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I'm sitting here watching 'The Bourne Supremacy' for the millionth time, still trying to wrap my head around how Matt Damon is good as an action guy and realizing that i watch a lot of movies...lol ...So i started wondering what other peoples favorite movies might be, maybe i'll get some suggestions, now that i have my handy 9.99 favorites pass from blockbuster..lol so i guess here's some on my list

 

Action: The Jason Bourne movies

 

Drama: Good Will Hunting, John Q. Public (Denzel)

 

ChickFlick : Steel Magnolias ( god, im such a loser for admitting this!)

 

Sports: Rudy

 

Comedy: Tootsie, A Fish Called Wanda

 

SpaceFrontier type stuff: Star Wars original

 

i'm sure i'm missing more categories, please feel free to add at will.. I'm looking forward to your suggestions

 

Sorry mod this is my 1st thread started and i now realize i put it in the wrong area ...lol... i'm guessing you can move it? thx... didnt realize a thread could be started in each category...

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wrong area..

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Thriller: Hard Candy/Silence of the Lambs

 

Horror: Hightension

 

Sci-fi: Screamers (peter weller)/Terminator 2/Fifth Element

 

Drama: Cruel Intentions/Interview with the Vampire

 

Comedy: WAY too many... Major Payne/Good Burger/Find me Guilty/Benchwarmers/Napolean Dynamite/Army of Darkness/Super Troopers/Trading Places.....etc

 

Chick Flick: Whip It/He's Just Not That Into You

 

Action: 300/Blood Sport

 

Sports: nothing interesting comes to mind

 

Musical: Repo . the Genetic Opera ..this is my all time favourite movie.. (I'm a sucker for musical/operas)

 

Warfare: We Were Soldiers

 

Not sure of genres: The illusionist/Fight Club/Juno/

 

Notables taht couldn't compete with my favs: Philadephia, A few good men, Gladiator, Last Samurai, Sweeny Todd, House of Sand and Fog, Showgirls, V for Vendetta, Pan's Labrynth, The Crow (Brandon Lee) and The Patriot.

 

Other than in "School Ties" (which has a huge list of stars: Brendan Fraser, Chris O'donnel, Ben Affleck..and is a good movie to see also) I can't take Matt Damon Seriously in ANY movie after watching "Team America: World police"...I just keep seeing him going.... "Ma'at..day-men!"

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Thriller: A Clockwork Orange, The Birds..Hitchcock

 

Horror: Seven

 

Sci-fi: Bladerunner, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

 

Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Comedy: Team America: World police, Austin Powers series

 

Action: any Bond movie

 

Musical: Oliver

 

Warfare: Apocolypse Now, Full Metal Jacket

 

Western: Shane

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Always.......John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfus...........love that movie

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Thriller: Arlington Road, Heat, Eyes Wide Shut

Horror: Jaws, Phantasm, Shaun of the Dead

Sci-fi: Star Wars, Star Trek, Fifth Element

Drama: Shawshank Redemption

Comedy: Pink Panther (Original), Austin Powers, Young Frankenstein .....

Action: Bullit, Indiana Jones, The Matrix

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sci-fi: star wars, x-men, avatar, aliens

 

action: die hard, 300, taken, quantum of solace, lethal weapon

 

thriller/suspense: seven, the usual suspect, the girl with the dragon tattoo

 

drama: a few good men, scent of a woman, braveheart, still crazy

 

comedy: old school, american pie 1-2-3, bon cop bad cop, happy gilmore

 

chick flick: the ugly truth, the proposal

 

sport: major league, les boys (quebec hockey comedy), rudy

 

musical: accross the universe

 

horror: a nightmare on elm street

 

 

worst movie ever made: the blair witch project

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worst movie ever made: the blair witch project

 

Not sure about this one. There are a few that come to mind too which I'd watch blair witch 1000 times before watching them

 

Paranormal activity ... my vote for being THE worst

 

I omited Star Wars due to everyone and their mothers having seen it or knows what it is :P

 

But I'd like to add the newer Star Trek movie to the list. Saw it recently and it was impressively, entertaining... once you get passed the whole Spock-Ohora mini, romance story line :P

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This is my by no means exhaustive list of fabulously awesome movies.

