Favorite movies of all time ?

While eating lunch today— Fast Times at Ridgemont High was on —- watched a little while —lots of future stars in that movie—-

Okay, I gotta move this from “What did I just watch?” to “favorite movies of all time”.

In all its ’80s splendor and goodness…

GOTCHA !

Now try to get that tune outta yer head. :laughing:

I think I saw Gotcha! on TV at least a decade ago.

I don't remember how much I liked it, but I think I did enjoy it.

It was one of those movies like “Creator” (wow, also 1985… there’s a shock) where you start watching it on teevee just ’cause nothing else is on, and you’re instantly hooked and it becomes one of your favorites.

Well, at least it did with me.

I also caught “Creator” when it started as the late late late show at 0300, and watched it straight through ’til 0500.

Looked for it forever in video stores ’til I was able to special-order it at Beast Buy.

Another underrated (if not unknown) gem…

La Grande Bellezza

The image, the music, the atmosphere, the humour…

I saw Avengers: Endgame (2019).

I liked it a lot, as I have liked every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It's not the best in the MCU, but it's a worthy addition.

Lots of action in this one.

Not enough comedy, in my opinion.

This is a serious superhero film.

Just finished watching it now. Damn, over 3hrs!!

Other than vague/passing familiarity with some of the major players, I had no idea who’s who. Still, I liked it.

Damn, there were some hot chicks in that flick, though.

Who was the chick flinging red flameballs at Badguy? The whole “I lost everything” / “I don’t even know you” / “you will” one.

And Dragonfly Gril?

Funny, though. The end was like watching the Big Battle in “Narnia”. :laughing:

[quote=Lightbringer]

Scarlet Witch

Mantis

Wow, and I thought the Who-niverse was convoluted… :open_mouth:

Okay, so “Endgame” followed “Infinity”, and I just saw an “Ultron” listed somewhere. Where should I start if I wanted to just catch the pix from a decent starting point, instead of being totally at sea for most of it?

I liked “Endgame”, but I imagine if I knew who most of them were, and their backstories, I would’ve liked it even more.

And all these people were listed in the credits for only like 5sec of cameo. Eg, Samu L Jackson with the eyepatch at the very end. Rene Russo was in it? I see her listed, but can’t for the life of me place her in the movie. Etc.

I would watch all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in chronological order.

I know it's a pretty tall order, but they're all quite entertaining.

Gonna hafta buy a new usb drive…

If you want to focus specifically on the Avengers story line it would probably be something like this:

Marvel’s The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: Civil War
Thor: Ragnorak
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Endgame

The first stand alone Iron Man, Thor & Captain America movies are all origin stories. So if you know the basic background of the characters you can survive without those.

The Guardians of the Galaxy is lot of fun, and Mantis comes from the second of those films. It’s actually my favorite sub-franchise. Rocket (the raccoon) has a scene in the first movie that exhibits more real emotion than just about any other Marvel film (which should give some indication of their ‘depth’ or lack thereof).

Basically all of the characters from the various movies get some sort of role in the Infinity War & Endgame (Ant Man, Dr. Strange, even Spider Man) and all have their own original stories. Black Panther first shows up in Civil War so you shouldn’t be confused about his & Wakanda’s (his home country) role in things if you miss his stand alone movie (which is admitted pretty good, minus a terrible CGI fight finale).

There aren’t any crazy “reboots” or anything, are there? Like The Bat Man was originally The Bat Woman before The Operation, or anything?

Eg, reading the entry about The Scarlet Witch, she’s Hot Leather Chick in the movie, has a pic of her in a red devil costume like you’d get from Gearbest for Hallowe’en, and is described in text as pretty much wearing a nun-suit. Like, which one’s “right”?

And since when does The Spider Man (or -Boy) have huge spider legs growing out of his back?? Never saw or heard of that ever before…

And those Chinese fellas with the “fire shields”?

Oh, and who was the gril (main character, evidently) who appeared at the end and just punched big big holes through Thanos’s spaceship and killed it dead? (And where was she before that, when everyone else was getting his arse kicked? :laughing: )

I saw Apocalypse Now Redux (1979).

