What movies do you Love and Loathe?

[westernestates]

I got to admit in general I don't really like movies and it seems like as time goes by they just get dumber and dumber but I do have a couple which I really love.

1. Porky's - The perfect coming of age movie and all three porky's were great. There were countless great gags in the movie and I still laugh when Mrs. Ballbreaker grunts as he grabs that guys penis.

2. Goodfellas - A classic in every part of the word.

3. Scarface - Another pure classic.

4. Revenge of the nerds - Of course the original is the best, every sequel since then has just blew countless chunks even Porky's had the good sense to stop at 3.

5. South Park The Movie - I love that movie so much I don't understand Why Trey and Matt don't make another GD sequel already.

6. Strange Brew - SCTV blew on wheels but the best part of it was the "Great White North" bits and the very fact that they turned that into a movie was freakin' funny.

There are more movies I love but I can't remember the names to all of them. If I remember them I'll make another post.

Now for the movies I loathe (There are not enough hours in the daty to go over all of them):

1. Fahrenheit 9-11 - Oh my god was this one of the most pretencious propaganda pieces I've ever seen. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like in every other seen fat ass had to get his ugly mug in there. I've seen plenty of documentaries in my lifetime and it was the first time I ever since someone whose ego was so big that he had to put his Krispy Kreme covered mug on the cover of the DVD. HOLY JESUS!

2. Any Oliver Stone film - I don't have anything aganist "historical (If that's what you want to call them)" films but when everything on the film including all of the actors look constipated you're doing something wrong.

3. Lord Of The Rings - When I was a kid I was a big fan of Tolkien's books but the film was one overblown orgy. There is such a thing as over production and they could have toned everything down a notch.

4. Harry Potter - Holy jesus people actually watch this huh?

I'm sorry but I have to go here....

5. Star Wars - When I was a kid I read the book and it the movie feels more like a action flick versus true Sci-fi. There is no doubt that the original Star Wars was one of the greatest of all time but the later films felt more like a action-movie.

[southpaw]

"The Big Lebowski"

Best

movie

ever.

[ricola]

^^^^ Lebowski is easily the best comedy I've ever seen and its a crying shame about the recent re-release of the film. No worthwhile extras or bonus content, NO FUCKING COMMENTARY from the Cohen's, just a quick grab for more cash! :(

as for the rest:

Ive gotta disagree with western on the Stone movies. While, yes, there have been several turds hes put out, Natural Born Killers and Platoon are two of my all time favorites.

Anything from David Lynch is considered godlike by me, in particular Eraserhead and Twin Peaks.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is fucking classic IMO, due in large part to my long, religious, fascinatied admiration for HST.

others include : Anything Tarantino, Anything Kubrick etc...

[westernestates]

Ive gotta disagree with western on the Stone movies. While, yes, there have been several turds hes put out, Natural Born Killers and Platoon are two of my all time favorites.

OK I'll give leeway to those two but the rest are crap

[Daniel Ruoss]

I have to agree. Two of my favorites are "Fear and Loathing..." and "The Big Lebowski". I'm mostly into historical movies or sci-fi.

Other favorites:

Star Wars- Loved them as a kid, still love them now. Even the new ones. Plus I love that it irks Trekkies that Star Wars is more popular in the mainstream.
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - If you haven't seen this Cold War satire, go see it immediately. Kubrick's direction and the talent of Peter Sellers (playing 3 characters) makes it an all-time classic.
Full Metal Jacket - R. Lee Ermey. Enough said.
Apocalypse Now: Redux - Expanded version with additional scenes.
Downfall - German film about Hitler's last days from the perspective of his secretary. A very powerful movie. Anybody who's into history will love it. Shows Hitler as a human (still an awful, terrifying man) which is more scary than the "boogeyman from Hell" stereotype. Other interesting Hitler movies are Max and The Empty Mirror.
A Bridge Too Far - The scope of this movie is amazing considering when it was made. I doubt they would ever pull off something this big again especially with today's special FX. Great cast. Well, worth your time.
Titus - Shakespeare adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins. If you're into Shakespeare you'll love it. If not, it's still a great production, has plenty of misfortune, and has a great ending.
The Fifth Element - This movie has grown on me over time and Milla Jovovich is hot, hot, hot.
The Usual Suspects This movie was just fantastic. Great characters and one of the best movie endings ever.

Movies I hated:

Fahrenheit 9/11 - This movie is a great case for a formal apology to Leni Riefenstahl who made the Nazi favorite Triumph of the Will. Both are pieces of propaganda shit that stray so far from reality as to be labeled fiction.
End of Days - This Arnie film was actually ok until about 20 min. from the ending. Then it just sold out to another cheesy ass ending. Gabriel Byrne was good as Satan, but after the movie turded out I'm very angry about losing these 2 hrs. of my life.
Titanic - How do you ruin a great, already dramatic historical event? Insert a made-up, unrealistic love story and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Pearl Harbor - See above. Oh, and it has Ben Affleck in it.
Troy - WoW! What a stinker! Did the director even bother reading Homer?
Anything my girlfriend likes. I swear to God she finds the worst shit out there. If I have to watch another Matthew McConaughey film I'll be running for the razors.

[Vako]

THX-1138

[Daniel Ruoss]

THX-1138

Yeah that is a good one. Way before it's time though. Would be a much better movie if remade today. Of course by Lucas not by anybody else, I'd like to see what he was really trying to do and what limited him in the first one.

[ChingChongDingDongRice]

Movies that totally awesome boaters will see:

Happiness - If you are in to cold satire, you must see this film

Aliens - Shooting aliens in the face with shotguns and blowing shit up? But with good acting? Oh yes.

Silence of the Lambs - No words

The Wall - Stream of consciousness combined with awesome music. And great visuals.

The Game - A great story of someone who starts having a total breakdown



Movies that blew herds of reindeer:

Bowling for Columbine - :down: One of the most exaggerated wastes of film ever to disgrace the Cinema. Half-truths mixed with propoganda.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Uh ok. Whatever. The book was better.

Dungeons and Dragons - Suffice to say, a movie based upon games is already going to be pretty bogus. But holy mother mary, this is so unfunny it gave me cancer.

[ricola]

oh and The Machinist

soooooo fucking good, you should all viddy this one :D

[123 Ass Kick Street]

Some of my favorites are...
Willow
Last of the Mohicans
The Insider
Heat
(yes, I do enjoy Michael Mann films)
The Professional (Leon)
The 5th Element
The Royal Tenenbaums
Young Frankenstein

As for movies I don't like...
Well, there's alot of them.

[BeanerMobile]

[quote="Daniel Ruoss"]I have to agree. Two of my favorites are "Fear and Loathing..." and "The Big Lebowski".



I figured that most PHS fans would appreciate a movie as uniquely plotted and dialogued as Lebowski, but good to have that confirmed.

One of my faves too.

Anyone remember when Phil mentioned it and insisted it was a piece of crap? Sounded like he was serious, but probably joking...

[Daniel Ruoss]

I have to admit when I first watched The Big Lebowski I was like "What the fuck is this!?" But after you accept it's not like any other movie it starts to grow on you. All the subtle plot twists and the conversations between the Dude, Walter, and Donny are just priceless. Pink Floyd's The Wall does the same thing to you. You have to throw out all of the bullshit about what a movie is or isn't supposed to be.

