Favorite Movies

[fett]

One movie I haven't seen listed that everyone should try (IMO) is a little picture called Four Rooms. It's hilarious. 

[DennyWilson]

The Shawshank Redemption

[JonTheScanner]

One movie I've not seen listed and I love is The Sting.  If I could make myself forget one movie so I could watch it again for the first time this would be it.  Still very enjoyable to watch it again, but nothign quite like the first time.

[OtherEric]

I think it may have been long enough since I've seen the Sting that I could be surprised by at least some of the twists again.  What a great film.

[Astaldo711]

The Sting! I only saw it once but enjoyed it. The more people post, the more I remember. Gangs of New York was good. Daniel Day Lewis was excellent in it. Right now I'm watching the Alien Quadrilogy. I like Aliens (2nd one) best and the first and fourth are second best. The third one was only so-so.

[dlg87020]

I've always liked movies that were made in the 80's. The first movie I remember seeing was Ghostbusters. It was at a drive in theater with my parents, think I was 3 or 4 years old.
Other awesome 80's flicks:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Willow (1988)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
The Lost Boys (1987)
lethal Weapon (1987)
Ladyhawke (1985)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1988)
Back To The Future (1985)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Airplane (1980)
A Christmas Story (1983)

[misappear]

Hi folks

I love speculative fiction, and I've a penchant for post-apocalyptic stuff.  Still favs, however would be Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, the Day the Earth Stood Still, and (why, I don't know) Robinson Crusoe on Mars.  I've watched these so many times I can't even count.

I should probably watch more comedies and help my occasionally sour worldview

--Dave

[bminor]

Listed by favorite Motion Picture Performers.

Humphrey Bogart,
The Big Sleep, High Sierra, Casablanca, The African Queen

James Cagney
Yankee Doodle Dandy, Public Enemy, White Heat (Look at me Ma, I'm on top of the world!!!), Angels With Dirty Faces (O.K. Rocky, come out with your hands up!),

Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey
Woman of the Year, Pat and Mike, Adams Rib

Jimmy Stewart
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rear Window, Harvey, Destry Rides Again, It's a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner, You Can't Take It With You.

Cary Grant,
Arsenic and Old Lace, Operation Petticote, Father Goose, I Was a Male War Bride, An Affair to Remember, Monkey Business, The Bishop's Wife, His Girl Friday,
Gunga Din (What a film!!!, Indiana Jones was taken from this!!! None stop action from beginning to end!)
Bringing up Baby,

This is just a partial list, nothing on it is past about 1960 I think. I would like to see how many films of the past forty years hold up half as well as any of these that I have just mentioned!!!

B.



Any film Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

[kusunoki]

I'll jump in on this. Haven't been watching too many movies lately, but a few favorites off the top of my head.

Repo Man - early '80s new wave punk, alien conspiracy, Harry Dean Stanton madness
Tampopo - pretty abstract but eternally watchable story - food and eating are really the main characters
Kill Bill - the best love letter to Westerns, Kung Fu Movies, and Samurai Flicks ever - a movie about movies that nobody got when it first came out
Bakuto Gaijin Butai - stripped, spare, yet ultra-stylish yakuza movie from the '70s - hip doom
Hard Core Logo - Canadian mockumentary following a washed up punk band on their last tour - hilarious in its crushing hopelessness
5 Shaolin Masters - the very best kung fu movie ever
Dead Man - either the tarot deck as interpreted as a western, or a western as interpreted as a tarot deck

Wow, this has put me in the mood to watch a movie...

[Yoc]

Hi kusunoki,
Love your list.  I've seen them all.
I personally found Five Deadly Venoms a better kung-fu movie but likely because it's so comic-book influenced.

bminor, I too am a big fan of TCM classic movie fair.  Joan Blondell is one I always watch out for.  One of the few women that could go toe-to-toe with Cagney in a scene.  For pure eye-candy give me Rita Hayworth anyday!

-Yoc

[kusunoki]

Oh, Venoms is a fine film, as well. One could imagine worse evenings than one spent watching both it and 5 Shaolin Masters back-to-back.

[BobS]

Stunt Man

Repo Man

Sixth Sense

Detective:
Chinatown
the Thin Man movies (Wm. Powell and Myrna Loy)

Drive-In Movie:
The Born Losers (prequel to Billy Jack)

War / anti-war:
The Great Escape (Steve McQueen)
M*A*S*H
The Crying Game

Spy:
From Russia With Love
Dr. No
Bourne movies

Western:
Little Big Man
Cat Ballou
Bite the Bullet
Pale Rider
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
really wanna see the Randolph Scott Budd Boetticher westerns

Hitch:
To Catch a Thief
Rebecca
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Strangers on a Train
North By Northwest
Frenzy (sick Hitchcock)

Bogart:
Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
Casablanca

Disney:
The Light in the Forest (I haven't see it since I was a kid tho)
Shaggy Dog (original)

Horror:
28 Days Later
The Hills Have Eyes (original)
Shawn of the Dead
Tremors (guilty pleasure)
Brendan Fraser Mummy Movies

SF:
Blade Runner
Forbidden Planet
Mad Max 2:Road Warrior
Aliens 2

Bill Murray:
GROUNDHOG DAY (!!!!!!)
Caddyshack
Stripes

Foreign:
Amarcord
My wife & I really liked My Life As a Dog but haven't seen it in a long time.

etc.

TCM is my favorite cable channel.
Re Bride of Frankenstein: every time I try to watch it, I fall asleep in the middle of it.
Re The Gods Are Crazy: would have been one of my favorites except for the racism (blacks are incapable of ruling themselves etc.) and pro-apartheid propaganda.
Re Tampopo: liked it enough to buy it on video.



Bob

[narfstar]

Yes to Tremors. A guilty pleasure for me also. Have wathced it several times

[BobS]

A few more favorites I missed last post:

John Sayles:
Return of the Secaucus Seven
Lone Star

Lone Star is a special favorite of my wife and me. Nice moral dilemmas in the story.

Brit TV mini-series:
Edge of Darkness - NOT THE 2010 MOVIE!!!

Bob

[BobS]

Hi folks

I love speculative fiction, and I've a penchant for post-apocalyptic stuff.  Still favs, however would be Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, the Day the Earth Stood Still, and (why, I don't know) Robinson Crusoe on Mars.  I've watched these so many times I can't even count.

I should probably watch more comedies and help my occasionally sour worldview

--Dave

Robinson Crusoe on Mars was much better than I expected.
Bob