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Your favourite movies?

Post by 3DOKid » Mon May 11, 2009 10:10 pm

Just watched "One flew over the cuckoos nest". Awesome.

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Post by NikeX » Mon May 11, 2009 10:24 pm

Noises Off - bought it last month - watched it 4 times, with friends.
It's Michael Caine as desperate and cynical director who tries to
control the chaotic crew playing total chaos on and behind the stage.
The catastrophe gets worse and worse, it's unbelievable. You're gonna
fall on the floor. It's full of 80ies / 90ies atmosphere and comedy,
perfect timing for every gag. Buy it, watch it.

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Re: Your favourite movies?

Post by 3DO Experience » Tue May 12, 2009 12:47 am

3DOKid wrote:Just watched "One flew over the cuckoos nest". Awesome.
I cried.

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Post by Traegorn » Tue May 12, 2009 1:32 am

Adrenaline Drive

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Post by Devoid » Tue May 12, 2009 1:57 am

Lawnmower Man

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Post by mattyg » Tue May 12, 2009 2:41 am

Tough choice between my favourite John Landis Chicago films -

Blues Brothers and Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Nuff said!
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Post by 3DOKid » Tue May 12, 2009 7:19 am

Save Ferris! (I loved that movie too!)

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Post by BryWI » Tue May 12, 2009 2:28 pm

The Big Lebowski

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Post by Devin » Tue May 12, 2009 8:36 pm

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Absolute classic!

Also my token Sci-Fi award goes to Dark City Directors Cut.

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Post by UnholyTancred » Sat May 16, 2009 12:43 am

Conan The Barbarian
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
Highlander
Fortress
Stalker
Solaris (original Russian film, George Clooney version is rubbish)
The Street Fighter trilogy
Karate Bullfighter
Blade Runner
Run Lola Run
Re-Animator
Cannibal Holocaust
Dellamore Dellamorte
[REC]
The Quiet Earth
Dune
The Big Lebowski
Fantasy Mission Force
Evil Dead
Reservoir Dogs

John Woo's heroic bloodshed films, almost every single film John Carpenter movie before the 90s, the first 2 Terminators, first 2 Alien films, pretty much all the Living Dead films including the first 2 Return of the Living Dead, most Jackie Chan's non-English films, and almost all of Arnie's films.

This is a short list.

My tastes vary incredibly. I can watch both a 3 hours philosophy fest of Stalker and a nonsensical film like From Dusk Till Dawn and consider both of them 2 of the greatest movies ever made.
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Post by 3DOKid » Sat May 16, 2009 1:27 pm

Good, good, choices!

Here's some more I watch over and over! :)

Dawn of the dead.
Kairo (Means circuit in Japanese, but the US remake called it Pulse)
Butch cassidy and the sundance kid.
Young Guns 1 / Young Guns 2
Battle Royale.
Jaws
Jaws II
Moon Zero Two.
The Fog.
The Thing.
They Live!
Vamp
License to Drive
Ferris Buellers day off
Kikojiro
Sonatine.
The Black Hole
E.T.
Jurassic Park
No Mans Land (charlie sheen, not some lesbian porno)
Bad influence.
Dolls
Payback
Independence Day
Risky Business.
Silent Runnings.
Logans Run.
Resident Evil. (1,2,3)
Grave of the fireflies.
Howls moving Castle.
Wall-E.
Poltergeist.
Wing Commander
heathers.
License to Drive. (heather graham... i love you!)
Planet of the Apes.
Top Gun.
Platoon.
Full Metal Jacket.
Hamburger Hill.
The great escape.
Assault on Precint 13.
Star Trek The motion Picture.
Starwars: 1,2,3,4,5,6
brain-dead. (US version and Australian splatter version)


That'll do, I have about 100 more. I love the movies.

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Post by mattyg » Sun May 17, 2009 9:37 pm

brain-dead. (US version and Australian splatter version)
Noice choice ! I believe in the US it was known as Dead Alive. I have very fond memories of this movie - I actually saw it in a cinema on first release - whilst I was literally holding my sides with laughter during the screening it was the first time I had experienced seeing a mass walk out during a film !
I tend to favour movies in groups by the same directors / writers . So that's how I usually rate movies - ie I cant seperate Peter Jacksons early work - Bad Taste , Meet the Feebles and Dead Alive. Same with a movie like Ferris - I cant mention it without Blues Brothers and you cant mention Breakfast Club without Pretty in Pink. These all have a symbiosis in my opinion and sometimes to me a film is not whole until you see those around it. Filmakers tend to have runs of genius not careers filled with them.
Love the Coen brothers - Raising Arizona and O' Brother were standouts , as was American Graffiti / Star Wars for Lucas. I also love the coming of age period pieces , Last Days of Disco , Dazed and Confused , Reality Bites.
Unholy's right about John Carpenters work and who can forget Dan O'Bannon and his contributions - Dark Star / Alien
Peter Sellers gave us some wonderful characters - who can forget The Party or the original Cleaseau - I dont believe you can rate Dr Strangelove without seeing Failsafe etc etc etc

that's enough of my waffle - or should that be lasagne :wink:
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Post by 3DOKid » Sun May 17, 2009 11:19 pm

You're right :)

Breakfast club was awesome. I watched it the other day. Very cool

Brain Dead was funny, although I did suspect I was in a minority of one with that. (so glad I'm not alone.)

