The Blue Lagoon
The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
The Mexican
Silent Running
Pitch Black
Star Trek (more or less all of it)

I am too tired now, I might continue this list later...

edit: This list might be longer than all other lists together, but it is only ~60% complete. Give me a few days...

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

Woah, I've never known anyone to have so many movies on a list, Ever. You must easily be the #1 viewer of movies here!

 

[Tex]

lol.. TS pretty much covered them all there! :lol:

 

[TSPenguin]

As I said, this list is ~60% complete. a lot of stuff is missing. Those are only movies that came to mind and the ones I quickly scooped of IMDB.
If anyone has questions about the movies regarding what I like about them etc. feel free to ask.
Suffice to say, there are about 5 billion movies I haven't watched (yet)

 

[Andy44]

As I type this, Lawrence of Arabia is on the TMC channel, running nonstop with no commercials. This is another of those movies that never get old. Peter O'Toole's best effort even after all the movies he's done since. The photography and the music are wonderful. The way that Lawrence addresses his superiors, with that quiet voice, O'Toole really does a great job with this.

 

[RocketMan_Len]

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Movie

Blade - Trinity (Unrated Directors' Cut)
Hancock (Unrated Directors' Cut)

I'm also rediscovering my fondness for Heavy Metal 2000.

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

As I type this, Lawrence of Arabia is on the TMC channel, running nonstop with no commercials. This is another of those movies that never get old. Peter O'Toole's best effort even after all the movies he's done since. The photography and the music are wonderful. The way that Lawrence addresses his superiors, with that quiet voice, O'Toole really does a great job with this.

Darn, I forgot to set the DVR to get that one, I'm keeping an eye out for when it comes on again. I love that movie for all those reasons!

 

[Andy44]

Buy the DVD, Sly, it's worth the money to have a good copy on your shelf. Better yet, get a Blue Ray version. I don't have an HDTV or Blueray player, yet, but if I were to buy this movie, I'd get it in hi def.

 

[mjessick]

"The Eagle Has landed" for best movie-from-a-novel-staying-true-while-adding-good-stuff

Give me another of those bolshevik firecrackers, Colonel. I think I fell asleep in the snow

 

[FordPrefect]

The Time Machine, USA 1960, from George Pal.

 

[cljohnston]

I've got somewhat eclectic tastes...

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• 48 Hrs.
• The Abyss (Special Edition)
• AKIRA
• A L I E N
• Aliens
• A Life Less Ordinary
• Amadeus
• American Beauty
• Apollo 13
• Backdraft
• Batman Begins
• Beverly Hills Cop
• The Big Lebowski
• Blade Runner
• The Blues Brothers
• Blue Thunder
• The Bourne Trilogy
• Cloverfield
• Conan the Barbarian
• Contact
• Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951]
• Deep Impact
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Eagle Eye
• Elf
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Escape From New York
• Excalibur
• Face/Off
• The Fifth Element
• The Final Countdown
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
• Fletch
• Forbidden Planet
• Fright Night
• Gandhi
• Ghost in the Shell
• Ghost Town
• Glory
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Grand Canyon
• Hard Boiled
• Hard Target
  
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• Ice Station Zebra
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• I, Robot
• Iron Man
• Jurassic Park
• La Femme Nikita
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• Le Mans
• Life of Brian
• Lorenzo's Oil
• Lost in Space
• Love Actually
• Memento
• The Man from Earth
• Man on Wire
• The Matrix Trilogy
• Men in Black
• Michael Clayton
• Mission: Impossible Trilogy
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Nines
• No Country for Old Men
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Office Space
• Outland
• The Peacemaker
• Phenomenon
• Pitch Black
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Platoon
• Primer
• The Professional
• Pushing Tin
• Raising Arizona
• Red Planet
• The Rocketeer
• Ronin
• Rumble in the Bronx
• Ruthless People
  
