Favourite movies of all time

[portentous]

Not sure what brought this on, but what's your favourite flicks ever?

Mine are:
"Chick flicks"
Muriel's Wedding
Bridget Jones' Diary
Gone with the Wind

Horror flicks
The Shining
Psycho

Others
Shrek
Star Wars episodes 3 and 4

Can't think of any more for now.

[crazy_big_al]

The Crow.
A Clockwork Orange.
Dead Poets Society.
Donnie Darko.
Romper Stomper.
American History X.
Reserviour Dogs.
Napolean Dynamite

[morell]

Oh dear. I could be here all day.

Godfather 1 and 2
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Apocalypse Now
American History X
Requiem for a Dream
Forrest Gump
Kill Bill
Philadelphia
Donnie Darko
Gangs of New York

gee, they are all a bit serious, maybe some comedies too eh?

Dumb and Dumber
Jackass 1 and 2
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python

EDIT - cannot believe I forgot Donnie! cheers CBA

[dreamkillers]

Surely someone will pick some Troma movies........:D

[morell]

Surely someone will pick some Troma movies........:DAny studio that makes films with The Hedgehog in them is ok with me.

Plot Summary for
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

When the American Chicken Bunker, a military-themed fried-chicken chain, builds a restaurant on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground, local protesters aren't the only ones crying fowl! The previous tenants, fueled by a supernatural force, take "possession" of the food and those who eat it, and the survivors discover that they must band together before they themselves become the other white meat!

[dreamkillers]

Any studio that makes films with The Hedgehog in them is ok with me.

I was thinking more along the lines of Toxic Avenger, Surf Nazis Must Die, Class Of Nukem High, Street Trash and plenty of others from that era/genre that kept us entertained during the 80's ..........:D

I'll post my full list tonight as I'm sure there are a few classics (like Woody Allen movies) in my video/dvd collections that I haven't seen for a while.

[Andre]

So many. Will have to do by category. However my favourite two, clearly above the rest are 'The Great Escape' and 'The Magnificent Seven'. Great movies with great casts and title music to boot. A bit strange too, as otherwise I don't usually like very many war or western movies.

Favourite category - Sci-fi by a mile, as until LotR was hard to find a decent fantasy movie, even though my reading is fantasy more then anything else. Similarly I find 'hack and slash' horrors boring, and whilst I've read quite a few Stephen King horrors, I've found horror books don't translate well to screen as too much of the 'non-slash' is cut removing the suspense.

Would be missing a few - but here goes:

War - The Great Escape
Western- The Magnificent Seven
Action - Raiders of the Lost Ark, most Bond movies without Dalton, Die Hard, Die Hard 3, Romancing the Stone, The Usual Suspects
Fantasy - Lord of the Rings
Sci-Fi - Aliens, Alien, Star Wars (original trilogy), Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Matrix, Terminator, Terminator 2 - could list another 10 or 20.
Cheesy sci-fi - Logan's Run
Musical - The Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain
'Classics' - Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, Rear Window (original)
Horror -Comedy - Shaun of the Dead
Comedy - Life of Brian, The Pink Panther (original, not the crap remake), Groundhog Day

[Captain Wacky]

Old-Boy

Rushmore

Boogie Nights

Bad Boy Bubby :D:thumbsu:

[Muunky Tuunk Man]

Some of my favourites include:

Rambo 1, 2 & 3
Commando
Terminator 1 & 2
Rocky
American Pie
Predator
White Chicks
Star Wars 4, 5 & 6
The Warriors

[portentous]

Old-Boy

Bad Boy Bubby :D:thumbsu:

;) :thumbsu:

[Captain Wacky]

;) :thumbsu:

:p

Just Old-Boy really. ;)

[crazy_big_al]

Bad Boy Bubby :D:thumbsu:

lets see what that reaction to this is :D

your a bad boy bubby. :D

[portentous]

LMAO @ Al and Wacky. :)

Nice work bad boys.

[Magpiespower]

So many to pick from but here we go...