[KungFuJesus]

I have tried several times to watch Lebowski and never managed to make it all the way. It's like a book you start 3 or 4 times because of all the hype around it and can never get through it. One of these days though...

[the deta]

I have to admit when I first watched The Big Lebowski I was like "What the fuck is this!?" But after you accept it's not like any other movie it starts to grow on you. All the subtle plot twists and the conversations between the Dude, Walter, and Donny are just priceless. Pink Floyd's The Wall does the same thing to you. You have to throw out all of the bullshit about what a movie is or isn't supposed to be.


The only time i watched the wall all the way through i had really bad nitemares And i was about 22 !

[Rolf Benirschke]

Last night I watched one of my favorite films again...
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Some of my favorites are also...
The Star Wars Trilogy
The Rocky Anthology
The Godfather Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy

You know I am sure that I can think of some more. I'll have to post again when I can remember the non-trilogy films I love.

[Daniel Ruoss]

How could I forget this one: Red Dawn

I loved this one! Go USA! Kick commie ass! Plus Ron O'Neal from Superfly plays the Cuban colonel. Did pretty good in my opinion. It's also one of Patrick Swayze's first films and Charlie Sheen's film debut.

[GeneralSantos]

I love Star Wars. Yeah, all 6 of them! I know that's blasphemy in some places, but screw them. The prequels couldn't possibly have lived up to the hype anyway.

I love Alien and Aliens, but the series went downhill after that. Ditto for Predator. The first one rocked, the second was mediocre at best.

Some other favorites:

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
The Bond flicks
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Stripes (I can picture Lloyd driving an RV that shoots rockets like that)

I'm sure if I looked through DVD collection, I could come up with plenty more, but this is what I came up with off the top of my head.

Daniel, Red Dawn was pretty cool too. I hadn't seen it in years, and managed to catch it on HDNet last month. God I love my DVR.

[Boss]

As for great movies, that's so hard to narrow down, I have to qualify my response. Great movies are movies that were so incredible that they moved you so much you would have a hard time watching them again or a movie that you can watch over and over.

The first three are all Bogart Flicks, the Bogey trifecta:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Probably my favorite of all time)
Casablana
The Caine Mutiny

Hitchcock movies:

Psycho
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Rear Window

Bond flicks:

Goldfinger
Man with the Golden Gun
...many more

Comedies:

Caddyshack
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Happy Gilmore
Fish called Wanda

Some of the rest:

Saving Private Ryan
Ben Hur
Star Wars trilogy
Memento
The Right Stuff
Crimson Tide
Tombstone
O' Brother Where Art Thou

Flick I hated:

Sin City (I know many will disagree, but I couldn't stand it)
The Harry Potter series (Yawnnnnn)
Old School
Anchorman
Mr. Bean's Movies
Master of Disguise (Possibly the worst movie ever)

[ster]

My favorite movies:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Deliverance
Easy Rider
Midnight Cowboy
Goodfellas
2001: A Space Odyssey
Taxi Driver

Deliverance is the only movie I know of where the original book version doesn't make it look like some piece of crap. Although Cuckoo's Nest was good, after reading the book you'll realize that the director didn't incorporate certain things that the author intended. The author of Cuckoo's Nest actually disliked the movie.

[Sessy Chris Norton]

I don't have time to think of my fav's right now...but I do love The Goonies. I could watch that movie anytime. I also like The Who, Live at the Isle of Wight. Not really a movie, but they do play Tommy for about half the show which was made into a movie.

[Anonymous]

Love: Scarface, James Bond, and most war movies (Stalingrad & Das Boot), Zombie flicks, and asian porn
Hate: Harry Potter, Romantic Comedy, and most big budget flicks from Hollywood.

[Boss]

Hey Doug,

You must be really excited about the new Ang Lee movie, "Broke Back Mountain", about two gay cowboys. Can't wait to hear that review.

[Anonymous]

Hey Doug,

You must be really excited about the new Ang Lee movie, "Broke Back Mountain", about two gay cowboys. Can't wait to hear that review.

Are they Asian cowboys? If not then I'll probably pass...

[mordechai von rune]

animal house......

no explanation necessary

on a side note.....

the hbo miniseries 'band of brothers' is hands down the best television miniseries ever to be on broadcast television......

[Belasco]

Hey Doug,

You must be really excited about the new Ang Lee movie, "Broke Back Mountain", about two gay cowboys. Can't wait to hear that review.

I know for a fact that when my wife's turn comes to pick the movie, she's going to pick "Bareback Mountin'".

Oh, mother, mind your skirt...

Guess I'll have to take one for the team (if you'll pardon the expression).

[Anonymous]

Saw this in the video store today....

When teenager Wilby Daniels became a part-time canine in THE SHAGGY DOG, he didn't realize that this condition would come back and "hound" him again in his adult years. In this side-splitting sequel, Wilby's all grown up now, with a wife and son. Unfortunately, he's still subject to a furry transformation every time the inscription on an ancient scarab ring is read aloud ... not a comforting prospect when you've bounded into the public eye as a candidate for District Attorney!

[The Dude]

A little documentary called "Vernon, Florida" by erroll morris.

[planetkpop]

Good Ones
Godfather II
One Day In September
The Wild Bunch
Meatballs
Spinal Tap
Heat
Exorcist
A Soldier's Story
Smokey and the Bandit
Dog Day Afternoon
Star Wars III
Clerks
Blazing Saddles
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Not So Good
Smokey and the Bandit III
JFK
Home Alone (Any)
Harry Potter (Any)
Anything with Pauly Shore
Anything with Jim Carry


Disturbing
Requiem For A Dream
Freaks
Leaving Las Vegas
Willy Wonka (the one with Gene Wilder)

Kill Me
The Wedding Planner
Polar Express
Meet the Fokkers
Pretty Woman


Kevin

[lawyer said write it down]

One of the the only times I ever walked out of a movie theater and did not hear a single person say a word was after Saving Private Ryan. It was a exteremly moving movie for me.

Great movies:
Anything John Wayne did
The Godfather 1 and 2
Patton
Happy Gilmore
Saturday Nite Fever { I know I know Disco sucked But it was a huge cultureral making film.}
Exit TO Eden { Sorry Sorry sorry But cmon Dana Delaney Full Frontal Nudity}

[Binx]

I'll go ahead and get this one out of the way since everybody else seems to hate it (them)

Favs
Harry Potter...yeah yeah...go on...say it
Clerks - Man, this was the story of my life when it came out...minus the snowballing
The Crow - One of the best movies ever
A Knights Tale
Legend - WHen I was younger..I watch it now and it's okay
Green Mile - bawled like a little girl
Criminally Insane - B movie...horribly good
Anything with zombies. Sean of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Return of the living dead....man I love me some zombies
Die Hard Trilogy

Should die a horrible shelved death

Dungeons and Dragons - I waited my whole life for a D&D movie. I'm a geek for fantasy...and they put out this abortion. I can no longer watch Marlon Wayans without wishing he would play a corpse. The movie was attrocious

Really Bad things - I have developed some sort of palsy after watching this one

Raising Arizona- I may get flamed for this one..but my gosh it was the stupidest movie ever.

