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Favorite Movies
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
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