Give me your top five movies of all time. Here are mine:

1.Crimson Tide
2.A Few Good Men
3.The Rock
4.Return of The Jedi
5.The Last Samuri

I got rules for this thread too. No insulting other people's choices! They are strictly opinions and therefore are totally acceptable here, even if I don't agree.

In other words, just because I didn't post gay artsy-fartsy movies like Clockwork Orange or The Thin Red Line, does not mean that I have bad movie taste.

And one more VERY important rule:

ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:

1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
2. THE THIN RED LINE
3. CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4. BOONDOCK SAINTS
5. CITIZEN KANE
6. SCHINDLER'S LIST
7. 2001: A SPACE ODDESSY
8. ANY OF THOSE GOD-AWFUL AND OVERESTIMATED GODFATHERS, OR ANY MAFIA MOVIES FOR THAT MATTER, INCLUDING GOODFELLAS, CASINO, YOU GET THE PICTURE.
9. NO MOVIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN, EXCEPT FOR TRAINSPOTTING

The most important ones are numbers 1,3,4 and 9. Thankyou very much.

Monty Python and the Holy grail
Carlito's way
Monty Python: The life of Brian
About a boy
Love actually.

Kill Bill
Edward Scissorhands
Bram Stoker's Dracula

cant think of a remaining two..

1. Ran

2. Dr. Zchivago

3. Godzilla (the original)

4. Children Of A Lesser God

5. War Of The Worlds

Firstly, why would anybody put the Thin Red Line in their top 5. It was so poor. Just a bunch of guys you really don't know getting killed, running around and then they add new characters and you don't know who's who.

Anyway...my top 5.

1 - Equilibrium (I believe this is a joint UK/US film)

2 - The Fifth Element (Excellent vision of the future)

3 - Platoon (Powerful and meaningful war movie)

4 - Hot Shots: Part Deux (Hilarious, best comedy I've seen)

5 - Saving Private Ryan (Loved the whole 'Hand held camera' effect. Made you think you were actually there)

Ok then, they are in no particular order:

1. The big Lebowski
2. South Park (I have forgotten the correct title ;))
3. Fight Club
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Apocalypse Now

Monty Python and the Holy grail
Carlito's way
Monty Python: The life of Brian
About a boy
Love actually.

Sargentlard, you violated rule number 8 three times in that post.
FOLKS, LETS TRY AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS HERE THANKS.

1. Nirvana (italian)
2. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali)
3. The Crow
4. Elpojiet dzili (latvian)
5. Clockwork orange (Stanley Kubrick)

who cares for your rules, Fris? I wouldn't ditch my fav film for any "rules".
btw- you hate british films?

Sargentlard, you violated rule number 8 three times in that post.
FOLKS, LETS TRY AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS HERE THANKS.

Actually try 5 times. Also more than one rule.

Specifically 8 and 9

I have so many that I can't list all of them from the most favourite to the least.
So these are 5 of my favourite movies of all time that I can think of right now:
(not in any sort of order)
The Matrix
Terminator 2
Forrest Gump
A Few Good Men
A Beautiful Mind

1: Jackass
2: South Park
3: Pulp Fiction
4: Kill Bill
5: The English Patient
6: El Mariachi
7: Desperato
8: Once Upon a Time In Mexico
Whoa, and I think of myself as a "girly girl"?

And one more VERY important rule:
ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:

1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
2. THE THIN RED LINE
3. CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4. BOONDOCK SAINTS
5. CITIZEN KANE
6. SCHINDLER'S LIST
7. 2001: A SPACE ODDESSY
8. ANY OF THOSE GOD-AWFUL AND OVERESTIMATED GODFATHERS, OR ANY MAFIA MOVIES FOR THAT MATTER, INCLUDING GOODFELLAS, CASINO, YOU GET THE PICTURE.
9. NO MOVIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN, EXCEPT FOR TRAINSPOTTING

The most important ones are numbers 1,3,4 and 9. Thankyou very much.
Hey, no offense but THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is a pretty good movie, SCHINDLER'S LIST too.

oh yes and Titanic too, good movie!

who cares for your rules, Fris? I wouldn't ditch my fav film for any "rules".
btw- you hate british films?

You sound like one of those artsy fartsy people who like films like "Clockwork Orange". Well you go and post somewhere else pal. This thread is not for you.

I want to know what REAL people think about movies, NOT artsy fartsy people so if you are artsy fartsy then I forbid you to post here!

And I have chosen to completely ignore all who have disobeyed my rules posted in the original message of this thread.

I have also chosen to ignore the guy who had JACKASS in his list. Thankyou everyone and please read my rules before posting.

ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:

what's the point in asking for favorites if you don't allow certain movies to be used in someone's list? I don't have any fav's on that list but if I did you wouldn't be getting the truth from me so why bother?

It's like saying are you conservative or liberal (btw, I will not allow liberal as an answer)?

good point, buffys, I agree

1. what do you post in an art forum if you dont want repies from people that like varius kinds of art?
2. why do you as about ppl fav. moives if your not intrested(making rules).

1. Monty Python and the Holy grail
2. Scarface
3. Mafia
4. Carlito's way
5. About a boy

nice list padma

1. Lawrence of Arabia

2. The Godfather

3. Apocalypse Now

4. The Wall

5. 2001 : SO

Another 5

1. Dances with Wolves

2. Little Big Man

3. A Shot In The Dark

4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

5. Tora! Tora! Tora!

1- Bridge Over The River Kwai
2- Uncle Buck
3- Heat
4- Chasing Amy
5- The Exorcist

You sound like one of those artsy fartsy people who like films like "Clockwork Orange". Well you go and post somewhere else pal. This thread is not for you.
oh? so this thread is for a standart stereotypical redneck dumbass? I see

oh? so this thread is for a standart stereotypical redneck dumbass? I see

ok, I get it now.

