We might have been down this road in the past but ....
Since we've been kicking around viewing choices

Here goes

My favorite 5

Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
Pulp Fiction
Silence of the Lambs
Beauty and the Beast


Only 1 made in the last 10 years and 2 others made in the last 15, none in this century

If someone gets the urge maybe we can boil down the offerings and come up with Oprano's top 50 movies

So what's your's?

vick, excellent idea for an O+ feature ;-)

I can never think of the movies quickly enough to make these lists but here are 5 movies I really really like - not going to commit to fave's! I try to watch things that relax me & have a positive vibe, am not big on violent, dramatic films - I like comedy - because life has enough seriousness!

Dogma
The Little Mermaid (more recently Finding Nemo)
Charlie's Angels
Gia
Flashdance

My list constantly changes...but 5 that are always in my top 5, 10, 15, etc.:

Glengarry Glen Ross
A Clockwork Orange
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
O Brother Where Art Thou (this has quickly become one of my favorites with repeat viewings)
Bad Taste

I'd have to try to fit The Exorcist in there somewhere too, but I've been enjoying the repeated viewings of OBWAT too much.....

He said "BEST" !!!!

add in "Freddy got Fingered" and you'd have the worst!!! ;-)))

Can't sykk be BANNED for Bad Taste (intended) ;-)))

He said "BEST" !!!!

add in "Freddy got Fingered" and you'd have the worst!!! ;-)))

Can't sykk be BANNED for Bad Taste (intended) ;-)))[/b][/quote]
Freddy Got Fingered wouldn't appear until about number 30 on the list

Barton Fink
Brain Dead
Boogie Nights
Idiot Box
Taxi Driver

Worst movie ever: Forrest Gump

He said "BEST" !!!!

add in "Freddy got Fingered" and you'd have the worst!!! ;-)))

Can't sykk be BANNED for Bad Taste (intended) ;-)))[/b][/quote]
well actually I said favorite as I don't believe you can qualify best

and Glengarry Glen Ross is a classic flick as it A Clockwork Orange

But Sykk has um .... unusual tastes in cinema

my favorites list also changes, but here's the current one in no particular order. ask me tomorrow and it'll be a different list :)

pulp fiction
butch cassidy and the sundance kid
the longest yard
princess bride
blazing saddles

honorable mention:

fright night
the big lebowski
casablanca
the purple rose of cairo

All great flicks and agree with Forest Gump (John Waters is also known for his disdain of it and showed an example of that in "Cecil B. Demented", my second favorite Waters flick)

All great flicks and agree with Forest Gump (John Waters is also known for his disdain of it and showed an example of that in "Cecil B. Demented", my second favorite Waters flick)[/b][/quote]
Hey Syk, "Spun" is a fucking great flick... finally saw it a few days ago!

Do yourself a favour and check it out soon!

Fuck, this is tough as I have no Godfather flicks, no John Waters and about 500 more I'm forgetting

well actually I said favorite as I don't believe you can qualify best

and Glengarry Glen Ross is a classic flick as it A Clockwork Orange

But Sykk has um .... unusual tastes in cinema[/b][/quote]
I disagree!!!

For instance.....

I am not only in Oprano's 5 favourite spammers , I am in Oprano's 5 Best Spammers!!!!

;-)))))

(leans back and crosses his freshly slippered feet , whilst puffing on a Cohiba and stretching a arm over a box of Krispy Kremes for the icewine)

;-))))))

same here
I could easily do a top 100 list.

want unusual taste, here's my kids' top 5 DVD's the last month or so (based upon number of times watched and amount talked about):

School Of Rock
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Finding Nemo
The Brood (my favorite Cronenberg film)
Reign Of Fire

Hey Syk, "Spun" is a fucking great flick... finally saw it a few days ago!

Do yourself a favour and check it out soon![/b][/quote]
I'm looking forward to catching it

Z
One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest
Fiddler on the Roof
High Noon
American Beauty

Honorable Mention: Killer Clowns from Outer Space, It's A Mad Mad Mad World, The Shining, The Untouchables, The Longest Day, Last House on the Left, Harvy, Reefer Madness, Dances With Wolves

Movie I Really Don't Want People to Know I Like: Karate Kid

Movie That Almost Got My Ass Kicked: Love Story (saw it in the theater and couldn't stop laughing)

Movie that made me paranoid of pickup trucks until my first Navy haircut: Easy Rider

I couldn't even *begin* to narrow down the movies I like into a favorite 50, much less a favorite 5.
However, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc have been in the boys' "let's drive mom crazy playing this yet AGAIN" rotation this week. Even though I love both movies, every other day is a bit much.
At least today they added a Star Wars variant (the one where Yoda kicks ass).

