Music, art, and film are three of my major interests, so this thread has intrigued me since it was started, so here I go. The following is a partial list of some of my favorite films of all time. The first three listed are my top three of all time, and the rest are a bunch of my personal favorites in no particular order. I should also mention that I’m a huge comedy fan, so you will notice quite a few of those on my list. Also, being a serious film buff, I watch everything in widescreen format (if available), and I prefer director’s cuts, anniversary editions, and special edition DVD versions of my favorite films. Obviously I could elaborate on each film, and why I like it, but I’ll just stick to the strict listing for now.

1. FOTR (extended DVD version)
2. SW EP5 The Empire Strikes Back
3. SW EP4 A New Hope

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Jaws (widescreen collector’s edition, only the first Jaws is good, the others bite)
Caddyshack (20th anniversary DVD)
Enter The Dragon (25th anniversary special edition DVD)
Spinal Tap (I don’t have the extended DVD version yet)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Green Mile (this film didn’t get enough credit, IMO one of the best of all time)
The Shawshank Redemption
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Jerk
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Roxanne
Planes, Trains, And Automobiles (yes I love Steve Martin)
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Fletch (the original only)
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Wall Street
Forrest Gump
Conan The Barbarian (only the first one is any good)
Pulp Fiction
American Beauty (widescreen awards edition DVD)
Gladiator
Office Space
The Goonies
Blade Runner (directors cut widescreen DVD)
Kingpin (the comedy with Bill Murray, and Woody H.)
Stripes
Escape From New York (I don’t know why, but it’s been one of my favs since I was 11)
Mad Max
MM2 The Road Warrior
Tombstone
SW EP6 Return Of The Jedi
Escape From Alcatrazz
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
Hang Em High
High Plains Drifter (had to give Clint his due)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Last Of The Mohicans
Legends Of The Fall
The Perfect Storm (I can’t stand Clooney, but I liked this film a lot)
Pink Floyd, The Wall
The Shining
Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Kahn
Jurassic Park (things went awry after the first one, but the original was great)
Cheech & Chong, Up In Smoke
Bad Boys (mid 80’s film starring Sean Penn)
The Hobbit (Rankin & Bass, been one of my favs since I was a little kid)
Splash
Big
Saving Private Ryan
Shine
Braveheart
Days Of Thunder
Colors
Snatch (special edition DVD)
Trading Places
Cool Hand Luke (’What we got here is failure to communicate.’)
Never Say Never Again
The Man With The Golden Gun
Weird Science
Real Genius
Disney’s Peter Pan (another fav since I was little)
Disney’s Fantasia
Disney’s Beauty And The Beast
The Abyss (special edition, so much better than the theatrical version)
Predator (I wasn’t crazy about the second one)
Patton
Jazz (the Ken Burns documentary)
Roadhouse (kinda cheesy, but I like it anyway)
Mutiny On The Bounty (the one with Mel Gibson, and Anthony Hopkins)
Strange Brew (take off eh!)


I know that I’m forgetting quite a few, but it’s hard to sit here and remember every single one of my favorite films without having some kind of list in front of me. I’ll try to add a few more as they come to me, or as I see others mention them. Also, most of you will probably notice that there aren’t a lot of so called ’classics’ on my list which is kind of weird because when it comes to music, 90% of what I listen to was recorded between 1915 and 1966. I guess I’m just a little more contemporary when it comes to my taste in movies. My wife is way into the classics though, and we own a bunch of those films as well, so over the last couple of years I have been going back and trying to watch a lot of those films too.

I just gotta say that these are great: The Fellowship of the Ring(EXCELLENT), Starwars Episode 4-6(sketans j’vla bra filmer) and then we have Jenna Jameson goes west no I was only joking.......T2 is the one instead of Jenna Jameson goes west

I saw it several years ago. I liked it, but it's not the sort of thing I'd let my kids watch.

Yeah I heard about that Prog, I'm just waiting for the Casablanca remake starring Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt and then I'm going to give up on movies forever.
"You can't improve on the Peter beardsley version, it's a classic"

Here's a few more that I forgot to put on my original list,

Big Trouble In Little China
Romancing The Stone
Airplane
The Terminator
Maverick (with Mel Gibson, and Jodie Foster, etc...)
The original Planet Of The Apes
Xmen (special edition comes out tomorrow)
The Sixth Sense

I'm still forgetting a lot, but what can ya do? There was a movie I saw a few years back that was about this little boy, I think that the title of the movie was like Simon something or the other. If anyone out there has seen this movie, help me out cause I can't remember the title. Fantastic movie though, very moving.

There's a very good reason for that...

btw, my DVD troubles are over, we got the money back on the piece of **** we got at Xmas and went out and got a decent one today (twice the price, but ay least it plays)

Just trying to spare you some of the agony Ross!

My favourite movies(except the LOTR movies) is the following:
Starwars Episode 6 - The Return of the Jedi
Taxi
Terminator 2
Romper Stomper
Braveheart(William Wallace is a true hero)
Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back(completly hilarious movie)

Well Kevin Smith ROCKS!!!!!
JAY AND SILENT BOB RULES!!!!
And of course AUL’ RULES!!!!!!!

Mallrats is most deffinately the best one.

But he's up for best new comer!

You're having a laugh! Maybe it's cos he only just hit the mainstream?

And Mallrats is on BBC1 tonight, for any brits interested.

Okay, in regards to my last post in this thread, Simon Birch I think is the name of the movie I was trying to remember. Anyway, that’s a great film, and since I’ve got a little time, I’m going to list a few more films from my original list that I forgot about. I don’t really expect anyone to give a flying falcon, but I realized that I’m only about 14, or 15 short of what would essentially be close to my top 100 personal favorite films of all time (at this moment, I reserve the right to change my opinion), so I’m pretty much just doing this for me at this point.

Club Paradise (Robin Williams, Eugene Levy, etc’)
The Fisher King (1991, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, etc’)
Spiderman (IMO probably the best super hero movie that’s been done so far)
Wildcats (Goldie Hawn, etc’)

That’s all for now. Ciao,

I like Akira Kurosawa's films. Especially Seven Samauri, Yohimbo and Sanjuro. On the nutty side Top Secret is great. Let's see there's Logan's Run, and The Day the Earth Stood Still. But greatest of all is Williy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Just saw K-19: The Widowmaker. Great movie! Baaaaad accents (why did they feel the need to have them speak with russian accents, anyway? If they wanted to be accurate they should have been speaking Russian!)Historically rather inaccurate which comes as a surprise seeing as how it's produced by National Geographic. Must be something with submarine movies... go figure.

Anyway, it got me on a submarine movie kick. Since then I've watched Das Boot, Crimson Tide, U-571 and The Hunt for Red October again... all great movies.

Sorry Skwerl, I'm with Perwing on this one PJ sucks big time, plus with that beard he looks like he needs a damn good wash!

Grondy Kim is another good film based on Kipling's works!

Yep. Not a fan of B-Movie horror then Perwing?

Yes but you can take pleasure in the fact that you're not a shallow as me!

Just finished watching Vanilla Skies, brilliant film really recommend it *wipes tears from eyes*

Then go get yourself a copy of "Open your Eyes" the original spanish language version, it's a far better movie, although I am a huge fan of Cameron Crowe's work normally, I thought this didn't quite live up to expectations.

No Ross I think you DID point it out earlier!

Just curious, what did anyone think about The Count of Monte Cristo? I’ve just finally seen it twice, and I thought it was excellent! Too bad because of some guy named Tolkien, I still haven’t read my copy of the book I bought 4 years ago.

"I want the truth"

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!"

Great film that is! I could watch that alot.