Registered: Oct 1999
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Alright. Here's a less flame-prone alternative to the "worst film" thread. Post your favorite films here. Just to get the ball rolling . . .

• The Godfather
  
• The Godfather, Part II
  
• Andrei Roublev
  
• Nashville
  
• Network
  
• Chinatown
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• 8 1/2
  
• Contempt
  
• Diary of a Country Priest
  
• Persona
  
• Scenes from a Marriage
  
• Logan's Run
  
• Boogie Nights
  
• Blue Velvet
  
• Breaking the Waves
  
• The Passenger
  
• Death Race 2000
  
• Short Cuts
  
• A Blow to the Heart
  
• L'America
  
• Ran
  
• Down by Law
  
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  
• Carnal Knoweldge
  
• Five Easy Pieces
  
• Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
  
• Withnail and I
  
• Le Doulos
  
• The Pillow Book
  
• Dazed and Confused
  
• Manhattan
  
• Annie Hall
  
• Stardust Memories

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gameboy, excellent taste man! woohoo!

here's mine:

funny games
who's that knocking on my door
chinatown
begotten
the 400 blows
shoot the piano player
the conversation
homicide
blood simple
miller's crossing
the vanishing (the dutch version)
boiling point (the japanese flick, not the american one)
fairgrounds
the cruise
71 fragments of a chronology of chance
l'avventura
i you he she
the sweet smell of success
fight club
l.a. confidential
gun crazy (the noir film not the recent one)
sunrise
nosferatu
the graduate
carnal knowledge
north by northwest
monsieur hire
the hairdresser's husband
zentropa (aka europa)
double endemnity
happy together
save my lost nigger soul
la jette

also, gameboy, do you scoot around on www.zoetrope.com ?

mc

Registered: Mar 2001
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ah, now this is something I can get behind ... positiveness!
Thanks for thinking of it GB!

• The General (1927 Buster Keaton Civil War romantic comedy)
  
• The City of Lost Children
  
• Toy Story 1 & 2
  
• South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
  
• A Hard Day's Night
  
• Patton
  
• Ghostbusters
  
• Truly Madly Deeply
  
• Horse Feathers (Marx Bros., with the classic password scene that gives that current John Travolta movie its title)
  
• and Duck Soup, of course
  
• Rope
  
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
  
• The Iron Giant
  
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
  
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  
• Frankenstein (The Boris Karloff version)
  
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  
• Of Mice and Men (1939, with Lon Chaney Jr.)
  
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
  
• 12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda version)
  
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn!)
  
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Cary Grant and Shirley Temple!)
  
• Monkey Business (Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers!)
  
• North by Northwest (Cary Grant!) (can ya tell I like Cary Grant?)
  
• A Miracle on 34th Street (only the original will do)
  
• Things to Come (1936 film based on an HG Wells story where he predicted both world wars and the atom bomb)
  
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (can't believe I forgot this)
  

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Last edited by Yorick on 06-13-2001 at 07:18 PM

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A really good one that got by a lot of people was O Brother Where Art Thou? It's the Odyssey adapted to the depression-era South. Great writing.

Has anyone watched Swordfish. I can't get any consistent word on it yet.

Yorick - nice bones!!

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The Labyrinth
Last of the Mohicans
Shawshank Redemption
Debbie Does Dallas
ThunderHeart
BraveHeart
Tombstone

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Inglewood, CA, USA
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Oh wow... How long can I make this list? OK, I'll try to keep it down to some of my favorites. I like the following films for various reasons. Some are just great films, period, and others are listed purely for their entertainment value (mine).

• A Star Is Born (all 3 versions)
  
• Abyss
  
• An Ideal Husband
  
• Ben Hur (the 1959 version)
  
• Blade
  
• Bound
  
• Brazil (the extended version, not that short happy-ending version)
  
• A Bronx Tale
  
• Charade (and all other Audrey Hepburn movies)
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• The Color Purple
  
• Dangerous Beauty
  
• Darkman
  
• Dead Again
  
• F/X
  
• Fanny (and most other Leslie Caron movies)
  
• A Fish Called Wanda
  
• Forrest Gump ("Run, Forrest, run!" hee hee)
  
• The Fugitive
  
• Gattica
  
• Goodbye Mr. Chips
  
• Happy Texas
  
• Highlander [the original one for Connor, and "Endgame" for Duncan (huba, huba!)]
  
