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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.....
Originally posted by SykkBoy@Apr 29 2004, 06:29 PM 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) ;-)))
Originally posted by Joe Sixpack@Apr 29 2004, 09:40 PM Barton Fink
Brain Dead
Boogie Nights
Idiot Box
Taxi Driver
Worst movie ever: Forrest Gump
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)
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
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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).
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Originally posted by Carrie@Apr 29 2004, 11:24 PM 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
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.
(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...)
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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
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).
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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.
Originally posted by Carrie@Apr 29 2004, 11:46 PM 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.
(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...)
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)
Originally posted by Joe Sixpack@Apr 30 2004, 01:29 AM ...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?
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.
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Originally posted by Colin@Apr 30 2004, 03:32 AM Tombstone
Pulp Fiction
Empire Strikes Back
Vanilla Sky
Good Will Hunting
Different answers depending on my mood.
No one in my family can understand why I've got Vanilla Sky on DVD and none of 'em will watch it with me again.
It's a total mindfuck, that's why I like it
Also under the "total mindfuck" category I think you could put 12 Monkeys and Jacob's Ladder.
Aw crap, I forgot to put Tim Robbins in my list... and Jeff Goldblum (purrr)
Miss Eve I loved her hair!! And her voice - god I wanted to talk like her so much when that movie came out, hehe. And that's the movie where I developed a never-ending lust for James Spader that still thrives to this day :P
Has anyone seen "Honey"? I'm really wanting to rent that one. Kinda looks like an ebony version of Flashdance. I love dance movies; one of the first dates Hubby and I went on we went to see Striptease. They didn't show on the commercials just how racy that movie was truly going to be - I thought it would just be a lot of dancing and pretty outfits! I was SOOO embarrassed sitting in the theatre I wanted to leave; I'm thinking "Oh my god I take this guy out to a movie where there's nekkid women practically fucking each other right on the screen, he's probably sitting there thinking I'm some kind of a pervert!!" lolol
We could do a "List of Movies You Couldn't Pay Me To Watch" thread... I've got a bunch of those
Shit add these to my favorites, Colin had to go and mention a Western...
Tombstone
Quigley Down Under
The Magnificent Seven
Unforgiven
Young Guns
The Quick and the Dead (okay the cinematography style was cheesy but it was a good story)
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