Favorite Movies
 

If you could recommend some movies for everyone else on the board to watch, what would they be?

The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Braveheart
V for Vendetta
The Departed
Fight Club
Seven Samurai
The Professional (Leon)
Kung Fu Hustle

Brazil

im surprised, deniros in it and i've never even heard about it, it's goin on the Tivo list, thanks!

some of these are "superficial" but i like

Underworld 1 & 2
Last of the Dogmen
Pirates
Transporter
Regarding Henry
Renaissance Man
Unleashed

so many more but those are a few favs

That DVD has been sitting on top of my TV for two weeks. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Maybe tonight?

So many. Some personal faves:

Pulp Fiction
Harvey
Gone With the Wind
The L-shaped Room
Amelie
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twelve Angry Men
Full Metal Jacket
O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona, Fargo
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Hundreds more I can and can't think of.

There are several versions of Brazil (warning: spoilers). I think you're relatively safe with the single-disk DVD, but the best one is the Criterion Collection version, which includes the director's cut, which is awesome, and the American TV cut, which is stunningly awful.

"The Lion In Winter"
"Champaigne For Ceasar"
"Stage Door"

Sgt York
12 Angry Men (1957)
No Time for Sergeants
Agnes of God
Winchester '73
Carbine Williams
The Green Mile
Cool Hand Luke
Citizen Kane
Boy's Town
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Harvey
Mister Roberts
The Shawshank Redemption
A Knight's Tale
& a tie between Gigli and Larry the Cableguy: Health Inspector

American Psycho
The City Of Lost Children
The Fifth Element
Brazil
Freaks
Bloodsucking Freaks
The Shining (original and remake)
From Hell
Bruiser
The Big Red One
Full Metal Jacket
Heavy Metal

The Matrix
Fight Club (watch it then read this article: http://wattage.blogspot.com/2004/08/...e-as-yoga.html)
Swingers
Good Will Hunting
Chariots of Fire
Shakespeare in Love
Garden State
Romeo and Juliet (Caprio and Danes)
Vanilla Sky
Inside Man
The Hustler
The Color of Money
The Last Samurai
High Fidelity

Added:
The Brothers McMullen
Looking for Kitty
Sidewalks of New York
SLC Punk
Lost in Translation


There are just so many.

Being There
Network

I LOVE this movie!

Behind Enemy Lines
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Fight Club
Moulin Rouge

L.A. Confidential
Vertigo
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)
Casablanca
Out of the Past
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Princess Bride
Brick

I know there are more, but those are the ones that occur to me.

EDIT: How could I forget Reservoir Dogs?!

The wonder of the internet: in all my life I never thought I'd run into someone else who knew the movie. I caught it years ago on a cable channel and loved it. I think it was my first realization how much I love indie-type slice of life movies.

Also, people posting their favorite movies makes me think of many other movies I love.

I thought the same thing--everyone I've ever mentioned it to has never heard of the movie. "It stars Leslie Caron." "Huh? Who's that?" "You know, she was in Gigi." "Oh...um...yeah..."

Leslie Caron has teh hawt. Or at least, she did back in the day. She was also a ballet dancer.

Top 10

Monty Python: The Holy Grail... you have to watch it at least 7 times to fully appreciate it. sorry...i know....it's pretty long, too.....smoke a joint. order pizza

The Princess Bride

Fight Club

Forrest Gump

Anchor Man : The Lengend of Ron Burgundy

The Matrix

Cast Away

Tombstone

Star Wars (original 3)

The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin)

In no order:

Good Morning Vietnam

JFK

Clerks (1 and 2)

Monsters Inc

Schindlers List

The Breakfast Club

Ferris Beullers Day Off

All of the Austin Powers movies (especially Goldmember)

P.C.U.
The Amazing Mr. Limpet
Star Wars (the original)
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Animal House
Casablanca
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Follow Me Boys
Paint Your Wagon
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Last Starfighter
The Court Jester
A Song is Born
Singing in the Rain
My Favorite Year

Paint Your Wagon????

It was just a test to see if anyone was reading his list.

Fight Club
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
The Fifth Element
A Clockwork Orange
American Beauty
Falling Down
Full Metal Jacket
O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona, Fargo

Paint your Wagon (musical type)

Lee Marvin
Clint Eastwood (actually sang)

about a gold mine

i have just a couple more -

Count of Monte Cristo
Secondhand Lions
Open Range

you know i just remembered Johnny Dangerously

My cousin remembered Johnny Dangerously once.
Once.

lmao touche glatt

I thought Fight Club sucked.

SUCKED!

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Yellow Submarine
Velvet Goldmine
Wilde
Good Burger
Detroit Rock City
MPatHG
RHPS
Goldfinger
Princess Bride
The Ziggy Stardust Motion Picture
Almost Famous
Little Miss Sunshine
Donnie Darko
Big Fish

And a ton more.

Good Burger???

Absolutely!

You only like Big Fish 'cause your guy is in it. That movie was pretty bad.

No WAY, man - that movie is one of the things that made me fall in love with him, not the other way around. Big Fish is a BEAUTIFUL movie.

There are just too many ... and I know that I'll keep thinking of movies and have to add to this.

For right now, I'm just trying to think of movies that I've watched a couple of times to catch the nuances, or movies that I just love so deeply that merely seeing a scene as I'm flipping through channels will cause me to stop and watch the movie from that point forward ...

(in no particular order)

Kung Fu Hustle
The Prestige
The Fifth Element
Star Wars IV-V-VI
The Great Escape
Airport
Cat Ballou
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Fight Club
Seven
The Passion of the Christ
Bringing Out the Dead
Backdraft
In Like Flint
Our Man Flint
Billy Jack
Full Metal Jacket
Silence of the Lambs
Psycho (actually nearly any Hitchcock film, but especially Psycho)
The Usual Suspects
2001: A Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes (original)
The Deserter (which is a spaghetti Western, but I saw it as a kid and have loved it ever since)
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Wolfman
The Mummy (all the old Universal horror classics)
Mars Needs Women (I can't really explain this one, but the Mars Speech in the planetarium gives me chills.)
Pulp Fiction
Sin City
Johnny Dangerously
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Blazing Saddles
History of the World Part 1
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
The Bourne Identity
MASH
This is Spinal Tap
Schindler's List
Star Wars
Proof of Life
Man on Fire
Most James Bond movies
The Thomas Crown Affair

I'll watch these movies over and over again:

The Road Warrior
Pulp Fiction
Trading Places
Coming to America
A Bronx Tale
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

See, darnit, I told you there was more.

M*A*S*H
The Breakfast Club
Schindler's List
Any Connery Bond movie
Mad Max and The Road Warrior
The Producers (original)

Raising Arizona
Spinal Tap
Wayne's World 1 and 2
Kung-Fu Hustle
Clockwork Orange
Young Frankenstein
Shawshank Redemption
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Citizen Kane
Pulp Fiction
Zoolander
Aaaand still probably more

House Of 1000 Corpses
The Devils Rejects
Master Of The Flying Guillotine
The 5 Deadly Venoms
From Hell
The Man Who Would Be King
Heavy Metal
Crash (with Deborah Kara Unger)