There was also an American Film called Brain Dead. It featured Bill Pullman (The President in ID4) and Bill Paxton (The mean brother in Weird Science) it's actually a good movie, cheap, but good. I ordered it three times from Play.com and they insisted on sending me Peter Jackson version, and each time I sent it back, and each time they sent me the same one back eventually i printed out the covers for each movie with a big "I DON'T WANT THIS ONE" label and "I WANT THIS ONE" label. They got the message.

Kuffs is cool too.

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Post by BryWI » Mon May 18, 2009 8:32 am

Anyone ever see American History X? It's a pretty good movie. I saw it sitting at the video rental place when I was with a couple friends today. I forgot about that movie.

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Post by UnholyTancred » Mon May 18, 2009 9:10 pm

I actually hated Brain Dead. The whole concept is just silly.
BryWI wrote:Anyone ever see American History X? It's a pretty good movie. I saw it sitting at the video rental place when I was with a couple friends today. I forgot about that movie.
Great movie.
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Post by mattyg » Tue May 19, 2009 1:28 pm

I actually hated Brain Dead. The whole concept is just silly.
Which Brain Dead ? ...and if your referring to the Jackson one - well all his early stuff was silly - that's its point! :)

Just wanted to add this nice little collection of movie bookends to go with Dr Strangelove / Failsafe

Blade Runner / Slipstream - two very different interpretations of "Do androids dream of electric sheep" one with Harrison Ford and the other Mark Hamill

Serenity/Event Horizon - both of which are very different movies that deal with cannibalism and madness at the edge of space.

I regard Event as probably the scariest and most disturbing movies ever

and just for laughs - two stupid movies with a cast of thousands (sort of)
Adventures of Ford Fairlane/ Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
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Post by UnholyTancred » Tue May 19, 2009 7:15 pm

Yea the Peter Jackson one. I heard great things about it and I love silly over-the-top films like Re-Animator and Evil Dead. Brain Dead just didn't click with me.
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Post by BryWI » Wed May 20, 2009 2:02 am

I actually watched bladerunner for the first time a while back when it came out in HD. Awesome movie. The Bladerunner PC game was pretty fricken sweet too. Still have the original discs and guide for it.

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Post by NikeX » Fri May 22, 2009 9:52 pm

I kow this will be one of my favs, "The Road" - Release: Oct. 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQautgFKK50

The book is disturbing. Conversations are like in a Kobo Abe book.

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Post by Devin » Thu May 28, 2009 8:46 pm

BryWI wrote:The Bladerunner PC game was pretty fricken sweet too. Still have the original discs and guide for it.
I've always wanted to play that game but never bought it. Is it truly worth the effort finding it on flea bay?

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Post by 3DOKid » Thu May 28, 2009 10:01 pm

Get this. Even I enjoyed.

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Post by BryWI » Thu May 28, 2009 10:34 pm

The game has quite a bit of replay value. Multiple endings depending on how you go about the game. It is defintily a classic. I spent a good amount of time playing it.

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Post by Devin » Sun May 31, 2009 9:05 pm

Managed to pick up the original big box package and as a bonus the DVD-ROM version which only came with a new Packard Bell PC!

Avoids the ol'change CD now crap :D

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Post by 3DO Experience » Sun May 31, 2009 9:51 pm

Well the Bladerunner game was good, I still have all 6 CDs and the manual but I could never get it to run right, even on the card it was made for, but it runs great on XP.
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Post by BryWI » Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:49 am

6? Mine is only 4 CDs. Is that a special edition? Mine is in one of those double jewel cases with 2 discs in each compartment and a booklet on each side. One booklet is a manual and the other is a behind the scenes. I had to buy the brady games offical guide seperately.

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Post by 3DO Experience » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:25 pm

Sorry you were right, it's only 4 disks. I somehow remember it being 6... I got mine off a friend when he was done playing it so I ended up with only discs and the manual, the rest the through out. :( Mabye it was 7th guest or 11th hour I got off him that was 6 CDs.
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Post by TripHawkins » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:45 pm

My personal top 10.


1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Trainspotting
4. Monty Python's Quest For The Holy Grail
5. Lolita(Kubrick)
6. Lawrence Of Arabia
7. Cidade de Deus(City Of God)
8. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
9. Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
10. Amelie

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