Merbites favourite movies...

[angeleyes]

As far as I know this hasn't been done here before. What are some of your favourite movies? A short list of mine would include:

Spirited Away
Say Anything
The Empire Strikes Back
Show Me Love
Fist of Legend
The Shawshank Redemption
Donnie Darko
Casablanca
Castle in the Sky
American Beauty
Schindler's List
Pulp Fiction
Friday
Almost Famous

 

[Cosmo]

The Shinning
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Poltergeist
Star Wars
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
CRAZY
The Crying Game
The Blair Witch Prject

 

[angeleyes]

And many others... Can't remember them all. But I think it's obvious I like weird movies!

The Big Lebowski! How could I have forgotten...

(You should see Donnie Darko, if you haven't yet.)

 

[MG_mtl]

And my personal favorite Striptease with Demi Moore...

Just kidding

BTW EB, it must be one of your favorites as well (see the name of the strip club in the movie description )

 

[Doc Holliday]

21 of Doc's favorite movies of all-time

Tombstone
Schindler's List
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
City Slickers
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
An Officer and a Gentleman
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
Die Hard
The Shawshank Redemption
Lethal Weapon
Braveheart
Gladiator
Shane
Carlito's Way
The Notebook
Platoon

 

[chef]

Like Water for Chocolate
Tortilla Soup
Babette's Feast
Chocolat
Chicago
Shrek I & II
Any movie with JLo in it
The Indiana Jones movies

 

[EagerBeaver]

Pulp Fiction (my all time favorite, best written script ever)
Bridge On The River Kwai (best war movie of all time)
Casablanca
Memento
Godfather
2001: A Space Odyssey (Best Science Fiction Film of all time)
Planet of the Apes
Total Recall (Best Arnold movie of all time)
Caddyshack
Fletch (Best Chevy Chase film)
Being John Malkovich
Dr. Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
True Grit
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Bullitt
The Great Escape (second best war movie of all time, but best Steve McQueen movie of all time)

 

[Doc Holliday]

A Bridge Too Far???? That movie stunk the joint!

another great war movie that I enjoyed is "A bridge too far".

You have to be kidding me, right?

 

[breadman]

Breadman's favorites...

Top of the list...Band of Brothers series. Actor from this series also had a great performance in 'Office Space'.

Snatch, Troy and Mr & Mrs Smith with Brad Pitt are pretty decent.

A Bridge Too Far, Great Escape, Asenic and Old Lace, How the West was won...and a not so well known movie titled 'My Name is Nobody' staring Henry Fonda are all great old movies.

Kelly's Hero's, Outlaw Josie Wales and the Unforgiven are my top three Eastwood flicks.

Last but not least...the Man who knew too little starring Bill Murray. One of his best in my opinion.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Y'all forgot Debbie Does Dallas!!!!

There's a tie for my all-time favorite porn movies:

1) Deep Throat

2) Insatiable

The pool table scene with Marilyn Chambers & the gardner is a classic & one i'd like to re-enact one day. I also liked Devil in Miss Jones due to the anal & DP scenes (this was a no-no back then), but it was a bit of a depressing movie for it to be among my atfs.

My all-time favorite porn star: Ginger Lynn. Met her about 12 years ago while she was touring the stripclubs and i lost the picture we took together!!

p.s. Add 'The Dirty Dozen' to my top films' list. Great war movie with Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, etc.

 

[ck_nj]

Superman I (of course!)
Superman II (of course!)
Superman Returns (of course!)
The Matrix
The Godfather (both I and II)
Goodfellas
Caddyshack
Animal House
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
My guilty favorite: Killer Klowns from Outer Space. It's so bad that it's good! LOL
Kill Bill 1 and 2 (thanks for reminding me!)

CK

 

[shijak]

Amadeus
Drunken Master II (HK film with Jacky Chan)
Fight Club
Scarface
Once Upon a Time In America
Dogma
Logan`s Run
Superman The Movie
saving Private Ryan
Night Of The living dead
Monsieur Ibrahim
life Is Beautiful

 

[EagerBeaver]

Eagerbeaver,

I also like war movies.the ones you pick are great ones.another great war movie that I enjoyed is "A bridge too far".Have you seen it?I just bought it last month on DVD.Another war movie is the dogs of war which i didn't enjoy has much has the ones that you mentioned.

regarding Fletch...I read all the fletch books when I was a teenager.Once i started a book I couldn't put it down.