An American Werewolf in London

A Time for Drunken Horses

Blue Murder (okay, a mini-series but a bloody brilliant one!)

Casablanca (snappiest dialogue ever written.)

Dance Me to My Song

Do the Right Thing

Mean Streets

On the Waterfront

Police Academy

Raging Bull

Secrets & Lies

The Club

And just about anything from Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Martin Scorsese...

[dyertribe]

Bad Boy Bubby by the length of the straight.

Although oddly enough, I'm yet to see it...

[Troy Wingate]

American Pie (all 4)
Bad Boys 1 and 2
EuroTrip
Road Trip
Rocky 1-5
Twister*
Apollo 13
The Day After Tomorrow*
Austin Powers 1-3
The Fast And The Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious

*- Everytime I watch these movies, there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world a day or 2 later, majority of them in the USA.

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bad Boy Bubby :D:thumbsu:

:thumbsu: A great quirky movie partly shot around the Port. Showed a mate from Canada it and he said "I don't think I fully understand it but geez I was entertained." Great first up film by Rolf De Heer.

Usually when a fantastic book is converted to a film it's nowhere as good. However, To Kill a Mockingbird was as great and powerful as the novel. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch was brilliant.

[legitimatic]

Most Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and so on movie, big fan of these sorts of movies...

[*PAF]

Arthur

[dreamkillers]

War - Apocalypse Now, The Dirty Dozen

Western- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, My Name is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity, Blazing Saddles

Action/Drama/Horror - Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Killing Zone, Jackie Brown, Dusk To Dawn, Scarface, Running on Empty (Aust), Taxi Driver, Silence Of The Lambs, Bad Boy Bubby, Midnight Express, True Romance, One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, The Omen, Misery

Sci-Fi - Aliens, Alien, Total Recall, The Matrix, Terminator, Terminator 2, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Logan's Run,

Musical - The Wanderers, Hype, Metallica - Some Kind of Monster, Hair, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy, Blues Brothers, The Wall, The Doors, Cannibal - The Musical

Comedy - Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, A Fish Called Wanda, The Breakfast Club, Napoleon Dynamite, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Castle, Orgazmo, Crackerjack, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Spaceballs, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 2 1/2, Naked Gun 33 !/3, Team America, Jackass, Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, Tromeo & Juliet, Blood Sucking Freaks, Surf nazi's Must Die, Redneck Zombies, Killer Condom, Monster In The Closet

Sport - The Club

That's from a quick look through the DVD collection but I'm sure there are quite a few others I've missed (might have to look through the video collection over the weekend).

[dreamkillers]

Most Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and so on movie, big fan of these sorts of movies...

I can recommend ONG Bak (Muay Thai Warrior) which has no computer graphics or stunt doubles and makes some of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan's work a little tame in comparison.

[Macca19]

Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Groundhog Day

They are the three main ones I can think of at the moment.

[Macca19]

ONG Bak is killer. Any martial arts fan would bloody love that movie.

[dreamkillers]

ONG Bak is killer. Any martial arts fan would bloody love that movie.

A good mate of mine up here who does kick boxing around the country put me onto it and it's the best martial arts film I've seen and the 2 DVD pack which had over 3 hours of extras shows some amazing scenes with the fight rehearsels.

[Santos L Helper]

Off the top of my head;

Caddyshack
Slapshot
Donny Darko
Deer Hunter
Requiem for a Dream
Hard Candy
Seven
Alien
Sin City
Bubba Ho-Tep
Traffic
Dark City
Shining
Memento
Evil Dead 1-3

[Frank Spencer Clone]

I was thinking more along the lines of Toxic Avenger.

Pretty classic stuff that...

