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Among others:
UHF, Blazing Saddles, Airplane! - Three of the funniest films I've ever seen.
Forbidden Zone - One of the few truly surrealist films I love. Plus, Danny Elfman as Satan singing "Minnie the Moocher." What's not to like?
Sleeper - Woody Allen's best film, with a great Dixieland jazz soundtrack.
Shinbone Alley - A film that I'm surprised has no page; a wonderful, underrated little musical with a great sequence homaging the work of comic strip genius George Herriman.
The Love God? - Don Knotts' best film, in which he unwittingly gets swept into the Sexual Revolution.
Ghost World - An all-around genius movie, with a great performance from Steve Buscemi. The director, Terry Zwigoff, also did the great documentaries Louie Bluie and Crumb.
And I could go on...
edited 2nd Jul '14 5:23:56 PM by Aldo930
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Some of my favorite live action ones:
- Forrest Gump. I think it helped that mom watched it with me after it came out on VHS, and explained all the pop culture references to me.
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?: It's quirky and funny, and the soundtrack is amazing. (Except that "In the Highways, In the Hedges" song.)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Childhood favorite, and it only got better once I grew up and picked up on the more "adult" references.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day: The film that finally made me give a rat's ass about action movies.
- Walk the Line: I'm a big Johnny Cash fan.
- Airplane!: Agreed, it's hilarious start to finish.
Animated:
- Both of the How to Train Your Dragon films: The films that finally made me give a rat's ass about dragons.
- Both of the Kung Fu Panda films: You know, when DreamWorks gets this sequel thing right, they get it right.
- Frozen: I like being able to avoid hype and just enjoy something for what it is.
- Rango: An already-good movie escalated by some great visuals.
- The Lego Movie: Everything is awesome. The movie is just a ton of fun and extremely creative.
- The Emperor's New Groove: I love how silly and lampshade-heavy it is.
There are a ton of animated movies I haven't seen in years, or have been meaning to see but never have, so the latter list will surely grow.
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Let's see if I can put this into a list...
Live-Action:
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Captain America The Winter Soldier
Alice in Wonderland (of the Guilty Pleasure variety)
Animated:
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Both How to Train Your Dragon movies
edited 2nd Jul '14 8:42:24 PM by Mort08
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Top 10 Live Action:
4) Malcolm X
5) Jackie Brown
7) Pulp Fiction
8) GoodFellas
Top 10 Animated Film:
3) Up
5) Fantasia
edited 3rd Jul '14 11:03:21 AM by Lionheart0
Sisi
Favourite Movies:
The Ghost And Mrs.Muir
Gaslight
The Innocents
Moulin Rouge (shut up, I like Baz Luhrman)
Much Ado About Nothing (both the Branagh version and the Whedon version)
Favourite Animated Movies:
Frozen
Up
edited 3rd Jul '14 11:02:40 AM by Sisi
"If I reach for the stars, you can't hold me back"
Favourite animated films:
Akira
How To Train Your Dragon
Despicable Me
Live action films:
Edge of Tomorrow
Zulu
The Italian Job
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day.
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My single favorite movie of all time: The Shawshank Redemption.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
In no particular order...
Live Action:
- The 80s Star Trek films
- Alien series
- The Monty Python films
- Star Wars (originals)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
Animated:
- Transformers: The Movie
- Basically most of Pixar's stuff
In no particular order:
Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit (2010), RoboCop (1987), Shaun of the Dead, The World's End, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Ghostbusters, Die Hard, Back to the Future.
Animated: Land Before Time, Secret Of Nimh, An American Tail, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Castle In The Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Kikis Delivery Service, Corpse Bride, the Wallace And Gromit shorts, The Incredibles, Toy Story 2, WALL-E, Up, The Rescuers (NOT Down Under), Mulan, Treasure Planet, The Hunchbackof Notre Dame, The Lion King 1.5 (the Fantastic Racism against the hyenas prevents the first one from greatness), The Nightmare Before Christmas, Fantasia.
Live-Action: Dr Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, 2001ASpaceOdyssey,Barry Lyndon, The Departed, The Godfather,No Country For Old Men,Legally Blonde Milk, Willow, Return Of The Jedi, Sunset Boulevard, Pans Labyrinth, Batman, Sweeney Todd, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Psycho, Rear Window, the first two Rush Hour films, Independence Day, The Sixth Sense, The Royal Tenenbaums, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, The Princess Bride
I think that's enough for now
edited 6th Jul '14 10:52:14 PM by terlwyth
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter
They worship kittens in Egypt, you know.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Snoopy Come Home (1972)
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Superman (1978)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (1982)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Temple of Doom (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Oliver and Company (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Batman (1989)
The Last Crusade (1989)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Back to the Future Part 2 (1989)
Back to the Future Part 3 (1990)
Terminator 2 Judgment Day (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Lion King (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Mulan (1998)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Tarzan (1999)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
X-Men (2000)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Shrek (2001)
Monsters Inc (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
X-Men 2 (2003)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Shrek 2 (2004)
The Incredibles (2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Iron Man (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008)
WALL-E (2008)
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Star Trek (2009)
Avatar (2009)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Inception (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Tangled (2010)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)
The Muppets (2011)
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Avengers (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Wreck-it-Ralph (2012)
The Wolverine (2013)
Man of Steel (2013)
Pacific Rim (2013)
Catching Fire (2013)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Frozen (2013)
The Lego Movie (2014)
Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
Captain America: Winter Solder (2014)
Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
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