Which are your favorites Movie???
My Favorite movie is 2012 and Titanic
and a few others I can’t remember at the moment.
1.) The Matrix: Revolutions
2.) Josie and the Pussycats
3.) High Fidelity
4.) Chasing Amy
5.) Sweet November
6.) Constantine
7.) All the Real Girls
8.) Garden State
9.) SLC Punk
10.) Watchmen
The Matrix is really central to how I think about the world and it’s influenced my writing, my thinking, and well, everything. Josie is just such a concentrated sugar rush of a movie and it plays to an important part of my psyche. I’m glad that the Top 5 incorporates representatives from my main interests in the world of film making: Keanu, Cusack, Cook, and Kevin Smith. Sweet November is about someone learning how to live and also how to deal with loss, which is always a fantastic thing, when done right.
Watchmen is here because I get happy every time I think about it and it was the turning point in making this list. I’m used to seeing a nice bit of evolution over time in terms of my Top # lists, and I’ve loved most of these movies for a very very long time. That’s okay, though!
The film adaptation of Watchmen made my favorite moments shine and even elevated moments that didn’t affect me to greatness. The title sequence just brings me to tears with it’s delicate sense of nostalgia, loss, and fragile optimism.
and a few others I can’t remember at the moment.
Out of the ones you mentioned, only a few stuck out as ones I enjoyed: Edward Scissorhands, Christmas Vacation, The Devil’s Rejects, Demon Knight, and Encino Man (guilty pleasure). I could write up a top ten like Neg did, maybe later. But my favorite film is May (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qv38cYbcq0).
Requiem For A Dream
1. Babe
2. Philadelphia Story
3. Aliens
4. Chasing Amy
5. Oldboy
6. Blue Velvet
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Say Anything
9. The Big Lebowski
10. The Bird People in China
I tried to get a good mix of movies that were really significant or special to me and ones that are just pure joy to watch. Some of them are both. They represent a lot of different favorites for me- Blue Velvet has my favorite ending line of all time, Oldboy has my favorite fight scene of all time. Aliens is mostly the most quotable movie of all time. Mostly. Say Anything is my favorite John Cusack movie and Eternal Sunshine is my favorite movie about love. Babe and Bird People in China are pure magic. And well, few scenes are as great as the scene where Macaulay Connor and Tracy Lord get drunk together in Philadelphia Story, or Holden’s monologue in Chasing Amy, or the nihilist scene in The Big Lebowski.
I wanted to post an old top 10 list to compare, but I couldn’t find one. 🙁
1. Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Escape from New York/L.A.
4. Aliens Special Edition
5. S.W.A.T.
6. Highlander 1, 3 and 4
7. The Storm Riders
8. Project A I and II
9. Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith’s ‘New Jersey’ Trilogy)
10. Fearless Vampire Killers
And for in the future i think avatar.
that’s cool man. if you like swashbuckling, see The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). add that to your list.
Leonardo DiCrapio died.
I still keep hoping that this time I watch it’ll be different and it’ll be Leo doing the swanton…
But alas… no such luck..
:sigh:
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It is relevant to your interests.
I’ll try and edit this sometime, it’s late. I’m too tired to come up with a well thought out list.