1. Any Steven Segal movie
2. Flashdance
3. Police Acadamy 5
4. Air Bud
5. Road House

I have also chosen to ignore the guy who had JACKASS in his list. Thankyou everyone and please read my rules before posting.

Who in the hell are you? By the way, I thought it was evident that I was a girl and not a guy , you retard.

Kunax: Thanks pal. :)

Frisby you moron, Shawshank Redemption's an arty film?
Idiot.

Adding to buffy's list :

1. Predator

2. The Hulk

3. Driven

4. Rugrats the movie

5. Hellraiser 2

Here we go again:

1. Pulp Fiction - Say what again, mother fucker! Say what again! Does he look like a bitch?
2. The Big Lebowski - Best Cohen brothers’ film, ever.
3. Spirited Away
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Best Star Trek movie, ever.
5. Harvey - A classic movie about a guy who has an invisible rabbit for a friend. Johnny Darko rips this movie off big time.

In no particular order (although they are numbered):
1. - akira (Japanese Film)
2. - round midnight (the jazz film - French co-production?)
3. - the seven samurai (Japanese Film)
4. - Turk fruit (dutch film)
5. - Lawrence of Arabia (British Film)

Plot Summary for Turks fruit (1973)
Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family. Told in flashback form, initially Hauer is seen as a libertine lothario collector, taking trophies from his sexual conquests and pasting them in a book. He sees a sculpture he made of his lost lover and goes into a flashback of his relationship with his wife. He meets the girl, falls in love with/marries her, and we meet her parents: a charming, well meaning, bumbling father, and his shrew of a wife, who's convinced Hauer's too much of a bohemian to make a good mate for her daughter. Eventually, the petty jealousies, the sexual hijinks, and the climactic vomit scene prove too much for the marriage, and sculptor and his lady fair separate. Flash forward several months, and Hauer finds the girl back in Holland after an American sojourn. Their reunion is short lived; the somewhat melodramatic ending mirrors "Love Story".

I guess it is called 'Turkish delight' in english. Here is the link to amazon.co.uk

amazon.co.uk - turkish delight (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000649JE/ref=sr_aps_dvd_1_1/202-4371849-2374253)
Interestingly you have to be over 18 if you want to buy it. I think I saw it first when I was 10 or so.

1. Terkel i Knibe (Danish, best movie in a long time, it would make US censure go beeeeep)
2. Akira (Japan, anime)
3. Taxi (French)
4. Ran (Japan)
5. Twin Warriers (Chinese)

No particular order;
kids
fucking amal
welcome to the dollhouse
the burbs
scarface

There's heaps more, most of the foreign films I like I don't even know the names of.

I thought that I was very clear when I said that I did not want to hear the SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION mentioned. This thread has turned into a "witch hunt", except for this is more of a "Frisbinator hunt" so to speak. My rules have been completely ignored and I am seeing BRITISH, ARTSY and worst of all, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION mentioned.

I have been labeled as a "retard", "idiot", "moron", a "redneck" and a "dumbass" simply for my opinions. Well, it is obvious to me that I am dealing with immature children here and I guess that I incorrectly assumed that we were all mature adults.

And to the gentleman who put Jackass as his top favorite movie..... you ought to be ashamed. That is ALMOST worse than liking "The Shawshank Redemption".

And one more thing. Predator 1 and 2 are both outstanding movies. To the person whom sarcastically posted them as his top five...... I have pity on you.

haha you are funny...
are you mature enough to show some respect for other people's opinions and choices, mature enough to tolerate and appreciate all kinds of movies, and mature enough to avoid any prejudice and subjective thoughts on certain types of films??

No movie is perfect, but no movie is "bad". Every film is a form of art, and it should be valued and appreciated. Just because you don't like a movie, does not mean that it is bad. every movie has something good in it.:)

Fight Club
A Shot In The Dark
Dr. Strangelove
To Kill A Mockingbird
Inherit The Wind
Slingblade
Once Upon A Time In The West
Pulp Fiction
Midnight Cowboy
Blade Runner

Aaaahhh slingblade! ofcourse!
That would replace one of my top 5, not sure which.
Frisbinator, go fuck yourself, you're banned from this thread. BANNED!

I forgot to add:

7. C.I.A.: Codename Alexa - starring Mr. OJ Simpson (I cannot recommend this highly enough)
8. Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie - (Makes LOTR look like a film student project, pure genius)

If the sopranos was a gigantic movie it would be my favourite by far.
And before any anti-popular-things people come in here slamming it; you are wrong, it is genius, shut the fuck up, idiot.

I will brake the rules completely now:

1.Crimson Tide
Can't even remember it. Isn't that some tom clancy book based flick? One of those throw away paperbacks.

2.A Few Good Men
A typical hollywood flick

3.The Rock
That was bad. The only good thing about this movie was Sean Connery. He is not American apparently.

4.Return of The Jedi
Carrie fisher looked nice next to jabba the hutt.

5.The Last Samuri
The japanese cast did some decent acting. Why does tom cruise has to have a japanese woman in this movie? She doesn't fit in. She looks to much like a model. She was out of place. Tom cruise is supposed to be a 'warrior'. Let him fart and rampage. Possibly visit the prostitutes when the urges get too strong. But not this.

"Brazil" LOVE Terry Gilliam's films
"Apocalypse now"
"Diva"
"Wings of Desire"
"The Big Lebowski"
Woody Allen's "Bananas"
Monty Python's "Life of Brian"

4.Return of The Jedi
Carrie fisher looked nice next to jabba the hutt.
.
BAD monkey, you are twisted :D

1. Terkel I Knibe
2. Kill Bill vol. 1-2
3. Alien
4. South Park, Bigger, Longer and uncut
5. Blood, the last vampire

...hmm thats 3 animated movies there

6. Henry V.
UK movie over a play by William Shakespeare

Here are mine:
1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
2. THE THIN RED LINE
3. CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4. BOONDOCK SAINTS
5. CITIZEN KANE

why are those movies excluded?

because we will have No insulting other people's choices! They are strictly opinions and therefore are totally acceptable here. but gay artsy-fartsy movies like Clockwork Orange or The Thin Red Line and a hole array of other crap is not allowed, even if I don't agree.

