Kevin's Watch

I looked for this in search but didn't see a similar topic. Mods feel free to merge it if I messed up.

Someone asked me today about movie suggestions and as I went through my suggestions I realized that I have a very eclectic list of favorite movies. There just does not seem to be a rhyme or reason to them.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Sophies Choice
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Blade Runner
American Dreamer
LOTR
Lawrence of Arabia
Deer Hunter
The Three/Four Musketeers
Some Like it Hot
WALL-E
To Kill a Mockingbird
Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Gunga Din

What are your top 15? Which is at the very top? Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is my favorite movie of all time. Bet not many of you have ever heard of it.

Hmm... it'll be hard to pick a absolute favorite, but here's a list of movies I commonly suggest:

Sunshine
30 Days of Night
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Day of the Dead
Gran Torino
Fido
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Tombstone
Hang Em High
Moon
District 9
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
K-Pax
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Legend of Hell House

A lot of them are horror because my friends generally say they like horror... then they actually see one and find out they don't much care for it

Oh jeez. Well, here is mine. For now. Limit it to only films released in theaters. No television movies or miniseries.

The Usual Suspects
Clue
Blade Runner
Let The Right One In
Bound
Love Actually
Silence of the Lambs
The Haunting
The Secretary
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Being There
Casablanca
Looking for Richard
The Godfather
Seven
Nosferatu

Godfather Saga
Schindler's List
Lawrence of Arabia
LOTR
Star Wars Trilogy
Braveheart
JFK
Dances with Wolves
A Few Good Men
Field of Dreams

Quoting myself from a similar thread. Heh

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

Gods! This is going to be very tough off the top of my head:
The Hi-Lo Country
Braveheart
Blade Runner
The Last Wave
The African Queen
Unforgiven
On the Waterfront
The Usual Suspects
Godfather
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Miller's Crossing
No Country for Old Men
The Empire Strikes Back
The Salton Sea

IOW if you asked me right now the 15 movies I'd love to see back-to-back, yeah, this would be it...

lorin wrote:What are your top 15? Which is at the very top? Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is my favorite movie of all time. Bet not many of you have ever heard of it.

I remember there was minor hoopla over it because it featured David Bowie - right as he was in the midst of his very successful Let's Dance "comeback" album. I didn't see the film because the subject matter seemed too depressing for me at the time.

Top 15:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Before Sunrise
Unforgiven
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
Blade Runner
The Shining
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Fellowship of the Ring
For The Moment
Little Buddha
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Psycho
Alien
Waking Life

Not sure there's rhyme or reason to my list either, except that I happen to like a lot of sf or "genre" films versus straight dramas.

<sigh>

Tombstone
The Great Escape
Die Hard
Rocky
Rambo (the last one)
The Terminator
Out of the Past
Tapeheads
Blazing Saddles
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Braveheart
Dark Blue
Big Trouble in Little China
Jaws
Sorcerer
Roadhouse

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but off the top of my head, that's a strong 15.

Cail, "lives vicariously...through himself."

Seems Braveheart is a biggie fer Watchers.

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote: Seems Braveheart is a biggie fer Watchers.

Blade Runner too

Snatch
Star Trek: Wrath Of Kahn
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Empire Strikes Back
Apollo 13
The In-Laws (1979)
Young Frankenstein
Spiderman 2
Dr. Strangelove
Shawshank Redemption
Raising Arizona
Hunt For Red October
Unforgiven
Matrix
This Is Spinal Tap

lorin? wrote: What are your top 15? Which is at the very top? Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is my favorite movie of all time. Bet not many of you have ever heard of it.

Great film. I own both the DVD and the soundtrack Any soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also played the base captain) is worth owning. Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Jack Thompson, David Bowie...what's not to love about this film? Fantastic movie. One of the best international collaborations out there.

Anyway, back to the topic - here's my list, copied and pasted from another thread asking the same kind of thing:

Alright, going by the idea that these are my 'favourite' movies, not necessarily the ones I think are the best ever made (though my number one would be the same for both lists):

1 - Seven Samurai
2 - Excalibur
3 - The Exorcist
4 - Taxi Driver
5 - 2046
6 - The Vikings
7 - Stray Dog
8 - 2001
9 - Stalker
10 - Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

Pushed for 15, I'd probably add:

11 - Throne of Blood
12 - Macbeth (Roman Polanski version)
13 - Aguirre, Wrath of God
14 - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
15 - Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 AD (pulp film classic and childhood favourite, despite its many flaws)

Well I wouldn't suggest my list to anyone else but it's genrally based on films that no matter what mood I'm in, if they pop up on tv, I stay to watch. I know I'm echoing many of some of the previous posts.
Ask me again in a year and I'm sure I'll have a different list.

1. The Incredibles (possibly the most perfect film ever made).
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. The Wrath of Khan
4. Matrix (not the crap tacked on to make quick cash)
5. Return of the King
6. Die Hard (honestly any of them fit the bill)
7. Galaxy Quest
8. Big Trouble In Little China
9. Army of Darkness
10. Iron Man
11. Highlander (There should be only one!)
12. Spiderman II
13. Aliens/Alien
14. Terminator II
15. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Montresor wrote:

lorin? wrote: What are your top 15? Which is at the very top? Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is my favorite movie of all time. Bet not many of you have ever heard of it.

Great film. I own both the DVD and the soundtrack Any soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also played the base captain) is worth owning. Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Jack Thompson, David Bowie...what's not to love about this film? Fantastic movie. One of the best international collaborations out there.

I am incredibly impressed right now. You definitely deserve a few of my WGD's!

Fight Club

Chasing Amy
Fellowship of the Ring
Pulp Fiction
Army of Darkness
Dark City
The Prophecy
The Matrix
12 Monkeys
Trainspotting

Snatch
Office Space
Braveheart
Tombstone
The Shawshank Redemption
Equilibrium
Memento
Primer

in no particular order

1 Chopper
2 2001
3 Mulholland Drive
4 Bladerunner
5 Raiders of the Lost Ark
6 Paris, Texas
7 Trainspotting
8 Taxi Driver
9 High Fidelity
10 Ghost Dog
11 Fargo
12 Millers Crossing
13 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
14 Children of Men
15 the Big Lebowski

Hmmm...off the top of my head and in no particular order...

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Highlander
Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock...
Snatch
Waking Ned
Life of Brian
Memento
The Cube
Fear and Trembling
City of Lost Children

--A

No order.
From Dusk til Dawn
Natural Born Killers
Reservoir Dogs
Jaws
Jacobs Ladder
Goodfellas
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Doors
Jack Ass
Serenity

lorin?! wrote:
I am incredibly impressed right now. You definitely deserve a few of my WGD's!

My thanks.

I couldn't recommend this film highly enough, and I'd hope that some people who've never heard of it and see your mention of it would actually rent it out.

Well, it's incredibly hard for me to pick favorites (now picking good movies, that's incredibly easy). I went down the list of movies I own, and picked out the ones I thought would fit the list... and ended up with 33. So, I mercilessly applied the scythe, and ended up with this.

Bear in mind, there are plenty more movies out there that should be on this list, but 15 is a rather low number for something...

Clear and Present Danger
Gladiator
Gremlins
It's a Wonderful Life
Love, Actually
Signs
Stranger than Fiction
The Grinch
The Hobbit
The Hunt for Red October
The Matrix
Unbreakable
What about Bob
When Harry met Sally
Without a Paddle