Evil Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Leatherface ( TCM 3 )
Romper Stomper
Falling Down
Pet Sematary
Grease 2

[Toots Hibbert]

The Blues Brothers
Get Shorty
Sunday Too Far Away
Breaker Morant
Jour De Fete
Jean De Florette
Stop Making Sense
The Last Waltz
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Grifters
Rain Man
Little Big Man
This Sporting Life
China Town
The Colour Of Money
The Hustler
Dirty Deeds
Catch 22
The Shawshank Redemption
Bulworth
Groundhog Day

[Rory]

Groundhog Day


I watched that movie the Friday night before that magnificent Saturday in September 04. For some reason it always sticks in my head now :D

[noddy]

So many. Will have to do by category. However my favourite two, clearly above the rest are 'The Great Escape' and 'The Magnificent Seven'. Great movies with great casts and title music to boot. A bit strange too, as otherwise I don't usually like very many war or western movies.

Favourite category - Sci-fi by a mile, as until LotR was hard to find a decent fantasy movie, even though my reading is fantasy more then anything else. Similarly I find 'hack and slash' horrors boring, and whilst I've read quite a few Stephen King horrors, I've found horror books don't translate well to screen as too much of the 'non-slash' is cut removing the suspense.

Would be missing a few - but here goes:

War - The Great Escape
Western- The Magnificent Seven
Action - Raiders of the Lost Ark, most Bond movies without Dalton, Die Hard, Die Hard 3, Romancing the Stone, The Usual Suspects
Fantasy - Lord of the Rings
Sci-Fi - Aliens, Alien, Star Wars (original trilogy), Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Matrix, Terminator, Terminator 2 - could list another 10 or 20.
Cheesy sci-fi - Logan's Run
Musical - The Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain
'Classics' - Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, Rear Window (original)
Horror -Comedy - Shaun of the Dead
Comedy - Life of Brian, The Pink Panther (original, not the crap remake), Groundhog Day


I'll go with Andre's list with a few add ons of my own.

Ben Hur.
Gone with the Wind
African Queen.
Chariets of Fire

& anything with Jack Nicholson in it.

[portentous]

I'll go with Andre's list with a few add ons of my own.

Ben Hur.
Gone with the Wind
African Queen.
Chariets of Fire

& anything with Jack Nicholson in it.

I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan too Noddy-along with Meryl Streep and Jonny Depp. Could just about watch anything with those actors in them.

I should have added "Pirates of the Caribbean" to my list too, as well as "Indiana Jones". I love those fun, adventure type flicks.

[Magpiespower]

Great first up film by Rolf De Heer.

Actually, Bubby is de Heer's fourth film after...

Tale of a Tiger (1984)
Encounter at Raven's Gate (1988)
Dingo (1991)

[Schlez]

Actually, Bubby is de Heer's fourth film after...

Tale of a Tiger (1984)
Encounter at Raven's Gate (1988)
Dingo (1991)

don't quote me, but I thought Bubby was out in around 1981, I'm pretty sure it was in the 80s at least

[RussellEbertHandball]

Actually, Bubby is de Heer's fourth film after...

Tale of a Tiger (1984)
Encounter at Raven's Gate (1988)
Dingo (1991)
Were these short films? I always heard film critics refer to Bad Boy Bubby as his directorial debut.

[Toots Hibbert]

Forgot this one

http://image.allmusic.com/00/adg/cov200/drt000/t032/t03280uqgmf.jpg

[RussellEbertHandball]

don't quote me, but I thought Bubby was out in around 1981, I'm pretty sure it was in the 80s at least
1993, won a heap of 1994 AFI awards.

[Toots Hibbert]

don't quote me, but I thought Bubby was out in around 1981, I'm pretty sure it was in the 80s at least
1993

Tale Of The Tiger was a full length childrens film.

[crazy_big_al]

1993, won a heap of 1994 AFI awards.

http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/thumbs/0587.jpg

[crazy_big_al]

I love Fear and Loathing in Las veags

[Arsene Wenger]

Casino
Goodfellas
Donnie Brasco
The Godfather (all)

All awesome mafia movies

Starsky and Hutch
Ferris Bueller's day off
Anchorman
Wedding Crashers
Harold and Kumar go to white castle
The Ladies man
Dodgeball
Super troopers
Van Wilder
Night of the Roxbury
White Chicks

Man on Fire (probably my number 1)
Jerry Maguire
Seven
Coach Carter
The HUrricane
Training Day

Just to name the ones off the top of my head

[morell]

The Godfather (all)
Hurray! Finally someone else has mentioned easily the greatest films ever made.