• Imitation of Life (both versions)
  
• Laura (and all other Gene Tierney films)
  
• The Matrix
  
• The Mummy (the 1999 version)
  
• Once Upon A Time when We Were Colored
  
• One False Move
  
• The Producers
  
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (and all sequels)
  
• Rebecca
  
• The Red Shoes (the one with Moira Shearer)
  
• RoboCop
  
• The Runaway Bride
  
• Shawshank Redemption
  
• Silverado
  
• Singin' In The Rain (and all other Gene Kelly movies)
  
• Some Like It Hot
  
• Star Wars (and all sequels/prequels)
  
• Strange Days
  
• Terminator (and all sequels)
  
• The Usual Suspects
  
• Unbreakable(my friends hated it, but I loved it)
  
• What Women Want
  
• While You Were Sleeping

A "favorite" to me is one that I can watch over and over and not be totally bored. There are a lot more, but I fear that if I listed more than what I already did, someone would reach through my PC and choke me to death. And how positive of a thread would it be then?

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Narnia,

I can't believe you left out your Star Trek movies!

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quote:

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Originally posted by Bret Snyder
Narnia,
I can't believe you left out your Star Trek movies!

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Braveheart
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Leonard Part 6
Rocketman
The Dirty Dozen
The Hunt for Red October
Glory
The Magnificent Seven
The Last Starfighter
Flight of the Navigator
Labyrinth
The Right Stuff
Major Payne
Wag the Dog
Several of the Bonds (I don't even acknowledge the fact that they used Timothy Dalton as Bond) and Star Treks
Did I mention Braveheart? (could have something to do with my Scot heritage.)

To those who disagree, I say "Ni" to you.

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Registered: Sep 1999
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I can't believe it!

2001 A Space Odyssey

Isn't that enough? It's hard to believe that Kubrick did "Eyes Wide Shut" but without a doubt - 2001 was his best work, IMHO.

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Swordfish was okay, not spectacular. Hugh Jackman was excellent though.

As for my list, I'll try to keep it short

• Army Of Darkness
  
• Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
  
• Batman
  
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
  
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  
• Enter The Dragon
  
• Fight Club
  
• Ghostbusters
  
• Gladiator
  
• JFK
  
• Jurrasic Park
  
• LA Confidential
  
• The Living Daylights
  
• The Matrix
  
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
  
• Office Space
  
• Superman
  

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Warning: I have bad taste! (But I still wanna play)

In no certain order, movies I can watch over and over:
Fargo (He's fleeing the interview!)
Tombstone
Austin Powers:International Man of Mystery
Clue (NOT Clueless)(Madeline Khan: Flames!! on the sides of my face!!)
The Goonies
Bull Durham (I heard you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat)
Stand By Me
Something About Mary (Frank and beans)
As Good As It Gets
Raising Arizona (Son, you got a panty on your head)
Butterfield 8
The Birds
Braveheart (Not Gladiator)
Gettysburg
Rudy
Steel Magnolias (mostly b/c of Shirley McLain)
Sound of Music
The Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan version)

Registered: Jan 2000
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There's very few movies that I can watch more than once, so my list is a little short:

Blues Brothers
The Fifth Element
Singles
Any film directed by Terry Gilliam
Any movie starring Natasha Lyonne, Christina Ricci, or Nicolas Cage (with the exception of Face Off and that one where he escapes from a prison plane!)
Any Jackie Chan movie BEFORE he came to the US.
Any Jet Li movie.

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mine

• caddyshack
  
• stripes
  
• trading places
  
• monty python and the holy grail
  
• animal house
  

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[list]
[*]Princess Bride
[*]Grand Canyon
[*]Notting Hill
[*]Sliding Doors
[*]PeeWee's Big Adventure
[*]Gladiator
[*]Glory
[*]The Replacement Killers
[*]Schindler's List

There are so many more that I just can't think of right now

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quote:

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Originally posted by creole

• Princess Bride
  
• Grand Canyon
  
• Notting Hill
  
• Sliding Doors
  
• PeeWee's Big Adventure
  
• Gladiator
  
• Glory
  
• The Replacement Killers
  
• Schindler's List
  

There are so many more that I just can't think of right now

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Geez...too many to list probably, but (The Matrix is #1, the rest in no particular order)...

• The Matrix
  
• Men In Black
  
• Jurassic Park
  
• Princess Bride
  
• Anything by the Pythons
  
• The Lethal Weapon series
  
• The Die Hard series
  
• The Indiana Jones series
  
• The first three Star Wars
  
• The Godfather series
  
• Heathers
  
• Some Kind Of Wonderful
  
• Better Off Dead
  
• Logan's Run
  
• Planet of the Apes
  
• Jaws
  
• The Jack Ryan movies
  

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 42

Here are some of my favourites in no particular order:

• Forrest Gump
  
• Star Wars 4, 5, 6
  
• Matrix
  
• Toy Story 1 and 2
  
• Braveheart
  
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
  

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 172

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
   
2. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
   
3. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
   
4. Independence Day
   
5. It's A Wonderful Life
   
6. Titanic
   
7. Valley Girl
   

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• The Matrix
  
• Gattaca
  
• October Sky
  
• Run Lola Run
  

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