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The previews look hilarious.

FWIW, the worst movie = Mulholland Drive.

I have to say, its pretty fucking funny.

Yes but it has one incredibly creepy scene...the diner scene

Really? Hmm, I really like Mulholland Dr.

I'd have a hard time picking a "best" movie...so many good ones...American History X, Donnie Darko, Full Metal Jacket, Ronin, and of the Borne Identity movies , The Departed....

Worst? Any of those spoof Scary movie knockoffs or anything those writers put out, House of Wax, most things from M.Night Shamalamadingdong....and I could go on..

My vote for the worst movie (where I sat through the whole thing):

Cabin Fever-


This was the best 30 seconds of the movie ("it's for the Nigg**s") so you know how bad the rest of it was:


My favorite movie - Let It Ride (I loves me some Jennifer Tilly AND Teri Garr). 1:20 - "they go from my ass all the way to the floor":





FWIW, we had some friends over tonight and watched Salt. It was a pretty good action flick. Pretty predictable in the end but Angelina was a bad ass!

A few of my movie favs:
Snatch
Natural Born Killers
Fight Club
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
there was a movie called Employee of the Month with Matt Dillon and it was great
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Step Brothers is most likely the funniest movie I have ever seen

Oh yeah, I also can't watch No Country for Old Men enough! That movie is fabulous.

Inception was fucking good.

Inception was just a over complicated heist movie.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this already:

http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/twikicore/blade_runner.jpg

My guess is that Step Brothers and Caddy Shack 2 are the only two comedy movies you have ever watched <G>. I laughed exactly one time during Step Brothers and thought Talladega Nights was 100x better. Comedy movies are like that though (funny is definitely in the eyes of the beholder). I have a friend who says that Caddy Shack 2 is better than the original.

FWIW, Blade Runner was the first DVD I ever bought (based on how much everyone liked it). I wasted my money. What the hell do I know though, I think that Contact is one of the best movies ever so there is no accounting for taste <G>.

Ricky Bobby, :laugh:

I saw The Other Guys, and lold

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My favorites have to be legends of the fall, 3:10 to yuma with russell crowe, the other guys, gladiator, 300, full metal jacket, raging bull, and the deer hunter..

The Big Lebowski (and most Coen Bros films)
Rebecca (A. Hitchcock)
Moby Dick (w/ G. Peck)
Road Warrior
Death Proof (or just about any Tarentino film)


worst film ever:

Under the Tuscan Sun

It's like kryptonite to your balls.

Tilly is fantastically hot. Check out 'Bound' if you have not seen it. Great movie. Good suspenseful edgy plot + Peter Jackson + Tilly + Gershon + Pantoliano + lesbian love scene = Big win.

So many great movies, hard to say which are my favorites. Top 50... maybe...

How come no one has mentioned Twilight? Greeeeeat movie.

you have aids..

:cjerk:

Worst:

Jeepers Creepers

So many that could be best.

Centurion is pretty freakin good for the record.

BLOW was a good movie, as well Inception

The 41 year old virgin who knocked up sarah marshal and felt superbad about it was hilarious. Also I hope they serve beer in hell cracked me up

Blow was awesome. Crank and Crank II were pretty good, as well as any Jason Statham movie. The Expendables was pretty entertaining!

Will do. Thanks!

Well, that's just, like, your opinion man.

Monty Python & the Holy Grail, anyone? If not, I will say NI to you all.

She turned me into a newt!

Best movie Ever. "Layer Cake" .... Takes Blow X 1000% If you have not seen it, I highly suggest moving it to the top of your que.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

No one can talk about bad movies until they've seen Zardoz. I'm dead serious when I say it was the worst movie I'd ever seen, by MILES

Ha! Abe forced me to sit through the first 10 minutes or so of that one shortly after we'd spent dinner w/ his woman discussing the various drugs which are commonly used in euthanasing pets, and what a pretty purple color Euthasol® is, in particular.

Sean Connery in a bikini? Big stone heads vomiting guns? Cryptic lectures about evil Penises? Yeah.

Not sure I have a personal favorite, though "Network" definitely holds a special place in my heart: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/401...59.TPB.torrent

I just finished watching Bound. Thanks for the recommendation. Not the best movie in the world but +1 on the big win stuff...

