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Started by Tank, July 16, 2010, 02:53:04 PM

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The Black Jester

I must confess I've been avoiding this, somehow it's seemed overwhelming trying to dredge up all my fav flicks.  But now everyone's basically said all of mine...so this will mainly be rehash.  I won't go into them all, but some of my top are:

The Razor's Edge
The Fisher King
Some Like It Hot
The Fellowship of the Ring (the other two departed from the books FAR too much for a Tolkien purist like myself.
The Empire Strikes Back
The Princess Bride
The Life of Brian
The Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
History of the World, part 1
The Sixth Sense
Coffee & Cigarettes
A Beautiful Mind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Snatch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
the new Star Trek
the first new Bond, Casino Royale
Fight Club
The Caine Mutiny
The Matrix
The Third Man

And many, many others, I'm sure.
The Black Jester

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Tank

Current combined list with all kinds of holes in it WORK IN PROGRESS!

Count   Film Title
5   Lord of the Rings
4   5th Element
4   Fight Club
4   Matrix
4   Princess Bride
3   Being there
3   Blade Runner
3   Dune
3   Hot Rod
3   Pirates of the Caribbean
3   Pulp Fiction
3   Silent Running
3   The Big Lebowski
2   Aliens
2   Avatar
2   Batman (the 2 latest)
2   Brazil
2   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2   Corpse Bride
2   Dumb and Dumber
2   Ghost in the Shell
2   Hell Boy I, II
2   Indiana Jones
2   Iron Man
2   Leon
2   Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels
2   MST3K
2   My Neighbour Totoro
2   Nightmare Before Christmas
2   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2   Princess Mononoke
2   Rocky Horror Picture Show
2   Saving Private Ryan
2   Sean of the Dead
2   Sin City
2   Sleepy Hollow
2   Star Wars
2   Star Wars 4,5,6
2   The Bourne Trilogy
2   The Green Mile
2   The shawshank redemption
2   Tommy Boy
2   Wall-E
1    Sherlock Holmes
1    the Exorcist
1    the Graduate
1   2001 Space Odyssey
1   40 year old virgin
1   A Beautiful Mind
1   A Clockwork Orange
1   A Few Good Men
1   A Scanner Darkly
1   Akira
1   Alice (SciFi version)
1   Alice in Wonderland (The new one)
1   Alien
1   All the Alan Quartermain
1   American history x
1   Anchorman
1   Angels and Demons
1   Apollo 13
1   Appleseed
1   Armitage the Third and Dual Matrix
1   As good as it gets
1   Back to the Future, I, II and III
1   Being John Malkovich
1   Blazing Saddles
1   Braveheart
1   Buckaroo Banzai
1   Casino
1   Casino Royale
1   Children of Men
1   City Of God
1   City of Lost Children
1   Coffee & Cigarettes
1   Con Air
1   Contact
1   Dark Crystal
1   Dark Horse
1   Dazed and Confused
1   District 9
1   Ed Wood
1   Edward Scissorhands (ULTIMATE FAVE
1   Empire Strikes Back
1   Erasherhead
1   Eternal Sunshine
1   Evita
1   Fargo
1   Final Fantasy
1   Flame and Citron
1   Forrest Gump
1   Goodfellas
1   Grandma's Boy
1   Half Baked
1   Happiness of the Katakuris
1   Happy Gilmore
1   Hedwig and the Angry Inch
1   History of the World, part 1
1   Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
1   How to train A Dragon
1   Howl's Moving Castle
1   I <3 Huckabees
1   Iceage 2
1   I'm Not There
1   Independence day
1   Inglorious Basterds
1   Inland Empire
1   Jaws
1   Judge Dredd
1   Jurassic park (only the first)
1   Kung Fu Hustle
1   Labyrinth (the one with Bowie)
1   League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
1   Mamma Mia
1   Mars Attacks
1   Memento
1   MILK
1   Monty Python
1   Monty Python's Life of Brian
1   Moulin Rouge
1   Mulholland Drive
1   Nausicca
1   Office Space
1   Ong Bak
1   Pan's Labyrinth
1   Phantom of the Opera
1   pineapple express
1   Predator
1   Primal Fear
1   Raiders of the Lost Ark
1   Rec
1   religulous
1   Repo the Genetic Opera
1   Run Lola Run
1   Sand Pebbles
1   Scorpion King
1   Secretary
1   Serenity
1   Seven Samurai
1   Shrek 1
1   Snatch
1   Some Like It Hot
1   Something About Mary
1   South Park the Movie
1   Spiders-Man
1   Spirited Away
1   Star Trek
1   Star Trek, all of them but current
1   Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back.
1   Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back
1   Stardust
1   Steam Boy
1   Strictly Ballroom
1   Superman (especially the latest)
1   Sweeny Todd
1   Team America
1   Terminator 2
1   The Abyss
1   The Blues Brothers
1   The Boondock Saints
1   The Butterfly Effect
1   The Caine Mutiny
1   the da Vinci code
1   the dark knight
1   The Fellowship of the Ring (the ot
1   The Fisher King
1   The Gold Rush
1   the hangover
1   The Hogfather
1   The Holy Grail
1   The Insider
1   The Life Aquatic
1   The Life of Brian
1   the machinist
1   The Mummy (all of them)
1   the new Star Trek
1   The Razor's Edge
1   The Royal Tenenbaums
1   The Simpsons Movie
1   The Sixth Sense
1   The Thing
1   The Third Man
1   The Truman Show
1   the usual suspects
1   The World According to Garp
1   Titan AE
1   Tomb Raiders
1   Transformers (First one and the 19
1   Transporter 1, 2 & 3
1   Tropic Thunder
1   Twelve Monkeys
1   Twilight Zone: The Movie.
1   V for Vendetta
1   Van Helsing
1   Wallace & Gromit Curse of the Wear
1   Waterworld
1   Young Frankenstein
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Sophus