 

Thriller: The Experiment, Oldboy, Antichrist, Dead Ringers, Hard Candy, Silence of the Lambs, The Machinist, Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Dressed to Kill, Shutter Island, Seven, Irreversible (except watch out for the 7 minute anal rape scene), the Jacket

 

Sci-fi: The Road, The Fifth Element, Total Recall, Terminator 2, Cube, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Freejack, Predator, V for Vendetta, The Thing, Escape from New York, Johnny Mnemonic, Dark City, The Matrix, A Clockwork Orange, The Beastmaster, Sin City, Videodrome, The Fly, Battle Royale, Scanners, The Host, Cyborg, Batman, Batman Returns, The Running Man, Event Horizon, Children of Men, Existenz, Gattaca, Aliens

 

Horror: Session 9, The Shining, High Tension, The Descent, Dracula, Audition, An American Werewolf in London, Re-Animator, Friday the 13th, Suspiria, all the Romero flicks, Thirst, Let the Right One In

 

Horror-comedy: Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Planet Terror, Dead Alive, From Dusk til Dawn, the Lost Boys, the early gore movies-Wizard of Gore, Blood Feast, Bloodsucking Freaks

 

Drama: Memento, Fight Club, Secretary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Mother (S. Korean version), Blue Velvet, House of Sand and Fog, Lost in Translation, Wild at Heart, Dirty Pretty Things, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Memories of Murder, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Road to Perdition, Taxi Driver, Foxfire, The Usual Suspects, Boogie Nights, Fargo, Gran Torino, Midnght Cowboy, Requiem for a Dream, The Pianist

 

Action: Bloodsport, Under Siege, Above the Law, the new Rambo, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Run Lola Run, Ong Bak, The Protector, The Professional, Inglourious Basterds, Big Trouble in Little China, Kung Fu Hustle, Die Hard

 

Comedy: The Big Lebowski, Harold and Maude, Super Troopers, Bio-Dome, Serial Mom, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Ghostbusters, Little Miss Sunshine, Hot Fuzz, Raising Arizona, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Tropic Thunder, Heathers, High Fidelity, Beetlejuice

 

Musical: The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cry-Baby, Once

 

Some of the drama/thriller could be considered action and vice versa, but I'm not getting that nit-picky.

 

Ok, I'm out.

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I forgot Beetlejuice!

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Very interresting and very timely. This weekend at a party I attended this very subject came up.

Honestly I am well past my 30s and frankly well past my 40s but I try to keep up. A couple of people ( not a couple) brought up the movie " Blue Velvet" . I know the movie and in my opinion everyone that talks about sex movies should know about it, but not everyone did. The movie is not simply sexual, it is sensual and makes you think about your own sexuality. I'm not a movie buff but I think a movie should make you think.

What do you think? Should a movie make you think and question your sexuality or is it there to stimulate your sexual response.

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Very interresting and very timely. This weekend at a party I attended this very subject came up.

Honestly I am well past my 30s and frankly well past my 40s but I try to keep up. A couple of people ( not a couple) brought up the movie " Blue Velvet" . I know the movie and in my opinion everyone that talks about sex movies should know about it, but not everyone did. The movie is not simply sexual, it is sensual and makes you think about your own sexuality. I'm not a movie buff but I think a movie should make you think.

What do you think? Should a movie make you think and question your sexuality or is it there to stimulate your sexual response.

 

Well it's all about context--obviously a porn is there to stimulate your sexual response. With Blue Velvet it's about making you think. And by making you think about your own sexuality, this stimulates your sexual response.

 

So it really just depends on your mood.

 

I actually first watched Blue Velvet in high school because there is a reference to it in Bio-Dome, of all films (for those who don't know, that's a Pauly Shore movie).

