Most Enjoyed Movies

I've always thought that Life of Brian was Python's best.

Boris2008 wrote:

I've always thought that Life of Brian was Python's best.

+1. Holy Grail was a riot, but it took me six hours to finish Life of Brian simply due to laughing so hard and having to pause it. I believe it may be the funniest movie ever made. Should have been on my list. Shame.

Dazed & Confused-lived it ten years later

Tombstone-my favorite western, & very quotable

Aliens-you'd be surprised how often you can use "Let's just nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure" in polite conversation. Another very quotable movie, just like...

The Big Lebowski- "hey man, there's a beverage back here", I'm starting to see a pattern

Saving Private Ryan-over all maybe not better than some of the classics, but how they shot the combat scenes was intense

Romero's Dawn of the Dead-Introduced me to the glory of the zombie apocalypse

Friday-another quote-fest, I wanna be Smokie when I grow up

Fight Club-Tyler Durden spoke to me. I would like to subscribe to his newsletter

Kelly's Heroes-WWII & bank robbery, what's not to love

Jackson's LOTR- Epic! Years of D&D campaigns & Drizz't books brought to life, although most of the finger-wagglers I played would have kicked Gandalf's ass. What was he, like 6th level?

Star Wars IV-VI-'nuff said. The prequels were doomed from the start when they hired mannequins to play the two leads, let alone the lame plot. But then again, don't get me started on the Empire's best troops(501st Legion), with state of the art body armor & walkers, getting routed by teddy bears using rocks & sticks

The Black Hole has a fantastic music score (the brilliant John Barry), some nice ship designs (the Cygnus is amazing) and some fairly creepy sequences (the funeral). But it's also painfully bad in many other areas. I have fond memories of it because I saw it in the theater when I was 9 years old, but I gotta say that watching now I end up cringing through large sections of the film. Basically every performance is either the actor essentially sleepwalking through the film...or over-acting to the point of ridiculousness.

I still give it props for the batshit crazy ending, in 1979 that was some wild shit for Disney.

I saw Black Hole in the theater too - haven't seen it in years, I wonder how it will hold up...

I can't really pick an all time favorite film, but one I can re-watch over and over:

The Empire Strikes Back - never get tired of this one! By far, the best of the Star Wars movies. I can easily re-watch Star Wars/Return as well, but Empire is the film that set the bar for all sequels.

Back To The Future - best of the three (still enjoy the other three, but this one is a classic)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Never get tired of this one! Recently picked it up on Blu-Ray

Super Troopers - very quotable. Throw out a line and anyone that has seen it knows exactly what you mean (i.e. "Liter of Cola", meow game). You can also throw Beer Fest in with that also - the best two Broken Lizard films.

Fight Club - Thought I would hate it (not a Brad Pitt fan at all), but loved it

Inception - Nolan's best flick, easily re-watchable.

Star Trek 2 - the best Star Trek flick ever, classic villain

The Maltese Falcon - Does it get any more "classic" than this one? I don't think so

Duck Soup - classic comedy

Others:
Batman (1989), Dr. No - You Only Live Twice, Aliens, Raiders Of The Lost Ark (the original), Superman/Superman II, Airplane, The Shining, Dawn Of The Dead (1978), Pulp Fiction, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Goodfellas...

I am sure their are others I am forgetting

My brother was obsessed with The Black Hole when we were kids.  Thing played on an endless loop at our house.  Between that and my obsession with Freaky Friday/Apple Dumpling Gang/Gus, my poor parents.  I still have the vinyl of the soundtrack somewhere.  I never did get tired of that.

Some of my all-time favorites

-The Best Years Of Our Lives - how this isn't mentioned as one of the best ever I'll never know.  

-Flash Gordon - seriously, saw it in the theater multiple times and to this day still love it.

-The General - All Buster Keaton is gold to me.  This was my intro and it is a must see.

-The Warriors - Another one that has stood the test of time for me.

-Return Of The Living Dead - I remember seeing the trailer for this ahead of Weird Science and I became as excited to see any movie as I ever had been.  And it delivered ten fold.  Still does.

-Zodiac - Could watch this one endlessly.  And I'm not a fan of procedurals.  

-Cinema Paradiso - Had an art teacher back in the day who would turn us kids onto some good stuff.

-The Great Escape - The perfect movie IMO

-Evil Dead 2 - Yeah I like the slapstick in my humor.  Work Shed!

-Under The Boardwalk - My favorite video store dollar day discovery.  

-Up The Creek - The all-star movie of 80's comedies.

-Hollywood Shuffle - Cookiehead Jenkins!  Still quote this today.

-Can't Buy Me Love - With apologies to John Hughes, greatest teen movie bar none IMO.  Tragic Amanda Peterson didn't become a huge star.

-DR. Strangelove - Another perfect movie in my estimation.

with countless others that will come to me the second I post this.

Too many to remember... Here's some of them.