Add A Lion In Winter and Becket to my list.

can you lump trilogies/series or is that against the rules?

if i was me and not you i would do as i would do and post what ever i like but only if im not you

Swedish Fish. Lumping trilogies is against the rules, there is not trilogy where all three of the movies are equally as good. I do appreciate your willingness to follow the rules, unlike all of these other buffoons who just run around without any sense of decency or order. Perhaps thats why a lot of them are terrible grammaticially and phonetically. Perhaps that is also why so many of them seem to like childish movies, such as "Monty Python" films, and that other kid who said he liked Air Bud and any Steven Segal movie.


1.Crimson Tide
Can't even remember it. Isn't that some tom clancy book based flick? One of those throw away paperbacks.

2.A Few Good Men
A typical hollywood flick

3.The Rock
That was bad. The only good thing about this movie was Sean Connery. He is not American apparently.

4.Return of The Jedi
Carrie fisher looked nice next to jabba the hutt.

5.The Last Samuri
The japanese cast did some decent acting. Why does tom cruise has to have a japanese woman in this movie? She doesn't fit in. She looks to much like a model. She was out of place. Tom cruise is supposed to be a 'warrior'. Let him fart and rampage. Possibly visit the prostitutes when the urges get too strong. But not this.



And to the young man who tried to downplay my favorite movies, I feel like a retort is in order:

1. Crimson Tide
It WAS based on a BEST SELLER by Tom Clancy and featured GENE HACKMAN and DENZEL WASHINGTON, two grammy award winners and actors whom I consider masters of their art.

2. A Few Good Men
This was most certainly NOT a typical Hollywood flick. This had some of the best acting I have ever seen. It even spawned famous quotes such as "You want the Truth? You can't HANDLE the truth!" The cast was a dream team and the movie was put together flawlessly.

3. The Rock
All you say is "that was bad" and the only good thing about it was "Sean Connery". Well I guess that grammy award winners Nicholas Cage and Neil Harris aren't good actors at all, noooo, they aren't british like Sean Connery, only people born in that part of the world can be good actors right? This movie was great because it had intelligent dialogue, believable situations, and ingenious, suspenseful, unpredictable action scenes.

4. Return of The Jedi
Carrie Fisher looked nice next to Jabba the Hutt? A 20 year old classic that set records in the box office and all you can say is "Carrie Fisher looked nice next to Jabba the Hutt"? Gee, you really are sounding like a guy whose opinions I would trust.....not.

5. The Last Samuri
Here again you demonstrate your small-minded bigotry by saying only the japanese actors did a good job. What the hell problems do you have with American actors? Tom Cruise is an outstanding actor and I would strongly question the taste of anyone who says otherwise. Just because his teeth aren't screwed up like ya'lls are doesen't mean you should hate his acting. Another thing. In case you didn't notice, PAL, Tom Cruise never had sex with this woman. He loved her and returned to her after the battle, but it never took over the entire tone of the movie. Get your head out of the clouds.

well...

actually never mind, you're just too easy a target. It's like pushing a five year old around, too simple and not funny.

well...

actually never mind, you're just too easy a target. It's like pushing a five year old around, too simple and not funny.

Oh yeah? Gee, I wonder how many five year olds you pushed around before you came to that realization?

What albums did Hackman and Washington win Grammys for?

Ghost World
American Beauty
Sling Blade
Deconstructing Harry
Swimming With Sharks

Oh yeah? Gee, I wonder how many five year olds you pushed around before you came to that realization?

lol, I wondered if you'd say that!

Perfect.

And to the young man who tried to downplay my favorite movies, I feel like a retort is in order:

34 years old I am... kiddo...(I'm so intellectual that I can put references to two movies in on short sentence....wow)


1. Crimson Tide
It WAS based on a BEST SELLER by Tom Clancy


I've read most books of our dear Tom. He is not the next dostojevsky. But I am probably not allowed to read this kind of books either.


and featured GENE HACKMAN and DENZEL WASHINGTON, two grammy award winners and actors whom I consider masters of their art.

A good actor doesn't make a good movie.


2. A Few Good Men
This was most certainly NOT a typical Hollywood flick. This had some of the best acting I have ever seen. It even spawned famous quotes such as "You want the Truth? You can't HANDLE the truth!" The cast was a dream team and the movie was put together flawlessly.

'You want the truth, you can't handle the truth'...wow, a literary masterpiece.


3. The Rock
All you say is "that was bad" and the only good thing about it was "Sean Connery". Well I guess that grammy award winners Nicholas Cage and Neil Harris aren't good actors at all, noooo, they aren't british like Sean Connery, only people born in that part of the world can be good actors right? This movie was great because it had intelligent dialogue, believable situations, and ingenious, suspenseful, unpredictable action scenes.

You have to be fucking kidding me: intelligent dialogue, believable situations, and ingenious, suspenseful, unpredictable action scenes? Believable situations? They call in an ex-prisoner that supposedly escaped once from the rock to get in the rock?


4. Return of The Jedi
Carrie Fisher looked nice next to Jabba the Hutt? A 20 year old classic that set records in the box office and all you can say is "Carrie Fisher looked nice next to Jabba the Hutt"? Gee, you really are sounding like a guy whose opinions I would trust.....not.

You can apparently not say much more about the movie either than that it set records in the box office. It must have made a lasting impression on you. At least I remember that carrie stood next to jabba theking of drewl.


