The Movies That We Love!
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- By rpmcmurphy
Like all of you, I like to surround myself with people who love films. In doing so I find that one discussion always comes up. What are your irresistible films? What are the movies that no matter where they are, you have to watch them? There have been many of these discussions between Dr. Venkman, Mazer, Abe Froman and myself.
During these conversations we have come to the common consensus that The Shawshank Redemption is one of those movies. Other movies on our list are Ghostbusters, The Shining, The Usual Suspects and as far as Mazer goes anything with robots in it makes it onto the list. As most of you have figured out, our list could go on and on. But what I want to know is what is your irresistible movie? Now there are some rules to this game so pay attention.
There aren’t many rules but they are important. The movies we are talking about are the ones that no matter where you are ( at home, at someone else’s home, Best Buy), no matter how far into the movie you are (just starting or three minutes left), you have to stop whatever you are doing and watch. For movie geeks like us, this might be a long list, and that is OK, we just want to know what your favorites are. No matter how lame or ridiculous you might think they are. So, until next time.
McMurphy Out!
V For Vendetta
Fight Club
Dead Poet's Society
Queen of the Damned
X-Men
10 Things I Hate About You
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Dark Knight
Beetlejuice
The Crow
Nightmare Before Christmas
Fun With Dick and Jane
Pirates of the Caribbean CBP
Iron Man
Benny and Joon
I'm sure I have some more, but these are my absolute favourites.
Awsome on all accounts. Except for Queen of the Damned. I just couldn't get into that one.
V For Vendetta
Dark Knight
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Aliens
All about the Benjamins
Alpha Dog
American History X
American me
Any given Sunday
Bad Boys 2
Blade 2
Boiler Room
Die Hard (The first is a Classic)
Event Horizon
Family Guy (Anything related)
Flash Gordon (Campy 80's version Queen soundtrack)
Friday
Futurama (Anything related)
Get Shorty
Bonus points for Flash Gordon!
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
Batman The Movie (Adam West Burt Ward)
Darkman Trilogy
Boondock Saints
Ghostbusters
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Hook
Transformers(Michael Bay and the 80's cartoon movies)
Iron Man
The Shadow
Resident Evil
All the Hannibal Lector movies
Jurassic Park
Lost World
Robocop
Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Mr and Mrs Smith
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
A Goofy Movie
The Chipmunk Adventure
Home Alone 1 & 2
V for Vendetta
I, Robot
Independence Day
The Matrix
Dogma
Clerks
Beetlejuice
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
and a lot more I can't think of at the moment
Wow, you guys are probably stuck anywhere you go watching movies with a list that big. lol.
I felt the point was to tell the movies you literally can't help yourself – you have to watch it!
Putting it like this:
- Magnolia
- Back to the Future I
- Empire Strikes Back
- Young Frankenstein
- Old School
These are the movies I'd absolutely stop anywhere to watch. I mean, I LOVE The Godfather movies for example, but I wouldnt stand in a Best Buy for 3 hours to watch it.
But to each its own! Thats just me
-Any of the original Star Wars trilogy
-Mallrats
-Almost Famous
-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
-5th Element
I maintain that the best movie ever made by HUMANS is PREDATOR!
Any Christopher Guest movie (Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show)
Hot Fuzz
Shawn Of The Dead
The Thin Man
The Fugitive
Most Coen Bros. movies (Hudsucker Proxy, Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, Barton Fink)
Uncle Buck
Army Of Darkness
Be Kind Rewind
Princess Bride
Goodbye, Lenin!
Wes Anderson movies (Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore)
Blues Brothers
Indiana Jones (all)
Back to The Future
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Star Wars (episodes 4, 5, and 6)
Sorry that was long- there are probably more but I'll stop
I don't know about standing in a Best Buy for 3 hours, but movies I will watch over and over no matter how many times I've seen them:
-Anything with Jackie Chan (except his later American movies)
-Big Trouble in Little China
-The Golden Child
-Incredibles
-Anchorman
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 2
-Anything Pixar except Cars and Finding Nemo
-Forrest Gump (gets better the more times you watch it)
-5th Element
-Tekkon Kinkreet
I could go on, but I'm going to stop myself there.
The Thing
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Indiana Jones 1-3
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army Of Darkness
any kevin smith movie
From Dusk Till Dawn
Judge Dread
Aliens
Sin City
Desperado
The Shawshank Redemption
Die Hard 1 & 3
Kill Bill
Resivor Doggs
Pulp Fiction
This list is the short short short version:
Blade Runner
L.A. Story
Happiness
Secret of NIMH
Wrath of Khan
Empire Strikes Back
Delicatessen
Heavy Metal
Clockwork Orange
Usual Suspects
Time Bandits
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Brazil
Writier/Directors that id watch all thier films anytime, anyplace:
Coen Brothers
John Hughes
Hayao Miyazaki (studio ghibli)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Ralph Bakshi
Errol Morris
Todd Solondz
Christopher Guest
Paul Thomas Anderson
could go on for days, but Ill end with this one.. every time I see it i tell everyone around em to shut the hell up and watch:
The Muppet Movie
Nobody ever agrees with me but let's go for it anyway.
The Fountain – even though everytime I watch it, I'm reduced to a sobbing wreck.
The Nines – I got it, I'm so proud of myself.
X-Men 2 – I like the first one but I loved the second, am I allowed to admit that?
There are so many others but I can't think off the top of my head.
In fact I know just checked my movie channels to see if any of them were on despite the fact it's 2.30AM.