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27 replies 392 views +60 rating January 13, 2010 6:22pm

Favorite Movies?

Gonna do this in 2 parts:

Favorite all-time movie

Favorite current movie (within the past 2 years)

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I'll start with favorite all time movie is hands down The Departed, close 2nd is L.A. Confidential.

Past couple years...probably Dark Knight.

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January 13, 2010 6:27pm

All time favorite? The entire Star Wars saga

Current? Tie between Tropic Thunder and Dark Knight.

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January 13, 2010 6:49pm

All-time: Pulp Fiction, Clerks and Snatch.
Current: Zombieland and Inglourious Basterds.

Sorry, I couldn't have named just one for each!

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January 13, 2010 7:15pm

I forgot about Inglorious Basterds...

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January 13, 2010 9:28pm

All-time: "Fight Club" or "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (Tie)
Current: Inglorious Basterds

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January 14, 2010 1:55am

All-Time: La Vie en Rose (I'm a big Edith Piaf and Marion Cottilard fan)
Current: Tie between Inglorious Basterds and Up. (Interesting combo, no?)

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January 14, 2010 6:29am

All time: Dark City.
Current: The Men Who Stare at Goats.

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January 14, 2010 6:40am

All Time: 12 Monkeys, Empire Strikes Back, and The Godfather.

Current: Dark Knight, District 9.

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January 14, 2010 8:03am

All-time: The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, and Terminator 2 (from the Ultimate Edition)
Current: Inglorious Basterds, Ip Man, Red Cliff

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January 14, 2010 10:47am

Favorite Movie of all time has to be Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Current favorite - 3 way tie Fanboys/Hotrod/Ball of Fury

I don't care what you say, those are some funny ass movies!

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January 15, 2010 4:51pm

There seems to be a lot of Inglourious Basterds love in this thread. Epic!

Anyone else think that Zoller (the Nazi in Nations Pride) looks like Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins?

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January 15, 2010 5:47pm

All time favorites are really hard for me to pick but... I'll go with Secondhand Lions.

My favorite recent movie is probably James Cameron's Avatar.

Also... Inglorious Bastards > Inglourious Basterds.

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January 15, 2010 5:59pm

I don't have an all-time favourite movie, but I do have an all-time favourite director: Peter Weir. Truman Show, The Mosquito Coast, Master & Commander, Dead Poets Society.. all modern day masterpieces. The way he mixes traditional values with liberal thinking makes my soul all warm & fuzzy inside (do souls have insides?). Plus, he can make me all teary-eyed with a shot of iguanas. On a rock.

As for "current" movies, I'm very fond of The Fountain (despite it being somewhat shallow — I just want that biosphere), Encounters at the End of the World (coming from another industry great, Werner Herzog) & There Will Be Blood, although I can't say that the latter was a pleasant viewing experience. The imagery (and acting) stuck in my mind, though. Same goes for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Some unbelievable camera / character work.

And yeah, Dark Knight, The was scary as hell (for the first time since my childhood, I was actually afraid of the bad guy). I love the fact that Nolan made it to the big league. Which brings me to another rising star, Neill Blomkamp. District 9 is Cameron on.. fresh ideas?

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January 16, 2010 4:55am

My all-time favourite is Memento, and my current favourite is The Dark Knight.

I'm such a goddamn Christopher Nolan fanboy.

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January 16, 2010 11:34am

All-Time, Undisputed Favorite Movie: Ghostbusters (1984)
Most-Watched Favorite Movie of the Last Two Years: Tie between Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Iron Man (both 2008 )

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January 16, 2010 2:34pm

All-Time: Adaptation (2002)
Current: District 9 (2009)

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January 16, 2010 4:31pm

All time favorite: Can't pick one. Too many good movies!

Current movie: I hope they serve beer in hell. Don't watch it with the family.. It's vile and disturbing but oh so good ^^

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January 19, 2010 4:31pm

My all-time favorite is JAWS.
My current is probably a tie between District 9 and Up, which was actually a pretty good movie.

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January 19, 2010 4:36pm

All-time: The Manchurian Candidate
Current: Heck, I'll say Sherlock Holmes. The more I think about it, the more I like it.

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January 20, 2010 3:50am

deathvein said:
All-time: Pulp Fiction, Clerks and Snatch.
Current: Zombieland and Inglourious Basterds.
Sorry, I couldn't have named just one for each!

HOW WAS I CLONED AND I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT IT?!?!

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January 20, 2010 9:31am

All-time: The Fall - Tarsem Singh.
Current: Um, The Fall - Tarsem Singh. (It was a goodie).

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January 20, 2010 11:24am

All-Time - Star Wars: A New Hope

Current - The Dark Knight, followed closely by Hostage

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January 21, 2010 12:49pm

All-Time : Blade Runner
Current : Burma VJ (you should all see it)

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January 21, 2010 1:43pm

What's a VJ?

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January 21, 2010 2:37pm

in the context of this film, a Video Journalist. It's about burmese dudes secretly capturing and smuggling out video of the 2007 monk uprising in Burma. Really powerful stuff. Makes you look at a cellphone camera differently.

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January 21, 2010 3:37pm

sunjammer said:
in the context of this film, a Video Journalist. It's about burmese dudes secretly capturing and smuggling out video of the 2007 monk uprising in Burma. Really powerful stuff. Makes you look at a cellphone camera differently.

Phew! I thought it meant something else.

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January 21, 2010 8:47pm

I love Sci-Fi. I can't get enough of it. 2009 was absolutely amazing for the genre (Star Trek, even though I'm a Star Wars guy, then there's District 9, and of course Avatar was great).

I can't pick just one, but if i had to name a few, they would be Jurassic Park (Dinosaurs were my childhood), Star Wars IV, V, and VI, Pulp Fiction, District 9, just too many to put here.

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January 27, 2010 12:27am

All Time: Requiem For A Dream
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