Topic: Your All Time Favourite Movies?

@gcunit Dazed and Confused, I think it's where Matthew McConaughey had his breakout role, or at least the role that started bringing him fame - partly based on Matt McConaughey's own laid back, texan personality. It's about freshman and seniors at the end of their school year at a high school in rural texas circa late 1970s. It's kind of a slice of Americana, even if it's a bit before my time. It also features a young Ben Afleck, who plays a spectacular a55hole. lol. XD - he bullies some freshmen. The movie is a drama with some funny stuff. It's entertaining. It thought it was fun back in the day. It was a fairly popular movie in the US. Yeah, there's some smoking and drinking in it - as teens, or young adults may do.

@WoomyNNYes The trailer makes it look like American Graffiti On Weed. It does look very American, and I'm not sure, being (a) not American, and (b) not a weed smoker, whether the key hooks the film offers up are designed with me in mind. American Graffiti looks like the more 'universal' version, and what with serving up the triple bill of George Lucas, Han Solo and Richie Cunningham, I couldn't say no. But Matthew McConaughey...? I don't particularly follow his work. Now if it was Owen Wilson on the other hand... wow!

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@gcunit Matthew McConaughey has a pretty solid body of work mixing both high and low brow stuff so I'm surprised you don't know him better. Like Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, True Detective, A Time to Kill, How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days, The Gentlemen and Magic Mike all came to my mind and I'm pretty sure I can name another 5-10 films I've seen him if I really tried.

Thing is I wouldn't say Days & Confused is really that special of a movie imo. It's just the teen stoner comedy for that generation which they happened to watch and liked which is (probably) why it made it on their personal list. If it was 10 years later it would be Harold & Kumar, if it was 20 years later it would be Pineapple Express or 10 years earlier it would be Cheech & Chong. Plus with the rise of so many indie dramedies now young adults can find more personal/better coming of age movies than just making do with the one that was released at the time of them hitting the right age bracket.

I'm an 80's kid so let's see i could be here all day. Hey it was an awesome decade! Here goes!

Star wars
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Karate kid
Rocky
Rambo
ET
Indiana jones
Goonies
Back to the future
Willow
Labyrinth
Transformers 86
All dogs go to heaven
Aliens
Crocodile dundee

I'd list more but I'm starting to go cross eyed just trying to remember all the great movies from my time!

@Truegamer79 I've seen half of that whole list, minus Rocky, Gremlins, Rambo, All dogs go to heaven and Aliens...

(minus being the ones I have not seen)

@Kermit1
It was a heck of a time to be alive and going to the movies i can tell you that! The early 90s weren't bad either.

How can you talk about 80s films without Arnold Schwarzenegger ....? & Die Hard? Aliens? Etc

@BruceCM Wait, was Arnie an extra in Die Hard and Aliens as I don’t remember seeing him in those? ;p

They look like a Stallone fan and you have to pick one side, not both. It was the 80s rivalry equivalent of Taylor Swift vs Kayne West or The Rock vs Vin Diesel or Conor McGregor vs Machine Gun Kelly from today!!!

@Rambler And to think some people actually doubt Arnie's acting range!

Out of that list, I've only seen Dallas Buyers Club, which was decent enough to watch right through. I think I tried Interstellar once but didn't get far into it, can't remember why. Same with Mud. About the only others I can think of are the Sing movies. I don't think I've got anything against the dude, but have never taken to him enough to seek out his work.

Thanks for listing these films. While I've only seen one of them (Pineapple Express), I think you've done enough to convince me it's not particularly worth my time. I had been starting to bite having gone to YouTube to watch a trailer after seeing it mentioned in this thread, and the YouTube comments were all overwhelmingly positive, but that tends to be the case for most films.

@gcunit Forget Days & Confused, you need to start binging McConaughey like right now!!!

@Rambler To make it be fair they should really arm Stallone with poetry and Rimbaud with explosives.

He definitely should have done that ....

Lots of great movies mentioned.

'making my list of movies to watch / re-watch. LOL. I saw The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on someone's list. Great movie IMHO. And I saw Leon The Professional mentioned as well.

Here are some of my all time favourites that I didn't see mentioned yet . . .

The Game (Michael Douglas and Sean Pean)
The Efficiency Expert (Anthony Hopkins and a young Russel Crowe, Toni Collette and Ben Mendelsohn)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Paul Newman and Robert Redford)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (The original with Steve Martin and Michael Caine)
The Brothers Bloom (Rachel Weise, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo)
Employee of the Month (Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson and Dax Shepard)
Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy)
The Italian Job (Both the original and the new one)
Pixels
Ready Player One

These are movies that I liked so much, that I went and got the DVD so I could watch them whenever I want! LOL. For Leon The Professional and The Fifth Element I actually hunted down the Superbit copy! LOL.

I'm none of those things either. Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming Dazed & Confused it to be a cinematic masterpiece or anything like that, it's just something I remember really liking when I first saw it, and have seen loads of times since.

One thing that sticks out about it for me is that it doesn't really build towards a big climax, there's no big drama, nothing spectacular happening, no main character being the hero or anything like that - it's just a chill movie about what these kids got up to on their last day of school. The soundtrack is pretty decent too if you're into 70s rock.

@Rambler Clearly you've not seen Magic Mike!

@Rambler It's missing his Southern accent.

I'm not joking if anyone ever gets a chance to see Magic Mike in the cinema just go. There will be a load of loud and rowdy women seeing it too and it will completely change the experience of the movie like seeing a swear along with the South Park movie or The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

@jump a swear-a-long with the rocky horror picture show?

@Kermit1 I’ve not seen it in a awhile but I don’t think there’s even swearing in The Rocky Horror Picture Show? It’s all campy dress up harmless fun like KISS rather than horrifically brutal xxxx like Slipknot.

@jump thats a lot of x's