Weird Science
White Water Summer
Point Break
Time Bandits
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones (Temple of Doom)
Leatherface  
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Return of the Living Dead
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Back to School
Just One of the Guys
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Christine
Heavy Metal (original)
The Goonies
Monster Squad
Road House
Karate Kid (original)
Can't Buy Me Love
Aliens
The Terminator & T-2
Star Wars (original 3)
The Warriors

T2 used to be my all-time favorite action film...until I recently revisited it. Strange seeing old favorites through more mature eyes. Still a great film, but as much as I idolized Linda Hamilton then, now I realize she's a huge detriment with all her non-acting and faux-machismo going on. And she's not as foxy as I remember her to be. Plus some of that dialogue is pretty damn stilted, while Furlong's cracking voice gets under my skin. But at least the action scenes and direction still hold up. Cameron knows how to make a good-looking movie.

Most movies I like are for nostalgic reasons. It's probably just the memories from that time.

Some that I forgot to add to my list now after reading some of the others lists:

Where Eagles Dare
The Italian Job (both)
Tombstone - Best Western ever
Wyatt Earp
The Guns of Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
The Bourne trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Terminator & T2
Down Periscope - one of the funniest movies ever IMO

Star Wars (original trilogy)
Indiana Jones (original trilogy)
Lethal Weapon 1 & 2
Die Hard 1 & 2
The Lost Boys
The Goonies
Gremlins
Terminator 1 & 2
Backdraft
Alien & Aliens
The Thing (Carpenter version)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Poltergeist 1 & 2
The Exorcist
Omen
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day Of The Dead (1985)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
Manhattan
The Blues Brothers
The Secret of NIHM
Back To The Future trilogy
Stand By Me
Ronja Rövardotter
Predator
Young Guns
Dances with Wolves
Edward Scissorhands
Home Alone
Fried Green Tomatoes
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
How To Make an America Quilt
The Matrix
Cars
King Kong (2005)

Dang! Forgot about the Lethal Weapon series and the Predator movies. Great great stuff.

I have always had a place in my heart (and DVD player) for "Licence to Drive" with the two Corey's and Heather Graham.

good call on Cars, Kurt. I like that one a lot too.

Locky wrote:

I have always had a place in my heart (and DVD player) for "Licence to Drive" with the two Corey's and Heather Graham.

A favorite during my teenage years as well.

exact33 wrote:

good call on Cars, Kurt. I like that one a lot too.

I love all of the Pixar movies (sans the sequels), but Cars is my favorite.

Comedy : Napoleon Dynamite, Pineapple Express, Kick-Ass 1, Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Dinner For Schmucks, Love & Other drugs, Girl Next Door, She's Out Of My League

Sci - Fi : Minority Report, I Robot, V for Vendetta, I Am Legend

Horror : Insidious 1

Romance : Leap Year, A Walk To Remember, 500 days Of Summer

Drama : Robot & Frank, My Sister's Keeper, Columbus Circle, The Prestige

Action/Heist : Salt, Inside Man

Foreign : IP Man pt. 1 & 2, Battle Royale

kmorg wrote:

exact33 wrote:

good call on Cars, Kurt. I like that one a lot too.

I love all of the Pixar movies (sans the sequels), but Cars is my favorite.

I love all the Pixar flicks too - including the sequels. Toy Story 2 is another film that sets the bar for sequels. And that one was originally going to be a direct to video sequel!

exact33 wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Mine:

LOTR - the Peter Jackson films
Clue
Big trouble in Little China
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek 2,3,4, First Contact
The Black Hole
Star Wars 4,5,6
The Avengers
Iron Man

The Black Hole? Really?

hey - its Disney but I like it.

some other movies now that i think bout it more:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
X-Men
Batman - Tim Burton
North by Northwest
His Girl Friday
Charade
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Jaws 1 and 2

Havent seen the Black Hole in eons It was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid

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I have always had a place in my heart (and DVD player) for "Licence to Drive" with the two Corey's and Heather Graham.

+1

I even dug the two Dream A Little Dream movies too.

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Just One of the Guys

A classic.  That one needs a special edition release.

In that same vein another from that time frame I love is Night Of The Comet.

I saw "The Black Hole" in the theatre when I was a kid. I was traumatized by that evil red robot "Maximilian," especially when he killed Anthony Perkins with the spinning blades. On the big screen he looked like he was fifty feet tall.

Night of the Comet is a good one!
I also like Remo Williams and Timerider.

I forgot to mention two more favorites...

Tobe Hooper's classic The Funhouse and the creepy clown flick Clownhouse.

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Remo Williams

I haven't seen that in years. Pretty cool flick from what little I remember.

When I was in high school I read a bunch of the book series ("The Destroyer") the movie was based on. Fun stuff.

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Remo Williams

I haven't seen that in years. Pretty cool flick from what little I remember.

When I was in high school I read a bunch of the book series ("The Destroyer") the movie was based on. Fun stuff.

I should check out the books, if I can find them.