Bit Blot => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Mandrake42 on December 13, 2007, 04:11:11 pm
Title: Favourite Movies
Post by: Mandrake42 on December 13, 2007, 04:11:11 pm
Opinions will vary greatly here I'm sure. There is no right or wrong here. What are your favorite movies and why.
Ok, to start, one of my favorites is Groundhog Day. I just love this movie, its Bill Murray at his best. If you haven't seen it, its a movie you need to see over and over ;). There never seems to be a reason revealed as to what happens to the main character but it seems to me he is trapped until he becomes a better person. He goes from confused to self serving to despair, then finally to selfless, and its only when he makes it to the far side of where he began that he escapes. Despicable prima donna to lovable hero. Yeah, it sounds trite but it works. :)
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Alec on December 13, 2007, 04:15:14 pm
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Post by: Mandrake42 on December 13, 2007, 04:28:09 pm
How sad is that movie? Honestly there aren't many movies I can say broke my heart. Grave of The Fireflies is one of them. Its weird to describe something as beautifully sad, but Grave of The Fireflies does it. I can count the movies that make me cry on the fingers of one hand. This is number one.
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Zam on December 13, 2007, 04:33:15 pm
It made me...sad. Stupid movie : /
Anyway, Singing in the rain ftw. It's a fun movie. I also like National treasure.
Aliens :P
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Mandrake42 on December 13, 2007, 04:53:44 pm
On a different track, Braveheart and The Shawshank Redemption
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Post by: Dozin on December 13, 2007, 05:08:51 pm
Freddy Got Fingered. Haha...
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Post by: Derek on December 13, 2007, 09:22:04 pm
I saw No Country For Old Men recently, and that's gotta be one of my favorite movies now. One of the few movies that doesn't lag once throughout the entire film. There's nothing wasted.
Other than that, I basically love Arnold movies. ^-^
(http://gameexe.pl/gfx/aoc/arnold.jpg)
And I've been meaning to watch Grave of the Fireflies, but I need to find a good opportunity. Because I know I'm going to be wrecked by the end. :'(
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Alec on December 13, 2007, 09:23:52 pm
Argg... I still have yet to see No Country for Old Men.
Huge Coen brothers fan 'ere.
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Crizzle on December 13, 2007, 10:22:19 pm
I just love movies in general, there are so many good ones that I just can't pick a favourite. The best one in recent memory was...well, SuperBad, but that's only because I haven't seen many new movies lately. SuperBad, with all it's offensive humour and awesomeness is definitely a step forward for teen comedies. :P
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Mandrake42 on December 14, 2007, 01:01:11 am
Best Arnie movies: Conan The Barbarian (I pretend the god awful sequel does not exist), Predator, Total Recall, True Lies, Terminator + Terminator 2, The Last Action Hero (Yeah everyone hates this but I think its funny)
More Fave movies: Dark City, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Forrest Gump, Little Miss Sunshine, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Brotherhood of the Wolf
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Toom on December 18, 2007, 11:58:18 am
UROTSUKIDOJIIIIII!
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Mandrake42 on December 18, 2007, 02:12:55 pm
Is that Legend of the Overfiend??
Way to much tentacle sex for me :P
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Post by: Battlerager on December 22, 2007, 02:13:48 am
No movie will ever even come close to the genius that is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Seriously.
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Post by: Toom on December 25, 2007, 11:42:25 am
Derek did you turn off the marquee and blink tags just to hurt my feelings.
Is this what has happened here.
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Post by: Peste on December 30, 2007, 10:55:30 pm
My favourite movie is: Stories of common insanity (maybe bad translation, its czech film, when you know about Czech Republic :D),
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Post by: Czechman on January 04, 2008, 08:20:46 pm
Really good film is " Mrazík " (in original " Морозко " ).That is old soviet film-to english it is translated like Jack Frost but this is totally wrong.Or also good film is " Brněnský masakr zubařskou vrtačkou " :D .Means Brno massacre by dental drill.Good are also Czech parodies on Lord of the rings.Sometimes when you watch it you can die of laugh.
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: IceD on January 04, 2008, 08:49:15 pm
Whoh, I never seen any of those films though. I think you are talking about country productions ;) It's obvious that most of them doesn't go outside due they are smaller productions than the hollywood motion picutres ??? Ofcoz, this doesn't mean they are worse than these - they are even better. It's the same discussion as with mainstream and indie game developing :D.
