Kajun gave me this idea, but I didn't get a chance to tell him cause I was AFK during chat.

Anyway, the idea is simple:
What is/are your favorite movie/s ?

My vote:
Patton
The Matrix
Star Wars EP IV and V
12 Monkeys

Righto.

The star wars 4logy...?
Con-Air
X-men
Godzilla
Titan A.E.
The matrix

12 Angry Men
Fievel Goes West
Police Academy IV
Wanda Whips Wall Street
A Brief History of Time
Tomb Raider
Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Air Bud
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kazaam

I like all these films:

Satan (1991)
Satan's Amazon (1915)
Satan and the Woman (1928)
Satan's Bed (1983)
Satan's Black Wedding (1975)
Satan's Blade (1984)
Satan Bug, The (1965)
Satan's Castle (1975)
...aka Satan's Children (1975) (USA)
Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)
Satan's Children (1974)
Satan's Choice (1965)
Satan Claus (1996)
Satan's Cradle (1949)
Satan en prison (1907)
...aka Satan in Prison (1907) (USA)
Satan's Harvest (1965)
Satan in High Heels (1962)
Satan in Sables (1925)
Satan in Sydney (1918)
Satan Junior (1919)
Satan Killer, The (1993)
Satan lockt mit Liebe, Der (1960)
Satan's Lust (1971)
Satan McAllister's Heir (1915)
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Satan's Mistress (1981)
Satan mit den roten Haaren, Der (1964)
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Satan Opium (1915)
Satan's Princess (1990)
Satan's Private Door (1917)
Satan's Sadists (1969)
Satan Sanderson (1915)
Satan's Satellites (1958)
Satan's Sister (1925)
Satan's Skin (1971)
...aka Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) (USA)
...aka Devil's Touch, The (1971)
...aka Satan's Claw (1971)
Satan's Slave (1976)
Satan's Tease (????)
Satan's Touch (1984)
Satan Town (1926)
Satan's Waitin' (1954)
Satan Was a Lady (2001)
Devil, The (1915)
No Satan (1933)
Dr. Satan (1962)
Mr. Satan (1938)
Madam Satan (1930)
Jaws of Satan (1981)
Limb of Satan, A (1917)
Sons of Satan, The (1916)
Soul of Satan, The (1917)
Brand of Satan, The (1917)
My Sweet Satan (1994)
Pomps of Satan, The (1993)
Satansbraten (1976)
Touch of Satan, The (1970)
Voice of Satan (1941)
Voice of Satan, The (1915)
Asylum of Satan (1972)
Legacy of Satan (1976)
Nuda per Satana (1974)
...aka Nude for Satan (1974)
Thank You Satan (1988)
...aka Oh! Oh! Satan! (1988)
Clown Vs. Satan, The (1901)
Daughter of Satan, A (1914)
Devil Rides Out, The (1968)
Bargain with Satan, A (1913)
Blade af Satans Bog (1920)
...aka Leaves from Satan's Book (1920)
Daughters of Satan (1972)
Ricky 6 (2000)
...aka Say You Love Satan (2000) (USA)
Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
Little Nicky (2000)
Seven Women for Satan (1974)
Redeemer: Son of Satan!, The (1976)
Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York (1999)

Some of Satan's best work. It's a shame he was so type-cast, though.

Jeeeez....you forgot "Devil's Advocate"

I forgot to add

-Shogun-

the 12 hour miniseries.

I liked Bobo's Grievous Scunge Bonanza.

The sequel was better.

I just saw The Matrix for the first time. That's some real cutting-edge 80s cyberpunk right there.

What I want to know is who would use an I/O device that kills you if you shut it down improperly? It's bad enough that Windows tells you when it is and isn't "safe" to turn off your computer. Can you imagine trying to market this thing? "We've got this revolutionary new total-immersion VR doohickie. It does have one little drawback: If someone kicks a plug out, your ass is DEAD." Uh, I'll stick with the PlayStation until you iron out that little kink, thanks.

Oh, and if someone shoots you in cyberspace, holes appear in your actual body. That's a benefit. I wonder how they designed that feature in.

