What's your fav. movie(s)?

[funkywhat2]

I saw a thread on this a while ago, but I figured time to start fresh. What are you favorite movies? Do you have any favorite director/producer/actor?
Here's mine:
Movies - Pink Flamingos, Dr. Strangelove, Clerks, Hard Day's Night and A Clockwork Orange. The Graduate was good too.
Directors - Krubrick, John Waters
Producer - ?
Actor - Peter Sellers

Notice any parallels in there? :D :p

[RBMaraman]

Movies: The Usual Suspects, Snatch, Memento, Insomnia (Just to name a few).

Directors: Guy Ritchie, Christopher Nolan.

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro.

[scem0]

.Movies -

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Iron Monkey
3. The Matrix
4. THe matrix Reloaded (I know... I know... but it will be)

Fav director - yuen wu ping

Actors -
1. Zhang zi yi
2. Michelle Yeoh
3. Jackie Chan
4. Donnie Yen
6. Jet Li

As you can probably tell, I am a kung fu movie freak ;) :D

Oh, and btw, those are in no particular order.

[King Cobra]

That short films thread wasn't exactly short.

This is my short DVD list:

Tommy Boy
Home Alone 1 & 2
Speed (the original)
Volcano
The Net
Bluestreak
Lean On Me
Terminator 2
Spaceballs

[mc68k]

Fight Club (1999) 10
Léon (1994) 10
Pulp Fiction (1994) 10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 10
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 10
Star Wars (1977) 10
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 9
Dances with Wolves (1990) 9
Empire of the Sun (1987) 9
Little Big Man (1970) 9
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 9
Matrix, The (1999) 9
Memento (2000) 9
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 9
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 9
Psycho (1960) 9
Sixth Sense, The (1999) 9
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 9

just copied from my IMDb list. this is what i would rate them /10.

i have a lot of favorite actors/actresses, strengths in different areas. it's hard to rate art forms as 'favorite', i just enjoy some people more than others. it would be easier for me to say who i don't like because i like so many directors/actor/actresses styles.

[P-Worm]

The Matrix movies that are coming out. :D

P-Worm

[Vector]

Leon (The Professional)
Subway
La Femme Nikita
The Fifth Element
All of the above by Luc Besson

Pi
Timecode
Run Lola Run (Tykwer)
The Princess and The Warrior (Tykwer)

The Spanish Prisoner (Mamet)
Ronin (Mamet)
Payback (Frankenhiemer)
Bladerunner (Scott)
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
Anything else by Kubrick

These are part of my dvd collection, but not all.

Favorite Directors:

Luc Besson
Tom Tykwer
John Frankerhiemer
Ridley Scott
David Mamet
Stanley Kubrick

Favorite Movie Composer: Eric Serra (he's good, he did the music for Goldeneye, the Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue, Subway, Leon, and several other movies)

[Macette]

yeah, subway... awesome.

hiroshima mon amour

in the mood for love

rear window

vertigo

les enfants du paradis

high society

the princess bride

stand by me

the quiet american (current fave)

directors: hitchcock, and a whole lot of others. philip noyce for his two most recent.

actors: clive owen? he cute. meg ryan. she cute.

[Vector]

Originally posted by Macette
yeah, subway... awesome.

Yeah it is a great movie. It has great cinematography considering how little plot there actually is to the movie. Eric Serra did the music for it and the two main songs (the ones that christopher lambert's character writes and has the band play.

[wdlove]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Ridley Scott, George Lucas, & Steven Spielberg

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by mc68k
Fight Club (1999) 10
Léon (1994) 10
Pulp Fiction (1994) 10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 10
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 10
Star Wars (1977) 10
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 9
Dances with Wolves (1990) 9
Empire of the Sun (1987) 9
Little Big Man (1970) 9
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 9
Matrix, The (1999) 9
Memento (2000) 9
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 9
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 9
Psycho (1960) 9
Sixth Sense, The (1999) 9
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 9


wow. we have a lot in common

for a short concise action flick, raiders of the lost ark is one of the greats...literally, non stop action...the mummy comes close

dances with wolves really stands alone as kevin costner's best work

the matrix takes me somewhere else and is a good escapist movie...i have not seen the sequel but i look forward to it

cuckoo's nest put nicholson on the map...great work

i also like the foreign red, white, blue trilogy

the english patient

forrest gump

awakenings

when harry met sally

men's club

and many, many others...too numerous to list

[mc68k]

sadly my parents sheltered me from anything with the R rating up until a few years ago. so most of my favorite films i discovered within the last few years. damn shame, most good movies are rated R.

