[Dusty Chalk]

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Originally posted by Flasken "The Game" with Michael Douglas.

Meh. It was good the first time.

Some of my favourites:

Pink Floyd's The Wall -- visual poetry
2001: A Space Oddyssey -- trip out
From Dusk Til Dawn -- just shy of perfect
The Fifth Element -- Blade Runner meets Warner Bros. cartoons
Blade Runner -- another world is created
Akira -- best cinematography (sic)
Ghost in the Shell -- best soundtrack and story
Koyaanisqatsi -- best dialog
Face/Off -- had me on the edge of my seat; violence as poetry
Princess Bride -- "My name is Inigo Montoya. You keeled my fazzer, prepare to die."
This is Spinal Tap -- funniest documentary
Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong Trousers -- funniest fictional movie ever
The Matrix -- best use of non-gratuitous special effects
Long Kiss Goodnight -- best heroine
Legend of Drunken Master -- he creates a fictitious fighting style, becomes a master of it, then makes it look good
The Crow -- Brandon Lee's swansong, RIP
The Hunger -- best "goth" film
After Dark -- best vampire film
The Keep -- best extended/alternate ending
Young Frankenstein -- some of the best one-joke scenes
The Mummy -- surprisingly good Indiana Jones take-off
Nightmare on Elm Street -- first _really_ scary film I ever saw, and still one of the scariest
Prince of Darkness -- easily the most scary film I have ever seen. L, just the trailer was pretty scary.

Uh...that's enough for now...

 

[Flasken]

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Originally posted by DustyChalk Meh. It was good the first time.

- ive only seen it once

I just can't find it anywhere!!!

 

[Wes]

Hmm. A lot of good ones already mentioned, but I could draw attention to...

Barry Lyndon, Kubrick's most perfect film.

Lolita, Kubrick's version, not extremely close to the novel but a kick for reasons of its own, including Peter Sellar's performance(s).

Touch of Evil, alongside Citizen Kane another fully realized success by Orson Welles. (There are only those two that succeed.)

And a bunch of foreign classics (foreign to us US citizens, of course, not to everyone) from the '60's to 70's, a golden age if ever there was one:

La Dolce Vita
8 and 1/2
400 Blows
Jules and Jim
L'Avventura
The Red Desert
Hari-Kari
Yojimbo
Woman in the Dunes

Some overlooked comedies:

The Wrong Box
That Man from Rio
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Seduced and Abandoned

Some wonderful UK films (two of the above are UK also):

The Whisperers
Darling
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
The Entertainer

There are, of course, lots more.

 

[TerriblySorry]

Ma Vie En Rose
My Life As A Dog

 

[Audio-Me]

Face/Off was awesome, that reminds me, Swordfish was even better. I second The Mummy I and II.

 

[chadbang]

Wow, some impressive listing going on here. Roll Man's "film school 101" list was brillant. Onix turns out to be a Sci-fi Horror man with supreme taste in a genre that often overlooked. "Godfather II" gets it due - and more. "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" There's a great one you don't see on many lists! Just reading this thread gave me a ton of ideas for films I want to view soon. "Little Big Man' and is an awesome film that I haven't seen for a few years. Great choice, and one that's not mentioned much.

So many classics were named, let's see if I can name some more obscure films worth seeing.

The Parallax View (if only for the "Parallax test" alone)
The Offense (Sean Connery. Oh so bleak!)
Les Enfants Terrible (Cocteau)
Nashville (not really obscure, but a masterpiece I had to mention!)
Solaris (a mind bender if you're in the mood)
Aquirre The Wrath of God (My favourite Hertzog)
The Grapes of Wrath (Well, a classic, too, but I didn't see it listed here.)

Any Italian or Spanish vampire movie with a lot of cleavage! (Childhood favorites)

Two great filmed plays:
Long Days Journey Into Night (O'Neille - Jason Robards, Katherine Heburn version)
True West (Absolute must see, worth hunting down at your library. Sam Sheppard. John Malkovitch's greatest role. Hmm, you think you know who Malkovich is. See this. It may be closer to the real John...)

Thanks for the recommendations guys.

 

[Russ Arcuri]

There are too many to list. I'll just mention a few that I don't think I've seen named here yet.

Joe Versus the Volcano -- Yes, really! It's an excellent film.

Moonstruck -- My wife and I have fun with the characters -- many of them remind us of family members of ours.

Fresh -- Little known, but definitely worth finding on video.

Memento -- Yes, I know it's been mentioned already, but it's fairly new and deserves another mention. The best movie I've seen in a few years now.

Real Genius -- an older one, still not availalble on DVD.

Pulp Fiction -- I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. Sam Jackson was absolutely amazing, and the screenplay is the best one in the last 10 years. Marred only by Tarantino's insistence on casting himself in a role which should have gone to somebody who actually knows how to act.

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski) -- Better than the other two films in the Three Colors series, but if you're going to watch it, you should see the other two first.

The Hunt for Red October -- If someone else mentioned this one, I missed it. If no one else mentioned it, shame on you!

There are lots more, but many have been mentioned here already.

 

[edog]

Here is my list of favorite movies, in no particular order:

- Godfather Parts I/II
- Citizen Kane
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- The Insider
- Apocalypse Now
- The Matrix
- original Star Wars trilogy
- Gladiator
- Full Metal Jacket
- Amadeus (I know it's historically inaccurate in many places, but I still love it)

 

[HeadWired]

We are such "guys". This list is total "man show" stuff.

So I have to put in my plug for "American Beauty". You have to be old enough to understand dissapointment to get this movie, but it's brilliant.

And jodokast, people look at me funny when I put Perfect Storm on a great movie list, but I really love that movie. It looks and sounds excellent on my HT setup.

 

[neil]

The Boondock Saints was something that I've been wanting to see for a long time, and just the other day I watched it with my pop. Holy smokes.. great film. Great action, fun plot, and well placed humor. Definitely rated R.

 

[raymondlin]

ANyone seen Valley of the Wind? another Miyazaki classic, I've only seen Toroto onces when I was 8, but have Laputa and valley of the wind on video & Princess Mononoke on DVD. Really want to see KiKi delivery service just because Miyazaki made it.

 

[Audio-Me]

Here's some more:
All Quiet On the Western Front
Erin Brockovich
Friday
Leathal Weapon 4
Sunset Park

 

[petehern]

In any old order...

Fargo
2001
Citizen Kane
Holy Grail
Dr. Strangleove
The Professional

 

[coolvij]

- twelve angry men
- silence of the lambs
- MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
- Schindler's List
- etc.

 

[rickcr42]

man,some kind of blind spot.
Pulp Fiction was awsome