Curiosity I guess

My Fav great Movie is "Raging Bull" from 1980 Directed by Martin Scorsese

My Fav bad movie of all time is "The Creeping Terror" from 1964 Directed by Vic Savage

WarGames

Ghost In The Shell.

I got the Japanese DVD in order to enjoy the beautiful music of the movie, because the dynamics compression is ugly, on the French DVD. Each time a percussion is played, the choir makes 20 steps back in the soundstage ! And the English and US versions have replaced the ending score with a completely off topic track.
Note also, for those interested, that the english subtitles are terrible. They sometimes even say the opposite of the original meaning. The plot is difficult to understand to begin with, it becomes completely impossible reading english subs.
However you don't need to buy the expensive japanese edition (that features good english dubtitles instead of subs). The Korean edition is much cheaper, and must be basically the same (but I don't know about the subs).

God, I hate Masamune Shirow


Anyway, my favorite movies of all time:
-The Godfather
-Forrest Gump
-Scent of a Woman

There is little left of Masamune Shirow's style in the movie.

You mean, the drawing style?

I also dislike his storytelling, the subjects he tackles, and the fact that some of his ideas (concerning replicants, future, etc.) were already hard boiled 20+ years ago when Ridley Scott came out with Blade Runner.


In my case, I can resume the japanese animation I like in one word: Miyazaki.

There are a couple of filmmakers/directors/writers, whose work I really admire, but if I had to pick just some movies I think these would be it:

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
As you might have gussed I'm literally obsessed with Quentin Tarantino and could have listed any other movie he participated in, but those really are his stand outs.

Reqiem for a Dream
Arronofsky is a great artist but only a mediocre storyteller. While this pretty much destroyed Pi, Requiem of a Dream seems even more intense, because its story is so cheesy and simple.

Waking Life
This movie is just plain genious. Download/Get/Rent it now and discuss it with your friends.

Natural Born Killers
Ohh, another Tarantino movie, but with a twist. Stone takes Tarantino's original script and creates something new and very exciting out of it. Its artistic style is a little exhaustive at times, but fits well into the context.

Fight Club
Is there anything better than a bunch of half naked guys beating each other up and starting a revolution?
I'm not too fond of Fincher's other movies, but in Fight Club it just works out perfectly.

Mulholland Drive
It's David Lynch, it's IMHO his best work and it has lesbian sex...

A Clockwork Orange
No explanation should be needed...


Other excellent movies, which I watched very recently are Titus (a beautifully shot Shakespear Drama starring Anthony Hopkins) and Donnie Darko, which is one of the most interesting movies about time travel ever made.

dev0

all MONTY PYTHON movies!

I think American Beauty, Pulp Fiction and Fight Club should also be mentioned... btw. I appreciate dramas dealing with WWII. Some of those are fu**ing good but do not reach the masses and therefore are not famous.

EDIT: OH dear! I forgot Stanley Kubrik. Most of his films rock

Many that I like, but only one is my favorite by far...

Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

Second place is Roman Holiday (1953)

Third place is a tie between every other movie starring Audrey Hepburn.

(I'm a sucker for romantic movies, so that category dominates the rest of my list, though I also enjoy sci-fis, dramas, and the occasional random oddity such as Memento, Brazil and A Clockwork Orange.)

Matrix & Matrix Reloaded so far

As Good As It Gets
Pulp Fiction
Zardos
Always

Brazil... now there's a title I didn't expect to see mentioned. Especially since I both know that one, and enjoyed it!

Others that rank high on my list (and I am far from a cinemaphile, so I probably haven't seen more than a fraction of the number of films anyone else here could boast):

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (1968)

Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie (1979)

Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (1994, based on the 1951 novel)

- M.

Edit: Stupid grammatical errors!

Any of the old John Waters movies, but primarily Female Trouble.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy

Rob

American Beauty

I just think Terry Gilliam has a genius sense of vision. I like his other stuff, too, such as Time Bandits, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and 12 Monkeys.

I also see lots of other titles in this thread that are among my faves, includingPulp Fiction, The Matrix and anything by Stanley Kubrick (though I did acknowledge A Clockwork Orange directly).


