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What's everyone's favorite film(s)?

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Just wondering. A few of my own........

Stage Door
Stagecoach
The Grapes of Wrath
Tokyo Story
Seven Samurai
Ran
Sword of Doom
Floating Weeds
Ugetsu
High Noon
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Spirited Away
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
The Apu Trilogy
Lone Wolf and Cub series
The Third Man
Murder, My Sweet
Throne of Blood
Touch of Evil
Yojimbo
Little Caesar
Scarface (original)
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Rules of the Game
Grand Illusion
Paths of Glory
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
The Killers (original)
The Killing
Citizen Kane
My Man Godfrey
Chinatown
Repulsion
Knife in the Water
A Nous la Liberte
All Quiet on the Western Front
Duck Soup
His Girl Friday
M
Jules and Jim
The 400 Blows
The Lady Eve
Sullivan's Travels
Unfaithfully Yours
Laura
Psycho
Vertigo
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
The Maltese Falcon
Umberto D.
The Bicycle Thief
Open City
Shoeshine
Nosferatu
Faust
MASH
Rififi
Secret Honor
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Godfather Parts I and II
Othello (Welles' version)
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Jaws
The Leopard
The Invisible Man
Hoop Dreams
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Kiki's Delivery Service
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Grave of the Fireflies
Kings Row
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Lady from Shanghai
The Wages of Fear
Diabolique
Shadow of a Doubt
Au hasard Balthazar
Julius Caesar
Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal
A Night to Remember
The Thin Man
The Battle of Algiers
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Samurai Assassin
Midnight Cowboy
Casablanca
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Father of the Bride (original)
Detour
La Strada
Nights of Cabiria
I Vitelloni
Five Easy Pieces
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
Metropolis (original)
The Searchers
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Flowers of St. Francis
Branded to Kill
Tokyo Drifter
The Honeymoon Killers
Macbeth (Polanski's version)
Menace II Society
A Tale of Two Cities
Ben-Hur
Bonnie and Clyde
The Asphault Jungle
Out of the Past
Children of Paradise
The River
The Bank Dick
The Great Dictator
On the Waterfront
You Can't Take It With You
Sansho the Bailiff
Vampyr
It Happened One Night
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Magnificent Seven
Bullitt
Strangers on a Train
A Tale of Two Cities
Notorious
Mutiny on the Bounty
Raise the Red Lantern
Henry V
Limelight
The Longest Day
Kwaidan
Hara-Kiri
The Great Escape
Cape Fear (original)
The Dirty Dozen
Guns of Navarone
Rashomon
Kagemusha
The Red Badge of Courage
The Quiet Man
Black Narcissus
Beauty and the Beast (original)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
Night and Fog
Gone with the Wind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Mummy
City of God
The Night of the Hunter
The Red Badge of Courage
Smoe Like it Hot
Bringing Up Baby
Double Indemnity
It's a Wonderful Life
Gaslight (both the original and the remake)
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Great question, I almost started a topic like this, well here they are.

Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Fifth Element
Blade Runner (duh)
Back to the Future 1 and 2, definatly not 3
Alien and Aliens
True Lies (Gotta love those James Cameron films)
Jurassic Park
The Matrix

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars Trilogy
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Spirited Away
Full Metal Jacket
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My Top 5 Fav Movies:

Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1&2
The Good, Bad and the Ugly
Seven Samurai (AKA Shichinin no Samurai)

I can go on listing lot more movies. I know my top 4 movies are not much of a suprise choice for kids who want to look sophisticated. But i love everyone on of those movies, not there on the list because of there popularity. Seven Samurai on other hand is THE best Japanese film ever IMO. A classic movie that is the first action movie in many ways. The story, the directing and action scenes are just amazing.
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If i have to list all the other movies i like then the list would go on to 30-40 movies :smile: I am a big movie bluff just like you RWN. Though, i tend to watch as many asian films as american films.
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My top 5 are:
1.The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Best directed movie in my opinion and a very memorable score too. The ecstacy of gold and the 3 ways shoot out is something I never get tired of seeing and hearing.

2.Star Wars Eps 4
Not much is needed to be said as i'm sure everyone who likes it loves it for the same reasons.

