Best Movie Ever!

[D'Snowth]

Ooh, no I haven't, but I just googled it, very cool. I will have to look out for it!

I wish it were out on DVD, it's a rather long movie, and I only saw it once a few months ago on a movie channel called RetroPlex (kind of like TCM, but some of the movies aren't THAT old), but the time they played it was inconvenient because we all had to go to bed early that night because my dad had eye surgery very early the next morning, so I only saw like maybe half of it, or like two-thirds of it. But from what all I saw, I loved it!

Tsk, they don't make movies like that anymore.

 

[MrsPepper]

No they sure don't!

I really like Great Expectations, the 1946 version. Alec Guinness has a supporting role in it, yay! I just find that the story really ropes you in, and you are so enthralled that you want to keep watching until the end. I find that alot of old movies sometimes lose their steam after awhile, but this one was so well done.

I just looked it up and apparantly it was the same director as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, both really awesome old movies. I know 'awesome' doesn't really do much justice, but just trust me on this one.

 

[Barry Lee]

Heres my list of favorite movies annd whyy:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest okay I first saw this and I just fell in love with the movie, its absolutley awesome. Its real, and the performences by Jack Nickelson, Danny Devito and the rest of the cast are phenominal. Wonderful movie.
• Borat Its raunchy, its naughty, its great, its so wrong but its just a wonderful hillarious movie.
• History of the World Part 1 This is if our historical events were more dirty, and this comedy is just full of dirty cheesy jokes, but its a great fillm, and the set designs and the way it is layed out is phenominal, plus Orson Welles as the narrator is just great. Oh! And we need an inquisition musical.
• The Blues Brothers Oh gosh, I love love love love love this movie. Ray Charles! Frank Oz! Car Chases! Cab Calloway! Car Chases! Action! Frank Oz! The Mall Scene! Ackckkkkckck I love all of it. I can watch it again and again and again and again and still not be tired of this movie once so ever. Its just, genius.
• Young Frankenstine This is a favorite because it deases you that this is just an old movie from the 30s, but its just a great comedy. Mel Brooks makes me want to be a director.
• Awakenings A really great film with Robin Williams, its a wonderful strange movie.
• Whats Up Tigerlilly? Now this is one of my favorite Woody Allen films, its soooo cheesy, and its just so wacky, and I love the fact that the secret spies are looking for the egg salad recipe. Oh, and The Lovin Spoonful creates a great soundtrack to the film as well.
• The Rutles As a Beatles fan and a Monty Python fan this movie is great. Its one of my favorite mockumentaries and the George Harrison cameo is just priceless.
• Foul Play A really great funny movie, especially Dudley Moore playinga very dirty naughty man who thinks Goldie Hawn is well, i'm not going to say. Its a really great funny comedy/action movie. Its chevy chases first movie as well.
• Pans Labyrinth A very bloody great adult fairy tale movie, the cinematography is brilliant, and its a very great movie, it keeps you waiting to see what will happen next.
• Sunshine Boys This movie is so cheesy but great, George Burns is hillarious, and its such an old style comedy with a modern twist. And the Frumpys potato chip auditions are pricelss.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The cartoon crossovers are just gold for me. And the way the cartoons interact with the humans is also wonderful. Its just, a great little movie.
• Network This seriously is a favorite of mine, its a great drama, and its so crazy and it shows how the media is in trying to get ratings for there television programs.

These are some of the movies that I absolutely love.
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[D'Snowth]

Here's one I forgot to list, but I'm kind of embarassed about admitting it... but another one of my favorite movies is 13 Going on 30.

 

[ryhoyarbie]

Ghostbusters- I grew up with the movie as a kid. Staypuft Marshmallow Man, Ecto 1, Gozer, funny lines, proton packs, great special effects, great music.

That Thing You Do- Thanks to HBO, I've seen this movie atleast 10 or more times. very fun, upbeat movie that deals with the rise and fall of a band in the 60's.

Star Trek movies- From Kirk and company beating Khan, going back in time to get two whales from the 1980's, to Picard and company stoping the Borg, and helping Kirk stop an evil bad guy.

 

[D'Snowth]

ryhoyarbie! Long time, no post!

 

[anytimepally]

My favorite Bonds...

