Fave Movies

mine have to be the Star wars trilogys, the matrix trilogies, X men and a quality Kong fu spoof called "Kung Pow!" its so damn funny

"Kung Pow!" My belly starts hurting when I think about that one again, it was extremely funny!

I don't have any real favs, there's too much good stuff out there. I could give you a couple of favourite directors: Stanley Kubrick, Peter Jackson, Takeshi Kitano (not all his movies though), Tim Burton, Nick Park, and all-time favourite Jacques Tati.
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino, Johhny Depp, Anthony Hopkins.
Actresses: Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman.

Did anyone else out there read the title as "Fave Moves", and assume it was a strategy thing? Perhaps the obsession is becomming stronger....

I think I'd vote for Monty Python's Life of Brian, tho the Matrix (only the first obviously, it went downhill fast after that), fight club and Platoon are also high on my list.

Mr S

Mine have to The Thomas Crown Affair (the newer Brosnan version), The Usual Suspects, The Shawshank Redemption, and Sideways;

plus Luc Besson's, especially Leon and Le Grand Bleu.

erm...no...

Mine are probably also Life of Brian, The Cowboy Bebop movie, and Serenity.

And I also most definity did not read the topic title as "Fave Moves" the first time.

Ronja (dughter of a robber) is on of my favourites.
It's a children's movie (swedish?), and outruns the Harry Potter saga by far !
Also Lord of the Rings and Terry Prattchet's "Truckers" (yet another children's one).
Most of the Tarantino's are delicious as well.
And of course ther is Shrek.
The weeping camel is brilliant as well, and the Moty Pythons (all of them)
and...
Och, there's no end to my list.
Anyone seen one with squirrels in it ?

Shrek, Ice Age, The incredibles and Nemo.
Snow White, Pinochio, Dumbo, Cinderella, ...
And of course: [url=http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0073000/]Pinchcliffe Grand Prix / Fl

forgive me, but are you 7? ice age and shrek are pretty hilarious though!

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But I love animation. Snow White was a quantum leap in animation. Compare it to what was produced at the same time, and be amazed. It is a lot better animated than most of the stuff that is produced today. Pinochio has some beautifull dry brush work (that technique had to be dropped later because it was to expensive). Dumbo and Cinderella are well animated and are cut very well in my opinion. Nemo is also cut very well, and has beautifull pictures. I do enjoy the simple stories, but I also enjoy to see how they draw, how they animate, how they light their scenes, and so on. But my 3 1/2 year old son do enjoy many of the movies I enjoy

Do you always begin conversations this way?

Star Wars, LotR...
There are endless movies which are great; which are, in the right situation, the perfect thing to watch.

But there can only ever be one Best Movie Ever.

Do I mean Orgasmo? Barbarella? Flesh Gordon? No, something even better! (Inconceivable!)

I mean a movie that appeals to all ages.

Do I mean Totoro, then? Not remotely!

I mean a wonderful movie which worked hard to becoe so; a movie that is as good today as the day it was first wrapped.

Shawshank Redemption, Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction...? but no, for I said it was suitable for all ages, so I clearly can't choose the movie which is not PG!

I mean a movie where every single actor clearly had the time of his lfe making it, and where every scene is utterly, breathtakingly perfect.

Anything by Studio Ghibli...? You'd like to think that wouldn't you? But no.

I mean the kind of movie that is as much fun to watch on a romantic night in with your girlfriend (But, it's not a kissing movie), as it is to watch with a drunken gang of friends, or even some local fisherman, out for a pleasure cruise, at night... in... eel-infested waters....

A movie you can watch again and again and just grow to love it more each time.

A product of true genius. Have you ever heard of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien (City of Lost Children, Delicatessen)? Yes? MORONS!

I mean a movie where no matter how often you watch it there is not one moment, one scene, one single line that you would wish to cut or change.

I mean a movie from which you can quote in prettymuch any situation, and the cognoscenti will smile, and come back at you with the riposte.

And if you don't knwo the movie I mean by now, you don't deserve to. But I'll give you a few more cues...

"No more rhyming now, I mean it."

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia..." (how long ago was this movie made? and that still rings true!)

"You are using Bonetti's Defense against me, ah?"

"You seem a decent fellow... I hate to kill you."

"Oh, what I wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak."

"We'll never survive!"

"Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam..."

"Humperdinck! Humperdinck! Humperdinck!"

Apparently one of my strengths is my ability to not feel stupid when I ask for things to be explained (though I think it would be better to understand things in the first place!), so
HUH? You didn't name the film... It sounded a little like princess bride and a little like a monty python film...
I'm sure u r now offended but please enlighten morons like me!

You got it the first time (and the "morons" thing was from a quote, not descriptive of the reader ). It was, indeed, the Princess Bride

A superb film, and eminently quotable, but, for me it only makes the top 10, not the Top 1. To me the greatest film of all time is quite heavy, rather dark but every second is imbued with meaning and depth. I'm moved everytime I watch it and only do so with close friends or family. My favourite film ever is Ridley Scott's "Bladerunner".

I love the bit in that film with the dwarf's mind game over the two glasses, one notionally filled with poison, with the hero, and it then turns out the hero has immunised himself to the poison anyway! I love the look on the Dwarf's face!

My Favorite Movie will always be... Disney's Robin Hood
Followed by The Secret Life of Walter Mttey (Danny Kaye)

Of course, I know the movie! So glad to find you agree. There can be only one greatest movie ever, the most quotable, and the most quoted. The most perfect, the most universal...

"Play it, Sam."

"Everyone comes to Rick's."

"Shocked, shocked to find that there is GAMBLING going on in here!"

"We'll always have Paris."

And of course...

"Round up the usual suspects."