3. The Great Escape
One of the best ensemble cast ever and Steve McQueen on a motorcycle.

4. Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee's last movie. Bruce beats up Sammo, cracks Jackie's neck & Jim Kelly one liners. Great opening score.

5. Rocky
Try to forget that the sequels were even made. Also has a very memorable score.

Here's my top 5 guily pleasures:
1. Superman 2
2. Karate Kid 3
3. Rocky 3
4. Star Trek 5
5. Top Gun
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Well, here goes nothing, five of my favorites in no perticular order:

Magnolia - I seem to relate to a different character every time I watch it. Oh yeah, and it turns out Tom Cruise can act.

The Royal Tennenbaums - A love it or hate it movie if I ever saw one. You either dig Wes Anderson's style of dry humor or you don't. Funny and really very touching, too.

American Splendor - Part of it was shot in my town and it's a great movie to boot. There aren't a lot of really good biopics out there, but this is one of them. Paul Giamatti really is a good actor.

Donnie Darko - Another movie that people are split on, but I've got a soft spot for bunnies who think they're God. Seen it way too many times. My girlfriend made me a Frank costume for Halloween last year (and it's REALLY good, too).

High Fidelity - A movie from a book that actually sticks to the book (line for line in a lot of spots). A really excellent movie and a really great book.


Yeah, so, um... man I feel old. :???:
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Love Seven Samurai, love The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I'm actually surprised there are so many Kubrick fans here. I never was much a fan of Full Metal Jacket, but 2001, The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, and Paths of Glory are some of my all-time favorites.
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Personally though, I think my favorite Kurosawa film is Yojimbo. A fantastic black comedy and a fantastic film period. Definitely check it out if you haven't seen it ff7. It inspired the Italian spaghetti western by giving Leone the inspiration to create A Fistful of Dollars (and later on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly).
Leone actually got sued by Kurosawa for breach of copyright for Fistful of Dollars. Actually there were several spaghetti westerns produced before Fistful but it definetely was the first sucessful spaghetti western and helped to define the genre.
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I like Ghost Dog : The Way of Samurai. It was a good thang.
Great movie - RZA and Jarmuhs made a real cream!
Love Blade Runner - watched it so many times.
But my favourite movie is Slezy Kapali (Tears Were Falling - one Russian movie - extremly cool, super natural, it touches the soul really...).
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Omega579 wrote:Leone actually got sued by Kurosawa for breach of copyright for Fistful of Dollars.
To be fair, it was really Toho studios who sued Leone, not Kurosawa himself. Actually, when Leone received the lawsuit from Toho, he also got a personally written letter with it from Kurosawa praising him for his film. He was so happy about what Kurosawa had said that he didn't even give a damn about the lawsuit that came with it.
Actually there were several spaghetti westerns produced before Fistful but it definetely was the first sucessful spaghetti western and helped to define the genre.
As I said, the first Italian spaghetti western. I know there were other so called spaghetti westerns from Germany and France and other parts of Europe. But the Italian ones were the most successful (not to mention the most original). Leone and Corbucci really defined the genre.
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Blade Runner
Golgo-13 The Kowloon Assignment
They Live
Commando
Reservoir Dogs
Taxi Driver

And several Takashi Miike movies (Audition, Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive series)
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Oh how could I forget "They Live"!?!?!
I love the part when he walks in to the bank with the shotgun and says "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
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Golgo-13? Wasn't that a NES game about a cyborg assassin?
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Yup, and the fact that Piper was sporting a mullet made it even MORE badass.
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The Warriors
Star Wars (all of them are good)
Back To The Future 2
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Evil Dead Trilogy
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Dead Trilogy, though the best is Dawn original, the remake was shite
Jacobs Ladder
Last Action Hero
and again, all Carpenter, the best are
The Thing
Escape From New York
Big Trouble In Little China Town
Halloween
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I'll just keep it at a top-5...I watch a lot of movies, and own over 400 originals (vcr/dvd), nah make it a top-10

1. Boondock Saints
2. The Green Mile
3. Groundhog Day
4. Matchstick Men
5. The 13th Warrior
6. The Thing
7. Stargate
8. Fifth Element
9. Dune
10. Heat
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That's not an easy thing to decide.. I will ist some of my favourite movies, no particular order.


