Favourite Movies

[Sevenofninenz]

Can everyone post their favourite movies here? That way people can hear about different good movies, and in the long run become more cultured.... maybe..... or not.....

Please post favourite movies (other than Star Trek) here:D

Two of my favourite movies are: Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and Michael York, and Singing In the Rain with Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Conner

[Jeff Miller]

Friday the 13th parts 1-8
Jason Goes to hell
Jason X
Nightmare on Elm Street parts 1-7
Freddy's Dead
Freddy Vs. Jason
Halloween 1-8

and many more

[Sam Kenobi]

A Life Less Ordinary
Contact
The Fifth Element
Waking Life
Donnie Darko
The Mummy Returns
Moulin Rouge

[ACDC Girl]

My fave movie is Flash Dance!

[sabertooth1217]

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[Hitchhiker]

Spaceballs definitely.

Not really movies, rather miniseries: Peter Harrison's adaptations of Frank Herbert's Dune and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.

[Shenzi_Khan]

The Terminator
Terminator 2
Terminator 3
Predator
Jeepers Creeper
Jeepers creeper 2
Friday the 13 all movies
Night mare on elm street all
Cyborg
Night of the demons 3
Fortress
Lion King 1 and 2
Maximum Overdrive
Sleepwalkers

[Siege]

In no order...

Fight Club
The Thing
Batman: The Movie! (1966, the best movie ever to watch stoned)
The Matrix
Kung Pow!: Enter The Fist
Spaceballs
Robin Hood: Men In Tights
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Directors' Cut)
RoboCop


I'll add more later when I think of them.

[Leo Wyatt]

I am real big Robert Beltran fan so my fav movies are with him in it.


1: Night of the comet

2: To die standing

3: Kiss me a killer

4: Eating Raoul

and other movies from other actors or just other movies

1: Independence day

2: nightmare on Elm street

3: All of leathal weapom movies

4: jeepers creepers one and two

[ACDC Girl]

here are some more of my faves

Weekend at Bernies
FLASH DANCE(as you know )
The Outsiders
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
10 thins i hate about you
How to lose a guy in 10 days
Freaky Friday
Mean Girls
The Parent Trap
Little Darlings
Charlies Angels
Charlies Angels : Full Throttle
The Grinch
Titanic
The Wedding Planner
Double Double Toil and Trouble
Dumb and Dumber
The Cable Guy
Atlantis

[Birdy]

Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc
Shrek 1 & 2
Donnie Darko
Ocean's eleven
Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions
City of Angels
Erin brokovich
Bubble boy
Mean Girls
Minority Report
Pay It Forward
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
How to lose a guy in 10 days
Paycheck
Bruce almighty
Underworld
The Chronicles of Riddick
Riding in cars with boys
The Shawshank Redemption
I Robot
Troy
Just Married
Miss Congeniality
Fight Club
Frequence
The Sixth Sense
What women want
Devil's Advocate
Sweet November

And much more but I can't remember them now

[QueenArachnia]

Titanic (I **love** it!!)
Calendar Girls
Saving Grace
Plots with a view
Maverick
One of these days
Girls Night
Iris
Travels with my aunt


And maaaany more!

[Superman]

Good topic.

1.) Back To The Future

Directed by my favourite director, Robert Zemeckis, this is a wonderful time-travel movie for the whole family. Ignore the paradoxes and just immerse youself in Marty McFly's world as he ends up in 1955 and must find a way back to 1985 before his actions in 1955 erase his existence...forever.

2.) The Incredible Hulk

I'm not referring to the mediocre 2003 version, directed by Ang Lee but the wonderfully tragic 1977 TV movie, starring Bill Bixby as Dr. Banner and Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk. This is probably the most intelligent adaptation of a comic book ever. It changed the origin of the comic Hulk, necessary when translating to the small screen. But it retained the core concept of a man who becomes an uncontrollable beast when angry. It really is a brilliant movie as the actors draw you into their predicament and it spawned a fantastic TV series which had the right balance of social commentary and action. Check it out.

