Movie buff thread!

[futurecatlady]

So I don't know about you guys, but one of the best ways to cheer myself is to watch a good film. Problem is, I love love movies so I'm running out of good ones! What are some movies that have stood out to you as being truly great?

Here are some off the top of my head:

Absolutely anything by Pixar
Ratatouille (deserves its own spot on the list; it's so amazing)
As Good as It Gets (my favorite movie when I was in middle school)
Little Children
Children of Men
Mysterious Skin
Road to Perdition (another super fav)
American Beauty
The Iron Giant
The Machinist
The entire decade of the 70s (ok, not a movie in and of itself, but produced a lot of good ones!)

I'll leave it there for now and see what you guys have to say!

 

[Badjedidude]

Ohh I have to agree with some you put down, catlady! Iron Giant and Road to Perdition ftw!

Event Horizon
9
Spy Game
Serenity
Kingdom of Heaven
Gladiator
Fight Club
Braveheart
Master and Commander

...and way too many more to list here.

 

[edgecrusher]

my favorites are:

fight club
donnie darko
american beauty
the matrix
the fifth element
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
pulp fiction
the boondock saints
aliens
terminator 2
clerks II
slc punk
28 days later

and of course.... the original star wars trilogy.

there are many more but these are my most favorites i guess, atleast these are the ones that i came up with off the top of my head.

 

[evanescencefan91]

Little miss sunshine
memento
a beautiful mind
donni darko
shrek
get smart

into the wild
Lord of the rings
the matrix
beverly hills ninja
underworld

okay that's all i can think of now those are ones I like hope it kills some time for you

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oh and I've heard dogma is good

 

[ThisGuy]

lol dannngg i havnt seen any of the movies you have on your list cat lady

wellll here you go..

the pursuit of happyness
american history x
full metal jacket
the notebook =D
sin city

 

[TheWickedOne]

Arsenic and Old Lace
The Thin Man
Blade Runner
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Smokin Aces
Predator 2
Clerks

Just a few off the top of me head.

 

[Belleza]

Wall-E.
Ratatouille.
The 10th Kingdom.
I Am Legend.
Princess Mononoke.
Spirited Away.
Lord of the Rings.
Star Wars.
Pan's Labyrinth.
Iron Man.
Pinapple Express.
The Hangover.

Just a big mixture, really. :] I'm mostly into fantasy/action type stuff, but every now and then I do like the good comedy - so long as it is actually good. Some comedies are just... Painful, really. =P

 

[Haz]

http://www.criticker.com/?fl&user=Haz567

movies I like/dislike

 

[Bluebird]

Any movie by Hayao Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Matrix Trilogy
Avatar
Unleashed
Monsters Inc.
Up
Pirates of the Caribbean (1&2)
Beauty & the Beast
Resident Evil Trilogy & Degeneration
Zombieland
The Mummy
Rush Hour 1 & 2
Sweeney Todd
5 Centimeters Per Second
The Last Unicorn (my favorite movie as a child)

I could keep going...but I won't. I watch alot of movies. : )

 

[clio]

White Heat
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Harvey
Arsenic & Old Lace
His Girl Friday
The Maltese Falcon
A Face in the Crowd
Elmer Gantry
The Women (1939)
Midnight Cowboy
A Street Car Named Desire
On the Waterfront
The Blues Brothers
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Notorious
The Lost Weekend

 

[Electric_Fusilier]

Blade Runner (though Roy Batty's 'Tears in the Rain' speech gets me every time...)
Batman TDK
Napoleon Dynamite (I always feel kinda sorry for Uncle Rico, though. However, Kip hooking up with Lafawndah gives me hope, lol)
Mystery Men
The Full Monty (always a good cheer-up. I myself have done a striptease, in a pub garden But that was back when I was young and pretty!)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (big fan of retro-furturism)
And what the hell ... more Blade Runner, cos it's my favourite film.

 

[Oscillate_Wildly]

Kes
Jan Svankmajer's Alice
This Is England
Dead Man's Shoes
A Room for Romeo Brass
Twenty Four Seven
The Wizard of Oz
The Proposition
Stand by Me
V for Vendetta
Amélie
The Chorus
Strictly Ballroom
Rebel Without a Cause
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Wizard of Oz
The Wrestler
Harold and Maude
Coraline
Ghost World
Garden State

So much loneliness and campness, is there really any wonder why I am like I am. Do I choose my films because of this, or do they choose me?