If you want truly annoying for the parents and great for the kids, grab Leapfrog's The Letter Factory and The Word Factory (only about $9 each on DVD).

Itroduce your kids to low budget horor and sci-fi movies from the 50's and 60's. You'll get a nice change of pace and they'll discover movies that are fun and don't containa lot of profanity or graphic violence.
Best Buy has a ton of collections, usually 3-4 of these movies on single DVD for $8 as well as full colletions of 10 movies acorss 4-5 DVD's.

My kids have developed an appreciation for movies like "The Wasp Woman", "The Ape" and "The Indestructible Man". I also don't have to worry about having them cover their eyes during the "boobs and butts" moments like in more modern horror movies and there isn't the profanity or graphic violence and yet, as kids, they can have fun with these fairly harmless scary movies.

People ask why I let my kids watch a movie like "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" and I say the movie's violence is cartoonish and non-graphic, there is limited amounts of profanity, no nudity and it's just a lot of silly yet scary fun. Although I do get weird looks from some of the neighborhood moms whenmy kdids wanna play Killer Klowns and act like they are throwing acid cream pies at and shooting the friends with killer popcorn guns...hahahaha

The Natural
Hoosiers
True Romance
Clerks
The Sting
the Hustler



too many to list

should put a time frame on this question

saw 'spun' you want a good meth head movie, check out "the salton sea" with val kilmer. much better

vals done some good flicks...


wonderland was good,

spartan, a david mamet film, waS FANTASTIC.

Somehow the terms "horror movie" and "no graphic violence" don't mix. Can you tell I grew up in the 70's and 80's? :)

Silly funny scary is no problem (they handle "scary"), I just wouldn't want the butcher's knife - repeated hacking - maimed bloody corpse kinda stuff.
I was thinking of getting them MP's Quest for the Holy Grail. Much of it would go over their head but they'd still get a major kick out of it. (Not horror, I know, but a "classic" nonetheless.)

Still, we're talking 6 and 4 (on Sunday) yrs old here so pretty much anything is lost on them except for what's blatantly presented on-screen. But I'd much rather hear "I'm not dead yet!" and "I'll gnaw at yer ankles!" than the two of them role-playing Dori and Marlin. :headwall:
(A 4yr old boy trying to sound like Ellen Degeneres in a high falsetto has got to be one of the top 10 sounds guaranteed to set your nerves on edge...)

fuck vick, hes a pussy, a nice pussy that puts out:)

I cant narrow it to 5, but i can list 5 favorites that just happen to come to mind first in no particular order....

The Godfather
The Sting
Pulp Fiction
Aliens
The Road Warrior

A few old fav's just off the top of my head

Flashdance
The Piano (not The Pianist)
Tuff Turf (OLD movie with a young James Spader)
Highlander
Resevoir Dogs (howeverthahell you spell that)
The Breakfast Club
The King and I
Desperado
Last of the Mohicans

More recent ones -
Seabiscuit (starts slow but is a fantastic movie)
Secondhand Lions
Underworld
Finding Nemo
Lord of the Rings (wow)
Harry Potter (all of 'em)
Matrix

Only movie that ever scared me - can't remember the name of it but it was the first one with the flying spheres that drilled into your head. (Sykk might know.) Phantasm might be the name? The sequels sucked though. The original Nightmare on Elm Street did a pretty good job too but I was too old by then for it to really 'scare' me.

Nearly anything with Harrison Ford, Sean Connery (except the Bond movies), Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro... and too many damn more to mention :awinky:

And just to shock Vick... I've never seen Casablanca.
Maybe next week we'll do a classic movie night and get that one and My Fair Lady (haven't seen it either).

there can't be a top 5 as fairly it would have to be top 10's in 5 different categories. but to humor you and the rest of you who have horrible tastes and are the reason garbage films are put out, here's "a" top 5 of mine, but it really can't be totally accurate.