5. The Last Samuri
Here again you demonstrate your small-minded bigotry by saying only the japanese actors did a good job. What the hell problems do you have with American actors? Tom Cruise is an outstanding actor and I would strongly question the taste of anyone who says otherwise. Just because his teeth aren't screwed up like ya'lls are doesen't mean you should hate his acting. Another thing. In case you didn't notice, PAL, Tom Cruise never had sex with this woman. He loved her and returned to her after the battle, but it never took over the entire tone of the movie. Get your head out of the clouds.

That is exactly my point. He never had sex with her. Is that very believable? Was she believable as a character?
I enjoyed this film, but not because it is great. It was entertaining. One of those things you will forget about in a year.
And don't worry about Tom having no flaws such as crooked teeth. He has flaws in other areas; he his tiny.

"Jedi" is not even the best film in the Star Wars series, by a long shot. Teddy bears do not a warrior race make.

about those Teddy bears. I saw the exact same bears used in another movie. also sci fi, also they tried to be mighy warriors. It was on some planet, a girl's family was slaughtered, she ran to the Teddies (which were being enslaved by the same torturers) and then they tried to battle the evil aliens, the girl found one shipwrecked old human on that planet, who helped their cause and in the end to escape that planet.
Those were the exact same Teddy bears
anyone remembers the movie?

I'm so stupid...now i get it.

frisbinator wanted us to put the worst 5 movies in a list.

I still want to know what albums/songs Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington won those Grammys for .....

I still want to know what albums/songs Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington won those Grammys for .....

let us guess and see if we are right

Gene hackman must be for 'country'...


Denzel is definitely for 'jazz'.

about those Teddy bears. I saw the exact same bears used in another movie. also sci fi, also they tried to be mighy warriors. It was on some planet, a girl's family was slaughtered, she ran to the Teddies (which were being enslaved by the same torturers) and then they tried to battle the evil aliens, the girl found one shipwrecked old human on that planet, who helped their cause and in the end to escape that planet.
Those were the exact same Teddy bears
anyone remembers the movie?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087225/

???????

i remember that movie!!! but i can't remember the name.

5 more.....

The Gods Must Be Crazy (part 1)

Forbidden Planet

The Yellow Submarine

The Magic Christian

The Mechanic

lotr is a single movie but it is against the rules. i don't like these rules. and that's my favorite movie dammit! i also assert that star wars is a single movie in parts.
my actual favorites, in no particular order:
star wars
lotr
forrest gump
the princess bride
hannibal, etc.

star wars


I hope that excludes the prequels?

obviously.

Another 5:

Amadeus
Young Frankenstein
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
Annie Hall

The movie you were thinking of is entitled "The Ewok Adventure" and they actually made two of them, one with these little children (the better of the two) and another one with adults.

And EXCUSE ME I said Grammy instead of Emmy, big freakin' deal, ya'll knew what I meant.

Another thing, Ewoks were a very interesting species, one I believe is very realistic. I don't know why everyone hated them so much, they were cute but not so cute that they were cheesy. I felt that if there is life on other planets, that it would not be too far-fetched for life to be some sort of a combination of a bear/monkey with enough intelligence to form themselves into tribes and build little villages in the woods.

And I would argue that Return of the Jedi WAS the best of the three. It had everything, action, special effects, love , drama and it pulled all of it off flawlessly. The special effects were the best out of the three, the characters were the most diversified and interesting out of the three, the storyline was just outstanding(theres no way to be sure WHO is going to come out on top), everything was put together flawlessly and I would ALSO argue that this is George Lucases best film ever, even better than his Indiana Jones movies.

And Spurious Monkey....If your really 34, then your are an obvious reason why people are forced to take basic composition courses in college, I counted more grammitical and phonetic errors in your posts to me than you can shake a stick at.

And Spurious Monkey....If your really 34, then your are an obvious reason why people are forced to take basic composition courses in college, I counted more grammitical and phonetic errors in your posts to me than you can shake a stick at.

Gosh...Never comment on someones ability to apply proper grammar and then write a shite sentence yourself.

Shall we?
And Spurious Monkey (it is spuriousmonkey)....If your (you are, or you're)
really 34, then your (you are, or you're)are an obvious reason why people are forced to take basic composition courses in college,(new sentence maybe?) I counted more grammitical and phonetic errors in your posts to me (to me?)than you can shake a stick at.

Gosh...Never comment on someones ability to apply proper grammar and then write a shite sentence yourself.

Shall we?
And Spurious Monkey (it is spuriousmonkey)....If your (you are, or you're)
really 34, then your (you are, or you're)are an obvious reason why people are forced to take basic composition courses in college,(new sentence maybe?) I counted more grammitical and phonetic errors in your posts to me (to me?)than you can shake a stick at.
Ouch Frisbinator you was nailed :p (and yes I meant to say "you was" :D )

Spurious, didn't we have a discussion on grammar the other day?

And if this is suppose to be our worst list:
1. Dream Catcher
2. Dante's Peak
3. Battlefield Earth
4. Troy
5. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

Do not forget the spelling error and the use of colloquialism.

SwedishFish,
don't forget to capitalize and use a period:)

i demand that troy be removed from any 'worst' list on the grounds of godDamn brad pitt is smoking hot. greek warrior indeed.

Well, SwedishFish, I did like one part of the movie. I liked his relationship with Peraclese(sp?) - that hot chick with black hair. I didn't consider her hot until she opened her mouth; I liked her character because she was smart, and gentle, and caring, etc.

Then Brad Pitt had sex with her and it killed me. It pissed me off, because she ended up sad at the end when stupid ass Orlando Bloom killed Brad Pitt.

And don't get on me about spoiler alerts either.

One thing I thought was kind funny - in the Iliad, Patroclus was not Achilles' cousin, but rather his hot and heavy type boyfriend. This is why Achilles freaked out so bad when he died.

