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StArHaMa

My favourite are like beyond 100 so to cut the list short here are my top 12.

01 Brighton Rock, 02 Bad day at Black Rock, 03 The Wild Bunch, 04 The Marathon Man, 05 Beverly Hills Cop, 06 Predator, 07 Leathal Weapon, 08 Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 09 Home Alone, 10 Carlito's Way, 11 Behind Enemy Lines, 12 The Wolverine.

Do you guys have any favourite movies you would like to share?.

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gcunit

As I'm awake in the middle of the night (suffice to say my insides hate me and I hate my insides right now) I may as well contribute. Bound to miss some but here goes:

Star Wars - all of them to one degree or another, but particularly the original trilogy. If there was only film I could watch before I died of probably opt for RotJ.

Indiana Jones series

Back to the Future trilogy

Bad Boys I & II

Swingers

Beverly Hills Cop I & II

The Bourne series

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Stuck on You

The Naked Gun trilogy

The Rocky films

Forrest Gump

Apollo 13

The Shawshank Redemption

Men In Black

Ghostbusters

That'll do for now.

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GoldenGamer88

Not much of a movie guy but here we go (btw, there'll also be lesser known romantic comedies from 60s, which my mom loves to watch and I took quite a liking to them myself).

  • Empire Strikes Back
  • Shrek 2
  • Zootopia
  • Send Me No Flowers
  • Lover Come Back
  • Operation Petticoat
  • Back to the Future
  • Jaws
  • Jurassic Park
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Man's Favorite Sport
  • Parent Trap
  • The Winter Soldier

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the_shpydar

#1 - Pretty sure we already have a movie thread. Though i guess this is a bit different, so maybe that's ok.

#2 - Minus One Billion points to the OP for putting an apostrophe in the thread title. I will never understand why people can't grasp the correct usage, which is one of the most basic aspects of the English language.

EDIT: Thank you for correcting the thread title. It would have eventually driven me mad, and i'm crazy enough as it is.

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Ralizah

I've seen a ton of movies, so I'll just mention some right now, and then post more later when I have more time to think about this.

Kill Bill Vol. 1: One of the most joyously crafted films ever made. Pure style from beginning to end. You don't watch this so much as lose yourself to its wacky and kinetic violence.

Die Hard: One guy trapped in a building with a group of dangerous terrorists. This film had two things over its contemporaries: first, Bruce Willis, unlike Stallone or Schwarzenegger, wasn't a one-man army, and this more realistic everyman approach to the 80's action hero only made it more thrilling when he won in his encounters with the terrorists, which required stealth and quick wits on his part. Secondly, also unlike many other action films at the time, the film goes out of its way to humanize some of its villains. In particular, Hans Gruber is absolutely iconic bad guy, but Rickman would have never gotten a chance to shine in the role if the film had been another stereotypical action movie about some invulnerable bada**. An absolute classic of the action movie genre.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The greatest adventure film ever made. A pulpy gem.

Star Wars: The first film: I won't bother with calling it Episode IV, as this was imposed on it after it first came out, and I think it works brilliantly as its own thing. The first modern blockbuster and a science fantasy epic that combined a Campbellian mythological structure with far-future technology to create the first truly cinematic space opera.

Kairo: A moody nightmare of a film that explores themes of loneliness, meaninglessness, and social disconnectedness through the context of a mysterious supernatural apocalypse. Easily the best Japanese film I've ever seen, and probably my favorite horror film as well.

The End of Evangelion: Another apocalyptic nightmare, although a much more decidedly personal one. Despite being the conclusion to an iconic TV series, I think the film works well enough on its own as a sort of horrifying visual poem. Emotional instability and gorgeous, big-budget animation have never gone so well together.

Grave of the Fireflies: You don't watch this film, you endure it, and then try desperately to bury the feelings of grief and despair that well up in you after it ends. Probably my all-time favorite anti-war film.