Ahhh...Robert Anson Heinlein...one of my very favorite authors (close second to Asimov). The book The Puppet Masters was much better than the movie though (as is true for many book>movie transitions, including Starship Troopers). I just started reading Stranger in a Strange Land, and I just bought Friday which I'll dive into next. I wish they'd make my very favorite Heinlein book into a film...The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Then again, maybe they shouldn't.

Sorry to get OT about books instead of movies, but when Heinlein is mentioned I have to jump in...

Dark City
In The Mouth of Madness
The Thing (Carpenter's version)
Repo Man
The Third Man
The Big Sleep
8 1/2
Rear Window
Do The Right Thing
Blue Velvet
Being John Malkovitch
The Big Lebowski

Don't blame you for jumping in... if anyone else had mentioned Heinlein first, I would have as well.

Yes, The Puppet Masters novel was better than the film, but one of the reasons I rate the film so highly is that it's the only example of Heinlein's work translated to the screen that does any semblance of justice to the original. (Sure, they had to edit a few things... after all, you want the audience to sit through the whole thing, don't you? But they did it the right way, and stayed true to Heinlein's original forcus and vision.)

Only two of his other works have been filmed (... and released; there have been numerous aborted attempts to film Stranger in a Strange Land, but nobody really groks the way that one should be done.), and of the two Destination Moon doesn't really count, because Heinlein conceived it as a screenplay and wrote his own novelization. Starship Troopers was a travesty, and should never have been filmed... at least, not like it was. The animated Roughnecks series comes much closer to the tone, theme and spirit of the novel.

All in all, I'd have to rank Heinlein ahead of Asimov as a writer... although I have the complete (yes, really) fictional works of both. The paperback versions fill two large boxes in my office - I ran out of shelf space long ago - and I'm slowly accumulating a set of their respective hardbacks.

You did get the original, uncut version of Stranger, right? If not, PM me... I've got a few spare copies of that one lying around.

To drift back toward the original topic, I always thought The Door Into Summer would film well, although it would have to begin as a period piece. (Or the gadgets and gizmos would have to be thoroughly re-vamped for a modern audience... but of the two options, I'd vote for the former.)

- M.

Edit: I'm feeling slow today... I forgot to close a set of italics.

Fight Club - This one is el numero uno. Makes you go "Ah" the second time you watch it and the third time you watch it.. and the fourth time..
"You are not your bank account. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your grande latté. You are not the car your drive. You are not your f*cking khakis!"

Other movies in no particular order:

Memento - Mind boggling and excellently executed.
"You mix your laundry list with your grocery list you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast."

Starship Troopers - Gore galore. Our future: military government. Only good looking guys and gals.
"I need a corporal. You're it until you're dead or till I find somebody better." Yeah.

Dr. Strangelove - Cold war classic. With the USA expanding their nuclear arsenal, this movie, behind the grotesque satire, sends shivers done my spine.
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."

The Matrix - You know why.
"You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."

Lord Of The Rings - series - I just love fantasy.
"My prrrecious!"

Black Hawk Down - Intense modern war movie. Kept me in shock for hours after watching.
"Do you think if you get General Aidid, we will simply put down our weapons and adopt American democracy?"

Worth mentioning from the top of my head: Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, The Quiet American, American Pie, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alien 1-3 (4 was embarassing), Ice Age, All Austin Powers, some of the older James Bond movies, Saving Private Ryan, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Yes, I love movies.

How can we have come this far without someone saying The Ali G movie?

Well.. 2 of my favorite movies than come to my mind now are:
Hero (Ying xiong)
The Right Stuff

i have to agree here!

RHPC is my favourite movie ever, as i can watch it over and over again and never get bored!

Ahh. I love those two because they are so satirical. It's a pity they don't make more such films. All the dead serious action or somewhat silly action-comedies of today may be entertaining, but I've had enough of those for a couple of years now.

- Starlight Hotel, by Sam Pillsbury.
- After Life (Wandafuru Raifu), by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
- Toto le héros, by Jaco Van Dormael.
- Rumble Fish, by Francis Ford Coppola.
- Iron & Silk, by Shirley Sun.