I think I can add Inception to the list even though I don't yet fully understand it.

Just to name a few....
A Beautiful Mind
The Fifth Element
Walk the Line
The Road
The Mist
Sweeney Todd
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
The Hannibal Lecter series
The Saw series
The Dark Knight
Every Pixar movie
Nearly every Tim Burton movie
Anything with Gary Oldsman in it
‎"Christian doesn't necessarily just mean good. It just means better." - John Oliver

Davin

Airplane
Airplane 2: The Sequel
Bicentennial Man
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Clue
The Crow
Dark City
Day Breakers
Dead Calm
Event Horizon
Exotica
Fallen
The Fifth Element
High Fidelity
In the mouth of Madness
Jurassic Park
Kiss of the Dragon
Legend
The Lost Boys
The Matrix 1, 2 and 3
Memento
Merlin
Omega Doom
The Piano
Pitch Black
The Prophecy 1, 2 and 3
Sirens
Slow Burn
Soldier
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
V for Vendetta
Zoolander

There are more, but I think that's a good list for now.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

Squid

One of my favorite movies of all time is Peter Jackson's first movie "Bad Taste":

[youtube:wx314mp2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPSg6EyQw8[/youtube:wx314mp2]

karadan

Quote from: "Sophus"I think I can add Inception to the list even though I don't yet fully understand it.
 

I really want to see it. I'm amazed many of you have said you didn't understand it.

I'm screwed!   :D

-------------------

I forgot a few:

Serenity
Silent Runnings (cheers for reminding me Joe! Amazing film)
Indiana Jones 1, 2 and 3
Almost Famous
Event Horizon
The Shawshank Redemption
As Good As It Gets
Slither
Crank
Capricorn One
American Beauty
Black Hawk Down
Good Will Hunting
QuoteI find it mistifying that in this age of information, some people still deny the scientific history of our existence.

