Favorite movies of all time ?

That was a movie that was really ahead of it’s time. It was a favorite for me in the day.

Absolutely, especially the quip about the “old style 8088” in the ag-bot when it was the top-of-the-line µP in the peecee at the time (think only the DEC Rainbow had an 8086).

Floaters are now drones. Ag robots are also ground-based drones roaming the fields without hyu-mons inside. Now “co-bots” (collaborative robots) is the “in” thing. Robotic sentries exist (but are egg-shaped and unarmed). The military has self-guided projectiles fired form rifles. And Gene Simmons is still alive.

I knew back when it came out that it was prescient, ’though the exact timeline was up for grabs.

Hmm, think I got that as a two-fer on a dvd with D’Onofrio’s “Taking of Pelham 1-2-3”, but don’t recall watching it yet.

Did rewatch “Den Skyldige” (“The Guilty”) again… great flick. If you liked “Locke” you’d love DS. In Danish, so had to grab the subs, but it’s an hournahalf of realtime drama which all takes place in pretty much one room.

Oh! “Suicide Kings”. Dark comedy, emphasis on dark. Great little flick, but avoid the “happy” alternate endings if you got the dvd, as they’ll ruin it.

Lots of older choices that bring back good memories. How about something newer? One of my current favs is “Ready Player One” it’s like a walk through my youth and teen years.

I liked Ready Player One.

When I was a kid, one of the first games I played was Adventure, a game featured in the movie.

I remember a buddy of mine showing me the Easter egg in that game. I preferred arcade games but had my share of sore thumbs from the 2600, 5200, colecovision, Sega and then puberty hit. The last game I played was “Zombies Ate My Neighbors” . Since I was always a big fan of the old horror movies it was like they made the game for me.

speaking of runaway trains ...How about Snowpiercer or Source code.

Pitch Black

Rounders

Say Anything

Clueless

Castaway

Easy A

Failure to launch

Throw momma from the train

She's out of my league

The girl next door

Almost Famous

High Fidelity

Walk the line

Arthur

Has anybody mentioned this one? If not, for shame.

Ooh, that reminds me. “The Magnificent Seven”. Classic.

And speaking of 13, “Thir13en Ghosts” with The Monk.

13 assassins had that little fella Banderas in there from memory.
Both of the “Magnificent Seven”movies were good.

I D’Loaded a wierd one coupla days ago.
It was called “brightburn”. Another Superman flown in from Space.
BUT… This one grows up a baddie. Hmm.
Watched around 1/2 hr of it then deleted.
Some might like it. Maybe.

The right “Kickass Torrents” is still good. Just use a floating
location thing.

Snowpiercer is a nice dystopic film for sure and it's ending is more realistic than I thought it would be. :THUMBS-UP: But I didn't like the unrealistic machine that powers the train and which is the basic element of the dystopic idea. The shooting when the train passed through the bend was also far from realistic. How can someone with a handgun aim and hit a moving target in several hundred feet away. :FACEPALM: But apart from that it's not bad. I like the part when one of the passengers was forced to hold his arm outside of the train... :-D

Clueless...mhhh....Alicia Silverstone... :LOVE:

Castaway....Wiiiiilssssson!!! :-D

I never forget the crash landing scene when I saw it in the cinema. :O

Flashlight: A young boy must overcome his fear of the dark during a power outage.

13th Warrior was Banderas. It was from a true story adapted by Michael Crichton and originally called Eaters of the Dead. I loved the book, but I’m a fan of all his work. 13 Assassins is a Japanese Samurai film with one of the greatest battle scenes ever filmed. It had to be done with one take because of the scale of destruction. It’s also 45 minutes long, talk about coordination.

forgot to mention:

The Fast & The Furious franchise
Taxi

It should have remind you “”seven samurai”:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/” which is the original and is worth watching, definitely in my top 50 and was one of my favorite movies for a decade (I watched it 4 or 5 times).

Beowulf is a true story?!

That being said the early chapters are loosely based on Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s journals.

Heh, the Vikings were some crazy folk. Cool swords though.

Speaking of supermen-from-space… “I Come In Peace”. :laughing:

Awesome flick…

Actually, lots of Dolph’s offerings were pretty good mindless fun. “The Punisher”, “Universal Soldier”, etc.

Most of Lance Henricksen’s as well (“The Terminator”, “Stone Cold”, CE3K, “Pumpkinhead”, too many to list).

Early Steven Seagal flicks, more mindless fun. Chuck Norris, too. Just kick back and enjoy the revengemotif.

Oh, “Signs”! MNS could be hit or miss (mostly miss), but this was awesome.

Whoa… how could I possibly forget?

“The… Lost… Boys”. ’Nuff said.

And “Flatliners”, too, also an awesome flick.