Despite being over three hours long, this movie is very interesting.

It makes me not want to join the military.

I don't know if I'll ever watch it again, but it is an excellent war film.

Memories of Murder
Oldboy
Lost in Translation
City of God

Caught a butchered teevee version of Bubba Ho-Tep, a rather sedate horrmedy, but fun.

Always a Bruce Campbell fan, saw BHT about a dozen times on teevee (butchered) but don’t recall seeing the “real” movie intact. Gotta do that…

Bladrunner, Star Wars, Alien, Apocalypse Now, The African Queen, Secondhand Lions, Italian Job (original); all stand out to me for different reasons. But there are so many good films I like it’s hard to choose an all time favourite, need to give it some more thought……

Caddyshack , The Blues Brothers , The Good , The Bad , and The Ugly ( and every other Clint Eastwood movie ), Young Frankenstein , Raising Arizona , Throw Momma From the Train , Oh Brother , Where art Thou , The Terminator

Pulp Fiction and Snatch.The first three Star Wars,Goodfellas.,Zulu.,Elf, Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story,American History X,The Lord of the ring trilogy,star wars films, ALIENS! Serenity,Gran Torino.Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Inception, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn, Inglorious Bastards,Forrest Gump,Cast Away,die hard with a vengeance,2001: A Space Odyssey,MATRIX ,AVATAR,Godfather 1&2, Full Metal Jacket, Das Boot, (Good Fellas, Casino), (The Big Lebowski , Fargo), (Dollar trilogy), ( Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) Usual Suspects,both versions of Italian job, Great Escape, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, The Sting, Dirty Dozen, True Grit, Wrath of Khan, Chronicle's of Riddick, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Predator. Can’t leave Harold and Maud off the list and a+10 to Usual Suspects, Hunt for Red October, 101 Dalmatians, Heat, Ice Station Zebra, Saving Private Ryan, Me and My Arrow, Hey Cinderella, Wallace and Gromit, Gladiator, Ben Hur, Mrs Doubtfire, Spartacus, Battle of the Bulge, Das Boot, In Harms Way, Animal House, Moby Dick, from Russia With Love, In Like Flint, Bridge on the River Quai, Oceans 11,12,13, Matrix, Speed Racer, Tomb Raider, both, Pirates of the Carribean, all, Batman movies, Spiderman movies, Iron Man I II, Avengers, Thor, The Day the Earth Stood Still, When Worlds Collide. Backdraft, Scent of a Woman, many more. Push, Illusionist, African Queen, Raiders of the Ark, 3:10 to Yuma, Fugitive, Forbidden Planet, John Carter, The Firm, Run Silent Run Deep, Horatio Bornblower, Master and Commander the Far Side of the World, Wall Street, Sin City, Fantastic Four, 13th Warrior, Zorro, Troy, The Sands of Time, Aladdin, The Mummy,Casa Blanca, African Queen, Father Goose. True Grit, Rio Bravo, THE SHOOTIST, One-Eyed Jacks, Nevada Smith.Spirit of St. Louis,It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story.Dr Strangelove, Clockwork Orange,Tombstone,,Wyatt Earp,Dances with Wolves,Tom Horn,Jerimiah Johnston,dead poets society, good will hunting, gattaca, star wars episodes 4-6, all star trek movies, goodfellas, the departed, terminator,Back to the future, Dirty harry, Dog day afternoon, the good/bad ugly ,. Batman, mean streets, the sting, blues brothers ,emperor of the north., No Country for Old Men,The Waterboy,Tommy Boy,LOTR,UHF,Local Hero,The Princess Bride, Manhattan,The Sting,Hallelujah Trail,Dead Man , Die Hard 1-3,Fight Club, Grosse Point Blank, I, Robot, Donnie Darko, Apocalypse Now, and Soylent Green,pirates of the Caribbean,happy gilemore,departed,transporter ,bourne identity,Joe Dirt and Used Cars,The Shining. Shockwaves, Sorority House