The Dark Knight: Perhaps not Christopher Nolan's best film (I think that honor officially belongs to Dunkirk at this point), but certainly an iconic and perfectly paced superhero film that, like The Dark Knight Returns did years before for comic books, showed off the sort of dark places the genre could go when it was reflecting modern sensibilities. Heath Ledger's version of the Joker isn't the most faithful out there (Mark Hamill will always officially be the Joker to me), but it was terrifying, intense, and inimitable. Definitely my all-time favorite superhero movie.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: A film primarily about memory. What it does to us. Why it's so important. This was one of the most affecting and memorable science-fiction films I've ever seen.

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Ralizah

@MegaTen Cool analysis video! I also looked at his video where he rips on Jurassic World by comparing and contrasting it with Aliens: VERY funny stuff.

One thing I really appreciate is when a piece of art uses the tools unique to its medium to create an experience that is impossible in other mediums. Films have so much at their disposal, in this regard, as they're able to precisely manipulate sound and imagery to convey complex meanings and elicit particular emotional reactions. This combination of stimuli can be used to communicate with incredible subtlety, in the same way that literature uses the flexibility of written language to create a confluence of different ideas and video games manipulate user interactivity with the software in various ways to create nuanced experiences.

Even putting aside the structural components of a screenplay, it's amazing how so much can be conveyed just by manipulating the way a certain scene is lit, or how a certain character is filmed, or the way in which the film is edited, or the style of the cinematography . I appreciate, more than anything, directors who treat cinema with the respect it deserves in this regard: the people who use film to create Kill Bills and Aliens instead of Twilights and Bruce Bigalows.

One directors who I really appreciate in this regard: Ingmar Bergman. His films are so consciously and deliberately constructed that it is exhilarating to sit down and really see how how everything falls together to explore complex ideas with a minimum of didactic shortcuts (think the opposite of an Ayn Rand novel, where she feels the need to explain EVERY DARN THING in exacting specificity to the reader, because what use is subtlety and respect for reader agency in literature that borders on being political propaganda? And I say this as a person who was a rabid Objectivist in his teens, and who still has a soft spot for her books (except "Anthem," which is what I imagine Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" would have read like if it was written by a teenager who thought she had some special insight into life)).

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LuckyLand

I don't watch many movies, but I have watched these two many times:

  • The Goonies
  • In the mouth of madness

There are a few others I like but not nearly as much as those two.
Just to name a few Smoke, Die hard 1 and 3, Indiana Jones 3, Neverending Story 1 (but the book is much better) Naked guns trilogy

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10 off the top of my head (I reserve the right to change my mind on a daily basis lol)
Labyrnth, Dark Crystal, Leon, Blade Runner, Alien/s, Akira, Memento, Big Lebowski, L.A Confidential

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Namco

So I put together this small list from the top of my head (for now it is all non-animation):

The Godfather
The Dark Knight Rises
The Shawshank Redemption
The Prestige
The Revenant
Bridge of Spies
Captain Philips
Interstellar
The Green Mile
The Theory of Everything
The King’s Speech
Indiana Jones (Favourite: and the Last Crusade)
Léo
Forrest Gump
V for Vendetta
Gran Torino
3:10 to Yuma
Avatar
Gladiator
Jurassic Park
Pirates of the Caribbean (Favourite: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
Skyfall
Star Wars (Favourite: The Empire Strikes Back)
Lord of the Rings (Favourite: The Two Towers)
Harry Potter (Favourite: and the Goblet of Fire)
Forrest Gump
Matrix
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
The Lone Ranger
The Avengers
The Martian
Iron Man
Ocean’s Eleven
Schlinder’s List
Amadeus
The Descendants
Now You See Me
I Am Legend
Inception
The Hunger Games
The Imitation Game
Edward Scissorhands
The Bucket List
Hot Fuzz
Er Ist Wieder Da
Get Out

I know I'm forgetting a ton still....

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Lion King
Spirited Away
Battle of Gods
Men in Black
Winter Soldier
Rogue One
Guardians of the Galaxy
Shrek 1 & 2
Rocky 1 - 4
Cinderella Man

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sdelfin

@MegaTen has a lot of my favorites in his list. Good list.

