Favorite Movies

[elohiym]

"Po, do not wash your pits in the sacred pool of tears."

 

[Nihilo]

I don't even think I have a favorite part. Every part's my favorite part.



Maybe that the nerve attacks made Poe giggle. That was a good part.

 

[Buzzword]

Finally saw Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai this week.

Truly a masterpiece.
It still blows my mind that this film was released in 1958, yet still holds up among today's hyper-speed action films.
In large part because Kurosawa and company codified so many of the filming and editing techniques which have since become standard for the genre.

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

The Day the Earth Stood Still is another favorite.

One being able to wipe us all out, and yet he chooses diplomacy even after he is mortally wounded.

He then leaves the earth how he found it...with a warning that mankind's clock is ticking towards a final countdown...

"Gort! Klatu barrada nikti!

Scary sci-fi at its best.

Great classic film. One of my all time favorites. The remake was horrific.

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

The Hanging Tree with Gary Cooper was a great film.

 

[Nick M]

Pale Rider, Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Magnificent 7, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Maverick, 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Young Guns and the sequel, Blazing Saddles

 

[Crucible]

Kingdom of Heaven

Crusade movie.
Christians murder Muslims and other Christians. There's King Baldwin and King Saladin.

It's good- and not for the faint hearted lain:

 

[ok doser]

The Lion In Winter

the 1968 version with a roaring Peter O'Toole, a snappy Katherine Hepburn, and the very young Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton

 

[elohiym]

Pale Rider, Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Magnificent 7, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Maverick, 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Young Guns and the sequel, Blazing Saddles

What about High Plains Drifter?

"You know my name."

 

[Buzzword]

Kingdom of Heaven

Crusade movie.
Christians murder Muslims and other Christians. There's King Baldwin and King Saladin.

It's good- and not for the faint hearted lain:

I love that it not only shows religious fanatics on both sides, but asks the deeper questions about European Christians marching on the "holy land," through Jeremy Irons no less.

The depiction of Saladin as a calm, respectful tactician, in contrast to many of his own men and definitely the Templars, also helps it stand out from the paint-by-numbers period movies that seemed to flood the market around 2005.

The priest who says basically "Oh well, convert to Islam now, ask for forgiveness later" is one of my favorite side characters of any movie ever.

As is the "God wills it!" guy, though the lack of a painful onscreen death for him always leaves me feeling a little disappointed.

 

[Nick M]

What about High Plains Drifter?

"You know my name."

He has a long list of good ones. As does the Duke.

 

[Danoh]

Pale Rider, Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Magnificent 7, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Maverick, 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Young Guns and the sequel, Blazing Saddles

The Outlaw Josey Wales is definitely one of my favorite films.

My favorite at this time is Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" starring Russell Crowe.

Can't get enough of that film on so many levels...

 

[Nick M]

My favorite at this time is Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" starring Russell Crowe.

Over Braveheart?

 

[Danoh]

Over Braveheart?

Actually, Braveheart is the better of the two. I just prefer Gladiator over it.

Kind of like which is better on a personal level, though, The Outlaw Josey Wales, or Unforgiven?

That kind of a thing.

Likewise with Sidney Poitier's "To Sir With Love" and "Lilies of the Field" - both are equally infectious..

 

[Danoh]

Another favorite is The Last Samurai.

It appears I am into films that explore territory very unfamiliar to their story's protagonist.

The film Passion Fish, starring Mary McDonnell, is like that as well.

 

[JPPT1974]

I love Schindler's List, Steel Magnolis, and A Beautiful Mind just to name a few.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

Vision Quest- 1985

 

[Nick M]

Vision Quest- 1985

You just had to list a movie I don't know and have to crib wiki to learn about it. How typical.

It sounds familiar but I can't place it.

Eastwood's trilogy Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are all good. Hang 'em High.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

You just had to list a movie I don't know and have to crib wiki to learn about it. How typical.

It sounds familiar but I can't place it.

Teen movie, in the mode of Karate Kid.

 

[ClimateSanity]

Forrest Gump. Rocky numbers one through four. All of Clint Eastwoods westerns.Gladiator. Tombstone.