Blade Runner
Ghost In The Shell
Innocence
Avalon
Millenium Actress
Raiders of the Lost Arc
The Empire Strikes Back
Once upon a time in the west
The good the bad and the ugly
Fifth Element
Contact
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Waking Life
Before Sunrise
After Sunset
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Southpark The Movie
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Fight Club
The Green Mile
Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Run Lola Run
The Princess Bride
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12 Monkeys
The Nightmare before Christmas
Escape From New York
Big Trouble In Little China


hmmm those are the ones I like the most from the top of my mind....
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Ahh yes, i fogot about Monty Python and the Kevin Smith films, such great titles!
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I forgot some...

Zatoichi (The original and Kitano's remake)
Sonatine
Brother
Metropolis (1927)
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill (Uma is the sexiest woman alive, and you know it!)
The Lawnmower Man
Leon: The Proffesional
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I really haven't been interested in movies very much up until very recently...really, the simple fact is that a massive amount of movies have come out that have caught my attention, which have encouraged me to go back and look at other films in the genre. I really enjoy Zhang Yimou's wuxia films--Hero and House of Flying Daggers (although, admittedly, I'm partial to Zhang Ziyi, the most beautiful woman on the earth). Unfortunately, I have yet to see very many of his art-dramas (which are what made him famous).

Wong Kar-Wai is a genius. Just yesterday I saw my first film of his, an incredible drama called Chungking Express. I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. It's just something that sticks with the viewer, even long after they orginally saw it. Highly recommended.

Donnie Darko scared the shit out of me. I'm usually not one to get frightened by films (no, seriously), but something about the film just freaked me out. Don't get me wrong, it was great. I was just...disturbed by it for a long time afterwards. Strange things like that tend to get to me.

Other movies I've enjoyed:

Kill Bill vol 1 and 2
Ghost in the Shell
Spirited Away and other Miyazaki works, like Mononoke Hime
Godzilla (all)
Dr. Strangelove (my favorite Kubrick film of all time, and that's saying something)
Jurassic Park (hahaha)
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Metropolis
Shaun of the Dead
Back to the Future
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
Blade Runner (of course)
28 Days Later
The Shining...
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Tao wrote:Dr. Strangelove (the best Kubrick film of all time, and that's saying something)
Well, don't throw around facts like you're some sort of news wizard. My personal favourite is A Clockwork Orange, although Dr. Strangelove is indeed great. Actually every Kubrick film from Strangelove onwards is a masterpiece, I'd say, especially 2001 and The Shining.
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Rick Deckard wrote:
Tao wrote:Dr. Strangelove (the best Kubrick film of all time, and that's saying something)
Well, don't throw around facts like you're some sort of news wizard. My personal favourite is A Clockwork Orange, although Dr. Strangelove is indeed great. Actually every Kubrick film from Strangelove onwards is a masterpiece, I'd say, especially 2001 and The Shining.
Jesus, relax. When I say "best" I mean it in an entirely subjective way.

*My personal favorite.

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Zatoichi (The original and Kitano's remake)
Which ones?? There are 25 starring Shintaro Katsu.
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Rick Deckard wrote:Well, don't throw around facts like you're some sort of news wizard. My personal favourite is A Clockwork Orange, although Dr. Strangelove is indeed great. Actually every Kubrick film from Strangelove onwards is a masterpiece, I'd say, especially 2001 and The Shining.
I told you guys to check out Paths of Glory. It's as good as any other of Kubrick's classics. Maybe better. It is in my opinion.
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I'm not the biggest movie buff, but like anyone else I enjoy a good movie. Many of the ones already posted are personal favorites.

I'd like to chime in on Donnie Darko... I think I've spent more time talking about that one movie than any other single movie I can think of. I am intrigued by it because I don't completely understand it. They were showing the director's cut in my local theatres, but I had to miss it :( Ah well, that's why DVDs exist.

One movie that I really loved but I don't think I saw mentioned here was The Court Jester with Danny Kaye. Probably my favorite comedy, and one that I pull out every year to watch with my family. It's from the 50s so the style is quite dated, but that's okay because Kaye makes me laugh.

Lots of good recommendations here, keep 'em coming.
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