What are your favorite movies?

[kahljorn]

Maybe even obscure ones that are just great. Animes are fine, too. Just looking for some decent stuff to get. Samurai movies or crazy shit are nice. I don't really know, I have a broad taste, just no romances. Comedies are good, too.
By the by, I saw a movie recently called primer that's good. the first 20 minutes is boring to some people, but it gets better. It makes me think of lost highway sort of. Iron monkey is a good martial arts movie. It always makes me want to eat good food.

We don't watch cable tv so we don't really know what's out, or what's good. And there's always the fright of seeing a shitty movie. Like what the bleep do we know. I fucking hated that. I'm sure it was informative to ignorant people, but other than that it didn't really establish any points.
Plus that bitch who said she was channeling ramtha? What the fuck? Ramtha has been ripped off by some other assholes who claimed to be his reincarnation and wrote shitty books(actually they are an okay quick read) where opening the third eye amounted to drilling a hole in the forehead. I guess quite a few spiritual people decided it would be nice to open their third eye with a power drill after that...

[glowbelly]

i love amelie but you said no romances, so that is out...even though it is really beautifully shot and all french and the gal in it is creepily angelic.

i'm not good with movies, so i would just say to rent the first season of arrested development and watch that because not enough people are watching it and it is hysterical.

:D

[Mad Melvin]

- Battle Royale is great, if you´re looking for something a little different. Its a Japanese movie about a survival game taken to the limit. 40 kids are put in a deserted island and the last one alive wins.

- Terry Gilliam has made some good movies, like "12 Monkeys", "Brazil" and "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas"

- The first Cube movie is pretty decent and original.

[Marc Summers]

-Ghost World if you like sarcastic women following around strangers...but I liked it :)

[the_dudefather]

-Ghost World if you like sarcastic women following around strangers...but I liked it :)

i agree, go watch it.......and its got steve buscemi

[iron mitchell]

has anyone else here ever jerked off to ghost world?

[Marc Summers]

Not really...no I can't say that I did.

Lemme guess...you liked the art teacher right?

[whoreable]

big trouble in little china is the best movie ever made

[ItalianStereotype]

Battle Royale is a little too mainstream these days to really be considered something "different."

some of my current favorites:

Gozu - hard to describe, really. it's about two yakuza who go into a town where nothing is really right. the movie involves a lactating landlord, a halfbreed mancow, crossdressing waiters, a yakuza who might or might not be dead, the strangest sex scene I've ever witnessed, and some other crazy shit.

Electric Dragon 80,000V - done by the same guy who did Tetsuo, but a little more bearable. a black and white cyberpunk type movie about a pet detective electricity fetishist whose body has been charged with 80,000 volts battling with Thunderbolt Buddha who, as a kid, was charged with 20,000,000 volts and has had half of his body encased in metal. great flick.

Tetsuo the Iron Man - I'm sure you've either seen this movie or already heard of it. it's almost as good as Electric Dragon. a little too much art mixed in with the horror, but still a pretty rocking movie.

The Last Starfighter - makes you feel good about the 80s.

The House on Haunted Hill - the one with Vincent Price.

Casshern - the plot is so convoluted that I could hardly begin to tell you what it's about, but it's probably the most aesthetically pleasing movie I've ever seen.

Wild Zero - Guitar Wolf is an insanely loud and insanely crappy Japanese band. they also make a very entertaining movie. Aliens invade the Earth and cause the dead to return to life. people get eaten, genders get bent, zombies die, a very ROCK movie.

[dolarene]

"A clockwork orange" because see people killing other people with an idiotic gesture is FUN.

"Dr Strangelove" Same reason as "Clockwork orange"

"Cannibal Holocaust" Cannibalism! FUN FUN!

"Evil dead" saga: absolute badassism and creative bone crushing, plus a pick up line: "This is my BOOMSTICK" Neat deal.

"Full Metal Jacket" Better as Big Brother, people going mad, but they got guns...

"Very bad things" Well... simply i like this "Tarantinesque" films, all but the kill bill saga.

Any movie with Zombies or with slaughtery.

[King Hadas]

"Tokyo Godfathers" and "Vampire hunter D: Bloodlust"- The only anime movies I've ever seen that I liked (or maybe the only ones I'll admit I like). Tokyo godfathers is a comedy/drama about three homeless people finding a baby in a pile of garbage and then trying to find it's parents. Vampire hunter D is just nice to look at, be careful not to get the original one though, it's complete garbage. I guess you might also want to sget "Akira." Personally, I thought it was boring as hell but you might like it.

