Kevin's Watch

deer of the dawn wrote:These are in no particular order, and I'm sure I've left some out.


Ink

I LOVED Ink.

In no order:

Hair
Special Bulletin
Star Wars (The first movie that came out)
Any Bruce Lee movie
Anything Jackie Chan is in
Kelly's Heroes
Red Dawn
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Porkey's
The Three/Four Musketeers
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
Young Frankenstein
The Blues Brothers
Live and Let Die

These are the ones I watch again and again. (Don't know if that makes 'em the best )

There Will Be Blood
LOTR
The Godfather Trilogy
The Station Agent (I'm with Sarge here)
Sideways
Schindler's List (or just about anything by Spielberg)
King Lear (Paul Schofield version)
American Splendor
Napoleon Dynamite (Vote for Pedro!)
Withnail and I
The Lives of Others
Contact
Spirited Away
As Good as it Gets
What Women Want
The Silence of the Lambs
Lady in the Water (my best worst film!)
Lost in Translation
Broken Flowers
Encounters at the End of the World (and everything else by Werner Hertzog)

Lord Zombiac wrote:you got some good ones! But, audition? Wow! You're a sicko!!!!!!

Watched 'Audition' once. Wow! is right! Good film but don't think I'll ever watch it again.

deer of the dawn wrote:The reviews for Prince of Persia were pretty "meh", but I really enjoyed it. A fun adventure, and no boobies or gratuitous violence (in other words, it's watchable for the fam). I admit to liking a lot of big-budget adventure flicks, like Indiana Jones, The Mummy, National Treasure (which was also panned), etc.; but some are definite "meh" material, like Transformers, Avatar, and all Batman movies.

Hmm. Now you've got me pondering. For me, boobies and gratiuitous violence are a definite plus .

I, too, like big budget action flicks. Enjoyed Indiana Jones, the Mummy and National Treasure. But I also enjoyed the first Transformers (number 2 was a stinker), Avatar, and most of the Batman movies (Batman and Robin being the horrifying exception).

I'll probably give Prince of Persia a watch when I feel like some mindless fun from the video store .

Cheval wrote:In no order:

Hair
Special Bulletin
Star Wars (The first movie that came out)
Any Bruce Lee movie
Anything Jackie Chan is in
Kelly's Heroes
Red Dawn
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Porkey's
The Three/Four Musketeers
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
Young Frankenstein
The Blues Brothers
Live and Let Die

I just HAD to add one more: Gymkata

Sweet Jesus! I'm as big a fan of terrible martial arts movies as you're gonna find, and I'm here to say Gymkata is as bad a movie, in every possible way, as has ever been made. Do you include it because it is the #1 Worst Movie Ever? Because I can understand that.

Cambo wrote:

deer of the dawn wrote:The reviews for Prince of Persia were pretty "meh", but I really enjoyed it. A fun adventure, and no boobies or gratuitous violence (in other words, it's watchable for the fam). I admit to liking a lot of big-budget adventure flicks, like Indiana Jones, The Mummy, National Treasure (which was also panned), etc.; but some are definite "meh" material, like Transformers, Avatar, and all Batman movies.

Hmm. Now you've got me pondering. For me, boobies and gratiuitous violence are a definite plus .

I, too, like big budget action flicks. Enjoyed Indiana Jones, the Mummy and National Treasure. But I also enjoyed the first Transformers (number 2 was a stinker), Avatar, and most of the Batman movies (Batman and Robin being the horrifying exception).

Except for one great line: when the Batmobile is revealed, Robin goes, "I wanna car. Chicks dig a guy with a car." Batman (George Clooney) says, "See, this is why Superman works alone."

I shoulda put Spirited Away on my list too. LOVED THAT!!

Fist and Faith wrote:Sweet Jesus! I'm as big a fan of terrible martial arts movies as you're gonna find, and I'm here to say Gymkata is as bad a movie, in every possible way, as has ever been made. Do you include it because it is the #1 Worst Movie Ever? Because I can understand that.

I really liked the fight scene when the star had to pass through the "Village of the Crazies".

Fist and Faith wrote:Sweet Jesus! I'm as big a fan of terrible martial arts movies as you're gonna find, and I'm here to say Gymkata is as bad a movie, in every possible way, as has ever been made. Do you include it because it is the #1 Worst Movie Ever? Because I can understand that.

