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What's your favorite movie and why?
Topic Started: Nov 6 2015, 04:53 PM (592 Views)
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Maggie McIntyre
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Practically any 90s movie about best girl friends...and really any cheesy 90s comedy.

I watched Gold Digger: The Secret of Bear Mountain last night and oh god, I forgot how gay it was. XD

Also The Beverly Hillbillies because Jim Varney is funny as hell.

And yanno, in the spirit of David Bowie going to his home planet, the movie that was the sexual awakening for most girls my age...The Labyrinth. Dance for us forever, Goblin King. XD
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If it's a movie that can cause me to stop whatever I'm doing and sit down for half an hour to watch, it's on the list:

Princess Bride
Shawshank Redemption
Kill Bill
Matrix series
Oceans Eleven (both old and new)
Bourne Identity series
Fast and Furious series
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Laura Seton

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Nov 9 2015, 02:09 PM
I'm not a big fan of Natalie Portman either (other than her looks, haha). She was absolutely dreadful as Padme in the Star Wars prequels. Blech.
This is something I totally agree with.

And her performance in Leon: The Professional was probably her best yet.
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Indrid Calder
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-Storm of the Century (though it's more a mini-series/movie) It's one of my favorite King projects that has ever hit the screen.

-Ink (super low budget dark fantasy film that just packs SO much emotion into it, a story of both ruin and redemption)

-The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie's stuff is hit/miss for me, but the gritty, realistic evil portrayed in this film stays with you. Otis B. Driftwood was the first picbase I EVER used for my Isaac Entragian character, haha.)

-Underworld (I loved the original, thought most of the sequels were absolute shit--except for Rise of the Lycans. I'm obsessed with werewolves, have been since I was a kid.)

There are also TONS of recent horror films I've seen lately that have impressed me, but that's just a list of my all-time favorites.

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Feb 9 2016, 12:39 AM


-The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie's stuff is hit/miss for me, but the gritty, realistic evil portrayed in this film stays with you. Otis B. Driftwood was the first picbase I EVER used for my Isaac Entragian character, haha.)

-Underworld (I loved the original, thought most of the sequels were absolute shit--except for Rise of the Lycans. I'm obsessed with werewolves, have been since I was a kid.)

Agreed on both counts, Jer. @_@ Two of my absolute favorite movies.
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Because Val Kilmer was the greatest Doc Holliday of all time.
And then there was Kurt Russel and Michael Biehn and Powers Boothe...and so many others.


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-The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie's stuff is hit/miss for me, but the gritty, realistic evil portrayed in this film stays with you. Otis B. Driftwood was the first picbase I EVER used for my Isaac Entragian character, haha.)

-Underworld (I loved the original, thought most of the sequels were absolute shit--except for Rise of the Lycans. I'm obsessed with werewolves, have been since I was a kid.)

Agreed on both counts, Jer. @_@ Two of my absolute favorite movies.
You have good taste! B-)
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Feb 9 2016, 12:39 AM
There are also TONS of recent horror films I've seen lately that have impressed me, but that's just a list of my all-time favorites.

Such as "Human Centipede?"
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Feb 9 2016, 12:39 AM
There are also TONS of recent horror films I've seen lately that have impressed me, but that's just a list of my all-time favorites.

Such as "Human Centipede?"
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Kharrion

1. Ghostbusters
I've always been interested in the supernatural, and the first movie and RGB cartoon had a massive hand in that. I was 3 when I first saw it and it instantly became my favorite movie ever. Why be scared of a bump in the night or a blurry figure in the shadows when I could just say "I'm a fucking GHOSTBUSTER" and get over it? I think that's why most ghost-related horror stories don't scare me nor have ever really scared me, because I had my Proton Pack and knew I could take care of business as a wee one.

Growing up, I started to appreciate it for a myriad of reasons. The humor is natural and surprisingly subtle for most of it, with the bulk of the over-the-top hysterics confined to Slimer and Louis Tully. Everything else is a situation quip or a clever sight gag and I realized just how dirty and adult half the humor is when I reached my teens. When I was little, I wanted to be Egon because he was a genius. Then I wanted to be Venkman because he's a quick-witted leader type. As I get older, I find myself loving Ray and Winston that much more, Ray for his childhood adoration of what he does and Winston for the no-nonsense approach he takes since it's just a job to him.

