Based not so much on artistic quality, but going with number of times seen and never got tired of, I'd have to start with:
Favorite Scaries:
Alien I liked Aliens even more.
Favorite Action:
Terminator and Terminator 2
Original Jurassic Park
Road Warrior
Original Indiana Jones
Yeah, I know - none of these is even close to recent. Deal with it.
I noticed that about much of my list before seeing what you wrote. I think as we get older we get harder to impress, even by something that's equally as good.
My list, in no particular order, without genre sorting, and not counting the ones that I'll think of over the next few days:
Pink Floyd's The Wall
King of Hearts
Harold and Maude
Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
The Breakfast Club
9/11 (documentary)
Total Recall
Unforgiven
The Matrix
Then, of course, there's the greatest movie ever made:
I've seen a lot of good films that could make my list, and some are recent, but whether it's getting older or maybe going to a flick isn't the "event" it once was, I don't find many recent ones to be that memorable, or at least in the way some on my list are memorable. "Jaws" is on my list in part because I enjoyed it, but also because it had a lasting effect I didn't even know about until months after I had seen it. I watched the movie, thought "that was good" and went on with my life. But several months later I was floating along in the water at the beach and some guy accidentally bumped into me. Both of us jumped up, wide-eyed, WTF...and then I realized it was residual Jaws. And some of mine were cutting edge in some way - technology, special effects, subject, etc.
Maybe I'll check some of the group's list entries and if I haven't seen them take a stroll through Netflix.
- 2001 a space Odyssey
- the big Lebowski
- full metal jacket
- most any Werner Herzog Documentary
- Gummo
- Paul Blart: mall cop.
2001 a space Odyssey was the most memorable
Of course – the Dude abides
Full Metal Jacket
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The General
Lawrence of Arabia
Rear Window
Star Wars #4 1977?
Oh Brother where art thou
Pan's Labyrinth
Old Yeller
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
The Gods Must Be Crazy :!:
Lawrence of Arabia About the last time that we could fool ourselves that things were going to turn out alright in the Middle East.
Rear Window Mmmm Grace Kelly.
Star Wars #4 1977?
Oh Brother where art thou :!:
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Based not so much on artistic quality, but going with number of times seen and never got tired of, I'd have to start with:
Favorite Scaries:
Alien I liked Aliens even more.
Favorite Action:
Terminator and Terminator 2
Original Jurassic Park
Road Warrior
Original Indiana Jones
Yeah, I know - none of these is even close to recent. Deal with it.
I noticed that about much of my list before seeing what you wrote. I think as we get older we get harder to impress, even by something that's equally as good.
My list, in no particular order, without genre sorting, and not counting the ones that I'll think of over the next few days:
Pink Floyd's The Wall
King of Hearts
Harold and Maude
Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
The Breakfast Club
9/11 (documentary)
Total Recall
Unforgiven
The Matrix
Then, of course, there's the greatest movie ever made:
Paul blart mall cop sets the bar for which I judge all other movies. I've never seen a movie that spoke to me on such a deep level as that one. It's like I was peering into my own soul. Shivers were sent down my spine.
I've got a candidate for the single dumbest line ever - it is at least the dumbest I've personally seen. The movie is "The Gate", a cheap horror film from late 80's. Premise is that a couple of kids find a hole in their back yard that is a gateway to Hell, or somewhere similar. So the kids have been out back all morning dealing with the prospect of being eaten/destroyed by these creatures under their yard and they go into the house (ostensibly for lunch or something). Their sister returns from wherever she's been (probably the mall in late 80's) and the kids tell her about their morning adventure finding demons in the back yard. Her response? "Demons? What kind?"
Asked in the same tone and manner as "You had a sandwich? What kind?" As if finding demons in the backyard isn't in itself a big deal unless they're some particular kind of demon. Some writer, editor, producer, director should have lost a job over that one, and the actor playing the sister should have refused the line.
Paul blart mall cop sets the bar for which I judge all other movies. I've never seen a movie that spoke to me on such a deep level as that one. It's like I was peering into my own soul. Shivers were sent down my spine.
Well, it is the best movie for drinking Bud Light, a lot of it.
Paul blart mall cop sets the bar for which I judge all other movies. I've never seen a movie that spoke to me on such a deep level as that one. It's like I was peering into my own soul. Shivers were sent down my spine.
Were you eight years old or stoned?
Need to add Heartbreak Ridge.
Aww, Panther Piss....
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
I've got a candidate for the single dumbest line ever - it is at least the dumbest I've personally seen. The movie is "The Gate", a cheap horror film from late 80's. Premise is that a couple of kids find a hole in their back yard that is a gateway to Hell, or somewhere similar. So the kids have been out back all morning dealing with the prospect of being eaten/destroyed by these creatures under their yard and they go into the house (ostensibly for lunch or something). Their sister returns from wherever she's been (probably the mall in late 80's) and the kids tell her about their morning adventure finding demons in the back yard. Her response? "Demons? What kind?"
Asked in the same tone and manner as "You had a sandwich? What kind?" As if finding demons in the backyard isn't in itself a big deal unless they're some particular kind of demon. Some writer, editor, producer, director should have lost a job over that one, and the actor playing the sister should have refused the line.
I liked Aliens even more.