The talented Mister Ripley- This is the only movie I have ever walked out of in my life. It was a talented waste of money and time. I kept expecting it to get good or develop an interesting story...didn't happen. Matt Damon as a pseudo gay homocide just din play right.

[GeneralSantos]

Favs
Harry Potter...yeah yeah...go on...say it
Clerks - Man, this was the story of my life when it came out...minus the snowballing
The Crow - One of the best movies ever
A Knights Tale
Legend - WHen I was younger..I watch it now and it's okay
Green Mile - bawled like a little girl
Criminally Insane - B movie...horribly good
Anything with zombies. Sean of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Return of the living dead....man I love me some zombies
Die Hard Trilogy

I happen to like the Harry Potter movies myself, and am a big fan of the books as well. Yeah, I'm a nerd, but they just appeal to the inner kid in me.

I absolutely loved Clerks. It's much funnier if you've ever worked in a retail job like a convenience or grocery store.

Loved The Crow as well. It's a tragedy that Brandon Lee died during the filming. I would have loved to see if he could live up to his father's reputation.

Sean of the Dead is hilarious, especially when he and his friend are throwing his girlfriend's LPs at the zombies in the back yard.

Oh, I just watched Sin City a few nights ago. It was the sickest, most twisted movie I've seen in a long time, and I loved every minute of it. I hope Miller and Rodriguez get to work on the sequels soon.

[Binx]

Yup...nerds unite. I'm such a Potter mark. I've read the books 3 times each except for Half blood prince...which I'm reading the second time now.

Sin City...frigging awesome.

The third Crow with Kirsten Dunst was pretty good as well. The second one made me hate foreign actors....

Some that were pretty good

Resident evil...again..zombies.

The Thing. Back in the early 80's when I first saw it (Being 6 or 7) I had nightmares for weeks.

The Rundown with the Rock...friggin great.

Some more that sucked.

AI....wha...?

The Airport....right.

[aaron burr]

"Did you just put a "u" in "favorite"? That cuts it, warming up the truck! "

lol...see, that's what I get for doing that...being Canadian that is...

ok, take 2:(i'll edit this list freely since listing fave movies is like walking into a record store...you absolutely forget what you went in there for in the first place)

Cool Hand Luke: (Paul Newman...what can you say?!...All of Harry Dean Stanton's gospel folk performances!? Newman playin' banjo for 'Plastic Jesus'...not only a worthy song rendition by the Flaming Lips done in their early years, but one I always love performing either solo or with my band)...and then the timeless lines such as "It appears we have a failure to communicate..."
And what a cast - Dragline by George Kennedy. Oh yeah!

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: Mordecai Richler, Montreal Jews, and Richard Dreyfuss...plus Randy Quaid in a great role as the epileptic poet Virgil? Man o man. And another book that the movie did proper justice to.

The Eiger Sanction: George Kennedy again with some brilliant lines. Eastwood doing his own mountain climbing scenes (and more brilliant lines?) and the Herb Sewell-like CIA nemesis who could be as much British/Cambridge educated Kim Philby-like character? And Jemima, Eastwood's 'chocolate-licious' love interest. Ya Savvy?

Catch 22: another stellar cast all round Newhart as Major Major!! Not to mention Joseph Heller's brilliant original book on which the movie is based. Few books are well rep'd in movie form...but this is an exception. (Catch 22 seemed a perfect metaphor for trying to describe the paradox of what an LSD trip is like)
M*A*S*H* may have been too much comp as another war-themed movie released at the same time...but they BOTH deserved equal kudos for different reasons.

Italian Job (original version). Caine? the threads, the plot, the cars, the British humour? Leave your grubby Lowest Common Denominator hands off of masterworks, you lizard blooded Hollywood suits.

Why Shoot the Teacher?: Bud Cort as a teacher in bleak Saskatchewan during the latter half of the dirty thirties.

Bound For Glory : Carradine's better acting days as Woody Guthrie during his time in California during the Depression. Randy Quaid makes a great appearance as a picker/field worker. Excellent soundtrack featuring plenty of Woody Guthrie material as well as renditions of his songs by Leadbelly, Odetta, etc. I think it won an Oscar for Best Soundtrack...but it was a good movie to honour Woody.

Lenny : could have been waaaay better, but Dustin Hoffman did a pretty good job of playing Lenny Bruce. They failed to thread Bruce's breakdown era (which was prominent in the film), but it would have had to be a 5 hour bio-doc to really get the full scoop. And least Lenny Bruce got some due in big screen format. Again, it could have been a better film.

What the Bleep : check this one out...it's kind of wacky.


Kelly's Heroes:


(the most honourable mention list)
and while the above list represents what I think the cream of the crop is, i do love:

-The Royal Tannenbaums
-Rushmore
-The Life Aquatic
-The Big Lebowski
-Happiness (any Dan Clowes fans here? amazing cartoonist...was pleased to see he had done the poster art and clearly those who wrote the film were influence by Clowes dry humour)
-what was that B&W movie that had an old west frontier theme w/ Johnny Depp, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Iggy Pop, etc. that Neil Young did the score for? I can't remember the title but I saw it when i was on tour at some dudes house, and it was great.
-Serpico
-Prince of the City
-Apocalyse Now Redux. I'd say anyone who likes this movie should take the next step and read Joseph Conrad.
The River's Edge - better viewed when it came out, but still good. Crispin Glover=good freak.



I won't bother listing movies I hate - there's just too many


any differing opinions? agreements? love it all.

[Mini Dickman]

I'm going to have to put Pulp Fiction high up on my list. Just recently saw it.

[TedBellLover]

Patton
(For that matter, most any war movie)
The various "Dead" movies, (Night, Return, Dawn, Day, Etc.)
Any of the MST-3000 movies.
Phantasm- the original, not the sequels
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Star Wars (of course!)
Funny Farm
Others which will occur to me later when I'm far away from the computer.

Update! Kill Bill I and II. These were my first Quentin Tortellini movies. So much blood, yet so enjoyable.

Update! Lemony Snackbar's A Series of Unfortunate Events. The snake udder line gives me a stroke every time.

[aaron burr]

[quote="TedBellLover @ Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:01 pm"]Patton
(For that matter, most any war movie)
quote]

yeah - i really love the 60's / 70's war movies like some of the ones i mentioned - Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen, etc...

Patton has some incredible quotable moments in it, incidentally!

[Raghead]

Patton
(For that matter, most any war movie)
The various "Dead" movies, (Night, Return, Dawn, Day, Etc.)
Any of the MST-3000 movies.
Phantasm- the original, not the sequels
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Star Wars (of course!)
Funny Farm
Others which will occur to me later when I'm far away from the computer.

Update! Kill Bill I and II. These were my first Quentin Tortellini movies. So much blood, yet so enjoyable.

Update! Lemony Snackbar's A Series of Unfortunate Events. The snake udder line gives me a stroke every time.

Nice MST3k (I'm a huge fan and collect them) but.... Tortellini.lmao lmao ok anyways....

Movies I love:

Pulp Fiction - Dead N^gger Storage... enough said.

