Kevin's Watch

1. Soylent Green
2. The Game
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. The Planet of the Apes (the original)
7. Casablanca
8. When Harry met Sally
9. Cast Away
10. The Lion King

I loved Cast Away. On paper, the story sounds like a joke: 2 hours or so about a guy stranded on a desert island. But Tom Hanks and company sure made it work! Loved his performance. It also didn't hurt that I like Helen Hunt a lot as an actress.

Matrixman wrote:I loved Cast Away. On paper, the story sounds like a joke: 2 hours or so about a guy stranded on a desert island. But Tom Hanks and company sure made it work! Loved his performance. It also didn't hurt that I like Helen Hunt a lot as an actress.

What? I thought that movie was about a volleyball.

wasn't Wilson nominated for an Oscar?

1.Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Gladiator
4. Bladerunner
5. Die Hard
6. Jarhead
7. Raging Bull
8. Miller's Crossing
9. The Matrix
10. 300

and....

11. Fight Club

You're the first to list Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. I love that movie, too. Was my favorite Western by a wide margin til Unforgiven came along.

Lord Foul wrote:

Matrixman wrote:I loved Cast Away. On paper, the story sounds like a joke: 2 hours or so about a guy stranded on a desert island. But Tom Hanks and company sure made it work! Loved his performance. It also didn't hurt that I like Helen Hunt a lot as an actress.

What? I thought that movie was about a volleyball.

sgt.null wrote:wasn't Wilson nominated for an Oscar?

Cail wrote:See, the rub is this. Tapeheads is one of my favorite movies. It is by no means great, and most people who see it simply don't get it. I love it, and I can watch it over and over again. But if I'm compiling a top 10 list (or even a top 20 list), I'll never list it, because it simply doesn't compare to movies like Aliens, Die Hard, Heat, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('77), and the rest of the stuff I listed. Big Trouble in Little China is the same way. Love the movie, but it's hardly a high-quality film.

I've never heard of Tapeheads...will check it out.

The first movie that crossed my mind was the Cannonball Run. It's silly and juvenile, it'll never be on a greatest movies list, but I always have fun watching it. (Okay, I realize Cannonball Run might be scraping the bottom of the barrel, but still...go, Captain USA, go!)

Cannonball Run and Smokey & the Bandit are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. I know every line in those movies, and will stay up 'till all hours of the night watching them, but it's never occur to me to put either of them in my top 10.

Every line that Jackie Gleason utters in Smokey & the Bandit is pure, unadulterated, gold.

Cail wrote: Every line that Jackie Gleason utters in Smokey & the Bandit is pure, unadulterated, gold.

Agree 100%. Gleason was a genius.

MM wrote:You're the first to list Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. I love that movie, too. Was my favorite Western by a wide margin til Unforgiven came along.

I felt the same way until The Hi-Lo County came along, I don't know why: because it's so hard edge? Because Woody and Billy blow me away? Because it's shot in NM and written by a New Mexican? Because Sam Eliott and James Gammon are the perfect aging cowboys? Because of my undying crush on Penelope Cruz? Or, because the (repeated) theme-song by Carter Burell is so damm cool. (I love Tombstone, Silverado and All the Petty Horses too...)

Just 10? Here goes!

Cool Hand Luke
Heat Of The Night
Zulu
A Fish Called Wanda
Blazing Saddles
Suddenly Last Summer
Lillies Of The Field
Evil Dead Part II
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Time Machine (1960. This movie scared the hell out of me, I was 6 or 7 when I first saw it. Got caught in the basement with a homemade torch and got in a lot of trouble. The parents just didn't understand it was for protection against the Morlocks!)

Got to edit my original and throw the Dark Crystal in there somewhere.

I had forgotten how much I love that movie, even from when I was a kid. I wish I could have met Jim Hensen before he died, he was a hero of mine.

I too have a soft-spot for Cannonball Run. Much better than the Burt Reynolds copy.
Were they not going to remake or do a sequal to Cannonball Run?...

Burt Reynolds was in Cannonball Run. Or are you thinking of The Gumball rally?

Ah, dang, you're right Cail. SOrry. Gumball Rally!!! Yah, that's it. Love that.
"Gumball."

heheh

Great movie.

Alphabetically...

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Amadeus
Arthur
Billy Jack
Braveheart
Chariots of Fire
Children of a Lesser God
Circle of Iron
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Kill Bill (Vols. 1 & 2)
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark

In no particular order,

The Seven Samurai
The Last Samurai
Fulltime Killer
The Duel
Kung-Fu Hustle
2001: A Space Oddessy
Dragonheart (I was like, a kid. C'mon.)
Clockwork Orange (For reasons you'd think, and reasons you wouldn't. Maybe.)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (I think that's the correct name for 2010.)
Mallrats

danlo wrote:Fearless is great-I rank that up there with Mr. Jones. Joe v. Volcano??? Oh well, to each their own...

Umm...it's been a while since I've seen this response, but....yeah...Joe Vs the Volcano is one of those unsung movies whose brilliance is missed the first time you see the movie. On the surface, it's a dumb little movie. I saw it and enjoyed it a bit, but noticed a few little oddities about it. My girlfriend at the time said, "did you notice that symbol that kept appearing throughout the movie?" We rented it later, tried to figure out where the symbol appeared, tried to figure out what it meant, and it just kept getting better and better with each viewing. There really is a lot of hidden brilliance in that movie. And that girlfriend and I used several lines from it in our wedding ceremony.

For the record, my 10 least-favorite films...

1. Troll 2
2. Troll 2
3. Troll 2
4. Troll 2
5. Troll 2
6.
7. Troll 2
8. Troll 2
9. Troll 2
10. Donnie Brasco

Honorable mention: Troll 2

Dunno if I can manage 10...not much of a movie watcher.

In no particular order:

Highlander
Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction
Bram Stokers Dracula
Momento / Salton Sea
Star Wars (All of 'em)
The Life of Brian

All that comes to mind right now.

--A