[inquiry]

Eclectic group..

Princess Bride... inconceivable
Memento ... if i could remember it


Some recent movies i enjoyed

Batman begins ... i can't believe, all the other batman's were horrible
Incredibles ... hey, its more than a cartoon

Recent ones that were better than i thought they might be...
40 year old virgin ... ok, better if you get a bleeped version, language rough
I robot... will smith did ok

Recent ones that were horrible
Bewitched... blech
Sin City ... what was i thinking spending 10 bucks on that trash

[mike777]

Batman Begins I voted this the number one movie last year. I voted Blood Simple number one the year it came out. .

Bewitched, a waste of a wonderful idea.

[jikl]

This will be a weird mix...

Princess Bride: No explanations necessary.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: The music matches the vision incredibly.

The Wall: Bob Geldof, an actor? Whou would have thunk it?

Ferriss Bueller's Day Off: Despite my age I still enjoy him singing on the german float.

Romper Stomper: Very violent. It was the beginning of Russell Crowe's career.

Angel Heart: De Niro, Rourke (before he was punch-drunk)

The Power of One: Although a disappointment compared to the book, a great story about apartheid in South Africa.

Sean

[DrTodd13]

The Wall
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Braveheart
Life is Beautiful
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

[Winstonm]

Lawrence of Arabia.
Shawshank Redemption.
Unforgiven.
Hoosiers
The Hustler
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Thing (original version).
The Bank Dick.

[MickyB]

Closer and Saw are the two that spring to mind. I'm sure there are more, but I can't think at the moment - I saw the end of Hannibal for the first time yesterday, so thinking about films just makes me shudder!

[42]

Tango; my favourite at the moment, I watch it (or some parts of it) very often these days because I love Tango Argentino --> the interaction between man and woman in connection with the music
The Matrix: good idea.
Kung Pow. I also like non stupid Martial Arts movies
Les Choristes
Bread and Tulips
Goodwill Hunting
The Silence of the Lambs
Life of Brian
Harold and Maude: watched it perhaps 12 times over the years.
Old movies with Katherine Hepburn
Operation Petticoat
British Comedies
Die Hard; it is brutal but in a way fascinating, don't know why

To say in general what I like: good sense of humor; something is wrong but the protagonist has and takes the power to change things into the positive; outstanding characters; the ending is not obvious after 2 minutes.

What I really dislike are horror movies (there is already too much horror in the world), katastrophy movies, most Steven King movies (sick mind imo), stupid movies like Police Acadamy or so, movies where in the first 2 minutes 3 houses and 5 cars explode and 107 people die (except Die Hard ), teenage comedies, and and and

[pigpenz]

two of my favorites are

Memento
Muholland Drive


both require you to pay attention

[paulg]

The Third Man (1949) - the star (Orson Welles) does not appear until halfway through the picture and it made the Viennese sewers a tourist attraction for 30 years. Stunning photography, direction (Reed) with great performances (Welles, Cotton) with a haunting soundtrack (Karas) - review

The Usual Suspects (1995) - I missed this when it first came out, but one of the best films I'd seen in years when I finally caught it.

Some Like It Hot (1959) - truly a classic comedy

Raging Bull (1980) - not everyone's couple of tea but one of De Niro's best

Manhatten (1979) - first film I saw at University and always been a favourite

Pulp Fiction (1994) - Tarantino's best - some really funny moments.

Fargo (1996) - the Coen brothers are just great

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Alec Guinness in top form

North by Northwest (1959) - the Hitchcock film I can watch endlessly

The African Queen (1951) - Hepburn and Bogart are just special together

The Matrix (1999) - the best of the trilogy by the Wachowski brothers with Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith, being the performance I really enjoyed.

Paul

[joshs]

cardsharp, on Mar 9 2006, 05:30 PM, said:

The Third Man (1949) - the star (Orson Welles) does not appear until halfway through the picture and it made the Viennese sewers a tourist attraction for 30 years. Stunning photography, direction (Reed) with great performances (Welles, Cotton) with a haunting soundtrack (Karas) - review

The Usual Suspects (1995) - I missed this when it first came out, but one of the best films I'd seen in years when I finally caught it.

Some Like It Hot (1959) - truly a classic comedy

Raging Bull (1980) - not everyone's couple of tea but one of De Niro's best

Manhatten (1979) - first film I saw at University and always been a favourite

Pulp Fiction (1994) - Tarantino's best - some really funny moments.

Fargo (1996) - the Coen brothers are just great

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Alec Guiness in top form

North by Northwest (1959) - the Hitchcock film I can watch endlessly

The African Queen (1951) - Hepburn and Bogart are just special together

The Matrix (1999) - the best of the trilogy by the Wachowski brothers with Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith, being the performance I really enjoyed.

Paul

Great list!

[Walddk]

Any film starring Julia Roberts. A few examples:

Pretty Woman (1990)

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

Notting Hill (1999)

Runaway Bride (1999)

Erin Brokovich (2000)

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

.....

Roland

[luke warm]

the manchurian candidate (the original)
marathon man - hoffman and olivia
network (from the same year)

all 3 had great casts, fabulous acting and great scripts

godfather I and II
fargo
sixth sense
and i'm probably the only one who saw it, but for sure the only one who loved it:
underworld

edited because i had had a brain fart

[pclayton]

luke warm, on Mar 9 2006, 03:06 PM, said:

the manchurian candidate (the original)
network (from the same year)

both had fabulous acting and great scripts

godfather I and II
fargo
sixth sense
and i'm probably the only one who saw it, but for sure the only one who love it:
underworld

Godfather II - great choice.

[Free]

The Usual Suspects, no explanation necessary imo

[Aberlour10]

short :

movies with John Malkovich

Robert

[MickyB]

luke warm, on Mar 9 2006, 11:06 PM, said:

underworld

Seconded. When it was described to me as "Vampires and Werewolves, but done well" I couldn't quite believe it, but I was proved wrong

[sceptic]

Papillon

http://www.lovefilm.com/view_dvd.php?dt_id...EYWORD=Papillon

[badderzboy]

A very strange mix

Star Wars - I too once knew all the lines!

Top Gun - just love the flight sequences

Kind Hearts and Coronets - a fabulous film and agree with all the previous comments

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Matrix
Dune
Aliens

All Sci-Fi classics to me in their own way

Carry on Camping/Doctor/Screaming - typical British humour of the 60s/70s

Dirty Dancing - more for memories invoked by the film

Saving Private Ryan - evocative film that showed the true horror of war in places

Battle of the Bulge - just like the cast and dark humour (Telly Savalas in a half destroyed tank scene)

Erin Brokovich - very moving film - great acting

Silence of the Lambs & Seven - nerve tingling thrillers

Lord of the Rings trilogy - how to move a great story to the big screen!

Steve

[mike777]

Jlall, on Mar 10 2006, 11:55 AM, said:

luke warm, on Mar 9 2006, 06:06 PM, said:

fargo

AHHHHHH. I thought I was reading worst movies when I saw this

Wonderful movie!


To the woodchipper Justin!