1. Jarhead
2. Forest Gump
3. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
4. The Matrix: Revolutions
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Enemy At The Gates
7. American Beauty
8. The Bourne Supremacy
9. Bridge To Terabithia
10. The Dark Knight
I liked Jarhead, all he ever got to shoot was the air. I marveled at how it was made by the same people that created American Beauty. Forrest Gump was fun to watch, Tom Hanks is brilliant in this one (like he is in all his movies). Lock Stock is the only movie that has given me a stomach ache from laughing so hard, maybe there are other movies like this, but this one was the first of it’s kind I reckon. The whole quirky fail at crime story. If there’s one before this then cool. The Matrix: Revolutions caught me off guard, and I love it when movies do that. I was too immersed with the fight for Zion, that I forgot about the Smith vs Neo fight at the end. Shaun of the Dead is my favorite movie about zombies, Simon Pegg is a genius, and I like his name. I had to study American Beauty in High School, I liked writing all those essays, breaking down the movie and finding all the meanings in each scene. It was the only essay writing I ever enjoyed doing. Bourne Supremacy for me was the best spy movie I ever saw. Jason Bourne will win against any other Spy. I cried harder during Bridge to Terabithia than I did when Mufasa died. I think BtT would be my most favorite movie about death. The Joker wins it for me ^_^
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2). The Shawshank Redemption
3). Perfume: Story of a Murderer
4). Gattaca
5). Memento
6). The Machinist
7). Saw I
8). Equilibrium
9). Terminator 2
10). Crime Spree (I’m surprised that people called this movie unoriginal and stale when many liked Brotherhood of the Wolf. But, each to their own I guess…)
Yes, you can tell my movie preference quite easily.
IT ENDS TONIGHT.
I rarely say this to anyone, but I love you. Seriously. The second movie is almost just as good.
My list changes often, but this is my current list:
Movies
o1. Babe I & II
o2. Jurassic Park
o3. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
o4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended Versions)
o5. Hook
o6. Hidalgo
o7. Dark City
o8. Underworld Trilogy
o9. Sin City
1o. The Spiderwick Chronicles
Cartoons & Animated Movies
o1. Beauty and the Best
o2. Up
o3. The Little Mermaid
o4. The Brave Little Toaster
o5. We’re Back!
o6. A Troll in Central Park
o7. Disney’s Dinosaur
o8. The Land Before Time
o9. Aladdin
10. Arthur and the Minimoys (Not fully animated)
American Beauty,
LA Confidential,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
Requiem for a Dream,
The Shawshank Redemption.
There’s a ton of 9s there too so a top 10 would be much more difficult to list, probably have 2001, A Scanner Darkly and Citizen Kane in it without wanting to think too much on it. If I’d to pick one as my all-time favourite though it’d probably be Requiem for a Dream.
I’d like to add one more movie to my list. TAKEN, with Liam Neeson. holy crap, that was fucking epic.
Man, it’s not like you devalue language at all.
Ditto.
I still keep hoping that this time I watch it’ll be different and it’ll be Leo doing the swanton…
But alas… no such luck..
:sigh:
My mom loves that movie, so needless to say I’ve seen it too many times than I really should have…once was more than enough.
Movies that I actually do enjoy with no particular order:
-The Fifth Element (my all time favorite)
-Bram Stoker’s Dracula
-The Matrix (only the first one)
-Taken
-Blood Diamond
-American History X
-Die Hard With a Vengance
-Live Free or Die Hard
-Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
-RV
-Animal House
-Porky’s
-Blood and Chocolate
-Aladdin
-The Lion King
-Finding Nemo
Blade Runner (A cult classic that wasn’t appreciated for years)
The Terminator (1&2)
District 9 (waiting for the DVD)
The Matrix (First one’s my favorite)
A.I Artificial Intelligence (Another under appreciated film that’s slowly gaining more appreciation)
K-Pax
Fearless
The Mosquito Coast
Into The West (It wasn’t really a movie, it was a short series exclusively aired in the summer of 05 for about 6 weeks on TNT, although it was really good)
Promises (Once again, it’s not really a hollywood type movie it was more of a independent documentary/movie. It was done by B.Z Goldberg, Carlos Bolado and Justine Sharpiro, it was about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but it was told more from the eyes of the children who are faced with these conflicts and how it effects their lives and perception when they turn into adults. I saw Promises in a theatre back in Dec of 2002 ironically a few months before the Bush administration declared war on Iraq in March and started that whole ordeal)
Seraphim Falls
The Matador
The Big Lebowski
Batman (Both Burton’s and Nolan’s are great)
Fight Club
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
A River Runs Through It
I could probably list more but these were just some I could think of that I liked a lot.
A Bittersweet Life
No Mercy for the Rude
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Joint Security Area
Isabella
A Beautiful Mind
Fight Club
Memories of Murder