2. Aliens
Prior to Titanic, I think you're hard-pressed to find a better filmmaker in terms of balancing symbolism with solid storytelling, offering it all in an easily digestible manner, and pushing for technical progression behind the scenes than James Cameron. There's a sense of adventure that hooks you combined with logical sci-fi hardware, bringing some shine to a cyberpunk world that aids in the idea of corporate homogenization. That this movie acts as a parable to the American involvement in Vietnam (well-trained and technologically advanced soldiers, acting out of corporate interest, meet deadly failure against a comparatively primitive enemy that has the numbers and terrain advantage) while focusing on the idea of maternal bonds. That the movie is also insanely quotable is a fringe benefit.

3. Terminator 2
See above for "James Cameron worship." That the effects still hold up 20-something years later, that the story is even more relevant in 2016 than it was in 1991, is a testament to its quality. Any man who sees this and has never cried at the end is either heartless or lying.
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Apr 7 2016, 02:26 PM
1. Ghostbusters
I've always been interested in the supernatural, and the first movie and RGB cartoon had a massive hand in that. I was 3 when I first saw it and it instantly became my favorite movie ever. Why be scared of a bump in the night or a blurry figure in the shadows when I could just say "I'm a fucking GHOSTBUSTER" and get over it? I think that's why most ghost-related horror stories don't scare me nor have ever really scared me, because I had my Proton Pack and knew I could take care of business as a wee one.

Growing up, I started to appreciate it for a myriad of reasons. The humor is natural and surprisingly subtle for most of it, with the bulk of the over-the-top hysterics confined to Slimer and Louis Tully. Everything else is a situation quip or a clever sight gag and I realized just how dirty and adult half the humor is when I reached my teens. When I was little, I wanted to be Egon because he was a genius. Then I wanted to be Venkman because he's a quick-witted leader type. As I get older, I find myself loving Ray and Winston that much more, Ray for his childhood adoration of what he does and Winston for the no-nonsense approach he takes since it's just a job to him.

2. Aliens
Prior to Titanic, I think you're hard-pressed to find a better filmmaker in terms of balancing symbolism with solid storytelling, offering it all in an easily digestible manner, and pushing for technical progression behind the scenes than James Cameron. There's a sense of adventure that hooks you combined with logical sci-fi hardware, bringing some shine to a cyberpunk world that aids in the idea of corporate homogenization. That this movie acts as a parable to the American involvement in Vietnam (well-trained and technologically advanced soldiers, acting out of corporate interest, meet deadly failure against a comparatively primitive enemy that has the numbers and terrain advantage) while focusing on the idea of maternal bonds. That the movie is also insanely quotable is a fringe benefit.

3. Terminator 2
See above for "James Cameron worship." That the effects still hold up 20-something years later, that the story is even more relevant in 2016 than it was in 1991, is a testament to its quality. Any man who sees this and has never cried at the end is either heartless or lying.
You and I just became best friends. Ghostbusters is one of my all time favorites.

The idea of the remake makes me want to vomit.

If it were a sequel, I'd be more inclined to want to see it, but since it's a total remake and they're basically treating it as if the originals didn't exist... then fuck that.
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Kharrion

I'd be more inclined to see it if Paul Feig and Katie "I wrote for the bad seasons of MadTV" Dippold weren't the creative forces behind it. I've ranted so hard on Feigbusters that I'm tired of it, because fuck it...I have the original, I have the RGB/XGB cartoons, and I have the awesome video game from 2009, so why should it bother me that a hack whose claim to fame is "I write bad comedies for otherwise funny women" is all up to release another shit reboot?
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Jones

I'm gonna be honest, I have been watching the SHIT out of The Hateful Eight recently.. so it's pretty much my "favorite movie" right now anyways. I heard it was one of QT's weakest entries, too, but... I dunno where that opinion came from because I feel like it's incredibly underrated and right up there with Inglorious Basters, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs. I feel like Django Unchained was the weaker one of those mentioned in all honesty, as much as I DID love that one.
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I've hated every single Tarantino movie other than Pulp Fiction.

Inglorioua Bastards is legitimately in my top five list of most stupid fucking piece of movies I've ever seen.
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I've hated every single Tarantino movie other than Pulp Fiction.

Inglorioua Bastards is legitimately in my top five list of most stupid fucking piece of movies I've ever seen.


Ross Hates at it again. *sigh*

I... can't even with this one. What don't you like about it, dude? I mean, to each their own as always... but holy FUCK balls on this one.

You are legitimately the first person I've ever heard who has such vitriolic disgust for Inglorious Basterds. Is it... the spelling? The subtitles? The different "vision" as to what goes down?

I hope you don't say the acting, because the acting was fucking top notch from top to bottom, IMO.

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