Alright, I'm a movie buff. I'm a history buff first, a book buff second, and a movie buff third. I love good movies. Here's my list of my 7 favorite movies. These, in my opinion, are the best movies every made, and some are controversial, but like most hard-core movie buffs, my taste in movies are alternative.

7) Batman Begins

Really great lines, and some very fine actors. It was the best look at my second favorite comic-book hero, and after they screwed up Constatine I was very relieved. The philosophy of Batman felt so relatable that I ate it up.

6) American Beauty

Wonderfully done. Even the inexperienced actors gave knock-down performances. It all felt so real, so gritty and yet really wasn't. Not only that, but the idea of being able to see the world's beauty after you find something spectacular touched down. That monologue was excellent.

5) Once Upon a time in Mexico

The fourth installment of the series of El Mariachi, Desperado and Desperado 2. This is the only one I really liked, and it wasn't that great. Hundreds of movies beat it, I just loved the feel so much.

4) Shawshank Redemption

Everybody knows it.

3) Donnie Darko

Easily third. It's disappointing because in the US it was advertized as a Slasher, and it wasn't at all. It was about growing up in a way, with a few other themes mixed in, loved it.

2) Scarface

Al Pacino is a master. The story was nothing special, the rise and fall of an American gangster, but Pacino's acting is so good, and his lines were so excellent.

1) Crash

Best movie I've ever seen. Can't even describe it, you just have to see it.

Point of this topic is to list your favorite movies. It's been done in Coffee shop once, but that was a long time ago.

I'm not sure what my favorite movies are right now.

One of them I know though would be Saving Private Ryan. Tom Hanks did an awesome showing the humanity side of World War Two, and reminded us all that people were fighting, they weren't just soldiers.

Favourite movie ever- Matrix. No doubt.

14) Gods and Generals(?)

13) Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back

12) Full Metal Jacket

11) We Were Soldiers

10) Any Veggy Tales Sing Along Video

9) The Last Samurai

8) Enemy at the Gates

7) Top Gun

6) Pirates of the Carribean

5) The Master and the Commander

4) The Band of Brothers Series

3) Gladiator

2) The Lord of the Rings I, II, III

1) Saving Private Ryan

Thats all I can think of for the moment

Well, since I'm strange with movies, I'll just name off a bunch that I love;

Shawshank Redemption (Where I got the name Red)
Enemy at the Gates (Russian snipers kick pancackes)
Any movie made by Stanley Kubrick
Batman Begins (Scarecrow)
Supersize me
Spartacus
Donnie Darko (Was teh shorts)
Scarface
LOTR trilogy
Starwars (excluding 1, 2 and 3)

that's all I can think of right now, but I'll be back.

1.The Sting
2.Red Dawn
3.The Fugitive
4.JFK
5.A Few Good Men

I like this thread...I can't put them in order but here they are...

Saints and Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
Manchurian Candidate
Enemy at the gates
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Troy
Star wars(all of them)

Those are my favorites...so I like war movies...especially large scale swordfights...

oh let´s see what I can come up with:

Vanilla Sky
Forrest Gump
Savin Private Ryan
Moulin Rouge
The Mists of Avalon
LOTR
1900
Nirgendwo in Afrika
Nibelungen
Änglagård (swedish one)



well those for a start..and in no particular order!

Forrest Gump
Black Hawk Down
Enemy at the Gates ( I think that's the one, anyway, it's about Stalingrad and the legendary sniper duel that never actually happened)
Saving Private Ryan
The Last Samurai

...............that's all i can think off, and i'm wondering if i should be worried that all my favourite movies involve incredibly bloody wars

yes wolfie..... that implies you are a violent guy...and i know you are not....really.....or??

Lol
Nah, i'm not that violent, but i might be a bit bloodthirsty

Don't need to worry, everyone who's anyone likes large scale battle movies with lots of blood and violence...well I guess not everyone...

I like them, I don't immortalize them on my list of favorite movies though.

I'm not much for violent war movies . . though "Red Dawn" was the first film to attain the PG-13 rating in the U.S. , it was criticised for it's violence. It's an '84 film.

*remembers the scene where they execute a friend of theirs for giving info to the Russians*

This film was entered into the Guinness Book of Records as having the most acts of violence of any film up to that time.