And did I hear this right-- that the computers feed us this lavish hallucination so that they can use us as energy sources? Batteries, basically? Wouldn't coal or hydro be more efficient? I mean, it'd save the computers the trouble of having Agents chasing renegade humans around their innards all the time. And I don't mean this in a self-deprecating way, but I imagine I'd make a real shitty battery.

Worst of all, this movie copped all the patented Gibson (not to mention Sterling, Rucker, Shiner, and Spinrad) moves, but they left the corporate out of corporate-dominated dystopia. So there goes about three-fourths of the sociological substance of the genre.

The special effects were bitchin'.

Robocop-- now that was an SF flick.

"REVISE YOUR OPINION OF THE MATRIX. YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO COMPLY."

I agree with Boorite about the Matrix. There were holes in that plot you could drive a hovercraft through.

I never understood what the machines actually wanted. They were using humans as batteries so they could harvest humans and use them as batteries, and hunt down the remaining humans so they could use them as batteries too. So if they didn't have the matrix, they could save loads of power on all the rigmarole needed to run it. It's not like we saw a society of robots that needed all this energy.

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What I want to know is who would use an I/O device that kills you if you shut it down improperly? It's bad enough that Windows tells you when it is and isn't "safe" to turn off your computer. Can you imagine trying to market this thing? "We've got this revolutionary new total-immersion VR doohickie. It does have one little drawback: If someone kicks a plug out, your ass is DEAD."

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Star Wars IV and V
Airplane

Airplane is just brill! and 2 is as well

I was going to take the piss, but here are a few of my favourites, off the top of my head...

- The Princess Bride
- Tremors
- Sneakers
- John Carpenter's The Thing
- John Carpenter's Halloween
- Empire of the Sun
- In the Name of the Father
- Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red)
- The Evil Dead
- George Romero's Living Dead trilogy: Night of the Living Dead; Dawn of the Dead; Day of the Dead.
- Gods and Monsters
- Akira
- The Castle of Cagliostro
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Black Christmas
- Roman Polanski's Macbeth
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- The Professional
- The Fifth Element
- When Harry Met Sally
- Trainspotting
- Anything with effects by Ray Harryhausen, but especially his Sinbad films and Jason and the Argonauts
- David Cronenberg's The Fly
- The Usual Suspects
- Alien (the sequels range from passable to quite good, but none compare to the original masterpiece)
- Die Hard

There are many more - I love movies - but I have to go to bed really soon.

Bad Bitch

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Robot's designed it. French Robot's at that.

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My favorite movies are The Princess Bride and Orgazmo.

I'm considering adding Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back to the list, but I have to see it about 5 more times before I decide for sure.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead WAS a damned good flick, DexX.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead WAS a damned good flick, DexX.

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JrnymnNate:

I have to ask a few very serious questions. This is not a flame, it's a genuine request for clarification in the hopes that I might better understand your motivations.

Do you think you're clever? I mean, when you make a post like the one above, do you give yourself a little mental pat on the back for effectively putting me in my place? Do you think that posts like the one above are something that other people will find witty and worthy of admiration and take back every mean thing they ever said about you?

What happens if nothing you do or say will make people appreciate you? Will you continue to stay in a place where there is a great deal of negativity and animosity directed toward you? Will you continue to repeat the same behavior that caused the negativity in the first place?

Are you gaining any insight from the way people have been reacting to you? If several people all say the same thing about your behavior, does it make you wonder if perhaps your behavior requires examination and perhaps modification?

If overcoming the reputation you've built for yourself here is too difficult, might it not be wise to take the lessons you've learned from here, and go to some other online community and start over there? Wouldn't that be better for your self-esteem?

I really want to understand this. Perhaps in helping me understand this, you'll come to some realizations of your own.

Pink Floyd's The Wall - A film about power, pain, madness, lonliness, alienation, betrayal, the after-effects of war -as many of my favourite films are- and briefly, hope. It hits you over the head repeatedly, and it works.

