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Some of my favorite movies are:
LotR- The Series Thus Far
Star Wars - A New Hope thru Return of the Jedi
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Ahem, here in no particular order -

Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Meet the Feebles
Blackhawk Down
Gladiator
Aliens
Ghost in the Shell
Patlabor 1 & 2
Spriggan
Lord of the Rings : Fellowship of the Ring(extended edition)
Moby Dick(Gregory Peck version, Stewart was great, but Ahab will always be Gregory Peck for me...)
Preadator
Neon Genesis: Evangelion
Psycho(Hitchcock, Gus Van Sant can kiss my ass)
Rope
North by North-west
Smokey and the Bandit
Pink Floyd : The Wall
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Meet the Feebles rocks! :D
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The Great Unbearded One wrote:Meet the Feebles rocks! :D
Oh indeed, my buddies and I had to watch it twice because we were laughing so hard we missed half the movie!
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How many of you have seen DONNIE DARKO? If you havent I believe it is already out to by in the US, and it comes out 24th March in the UK. People see this movie it is FANTASTIC!!!! It's fucked up, but oh so, so good!

If you want a sense of how kinda messed up it is go to

http://www.donniedarko.com/

But this film is bound to get a cult following very very soon....
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Superman wrote: You know, it's funny. One person put "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" on their favorites list. That movie probably tops my "worst of" movies list.
I don't blame you in the least! :) But personally, I liked Dusk t'ill Dawn (mindless Vampire action + Salma? Bonus). I don't mind cheesy action/horror/adventure flicks if that's all their trying to be. I can appreciate a movie which is simply trying to be nothing more than "fun" entertainment.

Take a movie like "Resident Evil": OK, not Oscar material, but its fun for people who like cheesy zombie action... You should listen to the director's tracks, the director and the actors are laughing their asses off at how cheesy some of the scenes were. People that don't take themselves or their movie too seriously, people that realise their movie is just entertainment.... I can appreciate that.

My own all time worst movies include:
ID4
Jurassic Park (all)
Deep Impact
Armageddon
Batman whatever (the one with Mr Freeze)
Godzilla (the hollywood one)
Any movie that doesn't keep track of bullets fired vs clip size
Titanic (ok movie, just too sappy for me, my old university roomate said she saw it 10 times in theatres.. dang!)
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Here are my 20 favoriate movies, in no particular order:

Wayne's World 2
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Happy Gilmore
Spaceballs
Goldfinger
Goldeneye
The Spy Who Loved Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (And Goldmember)
The Naked Gun (1 and 2 1/2)
Moonraker
Star Wars (ANH, ESB, RotJ, AotC)
Life of Brian
The Scorpion King
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

And, the films in order:
20. The Scorpion King
19. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
18. Goldeneye
17. Wayne's World 2
16. Austin Powers in Goldmember
15. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
14. Star Wars: A New Hope
13. Goldfinger
12. Naked Gun 2 1/2
11. The Naked Gun
10. Life of Brian
9. Attack of the Clones
8. Moonraker
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
5. Happy Gilmore
4. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1. Spaceballs
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matrix, godfather, lotr, sw, fight club, demolition man, animal club, pcu, revenge of the nerds, prolly some others.
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Sokar wrote: Preadator

I forgot about that one, that movie was great: "If it bleeds we can kill it".
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The General-Buster Keaton, Silent
Ben Hur-Charlton Heaston
The Third Man- Orson Welles
M- Peter Lorre
Casablanca- Humphry Bogart
Sunset Bulevard-Holden
The Outlaw Jose Wales-Locke, Eastwood
Unforgiven-Eastwood, Hackman
Das Boot-Pierson Directing
Ran-Akira Kurasawa Directing
The Seven Samurai- Toshiro Munfine
Leon/The Professional-Luc Bessant directing, Natalie Portman's first film
Taxi Driver-Robert DeNiro
To Kill a Mockingbird-Peck (Robert Duvall's first film)
In the Heat of the Night- Poitier (THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS!)
The Brotherhood of the Wolf
Ronin-Deniro
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-Chow Yun-Fat
Dr. Zhivago-Omar Sherif, Alec Guiness
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Zoink wrote:
Superman wrote: You know, it's funny. One person put "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" on their favorites list. That movie probably tops my "worst of" movies list.
I don't blame you in the least! :) But personally, I liked Dusk t'ill Dawn (mindless Vampire action + Salma? Bonus). I don't mind cheesy action/horror/adventure flicks if that's all their trying to be. I can appreciate a movie which is simply trying to be nothing more than "fun" entertainment.

Take a movie like "Resident Evil": OK, not Oscar material, but its fun for people who like cheesy zombie action... You should listen to the director's tracks, the director and the actors are laughing their asses off at how cheesy some of the scenes were. People that don't take themselves or their movie too seriously, people that realise their movie is just entertainment.... I can appreciate that.
Well said that man! However it does stand to reason that Resident Evil was crap, just like I found Tomb Raider. They werent true to the games.
Zoink wrote: My own all time worst movies include:
ID4
Now that one, along with Armageddon on your list, relates to what you just said above.
Zoink wrote: Jurassic Park (all)
As much as I'm with you on the second and third crappy JP attempts, it still remains that the orginal, Speilberg, Jurrasic Park is a fantastic movie. Well in my opinion anyways.
Zoink wrote: Batman whatever (the one with Mr Freeze)
Batman and Robin
Zoink wrote: Any movie that doesn't keep track of bullets fired vs clip size
Poetic License
Zoink wrote: Titanic (ok movie, just too sappy for me, my old university roomate said she saw it 10 times in theatres.. dang!)
I saw it 4 times at the cinema....I love James Camerons work
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Hmm...so many good movies, hard to make a list...

Here is a bunch of what I like:

Das Boot
Where Eagles Dare
Kelly's Hero
Stalingrad
Indiana Jones I-II-II
Star Wars OT
Schindler's List
The General (Patton)
Solaris (Tarkovszkij's original version)
Space Odussey
Alien I-II-III (the last one I didn't like)
Conan (The barbarian, The destroyer)
The Hunt for the Red October
Enemy Mine
A Bridge Too Far
The Battle of the Bulge
LoTR (probably I'll like the third one as well)
Screamers
Angelheart
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

...and many more but I have space for only twenty.
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You liked Alien III...ouchies... :P
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In no particular order:

- Das Boot (U-96)
- Star Wars the original trilogy
- Star Trek II:Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek VIII: First Contact
- LotR: FotR and TTT (+ RotK, with a very high likelyhood)
- Hunt for the Red October
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Blade Runner (Director's cut)
- Braveheart
- Gladiator

Well, I'm going to stop here; there any many more movies I like, but these are the favourites.
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