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yo, what's your favourite [movie] (thread)

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    God's Not Dead 2 is actually being filmed around here, and I've got some friends working on that one. I don't envy them. I kinda feel like working on film in Arkansas means faith based films or environmentalist documentaries. I've worked on the latter and that was really enough for me.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    I've walked out of two movies: We Are Marshall and Talladega Nights

    No idea why I hated Talladega Nights so much cause watching it later I loved it

    Only film I walked out of was Cars 2, but if I'd been alone, I would have left Revenge of the Sith a little over half an hour in.

    As for favorites?

    Well, not sure what the whole list is, but Scott Pilgrim is pretty high up there.

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Specifically how many Mercy Me/Third Day/Newsboys songs play during the entirety of God's Not Dead?

    Is the answer "all of them"?

  • Medium DaveMedium Dave Registered User regular
    There's some reeeaaaallll good over the top, crazy, silly gore in Turbo Kid.

    Movie's pretty alright, too. It's like Hobo with a Shotgun with a little too much, "The 80's, amirite!?!?!?!?"

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is pretty goddamn good

    Oh yeah

    I am not saying it's a bad movie, it deserves its position for sure

    But like it's up there with In Bruges and Pan's Labyrinth and Fury Road

    And there is never any question that it's my favorite

    Everything else shuffles around, it is a constant number one

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    As a person who's only been peripherally exposed to explicitly Christian films, they seem to be pretty bad as a whole. And I'm not talking about The Ten Commandments or The Prince of Egypt, I'm talking the "made by Christians, for Christians" bunch.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    I feel like there's a couple of exceptions but I can't think of them.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    My controversial opinion is that I think I am burnt out on the Fast and the Furious franchise.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    the movie I probably hate the most is funny games

    Its so damned insufferable

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  • kaceypkaceyp we stayed bright as lightning we sang loud as thunderRegistered User regular
    The last time I was inclined to really think about my Favorite Movies, it was Ordinary People, Donnie Darko, Sunshine, and Gattaca. It's possible that's changed but I'd have to really think about it.

    But there are a whole bunch more that rank pretty up there. The Fifth Element, Aliens, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Inception, Beetlejuice, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Can't Hardly Wait...

    There are probably too many to name. I feel like it's possible there are movies that I particularly hate, but I can't think of anything at the moment. I don't think I've ever regretted watching a movie.

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Funny Games actually made it hard for me to watch Boardwalk Empire.

    It's probably the underlying reason that I never got past season 1.

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Funny Games actually made it hard for me to watch Boardwalk Empire.

    It's probably the underlying reason that I never got past season 1.

    I haven't seen either, so can you tell me why?

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Funny Games actually made it hard for me to watch Boardwalk Empire.

    It's probably the underlying reason that I never got past season 1.

    I haven't seen either, so can you tell me why?

    Michael Pitt's character in Funny Games is supremely unpleasant and not in an enjoyable way.

    That feeling just happened to leech over into Boardwalk Empire, since I started it not long after watching Funny Games.

    It's kind of weird though, because I loved him so much in Hannibal.

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Oh jeez, favorite movie

    Raiders of the Lost Ark, probably

    But it changes pretty often

    Also does anyone have any idea about how limited, exactly, the Mad Max steelbook is? I can't afford it just yet, but here in a little bit I should be able.

  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    I'm not sure I could pick a least favourite movie.

    40 Days and Nights, the 40 Year Old Virgin, and Wanted all kinda sit in the same stupid bullshit layer though.

    It's to bad Wanted doesn't have a 40 in the title or I'd have a hat trick going on.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    My controversial opinion is that I think I am burnt out on the Fast and the Furious franchise.

    I have seen none of them and think they look pretty dumb, tbh

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    oh, I mean, they're spectacularly dumb

    it's just whether or not you think "dumb" is a negative in that type of movie

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    My controversial opinion is that Winter Soldier left a minimal impact on me. There were parts I liked and I certainly wouldn't say it's a bad film, but I left the cinema thinking "That was indeed a film I watched."

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  • Dr. FlamingoDr. Flamingo 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    Movies that came to mind when I tried to remember what my favorites are:

    Scott Pilgrim
    Mad Max Fury Road
    The Lego Movie
    Aladdin
    The Emperor's New Groove
    Pirates of the Caribbean
    Guardians of the Galaxy


    Least fun at a movie theater? Eragon.

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  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    It's difficult to narrow it down to a single, favorite movie. If I were forced to though, I would have to go with Casablanca.

