What are your favorite movies?

My top 10 list as of right now this hour and may or may not change within the next hour...

Silence of the Lambs
Manhunter
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
The Crow
Dredd
12 Angry Men
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Hitcher (the original one)
Robocop (the... sigh... the original one)
Batman (1989)

 

Super Mario Bros (The bad one)
Thank you for smoking
Jiri dreams of sushi
Scarface

 

In no particular order (warning, I'm a bit of an old-school junkie)
* Intolerance (100 years old and 4 hours long, but it's amazing and forever applicable. Why couldn't this have been the first hit movie instead of the Birth of a Nation?)
* Throne of Blood (easily the best film of Macbeth ever, and not just because pretty much all western films of it suck. Shame this doesn't get as much love as the rest of Kurosawa's stuff.)
* Gold Diggers of 1933 (we're in the money! we're in the money! we've got a lot of what it takes to get along! but seriously, the whole movie is great. I love musicals of the thirties.)
* The Song of Bernadette (an obscure film from the 40's about the life of St. Bernadette. I wish all religious films could be like this though. I don't cry that often in movies, but I was bawling by the end of this. Beautiful, just beautiful.)
* An American in Paris (the stellar singing and dancing talents of Gene Kelly+the genius music of Gershwin+Paris, which is inherently awesome=best movie ever.)
* Some Like It Hot (as much as I love Marilyn, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis steal the show. Everything about this movie is perfect, which is something almost impossible in a comedy. Honorable mention to Billy Wilder & Jack Lemmon's next project, the amazing and underrated The Apartment and fraternal twin Tootsie.)
* East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, and Giant (the amazing James Dean is one of few actors where every movie he was in was divine. Maybe it was for the best that he died so young, he never had the embarrassing swansongs you sometimes get with legends past their prime. Speaking of...)
* Anything John Cazale was in (not to undermine the Godfather movies, The Deer Hunter and Dog Day Afternoon, but I'm going to give a special mention to the underrated The Conversation, one of the greatest psychological thrillers I've ever seen.
* Mary Poppins (perhaps the only thing I agree with Chris whole heartedly on: This movie is divine.)
* The Producers (Another rare comedy where everything is perfect, especially amazing given the polarizing premise, which in the wrong hands would have been horrible. Haven't seen the one with Matthew Broderick but I want to, even though I know it's not as good.)
* Taxi Driver (what do I even have to say?)
* Back to the Future (it's awesome, not much to say on this one either.)
* The original Ghostbusters (if there's one thing I like about the new slopfest, it's that it made me go back and remember why the original movies were so good.)
* Beauty & the Beast (I wish everything Disney made was this perfect. Not to say I didn't like Frozen, but Beauty & the Beast is what Frozen should have been like.)
* Se7en (I'm not a huge David Fincher fan, but this is awesome.)
* Tropic Thunder (easily my favorite comedy of the last 10 years.)
* Ratatouille (easily my favorite Pixar. So sweet.)
* Mary & Max (another rare film that moved me to tears. Eat your heart out, Toy Story 3. I think it's on Netflix, go check it out.)
* Gravity (it's simultaneously such a grand movie and yet an intimate one. It's amazing.)
* Guardians of the Galaxy (Probably the only modern superhero movie I like. But goddamn, I love it.)

 

i can't decide, ever, but here's some that come to mind for whatever reasons

- seven
- videodrome
- anchorman
-- (on that note i love always sunny in philadelphia. people acting like cartoon characters!!)
- donny darko
- deadpool (even though the quips are really disconnected from the story, not integrated)
- the prestige

edit: silence of the lambs

and this one movie about ventriloquist dummies. i think it was called 'dead air'.

 

Young Frankenstein
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Blazing Saddles
Robin Hood (the Disney one)
Zootopia
Caddyshack
The Street Fighter movie (not for the intended reasons)
The Room (same thing)

 

Spoiler: You're welcome!

 

Seconding Blazing Saddles.
Young Frankenstein

 

The Blob, 1988 remake (used to live an hour from the town that was filmed in)
The Fly, 1986 remake
The Thing, 1981 remake
Maximum Overdrive
Dune
Heavy Metal
The Transformers: The Movie
Dawn of the Dead, 1978
Night of the Living Dead, 1968
Tremors
The Devil's Rejects
Bad Taste
Dead Alive
The Black Hole
(tl;dr, mostly late 70s - 80s sci-fi or horror)

 

Brick is one of my top 5 movies and certainly one of the most underrated. Made by the same guy who would eventually make Breaking Bad.

The highlight for me is the massacre at the end when the cops show up and kill all of the teenagers. Tug, knowing that he's going to die and pissed off about wasting his life essentially playing a game with gangsters and drugs (the game turns real when the cops show up) ends up punching The Pin to death while his friends are being slaughtered upstairs. The hero backs away slowly while The Pin cries out for help, before he sneaks out of the house.

 

oh yeah, brazil!! how could i forget that

and rocky horror and evil dead and some other things

 

1. Goodfellas
2. The Shawshank redemption
3. Deadpool (shocking I know)
4. Death to Smoochy (refuse to call this one a guilty pleasure)
5. From Dusk Til Dawn (original only)

 

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

 

Top Five in no particular order:

The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Perfect on every level.)

Brick (See TheVoid's review above.)

Scotland, PA (Funniest version of MacBeth ever!)

Shadow of the Vampire (Willem Dafoe's finest on-screen moment.)

Six String Samurai (Does with a miniscule budget what most billion dollar blockbusters can't.)

 

Aliens and Star Trek IV

 

The Godfather trilogy
Goodfellas
Casino
Gangs of New York
O Brother Where Art Thou?
A Fistful of Dollars
Ernest series (Ernest Scared Stupid was my all-time favorite)
AKIRA
Ghost in the Shell
The Crow
The Producers (both versions)
Gladiator
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Mallrats
Wrongfully Accused
Blazing Saddles
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Dracula (the original 1931 version)
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Urotsukidoji series
Interview With A Vampire
Queen of the Damned
American Ninja
Red Dawn (the 1984 original, not the shitty 2012 remake)
Kill Bill
Wild Wild West (yes, I enjoy this one unironically)

 

The Italian (2005)
I've been on a Russian film kick. They're just so damn sad and funny at the same time.

 

Basically anything made by Stanley Kubrick.

 

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