Bye, dB

The Right Stuff
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
T2 - Judgment Day
Conan the Barbarian
Goodfellas
Heat
Carlito's Way
Jacob's Ladder
The Thing (1982)
Top Gun (so sue me )
The Matrix
Scarface
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

etc...

fewtch, you've taken my list!!!
BTW, all films mentioned here are great IMO.
(maybe except few I have never seen and have no opinion of)

Additions:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (this is no western )
How to Kill Your Neighbour's Dog
2010: Space Odyssey II

Top of my head:
Birth of the Nation (1915)
nearly any Chaplin or lillian Gish film
Little Foxes (filmed in '41, set in 1900) and the superb prequel Another Part of the Forest (set in the 1860's during the war)
Sulluivan's Travels (1939) with Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
All of the Road Films with Bing, Bob, and Dorothy (except the last 1962 film with Joan Collins playing the romantic interest and featuring Lamour in a cameo role)

for the adventure/detective genre:
DOA (1950? or thereabouts)with Edmund O'Brien in one of his few lead roles (has to be the original B&W version, none of that colourised shit)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - the last time we get to hear the incomparable Mel Blanc and it has both Mickey and Bugs onscreen together for the first time that I am aware of

Did no one (other than me) like these movies?

The Green Mile
Beautiful Mind
Titanic

The list will grow when I think of other movies

Not in a specific order:

- Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)

- Gladiator (Ridley Scott)

- Dune (by David Lynch)

- Nikita (Luc Besson)

- Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)

- Ronin (John Frankenheimer)

- The Blues Brothers

- All Kubrik's movies

- All Monty Python's movies

- All Terry Gillian movies

Favourite movie. Impossible to mention.

Latest I was totally blown away by

"Battle Royale" by its extremity of feelings and thoughts about social behaviour under extreme conditions.

I loved it for its brutality, its dedication to another human being, its description of friendships, its hopes for civilization in the mouth of madness, its despair, its absurdity and how you cope with it

Edit: I'm just saddened by my lack about japanese culture and language, because I'm sure I'm missing a lot of cultural references and langual subtleties

Yes, I liked Titanic.


Since people always give several titles, let me add my second favorite movie :

Tron (Steven Lisberger)

It was actually from a book called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Sci-Fi master, Philip K. Dick (the guy that also wrote "Minority Report"), although Ridley Scott did tweak the story to point it more towards the direction you mention.

My favorite movies (in no particular order):

1.- Casablanca
2.- Blue Velvet
3.- Pulp Fiction
4.- Anything Kubrick
5.- Anything Hitchcock
6.- A.I.
7.- Memento (kinda like modern Hitchcock)
8.- Lord of the Rings
9.- Citizen Kane (it's just so INFLUENTIAL)
10.- Ciudad de Ciegos (mexican, impossible to find anymore, just a memory now, I have lost all hope )

This is a busy thread! While I typed my post there where six new!

A lot of my fav. movies have already been mentioned, but here is a list:

The rather epic stuff...

• Lawrence of Arabia - Cinematography, music, acting, script, cutting... this one blows me away everytime I see it.
• Citizen Kane - Wonderful cinematography and an unusually fast-paced story. Even by todays standards the movie stands out, but consider the time it was made!
• Metropolis - I loved the restauration, especially the new original score! A shame over 1/3 of the film is lost forever...
• Amadeus - The fictional story on Mozart's life, told by Salieri. I had the pleasure of seeing the restauration in cinema. Absolutely amazing...
• The Magnificent Seven - I was unable to see the Original (Seven Samurai), but I love the wonderful score, cast (Brynner!) and the Beyond-Western-Story.

Special mention

• The Big Lebowski - This film is beyond comedy!
• Life Of Brian - "Jehova!"
• Memento - Watch it and you will understand...
• One Hour Photo - It is NOT a thriller (as advertised!), but the best portrayal of loneliness I have ever seen.
• Das Boot - Best true submarine movie, but Prochnow sometimes acts over the top (IMHO).
• Blues Brothers - Great music & fun, unique movie IMHO.
• The Birds - Aside from all obvious, I loved Tippi Hedren.
• Rear Window - Aside from all obvious, I loved Grace Kelly.