I've always been more of a gaming and TV guy. Films were never a big focus for me. Some favorites that come to mind currently:

Blade Runner
The Running Man
Aliens
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
Akira
Princess Mononoke(I'm currently working on seeing other Ghibli animated films. Very good stuff, mostly.)
I also really like various Godzilla and other monster films.

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  • 13 Assassins
  • Back to the Future trilogy
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Godzilla (really like both 1954 & 2014)
  • Harakiri: Death of a Samurai
  • InuYasha Movie 2: Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (though I like the other 3 movies too)
  • Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic World
  • the Lion King
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Sonatine
  • Starship Troopers
  • Summer Wars

No partucular order. May add more later.

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Krull

Already seen loads of my favourites listed already, but don't think I've seen any Kurosawa yet. Give me some Seven Samurai, please. Hard to believe it's pushing three hours.

If I were to simply list the films I've watched the most, it would include:

Enter the Dragon
Akira
Strange Days
The Big Boss
Original Star Wars trilogy (Eps IV-VI)
Blade Runner
Aliens
The Terminator
The Running Man (so naff, but still so enjoyable)
Dazed and Confused
Legend (trashy Ridley Scott, see The Running Man)
Rope (my favourite Hitchcock)

Other favourites, but not ones I spent most of the mid-Nineties watching again and again, include:
Brick
Spirited Away
The Matrix
Fight Club
LA Confidential
Apocalypto
F***ing Åmal

Tempted to list the films I love but can't watch again, such as Dancer in the Dark - but think that deserves a new thread.

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StArHaMa

My Anime list would be very short indeed.

01 Ninja Scrolls, 02 StreetFighter 2 the Animated movie, 03 ghost in the Shell, 04 Animatrix, 05 Halo Animation set.

@the_shpydar I stand corrected.

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My favourite movie is Amazing Spider-Man 2

but my top 5 includes Star Wars: A New Hope, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Incredibles, and Prince Caspian.

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The Seven Samurai

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LTTP as usual...

It is quite fascinating to see an even kneel of interesting and popular films list.

I actually thought long and hard about this a while back, and if I had to span a list that begins when films first begun, then my top twenty would be not only all over the place, but a troublesome process altogether.

By starting from the year that my favourite film of all time was released, Alien, I found it a lot easier to go from having a tough time of things to something that approaches an agreeable list from my perspective.

In alphabetical order:

1. Alien (1979)
2. Amélie (2001)
3. Before Sunrise (1995)
4. Big Fish (2003)
5. The Big Lebowski (1998)
6. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
7. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
8. Donnie Darko (2001)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
10. Garden State (2004)
11. Groundhog Day (1993)
12. Jurassic Park (1993)
13. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
14. The Princess Bride (1987)
15. Stand By Me (1986)
16. Spirited Away (2001)
17. The Thing (1982)
18. Toy Story (1995)
19. The Truman Show (1998)
20. Whiplash (2014)

Honourable mentions: - Infernal Affairs, The Matrix, Sideways, Terminator 2: Judgement Day and When Harry Met Sally...

@Ralizah It’s really nice to see another fan of ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’!

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skywake

At one point I tried to catalogue every movie I watched, haven't kept it up. Probably because Netflix launched in Australia meaning I kinda gave up on keeping track. In any case here are the 8 movies that I gave 5 stars:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (I love it despite it being objectively not that great)
Alien (no explanation needed)
Blade Runner (it's almost a cliche me giving it 5 stars, but there you go)
Inside Out (I'm a sucker for Pixar and this is their peak IMO)
Interstellar (I love science and I loved how well they handled it in this movie)
Pulp Fiction (gotta love Tarantino, arguably his best)
Toy Story 3
Up

And a few highlights from my list of movies I gave 4.5 stars:
The Fifth Element
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers (the best of the trilogy)
Mars Attacks (so bad it's good)
The Shawshank Redemption (more cliche picks for best movies)
The Truman Show
Wreck-It Ralph

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StArHaMa

@MegaTen @Krull @sdelfin @GrailUK @skywake which version of Blade Runner did you guys see was it the directors cut or the final cut also have any of you guys seen the new Blade Runner 2049 if so would you recommend it.

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