Your favorite Movie

[tejasclone]

I thought about it. I'm really a Star Wars geek. Not really bad though. I'm not totally tubby and I don't live in my parent's basement.

I love A New Hope and Empire. The problem is that I start to look at the six movies as a whole and I'm less enthusiastic.

Part of me thinks that I want to glorify them because I remember them from my childhood. People always remember things better than they actually are/were.

Then there is the fact that Episodes I, II, and III completely sucked.
The kid in I couldn't act and the story sucked, the kid in II couldn't cat and the story sucked, and in III...well you see that pattern.
A good thing was ruined by 3 average movies, at best.

I felt that the last 30 minutes of II and all of III were pretty good because Lucas finally gave us Jedi, and lots of them, doing awesome Jedi ****. But the contrived romance and Natalie Portman trying to act were just awful. The new trilogy as a whole however really soils the original trilogy, and that is unfortunate. It's almost best to think of them as entirely separate entities.

My list would be:

The Rock
Transformers
Batman Begins/The Dark Knight (it's not out yet, but it will kick some serious posterior)
The Matrix (1)
Anchorman

 

[bos]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

"This place is fantastic! It's like "Gone With The Wind" on mescaline. They walk imaginary pets here, Garland - on a leash! And they're all heavily armed and drunk. New York is boring!"

That was one movie that was tough for me to watch. I dont know if I was in a mood or what, but I just didnt enjoy it.

 

[acs4isu]

Comedy.....Night Shift. 1983 with Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler. One of Ron Howard's first films. The P R O S T I T U T I O N chalkboard scene is one of the funniest ever.

TION of course, from the Latin to shun... to say uh-uh no thank you anyway I don't want it, to push away... it doesn't even belong in this word really.

Funny funny stuff...

 

[bos]

If you want a great thriller/thinker check out Frailty. Excellent cast and well directed.

http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264616/

 

[clones_jer]

Titanic
Romy and Micheles Highschool Reunion
The Hours
Thelma and Louise
You've Got Mail

Romy and Michelle was quite possibly the worst 2 hours I've ever spent in front of a television ... oh wait slightly better than my nominee for worst movie ever:

"Island of Dr Merou":no:

 

[CYVADER]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

wait till you see those goddamn bats man

 

[bcr4isu]

Christmas Vacation
The Great Outdoors
Lethal Weapon Series
Just a few there are too many to narrow down to one or so.

 

[CRcyclone6]

I have two. Long Gone, it's a baseball movie made in 1987. starring William Peterson, Virginia Madsen (absolutely hot in this film), and Dermot Mulroney. Airplane is the other.

 

[Cutlass]

Comedy - Groundhog Day
Drama - Beautiful Girls
Man Movie - Gladiator
Favorite Stupid Comedy - Dazed and Confused
Science Fiction Epic - Lord of the Rings
Science Fiction - Serenity
Favorite Bloodbath Movie - The Killer (w/ Chow Yun Fat)
Action Movie - Conan the Barbarian
Classic - The Maltese Falcon
Musical - O' Brother Where Art Thou?
Western - High Plains Drifter

 

[spanny]

Batman Begins
Tombstone
Young Guns
Boondock Saints

 

[lakeliving]

Shawshank Redemption

 

[cybsball20]

Shawshank...

 

[dukeebear]

Good Will Hunting and Shawshank tie.

 

[CYKXBUT]

Kelly's Heros

 

[CycloneHockey]

I can't possibly pick just one. So here are my top five, a la High Fidelity:

1) Swingers
2) Miracle
3) Rudy
4) Anchorman
5) Goodfellas

 

[Stumpy]

I forgot to mention Groundhog Day in my first list. So there's the amendment.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Fine, I can do a detailed list:

Comedy - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
British Comedy - Shaun of the Dead or Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Drama - The Shawshank Redemption
Man Movie - 300
Favorite Stupid Comedy - Dumb and Dumber
Science Fiction Epic - Star Wars
Science Fiction - The Matrix
Fantasy Epic - Lord of the Rings
Favorite Bloodbath Movie - Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2
Action Movie - Underworld
Classic - 12 Angry Men
Sports - Miracle
Christmas - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Musical - White Christmas or Mary Poppins (not really a big musical fan)

 

[Drizzle]

Batman Begins
Tombstone
Young Guns
Boondock Saints

That's a pretty sweet list... I would put Braveheart in for Young Guns. Has anyone seen Green Street Hooligans?

 

[harty83]

OK, I said that Tombstone is my favorite--which is true--but I would be remiss if I didn't also note Caddyshack, for the mere fact that I have probably watched it more than a hundred times. When my sister and I were growing up, it was like a second religion. She can just about recite the entire movie (with proper voice inflections) by heart.

 

[tejasclone]

OK, I said that Tombstone is my favorite--which is true--but I would be remiss if I didn't also note Caddyshack, for the mere fact that I have probably watched it more than a hundred times. When my sister and I were growing up, it was like a second religion. She can just about recite the entire movie (with proper voice inflections) by heart.

Doc: I'm sure of it. I hate him.
Wyatt [to Ringo]: He's drunk.
Doc: In vino veritas.
Ringo: Age quod agis.
Doc: Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.
Ringo [patting gun]: Eventus stultorum magister.
Doc: Now that's Latin, darlin'. Evidently Mr. Ringo is an educated man. Now I really hate him.