What movies rock your world??

[Elvis Presley]

As a huge fan of films and a DVD junkie I was wondering what others favorite films/DVD's are around here.....

I mean is it possible that people with good music taste have good taste in film too???

Doubtful, but here are some of faves

Godfather I,II
Tombstone
Blade Runner
Memento
Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
Royal Tenenbaums
Vanilla Sky.....
Fellowship of the Ring
Meet the Parents
Swingers
Made
Usual Suspects
The Matrix
Casino
Donnie Brasco
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Resovior Dogs

I could go on and maybe I will later.....I do have these all on DVD however, more to follow

 

[nbcrusader]

Don't have many DVDs yet.

I did purchase Spinal Tap - a rock n roll classic. Definitely an 11!

 

[cell]

pulp fiction
lord of the ring-fellowship of the ring


and a bunch more



*list to be continued*

 

[HelloAngel]

Trainspotting
Breaking the Waves
Reality Bites
The Virgin Suicides
Velvet Goldmine
Buffalo '66

 

[Giant Lemon]

Perhaps this is too girly, but I Moulin Rouge.

 

[kobayashi]

vanilla sky
A.I.
scarface
ronin
london
strange days
almost famous
a beautiful mind
legend of bagger vance
fight club
heat
casino
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction
memento
usual suspects
snatch
minority report
magnolia
the follower
mulholland drive
the matrix
blow
lock, stock and 2 smokin barrels
back to the future trilogy
indiana jones trilogy

that is all i can think of

 

[pub crawler]

Apocalypse Now
Hard Eight
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Godfather I & II
American Beauty
Witness
Frantic (Harrison Ford as a doctor in Paris who's wife is kidnapped)

 

[Sicy]

Godfather I,II
Memento
Meet the Parents
Usual Suspects
Casino
Donnie Brasco
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Resovior Dogs

Originally posted by Kobayashi
fight club

And:
Goodfellas
Most of Jim Carrey's movies
Austin Powers
Jackass
Half Baked
Reindeer Games
Seven
The Shining
Shawshank Redemption

 

[Zoomerang96]

OH MAN.

i just saw vanilla sky tonite. what a great great movie. how it got slammed by reviewers just shows how you gotta see some of these movies for yourself and make up your own mind.

definately one of my favs.

others include, entropy (ya ya, its not cause of u2, though it helps), the matrix, the green mile, a.i., and many more that i cant think of right now cause im too obsessed on vanilla sky at the moment.

 

[Sicy]

No comment

 

[ABEL]

I'm getting a DVD player for Christmas so as of right now I don't have any DVDs..

as far as my favorite movies....
(in no particular order)

Star Wars Trilogy
Hunt for Red October
Pup Fiction
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Anna and the King
The God's Must be Crazy Part I and Part II
Die Hard (original)
Terminator 2
The Breakfast Club
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color Purple
Toy Story
Miracle on 34th Street (original)
The Shining
Witness
Fatal Attraction
D.O.A.

that's all I can think of for now....

to be continued...

 

[Zoomerang96]

No comment

whats that supposed to mean?

 

[ABEL]

whats that supposed to mean?

that you're a freak?

 

[Zoomerang96]

oh.

makes sense, considering the nature of this thread and what i said in it...

 

[Salome]

anything featuring the Muppets
Muppets rule

+ Usual Suspects

but especially anything featuring the Muppets

 

[Laura M]

Dead Poets Society
Little Women
About a Boy
A league of their own
The Color Purple
American Beauty

 

[bammo2]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Indiana Jones trilogy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Shining
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
both Bill and Ted's
All the other Monty Python films

and too many others to list.....

 

[mad1]

Heres a list of ALL my fav top films that I get comfort in watching, not-recorded off TV, just bought, and I tell ya something, some are big boxed ex-rentals from the Video Store, and it dont bother me they ex-rentals and big boxed, they half-the-price of what they would be sold out there in the shops!!!!!! I watch these over and over and never tire of them!


Here we go!:

Bandits
Vanilla Sky
Celebrity
Pushing Tin
Lord of the Rings
The Beach
American Beauty
Gia
Titanic
Perfect Storm
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Fast and the Furious
One Night at McCools
Othello
Boiler Room
Stolen Hearts
Forces of Nature
LA Story
Bowfinger
Austin Powers 2
Romeo and Juliet
Moulin Rouge
To Die For
Basketball Diaries
Whats Eating Gilbert Grape
Bridget Jones
That Thing You Do
Inventing the Abbots
Return to Paradise
Tombraider
Charlies Angels
Lucky Break
My Own Private Idaho
Matrix
The Patriot
Sneakers
Leaving Las Vegas
28 Days


...erm, oh lawrdy, theres at least 5 more! But right now names have disappeared! When I get them I will put them up....



but the above films, I absolutely love!

 

[Elvis Presley]

OH MAN.

i just saw vanilla sky tonite. what a great great movie. how it got slammed by reviewers just shows how you gotta see some of these movies for yourself and make up your own mind.

definately one of my favs.

others include, entropy (ya ya, its not cause of u2, though it helps), the matrix, the green mile, a.i., and many more that i cant think of right now cause im too obsessed on vanilla sky at the moment.