Have you seen Rikki-Oh? I'll be very surprised if Gymkata tops that. It's worth watching just for the ridiculously over the top gore, but It. Makes. No. Sense. At. All.

Fist and Faith wrote:Sweet Jesus! I'm as big a fan of terrible martial arts movies as you're gonna find, and I'm here to say Gymkata is as bad a movie, in every possible way, as has ever been made. Do you include it because it is the #1 Worst Movie Ever? Because I can understand that.

You gotta love a movie that puts a freaking pommel horse in the middle of a street.

Cail wrote:You gotta love a movie that puts a freaking pommel horse in the middle of a street.

What did you expect from a village full of crazies?

1a. Apocalypse Now
1b. The Dark Knight
3. Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
4. Life of Brian
5. The Hustler
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Blade Runner (perhaps this one goes without saying at this point)
9. Adaptation
10. Eyes Wide Shut
11. Excalibur
12. LOTR (especially The Two Towers)
13. The Empire Strikes Back
14. Goodfellas
15. The Quiet Man

Cambo wrote:Requiem for a Dream

Good movie.

I never, ever want to see it again.

"Exnihilo2"]

...6. A Clockwork Orange...

Another that would be on my list.

I never got into buying movies, and most of what I did buy was for the kids. Here are the ones that are totally mine:

Gigi
Bells are Ringing
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
White Christmas
I Served the King of England

Others that I have seen (or would see) multiple times:

Life of Brian
Fargo
The African Queen
The King's Speech
Star Trek IV ("Remember where we parked!")
Star Wars (episode 4)
Romancing the Stone
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Blues Brothers
Mr. Sardonicus

Yes, that's 16. Let me explain. I saw "I Served the King of England" in a special showing (sponsored by the Czech Embassy, with a Q&A with the director afterward) and liked it okay. Several months later, I saw multiple copies of the DVD at a Blockbuster going-out-of-business sale. I couldn't imagine anyone else buying one, so I took pity on 'em and bought it. I haven't ever actually watched the DVD, altho I keep meaning to...

If I was to do my list today, I would have put in Hamlet 2. Rock me sexy Jesus, indeed.

I always ask anyone new I meet what thier 5 favorite films are because i) it's a great ice breaker and nearly everyone has a list in thier head and ii) I think it gives a great insight into the mind of the person - one that a good psychologist could learn much about an individual from. Why do we all like different stuff and what is it about our brains that determines this.

Anyway, here we go:-

Schindler's List
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Funny Bones
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Pan's Labrynth
Watchmen
Magnolia
Breaking the Waves
The Killing Feilds
Pulp Fiction

Thats a short list and is so, so lacking as to be virtually meaningless - but it's as good as it gets if I'm not going to be typing all day!

American Beauty

Braveheart
WALL-e
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Lion King

Unforgiven
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
L.A. Confidential
Sling Blade



Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Pay It Forward
Cast Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Ghostbusters

(Honorable Mentions: The NeverEnding Story, My Cousin Vinny, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind; Me, Myself, and Irene; Groundhog Day, A Knight's Tale, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

in no particular order:


Blade Runner
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Haunting (based on shirley jackson's The Haunting of Hill House)
Love Actually
American Beauty

Magnolia
The Shawshank Redemption
Chinatown
Bonnie & Clyde
Alien

Primer
Fearless
A Room with a View
Young Frankenstein
After Dark, My Sweet

Dead Man
Harold & Maude
Hero
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Henry V (brannagh's version)

Nobody's Fool
Thelma & Louise
Withnail & I
The Princess Bride
Dolores Claiborne

12 Monkeys
Stand By Me
The Sword and the Sorcerer
The 13th Warrior
O Lucky Man

and in their own category:

The Last Waltz
Roger Waters' In the Flesh
Two Against Nature (Steely Dan)
Who Is Harry Nilsson...(and why is everybody talkin' about him?)
Be Here to Love Me (a documentary about townes van zandt)




i'm sorry, i couldn't stop at 15. sorry. sorry. i left a LOT of favorites off too!

My top 10 when I'm pretending to be cultured;-

Russian Arc
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Cinema Paradiso
Much Ado About Nothing (Brannagh's version)
Metropolis
The Battle of Algiers
Microcosmos
The City of Lost Children
Farinelli
le Samourai