Jacob's Ladder - Again; the absurdity and surrealism of war and what it does to people is molded into one seriously frightening movie.

Catch 22 - Brilliant.

Hamlet with Mel Gibson - What do you know? He can act. And quite well. Really well done.

The Quiet Man - Vintage John Wayne and a beautiful Irish landscape from back when they actually used scripts, directors, actors and plots to make a film work. Maureen O'Hara doesn't look too shabby, either.

The Andromeda Strain - Sci-Fi the way is was meant to be: Stark, cold, precise and with a serious nail-biter of a plausible plot.

The Breakfast Club - A look at high school kids as actual human beings. Which one did you identify with?

Fritz The Cat - Funny as hell. (Animated).

American Graffiti - A slice of Midwest teenage life from pre-Beatles middle America. A gem if you understood the era, campy if you didn't.

Citizen Kane - Yeah, I know.... But they still don't know how they made that opening shot.

Dune - I liked this a lot. The special effects are used to create an environment and not obscure mediocre acting. Sting still can't act, but; all in all a very interesting film.

Quadrophenia - I saw the premier for this in L.A. at the Westwood. Another slice of sixties teenage life, this time from Old Blighty. All this and Who music.

I tend to be more critical of films than adulatory. It's in the job description.

It's difficult to name an all-time favourite, but some of the best are The Usual Suspects, Leon, Goodfellas, Unforgiven, Die Hard, Akira and Twelve Angry Men.

My favourite film of the last year or so is Brotherhood of the Wolf. My least favourite is a toss-up between Exit Wounds, Proof of Life or Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Oh, wait, how could I forget Orphans? It's brilliant.

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What I want to know is who would use an I/O device that kills you if you shut it down improperly? It's bad enough that Windows tells you when it is and isn't "safe" to turn off your computer. Can you imagine trying to market this thing? "We've got this revolutionary new total-immersion VR doohickie. It does have one little drawback: If someone kicks a plug out, your ass is DEAD."

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Robot's designed it. French Robot's at that.

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Drama/Action:

• 12 Angry Men
  
• Apocalypse Now
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• Dr. Strangelove
  
• Full Metal Jacket
  
• Godfather I
  
• Godfather II
  
• L.A. Confidential
  
• Magnolia
  
• The Manchurian Candidate
  
• Memento
  
• Natural Born Killers
  
• Once Upon a Time in the West
  
• Platoon
  
• Saving Private Ryan
  
• Pink Floyd's The Wall
  

Sci-fi:

• Blade Runner
  
• Planet of the Apes (the original)
  
• Star Trek IV
  
• Star Trek: First Contact
  
• Star Wars (episode IV)
  
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
  

Comedy:

• Airplane!
  
• Raising Arizona
  
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  

Other:

• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  

I'm sure there are many I am forgetting right now...

My faves...

Aliens: Massive explosions supplemented by unprecedented rates of automatic gunfire. Some characters and talky stuff as well.

Terminator 2: Here the bombs & bullets don't fly quite as furiously as they do in James Cameron's entry in the Alien series. However, the explosions score high marks for technical quality.

Predator: The pretext of advanced alien technology is used as an excuse to generate a long series of powerful explosions. Brilliant!!

The Matrix: A seemingly flimsy and unbelievable plot-line comes into it's own during a climactic chase scene punctuated with kung-fu action and gunplay. Sports one of the most unforgettable explosions in film history.

When Harry Met Sally: Heh. Just kidding.

Cyborg Xenomorph and the Explosioneers in Cyberworld: Actually, this is a script I'm writing myself. This film will have everything that audiences have come to expect in a life-affirming cinematic experience: Grenades, mortar fire, heat-seeking buzzsaws that explode on contact, you name it!

clark, you're a man after my own heart.

Fight Club - to be honest, it's the only film that made complete sense to me, it just spoke to me in ways no film ever has. I learned a lot about myself watching it (and I don't mean it in the same way that you "learn" about yourself when watching Electric Blue 7), I've watched it about 30 times and each time I catch something new, David Fincher's directing is brilliantly clever, as it is in Seven (which is also fucking brilliant).