I like thriller type movies so my faves are,

Donnie Darko (AWSOME!!)

Signs (AWSOME again!!)

The Mothman profices (sp? Well I know it is spelled wrong, but still.)

The Jacket

I Robot (Not a thriller though...)

War of the Worlds (The new one)

All Star Wars

The Island

There might be more, I just cant remember them. These are in no order whatsoever, besides the order they came into my head.

Oh man, I forgot the island!

I left out my favorite movie of all time,

A Knight's Tale(Greatest movie ever...if you don't agree then...you just don't agree I guess...)

And comedies are good too,

Guess Who

Anger Management

The pacifier(I liked it...)

Black Knight

Many more...I just can't think of them at the moment

StarWars
LOTR
Saving Private Ryan
Red Dawn
I Robot
War of the Worlds
Balto (i'm a dork, i know )
The Island
Matrix (only the first one!)
Shrek
Shrek 2
The Cowboy Bebop Movie
Monty Python And the Holy Grail
Bill & Ted's Excellent adventure...

etc.

Ooh, ooh! Me like Balto, too! But only Balto 1. (My sisters like Balto 3, but I'm not totally fond of it, but I have to live in the same house as them, soooo I have to live with that movie in the house...) That's not dorky, Aki! I think it suits you, being a wolf-man and all.

Besides, I'm dorky because I (and my entire family) love many of the older Disney movies (Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc). My personal fav of them would be Little Mermaid, if I were to choose a 'princess' one.

Hmm... Favorite movies... I have too many favorites, actually. Most of them are animated. Now that's dorky!

Let's see... My top fav. movies of all time would be:
1) Disney's Little Mermaid
Do I even have to explain why I like this one?

2) 20th Century Fox's "Anastasia" animated film
Because it has wonderful songs, nice animation, and lots of feelings... It just feels memorable..

3) Alien (the movie) and Predator (that Arnold movie)
Because they are some of the few alien movies that I actually liked and are not cheesy.

4) Er, any Pixar movie. Especially Toy Story 2 and Monster's Inc.
Because they are heart-warming and memorable to me. And, they have bits of humor to them, too. Besides, I love the Tour Guide Barbie and Sully and Boo.

5) Any other Disney movie (ex: Beauty and Beast, Aladdin, etc).
Memorable songs and cool scenes.

I like Disney movies, Aladdin being my favorite.

I hate Disney sequels, no matter which one. With the exception of Winnie the Pooh.

I absolutely though that "War of the worlds" is the worst movie I have ever spent near two hours of my life watching.

Why? Did you read the book? If so it wasn't supposed to be like the book. I loved that movie.

Oh and btw I still love alladin, omg, its like the best movie there is... bring a girl to your house look through your movie cabnet and say,

"Oh my god, look at this.. I haven't seen this in forever"

90% of the time they say, "What is it?" or something else to prove their interest, and then you go..

"Well I know its silly but I love the Alladin movie"

And there like (most of the time, "Ahh! Thats so cute!"

And then you coninue on to say, "I think thats the only movie I've ever cried watching.."

then should come (from teh girl) "Aww, you're so sweet!"

Take movie, insert into VHS player, and enjoy the cuddling

Note that its only worked about 5 times, twice it didn't.... so 90% isn't a very good percentage..

That seems a little cheap to me.

To quote Stewie off of Family Guy. "And now I'm going to kill you." ZAP ZAP ZAP!! Get the picture? But really, why do you hate War of the Worlds?

Yeah actually I found war of the worlds pretty exciting. I don't like the way Tom Cruise acts though. Want to see a bad movie, watch Alien Verses Predator, or Signs, or Resident Evil Apocolypse, or any slasher movie ever made.

Or the Addams family christmas special which I saw on Tv today. I nearly..died...

I loved the excitement too, I also loved the gaping plot holes.

Robbie is superman, or Boston is heaven. Either way . . HOW DID HE SURVIVE THE GIANT WALL OF FLAME????