Goodfellas - Do I look like a fucking clown to you? Do I make you laugh?lmao

Godfather 1-3 - R.C. Collins stuttering the lines.lmao

Sin City - Love QT and Rodriguez working together.

Any George Romero Film

Any other Tarantino Film

Most Krubrick Films (Not much to say about Eyes Wide Shut other than :beefwich: )

March of the Penguins - :worship: :worship: Don't make fun of me... I loved this movie. I own it.




Movies I Hate:

Hitchiker's Guide To the Galaxy - Most recent movie that I have walked out of the theater from.

The Ring - WAY overrated. Not scary at all. If you thought it was, then you are :gay:

The Grudge - Same response as the Ring.

ANything Disney is putting out these days. Disney is turning in his grave at 150 RPM.

[The Larry]

Nice MST3k (I'm a huge fan and collect them) but.... Tortellini.lmao lmao ok anyways....

Movies I love:

Pulp Fiction - Dead N^gger Storage... enough said.

Goodfellas - Do I look like a fucking clown to you? Do I make you laugh?lmao

Godfather 1-3 - R.C. Collins stuttering the lines.lmao

Sin City - Love QT and Rodriguez working together.

Any George Romero Film

Any other Tarantino Film

Most Krubrick Films (Not much to say about Eyes Wide Shut other than :beefwich: )

March of the Penguins - :worship: :worship: Don't make fun of me... I loved this movie. I own it.




Movies I Hate:

Hitchiker's Guide To the Galaxy - Most recent movie that I have walked out of the theater from.

The Ring - WAY overrated. Not scary at all. If you thought it was, then you are :gay:

The Grudge - Same response as the Ring.

ANything Disney is putting out these days. Disney is turning in his grave at 150 RPM.

Movies I liked:

The Usuall Susspects - Keyser Soze!

Pulp Fiction - English motherfucker, do you speak it?
The Bird Cage - "What interesting China. Why, it looks like young men playing leapfrog."

Speed (the original) - Thanks for pushing that Bob, the lights on, but you never know what really might be broken.

Beavis and Butt-head Do America - I am the great cornholyo, I need tp for my bunghole. Masturbating in a man's camper... we're dealing with two sick individuals.

Tommy Boy - Fat guy in a little coat... enough said

Blacksheep - I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants. We didn't have any pudding in there, buddy.

Happy Gilmore - That's your hole, that's your home. You won't go to your home? Answer me!

Team America - Purl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut - Satan, your ass is gigantic and red. Who am I gunna pretend you are, Liza Manelly?

Dumb and Dumbber - Sir, you realize it's illegal to be driving around with an open alcahall container in the state of Pensylvina? (drinks what's inside, then starts to gagg) Tick tack, sir? Get out of here.

Head of State - When I was twelve, my bike was stolen right here. If I'm lucky, my kid will get carjacked here.

Kingpin - Just picture an Amish guy with a rubber hand squeezing one off in a urinel. Enough said
:lmao:

Private Parts - Howard Stern rocks.

Seven - I've only heard about it, but from what I've heard, excellent.

48hrs - I like stories. Fuck you. That's my favorite one.

The Rock - Awesome movie.

Movies I didn't like

Drowning Mona - :puke:

The Indian in the cubberd - :puke:

Biodome - Awfel.

AI - Two zoos of chimp.

Twister - Dead chimp, not to mention inaccurate.

Drakula Dead and loving it - Utterly rediculous. I was having a daymare... :wtf:

The Jerkey Boys: The movie - :wtf:

[Zerath]

Spirited Away

Shermans march

the first star wars

LOTR

Rushmore

[TheWagesofSin]

"Did you just put a "u" in "favorite"? That cuts it, warming up the truck! "

lol...see, that's what I get for doing that...being Canadian that is...

ok, take 2:(i'll edit this list freely since listing fave movies is like walking into a record store...you absolutely forget what you went in there for in the first place)

Cool Hand Luke: (Paul Newman...what can you say?!...All of Harry Dean Stanton's gospel folk performances!? Newman playin' banjo for 'Plastic Jesus'...not only a worthy song rendition by the Flaming Lips done in their early years, but one I always love performing either solo or with my band)...and then the timeless lines such as "It appears we have a failure to communicate..."
And what a cast - Dragline by George Kennedy. Oh yeah!

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: Mordecai Richler, Montreal Jews, and Richard Dreyfuss...plus Randy Quaid in a great role as the epileptic poet Virgil? Man o man. And another book that the movie did proper justice to.

The Eiger Sanction: George Kennedy again with some brilliant lines. Eastwood doing his own mountain climbing scenes (and more brilliant lines?) and the Herb Sewell-like CIA nemesis who could be as much British/Cambridge educated Kim Philby-like character? And Jemima, Eastwood's 'chocolate-licious' love interest. Ya Savvy?

Catch 22: another stellar cast all round Newhart as Major Major!! Not to mention Joseph Heller's brilliant original book on which the movie is based. Few books are well rep'd in movie form...but this is an exception. (Catch 22 seemed a perfect metaphor for trying to describe the paradox of what an LSD trip is like)
M*A*S*H* may have been too much comp as another war-themed movie released at the same time...but they BOTH deserved equal kudos for different reasons.

Italian Job (original version). Caine? the threads, the plot, the cars, the British humour? Leave your grubby Lowest Common Denominator hands off of masterworks, you lizard blooded Hollywood suits.

Why Shoot the Teacher?: Bud Cort as a teacher in bleak Saskatchewan during the latter half of the dirty thirties.

Bound For Glory : Carradine's better acting days as Woody Guthrie during his time in California during the Depression. Randy Quaid makes a great appearance as a picker/field worker. Excellent soundtrack featuring plenty of Woody Guthrie material as well as renditions of his songs by Leadbelly, Odetta, etc. I think it won an Oscar for Best Soundtrack...but it was a good movie to honour Woody.

Lenny : could have been waaaay better, but Dustin Hoffman did a pretty good job of playing Lenny Bruce. They failed to thread Bruce's breakdown era (which was prominent in the film), but it would have had to be a 5 hour bio-doc to really get the full scoop. And least Lenny Bruce got some due in big screen format. Again, it could have been a better film.

What the Bleep : check this one out...it's kind of wacky.


Kelly's Heroes:


(the most honourable mention list)
and while the above list represents what I think the cream of the crop is, i do love:

-The Royal Tannenbaums
-Rushmore
-The Life Aquatic
-The Big Lebowski
-Happiness (any Dan Clowes fans here? amazing cartoonist...was pleased to see he had done the poster art and clearly those who wrote the film were influence by Clowes dry humour)
-what was that B&W movie that had an old west frontier theme w/ Johnny Depp, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Iggy Pop, etc. that Neil Young did the score for? I can't remember the title but I saw it when i was on tour at some dudes house, and it was great.
-Serpico
-Prince of the City
-Apocalyse Now Redux. I'd say anyone who likes this movie should take the next step and read Joseph Conrad.
The River's Edge - better viewed when it came out, but still good. Crispin Glover=good freak.



I won't bother listing movies I hate - there's just too many


any differing opinions? agreements? love it all.

