favorite movies
It's too hard to pick one...so just randomly list 2-3 or 4 or 5 of your all time favourite movies..then members can come here next time they don't know what to rent.
No particular order:
shawshank redemption
usual suspects
waking ned devine
chicago
I actually think Three Kings makes the list too..
Cheers Neddy.
No particular order:
shawshank redemption
usual suspects
waking ned devine
chicago
I actually think Three Kings makes the list too..
Cheers Neddy.
Comments
First Blood
MST3K (I particularily like Hercules vs the moon men)
Zoolander
The Dirty Dozen
I could do this for hours.
Punch Drunk Love
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Garden State
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Rushmore
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Footloose (dancing - 80's warning here)
Best of the Best (organized violence)
The Longest Yard (football)
Mash (social commentary)
Dr No (Bond)
Willie Wonka and the Choc factory
Mad Max (Sci Fi)
Spinal Tap (mockumentary)
Roger and me (social commentary)
The Outlaw Josie Wales (Western)
Caddyshack (golf)
Blade Runner
The Godfather
2001
The Sting
And every good war pic ever made...
Apocalypse Now
Searching for Private Ryan
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Das Boot
A Bridge Too Far
Kelly's Heros
Guns of Navarone
Dirty Dozen
Stalag 17
and while not a "movie"...
Band of Brothers
also
Slap Shot
Caddyshack
Resevoir Dogs
Clerks
Trading Places
Spinal Tap
Any Monty Python flick
Rocky
First Blood
The Hustler
The Color of Money
The Jerk
Happy Gilmore
Unforgiven
Dead Poets Society
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
For a laugh,
Snatch (i couldn't understand a f'ing thing they said, but, still hilarious)
Princess Bride
Dragon (Bruce Lee Story)
And anything with Adam Sandler, espeically if Rob Schnider and Steve Buschemi are also in it. "You can do it!"
There are so many more, but those are my true favourites.
Amistad
Mr. Holland's Opus
Old Scool
stp
Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
The Bourne Identity/Supremacy
Black Hawk Down
Das Boot
Memento
Mulholland Dr.
Koyaanisqatsi
Ocean's Eleven (Modern version)
Owning Mahowny
Awakenings
Shine
Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould
The Red Violin
Punch Drunk Love
The Truman Show
Blade Runner
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (AKA Amélie)
Fargo
Lola Rennt (AKA Run Lola Run)
Minority Report
Pulp Fiction
Magnolia
Honorable Mentions:
Hately High
The Princess Bride
Rounders
Band of Brothers (Not a movie. This actually came to my mind independently of MickeyHoldem. You know what they say. Great minds like the same HBO mini-series.)
ScottyZ
Do you realize that means including 'necessary roughness'? Sinbad and Scott Baccula at their best ...
I was reading about the upcoming movie Batman Begins. Â Before shooting, the director screened Blade Runner for the cast and crew and said 'This is how we're going to make Batman.' Â They're aiming to put the "dark" back in the Dark Knight.
Police academy 7: Mission to Moscow (Plot Outline: The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy to help deal with the Mafia) is listed on the 100 worst movies of all time. I am going to rent it and see how bad it actually is. Report forthcoming.
How can a movie be bad when it's tagline is: Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!
Casablanca (1942) 10 8.8
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 10 7.9
Double Indemnity (1944) 10 8.5
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 10 8.7
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 10 8.6
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 10 7.9
The Godfather (1972) 10 9.0
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 10 8.5
Life of Brian (1979) 10 8.0
The Matrix (1999) 10 8.5
Psycho (1960) 10 8.6
Pulp Fiction (1994) 10 8.7
Rear Window (1954) 10 8.7
Reservoir Dogs (1992) 10 8.3
Scarface (1983) 10 7.9
The Shining (1980) 10 8.3
The Usual Suspects (1995) 10
Recent: Million Dollar Baby...might be the best sports movie of all time.
Comedy: Old School, Van Wilder, any Adam Sandlar (especially Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore), and Trading Places (Eddie Murphy Classic!).
Action: Scarface (ultimate man movie!)!!!
Just Good (some of these may mean I swing both ways???):
Pay it Forward
Notebook
American Beauty
Good Will Hunting
More to come I think...
The Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Star Wars Trilogy
Memento
Ocean's 11 (modern)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Fight Club
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
From the Earth to the Moon (12 hour HBO Mini-Series)
American Beauty
The Verdict
The Red Violin
12 Angry Men
Taxi Driver
Alien
The Deer Hunter
Lost in Translation
Being John Malkovich
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Braveheart
Pulp Fiction
Good Will Hunting
E.T.
Jurassic Park
The Back to the Future Trilogy
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Clerks
And whenever Matt Groening gets around to making a Simpsons Feature Film, that will be added to this list.
JohnnieH
The Sting
Rounders
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sister Club
50 first dates
Warriors
Can't Buy Me Love
Top Gun
All John Grisham movies
and one I don't know the title of but it is a poker movie where the guy fakes a heart attack and calls his wife over to finish the hand and tells the banker to give her the money. She doesn't know what to do but follows her dying husband wishes. In the end it was a scam, she was a card player and he never died. Great movie just cant remember the name.
Are you thinking of 'House of Games'?
Rounders
Being John Malkovich
Fargo
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Negotiator
Pulp Fiction
Get Shorty
I don't know that's what I remember of the movie. It was a great movie though. Anyone know for sure?
I have to go with
Shawshank Redemption
Silence of the Lambs ... all 3
Seven
The Rock
Saving Private Ryan
Harry Potter Movies ... all 3
There are so many, but there's a few
I was going to go see this friday night but ended up at the casino instead.... I'm going to assume you liked it alot...
I've avoided the web site so as to keep as much as possible a surprise when I do go and see it... I loved the books... does it do them any justice???
I found it entertaining. The movie only covers the first book. While a casual audience would like it, there are probably parts of it that would leave them a bit confuzzled. If you've read the books then I think you'll enjoy it. Don't go in expecting TOO much and you won't be disappointed.
Or Honeymoon in Vegas? (Straight Flush to the 'J' loses)
Rounders
The Matrix series
Boondock Saints
The Outsiders
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Office Space
Terminator series
...does WPT Season 1 count?