Tank

Latest combined list

Count/   Film Title
7   Star Wars
5   5th Element
5   Lord of the Rings
5   Matrix
4   Blade Runner
4   Fight Club
4   Indiana Jones
4   Princess Bride
4   Silent Running
3   Being there
3   Dune
3   Hot Rod
3   Pirates of the Caribbean
3   Pulp Fiction
3   Star Trek
3   The Big Lebowski
3   The Shawshank Redemption
2   A Beautiful Mind
2   Aliens
2   As Good As It Gets
2   Avatar
2   Batman (the 2 latest)
2   Brazil
2   Corpse Bride
2   Dumb and Dumber
2   Event Horizon
2   Ghost in the Shell
2   Hell Boy I, II
2   Iron Man
2   Jurassic Park
2   Leon
2   Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels
2   Memento
2   MST3K
2   My Neighbour Totoro
2   Nightmare Before Christmas
2   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2   Princess Mononoke
2   Rocky Horror Picture Show
2   Saving Private Ryan
2   Sean of the Dead
2   Serenity
2   Sin City
2   Sleepy Hollow
2   The Bourne Trilogy
2   The Dark Knight
2   The Green Mile
2   Tommy Boy
2   V for Vendetta
2   Wall-E
2   Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1   2001 Space Odyssey
1   40 year old virgin
1   A Clockwork Orange
1   A Few Good Men
1   A Scanner Darkly
1   Airplane
1   Airplane 2: The Sequel
1   Akira
1   Alice (SciFi version)
1   Alice in Wonderland (The new one)
1   Alien
1   All the Alan Quartermain
1   Almost Famous
1   American Beauty
1   American history x
1   Anchorman
1   Angels and Demons
1   Apollo 13
1   Appleseed
1   Armitage the Third and Dual Matrix
1   Back to the Future, I, II and III
1   Bad Taste
1   Being John Malkovich
1   Bicentennial Man
1   Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1   Black Hawk Down
1   Blazing Saddles
1   Braveheart
1   Buckaroo Banzai
1   Capricorn One
1   Casino
1   Casino Royale
1   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Depp
1   Children of Men
1   City Of God
1   City of Lost Children
1   Clue
1   Coffee & Cigarettes
1   Con Air
1   Contact
1   Crank
1   Dark City
1   Dark Crystal
1   Dark Horse
1   Day Breakers
1   Dazed and Confused
1   Dead Calm
1   District 9
1   Ed Wood
1   Edward Scissorhands (ULTIMATE FAVE OF ALL TIME)
1   Erasherhead
1   Eternal Sunshine
1   Evita
1   Exotica
1   Fallen
1   Fargo
1   Final Fantasy
1   Flame and Citron
1   Forrest Gump
1   Good Will Hunting
1   Goodfellas
1   Grandma's Boy
1   Half Baked
1   Happiness of the Katakuris
1   Happy Gilmore
1   Hedwig and the Angry Inch
1   High Fidelity
1   History of the World, part 1
1   Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
1   How to train A Dragon
1   Howl's Moving Castle
1   I <3 Huckabees
1   Iceage 2
1   I'm Not There
1   In the mouth of Madness
1   Independence day
1   Inglorious Basterds
1   Inland Empire
1   Jaws
1   Judge Dread
1   Kiss of the Dragon
1   Kung Fu Hustle
1   Labyrinth (the one with Bowie)
1   League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
1   Legend
1   Mamma Mia
1   Mars Attacks
1   Merlin
1   MILK
1   Monty Python
1   Monty Python's Life of Brian
1   Moulin Rouge
1   Mulholland Drive
1   Nausicca
1   Office Space
1   Omega Doom
1   Ong Bak
1   Pan's Labyrinth
1   Phantom of the Opera
1   pineapple express
1   Pitch Black
1   Predator
1   Primal Fear
1   Rec
1   religulous
1   Repo the Genetic Opera
1   Run Lola Run
1   Sand Pebbles
1   Scorpion King
1   Secretary
1   Seven Samurai
1   Sherlock Holmes
1   Shrek 1
1   Sirens
1   Slither
1   Slow Burn
1   Snatch
1   Soldier
1   Some Like It Hot
1   Something About Mary
1   South Park the Movie
1   Spiders-Man
1   Spirited Away
1   Stardust
1   Steam Boy
1   Strictly Ballroom
1   Superman (especially the latest)
1   Sweeny Todd
1   Team America
1   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1   Terminator 2
1   The Abyss
1   The Blues Brothers
1   The Boondock Saints
1   The Butterfly Effect
1   The Caine Mutiny
1   The Crow
1   The Da Vinci Code
1   The Exorcist
1   The Fellowship of the Ring (not the others )
1   The Fisher King
1   The Gold Rush
1   The Graduate
1   The hangover
1   The Hannibal Lecter series
1   The Hogfather
1   The Holy Grail
1   The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
1   The Insider
1   The Life Aquatic
1   The Life of Brian
1   The Lost Boys
1   the machinist
1   The Mist
1   The Mummy (all of them)
1   The Piano
1   The Prophecy 1, 2 and 3
1   The Razor's Edge
1   The Road
1   The Royal Tenenbaums
1   The Saw series
1   The Simpsons Movie
1   The Sixth Sense
1   The Thing
1   The Third Man
1   The Truman Show
1   The Usual Suspects
1   The World According to Garp
1   Titan AE
1   Tomb Raiders
1   Transformers (First one and the 1986 movie)
1   Transporter 1, 2 & 3
1   Tropic Thunder
1   Twelve Monkeys
1   Twilight Zone: The Movie.
1   Van Helsing
1   Wallace & Gromit Curse of the Wear Rabbit
1   Waterworld
1   Young Frankenstein
1   Zoolander
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Tank

