I started a thread like this a year ago so that we could all share our
favorite movies other than Star Wars...and maybe learn how muck alike we
all may be before eating each other alive in other topical (?) threads.
Mine (I'll keep the list at ten, no particular order)
Raiders of the Lost Ark ( I guess you could count all of them, but I wanted to
make a broad list)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Wizard of Oz
Schindler's List
Jaws
Wyatt Earp (Costner--I think I'm all alone on this one)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Gone With the Wind
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive
Hmmm...only ten? ;) Mine seem to change from week to week, but here are ten
anyway :)
12 Angry Men
Aliens
Dead Alive (no, I have not seen the Braindead version of this)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (anything with Clint except Bridges)
The Hidden Fortress (not sure if this counts as non-SW ;)
Highlander
Jaws
The Last Temptation of Christ (am I alone on this one?)
Pulp Fiction (is this cliche yet?)
Vertigo
And, while I wouldn't include it in my top ten, I don't think Wyatt Earp was
as bad as was reported (though I still like Tombstone better ;)
Pat _who figured this was safe enough for his first real post here_
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It's tough for me to list my favorite movies because I watch different
movies for different reasons, but here's a list of the ones I love
watching again and again:
Excalibur
Yellow Submarine
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Godfather I&II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Roger and Me
Batman
Malcolm X
The Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
The Lion King
History of the World Part I
Silence of the Lambs
Atomic Cafe
The Crow
Alien
Schindler's List
The Graduate
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
The Godfather I & II
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Alien
Pulp Fiction
Leaving Las Vegas
The Usual Suspects
Raiders of the Lost Ark (are there any SW fans who _don't_ like this?)
Jaws
Brazil
Reservoir Dogs
A Fish Called Wanda
Any given Monty Python movie
Unforgiven
A Clockwork Orange
The Kingdom
Heat
Braveheart
Twelve Monkeys
That's enough for now. It's certainly weighted toward recent stuff, but
that's just because those films spring more readily to mind...
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>I started a thread like this a year ago so that we could all share our
>favorite movies other than Star Wars...and maybe learn how muck alike we
>all may be before eating each other alive in other topical (?) threads.
>
>Mine (I'll keep the list at ten, no particular order)
>
>Raiders of the Lost Ark ( I guess you could count all of them, but I
wanted
>to
>make a broad list)
>The Nightmare Before Christmas
>The Wizard of Oz
>Schindler's List
>Jaws
>Wyatt Earp (Costner--I think I'm all alone on this one)
>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
>Gone With the Wind
>Forrest Gump
>The Fugitive
>
>
Fine, I'll bite. My favorite non-SW movies...This'll be fun.
A Hard Day's Night
HELP!
Radioland Murders
Animal Crackers
Robin Hood:Men in Tights
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
Incidentally, I hated Forrest Gump...Oh, well.
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>
>I started a thread like this a year ago so that we could all share our
>favorite movies other than Star Wars...and maybe learn how muck alike we
>all may be before eating each other alive in other topical (?) threads.
>
>Mine (I'll keep the list at ten, no particular order)
Cool, I'll keep it to ten too and no order:
-The Abyss Special Edition (best LD ever IMHO)
-Big Trouble In little China
-Fargo
-Desperado
-Blade Runner
-Indy (*3)
-For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, all of them cept ..Golden Gun and
Moonraker)
-Jackie Chan movies
-Heathers
-Aliens
Yikes, what a strange list. I'm sure I missed a few but these ones I
can watch anytime.
Chris
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>Radioland Murders
Somebody get on the phone to George RIGHT NOW and tell him we now have *one*
person for the "Liked Radioland Murders" list. Quick!!
:^)
sorry about commenting on what you obviously liked, but I can't resist a
joke...
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So what do you for recreation, besides ruining braincells?
Gunbuster (anime)
Akira (anime)
the Seven Samuari
A Clockwork Orange
Jurassic Prak
Citezen Kane
Wings of Honneamise (anime)
anything by John Woo
- Hard Boiled
- Bullet in the Head (best Woo)
-The Killer
- A Better Tomorrow
Every Jackie Chan movie since 1983 (Project A) except 'Island on Fire'
-(It sucks--trust me)
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
God of Gamblers
Master Killer and the 36 Chambers
Once Upon a Time in the West
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
--there are more but this is plenty
- Happy :)
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>John Wooten wrote:
>>
>> I started a thread like this a year ago so that we could all share our
>> favorite movies other than Star Wars...and maybe learn how muck alike we
>> all may be before eating each other alive in other topical (?) threads.