Did anyone else find that Helen was not the sort of woman that they would levy an army of fifty thousand men to get back? She was kind of mean and stupid, and that whole "look I'm blonde and the sun shines on me" thing got sort of tiresome.

(Mind you, the women in the movie kind of got a raw deal anyway; most of them were limited to reaction shots, and saying things like "But why?" and "Oh no!" I suppose it's understandable, since this movie was really about Brad.)

EDIT: Counsler, I don't think anyone can really complain about spoilers when you're talking about a Homeric epic.

Troy was not my favouritest movie, but it was still the best one I've seen in the last six months or so at least.

a fight between orlando bloom and brad pitt....i think i'm going to faint

Ja, this is a minor spoiler, but all their clothes fall off and they wrestle in a giant vat of Trojan marmalade.

:: passes out ::

And EXCUSE ME I said Grammy instead of Emmy, big freakin' deal, ya'll knew what I meant.


Oh...I got ya. So...what television performances were those two awarded Emmys for?

Spurious, didn't we have a discussion on grammar the other day?

And if this is suppose to be our worst list:
1. Dream Catcher
2. Dante's Peak
3. Battlefield Earth
4. Troy
5. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

I can't remember that discussion but he started it! (which is weird because he made more mistakes on average in this area per post)

Anyhoo...Troy was bad...except for some scenes which were a bit ok.

Did anyone else find that Helen was not the sort of woman that they would levy an army of fifty thousand men to get back? She was kind of mean and stupid, and that whole "look I'm blonde and the sun shines on me" thing got sort of tiresome.


Yes, my first thought was: 'For this woman they go to war...no way?!?'

Frisbinator,
ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:
SCHINDLER'S LIST

What's wrong with Schlinder's List? After seeing it, it kept me silent for the better part of the adjacent weekend and haunted me the following week. That's pretty impressive for my standards. Same story applies to La Vita e Bella. Other candidates for my list would be Ghost in the Shell, Amelie and Twelve Monkeys.

I'm convinced there are better movies around than above mentioned, but I just haven't got around to seeing them.

What's wrong with Schlinder's List? After seeing it, it kept me silent for the better part of the adjacent weekend and haunted me the following week.

You were haunted by a movie about the Holocaust? Maybe you didn't have my upbringing, but I have to hear about the Holocaust just about every damn minute of every damn day. Given that any and all other genocidal events in human history have been utterly forgotten, and the Holocaust is held up as the "greatest evil the world has ever known", I believe that the daily decry of that event is a bit hypocritical.

BigBlueHead,

I have to hear about the Holocaust just about every damn minute of every damn day
Even if exaggerated, I find that unlikely.

Given that any and all other genocidal events in human history have been utterly forgotten, and the Holocaust is held up as the "greatest evil the world has ever known", I believe that the daily decry of that event is a bit hypocritical.
True. If someone would put one of those other less explored tragedies on film, I'm sure it would have an equally chilling effect on me.

In retrospect, I think I would have to correct myself - no, those movies would not have the same effect on me. The holocaust happened in rather recent history and, perhaps more importantly, it was practiced by people who I can practically call my neighbours. I suppose that does make me biased towards it, however historically naive that may be.

Well then, here's your chance to watch The Killing Fields!

ttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300270548/qid%3D997192369/sr%3D2-2/104-0899791-2633547

As for the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany:

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/press/kits/hsx/bground.htm

I'm not sure that topic has been addressed in a feature-length film. Ditto gypsies and non-whites...

EDIT - so much for inline URLs.

OTHER EDIT - the Cambodian Genocide happened 1975-1979, which is also fairly recent history.

I got rules for this thread too. No insulting other people's choices! They are strictly opinions and therefore are totally acceptable here, even if I don't agree. And one more VERY important rule:

ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:

9. NO MOVIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN, EXCEPT FOR TRAINSPOTTINGExcuse me, but I think you just violated your own rule. I know that you have too much integrity to do that, so I'll ignore #9. Besides, it makes no sense to accept Fellini, Almodovar, and "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon," but exclude all the fabulous movies from England, starting with the early Hitchcocks and Agatha Christie adaptations. Oops I guess I violated the rule too. I'll stop if you will. ^_^

You people are way too serious. Hardly any comedies and I didn't see a single musical on anybody's list. Lighten up!

My list:

Bedazzled (The original 1960's British masterpiece, better dialog and better humor than the remake)
Being There (It's a crime that Peter Sellers never won an Oscar)
The Dark Crystal (Lots of good sci-fi and fantasy listed here, this one has a good story, universal truths, and the best alien milieu ever filmed)
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" ("Every Sperm is Sacred" is one of the best production numbers ever staged)
Yellow Submarine (a tough choice between this one and "The Wizard of Oz")

<<Give me your top five movies of all time.... ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:

1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
2. THE THIN RED LINE
3. CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4. BOONDOCK SAINTS
5. CITIZEN KANE
6. SCHINDLER'S LIST
7. 2001: A SPACE ODDESSY
8. ANY OF THOSE GOD-AWFUL AND OVERESTIMATED GODFATHERS, OR ANY MAFIA MOVIES FOR THAT MATTER, INCLUDING GOODFELLAS, CASINO, YOU GET THE PICTURE.
9. NO MOVIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN, EXCEPT FOR TRAINSPOTTING >>

Oh, so it's the "top five movies of all time, so long as you don't mention at least 5 to 9 of the top movies of all time." I got it.

Since I can't mention "Shawshank Redemption," "Clockwork Orange," "Citizen Kane," "Shindler's List," any of the "Godfather" films (I wouldn't have mentioned "Godfather III"), "Scarface," "Henry V," or any of the Monty Python movies, I'll just go with my list of "The Other Top 5 Movies As Far As Bitterchick Is Concerned:"

In no particular order...

1. Hudson Hawk (freaking brilliant, and hysterical)
2. Princess Bride (ditto)
3. Casablanca
4. Office Space
5. Singing in the Rain

I just picked some off my DVD shelf.