Alphabetical list with count of mentions

Hits   Title
1   2001 Space Odyssey
1   40 year old virgin
5   5th Element
2   A Beautiful Mind
1   A Clockwork Orange
1   A Few Good Men
1   A Scanner Darkly
1   Airplane
1   Airplane 2: The Sequel
1   Akira
1   Alice (SciFi version)
1   Alice in Wonderland (The new one)
1   Alien
2   Aliens
1   All the Alan Quartermain
1   Almost Famous
1   American Beauty
1   American history x
1   Anchorman
1   Angels and Demons
1   Apollo 13
1   Appleseed
1   Armitage the Third and Dual Matrix
2   As Good As It Gets
2   Avatar
1   Back to the Future, I, II and III
1   Bad Taste
2   Batman (the 2 latest)
1   Being John Malkovich
3   Being there
1   Bicentennial Man
1   Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1   Black Hawk Down
4   Blade Runner
1   Blazing Saddles
1   Braveheart
2   Brazil
1   Buckaroo Banzai
1   Capricorn One
1   Casino
1   Casino Royale
1   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Depp
1   Children of Men
1   City Of God
1   City of Lost Children
1   Clue
1   Coffee & Cigarettes
1   Con Air
1   Contact
2   Corpse Bride
1   Crank
1   Dark City
1   Dark Crystal
1   Dark Horse
1   Day Breakers
1   Dazed and Confused
1   Dead Calm
1   District 9
2   Dumb and Dumber
3   Dune
1   Ed Wood
1   Edward Scissorhands (ULTIMATE FAVE OF ALL TIME)
1   Erasherhead
1   Eternal Sunshine
2   Event Horizon
1   Evita
1   Exotica
1   Fallen
1   Fargo
4   Fight Club
1   Final Fantasy
1   Flame and Citron
1   Forrest Gump
2   Ghost in the Shell
1   Good Will Hunting
1   Goodfellas
1   Grandma's Boy
1   Half Baked
1   Happiness of the Katakuris
1   Happy Gilmore
1   Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2   Hell Boy I, II
1   High Fidelity
1   History of the World, part 1
1   Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
3   Hot Rod
1   How to train A Dragon
1   Howl's Moving Castle
1   I <3 Huckabees
1   Iceage 2
1   I'm Not There
1   In the mouth of Madness
1   Independence day
4   Indiana Jones
1   Inglorious Basterds
1   Inland Empire
2   Iron Man
1   Jaws
1   Judge Dread
2   Jurassic Park
1   Kiss of the Dragon
1   Kung Fu Hustle
1   Labyrinth (the one with Bowie)
1   League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
1   Legend
2   Leon
2   Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels
5   Lord of the Rings
1   Mamma Mia
1   Mars Attacks
5   Matrix
2   Memento
1   Merlin
1   MILK
1   Monty Python
1   Monty Python's Life of Brian
1   Moulin Rouge
2   MST3K
1   Mulholland Drive
2   My Neighbour Totoro
1   Nausicca
2   Nightmare Before Christmas
1   Office Space
1   Omega Doom
2   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1   Ong Bak
1   Pan's Labyrinth
1   Phantom of the Opera
1   pineapple express
3   Pirates of the Caribbean
1   Pitch Black
1   Predator
1   Primal Fear
4   Princess Bride
2   Princess Mononoke
3   Pulp Fiction
1   Rec
1   religulous
1   Repo the Genetic Opera
2   Rocky Horror Picture Show
1   Run Lola Run
1   Sand Pebbles
2   Saving Private Ryan
1   Scorpion King
2   Sean of the Dead
1   Secretary
2   Serenity
1   Seven Samurai
1   Sherlock Holmes
1   Shrek 1
4   Silent Running
2   Sin City
1   Sirens
2   Sleepy Hollow
1   Slither
1   Slow Burn
1   Snatch
1   Soldier
1   Some Like It Hot
1   Something About Mary
1   South Park the Movie
1   Spiders-Man
1   Spirited Away
3   Star Trek
7   Star Wars
1   Stardust
1   Steam Boy
1   Strictly Ballroom
1   Superman (especially the latest)
1   Sweeny Todd
1   Team America
1   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1   Terminator 2
1   The Abyss
3   The Big Lebowski
1   The Blues Brothers
1   The Boondock Saints
2   The Bourne Trilogy
1   The Butterfly Effect
1   The Caine Mutiny
1   The Crow
1   The Da Vinci Code
2   The Dark Knight
1   The Exorcist
1   The Fellowship of the Ring (not the others )
1   The Fisher King
1   The Gold Rush
1   The Graduate
2   The Green Mile
1   The hangover
1   The Hannibal Lecter series
1   The Hogfather
1   The Holy Grail
1   The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
1   The Insider
1   The Life Aquatic
1   The Life of Brian
1   The Lost Boys
1   the machinist
1   The Mist
1   The Mummy (all of them)
1   The Piano
1   The Prophecy 1, 2 and 3
1   The Razor's Edge
1   The Road
1   The Royal Tenenbaums
1   The Saw series
3   The Shawshank Redemption
1   The Simpsons Movie
1   The Sixth Sense
1   The Thing
1   The Third Man
1   The Truman Show
1   The Usual Suspects
1   The World According to Garp
1   Titan AE
1   Tomb Raiders
2   Tommy Boy
1   Transformers (First one and the 1986 movie)
1   Transporter 1, 2 & 3
1   Tropic Thunder
1   Twelve Monkeys
1   Twilight Zone: The Movie.
2   V for Vendetta
1   Van Helsing
1   Wallace & Gromit Curse of the Wear Rabbit
2   Wall-E
1   Waterworld
2   Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1   Young Frankenstein
1   Zoolander
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

