Favorite movies of all time

Pretty much post your top three movies/movie series of all time. I need more movies to watch instead of doing schoolwork! (and I'm certain others are in the same boat). If you decide to not post, my avatar says that you must.

1. Lord of the Rings
2. The Dark Knight
3. Anchorman

Post them!

 

1. American Psycho
2. Donnie Darko
3. Lord of the Rings

Some good stuff there!

 

Dirty Work

 

1. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Clint Eastwood at the pinnacle of awesomeness)
2. Sukiyaki Western Django (Plays off of spaghetti westerns and old samurai movies and does it awesomely)
3. The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson; the sheer manliness of this movie is amazing)


I geek out over old Westerns... They're amazing.

Other great movies:
-Where Eagles Dare
-Fistful of Dollars
-For a Few Dollars More
-Inside Man
-Father Goose
-Blackhawk Down

 

There are just so many movies that I love, but these 3 are the ones that I will watch any time they are on.

1.) This is Spinal Tap
2.) Animal House
3.) The Princess Bride

 

Caddyshack "Hey Wang ! ... put your camera its a parking lot "
Road House
Pulp Fiction
Aliens
Terminator

 

Bender's Big Score
Beast With a Billion Backs
Bender's Game
Into the Wild Green Yonder

...


now for a serious answer ;P


Not knowing your entire taste in movies, and considering that i've used a program that I made to determine what movies to watch randomly... I'll just throw out some good ones I've seen lately:

Goemon (master ninja thief that has particularly good imagery and story, he's essentially the japanese robin hood in the beginning of the movie)

Flight of the Living Dead (oddly... good)

The Tournament (pretty decent action flick, lots of assassins go at it)

 

Usual Suspects
Pi (1st Aronofsky film)
Clerks (Kevin Smith reppin Jersey)

 

Lord of the Rings
Saving Private Ryan
Blackhawk Down
Bourne Series

 

so many good ones..forgotten more than ill remember..Like DJ J Pick..Pi..great one i forgot about.

This is not listed in order of favs..that would be impossible

Brazil
The adventures of baron von munchhousen (sp?)
Empire of the Sun
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ran
American Graffiti
The Seven Samurai
blazing saddles
Reservoir Dogs
Little Big Man
Full Metal Jacket
Catch-22
2001: A Space Odyssey
clockwork orange
Raising Arizona
The Damned
Woodstock
Yellow Submarine
The Damned
A Streetcar Named Desire
Taxi Driver

and soooooooo many more great ones....the list could go on and on and on

 

The Search for the Holy Grail - Monty Python - only movie I've seen more than 25 times
The World's Fastest Indian - never really got much attention when it came out
The Matrix

... sooo many others, very tough to narrow to three.

 

Equilibrium <-- Amazing take on how humanity is inhumane.
Zombie Land <--- Double Tap
And the Alien and Predator movies seperate not AvP

 

Favorite Overall: The Usual Suspects

Suspense - The Usual Suspects
Comedy - Army of Darkness
Horror - Devil's Rejects
Action - Ying Xiong (Jet Li's Hero)
Adventure - Raiders of the Lost Ark
War - Glory
Buddy - Lethal Weapon 4
Period - The Patriot
Sci-Fi - Matrix
Animated - The Hobbit
Anime - Sword of the Stranger
Documentary - Thank You for Smoking
Epic - Gladiator
Romance - Last of the Mohicans
Western - Tombstone
Teen - Mean Girls

Edit: I don't know how I left Drama off the list, but it is, without a doubt, The Godfather.

If someone really wants to compare brain pans I'd love to do the full movie category listing and compare it to someone else to see our similarities.

 

Nice list Van. Though Hero I don't think counts as an action movie, which I'd have to stick with Equillibrium. The Patriot is way to long for me.

Usual Suspects is easily listed as one of my favorites every time. Equilibrium is one too but mainly because I loved Fahrenheit 451. Thank You for Smoking can go in both my Comedy and Mocumentary categories and Gladiator is right next to Usual Suspects.

Cult Classic is Army Of Darkness and Sci-Fi is Matrix. There's a few anime movies I enjoy more than others. I think all of them are by the director of Princess Monoke. I'm not a horror fan so I think I'll stick to the classic "The Thing". But for Adventure its Indiana Jones is my hero. Minus the crystal skull fuck up the whole thing.

Romance I guess, since all the females insist, is The Princess Bride. For western I'd have to agree on Tombstone. I grew up about an hour south of it and went there on a regular basis so I loved the movie as a kid.

 

Honestly, I wasn't sure where I wanted to put Hero, it's one of my all time favorites, I was thinking Epic, but Gladiator owns that category with Braverheart being a VERY close second. If we were going to get serious about it, I'd probably say it belongs in the Sword and Sandal category, but others may disagree since it's not historically white.

I think I'll have to come up with a homework assignment for you while I'm at work today.

 

So many greats it's hard to choose. I'll probably have to add as I remember later on.

(In no particular order)


There Will be Blood
The Matrix (not 2 or 3, those are on my worst list)
Pulp Fiction
Children of Men
Forrest Gump
Fargo
American Psycho
The Usual Suspects
Schindler’s List
Snatch
The Departed
A Clockwork Orange
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Goodfellas
Apocalypse Now
American History X

(Comedies/Fun)

There's Something About Mary
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Old School
Office Space
Caddyshack
Kung Fu Hustle (i lol'd)
Juno
Shaun of the Dead
Superbad
Dumb and Dumber
The Big Lebowski
Happy Gilmore
Little Miss Sunshine
Dazed and Confused

 

King Arthur
Bourne series
Star Wars series (all 6)
Riddick series

 

Donnie Darko
Green Street Hooligans
Superbad

 

Apocalypse now is very good.