Dan Clowes is God. "Art School Confidential"- can't wait.

[Veggie 9]

I loathe, I hate, I dispise the new Star Wars movies, and the revamped old ones.

What pisses me off even more is that some people actually follow this tripe. :hallout: :hallout: :hallout:

[The Larry]

I have so many favorites, so here's that list:

Pulp Fiction - Dead N--ger storage, English motherf---er, do you speak it?

Beavis and Butt-head do America: Masturbating in a man's camper... we're dealing with two sick individuals.

I'll think of more later, right now I'm tired.

[Raghead]

I have so many favorites, so here's that list:

Pulp Fiction - Dead N--ger storage, English motherf---er, do you speak it?

Beavis and Butt-head do America: Masturbating in a man's camper... we're dealing with two sick individuals.

I'll think of more later, right now I'm tired.

Here you go guys. Jimmy in all his racistness.:worship: enjoy the Dead nigger Storage!
http://media.putfile.com/JimmyDNS70

PS-
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4122/dead4mh.jpg

[Philaholic]

Absolute requirements for any movie collection, IMO (in no particular order):

1. Blazing Saddles
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. This is Spinal Tap
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Schindler's List
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. Forrest Gump
9. Plan 9 From Outer Space
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Raising Arizona
12. A Christmas Story
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Clerks

Can't really name any movies that I detest because I just refuse to watch them. If a movie doesn't grab my interest in 15-20 minutes I'm off doing something else.

[Pull Out Method]

Best of the Best:thumbsup:

1. Man On Fire - I could do a whole list of vigilante/revenge flicks, but this is the best

2. Pulp Fiction - I'm a sucker for good dialogue and Tarantino is the best at it

3. Snatch - Opened my eyes to what a good actor Pitt is

4. The Fifth Element - Nice to see some new sci/fi ideas once in a while... and Mia is soooooo hot

5. American History X - Good show, Good message

The Worst of the Worst:thumbsdown:

1. Clerks - Kevin Smith's dialogue is awful, a total abortion of a movie. The hype was too much, and the acting is subpar. Flame me bitches, but this movie sucks

2. Episode II - Holy shit, just when I thought that writing could not get worse, here comes George Lucas to drop a log. At least stuff blowed up

3. Titanic - Jeeeeesus

4. The Ring - Horrible script, horrible plot, but the chick was pretty fucking scary

5. Bowling for Columbine/Farenheit 911 - Stupid, a waste of my time and money. Why do we need this kind of rhetoric?

[Raghead]

Absolute requirements for any movie collection, IMO (in no particular order):

1. Blazing Saddles
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. This is Spinal Tap
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Schindler's List
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. Forrest Gump
9. Plan 9 From Outer Space
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Raising Arizona
12. A Christmas Story
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Clerks

Can't really name any movies that I detest because I just refuse to watch them. If a movie doesn't grab my interest in 15-20 minutes I'm off doing something else.

Napolen Dynamite.....:wtf:

[Industrial Trackfooter]

Love:
It's A Wonderful Life
Shawshank Redemption
The Hunt for Red October
Forrest Gump
Shaun of the Dead

Loathe:
I loathe mediocrity, and there's too much of that to write down. I agree with Pull Out on Clerks. I've been a clerk, didn't make the movie any better. The pseudo-intellectual dialogue is the worst. I think it makes sub-intellectuals feel super.

[Raghead]

You need to watch Pulp Fiction my friend

[Industrial Trackfooter]

Yes, Pulp Fiction is also very good. I'd forgotten how much I liked it until I saw a bit of it on TV the other night.

[Raghead]

:thumbsup: "and I will strike down upon thee with great vengence and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengence upon thee." :fire: :fire: :fire:

[Pull Out Method]

:thumbsup: "and I will strike down upon thee with great vengence and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengence upon thee." :fire: :fire: :fire:

Does everybody remember the rush this gave them when they saw it for the first time?

I personally liked "Now he knew if the :bowl: ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that watch was your birthright. And he'd be damned if :bowl: were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of disentary, he gave me the watch. I hid with uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."


lmao
I lose my mud every time...
lmao

[spank bankable]

Movies I love:

Notting Hill
Dick
Young Frankenstein
Love Actually
Any MST3K
Labyrinth
Count of Monte Cristo
As Good As it Gets
Napolean Dynamite
Team America: World Police

Movies I hated:

Farenheit 9/11
Star Wars (the latest 3 made)
Batman Returns
Most action films

I can't think of anymore that I hate... I think I block them out or something.

[FearAndLoathingInSoCal]

Yeah, I enjoy watching the Count of Monte Cristo... some other favs:

- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Godfather I (and to a lesser extent- part II)
- Blow
- Lord of War (replace cocaine w/ guns in the movie Blow and and you get Lord of War)
- Fight Club
- Shawshank Redemption
- The Terminal (& most movies w/ Tom Hanks)

...anything with a good storyline that lacks action. Ohh yeah :dance:

[Verno]

- The Godfather I (and to a lesser extent- part II)

Funny, I'm the opposite. LOOOVE how it all came together and then crashed head on in II.

[FearAndLoathingInSoCal]

Love:
It's A Wonderful Life
Shawshank Redemption
The Hunt for Red October
Forrest Gump
Shaun of the Dead

Loathe:
I loathe mediocrity, and there's too much of that to write down. I agree with Pull Out on Clerks. I've been a clerk, didn't make the movie any better. The pseudo-intellectual dialogue is the worst. I think it makes sub-intellectuals feel super.


Have you seen "O Brother Where Art Thou?" ?... You might like that one, we have similar tastes..

[AB]

Have you seen "O Brother Where Art Thou?" ?... You might like that one, we have similar tastes..
I loved that movie.

[Raghead]

Movies I love:

Notting Hill
Dick
Young Frankenstein
Love Actually
Any MST3K
Labyrinth
Count of Monte Cristo
As Good As it Gets
Napolean Dynamite
Team America: World Police

Movies I hated:

Farenheit 9/11
Star Wars (the latest 3 made)
Batman Returns
Most action films

I can't think of anymore that I hate... I think I block them out or something.

Nice. A fellow Mst3k fan.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Dr. P]

Funny, I'm the opposite. LOOOVE how it all came together and then crashed head on in II.
Me, too bro. GF2 had the most amazing sets and cinematography ever! The opening scene, Michael still promising his wife he'll be legit, the early background of Don Vito, the greatest line ever in film "I can give you my answer now if you want, senator. The answer is no. Not only will I not pay you to open my business, but not even for the gaming license, which I will appreciate you picking up personally" (paraphrase). I love one, but will watch two any day over it. Three was something like a childhood trauma I've burned out of my mind.

[Verno]

Me, too bro. GF2 had the most amazing sets and cinematography ever! The opening scene, Michael still promising his wife he'll be legit, the early background of Don Vito, the greatest line ever in film "I can give you my answer now if you want, senator. The answer is no. Not only will I not pay you to open my business, but not even for the gaming license, which I will appreciate you picking up personally" (paraphrase). I love one, but will watch two any day over it. Three was something like a childhood trauma I've burned out of my mind.
"3" would've been great had there never been a "1" and "2". Think of if that way, we would be praising it up and down, but it now is the step child.