[Guitar Woman]

Saving Private Ryan
it was just such a well done flick

also I like Princess Mononnoke but you said no romance
you asshole

[The Retro Kat]

The Big Lebowski (or most movies by the Cohen Brothers, for that matter)

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (or most movies by Wes Anderson, for that matter)

Wet Hot American Summer

Kids (or most movies by Larry Clark, for that matter)

AIRPLANE!

The Naked Gun

Dogtown and the Z-Boys

Citizen Kane

Walkabout

Most Tarantino's. That includes Four Rooms.

Off the top of my head...

[Guitar Woman]

i hope tarantinos doesn't include pulp fiction because then i would hate you right when i'm starting to like you

[the_dudefather]

the abominable Dr phibes is quite strange and 'kooky'

[Lye]

not really my favs, but i dont know, random movies off the top of my head that i like.

Terminater 2
Léon: The Professional
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Once Upon a Time in the West
Romper stomper
The Salton Sea
Trainspotting
Transformers
American Psycho
Blade Runner
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dark City
Narc
The Way of the Gun
SLC punk
Desperado
28 Days Later

um
The Ghost and the Darkness, thats a good one
Hook
Memento
Muppet Treasure Island
Surf Ninjas
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Tombstone
The Rocketeer
Mad Max
Akira and Akira Kurosawa movies
Escaflowne: The Movie
The Betrayal
Hard Boiled
Gladiator
G.I. Joe: The Movie

and yeah Fight Club, Boondock Saints, and Evil Dead II

[ScruU2wice]

Dead men don't wear plaid...

[N00bKill3R]

The House on Haunted Hill - the one with Vincent Price.

Damn strait, also any other old Vincent Price movie or maybe even Christopher Lee (Haunted Hotel)... by the way if anyone makes another remake of an great classic film like this I am gonna hunt them down and beat them for hours on end

[Ninjavenom]

The Believer is my favorite movie related to religion. It's about a self-hating jewish nazi punk. :O

[Rongi]

i hope tarantinos doesn't include pulp fiction because then i would hate you right when i'm starting to like you

i immediatly dont like you anymore

also, i just saw The Squid and The Whale (it's about two brothers whose parents divorce and how it affects them). It's not shown in mainstream theaters because some scenes are pretty damn creepy (one brother starts excessively masturbating), but if you have any art housey theaters around, check it out.

[Mad Melvin]

Battle Royale is a little too mainstream these days to really be considered something "different."

I meant different, because the plotline is pretty original.

[Geggy]

Like retrokat said, cohen brothers films are awesome and fun to watch

After watching the original texas chainsaw massacre last night, I realize it's my all time favorite slasher film. It's cinematographically stunning and eerie. And Leatherface does a happy dance in the ending. Can't get any more entertaining than that.

[kahljorn]

Big lists there and I like most of what you reccomended.. I love Terry Gilliam and his zealous usage of midgits. I think all of his movies have midgets in it in some shape or form.. the only one i can't think that does is Brazil. But that had robert deniro, and he's what a midget would look like and act if they weren't midgets. He's like a super midget :( I heard one of the other movies he was working on might get remade now because of the brothers grimm's success. I can't remember the name because I'm stoned, man el la nocha or something. Plus monty pyuthon.
I like tarantino movies, including four rooms. Tim roth is hilarious even though he plays the part of a pig enough to frighten me :(

And thanks for the suggestions Italian, I'll probably watch a couple of those soon if I can find them..

as for the rest I've seen pretty much all of them. I like Akira and the other movies that guy made, and I like princess mononoke and the movies he has made(try perfect blue and nausicaa valley of the wind. They are both weird). Same with bruce campbell and some of the others. Bruce campbell's books are hilarious bythe way.

[iron mitchell]

has anyone else here ever jerked off to ghost world?

[soundtest]

Guitar Wolf is an insanely loud and insanely crappy Japanese band.

Hell no! Guitar Wolf is legend. Most of their material is produced way too loud for me to really enjoy, but live they were an amazing band. And just too damn cool.

As for movies I'd recommend:
Cure (Kyua), Pulse (Kairo) - both japanese 'horror' but not really... more like psychological thrillers, but that label doesn't do them justice
anything by Takeshi Kitano
Shinjuku Triad Society, Dead or Alive - yakuza/gangster flicks
Menace II Society, New Jersey Drive - inner city/gangster
Interstella 5555 - full length anime movie to Daft Punk's Discovery
album

[ItalianStereotype]

they may be legend, but so are the Beatles and I don't like them either ;o

to be fair though, jet generation has some tracks that I really do like.

shinjuku triad society takes some patience to get through ;<

[Guitar Woman]

i hope tarantinos doesn't include pulp fiction because then i would hate you right when i'm starting to like you
i immediatly dont like you anymore
I can't see how anyone could think that movie was good
Fuck, first time I saw it the sonbitch put me to sleep

Anyway, if you see any movie it should totally be the original b&w night of the living dead. It's pretty creepy, even now that I've seen it 5+ times. :chatter

[Ninjavenom]

JET-OO GENOORAYSHION

[ItalianStereotype]

RUCK AND LOLL LICESUNS

[DSBurroughs]

I'd have to say...