Here are my top 10 in no particular order. This probably isn't my
official list but offf the top of my head, here goes:
The Usual Suspects
North by Northwest
Indy Jones trilogy (count as one)
JFK
12 Monkeys
The Maltese Falcon
Back to the Future Trilogy (one)
Pulp Fiction
Falling Down
Casablanca
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> In article <4sbsbe$o...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
woot...@osu.edu (John Wooten) writes:
> >
> >
> > I started a thread like this a year ago so that we could all share our
> > favorite movies other than Star Wars...and maybe learn how muck alike we
> > all may be before eating each other alive in other topical (?) threads.
Favorit movies...
1) BladeRunner
2) Highlander
3) Indiana Jones Movies (I count these as one movie too)
4) Alien
5) Doctor Doolittle
6) Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
7) Close Encounters fo the Third Kind
8) Young Frankenstien
9) Terminator 2
10) Braveheart
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Mine goes a little something like this:
the Indy trilogy (count them all as one)
ID4 (INDEPENDENCE DAY)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (the greatest chase picture ever made)
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
ALIEN and ALIENS (count these as one, too)
2001
THE ABYSS (director's cut)
PULP FICTION
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- Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke
- Akira
- 12 Monkeys
- Kentucky Fried Movie
- Wicked City ( animated)
- Seven
- The Godfather: Part 2
- Life of Brian
- Pulp Fiction
1. Return of the Jedi
Oops. Sorry. (late night I have a crazy sense of humor)
1. The Net
2. It Could Happen to You (with Rosie Perez edited out, hopefully)
3. Speed
4. Terminator 2
5. ID4
6. The Holy Grail
7. Beverly Hills Cop I and II (III bit the big one)
8. Copycat (Sigourney Weaver AND Holly Hunter)
9. Crimson Tide
10. Grease I (II wasn't all that bad, hey Michelle Pfeiffer's first)
11. Forrest Gump (NOT!)
No, really, it wasn't that bad.
11. The Specialist
12. Tie Me up! Tie me down! (One hot Spanish woman in that!)
Movies I don't like:
1. Mission Impossible (SUCKED)
2. Beverly Hills Cop III.
3. What I saw of the Brady Bunch (bad, bad hack).
4. ACE Ventura: Pet Detective (Spank you very much.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSHOOOOOOOOLE MIO! Jim Carrey, get a life!)
5. Steel Magnolias (need I say more. All the babes in there and the
prettiest one dies? NO WAY!)
6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (EAT SHIT!)
7. Anything with Shirley Maclaine and no babes.
That's my list. Take it or leave it.
Brent White
-Braveheart
-The Jerk
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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>>Radioland Murders
>
>
>Somebody get on the phone to George RIGHT NOW and tell him we now have
*one*
>person for the "Liked Radioland Murders" list. Quick!!
>
>
>:^)
>
>sorry about commenting on what you obviously liked, but I can't resist a
>joke...
>
>
Tell him he's got four people (that's including me.). My sisters and my
best friend liked it too.(And I don't really mind the joke. Just don't try
it again. ;)
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These are the first several entries in my all-time favorite movies list.
I've mostly only been exposed to what has been visible in theatres or on
television since I was born in the mid-70s. Since I have not yet gone
through video archives of past years and I cannot evaluate what I haven't
seen, there is a bias in my list towards more recent movies.
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Forrest Gump
5. Superman
6. The Player
7. Broadcast News
8. Leaving Las Vegas
9. North by Northwest
10.Do the Right Thing
11.Pulp Fiction
12.The Wizard of Oz
13.Pinnochio
14.E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
15.Bonnie and Clyde
16.Raging Bull
17.Superman II
18.The Fugitive
19.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
20.Return of the Jedi
21.Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
22.JFK
23.The Accidental Tourist
24.Grand Canyon
25.Risky Business
26.American Graffiti
27.National Lampoon's Animal House
28.Ghostbusters
29.Dead Man Walking
30.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
31.Who Framed Roger Rabbit
32.The Karate Kid
33.Peggy Sue Got Married
34.L.A. Story
35.Halloween
I can't usually put the funniest movies I've seen high on my favorites list
because they lack a broader emotional range, so I give an honorable mention
to my favorite laugh-a-minute comedies:
1: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
2: Top Secret!
3: Airplane
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Here's my short list:
Indiana Jones trilogy (naturally)
Coming to America
The Princess Bride
Braveheart
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction
Top Secret!
