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Favorite Movies
cimmerian32:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
John Carter
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Better Off Dead
Outlaw Josey Wales
Aliens
My Science Project
Love and a .45
From Dusk 'Til Dawn
Snatch
These are the forever movies... the ones I can and will watch in whole and in part whenever and wherever I encounter them.
And, yes, John Carter joined these hallowed ranks instantly... Such a fun film!
narfstar:
I just do not watch movies or TV shows over and over. Once every ten years is my norm. I seldom enjoy a movie as much as the first time. I have to judge a movie based on how much I loved it the first time. So I go with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom, Star Wars 4-6, The Gods Must be Crazy and yes I will add John Carter to the list. The list does not include Disney/Pixar, etc or comedies which is like comparing apples to oranges. I can not rank comedies compared to action, etc
watson387:
My favorite movies (in no particular order):
Pulp Fiction
North by Northwest
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
True Romance
Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind
Kick-Ass
Army of Darkness
Full Metal Jacket
Akira
There are a ton of movies I can watch over and over, those are just the ones that come to mind in an instant.
jfglade:
I don't really care for so-called "comic book movies" and the only three of that sub-genre I really enjoy are "The Shadow", "The Phantom", and "Mystery Men." I did enjoy "Iron Man" but I've found that I don't like seeing it again and I think the reason I liked it is simply that it was so much better than I thought it would be that I was impressed. I'm in a caregiver situation and it is not possible for me to go to movies, so I have not seen a movie in a theater since the very early spring of 2009. I would like to see "The Avengers" but I doubt I will have a chance until it is available on DVD and then only if my library buys a copy (the chance of that are very good, and they have copies of the second Iron Man movie (which I did not like), and "Captain America, the First Avenger" (which I thought was a little better than mediocre). I find movies and comics to be two completely different things, and move adaptions of comics don't work for me, although I do like some comic book adaptions of movies.
Here is a list of movies which I consider to be first class:
Los Olvidados
Picnic at Hanging Rock
O, Lucky Man
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
The Loved One
The Bride of Frankenstein
Yojimbo
Seven Samuri
Stray Dog
Gran Torino
The Spirit of the Beehive
That Obscure Object of Desire
Never Give a Sucker and Even Break
The Cameraman
The Lusty Men
The Bank Dick
The Gold Rush
The Thin Man
Z
Annie Hall
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World`
O Brother, Where Art Thou
There are also a wealth of movies I love which I do not think are first class, ranging from things like "Rancho Deluxe" to "The Thing (from Another World)" to "Tarzan and his Mate" to "The Haunting (of Hill House)" to Ken Russel's "The Devils." I enjoy 1950s Sci-fi movies, I like some very low brow comedies, and I like undubbed lowbrow Mexican movies still in their original form like "Juan Nadie" and "Narcosatanicos." My tastes aren't even terribly consistent.
For what it is worth,
Jon
bcholmes:
--- Quote from: bminor on February 14, 2012, 07:22:00 AM ---Jeeves & Wooster, broadcast back in the early 1990's on PBS.
--- End quote ---
Have you seen the "What if Bertie Wooster was Batman?" thing?
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2010/02/22/what-if-bertie-wooster-rather-than-being-a-mere-layabout-was-also-batman/
BCing you
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