Favourite Movies?

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  1. barl

    barl Well-Known Member

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    I love films.
    Good ones that is.

    What are everyone elses favourites?

    Here are mine:

    • Pan's Labyrinth
    • Vertigo
    • The Pianist
    • The Shawshank Redemption
    • Fight Club
    • Psycho
    • Irreversible
    • Naked
    • Children Of Men
    • Donnie Darko
    • Eraserhead
    • There Will Be Blood
    • Requiem For A Dream
    • The Orphanage
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • American Beauty
    • The Devil's Backbone
    • Antichrist
    • The Seventh Seal
    • Dead Man's Shoes
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Rebecca
    • Se7en
    • The Silence Of The Lambs
    • Strangers On A Train
    • The Shining
    • Wolf Creek
    • Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Terror
    • Metropolis
     
  2. Hudson RL

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    #2 Hudson RL, Sep 26, 2009
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    great choice of films man, got some of my favourites in there as well!
    some of my favourite films are...

    metropolis
    2001: a space odyssey
    Alien
    Paris Texas
    The Thing
    Kitchen Stories
    Planet of the Apes
    Leon (The Professional)
    Le Dernier Combat
    Pan's Labrynth
    Looking for Eric
    Tetsuo
    Solaris
    OldBoy

    and all films by werner herzog! except for the wild blue yonder...meh

    i see you've got antichrist down, i haven't seen that film yet, really want to though! but it didn't get a cinema release near me, so i'm waiting for the DVD!
     
  3. barl

    barl Well-Known Member

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    Cheers.

    Leon is a great film!
     
  4. LBG

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    Into the Wild
    Forrest Gump
    Defiance
    Saving Private Ryan
    Borat
    You Don't Mess with The Zohan
    Happy Gilmore

    Just a few of my favourite films.
     
  5. barl

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    #5 barl, Sep 26, 2009
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    Yeh, great director. I really liked his interpretation of Nosferatu.

    I had to travel 60 miles to see Antichrist.
    It's so artistic, graphic and twisted. Just fantastic.
    It's a film that pushes cinema into new territory, and breaks boundaries.
    I hope you enjoy it when you get to see it.

    If you like artistic, extreme cinema, see Irreversible.

    Here's a bit of info on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irréversible

    It's good to talk to someone with great taste in film :)
     
  6. barl

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    Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan are both great films.
     
  7. Kamazar

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    #7 Kamazar, Sep 26, 2009
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    Ocean's 11
    Good Will Hunting
    October Sky
    Yes Man
    Iron Man
    The Dark Knight
    Caddy Shack
    Fletch

    ... there's a ton more, just can't remember them off the top of my head.

    Edit:
    The Society of Dead Poets
    Fight Club
    Donnie Darko
     
  8. starjimstar

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    #8 starjimstar, Sep 26, 2009
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    Nice list. A few years ago I came across a reconstruction of the original cut of Metropolis. Check it out if you can find it. But let's take a closer look at this one for a moment:




    EDIT: Maybe I should copy and paste this to the marijuana thread. :p
     
  9. barl

    barl Well-Known Member

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    The Dark Knight is fab :)
    R.I.P. Heath Ledger.
     
  10. barl

    barl Well-Known Member

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    Great video. And I love a bit of Floyd too.
     
  11. weedeatinflyincougar

    weedeatinflyincougar Well-Known Member

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    no District 9 in this thread?
     
  12. wootbean

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    Eraserhead is one weeeiiirrd movie....
    only one I can think of that's stranger than that is a Japanese movie that might get me banned if I detail its plot.
     
  13. barl

    barl Well-Known Member

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    Haven't seen it yet.
    But I've heard good things about it.
     
  14. barl

    barl Well-Known Member

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    Eraserhead is very weird indeed, but fantastic too.
    What's the name of this Japanese movie?
    I'll find out the plot for myself.
     
  15. wootbean

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    It's called "Visitor Q"
    and it's not weird in the same way that Eraserhead was weird. I actually enjoyed eraserhead, but visitor q....
     
  16. barl

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    Wow, directed by Takashi Miike.
    I've never heard of this film until now, yet I've seen some of his other films.

    The plot does sound weird and twisted, but that is my kinda "thang" :p

    Cheers :)
     
  17. starjimstar

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    #17 starjimstar, Sep 26, 2009
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    Ah, I just dug up my list to do a proper comparison. Some of my other favourites, not yet mentioned, are;

    Annie Hall
    Apocalypse Now
    The Graduate
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    Citizen Kane (surprise, surprise)
    Terminator 2
    Team America

    EDIT: Honorable mention to Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.
     
  18. barl

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    Citizen Kane, eh...
    Always comes up, that one :)

    Apocalypse Now is fantastic.
    I've yet to see The Graduate.
     
  19. wootbean

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    I liked the blair witch project too
     
  20. Kamazar

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    Read the summary of it on Wikipedia... who the hell comes up with a script like that?
     

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