Wow, amazing film, I guarantee if you watch it again you will like it even more. Sicy and Daafish dont feel the same as I do on this one and we debated this in the random thread. Thats why she chose the no comment reply. As I said before this film has so many layers and is a truly incredible film. Not to mention a great soundtrack. Radiohead, U2, Sigur Ros, REM and others.

 

[Basstrap]

please tell me somebody has said Momento!!!

that movie had my brain churning for weeks after!! amazing!!

Usual Suspects...killer ending!!

I just watched the extended LOTR dvd last night and I was blown away. I don't see how anyone will go back and watch the original after they've seen this!!
it's quite amazing...much more fluid and coherent as well

"Mordor, Gandalf...which way...left or right?"
"Left, Frodo"

ROYAL TENENBAUMS!! I've said it before and I'll say it again...best movie I've seen since LOTR last december

Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart!! I've seen this over 20 times and I can quote almost every line

because I am a nerd and a loser, I admit

 

[Elvis Presley]

please tell me somebody has said Momento!!!

that movie had my brain churning for weeks after!! amazing!!

Usual Suspects...killer ending!!

I just watched the extended LOTR dvd last night and I was blown away. I don't see how anyone will go back and watch the original after they've seen this!!
it's quite amazing...much more fluid and coherent as well

"Mordor, Gandalf...which way...left or right?"
"Left, Frodo"

ROYAL TENENBAUMS!! I've said it before and I'll say it again...best movie I've seen since LOTR last december

Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart!! I've seen this over 20 times and I can quote almost every line

because I am a nerd and a loser, I admit

Check out my original post, I agree with all of your opinions here....

 

[Elvis Presley]

Here is what I said about vanilla sky in a previous thread....sums it up pretty well for me......

OK.....I really enjoy thought provoking and challenging films, this one just did that very well. What I mean by layers are that the film can be interpreted many different ways. Was it all a dream? Was it only half a dream? Ive heard and read about 5 or 6 differnet interpretations.
Modern cinema so often bombards us with films that are shitty that people have switched off their brains and when something totally engaging and thoughtful like this comes along it automatically gets booed and thats why I think many didnt enjoy it.
Watch a second time and you will enjoy it much more......

 

[Basstrap]

Ah yes...isn't rushmore kinda like Royal Tennenbaums or something?
I've heard so, anyway

and, of course, I agree with the Quintin movies....if nothing else, his movies have the best dialouges ever!

"what do they call a quarter pounder with cheese in france?"

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

oh i need to buy Swingers on DVD! i love that movie

 

[Basstrap]

DAMN!!!

how could I forget!!!

Swingers is a classic and a staple within my circle of friends!!

and made too!!!

you need to get the made dvd if only for the outtakes....they will make ANY person laugh...I GUARUNTEE IT!!!

 

[mad1]

I loved Vanilla Sky, but what still confuses me, are the images he sees when falling to ground..

are they supposed to be family and what he watched on TV , and the growin up over the era?

 

[Elvis Presley]

I loved Vanilla Sky, but what still confuses me, are the images he sees when falling to ground..

are they supposed to be family and what he watched on TV , and the growin up over the era?

Alot of those images are actually Tom Cruise as a boy, I think he is haveing these memories flash before his eyes in a sense as he begins to wake up from the cryogenic freeze......or is it a dream he wakes from??? hmmmmmm.....

If you have the DVD I highly recommend watching with the directors commentary....Cameron Crowe is very passionate about this film and provides alot of insight on the movie..........

 

[mad1]

Yea Presley mate, mums buyin me a PS2 from Christmas, so I WILL be hirin out the DVD to see the whole thang after.....

see, its like, see those first few scenes, including scene from Red Balloon and then a sudden next one of a boy like shoutin, then it cuts and cuts then one of woman, child in a boat?

is it from there, him? but not in those films scenes obviously!

 

[Elvis Presley]

Yea Presley mate, mums buyin me a PS2 from Christmas, so I WILL be hirin out the DVD to see the whole thang after.....

see, its like, see those first few scenes, including scene from Red Balloon and then a sudden next one of a boy like shoutin, then it cuts and cuts then one of woman, child in a boat?

is it from there, him? but not in those films scenes obviously!

From what I could gather from the directors commentary is the old footage that looks like a kid and his mum are actually some of Tom's old home movies. However I think what they are aiming at is "your life flashing before our eyes" type of thing. The scenes themself may not matter......

 

[cass]

thanks for the recommendations

my son #2 needs a new CD player for his room and I think he is going to buy a DVD player....Yay!! Son #1 just invited me around to watch the extended LOTR DVD on his big screen TV..YAY2also!!
(he still thinks it was wrong that gandalf hit his head in Bilbo's house...wizard's and especially gandalf, would not bump his head...there was no need for slapstick ihho. Except for that minor detail...we loveth Peter Jackson's rendition of tolkiens' tale. We're getting very excited about going to see TTT)

I'm not fond of Tom Cruise, but shall have to watch Vanilla Sky now.I haven't seen anything recent. Reconmendations are always appreciated.
I own a VHS copy of Labryinth....and lots and lots of music videos.