Zardoz... :facepalm: I could only get through the first 10 minutes as well. One could say that it was "bad in a good way", but I disagree. It was bad when it came out, and it's bad now. That being said, I've been using Netflix to watch a bunch of old movies. Just saw "Metropolis" the other day, it was pretty good for a non-talkie (not that it would matter to a deaf guy like me).

+1 on Blade Runner. I'm all about the dystopian future flicks, even if they're using rifle actions for pistols.

I also like hardboiled detective shit. Chinatown is near the top of my list.

LOL, went on a first date (blind date, actually) to this movie when it was at the local arty-farty theater. Fortunately, she picked it. She was very embarrassed as she had NO IDEA what it was about. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Now I am going to embarrass myself. I think one of the best movies ever is Avatar. It's the only movie that I have ever gone to in a theater more than once and have watched it since then. The best? no. One of the top five, for sure. I'd have to put the original Alien in there. Again, the effects were great for what it was at the time. The same can be said for Star Wars. I went to it in the theater in 1977 and was in awe. Of course I was 10, but wow. For war movies, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and Saving Private Ryan.

HA! Awesome... Good story. So did you get a second date? Did she bring a female friend? :giggle:

Forrest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction

No female friend but we did date for several months.

Blade Runner ftw
Dune
Idiocracy
Children of Men
300
Sin City
George Romero's original "Dead Series"
Equilibrium
All of Wes Anderson's awkward comedies
Vanishing Point and Bullet = required watching for all car doods (maybe Ronin too)
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Band of Brothers show

I actually just watched that a few days ago, such a great movie. I want the bike soooo bad!


Any horror movie buffs in here??? If you know and love horror movies, then you have to see this:
http://meltedreelonline.com/wp-conte...7/audition.jpg

And of course my all time favorite:
http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/movi...s/exorcist.jpg

OMG, this was a bad movie (just finished watching it):

The Human Centipede

I just watched it. I hadn't realized that I had seen it before until about half way through. I seem to remember I enjoyed it back then as well. For some reason, it reminded me of this (which I will watch tomorrow). Formula 51:

Avatar made mad sad.

Mostly, I think this was because I really like a lot of Cameron's other work. Terminator, T2, Aliens, The Abyss... Ok, none of it was really ground-breaking drama, but they were good, fun movies that you could really get into none the less.

But Avatar? Ok, props for being probably the most visually interesting film ever created, and props on inventing all sorts of new technologies to make that happen. And there were so many scenes where I found myself asking "Ok, so that had to be a composite, but which parts were live action and where are the matte lines?" And of course, it was all CGI. And until I watched the "making of" (which, btw, was a lot more compelling to watch than the actual movie) they honestly had me fooled.

As to the actual film itself? I couldn't get into it. There wasn't a story. Or at least, not one that couldn't easily have been conveyed in 2 paragraphs with absolutely no loss of fidelity. It was just so... formulaic. So predictable. Halfway through I found myself looking at the elapsed time / time remaining, wondering if anything interesting was ever going to happen. And by interesting, I don't mean big explosions and ships buzzing around everywhere, I mean interesting. As in "Wow, I didn't expect that" or "Huh, I wonder what that's about?" Just didn't happen for me.

Also: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/aliens_avatar

I've been wading through a friends mind-boggling array of movies on VHS and Beta. Must be at least 1000 titles (bought out a video store) of all sorts. I've seen some good ones, and some terrible ones.

Prize for absolutely horrible plot line, designed to get in yet another violent scene without furthering the story at all goes to a Chuck Bronson film. "The Evil that Men Do".

Opening scene is graphic depiction of torture. It goes downhill from there.

A couple years ago we decided that we needed to see some of the classic films. Casablanca was pretty damn good. The Sound of Music was way too goddam long, but having never seen it before I suddenly got some of the Family Guy references I hadn't previously understood. It also taught me that it's okay to dress your children in living room curtains. Gone With the Wind was also way too goddam long, and not as good as TSOM. But I can say I've seen it, so... meh.

Probably the worst of the "classic" (which apparently means nothing more than "old") movies I saw was Breakfast at Tiffany's. When the movie was finally over, I was angry at myself for having sat through it. Terrible, just terrible. My wife kind of liked it, and now I understand why wife-beating was much more common back in the 1960s.

