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PixieStix
10-27-2014, 07:42 PM
I have a ton of movies I love and 2 tons I dislike

But my favorite?

Watchmen

I really like Rorschach because he stays true to his beliefs all the way to the end. It is a complex story. But also shows how humanity, even our super heroes can be twisted

Great storyline. I highly recommend this movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3orQKBxiEg

hjmick
10-27-2014, 07:56 PM
Can't pick just one.

PixieStix
10-27-2014, 07:57 PM
Can't pick just one.

What is the one you think of first? :D

hjmick
10-27-2014, 08:22 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWYj8gVdgZU



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIi7LYvDVQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BesLJgU0ZBs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biRfVvzb8_g



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9Q_0JtMNA


Those were just the first five...

LongTermGuy
10-27-2014, 08:22 PM
`The Count of Monte Cristo` 2002`...A story of revenge....

`This is one of my all time favorite movies...A man falsely imprisoned by "friends" escapes and is out for revenge. The film is the adaptation of the bestseller book of the same name by Alexandre Dumas`

Plot Summary:
`Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes' girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 13 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him.

`With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.....Dantes befriends a fellow prisoner named Abbe Faria (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0010199/) (Harris), who is a great scholar and who, very gradually, transforms the unworldly Dantes into a wise, learned and cultivated man. Faria is an old man, however, and when he comes to realize that he is fatally ill, he tells Dantes of a great treasure and where it is buried.


*Full Movie....a must see if one has not seen it...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOv_BSPOfew

hjmick
10-27-2014, 08:24 PM
Own it... ^


Probably in the next five I thought of, though not necessarily the best version. I do like Caviezel.

PixieStix
10-27-2014, 08:54 PM
This by far is my favorite funny movie

Death at a Funeral

I love this movie. The mere thought of it makes me laugh out loud :laugh: The American version totally sucked, maybe it was because they plagiarized the original, plus the acting was awful :slap:
If you want to laugh watch this movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0xtS83sKGg

hjmick
10-27-2014, 09:03 PM
Own it... ^

Dinklage is a great actor...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGUP0JK1cU


Own it... ^



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idAN2D2S7zk


Own that one too...

PixieStix
10-27-2014, 09:09 PM
I am going to have to look into that movie

Peter Dinklage really is a great actor. He is my favorite character in "Game of Thrones"

He is one reason the movie "Death at a Funeral" was so good

hjmick
10-27-2014, 09:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL81qiFVs4E

gabosaurus
10-27-2014, 11:32 PM
What is the one you think of first? :D

Blazing Saddles. The greatest movie of all time.

I am not much into serious drama. I don't enjoy a good action movie. My favorites in that category are Soylent Green, Omega Man and Escape From New York.

I enjoy watching bad movies, whether they be intentional or not. Every holiday season, my sister and I watch Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. It's so horrible that it is entertaining.
If you want to laugh, you need to see Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Also the original Airplane, A Dirty Shame and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I also hold a special fondness for I Spit On Your Grave. Which is simply the greatest revenge movie of all time.

Jeff
10-28-2014, 06:44 AM
Platoon

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Jeff
10-28-2014, 06:48 AM
Forrest Gump


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Drummond
10-28-2014, 07:42 AM
Forrest Gump


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Omega Man was a good one. More modern .... how about 'V for Vendetta' .. ?

That film fascinates me on a number of levels. One being that it IS an American film, but I'd defy anyone to believe it is, from its content !!. Based in London (a future fictional version), of course I recognise and have visited the locations you see in the film.

For anyone choosing to view it ... one fact is 'The Strand' underground station .. is not, in real life, called that at all. Disused as from the mid-Nineties (I was one of the relative few who travelled on its last ever commercially-run train ride) .... it was only called 'The Strand' when it was first built. For almost all its life, its real name was 'The Aldwych'.

It doesn't appear on maps issued in this century, but is kept nominally operational for film shots ....

V for Vendetta stars Natalie Portman ... in the film, her character of Evie Hammond has a semi-convincing British accent ...

hjmick
10-28-2014, 04:42 PM
Blazing Saddles. The greatest movie of all time.

I am not much into serious drama. I don't enjoy a good action movie. My favorites in that category are Soylent Green, Omega Man and Escape From New York.

I enjoy watching bad movies, whether they be intentional or not. Every holiday season, my sister and I watch Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. It's so horrible that it is entertaining.
If you want to laugh, you need to see Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Also the original Airplane, A Dirty Shame and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I also hold a special fondness for I Spit On Your Grave. Which is simply the greatest revenge movie of all time.

The many incarnations of Omega Man:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mYireNvcg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiBP3UgNbHw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpYq9rgg3w


And made for TV in 2007 (the same year Will Smith's version was released... coincidence? I think not...)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YHz-uwEmQ0


Now I hear they are planning a reboot of I Am Legend... Rumor has it, it will focus on the plague that started the whole thing. A prequel of sorts I suppose. Then again, they cold always go the way of the new Planet of the Apes movies and try to generate series of films.


For a real treat, read Richard Matheson's original story upon witch all the movies are based.







Reading. It's fundamental...

revelarts
10-28-2014, 05:09 PM
Can't pick just one.

Same here,
Depends on the mood and genre.

hjmick
10-29-2014, 07:29 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iiiy8GnBNI

revelarts
10-29-2014, 10:51 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYeox3LLQ08

revelarts
10-29-2014, 10:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9t986z-CM

revelarts
10-29-2014, 11:03 PM
Rear Window
Vertigo
The man who Knew to much

donaldg
03-18-2015, 12:54 AM
It used to be Disney's Sleeping Beauty but now it's definitively Tangled.