 

[blueindia2681]

So I don't know about you guys, but one of the best ways to cheer myself is to watch a good film. Problem is, I love love movies so I'm running out of good ones! What are some movies that have stood out to you as being truly great?

Here are some off the top of my head:

Absolutely anything by Pixar
Ratatouille (deserves its own spot on the list; it's so amazing)
As Good as It Gets (my favorite movie when I was in middle school)
Little Children
Children of Men
Mysterious Skin
Road to Perdition (another super fav)
American Beauty
The Iron Giant
The Machinist
The entire decade of the 70s (ok, not a movie in and of itself, but produced a lot of good ones!)

I'll leave it there for now and see what you guys have to say!

What is "Mysterious Skin"?

 

[cheaptrickfan]

Just off the top of MY head:

Gosford Park (or, anything at all by Robert Altman)
Brazil
12 Monkeys
The Shawshank Redemption
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Night on Earth
Das Boot (The best submarine movie ever made. Ever.)
Waking Ned Devine

Just to name a few.

 

[Just_Some_Dude]

...a brief, and incomplete, list of my modern favorites...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (depp at his best, and benizio del toro, what a ******* performance)
Borat (sacha, comedic plutonium)
Bruno (again, sacha)
The Chronicles of Riddick - scifi, but cool scifi (vin at his baddest)
The Others (nicole kidman ftw, this movie made me scream in the theater)

...from the animated/claymation category...

The Nightmare Before Christmas (one of the best)
Coraline (yes, i'm strange)

...from the 80's...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (i have lived that day many times, only not as cool)
Pump Up the Volume (christian at his best)
The Breakfast Club (i WAS "The Criminal")
Top Gun (i don't care, cruise is a good actor)

 

[whirlingwaltzer]

Gosford Park (or, anything at all by Robert Altman)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Gosford Park was wonderful--Altman really was the king of the complicated intertwining stories. It's so hard to pull off, eh? And I love anything by Wes Anderson. My heart will always lie with The Royal Tenenbaums, but Life Aquatic is right up there.

Some others I love:

Heavenly Creatures
Ghost World
Squid and the Whale
The Ice Storm
Career Girls
Harold and Maude
Trainspotting
The "__Up" Series
24 Hour Party People
The Professional
Fargo
Crumb
A Very Long Engagement
Donnie Darko
Lost in Translation
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The Fog of War

 

[Lanlan]

In no particular order:
Donnie Darko
Clue
The Gruffalo
Rocky Horror
Schindler's List
Catch 22
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

[DayvanCowboy]

Ghost World
24 Hour Party People
Crumb

Nice picks.

All time favorites for myself so far.

After Hours (Scorsese)
Buffalo '66 (Gallo)
Naked (Leigh)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron)
The Eel (Imamura)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Battle In Heaven (Reygadas)
The Stunt Man (Rush)
Robocop (Verhoeven)
The Piano Teacher (Haneke)

 

[eris]

desperate living
gummo
I heart huckabees
pink flamingos
antichrist (2009)
tideland
natural born killers
magnolia
julien donkey boy
kids
beyond the valley of the dolls
mondo trasho
female trouble
donnie darko
s. darko
la dolce vida
faster, pussycat! kill! kill!
brazil
a clockwork orange
eraserhead
blue velvet
eternal sunshine of the topless mind
all three twilight movies
johnny got his gun
requiem for a dream
and A LOT of porn

 

[CrazieCute]

Wow. I like a lot of the ones already mentioned.

To name off some of my faves, I like:

Coraline
It's complicated
Supersize me
Girl, interrupted
Lord of the rings trilogy
Little miss sunshine
Ghost town
Penelope
Diary of a mad black woman
the Uninvited
Malena
Minority report
Fight club
Thin
the Last samurai
a Little princess (1995)
Robin hood: men in tights
Scary movie 2
the Matchmaker
the Last of the mohicans
the Patriot
Beetlejuice
the Crazies
Life is beautiful
Grease
Frequency
Tin man
Serenity
Religulous
Pride and prejudice (2005)