One movie that doesn't make it on everyone's list of classics but that I kind of enjoyed is Cinema Paradiso. It's a drama but not over-the-top chick-flicky. Not much action, but has good character development and a good story. It's in Italian though, so if you a no speaka boppa di buppi, you'll have to read subtitles.

:bowrofl: I almost shot beer through my nose on that one.

LOL!!! The funniest part of this thread was when I clicked on the youtube to watch "The Human Centipede" video, it said "the video has been removed because it's content violated YouTube's terms of service."
Gee I wonder what the issue was...

You sir, i hope you get ban for this.

Well, since thirdgen so kindly dug this thread up from it's stinking grave, I'll throw in my $0.02.

Avatar was neat and worth my 3D IMAX money, but here's the plot for ya.

Really? Nobody mentioned Smokey and the Bandit? That black & gold Trans Am, Burt Reynolds at his absolute cheesy-ass zenith, a wheels-off Jackie Gleason, a cute/sexy Sally Field, and the incomparable Jerry Reed showing off his acting chops and providing one of the best theme songs ever.

Here's the rest of my short list:
Lebowski
Blues Brothers
American Beauty
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ferris Bueller
No Country for Old Men
Risky Business
Bladerunner
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Arise and Walk, old thread!

I must admit, I missed out on "FernGully", and I think I intend to keep on missing out on it.

There have been some great satires on Avatar and similar takeoffs

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But I think that's kind of old news...



Films I enjoyed recently?


A Mighty Wind, brought to you by the creators of Spinal Tap, it's largely the same story but with folk musicians.

Paul sometimes felt a bit too overly self-conscious about all the meta humor, but was still a fun little film, very much along the lines of Adventureland or Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, both of which I also recommend.

A Prairie Home Companion fictionalizes the popular radio show of the same name, and is probably only of interest to those who actually listen to the show on a regular basis, but is good way to kill a couple of hours on an airplane.

Wes Anderson's first venture into the world of stop-motion animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox ticks all the usual boxes, bringing the same great brand of martini-dry wit (and the same ensemble cast) as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic into the world of furry little creatures.

90's horror/sci-fi films are underrated.

* < Princess Bride

Yeah, what, bring it...

Usual Suspects

So I finally watched Scott the Pilgrim.

It's funny how, within the first 20 seconds (eg: just the Universal Pictures logo itself) you can automatically tell this is going to be an interesting movie.



I must have rewound and watched that one ident a dozen times. :bowrofl: (Surprisingly, you need a good sub to appreciate this one. It's very Metroid / Contra-esque, despite the fact that most of the VG SFX in the movie were ripped directly from Sonic the Hedgehog.)

Here's the 16-bit Wing Commander version:

I really look up to some of you as intelligent humans...

Which is why it pains me that any of you would find that God-awful abortion of a movie "Avatar" to be even remotely entertaining. It's pretty much everything wrong with cinema today rolled into a "fuck you" cocktail of fuckery.

I don't want to go down the tired, beat into the dirt path of "fightclub, boondock saints, snatch etc etc etc etc" (even though they are fabulous), but "layer cake" was freaking awesome.

For weird Asian films: "old boy" is the ish! A must see. Too bad the other two films don't live up to its standard. "Audition" is more overrated than Nirvana. BOR-ING

Kelly's Heroes, Lawrence of Arabia, Easy Rider.

You're all wrong.

Lucky number Slevin is just epic.
The dialogue is the best ever written, and it's like the perfect movie.

Every single line is the perfect comeback to the previous line. It consists of all the things you think about 30 minutes after you were supposed to say them.
"Ahh, that's what I should have said.."
And who can forget the timeless quite from Slo: "Tell it to the one legged man, so he can bump it off down the road"

Boondock Saints, Snatch, Lock Stock and Revolver are also epic. Revolver is the only movie to ever make me think and affect my personal life. (Exept for the anger I felt after watching The Butterly Effect. I DIDN'T WANNA FUCKING KNOW!!)

Also, when Optimus Prime held his speech in the end of the first Transformers movie, my goosebumps were so powerful, I was actually shivering and almost weeping. But that's a nostalgia thing, not a "great movie" thing.