[Dr. P]

Between the fatal casting of Coppala's daughter and the scene in which Andy Garcia on horseback kills a cop in public in broad daylight and excliams "Joey.... <bang!> Zasa!" just kills GF3. I truely think it would be a steaming pile right up there with Roadhouse even if 1 & 2 had never been...
But that's just my opinion, which doesn't pay much!

[Industrial Trackfooter]

Have you seen "O Brother Where Art Thou?" ?... You might like that one, we have similar tastes..

Yeah, I saw it once, and I didn't really like it, though I might be overcritical. (Crappy southern accents, as evidenced in that film, will harden my heart.) I do like George Clooney, notwithstanding politics, and the rest of the cast.

[Raghead]

New movie to add onto my list:

The Thing - Great horror movie and it still holds up extremely well for today's standards. The part where the head grew legs and fucking walked away looks so real. I don't think anyone is going to get close to those special effects even with computers these days. 1982 was a good year for film.:thumbsup:

[Boss]

New movie to add onto my list:

The Thing - Great horror movie and it still holds up extremely well for today's standards. The part where the head grew legs and fucking walked away looks so real. I don't think anyone is going to get close to those special effects even with computers these days. 1982 was a good year for film.:thumbsup:

That was John Carpenter at his best. He should have become a gardener after that movie, because everything after that blew goats.

[TheWagesofSin]

Notting Hill
The First Wives Club
The Joy Luck Club
Chocolat
anything with Hugh Grant









I'M JOKING.

[Mr. Irrelevant]

Notting Hill
The First Wives Club
The Joy Luck Club
Chocolat
anything with Hugh Grant
I'M JOKING.

The thread is movies you love OR loathe... So in what way were you joking? hpff! You're a closet, sappy movie lover, aren't you? :poke:

[Angelina_Jelly]

I have trouble sitting still long enough to watch a dvd when I am alone.
But here are some films I dig:
Breathless. To Kill a Mockingbird. Lolita. Ed Wood. Anything with Gypsy! Tom Servo! and Croooooow!
Vanilla Sky--not for Tom Cruise but for the dead on pop culture imagery that captured the ephemeral nature of love. C'mon... it sourced Breathless, To Kill a Mockingbird, and classic Dylan album cover...etc, etc and a semi-without-guile ballet dancer as the object of love. The soundtrack was so well crafted. I LOVED that movie. It might be unwatchable now, given Tom Cruise's gay gay gay batshit craziness.

Moulin Rouge. Of coarse. NK is a class act.

Has anyone seen The Sweet Smell of Success? Classic!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE any film noir. The Big Sleep. The Postman Only Rings Twice. Turner classic movies used to be my default channel along with CNN before i switched to radio.
I love anything and everything with the precious delicate icon Marilyn Monroe. Her skills is generally underrated. Only upon deeper study of her various bios can one fully appreciate her comedic talent and the vast difference between what she appeared to be on camera and what she was fur real.

blah blah blah panties threesome I cannot sleep.
Save me Russy.

[Angelina_Jelly]

A Mighty Wind was really funny. Best in Show also.

And of coarse, Napolean Dynamite. I have watched it like four times.

I still think that it is funny when I say "I like her bangs" and anytime I meet a girl named Tina I have to tell her to come get some ham.

[Angelina_Jelly]

And when I drink milk (soy) I always say "this one tastes like the cow got into the onion patch" when I take the first sip. Even when I am alone I do this. Does that mean I am crazy?

[Belasco]

Don't miss a film that the studios just dumped into the theater for a week and left it die with no promotion.

"Equilibrium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/)" is one of the best action films of the last decade. It stars Christian Bale - sometimes that's just the leverage you need to get your chick to go for it.

[Vako]

Don't miss the a film that the studios just dumped into the theater for a week and left it die with no promotion.

"Equilibrium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/)" is one of the best action films of the last decade. It stars Christian Bale - sometimes that's just the leverage you need to get your chick to go for it.

Looks like I have a film to watch today.

[TheWagesofSin]

The thread is movies you love OR loathe... So in what way were you joking? hpff! You're a closet, sappy movie lover, aren't you? :poke:
Of course I am, and I forgot the greatest movie of all time, My Best Friend's Wedding.

[CommunistaCow]

Jelly:

To Kill A Mockingbird is a true classic, and one of my all time favorites. In spite of it being an overtly manipulative flick, it's still an unbelievable view of the human condition during a very troubled time.

Two others that I just thought of are In The Heat Of The Night and Shane. Poitier was positively brilliant and Steiger delivered a stunning performance in the former. In the latter, Ladd and Jean Arthur's sexual tension was absolutely palpable.

Thank gawd for good movies. Outside of sports, movies may be the only reason to own a TV.

[BowlHaircut]

I have trouble sitting still long enough to watch a dvd when I am alone.
But here are some films I dig:
To Kill a Mockingbird.

I love To Kill a Mockingbird... I think Atticus Finch is the greatest fictional person ever... Glad to see this flick get two nods in 24 hrs, especially when one is an attorney.

[JohnnyHangle]

Love:

Memento (Remember Sammy Jankis)
Requiem For A Dream (1-900-976-JUICE. The extra E is for Excitement)
8 1/2
The 400 Blows (not a porno)
Grand Illusion ("If I could save one film it would be Grand Illusion." - Orson Welles)
Solaris (Not the george clooney one. www.criterionco.com)
Stalker (not a porno)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 (So god damn bitchen! Uma rocks!)
The Lady Vanishes (the original ambiguiously gay duo)
Vertigo
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Yojimbo
Nights Of Cabiria
Le Samorai
Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown (for the relationship between the bailbondsman and Jackie Brown)
The Empire Strikes Back
Touch Of Evil
Pulp Fiction
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
Brazil
Patton
The Wild Bunch
Straw Dogs
Dark City (visually)
Team America ("He's saying 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me'. Smart ass motherfucker!")

forgetting many...

[JohnnyHangle]

Anime:

Kaze No Tani No Naushika
Majo No Takkyubin
Lupin Sansei: Cagliostro No Shiro
Mononoke Hime
Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi
Hotaru No Haka
Makurosu
Oritsu Uchuugun - Honneamise No Tsubasa
Blood: The Last Vampire

[Walter_Bellhaven]

I loved
Blazing Saddles,
Full Metal Jacket,
This is Spinal Tap,
Dr. Strangelove,
Pulp Fiction,
and for my money the best movie of all time The Manchurian Candidate
If you have not seen the original, it is great, Sinatra is the coolest cat.

[TedBellLover]

I have tried several times to watch Lebowski and never managed to make it all the way. It's like a book you start 3 or 4 times because of all the hype around it and can never get through it. One of these days though...

I tried to watch "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" also but I never made it all the way through. People tell me there's some sort of payoff at the end but I don't have the pateince.

[Pull Out Method]

I loved
Blazing Saddles,
Full Metal Jacket,
This is Spinal Tap,
Dr. Strangelove,
Pulp Fiction,
and for my money the best movie of all time The Manchurian Candidate
If you have not seen the original, it is great, Sinatra is the coolest cat.

I have wanted to see the original Manchurian Candidate, but none of the local video stores carry it... is the remake with Denzel any good?