3.) Superman The Movie

Produced by Alexander and Illya Salkind, and directed by Richard Donner, this is quite possibly the best adaptation of a comic book ever. The late, great Chris Reeve was PERFECT as Clark Kent/Superman and captured the dual role marvellously. The movie was true to the spirit of the character and had charm, wit, colour, action and most importantly-characters you could care about. Plus, a wonderful music score. And, unlike a lot of superhero movies/TV shows that came before, it was not campy. I doubt this superhero movie will ever be topped.

4.) Superman III

This is worlds away from the original Superman movie but a lot of fun all the same, directed by Richard Lester, one of the wittiest directors ever. It stars Richard Pryor as a naive computer programmer who is used by evil capitalist Ross Webster (played by Robert Vaughan). It has the right amount of humour and action and the movie is very eventful with Superman putting out a chemical fire, saving a young boy from a wheat harvester, being turned bad and then taking on an intelligent, sentient computer at the end, a computer capable of finding a person's weakness and wiping them out. It's very rare for sequels to be as good as the original but this one DEFINITELY is.

5.) Batman (1989)

Whilst not in the same league as the 1978 Superman movie, this is still a fine movie, directed by Tim Burton. Micheal Keaton did a very good job with his portrayal of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the movie returned the Caped Crusader to his dark roots whilst the memory of the campy 60's outings were still fresh in some people's minds. It's not the perfect movie and could have been much more than it was but judged on it's own merits, it is a fine piece of art by a truly unique director.

6.) Supergirl (1984)

Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and produced by The Salkinds, this is a wonderfully naive tale starring the then-unknown Helen Slater as Kara/Linda Lee/Supergirl, who takes on a sorceress played by Faye Dunaway. It is true to the spirit of the Superman movies (from which it spun off) but has enough to make it unique and stand out on it's own. It has very minor imperfections but it is a very good movie with some great dialogue and special effects and interesting performances from everyone. Supergirl is so different to Superman and this film did a good job of playing to her strengths, rather than making the movie into a clone of the Superman movies.

7.) Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I first saw this movie in '86 - at first I thought I was watching a documentary, the whole thing seemed very real. It is a truly disturbing, psychological horror with a young group of travellers set upon by the cannibalistic Leatherface and his mad family. The director, Tobe Hooper, did a good job with every aspect of the movie to give it a real claustrophobic and "real-life" feel. There is little gore in the movie but plenty of psychological horror, guaranteed to give you nightmares. The 2003 remake is just as good.

8.) Halloween

Talking of psychological horrors, this is another of my favourites. Directed by John Carpenter, this is a real scary movie about a silent killer, Michael Myers, who escapes an asylum and returns to his hometown at the age of 21 for one purpose-to kill! You really feel the presence of Myers in the movie, there is little gore for the majority of the movie but Myers disturbing presence really gets to you after awhile. Sadly, whilst some of the sequels were very good, they relied more on gore than psychological horror.

(TREK CONNECTION- The Michael Myers mask was an old rubber Captain Kirk mask)

9.) Robocop

This film, in 1987, was ahead of it's time and may still be. It sees Officer Alex Murphy gunned down in cold blood and then reborn as Robocop to take on a cop-killing gang and the corrupt capitalists of the OCP corporation, who run the Detroit Police Force. It's a very dark film and some of it's themes are ahead of their time, some of them have came true, albeit in a very subtle way. It has a perfect script and great direction by director Paul Verhoeven. The sequels were not as good whilst the TV series watered Robocop down and made him into a kiddie-friendly robot. But this movie is perfection in my opinion.

10.) The Day The Earth Stood Still

This is directed by Robert Wise, who directed the first Star Trek film. It stars Michael Rennie as an alien who comes to Earth with a very special message for mankind, a message they should heed, lest they be destroyed. It's a wonderfully directed movie by Wise, and one with a message that is just as, if not more, relevant in todays troubled world. And it has one of the coolest robots you'll ever see, one that would strike fear even into the likes of Data or The Borg. You should try and see this film.

They're my favourites, anyway.

[lionhead]

Independence day
Jurassic park
Highlander
The rainman
There's something about mary
Liar Liar
Shrek
Resident evil
Gladiator
Raiders of the lost ark (indiana jones)
Back to the future

I could go on and on.