I saw that movie a long time ago and don't consider it to be in the same class as Bridge On The River Kwai. I have seen Bridge On The River Kwai about 10 times. I have replayed the ending about 20 times. What makes it a great film is that it can be interpreted in many ways. Some critics have said that the film is about a British commander, Colonel Nicholson (played by Sir Alec Guiness) who uses the task of building the bridge as a way of proving British superiority to the Japanese. Other critics have said that Nicholson uses the task of building the bridge as a way to prove to his men that they can maintain their dignity as human beings and triumph over torture and physical and mental abuse in a POW camp by building something that has tremendous value to their enemy. Still other critics have said that Nicholson's crazed obsession with building the bridge, in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships, is the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1957 and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Alec Guiness. It was the greatest performance of his long and distinguished career. Many younger people have told me they thought Guiness was knighted by the British because of his role in "Star Wars" as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Well, you can throw the Star Wars DVD in the toilet, and every other movie he ever made. Alec Guiness was knighted based on one movie performance, that being the one he gave in Bridge On The River Kwai.

What rivets me the most about the movie is the final tragic scene involving Colonel Nicholson, and trying to determine whether his final act is intentional or an extremely ironic unintentional act. Director David Lean I think purposely left it ambiguous as to which it was, but I always like to believe that Nicholson, despite his final words ("Oh my God, what have I done??????????") did not intend that final act.

Or did he?

This is one of the few movies I have seen that is both immensely entertaining, and very deep.

 

[Hojo*]

Hostel (what a sick movie, I couldn't stop watching, like a bad car accident)
The 40 year old virgin (couldn't stop laughing)
Ray (what a performance by Jamie Fox)
Blade 1 (imho, it was the start-up for effects that spawned the Matrix movies)

 

[EagerBeaver]

Asami,

How about the scene in Hostel where that guy puts a big power drill through that kid's kneecap. Have you ever though about what it would be like to have a big power drill go through your kneecap?

That scene unnerved me.

 

[Hojo*]

EB...the scenes were so graphic that I felt it...like I said, it was well done to the point where you couldn't look away, to me, that's a movie well done and makes it one of my favourites....

....the blowtorch to the face really had me biting my knuckles....

 

[Fat Happy Buddha]

My favourites

Smoke
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
Bad Boy Bubby
Apocalypse Now
One Night in Mongkok
The Proposition
Life is Beautiful
Chungking Express
Angel Heart
Barfly
Cannery Row

Guilty favourite: Point Blank
Favourite corny horror: Dog Soldiers

 

[hornyanglo66]

Favourites in my collection of ~175 flicks:

All About My Mother
Almost Famous
Amores Perros
Apocalypse Now
Batman Begins
Braveheart
Chorus, The
City of God
Crash
Dances with Wolves
Dear Frankie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Forrester
For A Few Dollars More
Frequency
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Gladiator
Godfather II, The
Godfather, The
In America
La Chute (Downfall)
Legend of 1900, The
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Maria Full of Grace
Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World
Motorcycle Diaries, The
My Name is Nobody
Once Upon A Time In The West
Sea Inside, The
Silverado
Station Agent, The
Straight Story, The
Straw Dogs - Criterion collection
The Good, the Bad & The Ugly
True Romance
Wild Dogs, The

#1 all time is The Good, the Bad & The Ugly which I have watched about 15 times in my life.

Cheers

 

[Kaempferrand]

Fight Club
Heat
Ocean's Eleven
Tombstone
Entrapment
Batman Begins
Thomas Crown Affair
Hero
The Girl Next Door
Contact
The Italian Job
Blade II
Sweet November
A Walk to Remember
The Skulls
Scarface
Eurotrip
Aliens
The Score
Starship Troopers
Star Trek: First Contact
Serendipity
Glen Gary Glen Ross
Wall Street
Boiler Room
The Secret of My Success
Goonies
Spiderman I and II
V for Vendetta
The Borne Supremacy
Family Man
Boondock Saints
Ronin
The Untouchables
Robocop
Scent of a Woman
Other People's Money
Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Trillion Dollar Bet
Good Will Hunting
Working Girl
The Bonfire of the Vanities
I, Robot
The Saint
After the Sunset
The Rock
The Hunt for Red October
Amelie
Heartbreakers

 

[Techman]

Asami,

How about the scene in Hostel where that guy puts a big power drill through that kid's kneecap. Have you ever though about what it would be like to have a big power drill go through your kneecap?

That scene unnerved me.

Forget about the slasher and psycho-killer movies. You can pick any scene in any movie but for me the most terrifying scene is in Marathon Man with Sir Lawrence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman and a dental drill.

I'll make a list later but my favorite has to be The Lord of the Rings extended version. I don't consider it to be a trilogy, I think of it as one verrry long film.