Commercial, yet good and/or entertaining

• Indiana Jones - THE adventure movie, I loved Raiders and the Temple of Doom
• Gladiator - I just like Ridley Scott visuals; Crowe is perfectly cast, the movie just made a huge impression on me.
• Heat - DeNiro and Pacino in one movie; I like the two-sided approach and epic subtext (good-bad-relationship)
• Insider - Another Michael Mann masterpice
• JFK - Paranoia or truth, who knows? Yet, I love the intense sequences (drive-by, semi-documentary etc.)
• Wall Street - I think I like Oliver Stone movies
• Forrest Gump - Damn, it is commercial, yes! Yet, it struck a chord with me...
• Hunt for Red October - I don't know, its nice to watch.
• Falling Down - I don't like the ending, but Michael Douglas really hits a nerve!
• Jerry Maguire - Aside from all obvious, I loved Renée Zellweger.

Fav. Directors
David Lean, Ridely Scott, Michael Mann

I think this movie / director is overrated
Pulp Fiction / Tarantino

Stop, stop. Will you stop that... stop it.
Now look. No-one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle.
Do you understand?
Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear; even if they do say Jehovah......

A movie I forgot to mention: The Beach! Yes, that's right, with Leonardo DiCaprio (a good actor, if you ask me). No other film I've seen transports so much of the summer, exotic tropical island, romance, eternal vacation feeling. A movie about finding paradise which turns out to be hell and loosing it again, grieving about the loss. This movie absolutely touched an emotional vibe in me. The other people I urged to see it, didn't feel it. Oh, well. I loved it!

Very supportive soundtrack:
When they see the beach (paradise) for the first time: Moby - Porcelain
Discovering the wonderfull life on the island: Sugar Ray - Spinning Away
Finding love in the nightly sea (but I still don't buy the bioluminiscent plancton making the water all sparkly like that, but it's a nice effect): All Saints - Pure Shores
Crazy jungle action: Blur - On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway Mix)
End credits, memories of a better life: Unkle feat. Richard Ashcroft - Lonely Soul

Life of Brian.. hehe... "Who threw that rock?!" - "(high voice) She! She.. um... (low voice) He! He!"

Wait till Biggus Dickus has heard of this!
Take him away! I want him fight rabbid wild animals within a week.
I will not have my friends ridiculed by the common soldery.

maaan, I love that film! Good to see others who enjoy pythonesque humor!

Or to quote it phonetically...

"Take him away! I want him fighting wabbid wild animals within a week.
I will not have my fwiends widiculed by the common soldewy."



"Do we have a Bwian?"

"Yes."

"Vewy well...I will fwee Bwian!"

Brother Orchid: Edward G. Robinson at his best. Plus, throw in a bit of Bogey and Ann Sothern.

Hardware: The Terminator on acid. (Killer soundtrack)

Das Boot: Absolutely the best submarine movie of all time. Watch the sub-titled version for best effect. (The Enemy Below does a close second.)

Dex

Are you SURE?
I have a tendency to disagree with his later films (ever see Torn Curtain?).
Early to mid Hitchcock though, impeccable. Especially Vertigo, Rear Window, NNW, and Shadow of a Doubt.



Forgot about both of those, both fantastic. Robbins' best work in the latter?

Oh well, at least I listed a Fellini flick

my all time favourites that i can remember right now:

- back to the future trilogy
- the goonies
- the fugitive
- terminator 2
- both lord of the rings and matrix movies
- the 'dollars' trilogy and other westerns with clint eastwood
- godfathers, the untouchables, goodfellas
- pulp fiction
- equilibrium
- starwars ep. 2
- star trek iv: the voyage home
- groundhog day

there's, of course, crapload of other movies i loved but these are the ones i've seen three times *at least*

I just saw a movie that is the best I've seen in at least the last year, even though it's five years old. Gia. I have no excuse having never seen this movie sooner, as big of an Angelina Jolie fan as I am.

Some of the best lines from the movie:

"Being somebody doesn't make you anybody."

"I think God has a big plan for me...just not in this life."

"How did I get it? And how do I get rid of it?"