We had some good polish films too. If I remember, we had a few productions which came outside our country, for e.g. "The Witcher" (full length film and series, which didn't varied from the feature film much than just showing a more precise view onto the action and situations. It was barely criticised by both fans and critics due to flaws in the screenplay and innacurate motives which varied from the original book's scripts, but was a quite nice film in it's time).
I don't watch any new films, because all I see that hollywood's type of filming began to infest whole world and more and more productions become corrupted with main disadvantages (trifling scenarios, too much action and jumping beetwen simplificated stories or massive filmplay). I won't even say about the technics (to much computers involved, all of this cyber make-up, digital effects and stuff). I don't say there wasn't any good films and propably there won't be any soon, but it's just a matter of how much heart will be involved into the production - if the directors mean to pass something important through them (as the films always were meant to do), or it's just plain entertainment mainly directed for profits...
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: StephenAnthony on January 10, 2008, 11:35:40 pm
My top 5 list of favorite movies actually changed for the first time in years, lately.
1. Princess Bride
Absolutely my favorite movie! It's so clever and funny. Probably the best cast movie I've ever seen, too. Andre the Giant was such a perfect actor for this film.
2. Children of Men
This movie probably has my favorite camera work in it, as well as really, really good acting. Clive Owen became my third favorite actor after this. The biggest thing, though, was the plot that seemed so absurd and unexplainable, but it was depicted so realistically... it really disturbed me. I felt funny for days after watching this.
3. The Lion King
I don't care if it's a "kids' " movie! The story was great, the songs were awesome, it was beautiful... This was actually my favorite film until I had seen Princess Bride several years ago.
4. Independence Day
This one wasn't necessarily great cinema, but I saw it when it first came out and I really loved it. It felt so... patriotic to me. (this being before 9/11, when patriotism took on a different meaning) All the people of the world uniting to face their enemies was absolutely touching and that speech by the president near the end still gives me goosebumps.
5. The Messenger
This movie was actually very poorly reviewed and a lot of people hate it. I guess I don't blame them, but I thought it was fantastic. The fact that Joan of Arc is my favorite historical figure makes me a little biased, though. =P
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Battlerager on February 01, 2008, 03:41:01 am
I recently saw the original ROBOCOP for the very first time.
I was blown away.
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Post by: Alphasoldier on February 01, 2008, 09:26:42 am
1. Megaman: Program of Light and Darkness
Somehow I've always been a sucker for Megaman, as I, probably one of many, hope to have things like virtual reality and great computer AI's. And they made a movie that I love. One that I can view OVER and OVER and OVER without getting bored, not many movies can do that to me.
2. The Lion King
Just my favorite childhood movie ever, still think it's the best Disney movie ever.
3. Pokémon the first movie
I don't care WHAT you think, this is the very first movie that made me cry and get philosophical.
4. Ghost Rider / National Treasure / Lord of War / The Family Man etc..
I adore movies with Nicolas Cage in it, if I could, I'd put every movie of his on this spot.
5. Waterworld
A move that always has fascinated me, just because it's a thing that can happen in the future. ( partly anyway )
Further many many other movies, but these are the movies that stayed in the back of my head, which I think that it means that they are good in my very own opinion. =p
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Mandrake42 on April 01, 2008, 03:48:27 pm
I love the Beastmaster. Yeah yeah, I know its B grade and kinda lame. But I saw it as a kid and nostalgia goes a long way. Even nowadays I love it. *Starts humming the soundtrack* Think Im going to cook myself some popcorn and go watch it again.
Oh, avoid the sequels. They are the reason sequels have a bad name.
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: Alphasoldier on April 01, 2008, 07:19:14 pm
I have a new favorite (http://movies.ign.com/articles/863/863492p1.html). =p
Title: Re: Favourite Movies
Post by: silverflagon on May 04, 2008, 03:00:58 pm
Mine are Space Odyssey 2001, The Italian Job, LOTR (all of them) and totally sad I love Star Trek' The Voyage Home, Spirited Away, Conan The Destroyer, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome, The Plank, The Seven Samurai, The Beatle's Yellow Submarine, Labyrinth.....etc. :D