M. Night Shyamalan's Signs was bad, but I thought the village was great.

FIGHT CLUB.

fifth element,
sweet home alabama
dukes of hazzard
about a boy
1st matrix
constantine
house of flying daggers
hero
disney's tarzan and aladin.

and hmm well there are more, but i can't think of them. and they aren't in any particular order(with the exception of the first one lol, jsut in the order that they came to my mind

All of these in no particular order

Edward Scissor Hands
The Little Mermaid
Fifth Element
The Nightmare Before Christmas
... and a few others if I can remember any.

The village was really really unscary! Its like..half way through you get shown they are not real so its like ahhhhh they aint real! Then you see one moving of its own accord and you are just about to scream in scaredness when it tells you straight away that it wasn't real either.

Bunch of historical roleplayers gone too far...that's all its about.

dude, I was so scared of the village before i found out it wasn't real (or you know) and that really killed it for me..

BTW the corpse's bride looks flippin awesome. so i'm going ahead and adding that to my list of fav's now.

When that thing attacked the village and they hid in the trapdoor area..that was mildly scary.

I didn't like it for a scary film.

I liked the message it sent.

Those elders were selfish, had they allowed they're children to live in the advanced world that mentally disabled guy would have been able to receive help. Stuff like that.

I see many people put Saving Private Ryan on their lists.. what do you all think about that? Or what about Band of Brothers, and not to stray from the point to much, what about that new HBO mini series Rome?

Corpse Bride does look great. I can't wait for it to come out

Saving Private Ryan didn't make my list but its my favorite war movie so I'll answer your question anyway.

Tom Hanks is a great actor. Road to Perdition, Apollo 13, he's just awesome. I don't see it politically either. A lot of people say it represented great reasons to stay out of war, or to go to war, but I don't know. I think the story surrounded Hank's men, and their struggles to something seemingly futile, but they did it anyways, because though it seemed stupid at first, once their men started dying, they had to save Ryan just to make the trip worth it.

Oh my god, I forgot Nightmare Before Christmas! And Edward Scissor Hands! Anyways here's some other movies I like:

Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton is my hero)
Edward Scissor Hands (Teh hedgezorz!)
House of Flying Daggers (the daggers flying through the bamboo stalks was coolz!)
Ed Wood
Plan Nine from Outer Space (The original bad space movie)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Bat country)

Also, I too liked Balto very much, but I don't know if I could truely say it's a favourite.

Dragonheart, Lord of the Rings, Batman Begins, Search for the Holy Grale, Life of Brian, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, Star Wars Series, Band of Brothers Series, Bad Boys I and II, Hitchikers Guid to the Galaxy(sp?)... Ok, ok, ok.. I'm really getting a brain-cramp of picking out movies now - I'll update soon

A wee bit off topic but still importent to the movies topic, I just added Balto to my signature. BAAAAALTOOOOO!

Yes, just as intellectual as those haikus.

I feel offended, so I shall pelt you with more good movies:

Kung-fu Hustle (The budhist palm, the 10 cent karate scroll)
Hitchikers guid to the galaxy
Life of Brian (She turned me into a newt, but I recovered)
Monty Python's search for the holy grail (clip-clop-clip-clp)
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon (I still wish I could run on tree tops)
Shrek 1 and 2 (I love me my Mike Myers)

hmm the hitchhiker's radio plays and books are much better than the movie. but it was still enjoyable. especially going to atch it in nothing but you pj's and a bathrobe. carrying a handy towel of course.

You miss quoted.

"She turned me into a newt!"

Everyone looks at him, pause...

"I got better"

Was from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, not Life of Brian. I would know, because I never saw life of brian.

life of brian is "always stay on the bright side of life";)

Ahh yes, I I have misquoted. Well, I guess its Hari-Kari for me.

Wait. Theres a third one?

I thought there were like...only two.

The Lord of the Rings
Blackhawk Down
Kingdom of Heaven

Yeah, they made three. Next thing you know, Balto is going mainstream. 3-D adventure movies, Balto FPS, Balto RTS, Balto clothing, heck, even Balto padlocks.

Aaaiiiiieiee

So, what was the plot of the third one? I didn't think they could actually manage to weasel out another movie after how 2 ended.

Balta 1 was a children's classic, so I liked it when I was a kid, but Balto 2 came out about the time I grew out of kid's movies, and balto 3... forget about it.