Favourite 25 Movies

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by David

What a boring list from you & I am somewhat disappointed, Luke.

Gee, thanks If it helps any, "Kind Hearts & Coronets" & "Male and Female" were both among the final cuts.

[iamnotafraid]

[QUOTE=David;886915]

My list:

2. The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Did you mean to say Day Of The Dolphin?
Or are you just a big fan of Don Knotts?

[chelluversu]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Chellu, you got the worst list outta the whole lot

thanks

[mylittledemon]

haha, I knew you'd laugh

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Some of the worst movies ever made? I'd hate to see what you'd call Crash, Rain Man, or any Schwarzenegger movie.

My list started this thread so that should indicate the movies that I care about. I'm not sure what you mean by those examples: Crash (both of them lol) and Rain Man are bad. Umm... No Schwarzenegger movie would make my top 5000 movies probably but I do enjoy Total Recall. I can't think of any other Awnold movies that I do like, and T2 is one of the worst movies ever made. But I can't tell if you think I would/should or wouldn't/shouldn't like them.

Originally Posted by LukeA

You're still on the record as thinking that "The Dark Knight" and "WALL-E" are amongst the most abominable man-made creations (let alone movies), right? Just checking

Yes. Wall-E is probably my worst movie-watching experience. Painful. It's all coming back to me like a wave of nausea:

1) the hype that the opening portion is a "silent film" (it's not a return to "silent" film aesthetics just because it's about "characters" that CAN'T talk--silent film is a medium without sound in a world where people CAN verbalize--so pantomime and images express their thoughts/feelings/voices/action/sound while the images in Wall-E EXPRESS nothing--just, literally, garbage; in fact, the movie RELIES--lazily, with no panache--on sound to provide exposition and to explain how/why the humans left Earth)

2) stealing the significance of the GREAT Hello, Dolly!--reducing it to just MORE garbage, cultural detritus, signifying nothing

3) the concept of "love" as programming/pathology rather than the complex progression of desire, projection, identification, selflessness, and spiritual longing in A.I.--in which Spielberg's visionary sci-fi milieu shows how this Desire is manifested in the culture (while Wall-E reduces culture to garbage)

4) the plant!!!! (for a movie whose entire plot hinges on the suitability of life on earth, how the f--- does that plant survive in cold, airless space?)

5) the little-boned fat future of man (the apocalyptic extension of the first half's emphasis on pathology)

6) the completely senseless narrative device of the contradictory directives that the space station computer receives from the same humans (it sends out plant probes but it also is directed to destroy any evidence that may lead to humans repopulating Earth--WTF!? who wrote this script?)

7) Then it turns into Finding Nemo--devolving into chase-scene mayhem, running around (from whom to where? wtf is going on??), without any of animation's (or silent film's!) legacy of chase-scene wit and legibility (see The Simpsons Movie or the films of Buster Keaton/Harold Lloyd, for a breadth of examples)

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I feel Old School and Road Trip are much funnier than "the Hangover" (both are from the same director).

Other comedies that have some raunch that are infinitely more funny... Election, Office Space, Saved!,

These are 3 great movies! Saved! especially is an under-rated gem and Mandy Moore is great as Hillary Faye (don't scoff until you see it guys, trust me!)

I haven't seen In Bruges yet but it's on my list because I've bot heard a bad word about it.

[skcin]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

YES!!! Someone else who loves Overboard! It's in my list too! It's so brilliantly quotable!

"Andrew! Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it through my hat?!"

"I just...ate...a bug!"

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

YES!!! Someone else who loves Overboard! It's in my list too! It's so brilliantly quotable!

"Andrew! Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it through my hat?!"

Crap, I missed this one too. Definitely one of my favorites.

Paula quoted my favorite part

[hayley]

No particular order except for the top 5, which really are my top 5 -

Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Spinal Tap
Secretary
Bad Santa
Blue Velvet
Atonement
Lost in Translation
Big Lebowski
Almost Famous
Anchorman
Ghost World
The Virgin Suicides
Rushmore
Royal Tenenbaums
Life Aquatic
Seven
Fight Club
9 1/2 Weeks (Yep.)
Dead Again
Gangs of New York
Moulin Rouge
Up
Serial Mom
Fight Club

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by skcin

"I just...ate...a bug!"

Originally Posted by equeen102289

Crap, I missed this one too. Definitely one of my favorites.

Paula quoted my favorite part

"I'm sorry... I got horny. Do you hate me?"

"Andrew! I'm sitting!"

[skcin]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

"I'm sorry... I got horny. Do you hate me?"

"Andrew! I'm sitting!"

"Ahhhhh Tofuti. I love you Tofuti...Tofuti."

Joanna "Andrew, I'd love a beer."
Mom"A BEER?!"
J"Oh dear, was that wrong?"
Therapist"No nothing's ever wrong."
J Pops top off beer on counter top. "Good stuff."
Mom "Cigarette dear?"
J "No thanks mother, I don't smoke."
Mom "Yes you do! You've always smoked."
J "I have?"
Mom "Yes!"
Therapist "Let's all smoke!"
Grant "Why do I have to smoke? I don't like to smoke!"

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by skcin

"Ahhhhh Tofuti. I love you Tofuti...Tofuti."

Joanna "Andrew, I'd love a beer."
Mom"A BEER?!"
J"Oh dear, was that wrong?"
Therapist"No nothing's ever wrong."
J Pops top off beer on counter top. "Good stuff."
Mom "Cigarette dear?"
J "No thanks mother, I don't smoke."
Mom "Yes you do! You've always smoked."
J "I have?"
Mom "Yes!"
Therapist "Let's all smoke!"
Grant "Why do I have to smoke? I don't like to smoke!"

Hee hee!! The other great line from Grant in bed is "Joanna - how can you have your period every week?!"

"I suppose I'm just supposed to sit in the sun with my perm crisping to oblivion? I look like a bushman!"

[estranged4life]

The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
Animal House
The Blues Brothers ("I hate Illinois Nazi's")
Smokey & the Bandit
North to Alaska
McClintock
Big Jake
Rio Lobo
Clerks
Clerks II
Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Apocalypse Now
Escape from Alcatraz
This is Spinal Tap

Forgot to add:
The Forbidden Kingdom (The last movie Debbie & I saw before she passed from this existence)
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
Animal House
The Blues Brothers ("I hate Illinois Nazi's")
Smokey & the Bandit
North to Alaska
McClintock
Big Jake
Rio Lobo
Clerks
Clerks II
Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Apocalypse Now
Escape from Alcatraz
Spinal Tap

Have you seen "A Fistful Of Dollars" and "For A Few Dollars More", the two that came before "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"? All classics!

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by jaycee

Have you seen "A Fistful Of Dollars" and "For A Few Dollars More", the two that came before "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"? All classics!

I have seen 'em and I love all the "Spaghetti Westerns".