I know that sounds kinda silly, but I like movies with happy endings and make you feel good.

Rat
06-26-2015, 12:47 PM
Unforgiven probably my favorite.

Here's more I consider classics.

Seven Samurai
The Searchers
Lawrence of Arabia
Jaws
High Noon
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Spartacus
Raging Bull
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Godfather trilogy
Blade Runner
Shane
Rocky
Ben Hur
2001
Braveheart
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan

Perianne
06-26-2015, 01:08 PM
Unforgiven probably my favorite.

Here's more I consider classics.

Seven Samurai
The Searchers
Lawrence of Arabia
Jaws
High Noon
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Spartacus
Raging Bull
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Godfather trilogy
Blade Runner
Shane
Rocky
Ben Hur
2001
Braveheart
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan

The Godfather. Oh my gosh. The baptism scene is probably the greatest five minutes in any movie ever.

Other favorites are Unforgiven, Blade Runner, The Fight Club, Goodfellas, Meet Joe Black... so many good ones!

PixieStix
06-26-2015, 01:19 PM
A movie by Quentin Tarantino. Of course his same insane style. Like that of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs
I usually like movies that are almost cartoonish and unbelievable. Tarintino's movies are very dark in humor and every other way too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBqzCXlG7Sg

Abbey Marie
06-26-2015, 01:20 PM
The Godfather. Oh my gosh. The baptism scene is probably the greatest five minutes in any movie ever.

Other favorites are Unforgiven, Blade Runner, The Fight Club, Goodfellas, Meet Joe Black... so many good ones!

Perianne,
Meet Joe Black is one of my top 5 favorite movies. Very few people seem to appreciate the wonderfulness that is MJB!

Drummond
06-26-2015, 01:31 PM
I can think of quite a few films I've really liked over the years. Right now, though, I'm a fan of the 'Hunger Games' series.

From the second of them, I think this is the most moving scene ....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbUzAKPUkbs

Other films ...

Interstellar
Minority Report
Daybreakers
North by Northwest
Rope
Oblivion
Omega Man
Devils Advocate
Johnny Mnemonic
Dracula (1992 version w/Gary Oldman)
Frost/Nixon
Dracula (1979 version w/Frank Langella)
Any Matrix film
Quatermass II
Limitless

Drummond
06-26-2015, 01:41 PM
Perianne,
Meet Joe Black is one of my top 5 favorite movies. Very few people seem to appreciate the wonderfulness that is MJB!

Not so sure about Meet Joe Black myself (.. though it's not bad ..). Ah, but, Blade Runner, another of Perianne's choices .. excellent one .. I should've thought to include it in my list.

Perianne
06-26-2015, 01:54 PM
Not so sure about Meet Joe Black myself (.. though it's not bad ..). Ah, but, Blade Runner, another of Perianne's choices .. excellent one .. I should've thought to include it in my list.

While I tend not to care much for "girl movies", Meet Joe Black is a wondrous girl movie. I have tears every time i watch it because it is so beautiful.

PixieStix
06-26-2015, 01:57 PM
I can think of quite a few films I've really liked over the years. Right now, though, I'm a fan of the 'Hunger Games' series.

From the second of them, I think this is the most moving scene ....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbUzAKPUkbs

Other films ...

Interstellar
Minority Report
Daybreakers
North by Northwest
Rope
Oblivion
Omega Man
Devils Advocate
Johnny Mnemonic
Dracula (1992 version w/Gary Oldman)
Frost/Nixon
Dracula (1979 version w/Frank Langella)
Any Matrix film
Quatermass II
LimitlessL

Limitless is a good movie. It is one of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv7sP_IFhFs

PixieStix
06-26-2015, 02:03 PM
If you haven't already, I suggest you see Guardians of the Galaxy. Very entertaining.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMcnXlgc_eE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jRQBGKPaA

Gunny
06-26-2015, 02:07 PM
The Phantom of the opera.

Tears of the Sun.

The first Avengers movie.

namvet
06-26-2015, 03:01 PM
The Godfather. Oh my gosh. The baptism scene is probably the greatest five minutes in any movie ever.

Other favorites are Unforgiven, Blade Runner, The Fight Club, Goodfellas, Meet Joe Black... so many good ones!


the killing at Louis's restaurant. very graphic.

https://rocketstreetfood.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/godfather-louis-restaurant.jpg

LongTermGuy
06-26-2015, 03:24 PM
I also hold a special fondness for I Spit On Your Grave. Which is simply the greatest revenge movie of all time.



Now you talkin...I remember...I enjoyed that one also...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zU3U-9B3fE

WiccanLiberal
07-05-2015, 11:53 AM
Watching one of my favorites now, Escape From New York.
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BJ_WA
07-09-2015, 09:52 AM
I can't say I have a movie that's a favorite but of late I've been enjoying foreign movies to include:

Indicies (Canadian) and Departures (Japanese)

There are some made for TV movies that are favorites, too:

Wallander (both versions - I have the Wallander ring tone on my mobile.)
Top of the Lake
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish with Noomie Rapace)
True Detective (1st)

I like all the Sherlock Holmes movies, especially with Robert Downey Jr.

Rat
07-13-2015, 05:00 AM
Forgot to add Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, Wild Bunch, Good, Bad, and the Ugly, Shane, and Magnificent Seven to list. Westerns my favorite genre.

namvet
07-13-2015, 07:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fmVzwZFGI