What movies are absolutely great in your opinion?

[Scarim Coral]

Anchorman, if you hate it then you got a different sence of humour compare to my.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Inglorious Basterds

I don't know why but I just couldn't stand that movie. I think it was because I had to pause it every 5 seconds to read the subtitles.

OT: Pulp Fiction. Loved it. Nuff said.

 

[deidara]

I've noticed a trend in movie forums. It seems that a large group of people are sorting movies into 2 different groups: Bad or Overrated.

Bad would be: Transformers, Expendables, Battlefield: Earth, etc.

Overrated would be: any movie ever favored by anyone, ever (most notably Inception for some reason).

Now, the movies in the bad category are bad, but I think that we get the idea by now, and we need a breath of fresh air.So today, I declare a temporary end to the negativity and ask my fellow Escapists what movies they consider great, or perfect even.

Mine would have to be the Dark Knight. Yeah, I know it's not the most diverse choice, but its a movie that I can and will watch again and again.

I agree 100% with Dark Knight. It does get hate for being...well known I guess...cool. But it is a great movie. Batman Begins is fantastic too.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
It somehow manages to simultaneously be Heart-warmingly Uplifting and Crushingly Depressing.

 

[Signa]

I can not think of a more flawless movie than The Incredibles. It's tame enough that little billy can watch it while being just as deep in character development than any "mature" film.

 

[Don Savik]

I liked John Carter of Mars. It was a really good action movie with great visuals and while the plot was nothing spectacular, it was still good. It wasn't like Avatar where you could immediately tell it was Dancing With Wolves or whatever that movie is called. They focused on the personalities of the aliens instead of bombarding our brains with lore, which was nice. Mark Strong being Mark Strong wasn't bad because he wasn't in much of the movie.

Anyways........anyone ever see the movie Time Bandits?

Because its goddam hilarious.

Hot Fuzz
Angels & Demons
Harry Potter Movies. (I really shouldn't they
're so much worse than the books but still..)

I got Angels and Demons free with my psp in addition to MGS: Peacewalker....or was it my ps3? Or my friends ps3/psp? Anyways I never watched The DaVinci Code (I still to this day have no idea what it is about. Something involving the Mona Lisa?) but we watched it because I kinda like Tom Hanks and I never pass up free movies. It was surprisingly good. Had the large hadron collider, illluminati, puzzle solving, tom hanks kicking ass. Quite cool.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Let The Right One In

Oldboy

Moon

Shaun of the Dead

Lord of the Rings

All of these are simply great, I love them. I can't say how many times i've watched Let The Right One In.

 

[wsuc]

Inception
Drive
Too Big to fail

Ohhh...and Pulp Fiction

 

[octafish]

Night of the Hunter...The Reverend Harry Powell has many imitators but none match the stature of Robert Mitchum...no not even Nathan Fillion.

 

[Death Carr]

All of the Resident Evil movies.
I mostly enjoy watching movies with atleast something to make me think, but those movies appeal to the incredibly immature part of me that enjoys gratuitous amounts of violence, gore and explosions.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Heh...

Inglourious Bastards, Equilibrium (dat gun kata) and the Avengers in the action genre
Cabin in the woods, for horror.
And Hot Fuzz, Shaun Of The Dead and Paul in comedy

 

[Parkway91]

Scarface, The Godfather Parts 1&2, Alien, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs.

 

[Rblade]

I seem to agree with alot of people.

usual suspect, pulp fiction, Up(SQUIREL), fight club, LOTR, Equilibrium, 12 monkeys(Pitt is so awesome as a crazy bastard), Snatch, Sin city(I really really enjoyed that movie when I first saw it and I didn't expect to), Seven, dark knight.

that makes me seem like a violent person doesn't it... I'm sure there are non violent once but I can't think of them of the top of my head.
forest gump I suppose, the Iron giant(Thats no tears there's something in my eye!)

for comedy, I like my comedy silly and over the top, I'm there for the laughs dammit!
monty Phyton and the search for the holy grail and the naked gun series.

I can conclude it's hard to say whats my absolute favorite but I have a pretty solid like top 25

 

[SkullKing84]

Cabin in the Woods
Idiocracy
Shaun of the Dead
Strangeland
Natural Born Killers (Director's cut)
Hot Fuzz
28 days later
28 weeks later
Equilibrium

I can watch these films back to back... over and over and over again and never tire of them.

 

[Hoplon]

Millers Crossing,
Pulp Fiction,
Yojimbo,
Confessions of a dangerous mind,
Nine Queens*,
Blade Runner,
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind,
Alien,
Terminator,
Unforgiven.

As a rough, in no order at all, top ten.

*The Argentinian version

 

[Appleshy]

La Vita È Bella
Funny Games
Irreversible
A time for drunken horses
Turtles Can Fly
The Last Unicorn
Tuvalu
Luna Papa
Ghostbusters
Poltergeist
The Big Lebowski
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

 

[TheLizardKing]

Inglorious Bastards
V for Vendetta
Star Wars original trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Dirty Harry
Hot Fuzz
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Maltese Falcon
The Longest Day
Platoon
3:10 to Yuma
From Russia With Love & You Only Live Twice
Sherlock Holmes
Gran Torino
Reservoir Dogs
The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
American Gangster
Public Enemies
Casino
The Great Escape
The Godfather part 1
The Avengers
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
American Psycho
Kill the Irishman


I could go on and on.

 

[Griffolion]

I'm probably gonna be absolutely hated for this, but I really enjoyed Equilibrium. I dunno why, but the whole dystopian future thing (while not new) combined with kick-ass action sequences and gun-play was totally awesome. And Sean Bean's role in it was far, far underrated.

 

[Rblade]

I'm probably gonna be absolutely hated for this, but I really enjoyed Equilibrium. I dunno why, but the whole dystopian future thing (while not new) combined with kick-ass action sequences and gun-play was totally awesome. And Sean Bean's role in it was far, far underrated.

let me guess, you didn't read the first page of the threat? It gets named numerous times, it's a bit of a cult hit in the geek/nerd circles at least. And your right it's awesome. No hatred for you today. Might I redirect you to some threads about sexual orientation, feminism or racism?