Citizen Kane
Godfather
Casablanca
Edward Scissorhands
The Sting

----------- ones some of you specifically wouldnt consider because you aren't smart:

Edward Scissorhands
Pee Wee's big adventure
Happiness
Jackie Brown
Raging bull
Glengarry Glenross


these are in no specific order.





this reminds me i'm a little late starting me weekly film thread, i'll get to that this weekend hopefully so i can learn you some filmamacation.

Either that or we wouldn't list because we were listing our true favorites and not trying to impress anyone by listing 5 artistic or classic movies...

Either that or we wouldn't list because we were listing our true favorites and not trying to impress anyone by listing 5 artistic or classic movies...
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uhm only 1 of those under that phrase was a black and white classic....

HHmm Top 5 You say


Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jerry Maguire
Bugsy Malone
The Castle
Aladdin ( Robin William version ) / Gone with the Wind

Carrie.......I have Tuff Turf on VHS, recorded from cable sometime in the 80's with Better Off Dead! I thought that girls long hair was so cool!


Honey, in elementary school everyone gathered in the gym to sit indian style on the floor and watch Bugsy Malone as an end of the year treat :)


We just watched Welcome to the Dollhouse again, its been playing on IFC, its SO painful and funny.



Last edited by MissEve at Apr 30 2004, 01:19 AM

good taste, from this director you'll also enjoy, in this order, happiness, love liza, and storytelling. go ahead and netflix em'

:awinky:

Saving Private Ryan
Old School
Happy Gilmore
Tommy Boy
Super Troopers

Either that or we wouldn't list because we were listing our true favorites and not trying to impress anyone by listing 5 artistic or classic movies...[/b][/quote]
Since you brought it up here are my five favourite classic films:

Double Indemnity
Nosferatu
His Girl Friday
Sunrise
Citizen Kane

...and has anyone here seen "Man Bites Dog"... that almost made it into my regular top 5. A low budget, blackly humourous, mock documentary from Belgium. Pure genius. Syk, you seen this one?

Absolute shockers, every single one of them.

Saving Private Ryan is one of the most boring films I've ever seen.

Only after you tongue kiss me when we're drunk while you're wearing a Cat in the Hat Hat

You beast :P


Edit - Fuck I don't have a movie with Deniro in it, no Liv Tyler flick and no Natural Born Killers





Last edited by Vick at Apr 30 2004, 02:25 AM

I'm a 70's horror buff too, but my kids are 8,7 and 3, so they really aren't into the hack and slash. They like monster movies and creature features.

I own the Elm Street Boxset, but only to be a completist, as I got bored when Freddy went from a legit scary boggeyman to a gameshow host of death. I prefer my horror a little more straight forward (unless it's unintentional humor in my revered "bad movies")

My daughter likes Freddy Kreuger, but he frightens my son, so doesn't watch (I never force my kids to watch scary movies and if something's too intense, we turn it off and discuss the movie (they have also become dvd extra feature addicts like me and love to see how these movies were made as it takes away the scariness for them)

good taste, from this director you'll also enjoy, in this order, happiness, love liza, and storytelling. go ahead and netflix em'

:awinky:[/b][/quote]
holy shit, something you and I agree on...."Welcome To The Dollhouse" just narrowly missed my top 5 and "Happiness" is a tough watch, but fucking brilliant

I also loved Requeim For A Dream and Pi, but those are way on the artsy fartsy side for most popcorn munchers...

yes, I caught this at a movie party one of my movie geek buddies threw and had to seek it out again as I missed parts of it.

I also liked "Bad Cop, No Donut" that borrowed a few quick homages to that movie.

OPRANO WARNING: if you don't like movies that are shot on a camcorder with a budget some of you spend on strippers in a single evening, tis movie isn't for you, but if you like something inspired, fresh, innovative and fun with buddies and brews, it's a must have movie. (Bad Cop, No Donut that is)



Last edited by SykkBoy at Apr 30 2004, 03:02 AM

Damn this is harder than I thought, but here's some films I can watch over and over...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Heat
Face Off
Dirty Harry
Scarface

Any film with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Nicolas Cage or Adam Sandler (shits and giggles).

And I've got a thing for Sandra Bullock as well :D









Last edited by Trev at Apr 30 2004, 10:21 AM

Tombstone
Pulp Fiction
Empire Strikes Back
Vanilla Sky
Good Will Hunting

Different answers depending on my mood.



Last edited by Colin at Apr 30 2004, 03:32 AM

Yeah, that's a good one. :okthumb:

Once upon a time in America
Pulp Fiction
Sting
Forrest Gump
Godfather