Favorite Movie Thread

[Sunbelt15]

Best recent horror film: The Conjuring

 Awesome movie. I'll include Insidious 1 and 2.

[muwarrior69]

I am surprised no one has mentioned.....Hoosiers

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Predator
Commando
First Blood
Cobra
Road House
The Running Man
Terminator 1 & 2
Lethal Weapon 1
American Psycho

Tron
Blade Runner
Empire Strikes Back
2001
The Last Starfighter
The Fifth Element
The Matrix

Life Aquatic
Royal Tenebaums
Darjeeling Limited
Big Lebowski
Tommy Boy
Airplane
Naked Gun
Robin Hood-Men in Tights
Meatballs
Ghostbusters
Wayne's World
Super Troopers
Grandma's Boy

[keefe]

Drunken Master.

I know that guy! Flies F 15s, swills Grey Goose, and bangs Sky Hostesses.

[Eldon]

How are we three pages in and nobody has mentioned Hoop Dreams?  Shame on every single one of you.

[keefe]

The Great Escape
Seven Samurai
Triumph of the Will
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo
Lone Survivor
The Last Waltz
Pulp Fiction
The Battle of Algiers
Tampopo
High and Low
On the Waterfront
Hurt Locker
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12 O'clock High
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ran
Citizen Kane
Amarcord
Cool Hand Luke
Rebecca
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
Das Boot
Babette's Feast
African Queen
Woman In the Dunes
Twelve Angry Men
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Caine Mutiny
Breaker Morant

[CTWarrior]

The Great Escape
Seven Samurai
Triumph of the Will
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo
Lone Survivor
The Last Waltz
Pulp Fiction
The Battle of Algiers
Tampopo
High and Low
On the Waterfront
Hurt Locker
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12 O'clock High
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ran
Citizen Kane
Amarcord
Cool Hand Luke
Rebecca
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
Das Boot
Babette's Feast
African Queen
Woman In the Dunes
Twelve Angry Men
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Caine Mutiny
Breaker Morant

Great list, though I've only seen about 60% of them and I still think the guy was guilty in Twelve Angry Men.

[ATWizJr]

Them
The Hunt for Red October
The Good Shepherd
That Thing You Do
Argo
Pale Rider

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I don't care if my wife is giving birth, if Commando is on, that's what I'm doing.

So over the top, soooo many great one liners. "Please do not disturb my friend, he is dead tired".

I remember Commando this way.  In high school, the Church Youth Group made a trip to the cinema to see Back to the Future.  We arrived like an hour early.  So myself and a friend somehow made in the theater and we went and watched the last 40 minutes of COmmando before BTTF started.  I'll never forget the saw blade slicing part of a guy's head off......

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I can't put them in any particular order and this list is not all inclusive because I can't remember everything.

• The Indiana Jones movies (like The Last Crusade the most and there are great shots of Downtown New Haven in the motorcycle scene in IJ4)
• The Bourne movies
• Mel Brooks especially Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
• Stripes, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Back to School
• So many war movies but I must cite Kelly's Hero's, Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day (for the all-star cast)
• The Oceans 11 series - the Rat Pack original and the new set
• Adam Sandler films especially Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore
• Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
• Maybe it's because of my kids, but I'm thoroughly enjoying The Avengers and the array of movies tied into it.
• Lastly, The Dark Knight trilogy.

[Lighthouse 84]

Stripes
Cool Hand Luke
Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
Godfather I and II
The Hustler (original)
Any Marx Brothers except Room Service

[reinko]

Predator
Commando
First Blood
Cobra
Road House
The Running Man
Terminator 1 & 2
Lethal Weapon 1
American Psycho

Tron
Blade Runner
Empire Strikes Back
2001
The Last Starfighter
The Fifth Element
The Matrix

Life Aquatic
Royal Tenebaums
Darjeeling Limited
Big Lebowski
Tommy Boy
Airplane
Naked Gun
Robin Hood-Men in Tights
Meatballs
Ghostbusters
Wayne's World
Super Troopers
Grandma's Boy