Godfather (s)

<massive chasm of daylight, many suns worth>

All other movies.

[pafc4life]

Fight Club, Harold and Kumar, Clue, Big Trouble in Little China, The Goonies, Scream Trilogy, Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Child's Play, The Running Man, Zoolander

[Captain Wacky]

Hurray! Finally someone else has mentioned easily the greatest films ever made.

Godfather (s)

<massive chasm of daylight, many suns worth>

All other movies.

Nahhhh. Only Part 2 really ranks among the very greatest.

[morell]

Nahhhh. Only Part 2 really ranks among the very greatest.Why you LITTLE!

*strangles CW*

The Godfather is the greatest movie ever. Period. Full stop. No Returns.

The world agrees with me >

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

:p

[Magpiespower]

Were these short films? I always heard film critics refer to Bad Boy Bubby as his directorial debut.

Definitely features.

De Heer made a heap of shorts when he was at AFTRS.

Haven't seen 'Tiger' - might have to visit the AFC to watch that.

The Godfather (all)

Part III is an absolute stinker!

Anyone seen The Godfather Saga?

Basically, Parts I and II re-cut in chronological order for US television.

[morell]

Part III is an absolute stinker!
The plot, script, directing, cinematography etc were all top notch.

It was killed by a single terrible flaw, … Sofia Coppola can't act, and I dont mean like, Tom Cruise can't act, I mean like Pamela Anderson can't act. Worst. Performance. Ever.

Luckily she can direct like her father. The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation are very good.

Anyone seen The Godfather Saga?

Basically, Parts I and II re-cut in chronological order for US television.Hmph! I heard about it and from memory it was shown on Australian TV a long time ago.

You don’t re-cut masterpieces. That’s like clipping out Mona Lisa’s smile and putting it in a comic strip.

[Andre]

Big Trouble in Little China
How could I forgot this one! :eek:
Action, Fantasy, Comedy and Martial Arts all in one flick. Kurt Russell is underrated as an action movie star.

[RussellEbertHandball]

Greatest performance in a comedy was Peter Sellers in my favourite comedy THE PARTY.....bertie num nums.

Anyone watched Wolf Creek? I watched the 9.30pm session and found it hard to get to sleep later that evening.

Godfather and Godfather II were classics. Love the line form the first one I think,
Power can't be given,
It must be taken.

[Powerstufff]

The Man Who Would Be King (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/). Only downfall is it makes me feel like a 'girly man' :(
The Godfather (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/) and The Godfather: Part II (/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/). Simply the best crime genre movies ever.
Starship Troopers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/): most really love it or really hate it. I really loved it.
Star Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/) and Star Wars 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/) (or as they are now known 4 and 5). One advantage of being my advanced age is that I saw these when they first came out and it was MIND BLOWING.
Rocky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/)
Casablanca (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/)
The Maltese Falcon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/)
This Is Spinal Tap (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/)

When my kids were a few years younger

The Incredibles (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/)
The Iron Giant (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129167/)
Toy Story (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339291/). We were given this on DVD which was lucky as the brilliance and strange humour requires several viewings to absorb. Plus the outakes etc are as good as another film.

Honourable mentions
Pirates of the Caribbean 1 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/) and 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/). I don't know if in 10 years time I'll think them classics or just very good entertainment in their day. I guess it depends on whether it finishes well when the third one comes out.

[Wishinman]

http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/thumbs/0587.jpg
Me be pop.:D This has been released on DVD.

