I did a search for OFF TOPIC movies thread and movie talk is spread out so i wanted to create this thread. I know we did 'desert island movies' what movies we would take to watch for the rest of our lives. But I wanted to get a nice healthy discussion(a nice debate) on past/present/future movies. And I'll ask once for no name calling, no whining and no acting childish. Everyone has an opinion whether you agree or disagree.

I live for movies via reading IMDB-internet movie data base, Movies.com and iFilm-shorts, independent movies, PRE-YOUTUBE phenom . I am also a big small documentary fan. HBO & Cinemax OnDemmand channels show some very thought provoking documentaries.

Tonight I am posting a few new UPCOMING theater releases that look interesting, to me at least. I am not a Brad Pitt fanatic but 2 of his movies I will be listing, they look good to me.
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THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD FACTSA cowboy named Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) joins the gang of outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt), only to become resentful of James' fame and plot his death. Cast Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise ParkerTRAILER

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BABEL
Two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats, but when one of them tests his stolen rifle, the bullet finds an unintended target. In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border. Cast Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mahima Chaudhry, Shilpa Shetty
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CHILDREN OF MEN
Based on a P.D. James science-fiction novel, Children of Men is set in a futuristic dsytopia where humankind is on the brink of extinction and a sole pregnant woman holds the key to survival. A disillusioned bureacrat (Clive Owen) and a woman from his past (Julianne Moore) are tasked with shepherding the pregnant woman to a secret organization that's been researching how to restore fertility to the world's population.Cast Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chjwetel Ejiofor, Peter Mullan. TRAILER



The CHILDREN OF MEN is the most interesting of the 3 to me. I have read the book, and the trailer lives up to the drama of the book.

well of course I must bring up monty python and the quest for the holy grail.

it's a timeless classic about bunnies and kings. when the bunnies are deadly and the kings run around horse style while their servants bang coconuts.

the black knight scene is hilarious. his arms and feet keep getting chopped off and he refuses to yield. "You've got no arms left!!!" "It's just a flesh wound".

and also the greatest question ever posed. "ARE YOU TELLING ME COCONUTS MIGRATE?"

then the 3 questions that you must answer to cross the bridge, or die. "What is your name?" "What is your Quest?" "What is your favorite color?"

and finally, the classic french taunter "YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMPSTER!! AND YOUR FATHER SMELT, OF ELDERBERRY!!!!!!" among others.

Possibly one of the funniest scenes in any movie I have ever seen. I adore this movie, and this scene in particular. When he's jumping around on nothing but a stump and screaming out insults I am lmao every time!

I love going to movies myself, and recently joined a "movie club" that I found listed on craigslist. The organizer sends out an e-mail every 2-3 weeks, listing a new release. We all meet at the designated showing, watch the movie, then go out afterwards for dinner or dessert to discuss the film. It's mostly single people (which is a nice way to meet other singles) but there are some married people that come as well.

Some of my favorite older movies, that I can pop in the DVD player anytime, are DIE HARD, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, and CORINA, CORINA. I also love anything by John Cusack, especially from his younger days (like SURE THING and BETTER OFF DEAD).

One of my all-time favorites is Academy Award winning THE ENGLISH PATIENT. The first time I saw it at the theater it just hit me, and I ended up seeing it about 7 times at the movies. I have several copies on DVD but surprisingly haven't watched it in several years. I guess I'm waiting for a time when I need a good cry.

A good movie-related website is www.movie-mistakes.com. It's fun to look up your favorite movies and check the listing of bloopers, continuity errors, etc. I'm always finding continuity errors in movies (it's a hobby!) so I like posting there and reading others.

I'd love to hear more about the craig's list lead. Does it give listings for different cities/states, or is it just NYC based?

Short List of my DVD 'libary' (will think of more that SHOULD be in my libary):

Better Off Dead, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club
Good Will Hunting & Hoosiers
Office Space, Autstin Powers Trilogy
Memento & American Beauty
Gladiator & Brotherhood of the Wolf
Garden State & Wedding Crashers
Napoleon Dynamite, Old School, Anchorman
Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Snatch
Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fictions, Kill Bill Vols I & II
Shakespeare in Love, Wuthering Heights (Ralph Fiennes) & Pride & Prejudice

Just saw The Departed w/Nicholson, DeCaprio, Damon, Wahlberg, Baldwin, Sheen. Great plot, great soundrack (Dropkick Murphys just hit my iPod)...but a bit long.