• The Saint
• Schindler's List
• Serenity
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Shooter
• Silent Running
• Sky High
• Spirited Away
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Wars
• Stealth
• Stranger than Fiction.
• Swingers
• The Terminator
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• They Live
• The Thing (John Carpenter's)
• The Thirteenth Floor
• Three Kings
• THX 1138
• Tombstone
• Top Gun
• Transformers
• Twelve Monkeys
• The Untouchables
• Wall•E

 

[Kurt M. Weber]

As a matter of objective fact, the three greatest movies ever made are:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Dances With Wolves
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

[Andy44]

I disliked Dances With Wolves, mainly because I dislike Kevin Costner. I wanted to like it, especially since the actors playing the natives were so good, and of course it's funny watching it and seeing President Laura Roslin living on the prairie, but Costner just rubs me the wrong way.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

1. Lawrence of Arabia

Yes, I couldn't agree more (you might like his book too!).
So here are a few of my favorites:

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
• Blade Runner, director's cut (1982, Ridley Scott)
• Schindler's list (1993, Steven Spielberg)
• 2001: A space odyssey (1968 Stanley Kubrick)
• 2010 (1984, Peter Hyams)
• Apocalypse Now, director's cut (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
• The Final Countdown (Nimitz/timetravel, 1980, Don Taylor)
• Alien (original one, 1979, Ridley Scott)
• Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
• Ray (Charles) (2004, Taylor Hackford)
• Ice Station Zebra (1968, John Sturges)
• The Time Machine (2002, Simon Wells)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
• Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, (2003, Peter Webber)
• Winged Migration (2001, Jacques Cluzaud-Jacques Perrin)
• Man on Fire (2004, Tony Scott)
• Deja Vu (2006, Tony Scott)

Yes, I also enjoyed watching movies like Silent Running, Hollands Licht (Dutch Light, 2003, Pieter-Rim de Kroon), Mission Impossible, (older) James Bond's, Contact, Airwolf, Jurassic Park, etc, but in my list I will only try to post the best.
I was about to add what I like for each movie (camerawork/photography, story, detail, historic aspects), but that would be too much for a simple list first

Must have forgotten some good movies for the moment, will add them.

[Edit April 7]; added "Deja Vu" to the list. Impressive movie. Good filming. Good acting (especially Denzel Washington very good in this movie too). Could have been a bit less violent, but the idea of the story is good.

 

[Andy44]

Ice Station Zebra! That was a indeed a good flick. My dad really likes it.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

My dad really likes it.

Heh, by coincidence, mine likes it a lot too. He also found some incredible making off scenes of this movie once, impressive film sets for the polar scenes. But I like it too, also some good actors, accidentally I'm a kind of Ernest Borgnine fan as well. (yes, Uncle Scrooge has a dad too )

 

[Andy44]

One thing I wondered about ISZ; there's a scene where the submarine's skipper opens a hatch in the deck and shows Borgnine what is apparently the reactor core. What's up with that? Was that really supposed to be an atomic pile they were looking at? And if so, didn't the movie's writers know that standing there looking at it would kill you in short order?

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

I liked Close Encounters of the 3rd kind too, But I forgot to mention Independence Day! One of the best Sci-Fi's I've seen. Certainly the best of any Disaster/Alien movies I've known. I'm quite surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Independence Day. I remember in my younger days seeing it for the first time in the theater. Classic

Edit: Now I shall list all the movies I can think of in no true order that I would call at least fairly good.

1: Where Eagles Dare (Very good!)
2: The Longest Day
3: Stephen Kings the Langoliers
4: Apollo 13
5: Kelly's Heroes
6: Back to the future (All three)
7: Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
8: Independence Day
9: Trucks
10: Star Trek (All movies)
11: Star Wars (All movies)
12: Dirty Dozen
13: Battle of the Bulge
14: Midway
15: Tora Tora Tora
16: Manhatten project
17: Wargames
18: Firefox
19: Mission Impossible (All three)
20: Cat from outer space
21: Lawrence of Arabia
22: Stargate
23: Small Soldiers
24: 12.01
25: The Day the Earth Stood Still
26: Iron Eagle
27: Iron Eagle (A sequel I'm not sure the number of)

This list like the others will get longer!