KDbeads

Watch out Tank......
Hubby's making his list......

We could be here a while :blink:
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams

deekayfry

A list by some loose order of favorites.  I have a whole lot more, but as the day goes by I probably remember a whole lot more

Science Fiction
Avatar (truly the best movie of all time, it edges past Star Wars)
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Voyage Home
Star Trek -the newest one-
The Fifth Element

Fantasy
Lord of the Ring Trilogy
The Harry Potter Movies
Final Fantasy: Advent Children
Stardust
Pirates of the Caribbean (all of them)

Action/Adventure
Tomb Raider
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark, the search for the Holy Grail
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Anime
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausica
Princess Monoke
Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away

Classic Disney
Dumbo
Robin Hood- just love the folk music.  Drives the wife nuts (or nutsy)
Peter Pan
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sleeping Beauty
Alice in Wonderland
Fantasia

Disney/Pixar
Wall-e
Up (insanely fantastic movie)
Monster's, Inc
Cars
The Incredibles

Contemporary Disney
The Princess and the Frog
Fantasia 2000
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin

Mafia Drama
Godfather
Godfather II
Godfather III
Goodfellas
Donnie Broscoe

Comic
Spider Man (1 & 2)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Superman Returns
Hellboy (I & II)
Batman (1989)
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done; but if not ... you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.-  Davey Crockett, 1834

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Businessocks

Yes, Hedwig and the Angry Inch!  I love that one, too!
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

pinkocommie

I forgot Cool Hand Luke.  Love that movie.
Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
http://alliedatheistalliance.blogspot.com/

Tank

Note to self: Add a fucking 'Top' and '10' the the title next time  :sigh:
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

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If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.