Favourite Movie

This has probably been a topic before , but I really don't want to back through pages upon pages of the member lounge to look for it.



What is your favourite movie ?

Mine is Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Monty Python & The Life Of Brian, and Anchorman.


Someone please delete this or the other fav movie topic. Accidently posted it twice.

 

Donnie Darko, Fight Club, and the Godfather Trilogy share first place.

 

Donnie Darko.....good!

For pure escapism it has to be The Princess Bride...I know - female! :roll:

13th Warrior (Ah a Viking of my liking!)

Holy Grail

Saturday Night Fever.....<runs and hides>

 

The Princess Bride? :bang:

 

Nothing wrong with The Princess Bride.........

" Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die."

I did say escapism......

 

A Few Good Men
Sin City
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Boondock Saints
Donnie Darko
Reservoir Dogs
Titus
V for Vendetta
Leon (The Professional)

Hey Roxy, welcome back - why The 13th Warrior? I've only seen part of that film but I thought it was profoundly retarded...

No offence, as always.

 

I've seen too many movies to fairly judge any one as my favorite. I generally like classics, such as Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Wizard of Oz, et al., though many modern movies (generally within the genres sci-fi, action and horror, as good as well. Movies such as Soylent Green and A Clockwork Orange should not be forgotten here (I'm not sure these would rate as classics - perhaps neo-classics, in which Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction could also be placed.

My main issue with movies, is that the number of movies which I'd like to buy on DVDs increases exponentially with the number of DVDs I buy. As a result, I have quite a lot of DVDs, as one can imagine. I don't know whether I'm over 400 yet, but I'm at least close...

 

All the Star Wars movies, Top Gun even though I haven't watched it yet, I've only seen clips from www.youtube.com , and all the Jurrasic Park movies is a good start for me.

 

Oh, and I almost forgot Superman Returns.

 

Hi Roel

What's wrong with The 13th Warrior? It has Antonio Banderas and Vikings......what a combination.....<swoon>.....

 

Fight Club

 

Well, if you watch it as a silly film, nothing wrong with it at all...

I saw it with some friends, and we were on our own in the cinema (a late showing), so we pratted about, had sword fights in the aisles, etc. So I remember this film fondly - although it is quite a bad film!

 

Blade Runner
Shichinin no samurai
Citizen Kane
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ran
Full Metal Jacket

Just a few that come to mind . As a major movie buff I have too many favorites to list them all.
The 13th Warrior wasn't a bad film IMO. It took certain liberties regarding realism in order to try and follow the original storyline of Beowulf and introduced some things that were not from that epic poem in order to make the story more interesting.

 

Good choices, Grieg.

 

Chinatown
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ghosts in the Darkness
Apocalypse Now
Spaceballs

Of these five, I believe the third is my favourite movie, but, like everyone as said already, it's hard to pick just one. Ghosts in the Darkness is based off an incident that occured while the British were building the Uganda Railway through Tsavo. The movies protagonists include Val Kilmer and Micheal Douglas, while antagonism is provided by a rebellious Indian cooley and a pair of very hungry lions. More than 100 people were attacked, dragged off, and eaten within a year by the same two lions. It is a great movie and wonderfully done (nervewracking too).

 

Full Metal Jacket is a rather shite film IMO, apart from Ermey's brilliant performance as a drill instructor. To me, it seems like it is split into two parts that have nothing to do with each other - the training sequence, and the culmination with the VC sniper shootout. It felt unfinished to me...

 

That's rather the point, I'd say.

 

Note how none of the movies I mentioned have either Antonio Banderas or Vikings...

Though I could add Once Upon A Time In Mexico for style.
Nouvelle violence? What's that then?

I agree with Panzerman on Full Metal Jacket, that movie was awful. Both parts of the movie were dull and strangely cut off; the whole is incoherent and empty, and it could not move me one way or the other, in spite of the great acting abilities of Vincent D'Onofrio.

 

Full Metal Jacket. Great film..not everybody gets it but that's okay.
Like most Kubrick films there is more to it than action/adventure. One may have to use the noodle abit.
I liked it better than the book on which it was based. Short Timers by Gustav Hasford
Films are an art form and like all art some examples may appeal to you and others may not however it is poor taste to label that which doesn't appeal to you as shite.

 

I especially like Metropolis and Nosferatu but I would certainly consider A Clockwork Orange to be a classic and Soylent Green to be a cult classic.
I like some of most all genres and directors however I am not a fan of Tarantino, Oliver Stone or John Wu.