Corrina, Corrina is one of my all time favorite movies. I absolutely love it. I'm not a huge all-around fan of Whoopi Goldberg, but she is perfect in this film.

I will do a teenage girl outburst: OMGGGGGGGGGGG I love Ralph Fiennes! I would eat his leftovers if they were available, really I would! Ralph Fiennes voice could lull me into... oh um never mind! HOW could you not love this face!

Movie-mistakes.com I have that bookmarked too. I love reading the mistakes and then i'm like wait look 'this is coming up' and ruin it for someone who hasnt seen it before!

What is it about Ralph Fiennes that just makes you want to throw yourself at him? *sigh* I can't count how many times I watched Quiz Show just to stare at that lovely face for a couple hours. Colin Firth is still at the top of my list, but Ralph isn't very far behind.

CookieX2, you need to be my neighbor

This could turn into a 'who would you do of movie stars' but we WONT let it right girls?(wills self to make sure!)

Have you seen Colin in Pride & Predjudice(6 hour mini-series overseas)? He was great in it! and "The importance of being Earnest"

yeah i'm a sucker for a great accent.

I've seen P&P literally about 50 times. It's one of the few chick flicks I love. I also loved "Earnest." My husband likes them both as well. I got very lucky.

Goes to Jail is my favorite Earnest movie. The guards with the purple uniforms crack me up every time.

My DVD library:
-The Phantom Of the Opera
-Little Woman (1994)
-Pride and Prejudice (2005)
-Finding Neverland
-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both versions)
-Anne of Green Gables
-Daddy Long Legs
-Gone With the Wind
-Singing in the Rain
-North by Northwest
-Chronicles of Narnia
-Cinderella
-Alice in Wonderland (one of my favorite Disney movies)
-The Long, Long Trailer
-The Wizard of Oz (of course!)
-Sabrina
-Roman Holiday
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
-Summer Stock
-3 Little Words
-Ziegfeld Follies
- Star Wars (IV, V, VI)
I have more- but I don't want to bore anyone-lol

Ugh...

Need I repeat my rules?

Lol- let me enjoy my childhood still please- I would add Harry Potter to the list- but I dont actually own any of these yet

I've been fortunate to worked on 13 movies and TV shows so I'm a huge movie fanatic myself. I actually worked with "Roy" on the Replacements... he was really thin in that movie.

My favorites: Color Purple.. The Matrix.. LA Confidental.. Usual Suspects.. Lord of The Rings.. The Fugitive.. Empire Strikes Back.. Pirates of the Carribean.. Bourne Identity.. Donnie Brasco.. The Last Seduction.. Farenheit 9/11.

Saw Hollywood land and fell asleep in it.

Good movies are really lacking to me right now. I haven't bought a new dvd in ages because just about everything is just bad. But new releases I want to check out is possibly Deliver us from evil a documentary about pedophile priests... Dreamgirls.. Um.. the next Xmen.. Can't think of anything else.

That is really neat- I think I saw your comment about that on his myspace page

Thanks Doll! It's not hard to do actually... I live in DC and they film a lot of stuff here. David/Roy has the bluest eyes in person.. tv doesn't do them justice. All the women were going nuts over him

Here is my DVD movie collection:

-matrix (the blue pill or the red pill)
-matrix reloaded (I can feel them)
-matrix revolutions (Billion smiths)
-star wars 1-6 (WOOKEES)
-every james bond (shaken not stirred)
-ace ventura pet detective (alllll righty then)
-ace ventura when nature calls ( La-hoo sa-her)
-reign of fire (dragons)
-monty python and the search for the holy grail (It's just a flesh wound)
-monty python and the meaning of life (actually haven't watched yet)
-daredevil (blind attorney)
-broken arrow(nuclear bombs!)
-goldmember (everybody like their own brand)
-blazing saddles (classic)
-dumb and dumber (Jim carrey rules)
-the bourne identity (jerky movie)
-the bourne supremacy (jerky movie again)
-mr. and mrs. smith (most bullets I have ever seen)
-liar liar (you've got a big rack, I mean your b00bs are big, I mean I really wanna squeeze them)
-40 year old virgin (OOOOH Kelly Clarkson!!!)
-caddyshack (another classic)
-the longest yard (new adam sandler one)
-Forres Gump (mamma always said...)
-bill and ted's excellent adventure (DUDE!!!)
-Napoleon Dynamite (Gosh, you guys are friggin idiots)
-spiderman 1 (with great power, comes great responsibility)
-spiderman 2 ( Dr. Octopus)
-all batmans except batman begins (I, AM BATMAN!!!)