Massacre part II.vacation,fight club,blow,lord of war,V for Vendetta,Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness,The Goonies,Jaws,The Road To Movies,The Quiet Man,The Bishop’s Wife,War and Remembrance ,Rocky I, Rocky II and Rocky Balboa ,March of the Wooden Soldiers,My Favorite Wife,The Philadelphia Story,Gladiator,Braveheart,The Dish, Le Mans,Downhill racer,Let it ride,,Caddyshack,Fasttimes at Ridgemont high,Superbad,Love and death,Batman begins,Life is beautiful,Groundhog day,Our man Godfrey,Earth girls are easy,Supertroopers,Beerfest,Cannonball run, predator,Deliverance,Bullitt , The Thomas Crown Affair,The Ten Commandments, Enter The Dragon, The Exorcist, Forrest Gump, Star Wars, Braveheart, Taken, American Pie, Dumb & Dumber, The Sixth Sense, First Blood, The Godfather, Back To The Future, The Thing 1982, Beetlejuice,, Bloodsport, Porky’s, Ben Hur, The Hunt For Red October, There’s Something About Mary, Roadhouse, Hitman,Tootsie, Frequency, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The Shining, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, The Deer Hunter, Leon,Scarface, Revenge Of The Nerds, Crimson Tide, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Lethal Weapon.Frankenstein Movies
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) and sequel, War of the Colossal Beast (1958) The Thing (1951)Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)The Mummy’s Hand, Curse, Ghost (1944)THEM (1954)IT- The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)- Kill Bill 1+2- Django Unchained,Enter the Dragon, Drunken Master, Ip Man, Hero, Fists of Fury, House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.What's Eating Gilbert Grape ,Green mile, run down, boys in the hood,fear and loathing in las vegas,The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin, Heroes Of The East, The 5 Venoms, Challenge Of The Masters, Invincible Shaolin,
The Boxer From Shantung, Crippled Avengers, The 5 Shaolin Masters, Shinobi, Ninja In The Dragon’s Den.Ip man,Conan the barbarian ,James bond (all of them)Shogun assassin.Kingdom of heaven,Bad Boys 2,the Abyss,Smokey and the bandit ,
This is Spinal Tap, Dust To Glory,Koyaanisqatsi,Baraka,Paris Je T’aime,,Iron Man,True Grit (Jeff Bridges version),Sherlock Holmes,Indiana Jones series,,Bourne series,Ice Station Zebra,Guns of Navarone,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,Young Frankenstein ,Just Friends,One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Shining ,Kagemusha.,Toshiro Mifune & Akira Kurosawa’s- Rashomon- Seven Samurai - Throne of Blood- Yojimbo: Curse Of The Faceless Man.Borat, Bruno, Dictator. Ace Ventura, Kill Bill,Hot Fuzz,The Rocky Horror Picture Show,Harold and Maude,Serenity,Seven Samurai,Life of Brian,Airport,The Longest Day,The Breakfast Club,Creator
,the Crow,Escape From New York,The Fog,Signs,The Magnificent Seven,

So when is a thread truly dead ?
Must we always keep looking ahead ?
We know things in the past
Were all made to last
And we sometimes forget what’s been said

Sharknado,“Stripes” Logan’s Run (1976),Unbreakable, Contact , Andromeda Strain,Saving Private Ryan ,Flash Gordon,
King Kong 1933, Blazing Saddles ,Red River,Rio Bravo,Oliver,My fair lady , Music man , Gone with the wind , Wizard of oz ,Lawrance of arabia ,The Last Starfighter,The Lost Boys,Titan AE,Ice Pirates,License to Drive,Adventures in Babysitting.Breakfast club, pretty in pink , High fidelity ,16 candles , Animal house ,ex machina ,Flatliners,La soupe aux choux,The Fifth Element,.....................................

Impressive list, Boaz!

If I listed ALL of my faves, it might be as long...

But with a lot more horror flicks.

Jeremiah Johnson was a oldie but goodie.