Southern California - your favorite movies

Although it's not exactly the most lofty goal, one thing I aspire to in 2007 is to watch more movies. Old, new, whatever genre, I don't care. So let's have 'em -- a simple list of any length, ranked or unranked, with no explanation or justification required (but provide one if you want).

All three Die Hard films.
Driving Miss Daisy
Shawshank Redemption
Sense and Sensibility
Schindler's List
First and Third Indiana Jones films
Glory

Any of the Connery 007 movies
The Last Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption

PCU
5th Element
Monty Python (Holy Grail & Life of Brian)
Star Wars 4-6 (the originals)
Hunt for Red October
Any Bond except Remington Steel
XMen 1&2, not 3
Indy Jones 1&3, not 2
Matrix 1, not 2&3
League of their Own
John Wayne war movies, not westerns
Breaking Away
Princess Bride (would be #1 in an ordered list)
Caddyshack
Midway, Tora Tora Tora, not Pearl Harbor (suck azz movie)
Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, not that Jay & Bob strike back
Stripes
Ghostbusters 1, not 2&3
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Breakfast Club
Dazed and Confused
Animal House
1941
2001, 2010
All the animated Disney Classics. Start with Peter Pan

- 80's campy movies
Real Genius
Pretty In Pink
Some Kind of Wonderful
The one with the Donger, I can't think of the name

good enough for now, let me know when you need more ideas

...The one with the Donger, I can't think of the name
Was that "16th Birthday" with Molly Ringwold?

Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles

Bingo!

Although it's not exactly the most lofty goal, one thing I aspire to in 2007 is to watch more movies. Old, new, whatever genre, I don't care. So let's have 'em -- a simple list of any length, ranked or unranked, with no explanation or justification required (but provide one if you want).


Donnie Darko

Salton Sea ( I'm a dog I tell Ya, I'm a Dog, woof woof ) That's one great line!

Snatch



Three of my favorite movies..

The movie selection says something about the posting person....
Mine say's I'm just a little twisted ( don't tell anyone, it's a secret :) )

Snatch was terrific...I saw it in London before it came out over here.

Tombstone

Star Wars 1 - 6
Mighty Ducks Trilogy
Bad Boys 1 and 2
Fast and the Furious Trilogy

and a bunch of chick ficks I can not think of the names right now :p

My uncle recently found a magazine's listing of the top 100 movies of all time and placed any of those movies he hasn't seen yet on his wishlist. I recently rediscovered the joy of reading (The Da Vinci Code) and am now refusing to watch any movie that's based on a book I haven't read yet.

Anything with Ron Geremy in it....

This blog entry has my favorite movies: http://tinyurl.com/yjdj97

And tongue-in-cheek article I wrote on worst movies: http://tinyurl.com/yfp7d7

Chocolate
Harold and Maude
Breaker Morant
Dinner with Andre
Grosse Pointe Blank
Swimming with Sharks
Breaking Away.
V for Vandetta.

to name a few. Those will always be included in a more expaned list as by basic favorites.

Talladega Nights -- The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

"Shake-n-Bake"!

from childhood until now:

King Kong (Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges version - yeah, that one)
Airplane
Fox and the Hound
Francis
Tootsie
At Close Range (I'm going in order of time, but if ranking, this would be #1 - Sean Pean, the late Chris Pean and Chistopher Walkens are all superb)
Sixteen Candles/Pretty in Pink/Breakfast Club
Less Than Zero
Spinal Tap
Monty Python - Life with Brian/Search for the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
The English Patient
Red/White/Blue (with Red being my favorite)
Gross Pointe Blank
Waiting for Guffman/Best in Show
Into the Void

Okay...there are more, but these are some that come to mind. My favorite horror film still is Halloween (the first film only). If I hear that music, I still get goose bumps.

Office Space - underrated comedy

The Godfather 1&2

I even like #3
But the best is the Godfather Saga , that is both 1 &2 edited together in chronological order...
almost 8 hrs....incredible...someday they will release it on DVD

I agree with quite a few of the above listed...here's a dozen or so that I don't think have been listed so far:

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
Lost in Translation
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Fletch
Animal House
Chasing Amy
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

edit: Oops, Herb beat me to the Godfather so here's a few more:
Apocalypse Now
Blackhawk Down
Rocky
About a Boy
Gaslight (B&W with Ingrid Bergman)

Shawshank Redemption
Man on Fire
Gladiator
Top Gun
The Count de monte Cristo
Ray
Most Adam Sandler comedy's
Walk The Line

I agree with quite a few of the above listed...here's a dozen or so that I don't think have been listed so far:

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
Lost in Translation
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Fletch
Animal House
Chasing Amy
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

edit: Oops, Herb beat me to the Godfather so here's a few more:
Apocalypse Now
Blackhawk Down
Rocky
About a Boy
Gaslight (B&W with Ingrid Bergman)


I was think of you when I typed that..I figured you are a fan also (duh)

Have you ever seen the Saga version?

Yeah...it was on A&E or something like that, right? It had some cool scenes like the one where Fabrizio (the guy who blew up the car with Apollonia in it -- what a good looking woman she was) gets blown up.

Citizen Kane
Tombstone
The Guns Of Navarrone
Saving Private Ryan
Lost In Translation
Shawshank Redemption
The English Patient
Forrest Gump

Babel (new film)

The Departed (new film)

.......these are off the top of my head for now.

Shawshank Redemption
Man on Fire
Gladiator
Top Gun
The Count de monte Cristo
Ray
Most Adam Sandler comedy's
Walk The Line


When Top gun was first released ( now this is before DVD ), I must have gone
to see it 5 times...
Good flick.


