favourite films

[Cloud]

wots urs?
mine r (in no order):

Warriors
Lost Boys
Reservoir Dogs
The Crow
Labyrinth
Walt Disneys Robin Hood
The Odd Couple
Withnail and I
Empire Records
BASEketball
Breakfast At Tiffanys
Blazing Saddles
Edward Scissorhands
Raising Arizona
Butch Cassiddy and The Sundance Kid

[athaclena]

My all time favourtie is Cyrano de Bergerac with Gerard Depardieu. Can't get enough of tragic heros.
Apart from that, again in no order:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Benny and Joon
The Empire Strikes Back
All of the Indiana Jones trilogy
Don Juan DeMarco
Thelma and Louise (I wanna be Thelma when I grow up)
The Princess Bride
Wayne's World
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Lord of the Rings. Not only a good film but with very, very pretty people in it. Mmm.

There are more but I have a crap memory.

[The_Farwall]

Reality Bites
Heathers
Starship Troopers
IJ and the Last Crusade (the others are bloody good too though)
Logan's Run
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Leaving Las Vegas (!!!!)

God, hundreds of others, I'll probably come back and add some more.

[S.P.I.G]

The Crow
Top Gun
Blade
Lost Boys
Good Morning Vietnam
Labyrinth
Godfather part1
Godfather part2
Full Metal Jacket
Tango and Cash

[megaera]

I second both Cyrano de Bergerac and The Princess Bride, although I've seen that one way too many times. Here are some more:

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Robin Hood, Men in Tights
An Ideal Husband
The Matrix
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (probably TTT and ROTK too)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

can't think of any more right now

[Bonnie]

Clerks-- the original of the series is the best!
Life is Beautiful (it's the only movie that has ever made me cry)
Die Hard with a Vengeance
True Lies
Singing in the Rain
The movies my friends make.

[Bonnie]

AND KNOTTING HILL!
I can't believe I forgot that.
I know someone else who reads this board who will full heartedly agree with me.
From my list, don't think of me as a sappy movie watcher. I generally like action/ horror films the best, but they have to be smart films, too. Lately, it seems all the action or horror films have been dumb (e.g. Reign of Fire-- what a predictable plot).
And I like Guy Richie movies (what is the title of the one with Brad Pitt as a Gypsy?-- that one is funny!)

[Anonymous]

because you people have clearly missed some greats...

memento
sliding doors (guily pleasure)
dancer, texas population: 54
go
3,000 miles to graceland
fear and loathing in las vegas
black hawk down (if you haven't seen it, watch it, esp. if you are an american)
blow
spy kids (what i babysit little kids and hey this was quality)
office space
clerks (of course) and if we need to go beyond that mallrats and dogma
pi
kenneth branaugh's hamlet
baz lurman's romeo and juliet
waking ned devine
the commitments (another guilty pleasure and it was a far better book)
the shining, clockwork orange or anything by kubrick
anything by hitchcok but esp. rear view mirror and vertigo
citizen kane
breakfast at tiffany's

ok i think that's enough for now...and bonnie i think the movie title you are looking for is snatch.

[The_Farwall]

Just wanted to say YEAH! to Die Hard with a Vengence, Memento and especially Singing in the Rain.
In fact Singing in the Rain is my favourite film ever, can't believe I forgot it.

[Decadence]

ummmm, let's see...

The Sting
The Maltese Falcon
Tombstone (especially backwards)
Final Approach
Apocalypse Now (either version)
Blade Runner (prefer the original to the Directors' Cut)
Star Wars, ESB, ROTJ
LOTR
Kelly's Heroes
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Clerks
Dogma
Transformers: The Movie

I think that's it....

D.

"Yes, I am an agent of Satan,
But my duties are lagely ceremonial."

... Thus spake the Cardinal of Decadence

[Anonymous]

The Crow
The Matrix
Labyrinth
Lost Boys
Boyz In The Hood
Leon
Top Gun
National Lampoons Animal House
Snatch
American History X
Dirty Dancing
LOTR
Cruel Intentions
Nikita
From Dusk Till Dawn
Desperado
Bad Boys

I could go on forever but I'll spare you with these! (these are in no order!)