I'd also add "Star Trek II" (the only one worth watching), the original unadulterated "Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Real Genius," "Weird Science," the original "Night of the Living Dead," "PCU," "Young Frankenstein," and "Blazing Saddles." Oh, and the 1977 tv movie miniseries "Salem's Lot." It was so bad, it was good.

<<I got rules for this thread too. No insulting other people's choices! They are strictly opinions and therefore are totally acceptable here, even if I don't agree. >>

I'd love to abide, but I feel an intervention is in order. Dude, "Jedi" sucked. The Ewoks were a marketing ploy. The whole "The other Yoda spoke of was your twin sister" (when Luke didn't actually *hear* Yoda say that anyway since he was already in the X-Wing and flying to Bespin) bit was appalling. The whole "You were right...you were right about me...tell you sister...you were right...aaaaaaaaggghhhh" part just made me feel so gross inside. And I AM PROBABLY THE BIGGEST STAR WARS GEEK AND JEDI APOLOGIST EVER. I just can't go there with you. Wish I could.

Don't mean to be insulting, but man, this is for your own good.

Chunky, I figured out 50% of you Emmy question: Denzel must have won for his stint on "St. Elsewhere." I'm guessing Hackman won for some TV movie.

1. The Matrix
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Dune
5. erm.....? - How to make friends and influence people by Frisbinator?

not in this order my top 5 are;
1. conan the barbarian
2. the andromeda strain
3. terminator 1 & 2
4. enter the dragon
5. night of the living dead (original '68 film)

I would have included clockwork orange and 2001 if it weren't for the rules. pulp fiction has really worn thin on me because of the endless praise for the movie itself and its director quentin tarantino

Taxi Driver - 'cause Scorcese owns your soul, Bickle is DeNiro's most chilling creation, Keitel makes the most of what's basically a cameo, and Jodie Foster was so good she inspired an near-assassination. Well, that and
Hinckley bein' a lunatic, but whatevs.

Big Lebowski - "Nobody fucks with the Jesus." Also, "say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it's an ethos." And of course, "I don't need sympathy. I need my fucking johnson."

Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick's best. The fact that Julia Roberts has an Oscar and he doesn't is one more reason the Academy should be summarily executed.

Clerks - 'cause it was made for $23,000, completely owns Resevoir Dogs, and is proof that, had he ditched the Jay & Silent Bob bullshit, Kevin Smight might have been a great director, as well as being an entertaining one.

Super Troopers - the opening scene is comedic genius, the plot walks the fine line between stupid and sublime, and "Shennigans."

1--Police Academy.
2--Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment.
3--Police Academy 3: Back In Training.
4--Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol. (Actually, I'm undecided about this one. Perhaps Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach was better...?)
5--Put It Where It Doesn't Belong 2: Farmyard Lust. (I think Angus the pig from this film was raised in Scotland, so can I still have it in my list? It DOES have excellent cinematography...)

The Flemster.

p.s: Jackass is a work of genius. And it's American, so what's your problem? Are you only going to allow films you agree with in here, pal?

about those Teddy bears. I saw the exact same bears used in another movie. also sci fi, also they tried to be mighy warriors. It was on some planet, a girl's family was slaughtered, she ran to the Teddies (which were being enslaved by the same torturers) and then they tried to battle the evil aliens, the girl found one shipwrecked old human on that planet, who helped their cause and in the end to escape that planet.
Those were the exact same Teddy bears
anyone remembers the movie?

*sighs, takes a deep breath* ... Years of councelling and therapy... all up in smoke after one innocent question...
Yes. I do remember those films.
One was called 'Ewoks: Caravan Of Courage' and the other was 'Ewoks: Pile of Cash-in Shite'.
Oh you bastard... memories flooding back... annoying space muppets... must... hurt... small... animals...

The Flemster (Hooo--teeeny!!!)

Before 8 year-old Frisbee throws his toys out of the pram, here's a few of my real favourite films. (I don't trust anyone who can narrow down their fav films to just 5...!)

1-- Dawn Of The Dead (2004).
2-- Mallrats. (I like it, okay?)
3-- Snatch. (I couldn't give a fuck that it's ENGLISH, alright?)
4-- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barells. (Again, you have a problem with us Brits, do ya, boy?)
5-- Into The Night. (You wanna see sublime comedy? Or Michelle Pfeiffer's tits and fur? Watch this.)

The (English) Flemster.

1 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension
2 - Terminator 2
3 - The Old Star Warses
4 - The Time Machine
5 - Conan (although Conan the Destroyer was not so good)

Honourable mention for David Lynch's Dune (not Brian Herbert's Big Gay Dune)

more...

Brazil

Three Days Of The Condor

Appocolipse Now

The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean

Videodrome

Video... drome?

Videodrome A+

Universal Pictures

Year Released: 1983
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Cast: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Jack Creley.

Review by Jeremiah Kipp

Most viewers have one specific movie which terrifies them so much they can hardly watch it, one which cuts bone deep to their deepest unspoken fears. For me, that movie has always been Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg's 1983 classic, Videodrome.

Highly regarded for his use of visual metaphors to represent visceral conflict between sense and sensation, mind and body, the images depicted in Videodrome are especially clear. When James Woods experiences his fever dream during the film's mid-point, a slippery womb-wound opening up his stomach while Debbie Harry's lips emerge as a pulsating bubble from his television set, it's undeniably provocative. The sexual fetish is made hybrid with visual stimulation. Television alters the perception of the viewer, acting as a drug to fuel their fantasies. Nearly twenty years after Videodrome was shot, it still feels contemporary.

"I am the video word made flesh," is one of the mantras which ripples through the story of sneaky cable television programmer Max Renn (very well played by Woods, who bears a passing resemblance to Cronenberg when trying on pair of glasses). He's looking for material which is new, innovative. Something tough.