[Spooner]

I have tried several times to watch Lebowski and never managed to make it all the way. It's like a book you start 3 or 4 times because of all the hype around it and can never get through it. One of these days though...

There may be good reason for that, Regis...

When Lebowski came out in '98, there was no fanfare and most people were initially disappointed with it, coming off the heels of Fargo. Here's what I noticed in a big, undeniable way: (Don't get your panties in a wad, 'gloids... this applies to this younger generation):

Around late '00/'01, Lebowski started slowly becoming this "college dorm" movie; all the little college bozos (just like they did at the time with the Dave Matthews Band), started to anoint it their little "rediscovered" flick, and out of nowhere, I'd hear my kid brother's little dumb frat buddies start quoting it. I noticed this catching on with little college dumbasses all over the country. They tried to act like they discovered the flick and it was their secret little "underground" college cult classic.

Before some of you 'gloids start whinin' that you loved it when it came out - I'm sure *some* of you did (especially any of you currently over the age of 30 or so). But, there ain't NO denyin' that this flick had a really bad rebirth with backwards hat-wearin' frat 'tards who never saw it in the theater and never rented it the first three years it was out; it was no different than the way the yuppies all started quoting Caddyshack years after its initial release.

I love the flick as much as the next guy, but damn, I wish it hadn't been sullied with the concomitant 20-something, high-fivin' college dorm choads. It kinda cast a lame (and unwarranted) pall around the flick. Alls I'm sayin'. Alls - I'm - sayin'.

[Dr. P]

I saw Big Lebowski at the theatre and loved it.
Now a confession. I don't think Caddyshack is very funny. Or Animal House. There, I said it.

[CommunistaCow]

Now a confession. I don't think Caddyshack is very funny. Or Animal House. There, I said it.

Blasphemer! Prepare to meet Allah, Russy.

[Spooner]

You're not alone, Russ. While classic in a nostalgic way, the only thing that made me laugh in Caddyshack was Ted Knight. Animal House? Just a bunch of slapstick & physical gags (BUT, the brunette in the car outside of the Spades Social Club scene - the one who told Riegert his girlfriend died - to this day, she's one of the hottest broads what I EVER seen!).

[Mr. Irrelevant]

Agrees with Rus. I liked Caddyshack the first time in the theater. And I think that was because everyone else was laughing. People tend to do that when at the theater. After that, I thought it was kind of stupid.

As far as Animal House.... I never liked it.

[Dr. P]

Wow, I was sure I was gonna get killed for that sentiment. Right on, guys! Except CC of course.:thumbsup:

[nate]

StalinBeef, I'm with you here. Caddyshack is and always shall be the bomb.

[Franks n Beans]

Good ones
Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke, (Then all the rest they made)
Fast times at Ridgemont High
Caddy Shack
Easy Money
Animal House
Ice Age
Gladiator
Predator I and II
Bronx Tale

Bad ones
When Harry Met Sally
All the Rocky's after II
Moonstruck
Just about anything coming out lately. I mean "Snakes on a plane"? dear god.

I stopped going to movies. I'll go to the animated ones with my daughter, that's about it.

Hollywood sucks.

[TheWagesofSin]

I saw Big Lebowski at the theatre and loved it.
Now a confession. I don't think Caddyshack is very funny. Or Animal House. There, I said it.

Animal House is not funny. I notice most comedies don't age well; that's one of 'em. Never saw Caddyshack.

[Franks n Beans]

Animal House is not funny. I notice most comedies don't age well; that's one of 'em. Never saw Caddyshack.

Never saw Caddyshack!!!??? Geeze....Go rent it.....NOW!! It's great!

[Booze]

Animal House? Two words John fuckin' Belushi. A half decent film, that doesnt use him very well. But whenever I'm flicking through the channels & I come across it, I have to stay with it until the toga party scene when Belushi walks through the door & catches that beer luzzed full force at his head.

Lebowski may have been hijacked by student wankers, but that doesnt mean it isnt one of the funniest films ever made. It just means that even students can occasionally exhibit good taste & something resembling a sense of humour.

BRANDED!

[Westerberg]

Excellent Movies:
WC Fields: It's a Gift (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025318/)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)
Bang The Drum Slowly (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069765/)
Vanishing Point (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/)(the original 1971 version with Cleavon Little)
Serial (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081485/)(1980 starring Martin Mull)
Vertigo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/)
Live and Let Die (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/)
Failsafe (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/)(1964)

[Boss]

Made the mistake of seeing Monster House the other day. On the RC Collins Blows-a-meter...sniff, sniff...yep...egg salad. Possibly one of the worst animated flicks I've ever seen.

[CommunistaCow]

Made the mistake of seeing Monster House the other day. On the RC Collins Blows-a-meter...sniff, sniff...yep...egg salad. Possibly one of the worst animated flicks I've ever seen.

Too funny. My 10-YO thought it sucked. And, when an animated flick doesn't pass muster with the kids, you know you're blowing chimp meat.

BTW Boss, what are you doing hangin' at a kids' flick, hmmmm?

[Mr. Irrelevant]

... and he's a photographer nonetheless!

Let's see... A guy with a camera, hanging out at a kids movie... hmmmmm.

Been to Thailand lately? :poke:

[CommunistaCow]

... and he's a photographer nonetheless!

Let's see... A guy with a camera, hanging out at a kids movie... hmmmmm.

Been to Thailand lately? :poke:

Okay Boss, where were you on Christmas Eve 10 years ago? As Jay Santos would put it, I bet you're one of those tricycle-seat sniffers.:poke:

[mediagirl]

I hate Garden State.

Thank you and good night!

[Hole In Face]

Favorties:
Taxi Driver
Blade Runner
The Thing
Big Trouble In Little China
Starship Troopers
RoboCop
Hamburger Hill

Hate:
Apacolypse Now (Waaaaay overrated)
The Last Samurai
Club Dread (How can the guys that made Super Troopers make that crap)
Any movie with Reese witherspoon

[mediagirl]

I love the superhero flicks like the X-Men and Spiderman movies.

And then I love Kevin Smith films...

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.

And Moulin Rouge.

[Dr. P]

http://i8.tinypic.com/24yb9d1.jpg

[mediagirl]

=D&gt; Woot, very cool Russy. Though I meant the Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor... The Zsa Zsa one still ain't half bad. ;)

[Spooner]

Love: Big Wednesday; The Searchers; Red River; Local Hero; Withnail & I; Lawrence of Arabia; Pulp (of course); Days of Heaven; The Stunt Man; Close Encounters; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Cook The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover; Tron; Deer Hunter; Fast Times; Midnight Express; Dersu Uzala; Cuckoo's Nest; Gregory's Girl; Bonnie & Clyde; Jaws; Donovan's Reef; Man With No Name Trilogy (as well)

Directors who can do no wrong: Lynch; Kubrick; the Coens; P.T. Anderson; Kurosawa; Gilliam*; David Lean; Jean-Pierre Jeunet (and I abhor frogs; that's how good this guy is behind the camera); Terrence Malick; John Hughes**; John Ford w/Wayne

*except for Brothers Grimm & putting Robin Williams in Fisher King
**except for Curly Sue

Loathe: Anything by Spike Lee (despite DTRT having a couple funny lines in it); Lars von Trier's shitty flicks; almost every remake and/or sequel/prequel (except Adrian Lyne's Lolita); Jane Campion garbage; anything with those two excrutiatingly unfunny Wayans brothers jerkoffs (!!!!); Woody Allen's series of narcissistic NYC-centric neurotic little self-absorbed nebbish Jew indulgences; superhero movies; any and all self-proclaimed "indie" bullshit movies post Reservoir Dogs (no shortage there); Stanley Tucci anything; Ed Burns flicks - all of 'em big, big bullshit; everything & anything w/Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Whoopie, Julia Roberts, Kenneth "Brown-eye," Sandra Bullock, or Affleck in it... (this list could easily blow out the server, so I'll stop here).