Memento
A Beautiful Mind
Fight Club
I <3 Huckabees
Se7en
Deliverence
What Dreams May Come (which also might be the most depressing movie in existance)
annnnd...
Mean Girls. Duh.

[Immortal Goat]

Walkabout
I didn't like that one. I don't know why, maybe it was just because I was a highschool student when I saw it, but I thought that movie sucked.

As for my favorite movies, I dunno. You have probably seen all the movies I consider to be great. LOTR, Tarantino flicks, Sin City, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, so on and so forth. If there is anything on that list that you haven't seen, shame on you. Go out and watch them right now, or be damned to an eternity of an unfullfilled movie repitoir.

[King Hadas]

Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and the majority of Disney movies that aren't live action- I like musicals :(

Chinatown- I honestly only rented the movie so I could impress my friends with my sophisticated taste in films and didn't actually expect to enjoy it. Imagine my big suprise when the ending of the movie made me kinda want to die, in a good way.

Equilibrium- Actually pretty terrible but the gun fu was cool.

Chicago- I like musicals and this is the best one I've ever seen.

Legend of the Drunken Master- This movie is insane, easily Jackie Chan's best.

City Hunter- Easily Jackie Chans second best, Street Fighter :lol

....and here's a few more of my favorite movies that I decided I didn't want to write a gay little description of.
American Beauty
The Shadow
The Hulk
Mortal Kombat
Predator 1 and 2
Freddy vs Jason
Friday the 13th
Night of the Living dead (Tom Savini's version)
Rocky
Robocop

[Lye]

i bought city hunter from target a year ago for like 3 $, and its still sitting on my desk unopened...

[Ninjavenom]

Oh yeah, i loved What Dreams May Come. And Vanilla Sky, though i am sure Kahl has seen both :O

[Rez]

Baghdad Cafe
Bad santa
Very Bad Things
Oldboy
Land of the Dead

i just saw good night and good luck and it was pretty good.

[Wigwam]

American Beauty
Dr. Strangelove
The Royal Tenenbaums.

[iron mitchell]

so i'm the only one?

[DrGonzo]

I LOVE Wag the Dog. That movie cracks me up and kinda disturbs me a little.

[the_dudefather]

santa claus conquers the martians, the MST3K verion

seriously it has to be the best episode/movie/whatever (closely followed by Merlins shop of mystical wonders)

[Wigwam]

i've looked all over for it, but i guess my torrent's all sucky.
oh well guess i'll just have to buy it, i want it for the holiday season definently.

[the_dudefather]

its on myspleen.net at the moment, along with many other episodes

[HickMan]

Yellow Submarine

Ocean's Eleven

The Orignal Frankenstien

Shawshank Redemption

ALL Chuck Norris Films. (I'm not saying this to be funny. I'm serious. I think Chuck and Aaron Norris know what they're doing when they make a film)

Fight Club, of course

James and the Giant Peach <8

Boys n' Tha Hood

Halloween

I can't think of any more right now ;(

[Rez]

in answer to mitchell: no.

now, my question: who here thinks fight club has aged HORRIBLY?

raise your hand.

[ScruU2wice]

not really I saw it for the first time two months ago per beating by my closest friends, and it was quite an amazing movie..

I heard kiss kiss bang bang is great.

I think we made a thread that can go on forever :(

[Guitar Woman]

Psycho :eek

[Lye]

in answer to mitchell: no.

now, my question: who here thinks fight club has aged HORRIBLY?

raise your hand.

how has it aged?
i don't see it

[Pub Lover]

My favourite Hitchcock is Vertigo.

Also, I've got a stack of Alfred Hitchcock movies from the 1930's & they are superhard to watch & understand what is going on. Mainly because I'm stupid & they don't explain everything each step of the way.

[kahljorn]

The brainiac:

"Hey, there's a hole in the back of his neck... clearly whoever did this is a master of anatomy."

I always loved that... old movies crack me up.

By the by:
www.isohunt.com
thepiratesbay.org

two decent torrent sites ;0

[Immortal Goat]

My favourite Hitchcock is Vertigo.

Also, I've got a stack of Alfred Hitchcock movies from the 1930's & they are superhard to watch & understand what is going on. Mainly because I'm stupid & they don't explain everything each step of the way.

Personally, I have always preferred Rear Window to many other Hitchcock films. The Birds is another fantastic film, but everyone talks about that one. But Rear Window was so suspenseful simply because until the very end, you don't really know whether or not the neighbor killed his wife. You just have a good idea.