There's no way I can describe this movie. If you haven't seen it, then you have to see it to understand. It taught me that the absolute worst thing you can do to a junkie is give them nothing to lose. And that the world really can use somebody up and throw them away. And that some people just need more love than others.


Edit: Sorry if this post seems overly emotional, but it's because it's only been 15 minutes since I saw this movie, and I'm overly emotional.

Hmm, some of these will be repeats of others folks have mentioned (and in no particular order). These all probably are in my top 10 of all time, but my top 10 isn't clearly defined so I'm only listing few that spring to mind:
12 Monkeys
Dr. Strangelove
Being There (also starring Peter Sellers, THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST SEE)
Psycho (original obviously)
The Big Lebowski
Bound

Some more recent movies that I really liked but are not old enough to be a sure thing in the All Time Favorite Movies list:
Amelie
Waking Life
Mullhullond Drive
Ghost World (has some funny audiofool stuff)
Memento
Sexy Beast (Ben Kingsley is FREAKING AMAZING in this)

A few other movies that I like but I don't think I could put on a "super awesome ultra-exclusive" list:
Dazed and Confused
The Professional
Resivoir Dogs
Punch Drunk Love
Princess Mononoke

Movies I like from genres I hate (children's movies or musicals generally, or anything too happy):
The Princess Bride
Spirited Away
Moulan Rouge (this could have been better tho...)

Movies that only I like:
Buffalo 66
A couple others I can't remember right now

Oh, and something that's not quite a movie, but I'm going to recommend anyway... Fooly Cooly (or Fuli Kuli or Furi Kuri or FLCL). I'm not a big anime fan, in fact, I think the majority sucks really bad, but Furi Kuri is damn cool. Also, not a movie, but available on DVD - Mindcandy. It's a collection of demos from the PC Demoscene. It rules.

edit: Some I forgot, that might be on the bubble (and some that I really like but might have forgotten if others hadn't mentioned them):
Strange Days
Dark City
Adaptation
Being John Malkovich
Blade Runner
Alien (not any of the sequels though)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Usual Suspects
The Public Enemy ("Top of da world, ma!")
Falling Down
Goundhog Day
High Fidelity (also has some audiofool stuff)

I agree that III was weak, and IV downright sucked, but I feel that Aliens (the first sequel) always gets underrated. You have to think of it differently than the original (which I totally agree is the best). It's an action/thriller. The original was a horror movie.

Best dialog exchange from Aliens...

He asks, "Hey, Vasquez...Have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

She answers, "No. Have you?"

Equlibrium (Movie in the Matrix style but darker (better than Reloaded!))
Almost all 'James Bond' movies
Cruel Intentions
Terminator 2

Strangely, most of my fave films have Thomas Newman soundtracks (chicken or egg, I dunno )

American Beauty (I am so glad someone made that film. I have been so inspired to live since watching it about 3 years ago. It never wore off)
Shawshank Redemption
Meet Joe Black
The Green Mile

Non Thomas Newman:
Fight Club (Another angle to American Beauty - people are telling me to read the book, because whatever you got out of the film, you'll get it so much more amplified out of the book)
Natural Born Killers (Ridiculously good. Unbelievable)
Pulp Fiction
Contact (How underated?)
Groundhog Day (Best concept ever. Hasn't aged too well tho' )

He has a wife you know. You know what she's called?

She's called... Incontinentia.. Incontinentia Buttocks...
Shut up. What is all this?! I've had enough of this rowdy rough rebel s.. behaviour.

EDIT: I just read the phonetical version of Pontius Pilatus' speech. I think I should quote one of my favorite scenes:

"People of Cherusalem! Wome is your fwiend!"

Some of my favourites

Society (1989)

Jabob's Ladder (1990)

The Field (1990)

Aliens (1986)

even that stupid vampire one? hehe. That movie started off pretty good, and then all of a sudden, freakin' vampires show up out of nowhere and it turns into the worst cheese ever. I can't wait for The Vega Brothers or whatever it's going to be called.

I loved this movie when it came out, partly because I was a Public Enemy freak, mostly because it is a great flick. RADIOOOOO RAHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMM!!!!!!!