But that's it

FIGHT CLUB

see it, buy it, own it, love it

Off the top of my head:

Airplane!
All of Me
Apollo 13
Back to the Future
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bull Durham
Casablanca
Die Hard
Goldfinger
The In-Laws
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ruthless People
Tommy
Under Siege
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Yellow Submarine

Guilty pleasures among those? Hell yeah!

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I was going to take the piss,

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Oops, must add the Mel Brooks Trilogy: The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

And Dark Star

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JrnymnNate:
Do you think you're clever? I mean, when you make a post like the one above, do you give yourself a little mental pat on the back for effectively putting me in my place? Do you think that posts like the one above are something that other people will find witty and worthy of admiration and take back every mean thing they ever said about you?

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Off the top of my head:

Airplane!
All of Me
Apollo 13
Back to the Future
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bull Durham
Casablanca
Die Hard
Goldfinger
The In-Laws
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ruthless People
Tommy
Under Siege
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Yellow Submarine

Guilty pleasures among those? Hell yeah!

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Off the top of my head:

Airplane!
All of Me
Apollo 13
Back to the Future
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bull Durham
Casablanca
Die Hard
Goldfinger
The In-Laws
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ruthless People
Tommy
Under Siege
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Yellow Submarine

Guilty pleasures among those? Hell yeah!

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Well, you're the first person I've known to pull stuff off the top of your head in alphabetical order.

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Oh, yeah....

Blazing Saddles
Raising Arizona
Young Frankenstien
South Park The Movie
Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
And Now For Something Completely Different
The Fifth Element (Leelu! Booyah!)
Help
A Hard Day's Night
Yellow Submarine
Dr. Strangelove
Dead Man
Night On Earth

OK, I would definitely add "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Yellow Submarine" to my list. I can't believe I forgot those...

Speaking of movies, has anyone been able to watch "Pearl Harbor" all the way through? I rented it on Saturday but gave up after about twenty minutes worth of shots of guys' asses, half-wit nurses talking about guys' asses, ect.

Geez Louise... where is John Wayne when you need him?

God I hate that movie... well it was ok.

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Speaking of movies, has anyone been able to watch "Pearl Harbor" all the way through? I rented it on Saturday but gave up after about twenty minutes worth of shots of guys' asses, half-wit nurses talking about guys' asses, ect.

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OK, I'll bite...

Blue Velvet
The Castle of Cagliostro
Citizen Kane
Dr. Strangelove
Fight Club
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Perfect Blue
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of Lost Ark
The Third Man
Wicked City (the animated feature not the live action one)
Wings of Honneamise
Wonder Boys
Yojimbo

Did somebody say Wonder Boys?

10811

Dang. I forgot about "Blue Velvet," too...

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I'm trying to write a novel about a novelist trying to write a novel. That's 'cuz I'm baked as a fucking lasagna.

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Jogging the memory...

Blasts from the past:
The Inspector General
The Court Jester
The Patsy
The Family Jewels
Mary Poppins (even though she's a witch)
Big Jake
A Clockwork Orange

A bit more recent:
Saving Private Ryan
The Three Amigos
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Fletch
Trading Places
The Nutty Professor
Austin Powers
Wayne's World
The Waterboy
The Iron Giant
Ace Ventura I & II
Liar Liar
Raising Arizona
The Rock
Tombstone
Highlander
Henry V
Young Frankenstein
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Time Bandits
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
12 Monkeys
A Fish Called Wanda
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones: the Last Crusade (Temple of Doom sucked)
The Name of the Rose
Back to the Future (II sucked, III was OK)
Star Wars
Star Trek II: Battle of the Hams (oops, I mean Wrath of Khan)
Galaxy Quest
Groundhog Day
Mr. Saturday Night
Uncle Buck
UHF
oh, and I guess Matrix was good, too.

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Dang. I forgot about "Blue Velvet," too...

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That's among my favorite lines from a stripcreator comic...

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"The Name of the Rose"

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Here's an insightful movie review I just found on the front page...

31001

Makes me wanna run out and rent it!