t.v. on DVD:

-Family guy (giggity giggity, OH RIGHT!)
-Mythbusters(I reject your reality and submit my own)
-Lots of SNL (I OWN A DODGE STRATUS!!!)
-Fresh prince of Bel-Air (Come on, Hilarious)
-spongebob squarepants (IIIIIII'M READYYYYYYY!!!!!)

Movies I would like to see:

-Employee of the Month (this is an 81 honda, HOW DARE YOU?!?!)
-Man of the Year (politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly, both for the same reason)
-Evan almighty (Bruce almighty was hilarious, and can you go wrong with steve carell?)
-spiderman 3 (venom is my favorite villain)

Wow, we are pretty much the same person when it comes to this category!! Hahaha those commercials for Employee of the Month get me every time...I was going to see it tonight but the movie times were screwy. And spiderman 3? OH MAN AM I EXCITED!! Heres my top DVD's (a lot of them are the so-stupid-they're-hilarious movies, I just can't help myself):

1. Anchorman
2. Zoolander
3. School of Rock
4. Princess Diaries (no lie...those still get me)
5. She's the Man
6. Dodgeball
7. Red Eye
8. POTC 1 and 2
9. Mean Girls
10. Parent Trap (still, yes I know)
11. Fever Pitch
12. 10 Things I Hate About You
13. A Knight's Tale (oooh how in love I am with Heath Ledger...)
14. Superman Returns
15. Fantastic 4
16. Step Up

There are probably many more. And now that I look at my list, I realize just how much of a typical teenage girl I am. Oh well!

awesome...get to share some of my off beat movies...

Okay..
1. lost skeleton of cadavra
2. jack frost(shannon elizabeth first movie ever..her death scene is classic)
3. fast times at ridgemont high
4. not another teen movie
5. the burbs
6. frankenfish
7. return of the night of the living dead
8. high tenison
9. classic star wars
10. match point
11. weekend warriors
12. lock stock and 2 smoking barrels
13. south park the movie
14. ED wood (johnny depps 2nd best ever!!)

Guy Ritchie pre-Madonna days, VERY GOOD! I want to see Matchpoint! I love Jonathan Rheys-Myers(spelling off)

You must mean the brilliant Roger Corman version.

I hear they're making a sequel. I have high hopes for it. The second movie in every superhero series is always the best. Think about it.

Spidey
X-Men
Superman
Unbreakable

Since I know you love wedding pictures here is one from the Fantastic Four sequel

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I'd hate to give away the ending of the Corman version, but I will. As the limo pulls away with recently wed Reed and Sue Richards, the last thing you see is the worst extended prop-arm ever sticking out of the sunroof.

it's not there just an x

the picture is showing in my browser. I previewed to make sure it showed and it did and it does

it's not on mine either

It's there now. Maybe it just needed a minute to anchor itself.

Some of my faves, in no particular order:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Spy Who Shagged Me
American Graffiti
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Donnie Darko
The Others
Eight Men Out
Repo Man
Dumb and Dumber
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Chocolat
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
The Breakfast Club
BASEketball
Eight Mile
Shadow of the Vampire

GREAT movie

anyone seen the previews for 300?
they have em on youtube.

looks so insane.

and hopefully saw 3 will be good.

We are kindred spirits.