Adding to my list:

Twelve Angry Men\
..............................>Originals, not the crappy remakes.
Inherit the Wind.../

Fight Club (can't believe I forgot that one)

Star Wars (Original trilogy moreso than the new ones)

Nightmare Before Christmas (OMG, I'm so goth)

A Beautiful Mind

Braveheart

More to come later as I remember them.

[Guitar Woman]

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW :eek

[ItalianStereotype]

a lot of you guys have a really bad taste in movies :<

[Lye]

a lot of you guys have a really bad taste in movies :<
didn't you say you like casshern?

[Immortal Goat]

Hope it's not me... :(

[ItalianStereotype]

a lot of you guys have a really bad taste in movies :<
didn't you say you like casshern?

because it's pretty

the royal tenenbaums? rocky horror? american beauty? I <3 Huckabee? horrible movies.

[Wigwam]

American Beauty? bad?
better back up that statement.
And i don't want, "It's just trying to be Blue Velvet" crap, it isn't...they're too entirely different movies.

[ItalianStereotype]

how about this: it was one of the most intensely boring, pseudo art shit movies I've ever seen.

[Lye]

a lot of you guys have a really bad taste in movies :<
didn't you say you like casshern?

because it's pretty

pretty awful...

[ItalianStereotype]

listen, if you can't see just how pretty Casshern is, I'm going to add your eyes to my collection.

[Lye]

it was pretty for the first 5 minutes, but then the washed out and overexposed colors gave me a headache. The story, action, and pacing didn't help.

[ArrowX]

Predator
Gamera2: Advent of Legion
Alien
Aliens
The Warriors
Dead Alive
Tremors1,2 and 4
Deep Rising
Evil Dead
Evil Dead:Dead By Dawn
Army of Darkness
Red Dawn
Godzilla x Destroyah
Godzilla x Space Godzilla
FF7: Advent Children
ScareFace
The Blues Brothers

[bigtimecow]

clerks, dogma, star wars 4 5 6, bad santa, 2001: a space odyssey, sin city, animal house, harold and kumar go to white castle.

[ArrowX]

How Could I forget "Santas Slay"

[ItalianStereotype]

it was pretty for the first 5 minutes, but then the washed out and overexposed colors gave me a headache. The story, action, and pacing didn't help.

obviously you were watching it in fag-o-vision

[bigtimecow]

How Could I forget "Santas Slay"

someone was just telling me about that movie today. buddy was watching it and there was a preview of saw II or something?

[Lye]

it was pretty for the first 5 minutes, but then the washed out and overexposed colors gave me a headache. The story, action, and pacing didn't help.

obviously you were watching it in fag-o-vision
no because it had subtitles

[Immortal Goat]

it was pretty for the first 5 minutes, but then the washed out and overexposed colors gave me a headache. The story, action, and pacing didn't help.

obviously you were watching it in fag-o-vision
no because it had subtitles
Fuck you. Some of the best movies ever require a little reading at the bottom. Case in point, Life is Beautiful >:

[Lye]

I like subtitles....

[Pub Lover]

a lot of you guys have a really bad taste in movies :<
Your answers in this thread made me consider going to the US just to sit on your couch & watch movies. :(

[kahljorn]

I like david lynch movies because I'm a bad bad man.

[sadie]

you'll probably hate most of these, but. . .

dr. zhivago; to have and have not; o brother, where art thou?; to kill a mockingbird; office space; pulp fiction; the life of brian; enter the dragon; deconstructing harry. . .

[DOOM2099]

Rocky Horror is the seminal (huh huh, seminal) cult movie, but Naked Lunch is reeeeeally fucked up.


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, excellent excellent excellent movie, I put off seeing it becasue it just sounded like a buncha fags running around LA... Turns out its about a buncha fags running around LA. Val Kilmer has never been better. EVER. You MUST see this flick. Even if you hate Robert Downey Blowjob, you need to see this flick.

[GADZOOKS]

FUCK YOU DOOM FOR BUMPING THIS THREAD.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW :eek

TALK ABOUT FORESHADOWING.

[Zinger]

3...Extremes
Ichi the Killer
Audition
Visitor Q

I like Takeshi Miike...

[arg_zombies]

Leon - what a legend
The Wall - amazing visual stuff!
Pompoko - funny as hell, but wait, hell isn't funny... okay then, funny as the special olympics

All Guy ritchie films, all zombie ones, errrr I like most comedy, but hate the new ones, like "Employee of the Month', which just go for cheap, slapstick stuff.

[DOOM2099]

And Flash Gordon. Amazing movie for the 80s.

[WhiteRat]

You're 3 years late.