Discussion What’s your favourite movie?

[ForcedLifeResistant]

Who knows? I'm just gonna say some things.

TL;DR version up front:

General

Good Will Hunting
No Country for Old Men
Mindwalk

Sci-fi

Alien
The Thing

Horror

Wolf Creek
The Devil's Rejects

Action

The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy

Cinematography

Lost in Translation

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Good Will Hunting is never not good. I rewatched it recently and it's not just nostalgia talking. It's a goddamn great movie. And Minnie Driver? Wow! The whole of the main cast was great, and she was nominated for an Oscar, but I'll never feel like she gets enough credit for her performance in that movie. And it has one of the best ending of any movie ever made. Endings are tricky but this one is hits it on the head.

I don't know what it is about No Country for Old Men but I never get tired of watching it. It just does it for me. Something about its lack of a score is fantastic, too. Came out the same year as There Will be Blood, another great one. Though I'm not sure I'd call that one a favorite. It's just a solid piece of cinema.

I think I should mention Mindwalk. It's a hard one to find, if you're looking to buy it. Thankfully, no one seems to care enough about it to delete the handful of uploads of it on Youtube, one of which I'd strongly suggest watching.

I'm suddenly gonna become genre-specific:

For sci-fi, it's a toss-up between Alien and The Thing. They're probably on par, in my book. Great flicks.

For horror, it's a tough call. Wolf Creek stands out, in my mind. The Devil's Rejects as well. I think that's all I've got at the moment.

For action, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy are standouts.

One final thing I'll say is that I think Lost in Translation has some of the best cinematography you'll ever see.

 

[CyberYogi]

Korean movies are my new favourites...so many awesome movies. I would say they are making better movies than american or bollywood. I am not korean.

Too many to name right now, but searching Best Top Korean Movies in google with give a huge list.

Some that I remember now are:
The Wailing, Train to Busan, Peninsula (train to busan 2), Old Boy, I Saw the devil, Spy Gone North, Nameless Gangster, The man from nowhere, The chaser, Burning, Steel Rain, The handmaiden, The divine fury.

 

[ForcedLifeResistant]

Korean movies are my new favourites...so many awesome movies. I would say they are making better movies than american or bollywood. I am not korean.

Too many to name right now, but searching Best Top Korean Movies in google with give a huge list.

Some that I remember now are:
The Wailing, Train to Busan, Peninsula (train to busan 2), Old Boy, I Saw the devil, Spy Gone North, Nameless Gangster, The man from nowhere, The chaser, Burning, Steel Rain, The handmaiden, The divine fury.

If you haven't already, check out Illang: The Wolf Brigade, Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, and The Divine Move.

 

[CyberYogi]

If you haven't already, check out Illang: The Wolf Brigade, Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, and The Divine Move.

Thanks for the recommendation. I will check them out.

 

[Phill]

It used to be A Clockwork Orange. I don't know if I still enjoy this movie like I did when I was younger. It's been some years since I watched it last.

 

[catalepsy]

Grizzly Man, or flamboyant manchild gets eaten by a bear.

 

[Good4Nothing]

Grizzly Man, or flamboyant manchild gets eaten by a bear.

Lol

 

[greebo6]

Titanic and Empire of the sun!

'The Fugitive' or 'Groundhog Day' .

 

[StringPuppet]

Right now it's probably Synecdoche NY

Blade Runner 2047, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Taxi Driver, and Ex Machine are all contenders

 

[NeverGoodEnuff]

The Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out!")
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Forrest Gump
As Good As It Gets (love the dog scenes)
Chocolat
The Help

Mostly those where good triumphs. Call them fantasy.

 

[Lupgevif]

Probably Spired Away.

 

[Viro_Major]

all of Wes Anderson
all of Kim Ki Duk (korean indeed)
Incendies
I Origins
way too many, can't start fully listing

 

[Sherri]

American Beauty

 

[newave3]

Over all? I don't know it's hard to say. I have some that have high sentimental value to me but aren't as good on their own and vice versa. I can at least say that I know what my favorite horror movie is: John Carpenter's The Thing.

Great movie

 

[Sherri]

Great movie

So true, so real, very touching that movie, makes you wonder how meaningless the rat race to work can damage someone.

 

[newave3]

The Godfather
Goodfellas
Cool hand Luke
Papillon
The sand pebbles
Hard Times
Inglorious Bastards
Shawshank Redemption
Shane
A clockwork orange
Saving private Ryan
The Great Escape


BTW........3 of these movies star the actor in my avatar.....can u guess his name ?

 

[Sensei]

Blade Runner. I've seen it at least 30 times and it's a new experience every time.

 

[Sherri]

Blade Runner. I've seen it at least 30 times and it's a new experience every time.

Great movie also, going to watch it today, havent watched it in years.

 

[PapaSuicide]

The Dark Knight
Inception
Interestelar
I Origins

The Dark Knight
Inception
Interestelar
I Origins

And Schindler's List

 

[stygal]

Most movies that have come up here I enjoyed as well.

Here are some of my favorites nobody has mentioned so far:

Requiem for a Dream
Mr. Nobody
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Harold and Maude
Stay
American Psycho
Mulholland Dr.
Dead Man
Butterfly Effect
Pulp Fiction
Big Fish
Dogville
the experiment
Donnie Darko
The others
12 Monkeys
Trainspotting
Brother of Sleep
It happend in broad daylight
A single man
funny games
Let the right one in
Adams Apples
The usual suspects
parasite

 

[Good4Nothing]

Really interesting that so many have said "I Origins". I thought I was the only person in the world who liked that little movie.

 

[Dee38]

The Shining or Donnie Darko.

 

[rikakim]

It's hard for me to choose but Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favourites :)

 

[Bauhaus]

Once Upon a Time in the West.

 

[andy69]

I have a LOT of favorite movies. The Empire Strikes Back has always been at the top of my list.

Me too ever since I saw it as a kid.