    There are other great movies I've watched more often, like Groundhog Day or The Princess Bride. There are movies that capture a particular time in my life and speak to me on a level cinema rarely achieves, like Lost in Translation. There are plenty of films, I'm sure, that are technically more sound or worthy of praise. The production of Casablanca on paper seems a perfect example of how not to make a film - a rushed, unfinished script with changes appearing pretty much daily to the point that as the stars filmed crucial scenes they didn't know what the actual outcome would be, leading to complaints from said stars later. And yet somehow, everything about the movie works. From the strong performances from top to the very bottom, to the almost absurdly quotable dialogue throughout, Casablanca is a film without a single bad scene. It preserves a sense of mystery throughout but with subtle clues/performances that manage to be more and more rewarding the more you watch it. It is one of an extremely limited number of perfect films, in my opinion, and of those films the one that most often comes to mind when I try to determine a favorite.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Punch Drunk Love is way awesome and the best Adam Sandler movie

    Point of order: "Adam Sandler Movie" and "movie Adam Sandler is in" are two distinct things and should be treated as such. Punch Drunk Love is the latter.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Also I dunno if it's my favourite, but I've grown increasingly fond of the Truman Show as I've grown older. I remember the trailers pitching it as a Jim Carrey comedy and thus feeling a little tricked when I watched it in the cinema, but having gotten over that I can appreciate the satire it's going with.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Hmm, General top 10 in no order:

    Airplane!
    Dr Strangelove
    WALL-E
    Lego Movie
    Incredibles
    Star Wars: A New Hope
    Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Laputa/Castle in the Sky
    Robocop
    Dredd

    (Inside Out and Mad Max Fury Road get an honorable nod, but it's still too recent for me to reliably slot them in the top ten)

  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    I watched an early kubrick movie called 'the killing' over the weekend, it's a heist movie about robbing a race course and it is fine time indeed.

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    Favourite film is Jurassic Park, and probably always will be, since nobody seems capable of making a better dinosaur movie.

    Close followers are:

    T2
    Princess Mononoke
    Fury Road
    Willow

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    I hate Upstream Color

    That's cool.
    My favorite movie is The Godfather

    Boring answer? Maybe, I guess?

    It really is deserving of all its praise and classic status though

    I still haven't seen The Godfather, but I have historically found stories about mobsters to be miserable and interminably dull

    This is two for two in this thread on me sharing movie opinions with pooro

    this cannot continue

    Here's an unpopular hot take:
    I hated The Goonies

    Probably because I didn't see it until I was an adult, so didn't have the "right" context, but still. Couldn't stand it.

    The goonies sux

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    Back in 08 I got the dark knight on bluray for christmas, but at the time I didn't have a player, I was waiting for my christmas bonus to come through at the job I worked at.

    So when I got the bonus I drove into town, bought the player I wanted, drove home. Tried to set it up but I couldn't connect it up to the tv properly because I didn't have a hdmi cable, whatever the fuck that was. So I drove back into town and bought one, which was pricey at the time.

    came home set it up it works, I open my blu ray to discover it's a dvd. So I drive back into town ask to exchange it get the blu ray. It's now been several hours since this started, get home, the fucking power is gone and stays gone until the next day. I was an angry man

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Favourite film is Jurassic Park, and probably always will be, since nobody seems capable of making a better dinosaur movie.

    Close followers are:

    T2
    Princess Mononoke
    Fury Road
    Willow

    Expendables is a pretty decent dinosaur film.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Expendables 4 should have Reb Brown

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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    edited September 2015
    Also Hitchcock's The Birds.

    Re:dinosaur films

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    I don't have overall favourites but sometimes I have favourites of a particular director, so my very boring answer for favourite hitchcocks is

    psycho and vertigo

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Funny Games actually made it hard for me to watch Boardwalk Empire.

    It's probably the underlying reason that I never got past season 1.

    I haven't seen either, so can you tell me why?

    Michael Pitt's character in Funny Games is supremely unpleasant and not in an enjoyable way.

    That feeling just happened to leech over into Boardwalk Empire, since I started it not long after watching Funny Games.

    It's kind of weird though, because I loved him so much in Hannibal.

    The whole movie is that way

    just gruesomeness for gruesomeness sake, with the added layer of the director going YOURE BAD FOR WATCHING THIS every 15 minutes

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I don't have a favourtie movie. I like some for different reasons but I really cannot one above the other calling it my fav

  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    Man, no way I can pick a single favorite. Here's a list of moves I really, really love:

    2001
    Alien
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Jaws
    The Prestige
    An American Werewolf in London
    The Ninth Gate
    Big Trouble in Little China
    Heat
    The Social Network
    Dredd
    The Hunt for Red October
    Scott Pilgrim

  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Hopefully this might be a new favorite movie. For Shakespeare buffs at least.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=017nWFKsshY

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  • Muddy WaterMuddy Water Quiet Batperson Registered User regular
    I might be in love with Marion Cotillard

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I am suspicious of it, but it does look good

    It'll be hard to unseat Scotland, PA from the throne though

  • DurkhanusDurkhanus Commander Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    I hate Upstream Color

    That's cool.
    My favorite movie is The Godfather

    Boring answer? Maybe, I guess?

    It really is deserving of all its praise and classic status though

    I still haven't seen The Godfather, but I have historically found stories about mobsters to be miserable and interminably dull

    This is two for two in this thread on me sharing movie opinions with pooro

    this cannot continue

    Here's an unpopular hot take:
    I hated The Goonies

    Probably because I didn't see it until I was an adult, so didn't have the "right" context, but still. Couldn't stand it.

    The goonies sux

    The Goonies 'R' good enough.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I barely remember anything about the goonies.

    I remember the weird looking dude, and the ship. And the internet has reminded me about the belly thing.

    But I don't have any good memories o

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