There can be no dispute. There will never be another Casablanca.

Ah but which version the Directors cut or the one with the happier hollywood ending.? i also like the origional book Do android dream of electric sheep quite a bit different from the movie but both good in their own right.

In my own case i would find it hard to pick a favorite from all that is out their it so much depends on mood etc at the time but i have a fondness for the old ealing comedies The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit but am also a Monty Python fan and grewup with the first Star Was trilogy but at other times i like a good spaghetti western almost any of the Sergio Leone ones.

SANEAlex

surprisingly i think Madagascar is 1 of the most easily quotable films, possibly saving Monty Python's presence. Sure it's a kid's animation movie, but aren't we all? Best films, tho - Usual Suspects for surprise plot? American Beauty for good music and visuals? Bourne Identity for best fight choreography? Raiders of the Lost Ark for best opening? Lord of the Rings for good portrayal of classic storyline?? who knows.

i have just watched "V for Vendetta" a few days ago (because its bonfire night soon...hang on...today! ). but anyway. i have to say this is indeed one of my favourite films every. it is so deep and so clever and it really does draw you into the storyline.

oh and it has a couple of imense fight scenes as well.

your thoughts?

...and it stars Natalie Portman (fans self due to hot flash before going off for cold shower! ) might have to add this to the DVD list

I like the tagline on the film website: "People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people!"

Too true! So let's see what mid-term elections bring in the "land of the free"....

wow, this bit's been moved! must comment.

ooo i watched an amazing film the other day - Pan's Labyrinth, or El Labertino del Fauno which was in spanish with subtitles, a combo of fantasy real life and was BRILLIANT! i recomment it, if it's still in the cinema (which i doubt )

napolean dynamite and nacho libre

jack black rocks,have you heard his music?

The tribute is classic

i dunno if watching the School of Rock counts as hearing his music, but i watched that one

- Dragnet
- Blazing Saddles.
- The Thomas Crown affair (Brosnan version)
- Monsters Inc.

And my top favourite:

1. The Princess Bride.

new films that i have seen that you must also see.

>casino royale (this shouldn't be mentioned coz its so damn obvious you should see it)

>happy feet - extremely funny animated family film with great voice acting

>Borat - not for the easily offended, but extremely funny

>Tenacious D Pick of Destiny - i nearly wet myself laughing it is so funny

a film you shouldn't see

>the covanent. this is really really really bad.

I knwo that movie, what was the title again?
that was a good movie

well, I'd say Jackie Brown, PULP FICTION, reservoir dogs, kill bill 1and 2 well you see where this is going.
aything by the montypython/yahooserious/blackadder crew.

if you get a chance to see "young Eisntein" by yahoo serious, DO. you'll miss some of the gagas if you haven't lived in Oz but it's still one of the best films EVER.
Also fight club and most things with Brad Pitt.
K-Pax was good too i just realised it has "pax" in the name, rather apt.
and "I heart Huckabees, that was interesting too.

I like intelectually stimulating films [films that stimulate obviously i don't enjoy the act of stimulationg a film]

Also I like European movies. Nathalie, My wife is an actress, Jalla! Jalla!, Kopps, Green grocers, In china they eat dogs don't they?, Amelie and of course the good old Hungarian movies- A Tanu, Csinibaba, Zimmer Ferri etc

Just per curiosity how does the rating system work in the land of the free..not scotland OO OO CHICKEN RUN! because there are movies rated M here and R in US like "Outbreak"

i like movies that can be funny,as well as intrigueing?i recently watched a movie called the Secret,was very good about how to live your life by the thoughts you have.very interesting,people like einstein and winston churchill and shakespeare ahve used it,beethoven as well.

lords of dogtown was really good,also boondock saints and snatch,fight club,also things with vinnie jones.

really enjoyed the spongebob movie with david hasselhof being used as a dolphin like thingy,.it's amazing what lengths some people will go to.

must say i cant have one favourite movie
at first i would have to say any thing with johnny depp in it (pirates of the caribbean rocks socks sooo much yey)
then i wud have to say the hogfather becos i have just seen it and marc warren was brill in it
my favourite annimation movi is THE LION KING you cant beat it its a bundle of laughs a minute i love that film
favourite horror has to be the halloween series, that michael myers just cant die
and i must agree on the monty python comments they make me laf so much

the lion king a laugh a minute? how can this be?

and yeah, pirates be cool

Um, Life of Bryan and other Monthy Python stuff, Star Wars Eps 4,5,6, The Lord of the Rings, Casino Royale, Rat Race.

the lion king is funny cos of timone and pumba u just have to love them
i must say though it makes me cry wen mufassa dies

can't belive no-one has replied on this yet or mentioned it.
Admittedly (and delightedly) non-pc and surely the inspiration for Simon Braon-Cohen's borat character.
Lenningrad cowboys take america
Phazedout
on the "first post @ thudgameonline" ID

i haven't seen the borat movie yet,but i really enjoy his work,must be fun

borat is hilarious, but you have to credit the man. the film is veryvery clever and shows what predjudice, racism and sexism etc there is in our community.

i hate all those sad B****** who are sueing him. its their fault. they said the stuff. plus - YE GODS TAKE A JOKE!

yeah,it's sad to see people can't laugh at themselves once in a while,i laugh at myself all the time,and so do my friends.

i know! i had a friend ho was really funny about stuff and got really mad at me when i try to brush his hair! we don't talk now. he made me cry . . . i just want to say <--- i love this smiley! he looks like a pirate!

Ooooo I've found a brill site that tells movies in 30 seconds using bunnies..... go see go see!

www.angryalien.com!

have u seen startwars V in 5min? every second word is "dude"

"dude, I'm your dad!"

no i haven't

weel you should