My collection:
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
40 Year Old Virgin
A History of Violence
American Psycho
Anchorman
Anti-Flag- Death of a Nation
Army of Darkness
Barton Fink
Batman Begins
Bill Hicks- Live & Sane Man
B. Monkey
Bowling for Columbine
Bottle Rocket
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
Chasing Amy
Clerks
Creepshow 1 & 2
Danzig - Archive De La Morte
David Cross- Let America Laugh
Dawn of the Dead 78- 4 disc
Dawn 04
Day of the Dead- 2 disc
Devil's Rejects- 2 disc
Dogma- 2 disc
Domino
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko- 2 disc directors cut
Eraserhead
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Freddy vs Jason
The Green Mile
The Harder They Come
Hellraiser 1 & 2
Hostel
House of 1,000 Corpses
Idle Hands
The Jacket
Jackie Brown- 2 disc
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back- 2 disc
Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2
Land of The Dead
The Life Aquatic
The Living Dead set- 9 zombie movies
Mallrats
Napoleon Dynamite
A Nightmare on Elm Street collection- 1-7 plus bonus disc
Night of the Living Dead
Old School
Orange County
Peepshow III
Pretty in Pink
Pulp Fiction- 2 disc
Raising Arizona
Reservoir Dogs
Return of the Living Dead
Saw
School of Rock
Shaun of the Dead
Sin City
Suspiria
Taxi Driver
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Trauma (Argento)
Vanilla Sky
Zombi 2- 2 disc
Zombie pack- Zombi 3, 4 & 5

I wanna see saw 3 SOOOOO bad... those movies are benchmark horror films...

Oh I forgot about Dogma. That goes on my list too.

Gareth, why is your list in alphabetical order?

Because that's how he arranges his DVDs. I agree with almost everything on both of your lists. Now I don't have to make one.

My most watched and favorite movies:

Schindlers List(Ralph Fiennes, drools)
Some like it hot(Marilyn Monroe, need i say more?)
The Wizard of Oz(i dig dwarves)
Hunt for Red October(Sean Connery, enough said)
Moulin Rouge(ah Ewan McGregor)
Little Mermaid(original penis on the vhs cover, PRICELESS)
Harry Potter movies(books are better though obviously)
Star Wars(before they re-digitized them)
LOTR trilogy(Return of the King my fav, all are extended versions)
Vertigo(Jimmy Stewart)
Sound of music(the hills are alive with the sound of muuuuuuuuuusic)
Closer(Clive Owen can talk dirty to me ANYTIME)
Cleopatra(Liz Taylor rocking the eye liner)
Girl Interupted(I know what depression can do)
The Mummy(Brendan!)

There are more but its almost 2am!

Here is my list

Die Hard
Die Hard II
Die Hard with a Vengance
The Dirty Dozen
Rounders
Dirty Harry
The Godfather
Scarface
The Matrix
Full Metal Jacket
Bullitt
Raging Bull
Apocolypse Now
Resivoir Dogs
American History X
Blade
The Untouchables
Cool Hand Luke
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Platoon
Pulp Fiction
Boiler Room
Heat
The Transporter
Grosse Pointe Blank
Runaway Jury
Dawn of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Saving Private Ryan
The Bourne Identity
I, Robot
se7en
The Deer Hunter
On the Waterfront
Days of Wine and Roses
Stalg 17
Swimming with Sharks
A Clockwork Orange
Serenity
Requiem for a Dream
Dr Strangelove
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Shining
Three Kings
Donnie Darko

I just caught Gus Van Sant's Elephant on HBO.



It's one of the most frightening films I've ever seen. Based on the Columbine massacre, it details a school shooting from several different points of view, including the killers. The best thing about the film is it doesn't point fingers, just lets the events play out without adding any political spin. Was it violent video games? daily ridicule? far-right ideology? apathetic parents? All these elements are in the film, but they're hardly the focus. Instead, it puts a face on the headline. You see teenagers (most non-actors, recruited from highschools around the country) being graphically murdered. If you watch the film expecting anwers, you'll be quite disappointed. Some things just can't be simplified.

From wikipedia-
"The title is a tribute to the 1989 Alan Clarke film for BBC, also called Elephant, which reflected on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Van Sant similarly portrays school violence as something unfathomable, not unlike many other disturbing things in the lives of teenagers, which invite convenient explanations but ultimately frustrate analysis.