UHF
Swimming With Sharks
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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>In article <4sbsbe$o...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, woot...@osu.edu (John
>Wooten) writes:
>>
>>
>>I started a thread like this a year ago so that we could all share our
>>favorite movies other than Star Wars...and maybe learn how muck alike we
>>all may be before eating each other alive in other topical (?) threads.
>>
>>Mine (I'll keep the list at ten, no particular order)
>>
>>Raiders of the Lost Ark ( I guess you could count all of them, but I wanted to
>>make a broad list)
>>The Nightmare Before Christmas
>>The Wizard of Oz
>>Schindler's List
>>Jaws
>>Wyatt Earp (Costner--I think I'm all alone on this one)
>>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
>>Gone With the Wind
>>Forrest Gump
>>The Fugitive
>>
>Hmmm...only ten? ;) Mine seem to change from week to week, but here are ten
>anyway :)
>12 Angry Men
>Aliens
>Dead Alive (no, I have not seen the Braindead version of this)
>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (anything with Clint except Bridges)
>The Hidden Fortress (not sure if this counts as non-SW ;)
>Highlander
>Jaws
>The Last Temptation of Christ (am I alone on this one?)
>Pulp Fiction (is this cliche yet?)
>Vertigo
>And, while I wouldn't include it in my top ten, I don't think Wyatt Earp was
>as bad as was reported (though I still like Tombstone better ;)
>Pat _who figured this was safe enough for his first real post here_
>Patrick W. McDonnell
>pw...@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
I've got alot of favorite movies but here are some of the ones that stand out
in my mind:
12 Monkeys (Confusing, convoluted storyline and a bizarre ending. Gilliam is a
genius!)
Seven (Yeah, Brad Pitt sucked but the theatre I saw it in had the sound WAY up
and I almost had a heart attack during the scene in the hall when the guy
fires the shot.)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Probably my favorite movie of all time.)
Seven (Three words: Wierd, Wierd, Wierd)
Hanging with the Homeboys (Another wierd movie, with Fernandez/Vinny, Willy
and two other guys)
Outbreak (I dunno, I just couldn't tear myself away from it)
That lame movie with the alien called Trumpy (Seasons change in mear minutes!
Night turns to day! A wierd looking Alien!)
Monty Python's Quest For The Holy Grail (A Classic)
Crimson Tide (I'm a sucker for Submarine movies)
Das Boat (See above)
Hunt For Red October (See above)
I'm probably forgetting some of my favorite movies (Like Wolverines and Red
Dawn) but that's it for now.
Alasdair "Lord of lame, crappy stuff no one else wants" Sullivan
>Das Boat (See above)
I can't believe I forgot the Princess Bride! Add it to my list cause it's
really good.
Alasdair Sullivan
here we go (in no particular order)
Hudsucker Proxy
Raising Arizona
PCU
Animal House
The Blues Brothers
1st and 3rd Indiana Jones
The Shawshank Redemption
The Good, the Bad, and the ugly
The Graduate
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Cool Hand Luke
damn... losing my concentration... oh well, that's some of my
favorite movies...
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Good Non SW Movies:
Akira
Wicked City ( animated version)
Ghost in the Shell
12 Monkeys
Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe
Clockwork Orange
2001
Slaughterhouse Five
Cheech and Chongs " Up in Smoke"
Pink Floyd's The Wall ( even better when viewed with altered perception! ;^)
Godfather trilogy
Apocalypse Now
Glory
Time Bandits
Eddie Murphy: The other stand-up movie besides " Raw" ( Raw's pretty good too)
The Nutty Professor ( The best movie of the summer IMO)
MP's the holy grail and Life of Brian
Braveheart
A Fish Called Wanda
Much Ado About Nothing
The Princess Bride
Casablanca
The Rock
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Usual Suspects
Thats what I can think of off the top of my head.
Nev.
Do you mean Galaxy? This was a book adapted to a mini-series. I
wouldn't count it as a sci-fi movie.
John Watts
Good non-SW movies? Well...
- Enemy Mine
- The Godfather II
- Witness
- 2001: A Space Odissey
- Pink Floyd's The Wall (weirdness ad infinitum)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Mortal Kombat (very good music!)
- L.A. Story
- Bonfire of the Vanities
and last but not least: BLADERUNNER.
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Blade Runner (director's cut)
The Professional
Reservoir Dogs
Abyss
Strange Days
Flatliners
Citizen Kane
The Birds
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And not the first one?
>Indiana Jones : The Last Crusade
And not Raiders?
Curious...
Sleepless in Seattle
Any Disney Animation
Any Indiana Jones Movie
The Secret of Nimh
Fox and the Hound
Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Willow
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