Favorite Movies

Natalie Zhen wrote:Recently, I have really wanted to do an "all-6-star-wars-all-3-lord-of-the-rings-all-5-harry-potters" marathon. Which would be upwards of 30 hours, but, ya know. Whatever.

Me too! Actually, we did the Lord of the Rings marathon thing (extended versions, even) on New Year's Eve one year. Very cool. I have done the original Star Wars Trilogy back before the new trilogy appeared. It really has a redemptive arc (focus on Vader, not Luke) that I think would be enhanced by watching all six. Would love to do the Harry Potter thing, but I think I'll wait until all the movies are out and just go nuts.

Spinal Tap
Airplane
The Godfather
Wall Street
Lawrence of Arabia
Fiddler on the Roof
All the James Bond Movies.....

...there are so many. I know I'm forgetting lots. I'll think of more later.

My English teacher told me I should see "This Is Spinal Tap", but I haven't gotten around to doing so. Is it good?

AceOfSpadez wrote:I thought Crash was amazing. And the new Wolverine movie.

yes Crash is amazing!! It was so hard to watch yet really really powerful.

I went and saw star trek b/c I love Zachary Quinto. So in order for my friend to go see that with me I had to first see the new Xmen with him. I thought it'd be stupid (I'd never seen any of the others) but it was SOOO GOOD!! I watched the first one last night and loved it. Then watched it again this morning. My friend lent me all three like an hour ago and I'm so excited to watch them!!!

spinal tap is SO funny! it's like a mock-u-mentary of the band experience... i think one of the bands they're poking fun at is the beatles. i'm such a comedy person... i don't have patience for many non-comedies.
the Big Lebowski is probably one of my favorites, hahaha i believe it holds the record for most f-bombs ever in a movie?
i also LOVE Stepbrothers, the sweet child o mine done a capella makes my life.

Favorites:
Mr. Deeds
Yes Man
October Sky
GATTACA
Speed Racer
Signs
The Sixth Sense
The Trouble With Angels
Enemy At the Gates

Least Favorites
Ice Age
Fiddler on the Roof
Chuck and Larry
South Park Movie (Love the show, hated the movie)

i saw speed racer on imax!
it was
the most intense experience... the part near the end with all the colors and stuff?
i felt like i was on an acid trip or something.

Star Trek was awesome. That's one of my new favorites, all of the actors were really good, the action was amazing, it was funny, and open to a sequel (which i'm already looking forward to). Still, my favorite movie is garden state. I also like Little Miss Sunshine, Crash, Big Fish, Slumdog Millionare, and V for Vendetta. They're all awesome movies.

I saw Star Trek last nite, and I really didn't want to at first, but now I'm glad I did. It was pretty rad.

Star Trek was entertaining but it wasn't really a good movie IMO.

i'm not a sci fi person at all. I liked the movie and like you eyebrow (sorry i forgot your real name) found it relatively entertaining and certainly a new experience for me but i can't say i thoroughly enjoyed the entire movie. at parts i was like uh. . . OK? odd but whatever. though as i've already stated i very much enjoyed zachary quintos performance and the guy that played kurk wasn't bad on the eyes either. AND i love the guy who plays scottie. he was in how to lose friends and alienate people and he is just so funny. so the actors were great! :-D

Not a good movie!! Lol, i mean i guess it wasn't like a thought-provoking movie or anything, but i thought it was interesting, funny, had good acting and action, and was overall an enjoyable movie, which is really what I expect from something like that. Idk some movies i watch for pure entertainment rather then to provoke intellectual analysis. Definitly agree with bri about the actors though.

Yeah I agree. I liked the movie as a whole but I wasn't super engaged. The whole sci fi thing was new for me and I was like...uh...why are there aliens where there needn't be?? but then I was like oh yeah, they're in space. As I told my friend who went to see it with me.."I found it entertaining. The actors were great, the storyline was decent, and the characters were well developed but I could have done without the trekkie stuff." Which I guess is what makes it what it is.

oliviah wrote:I'm not big on Nicholas Cage

HAHA! I couldn't agree with you more! The guy has NO emotions!

12 Angry Men
Harold and Maude
Hair
High Fidelity
Better Off Dead
Wilby Wonderful
Rushmore
I'm Not There
The Science of Sleep
American Beauty
The Rage In Placid Lake
27 Dresses
The Notebook
Casino Royale
Wristcutters
I HEART Huckabees
The Graduate
Breakfast At Tiffany's



oh wow sorry. Once I got started I couldn't stop.

Is there pretty much a general consensus that we need to figure out a way for them to let us see Half-Blood Prince when it comes out? Or am I the only HP geek here?

OH MY GOD I TOTALLY THOUGHT OF THAT THE OTHER DAY
i was considering making my mom take me to it on parent visiting day
but i think it would be more fun to see it with other people
they should rent out a theatre so we can have it to ourselves and yell and stuff hahahaha

yessssss!

Sobland, you MUST watch Dr. Strangelove. Looking at your film list, I know you'd dig it.

haha That's what my old theater teacher was always telling me but I've just never gotten around to it.
I probably should have also added Rocky Horror Picture Show to the list : )

Yeah Dr. Strangelove is a good movie.

Recent good movies:
Dark Knight
Children of Men
No Country for Old Men
Superbad
Requiem for a Drea

Classics
The Third Man
Casablanca
Psycho
Citizen Kane
Modern Times
Strangers on a Train
Aliens
Die Hard
Animal House
Strangelove
Fistful of Dollars

YEAH HARRY POTTER!! haha just wanted to throw that out there too

definitely adding The Proposal to my favorite movies list. I havent laughed that much or that hard in a long time. plus i mean ryan reynolds. . .yes

Has anyone seen Grosse Pointe Blank?

I would just like to say that yesterday I wanted to watch a movie and couldn't think of one to watch so I came here! I choose Children of Men. IT WAS SO GOOD!!!

Oh I haven't heard of Grosse Pointe Blank. What's it about?