[Christa]

I do have to say that Sense and Sensibilty has and always will be my all-time favorite. Some other great shows that I didn't see mentioned are:

Mulholland Drive
The Saint
Requiem for a Dream
Four Rooms
Iron Monkey
The Record of Lodoss War (Japanimation)
The Virgin Suicides
The Ice Storm
Half-Baked
Sixteen Candles

There are alot of others but I don't want to be here all day.

[underworlddreams]

OK, plenty of obvious ones, and a few not-so-obvious ones too, I hope...

The Matrix
Lethal Weapon (1 through to 4)
Groundhog Day
Fight Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (loved them all!)
Pay It Forward (just saw it recently)
American Beauty, Pie and Pie 2
Cube
The Big Lebowski
Moulin Rouge!
...

and tons of others, depending on my current mood...

[Cloud]

i thought some more:

Good Morning Vietnam
The Commitments
FULL METAL JACKET!! excellent film!
Indiana Jones trilogy (ROTLA best, TOD worst)
The Lion King
Kellys Heroes (purely for Donald Sutherlands "just catching a few rays man know what i mean!")
M*A*S*H (Donald Sutherland again, just as good as above)
The Magnificent Seven
Airplane (did i already mention this? dunno)

Probably more to come...

[Phina]

Oo oh, me too- am going to share my opinions like the rest of you- even though probably no one particularly cares what films I put down... but here goes...

Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
American Beauty
Philedelphia (but only for watching on my own)
Man on the Moon
Forrest Gump (used to be)
Full Metal Jacket (but only the first half)
Four Weddings and a Funeral.
I used to love Chasing Amy- but the more times you see it- the worse it gets.
Cruel Intentions- for the boy, the car and the soundtrack and no other reason
Leon
Pride and Predjudice (sp!!) - all eight hours of it
I'll second The Lion King- great film- though haven't seen it for years

Films I hate: Titanic (on the eighth time watching)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Grossly overrated- but funny to watch odd people dance about and throw things)
The Horse Whisperer- it ruins a beautiful book

The obligatory comment which is so true- there are more but I can't think of them at this moment in time.

[maz]

here are mine
Breakfast at Tiffany's - because darling i think it would be absolutely divine to be audrey hepburn
Bonnie and Clyde
The Matrix
The Italian Job ( i hear there will be a remake starring some awful americans - Oh joy)
The Great Escape
The Sting
The breakfast club
chasing Amy et al - havent seen jay and silent bob strike back though
the faculty
empire records
the outsiders (i think thats the name its got young tom cruise etc in it)
trainspotting
amelie
delicatessen
enemy at the gates
gladiator
pulp fiction
reservoir dogs
romeo and juliet(both the 60's one and baz Luhrmanns)
and lots lots more

oh and phina - please tell me you have a valid reason for watching titanic 8 times - i can't think why you would want to put yourself through that torture

[lilies]

to the first anonymous up there--
hopefully you were joking when you said dancer, tx: pop. 54 instead of 81 and rear view mirror instead of rear window.

[Scunthorpe]

Once again, in no particular order:

Gone with the Wind
Goldfinger
The Empire Strikes Back
My Fair Lady
Casino Royale (with David Niven)
Pulp Fiction
From Dusk 'til Dawn
Caligula (hee!)
Carry On Up the Khyber
Starship Troopers
Topsy Turvey
Clerks
Pan Tadeuz
Akadmeika Pani Klex
The Brides of Fu Manchu
The Hound of the Baskervilles (yay Cushing)

[Saint Sal]

* Withnail and I
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* American Beauty
* Some Like It Hot
* The Man Who Fell To Earth
* Billy Elliot
* Clerks
* The Usual Suspects
* The Princess Bride
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show
* Reservoir Dogs
* Strictly Ballroom
* Murial's Wedding
* The Italian Job
* Carry On Up the Khyber
* The Crow
* Highlander
* Hercules (the Disney version)
* Shadow of the Vampire
* Any film that has Alan Rickman in it
* Gone With The Wind

[Bonnie]

I get all nostalgic when I read this thread. "Oh I love that one too!" "That one sucks!!!" and "I forgot. That's my favorite too" (I've said that last one about five times now.-- how many favorites are you allowed to have?)
I also see so many that I've never seen. Now I have a good list of movies to look for the next time I rent one.


That last part almost sounded like an infomercial line.