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Fight Club, The Matrix (1st one), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Fifth Element, The Big Lebowski

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Drama: A Few Good Men, Frantic, Cape Fear, Patriot Games

Comedy: Something About Mary, Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda, Hear no Evil See no Evil, The Fokkers, Meet the Parents

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I love comedy movies a lot and one of my favs is The Proposal.

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I love all movies but my top two are...

 

Pulp Fiction (seen it over 200 times lol)

White Chicks (probably close to 100 times just because of one particular scene)

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I love all movies but my top two are...

 

Pulp Fiction (seen it over 200 times lol)

White Chicks (probably close to 100 times just because of one particular scene)

 

Ha, is it the bit where they first check into the hotel and their captain is at the hotel desk and one of them goes "What a beautiful chocolate man, HA HA HA HA." That part kills me.

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I love being a "couch potato" when I relax and enjoy movies but usually forget the name!

However, here are some faves.....

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Gone With the Wind

Love Actually

Chocolat

The Magnificent Seven

The Shining

Soooo many others now that I think of it!

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Some of my all-time favorites are

 

The Machinest

Four Rooms

Bridge on the River Kwai...my all-time favorite!

Office Space

Napoleon Dynamite

Garden State

Closer

Hot Fuzz

Anchorman

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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Ha, is it the bit where they first check into the hotel and their captain is at the hotel desk and one of them goes "What a beautiful chocolate man, HA HA HA HA." That part kills me.

 

That was great too but....any scene with Terry Crews just get's me rolling on the ground! When I am in a bad mood I was this clip or the one where he is dancing....

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This is my by no means exhaustive list of fabulously awesome movies.

 

Thriller: The Experiment, Oldboy, Antichrist, Dead Ringers, Hard Candy, Silence of the Lambs, The Machinist, Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Dressed to Kill, Shutter Island, Seven, Irreversible (except watch out for the 7 minute anal rape scene), the Jacket

 

.......

 

Ok, I'm out.

 

I think I just fell in love :P

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I think I just fell in love :P

 

 

Hahaha! What's sad is that list wasn't even half of what I could come up with given more time.

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Some of my all-time favorites are

Garden State

Closer

Hot Fuzz

 

Three of my favorites in there!

 

Also:

 

Heathers

Wayne's World

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Before Sunset

Amelie

Role Models

My Life Without Me

Singin in the Rain

Across the Universe

Lost in Translation

Rachel Getting Married

Amores Perros

Elf

Beetlejuice

The Evil Dead

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Three of my favorites in there!

 

Also:

 

Heathers

Wayne's World

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Before Sunset

Amelie

Role Models

My Life Without Me

Singin in the Rain

Across the Universe

Lost in Translation

Rachel Getting Married

Amores Perros

Elf

Beetlejuice

The Evil Dead

 

Great list Cleo, seems we have similar tastes in movies.

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...in no particular order:

 

The Tailor of Panama starring Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush

 

To Kill a Mockingbird - starring Gregory Peck

 

American History X - starring Edward Norton

 

Apocalypse Now - starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and many others

 

Das Boot - an all German cast in a movie which is subtitled

 

Crash - starring among others Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock

 

Eastern Promises - starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts

 

The Godfather Parts I & II - too many great actors to mention

 

Mystic River - starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins and others

 

Reservoir Dogs - starring Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and others

 

The Unforgiven - starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris

 

Gran Torino - starring Clint Eastwood

 

Thirteen Days - starring Kevin Costner and Bruce Greenwood

 

Seraphim Falls - starring Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan

 

A History of Violence - starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and Ed Harris

 

"The Spaghetti Western Trilogy" better known as A Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. All starring Clint Eastwood.

 

The Magnificent Seven - starring Steve MacQueen, Yul Brenner and many others. This was previously mentioned by Dorinda!

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[quote=stevecurious;151753Reservoir Dogs - starring Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and others

 

#3 for me! Mr. Black, Mr. Pink etc...... the part with the ear ... ewe!

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[quote name=stevecurious;151753Reservoir Dogs - starring Tim Roth' date=' Harvey Keitel and others

 

#3 for me! Mr. Black, Mr. Pink etc...... the part with the ear ... ewe![/quote]

 

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