From Russia with Love (1963)

Goldfinger (1964)

Thunderball (1965)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - I thought George Lazenby made a great Bond.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Live and Let Die (1973)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

The Living Daylights (1987)

GoldenEye (1995)

Casino Royale (2006)

After Hitchcock movies (which I'll get to at some point) and Marx Brothers movies, Bond movies are my favorite.. I'll be more consice than I was with the Marxes, though, because I need to do something today besides post in this thread

So here are my favorite Bond Films [I limited the list to 8]:

From Russia With Love (1963)
*This is the Bond movie that influnced my vocabulary the most.. when Ali Kerim Bey is enticed by his mistress to stop working and relax for a bit, he quips "back to the salt mines".. I use that phrase all the time! .. Also, some of the dialogue in this film was reworked for 2002's Die Another Day, because those hack writers who did DAD and The World is Not Enough have no ability to write dialogue.. in my opinion, that's why Brosnan's later efforts just weren't that good... and it is why they brought along Paul Haggis for Casino Royale and the currently-being-polished (read as "the dialogue is being rewritten") Bond 22.. Not only that, but it's the first movie with Desmond Llewelyn (who I've missed terribly in the last two movies)... and Robert Shaw as the villian, looking nothing like he would a decade later in The Sting, was perfect casting.. ok, that wasn't concise at all.. I'm working on it!

You Only Live Twice (1967)
*While it's certainly hard to say that any Sean Connery Bond movie is underrated, I do think this one is.. and we finally meet Blofeld!

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
*Legend has it that when Albert R. Broccoli wanted a section of the Vegas strip shut down for a week for the car chase scene, the city said no.. so he called up his old drinking buddy, Howard Hughes, who made a few phone calls and that was that.

For Your Eyes Only (1981)
*Roger Moore's best performance, and by far the closest he ever got to the literary James Bond.. and Topol as Columbo?.. brilliant casting!

The Living Daylights (1987)
*The complaints from critics when this movie came out centered around Dalton's Bond being (1) too cruel and (2) not sleeping around enough.. but this was the closest Bond has ever been (and due to studio's obsession with Box Office success, probably as close as he ever will be) to the Bond of Ian Fleming's books.. I just wish Dalton had been available in 1983 when offered the role the second time (after 1968)

Licence to Kill (1989)
*The best ending to a Bond movie, in my opinion.. when, well, I don't want to give it away, but it's a funny moment for everyone except Robert Davi.. this was also Desmond Llewelyn's most featured role, which was a treat.. and Dalton is my favorite Bond

GoldenEye (1995)
*Brosnan's best film, not coincidentally, the only good script he had to work with.. Alec Trevelyan is a classic villain.. The only thing I didn't like as Joe Don Baker returning as a good guy (he played the villain in The Living Daylights).. Judi Dench is a rare treat as M

Casino Royale (2006)
*The more I watch it, the more things I don't like about it and the more things I do like about it.. I miss Q and Moneypenny, but Judi Dench is at her best since GoldenEye and Paul Haggis' dialogue is a HUGE improvement over Neal Purvis & Robert Wade's pathetic efforts on Brosnan's last 2 films.. sure, it's a little predictable but, having read the book, it was going to be anyway.. the first review I read said that Daniel Craig combined Sean Connery's swagger with Timothy Dalton's cruelty, and I thought to myself that if that were true, he was going to be the best Bond ever.. if the rest of his movies are this good (and John Cleese returns), he will be... Mads Mikkelsen's Le Chiffre is a great villian, though it would've been nice for a little more backstory... and there were probably a few too many bad guys in this one.. hopefully, they'll flesh some of them out more in the next film.. Jeffrey Wright's understated performance as Felix Leiter is the best Felix Leiter yet.. and the always entertaining Giancarlo Giannini is just wonderful.. and there is something about Caterina Murino and her Italian accent that just does it for me ... all that and we get what I believe is the return of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.!

 

[anytimepally]

I wish it were out on DVD, it's a rather long movie, and I only saw it once a few months ago on a movie channel called RetroPlex (kind of like TCM, but some of the movies aren't THAT old), but the time they played it was inconvenient because we all had to go to bed early that night because my dad had eye surgery very early the next morning, so I only saw like maybe half of it, or like two-thirds of it. But from what all I saw, I loved it!

Tsk, they don't make movies like that anymore.

It is on DVD... and not too expensive, either

http://www.amazon.com/Birdman-Alcat...4-8771643?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1182790129&sr=1-1

 

[D'Snowth]

It is on DVD... and not too expensive, either

http://www.amazon.com/Birdman-Alcat...4-8771643?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1182790129&sr=1-1

*Blink* And Blockbuster said it was too old to be considered for a DVD release! Well, if it's on Amazon, maybe, hopefully, it might be on eBay too!

 

[ryhoyarbie]

ryhoyarbie! Long time, no post!

I know. I seem to lurk around more than post now a days.