So many favourites already mentioned, but a couple of mine that haven't are
The Butterfly Effect
Back to the Future 1,2 & 3
The Lost Boys
Point Break
Stand by Me
Toy Soldiers
The Burbs

[DSL64]

A couple of my favs that haven't been mentioned yet:
The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) - another Kurt Russell/John Carpenter classic...
Mad Max II (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/) - An all-time australian classic. Often imitaded, never equaled.
Escape from New York (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/) Snake Plissken - I heard of you...
The Hitcher (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091209/) - Rutger Hauer's best work - besides BladeRunner that is...
Equilibrium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/) - Little known Sci-fi
The Fifth Element (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/) - Milla Jovovich...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/) - the best trek movie...
X-Men (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/)

And I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Basic Instinct yet...
There are a few others, but hopefully this list will revive some fond memories...

[morell]

Equilibrium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/) - Little known Sci-fi Very good film considering the budget and lack of stars. Excellently written.

[Pred]

Greatest performance in a comedy was Peter Sellers in my favourite comedy THE PARTY.....bertie num nums.Birdie num nums ;)

[Frank Spencer Clone]

Deleted. Reference to Basic Instinct as per quote by DSL64.

[Santos L Helper]

Greatest performance in a comedy was Peter Sellers in my favourite comedy THE PARTY.....bertie num nums.

.

Sorry, but I feel this performance comes in third. Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight are both better in Caddyshack.

Although I think Sellers' role in The Party is excellent, playing a bumbling Indian in Hollywood was like shooting fish in a barrel.

[RussellEbertHandball]

Sorry, but I feel this performance comes in third. Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight are both better in Caddyshack.

Although I think Sellers' role in The Party is excellent, playing a bumbling Indian in Hollywood was like shooting fish in a barrel.

You have to put Sellers' role into context. He was the first western comedian to crack the Indian accent and mannerisms. No one could get it right before The Party. As a result, over the last 40+ years nearly every comedian (especially from a Commonwealth country) has taken the p.iss out of Indian sterotypes.

Caddyshack is a classic. I was probably taken by Bill Murray as much as Dangerfield and Knight. What was the comedy that Dangerfield went to college with his son? Back to School? He was bloody funny in that. Stripes, with Bill Murray was another good comedy from the early 80's.

[crazy_big_al]

BAD BOY BUBBY.

get on board :D

[portentous]

I loved the old Pink Panther movies too.

[Port1978]

Lord of the Rings trilogy & Donnie Darko

[thesouthernend]

Apocalypse Now
Debbie Does Dallas

[blackdiamond]

Im not one to watch a movie over and over again, once I have seen it I just move onto the next however a few good movies in recent years have been.

Hostel
Dawn of the Dead
SawI must note that Saw 3 is released on the 2nd of November, a must see before I leave for the States. :thumbsu:

[missionpossible]

BEST MOVIES

1 - Pump up the volume
2 - Sixth Sense
3 - Shawshank Redemption
4 - Fight Club
5 - The Usual Suspects
6 - Field of Dreams
7 - Gone in 60 Seconds
8 - Leathal Weapon
9 - My Girl
10 - 10 Things I Hate About You

Mind you I still prefer to watch the 2004 grand final

[blackdiamond]

http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/thumbs/0587.jpg

HA! You wouldn't believe what I got as a going away present??? :eek:

Looks like the VHS tape (which was given to me previously as a present) won't be much use anymore.

I don't suppose there is anyone that would like it? ;)

[footy_rulz]

The Shining, Go!, Road Trip, all the American Pie's, and lots of others that I can't think of right now.

[finbarr]

Heat
Suburbia
Decline Of Western Civilization
Decline Of Western Civilization 2 - The Metal Years
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Dogtown & Z-Boyz
Fletch
Easy Money
Combat Shock
The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane
Caddyshack
Colors
The Warriors
Dirty Harry (Amazing Lalo Shiffrin soundtrack)
Glengarry Glenross (For the dialogue)
The Game
Boogie Nights
Repo Man
Back To School
Animal House
Palm Beach
Back Roads (The Australian film with Gary Foley, not the Burt Reynolds movie)
Falling Down
Return Of The Living Dead

There's many, many more but that's about it off the top of my head.

[Schlez]

Yi Yi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/
Cube http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/
In the mood for love http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/
Betty Blue http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090563/
Red Sorghum http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093206/
Samsara http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196069/