[Westerberg]

Excellent Movies:
WC Fields: It's a Gift (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025318/)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)
Bang The Drum Slowly (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069765/)
Vanishing Point (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/)(the original 1971 version with Cleavon Little)
Serial (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081485/)(1980 starring Martin Mull)
Vertigo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/)
Live and Let Die (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/)
Failsafe (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/)(1964)

I forgot a couple real good classics...

The Last Detail (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070290/): 1973
Glenngary Glenn Ross (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/): Incredible Cast

[Spooner]

Ah, Hal Ashby! The Last Detail is by far Nicholson at his purest Nicholsonest. For sure. "I AM THE MOTHERFUCKING SHORE PATROL, MOTHERFUCKER - I *AM* THE MOTHERFUCKING SHORE PATROL!!!" ...His finest moment.

[Vako]

I have wanted to see the original Manchurian Candidate, but none of the local video stores carry it... is the remake with Denzel any good?

The Original is worthwhile.

[Vako]

Favorties:
Taxi Driver
Blade Runner
The Thing
Big Trouble In Little China
Starship Troopers
RoboCop
Hamburger Hill

Hate:
Apacolypse Now (Waaaaay overrated)
The Last Samurai
Club Dread (How can the guys that made Super Troopers make that crap)
Any movie with Reese witherspoon

Glad to see another Gloid that appreciated Starship Troopers. :thumbsup:

[Westerberg]

Ah, Hal Ashby! The Last Detail is by far Nicholson at his purest Nicholsonest. For sure. "I AM THE MOTHERFUCKING SHORE PATROL, MOTHERFUCKER - I *AM* THE MOTHERFUCKING SHORE PATROL!!!" ...His finest moment.

This film is quite the classic... even if you have no prior military experience... but as a former swabbie... I was quite impressed and had numerous flash-backs to my days on the high seas and in foreign ports of call! The scene when they're in the hotel room and "Bad Ass" is trying to open up the extra folding bed causes "mud out my ass". And the Actor Otis Young... who plays "Mule" does one of the best "drunk sailor" imitations I have ever seen. Trust a former Swabbie... The Last Detail is as realistic as any military movie ever made.

"Stick it in and break it off. Up you jiggy with a wa wa brush."

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:tipofthecap:

[the deta]

Just watched "Maria Full of Grace" yesterday and really enjoyed it. It is about a pregnant columbian teenager wh decides to become a drug mule and deliver drugs to the USA to make money.

The lead actress, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Was really good and was nominated for an acadamy award for this performance.

For me, a movie works when i am completely emmerssed in it. Not wondering when its going to end, how long its gone on, or thinking to much about what is going on. I just like to let the movie control my thoughts and feelings while i "go on the ride". And this movie didnt let me down. so i would highly recommend it.

ps... this movie is in spanish with english subtitles.

[CommunistaCow]

Okay, since we seem to be making our lists bigger, here goes a stab at the Cow's definitive love/loathe breakdown.

Love:

Let It Ride, Pink Panther, Shot In The Dark, The Usual Suspects, Lawrence of Arabia, The Searchers, In Harm's Way, The Quiet Man, Dr. Strangelove, Bridge Over River Kwai, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Red Dawn, Ben Hur, Saving Private Ryan, Shane, Kelly's Heroes, Cool Hand Luke, To Kill A Mockingbird, In The Heat of the Night, Slapshot

Loathe:

Pulp Fiction, Harry Potter - every stinking one, anything what has Affleck or Julia Roberts in it, Titanic, Pearl Harbor

[Howards Turn]

"I like to watch, Eve."

http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes918/beingthere-165.jpeg

[Booze]

Loathe: Stanley Tucci anything

Big Night is one of my favourite films ever. Me & you, outside, now.

(Can you help me out with my dead HD first, though? ;-) )

[Spooner]

Big Night is a good flick (remember: Tucci was virtaully unheard of before that modest flick - it was what he became after that which made me wanna puke when I see him). Oh, was he gettin' really full of shit in interviews... and his really bad little turn in that ungodly shitty Ed Burns blatant Woody Allen ripoff. I'll give ya "Big Night."

[Jdiggity Dee]

Big Night is one of my favourite films ever. Me & you, outside, now.

(Can you help me out with my dead HD first, though? ;-) )


Lee, someone's doing a food in films rundown. So far it's pointed me to some interesting films. Loves the Widmark one, Pickup on South Street (1953).

You might enjoy the list.

http://kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com/food/the-celluloid-pantry/index

[Booze]

Lee, someone's doing a food in films rundown. So far it's pointed me to some interesting films. Loves the Widmark one, Pickup on South Street (1953).

You might enjoy the list.

http://kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com/food/the-celluloid-pantry/index

Nice one. Good to see Goodfellas & Lebowski in there. What about Michael Caine doing the one handed egg cracking in the Ipcress File though? Top film food moment. :thumbsup:

[Hole In Face]

Wasn't Tucci in that HBO film about the Nazis discussing the "final solution"? I forget the name of it but that was some crazy shiznit. Creepy as hell.

[Spooner]

Lee, I'm lookin' for this pic I recently sawr in some magazine that had Tucci at some cheesy NYC party; he's wearin' a starched white shirt with only the bottom two buttons done and was sure to open it enough for his heinous hairy chest to show, complete with gold chain (and he wasn't playin' it for a laugh, neither). He looked like the creepy old man at the Generation Xcrement bar, trying to dress like he's 19 and a ladykiller. It kinda sealed the deal on my disdain. Christ, I gotta find and post that thing - it was "jus' tuhrrrible."

[Booze]

Lee, I'm lookin' for this pic I recently sawr in some magazine that had Tucci at some cheesy NYC party; he's wearin' a starched white shirt with only the bottom two buttons done and was sure to open it enough for his heinous hairy chest to show, complete with gold chain (and he wasn't playin' it for a laugh, neither). He looked like the creepy old man at the Generation Xcrement bar, trying to dress like he's 19 and a ladykiller. It kinda sealed the deal on my disdain. Christ, I gotta find and post that thing - it was "jus' tuhrrrible."

That bastard. He's ripping off my look.

[Vako]

"I like to watch, Eve."

http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes918/beingthere-165.jpeg

One of my favorites. Being There with Peter Sellers. Good reference. :thumbsup:

[123 Ass Kick Street]

Other movies I like...

Dazed and Confused
Detroit Rock City
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
City of God