Van Sant has explained the 'elephant' idea in several ways, besides the direct reference to Clarke's earlier work. It is an allusion to the proverbial 'elephant in the room,' a large problem that no one talks about but everyone must find their way around as they go about their daily lives. It also invokes the Indian parable about the blind wise men who, unable to grasp the whole, interpret the elephant only in terms of the part they can comprehend: 'An elephant is a tree,' said the blind man who grasped the leg; 'An elephant is a snake,' said the one who touched the trunk; etc. Finally, during the press conference at Cannes, Van Sant mentioned that the creative staff had also experimented with allusions to certain policies and attitudes represented by the Republican Party, whose party symbol is an elephant."

You know Roy, i havent told you but your personality is very reminiscent of my husband. Cocky, abrassive, egotist and writes very well when it is needed. No i am not declaring a crush on you so dont go there!

The above wittled down list of movies are my husbands favorites as well...throw in a few lesbian 'movies' and you could be his long lost way younger brother.

Short list of favorites, mostly in no particular order:

Fargo
Shawshank Redemption
Persuasion
Raising Arizona
Office Space
Hunt for Red October
Say Anything
Better Off Dead
Bowling for Columbine
Supersize Me
Search for the Holy Grail
The Meaning of Life
Mansfield Park

Check out Gerry and Last Days as well. They're the other two parts to Van Sant's death trilogy. They're all unsettling and none of them seem to have actual scripts. They're just a series of images and situations, until somebody dies at the end. It's art, yo.

Ugh I definately forgot some movies to my list!

-LOTR trilogy
-Harry Potter
-Spiderman 1 and 2
-Batman Begins
-A Walk to Remember
-The Notebook
-How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Hmm and I might as well add my least favorite movie of all time:
-Spanglish (I CANT EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I HATE THIS MOVIE!!!)

my turn

Remember The Titans- greatest movie ever made "LEFT SIDE! STRONG SIDE!"

Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, The Mask- Jim carrey=beast (Bruce almighty's deleted scenes and bonus features on the DVD were way better than the movie.)

Envy- I am the only person who owns this movie. Jack Black and Ben Stiller and Amy Poehler AND (best of all) Christopher Walken( as a homeless guy named simply the J-Man) and a strange plot about dog poop and a dead horse. If you make it through the first half hour the rest of the movie will make u **** your self

and..

Hoosiers, rudy, SNL(farley and ferrel vol2.), caddyshack (on vhs), the sandlot ("Smalls you're suppossed to turn. 3rd base is that way. What the helll is he doing?")

and Heavyweights...Ben Stiller's best performance hands down. Its about a ffta camp . nuff said.




in other movie news... i watched the island on H-BO last nite. Good. weird but good.ans scarlette johansen. so its good.

I love all sad movies/chick flicks. I believe this comes from living in an all girl household.

My favorite movies are:
-The notebook
-Dirty Dancing
-The Birdcage

That is one of the few movies that have made me cry. It's so intense, especially the way they filmed it. It really sucks you into the movie as if you were really there and experiencing it first-hand.

I have an insanely large amount of movies, but i'll list my bare favorites.


Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Clerks 2
Thank You for Smoking
Little Miss Sunshine
The Squid and the Whale
Memento
Edward Scissorhands
Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Usual Suspects
The Life of David Gale
This is Spinal Tap
Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
Donnie Brasco
Donnie Darko
V for Vendetta

How could I forget A Mighty Wind thanks for reminding me of that! Great gem of a movie. I forgot to add Ocean's 11.. Ponette and Training Day to the list.

ALSO, if you have seen a current movie in the theater, let us know what movie, and your opinion. And, most of all just dont type: IT WAS AWESOME! Elaborate a little bit for the rest of the group.

Employee of the Month...one of the worst movies I've ever wasted $18 on. jessica simpson didn't even take her clothes off at all. Dane Cook is a decent actor, but wasn't funny in this movie at all...didn't seem like he was trying very hard. Didn't laugh once.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning...sadistic, twisted, very little plotline. awesome cinematography. There were a few parts that freaked me out, like when Tommy (?), the chainsaw murderer guy, ran out of the house with his chainsaw chasing after some girl. doesn't sound scary, but there's something about seeing that beast charge out of his house revving the chainsaw that gets under my skin.