Question Your Favorite Movies

[tblaxland]

I'm quite surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Independence Day.

Duck! Have a look how many hits it got in the "crappy scifi" thread, maybe that's why:
http://orbiter-forum.com/search.php?searchid=255333

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

That's life for an eccentric. I live a dangerous but subtle orbit . But every movie has it's friends and foes. Both of which in large numbers. I'll admit it isn't perfect of course. No movie is.

 

[Unstung]

Movies and Shows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Band of Brothers, Dogfights, From the Earth to the Moon, M*A*S*H, Saving Private Ryan, Speed Racer ('60s cartoon), The World's Fastest Indian, The Right Stuff

Much easier to copy an paste. I only put these up on YouTube as a record for myself.

 

[n72.75]

Das Boot
Letters From Iwo Jima
Gettysburg


I don't like many space movies because hollywood generaly assumes that its audence is dumb (which for the most part it is), and screws up so many aspects of space travle, e.g. "Core"

 

[Pilot7893]

I don't like many space movies because hollywood generaly assumes that its audence is dumb (which for the most part it is), and screws up so many aspects of space travle, e.g. "Core"

My new film Luna intends to fix that by targeting the more intelligent audience, while showing realistic space adventure can still provide an adrenaline rush.

 

[Suzy]

As a future favorite movie, I'm very much looking forward to James Cameron's Avatar! Not released until December, though

 

[MJR]

I like 2001: A Space Odessey, Apollo 13, and Boyz In Tha Hood.

 

[Star Voyager]

Good morning gentlemen,
For anyone monitoring, my favorite movies are 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, The Blues Brothers, Apollo 13, The Dish, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, Die Hard (the first two), The Right Stuff, The Great Escape, Planet of the Apes (any one of them with spacecraft :lol:!), M*A*S*H (and the series :speakcool:!), The Sting, The Fight of the Phoenix (preferably, the one with Jimmy Stewart), Strategic Air Command, The Spirit of St. Louis, Vertigo, Psycho, The Man Who Knew Too Much (again, with Jimmy Stewart!), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Independence Day, Back to the Future (all 3), Fletch, Caddyshack, 1941, Jaws and there are lot's more that escape my mind at this moment.

 

[MJR]

Oh yeah, The Godfather series. Not so much the third one.

 

[Andy44]

Well, Godfather III was the worst of the bunch, but thanks to Andy Garcia it was still a great gangster movie.

Speaking of which, I can't wait for Johnny Depp's new film Public Enemies, about John Dillenger in the old school tommy gun gangster days.

 

[MJR]

Well, Godfather III was the worst of the bunch, but thanks to Andy Garcia it was still a great gangster movie.

Speaking of which, I can't wait for Johnny Depp's new film Public Enemies, about John Dillenger in the old school tommy gun gangster days.

Yeah. It looks watchable.

 

[Ark]

Well, Godfather III was the worst of the bunch, but thanks to Andy Garcia it was still a great gangster movie.

Speaking of which, I can't wait for Johnny Depp's new film Public Enemies, about John Dillenger in the old school tommy gun gangster days.

Yeah, it looks cool, but it's directed by Michael Mann, who usually makes incredibly long and boring movies punctuated by one or two very good action sequences.

 

[Andy44]

Uh, disagree. Mann, IIRC, created Miami Vice, one of my favorite TV shows, and Last of the Mohicans, one of my top 3 favorite movies. And Heat, which had one of the best gunfights of any movie. None of which was long and boring.

 

[ryan]

Sorry to ressurect this thread, we all do it occasionally .
If i want something suspensful, The Dark Knight.
If i want war, Apocalypse Now.
If i want crime, The Departed.
If i want comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Thanks.
Ryan.

 

[Brad]

FYI... Just saw District 9... I give it a C-. More like Blair Witch project.

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Instead of another thread limited to space movies...

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967)

Let me start with a controversy... 2001? yaawwwwwwn. I understand why people hold it in such high regard, like they do with Shakespear... but like Shakespear, I think on the whole it's seriously over-rated.


Anyway, please don't lynch me before I add:-

-Castaway (and most other Tom Hank's films)
-A Beautiful Mind
-Shawshank Redemption
-A Bridge Too Far

 

[Oceanic]

#1 Solaris
#2 The Man from Earth
#3 Wristcutters
#4 The Fountain
#5 Stardust
#6 Sunshine

 

[Kyle]

1# any of the old star wars movies
2# Apollo 13
3# Saving Private Ryan
4# October Sky
5# 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[ar81]

Solaris (the russian version)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bladerunner
2001: A Space Oddysey
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Star Wars (episode IV to VI only)
Star Trek IV
And District 9 could become a candidate for favorite, depending on how good it becomes after I watch it.

 

[Andy44]

I saw District 9 and I loved it, though the science wasn't very "hard", and there are some plot questions, the characters were good and the story-telling was great. About a third of the way in the action kicks up, too.

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Oh, BTW, I did see Public Enemies, and I enjoyed it. The characterization was thin, but nobody really knows much about the real John Dillinger except that he was a hardened criminal who was good at robbing banks and didn't know when to quit when the heat is on. There's only so much you can do with a wit that dim.

Christian Bale wasn't too strong here, either, but the story wasn't so much about him. The gunfights were as thrilling as I expected, and Miami Vice Mann still knows how to make a movie feel like a long music video. When this movie comes out on DVD I need to see it again; I think it'll grow on me some more. Babyface Nelson's demise is the most awesome scene in the film, IMO.