Max stumbles across pirate tapes of a raw, seedy snuff program called Videodrome -- no plot, no characters, just pure sexual violence, torture, murder. Very little production cost -- just a room, hooded figures and a screaming female victim who gets beaten to death with chains and whips. The acting, the violence -- it's all so real.

Hey, some people get off on this stuff. Max knows his audience. I mean, he's part of it. So is the chick he's shagging, a radio self-help guru named Nicki Brand (Harry, quite good). She's the perfect match for Max -- a compassion junkie who has to burn herself with cigarettes or be pierced with pins during kinky sex just to feel something. She's really into the perversions of Videodrome, even curious to become a contestant.

What Max and Nicki come to learn is that the Videodrome program is a transmission that stimulates a tumor in the brain, causing bizarre hallucinations. Perhaps created by some underground government branch or radical political movement, Videodrome immerses the viewer into a world without boundaries.

It isn't long before Max finds his personality slowly being stripped away, his mind and body being recreated into an agent for powers greater than himself. Whether or not he is hallucinating this strange new world of flesh as a bio-technical weapon is immaterial.

The Max Renn we knew at the beginning of the film is ultimately destroyed, replaced by something Other. Long Live the New Flesh.

* * *

Too much television will rot your brain, but has anyone stopped to think about it's affect on global culture? The Internet and global communication has changed the way we think, the way we operate in our daily lives. Is it that much of a projection to imagine the effects these new sensory experiences are having on the human body?

With revolting precision, David Cronenberg charts the painful birth of that "new flesh." It's appropriately horrific. Max Renn, in his reincarnated state as assassin, is a product of some strange corporate dealings between television companies -- it's never entirely clear who he's working for. In our climate of mergers and foreclosures, it's difficult to know who we're working for, either. Being a part of the machine, a singular fact of life in the 21st Century, is shown for the horror it is within Videodrome.

There's also hysteria when it comes to our bodies, ourselves. It's not just about gore (courtesy of master craftsman Rick Baker). It's certainly grotesque when that vagina rips its way through Max's stomach or his human hand morphs into a gnarled flesh-pistol, but that's not what makes it scary. The flesh is fragile, malleable. Transformations become sacrilegious -- the body is just not supposed to bend that way. It's unnatural. But what about those videotapes which shiver and sigh when Max touches them? If man is turning into machine, why not vice versa?

Slipped in under the surface is a harsh critique of puritanism in video culture. It's disturbing to consider someone determining what an audience should or should not see, as well as punishment of that audience who enjoys watching what the moral right determines to be obscene. Cronenberg subtly makes his stand, pointing a finger back at the V-chip (as it were) wondering exactly who the hard liners want to protect by eliminating pornography?

* * *

Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Fight Club
Memento
Pulp Fiction

(I didn't think many people here would know the next five)

Chinatown
Raging Bull
Some Like it Hot
Vertigo
Manhattan

1. random hearts
Won an emmy for best script. A story with no point.
2. the phantom menace
Never before was the experience of experiencing a movie so menacing!
3. batman
The perfect sleeping pill
4. A.I.
If only the last half hour of footage had gone missing
5. Barb Wire
Silicon tits and barb wire...an explosive combination!

4. A.I.
If only the last half hour of footage had gone missing



ahhhh! I could have wept! he's at the sea floor, in front of the blue fairey. Fade to black...

I thought GREAT ENDING! emional, dark, moving...

then blam! it's not over, we go into the future and the boy/robot gets his greatest desire? wtf? I WAS SO PISSED OFF! since when does speilberg take the pussy way out? Every ounce of emotion and meaning in the entire story was wiped out in that last half hour, normally I'd expect that from michael bay or maybe a disney cartoon but speilberg? I could have strangled him.

Buffys: you're a boob. :D

Didn't you like the aliens? I mean, they couldn't do math. No math at all - what a concept! I bet they didn't even know how their cube ships worked. They were just all like, "yeah, they just do that. And then I like, point somewhere, and away it goes!"

I liked the part of the movie where he killed the other copy of himself and no-one even noticed. Aren't people worried when robots go crazy and smash things?

Exactly Buffy!...when the DVD came out I at least expected an 'audience' cut version instead of the popular 'directors' cut version with the last half hour missing.

Also, when little whasisname went to the laboratory and saw all of the other him-robots, hadn't I already seen that scene in Toy Story with Buzz Lightyear?

Buffys: you're a boob. :D

ahem, we prefer the term, "mammary gland american" ok?

Thanks for drawing me abreast of the situation. I hope that my remark doesn't cause any cleavage in our relationship; that would be a bust.

In no particular order:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Royal Tennanbaums
Amelie
The Tale of Zatoichi
The Godfather

I have others that are probably on par, but these are a decent cross-section. Word.

ahem, we prefer the term, "mammary gland american" ok?

No

That is a tit
Usualy there are 2 tits
But that is your tit

POLITICALLY INCORRECT!!!
SEXIST!!!!

im pointing at you kunax.

mammary gland is just part of the breast/tit/boob

christ you guys really know how to kill a joke.

I prefer "mammory titty".

mine was from full metal jacket "this is my gun, this is my balls"... to keep it in line with the thread topic :)

bigblue...
Didn't you like the aliens? I mean, they couldn't do math. No math at all - what a concept! I bet they didn't even know how their cube ships worked. They were just all like, "yeah, they just do that. And then I like, point somewhere, and away it goes!"

That made me laugh, then:

Thanks for drawing me abreast of the situation. I hope that my remark doesn't cause any cleavage in our relationship; that would be a bust.

Aw fuq, that was brilliant.

Thanks for starting my day with 2 good laughs... :)

LOL............ nah, the first one is better... :D

1. Les Miserables
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Platoon
4. Abraham
5. Bowling for Columbine

No particular order...