Oh, let add;

Matrix #1 ( the others bite.)

Yeah...it was on A&E or something like that, right? It had some cool scenes like the one where Fabrizio (the guy who blew up the car with Apollonia in it -- what a good looking woman she was) gets blown up.


Yeah..they definitely added some scenes...it was available on video - 3 cassettes...rumors of it on DVD have been around for years, but still nothing...I hope PAramount wakes up and releases it!

Possibly a choice of one's favorite movies, is really insightful into one's mental makeup.

Any title that is triple x.

unforgiven
road house
predator
blackhawk down
saving private ryan
empire strikes back
LOTR's trilogy
cannibal the musical
the south park movie
ronin
anything with wallace and gromit....

the list could go on forever, but i shall now stop!!!

No mentions for "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" yet? Just one of too many favorite movies to list...yet.

No mentions for "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" yet? Just one of too many favorite movies to list...yet.

I have that on my list. But then I forgot the South Park movie, d'oh!!!!!

This is great -- keep 'em coming!

oldies but goodies:

Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
To Have and Have Not
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Ninotchka

True Grit
The Shootist

The Man Who Would Be King

Sullivan's Travels
Some Like It Hot
What's Up Doc?

The Last Temptation of Christ

Night of the Hunter
The Children's Hour

The Exorcist

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A New Leaf

Mountains of the Moon

Lion In Winter
Becket

Bringing Up Baby

Roman Holiday

Thelma and Louise
Easy Rider

Yeah, and Unforgiven's good.

That ought to keep you busy for a couple weeks.

The Velodrome Phoenix

Does anyone have any new film favorites?

Does anyone have any new film favorites?


thank you for smoking
over the hedge
and i kinda liked jarhead....great antiwar war movie....

What? No "Cool Hand Luke" yet?

Also:
Forest Gump
A Christmas Story
The Sandlot

A Christmas Story


You can get a head start on 'A Christmas Story'. If you have cable, TBS plays it back to back to back to back to back to back to back... etc all day on Christmas starting at 8pm tonight!

I'm so there!

2046

Spinal Tap
Thank You for Smoking
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Killing Fields
Crash
Swimming with Sharks
The Player
Waiting for Guffman
Blazing Saddles
Triplets of Belleville
Fargo
King of Hearts
The Princess Bride
Taxi Driver
Schindler's list
Memento
Freaks
Harold and Maude
The 40 y.o. Virgin

Slightly off topic: This weekend we saw Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men. Both highly recommended.

Anyone a fan of True Romance?

finally saw apocalypto...even though mel gibson is batsh!t insane, it was pretty darned good!

Slightly off topic: This weekend we saw Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men. Both highly recommended.

not off topic at all!!! i really wanna see pans labyrinth, seems just kookie enough to be amazing!!!

Slightly off topic: This weekend we saw Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men. Both highly recommended.

+1 on Pan's Labyrinth. I saw it twice this last weekend at home. Yes, the ending did make me cry.

Last night I saw Clint Eastwood's new film, Letters From Iwo Jima. Awesome film. The film is entirely in Japanese from their perspective, with English subtitles, of course. Highly recommended. Running time: 141 minutes.

+2
Pan's Labyrinth... excellent!
Not for the kiddies, tho.

I've been on a foreign movie kick lately.
Some Recent foreign Fav piks:

Cinema Paradiso
Merry Christmas - great French world war I movie
Kung Fu Hustle
Hero
Maria Full of Grace
Sex and Lucia
Seven Samurai
House of Flying Daggers
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Das Boot

Other then that I realy like all Hitchcock films and early Eastwood westerns.

Star Wars 1 - 6
Mighty Ducks Trilogy
Bad Boys 1 and 2
Fast and the Furious Trilogy

and a bunch of chick ficks I can not think of the names right now :p


Fast and the Furious Trilogy?????? HAHHAH HA HA HHA HAHA H AH AH

Of course this is always subject to change especially since I've forgotten good movies and wil later remember and I keep seeing new ones I really like.

My list is based upon movies at any time, I will sit down and watch if playing... and as you can tell I am a Sci-Fi fan:

1) The Fifth Element (multi-pass!)
3) LOTR Trilogy
4) War of The Worlds (with Tom Cruise)
5) Any Monty Python Movie
6) South Park Movie and Team America
7) Brazil
8) Independance Day
9) Good anime such as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Metropolis and Howl's Moving Castle.
10) Good animation - love Shrek, the new Happy Feet, also good Disney like Mulan or Finding Nemo, Monster House was great.
11) Any Kevin Smith movie such as Clerks, Dogma etc.
12) Alot of foreign movies - the popular such as Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, and not so popular like the Red Latern, alot of french films anything with Gerard Depardieu and so forth.

Actually I like ronjon 10's list as well.

New movies I would like to see again:

A Scanner Darkly, United 93, Lady In The Water, Clerks II

Movies I never ever have to see again nor want to:

The Engish Patient, The Fountain (what the heck was that about anyway?), Momento well the list can go on and on....

Last night I saw Clint Eastwood's new film, Letters From Iwo Jima. Awesome film. The film is entirely in Japanese from their perspective, with English subtitles, of course. Highly recommended. Running time: 141 minutes.

Cant wait to see this film. I 'read' the book on CD 'Flags of our Fathers. This is an interesting topic for a movie and I realy like the idea of having both sides of the story. Oh, and I am a big Eastwood fan.