[GrandShenlong]

Fave Actors: Jet Li, Jodie Foster

Fave Movies:
The Matrix Quadrilogy
LOTR Trilogy
Once Upon a Time in China series
Contact
A Walk To Remember
My Father is a Hero (Jet Li)
Shaolin Soccer (only the last third of it)

[tcolling]

Savannah Smiles

It's a Wonderful Life

Family Man

Blues Brothers

Pay It Forward

Fletch

When Harry Met Sally

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Star Wars

Any one of the Playboy Wet 'n' Wild Series
(Ok, just kidding on the last one, but I didn't want you think I was a TOTAL goody-two-shoes)

[SumDumGuy]

Here we go in no particular order:

Friday
Princess Mononoke
Lord of the Rings (FOTR & TT)
Angel Heart (DeNiro IS Satan)
Crusty Demons of Dirt (Freestyle MX series)
Snatch
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Duece Bigelow: Male Gigolo
ANYTHING Directed by Stanley Kubrick
American History X
Me, Myself & Irene

[drastik]

Man, I can't even begin with the movie list, I love them too much. (My DVD collection just topped four hundred last week, of course, thats with help from the girlfriend)

In no order, though, I'll give you directors and some of my favs fom them:

Wes Anderson (All of them, Tennanbaums the is the best)

Akira Kurosawa (Most of them, Dreams and Seven Samurai are the best, and Roshiman.)

Cohen Brothers (Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Oh Brother)

Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem For a Dream)

Dario Argento (Suspiria )

There's more, but I'm trying to pick he best, more later.

[Spike Spiegel]

a lot of mine have been posted already, but here goes:
Shawshank Redemption(flawless movie)
Dr. Strangelove(Absolute genius, peter sellers and kubrik rock!)
Princess Mononoké
Spirited Away
American History X(Ed Norton makes almost any movie better)
Event Horizon(the coolest sets in any movie)
The Big Night
State and Main
Run Lola Run
Following(Christopher Nolan's first)
Memento
Enemy of the State
The Big Lebowski
Braveheart
Suicide Kings(Christopher Walken reaches new levels of creepiness)
Army of Darkness
Evil Dead 2
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Wedding Banquet
The Sixth Sense
12 Monkeys(nothing like tango music to set a mood)
Subway(just for Lambert's really weird character)
Star Trek: Nemesis
The Cell
The Ring(the only movie i was ever scared by)
Harold and Maude
Cowboy Bebop(best animé ever)
Neon Genesis: Evangellion
Clerks
Mallrats
Dogma
Say Anything
Office Space
High Fidelity
Wonder Boys
Home For the Holidays
The Ref
Saving Private Ryan
Three Kings
Nine Queens
Annie Hall
Hannah and Her Sisters(the best line about nazis ever)
Most Woody Allen movies
Pi
The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Trainspotting
Eat Drink, Man Woman
East is East
Double Happiness
Blackhawk Down(Really intense)
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Duck Soup(The first two-thirds, anyway)
Primal Fear
Fight Club
The Insider(Russel Crowe's best performance)
Gladiator
Proof
The Interview(this and proof, both Hugo Weaving movies[agent smith])
The list goes on, but i cant remember any more right now. Im off to frolic in the snow.

[Spike Spiegel]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


wow. we have a lot in common

for a short concise action flick, raiders of the lost ark is one of the greats...literally, non stop action...the mummy comes close

dances with wolves really stands alone as kevin costner's best work

the matrix takes me somewhere else and is a good escapist movie...i have not seen the sequel but i look forward to it

cuckoo's nest put nicholson on the map...great work

i also like the foreign red, white, blue trilogy

the english patient

forrest gump

awakenings

when harry met sally

men's club

and many, many others...too numerous to list

the red white and blue trilogy is good, but its kind of a downer.
i forgot to mention some more recent ones ive seen.
about schmidt(nicholson's best performance)
adaptation(fantastic movie, good on so many levels)

[Spike Spiegel]

i just cant seem to shut up, last post, i promise!:D
i had to mention Akira Kurosawa and Wes Anderson(Drastik, Tenenbaums IS the best)

[KVH]

Let's see,
Stand By Me
Full Metal jacket
Friday
The Fifth Element
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon
The Terminator
Conan Movies
The Predator
The Wraith
To name just a few off the top of my head.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Spike Spiegel


about schmidt(nicholson's best performance)



oh some others re: jack

as good as it gets
easy rider
hoffa
and i have yet to see about schimdt...i hear it's great

[drastik]

Originally posted by Spike Spiegel
i just cant seem to shut up, last post, i promise!:D
i had to mention Akira Kurosawa and Wes Anderson(Drastik, Tenenbaums IS the best)

Man I love Tenebaums, I'll probably have to wtch it today. Anything reminds me of that movie is great and makes me want to see it again. I'm with you on almost all of your choices too, and the others I just haven't seen yet. Used to have a Film professor named Spiegel in Boston, wierd, huh?

[springscansing]

A Clockwork Orange still holds a place in my heart. :-)

I liked Vanilla Skies too.. and Clerks, haha.

I haven't really seen a lot of movies though, so I do not have a good list or anything, but Full Metal Jacket, and most any Kubrick film (except the Shining) are simply amazing.

[jelloshotsrule]

bottle rocket
office space
royal tenenbaums
rushmore
seven
zoolander
meet the parents
saving silverman
lord of the rings 1.2.
groundhog day
seven samurai
ice age

spirited away was awesome. can't wait to see it again.

[Spike Spiegel]

Originally posted by drastik


Used to have a Film professor named Spiegel in Boston, wierd, huh?
that IS weird. however, i got my user name from the animé series Cowboy Bebop, which, if anyone hasnt seen, i highly recommend.