Shawshank redemption...
LOTR Trilogy......
The Last Samurai......
Schindlers List............
Search for the Holy Grail........

The incredible lightness of being
Ran
The bicycle thief
The seventh seal
Butch cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Honorable Mention

Rocky Horror Picture Show a class by itself

Continuously running for over 25 years
This First(only?) audience participation film
As much an event as a movie.(The time warp is the only dance I know)
Tim Curry's Frankenfurter character is inspired.
Susan Sarandon went mental then superstardom
Meatloaf got a recording break then gave us Bat out of Hell

Blade Runner
Brazil
Apocalypse Now
Zardoz
Alien

I have to add one to my list.

I just saw "The Punisher" today and it is quite funny and entertaining.

Give me your top five movies of all time. Here are mine:

...
And one more VERY important rule:

ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO CLAIMING THESE FILMS IN YOUR TOP FIVE:

1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
2. THE THIN RED LINE
3. CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4. BOONDOCK SAINTS
5. CITIZEN KANE
6. SCHINDLER'S LIST
7. 2001: A SPACE ODDESSY
8. ANY OF THOSE GOD-AWFUL AND OVERESTIMATED GODFATHERS, OR ANY MAFIA MOVIES FOR THAT MATTER, INCLUDING GOODFELLAS, CASINO, YOU GET THE PICTURE.
9. NO MOVIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN, EXCEPT FOR TRAINSPOTTING

The most important ones are numbers 1,3,4 and 9. Thankyou very much.
Some contradiction surely?

"The Tale of Zatoichi"

I was almost going to say the new Zatoichi movie with Takeshi Kitano, great!

oh yeah I just remembered, Road to Perdition is such an awesome movie, definitely one of my all-time favourites

In no particular order

Blade Runner
7 Samurai
Boyz in the Hood
Memento
Insomnia (Swedish)

Saving Private Ryan
Cast Away
Philadelphia
Matrix Part I and only I!
Enemy at the Gates


bye!

Too many movies to narrow to top 5...

1. Any Clint Eastwood movie
2. Any Robin Williams movie
3. All of the recent LOTR movies although the final movie was not as well made in my opinion.
4. Any pornography.
5. All Naked Gun movies.

That about sums up SOME of my favorites.

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Mulholland Drive
3. 8 1/2
4. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5. Blue Velvet

Gee, and I didn't even break the "rules."

4. Any pornography.

Now there's a fucking answer.

Now there's a fucking answer.

:rolleyes:

Pornography Rocks!

Especially the stuff with animals in it.
My horse likes those the best!
Dee Cee

Blade Runner is such an over-praised movie. i mean it has a meaningful message at the end, but the movie itself is dull, boring and at no stage does it even attempt to lift itself over the mundane. does anyone agree? i mean movies like The Fifth Element are whacked and only appeal to certain tastes, but at least it tried to be different.....Blade Runner was barely average

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Mulholland Drive
3. 8 1/2
4. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5. Blue Velvet

Gee, and I didn't even break the "rules."

Hah!

Have you seen the Rob Zombie music video for "Living Dead Girl"? It's basically a four-minute remake of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

And what about Eraserhead?

Hah!

Have you seen the Rob Zombie music video for "Living Dead Girl"? It's basically a four-minute remake of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

And what about Eraserhead?

Hadn't seen the Rob Zombie video... didn't he do something modeled after Clockwork Orange as well? I seem to remember something with the Durango. As for Caligari, what can I say... I have a near-fetish when it comes to silent German Expressionist films.

<i>Eraserhead</i> was a close call -- probably a tie with <i>Blue Velvet</i> for me. <i>Eraserhead</i> certainly does win out in the cult classic department, especially considering how much I paid for my copy.

Obviously, it would be much easier for me to name my top five directors rather than films. ;)

Excuse me, but I think you just violated your own rule. I know that you have too much integrity to do that, so I'll ignore #9. Besides, it makes no sense to accept Fellini, Almodovar, and "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon," but exclude all the fabulous movies from England, starting with the early Hitchcocks and Agatha Christie adaptations. Oops I guess I violated the rule too. I'll stop if you will. ^_^

You people are way too serious. Hardly any comedies and I didn't see a single musical on anybody's list. Lighten up!

My list:

Bedazzled (The original 1960's British masterpiece, better dialog and better humor than the remake)
Being There (It's a crime that Peter Sellers never won an Oscar)
The Dark Crystal (Lots of good sci-fi and fantasy listed here, this one has a good story, universal truths, and the best alien milieu ever filmed)
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" ("Every Sperm is Sacred" is one of the best production numbers ever staged)
Yellow Submarine (a tough choice between this one and "The Wizard of Oz")

^great list!!^

ok, mine are (the ones i don't think have been mentioned):

'What Dreams May Come'
'Silent Running'
'American Pop' (Ralph Bakshi)
'What About Bob?'
'Electroglide in Blue'

oh, and for my artsy-fartsy choice: Felini's 'LaStrada'

Frisbinator:

Who the hell do you think you are with your rules? You sound like a goddamned fascist!

Let people choose their own top 5.

hear hear

Hadn't seen the Rob Zombie video... didn't he do something modeled after Clockwork Orange as well? I seem to remember something with the Durango. As for Caligari, what can I say... I have a near-fetish when it comes to silent German Expressionist films.

<i>Eraserhead</i> was a close call -- probably a tie with <i>Blue Velvet</i> for me. <i>Eraserhead</i> certainly does win out in the cult classic department, especially considering how much I paid for my copy.

Obviously, it would be much easier for me to name my top five directors rather than films. ;)

Yeah, he did a song for the soundtrack for the Rollerball remake, and he got the original Milk Bar set.

I changed mine;

Happiness
The Shining
Kids
Fucking Amal
Scarface

Enemy at the Gates




good movie! I love it

and oh yeah Frisbinator, I just remembered :bugeye: , Shawshank Redemption rules!