[MU B2002]

Red Dawn (original)
Usual Suspects
Mallrats
Animal House
Stranger than Fiction
Shawshank
Dark Knight

[CTWarrior]

10 well-known movies

Animal House
Die Hard
Indiana Jones Trilogy (Crystal Skull is brutal)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Midnight Run
Million Dollar Baby
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars: A New Hope/Star Wars:  The Empire Strikes Back (the last 4 not so much)
The Godfather/The Godfather II
The Sting

And 5 not so well know ones that I really like

Better Off Dead
Dead Again
Drop Dead Gorgeous
In Bruges
Memento

(I apparently like it when Dead is in the title)

[MU B2002]

Drop Dead Gorgeous

(I apparently like it when Dead is in the title)

Very funny movie.

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[reinko]

Not in my pantheon by any means, but watched 21 Jump Street last night, very underrated.

[Benny B]

And 5 not so well know ones that I really like

Better Off Dead
Dead Again
Drop Dead Gorgeous
In Bruges
Memento

(I apparently like it when Dead is in the title)

Daaaaaaannnnnggg.....

I forgot John Cusack in my list...  What's a "best movies ever" list without Better off Dead (and Hot Tub Time Machine).

[wadesworld]

Daaaaaaannnnnggg.....

I forgot John Cusack in my list...  What's a "best movies ever" list without Better off Dead (and Hot Tub Time Machine).

Funny, I was out visiting a friend in LA for Spring Break my junior year at MU and we went to see the filming of The Jay Leno Show and John Cusack was one of the guests.  They did the first part of his interview and then during the break Jay Leno literally had to ask him to be more funny/interesting.

Anyhow, Identity is another one of my favorite movies.

The Borne series is great too, except for the newest one.  And Shawshank is great too.

Not one of my top favorites, but Finding Forrester is underrated.  Also, in terms of pure eye candy it doesn't get much better than Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

[Benny B]

Funny, I was out visiting a friend in LA for Spring Break my junior year at MU and we went to see the filming of The Jay Leno Show and John Cusack was one of the guests.  They did the first part of his interview and then during the break Jay Leno literally had to ask him to be more funny/interesting.

I always thought Letterman was the one who regularly did that during the breaks, but maybe it was Leno... it was an easy way to get a quick laugh from the audience.

[wadesworld]

I always thought Letterman was the one who regularly did that during the breaks, but maybe it was Leno... it was an easy way to get a quick laugh from the audience.

Well it was funny...they were talking about the movie he was in that was just coming out, Hot Tub Time Machine...Leno actually didn't say that to Cusack out loud during the break, he leaned over and said something privately to him during the break, and then when they came back Leno asked something about if you could go back in time in a hot tub what would you change, and Cusack said, "Well, I would probably be a little more funny in the first part of this interview like you said," or something to that extent.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I always thought Letterman was the one who regularly did that during the breaks, but maybe it was Leno... it was an easy way to get a quick laugh from the audience.

I've seen Letterman live a bunch of times.  One of the times, a segment got messed up somehow (if I recall it was Dave talking to his mom at the Olympics?).  When they came back from "commercial break" they repeated the whole segment and then went to "commercial break" and when they came back carried on with filming the rest of the show.

[keefe]

just about any film by Akira Kurosawa

I couldn't agree more.

[drewm88]

The Godfather
Butch Cassidy
Blues Brothers
The Sting
Fargo
Milk
Thank you for Smoking
Wet Hot American Summer
Animal House
Silence of the Lambs
Mystic River
Dazed and Confused

[CTWarrior]

Amy Adams is uber hot. Sizzle.    

The best thing about Amy Adams is that she is sneaky hot.  Your wife/girlfriend doesn't feel threatened by her.  But if you're watching "Desperado" your wife/girlfriend will be convinced you are watching it just to see Salma Hayek in a tight dress (which probably is true, of course).