Favorite Movies? Least Favorite?

[levana]

What would you say are your 3 favorite movies? Not in any particular order (and surely if I took more time to think about it my list would change):

The Princess Bride
The Lost Boys
Dogma

A couple of the ones on my stinker list:

Wendigo
The Offseason

Don't you /hate/ when something sounds great based on the packaging blurb but watching it actually causes you physical pain?

 

[tonksy]

Damn....I can't do it.
Almost anything Mel Brooks
LOTR movies (sorry BoP )
Princess Bride
Harry Potters
Original Star Wars trilogy
Wet hot American summer
Half baked
Steel Magnolias
Singin' in the rain

 

[BeardofPants]

*gnaws at tonks leg
fuckin' monstrosities.

I couldn't narrow it down, please don't make me.

 

[Dave]

very narrowed down favorites list:
Heat
Ronin
Saving Private Ryan

least favorite:
Hollywood Homicide
Narc
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Easy Rider
Se7en
Shawshank Redemption
Heavy Metal
Blazing Saddles
Saw
Amazon Women On The Moon
Monty Python and the Holy Grail



Least...hell I dunno, if I didn't like it I forgot about it instantly. Hate space movies as a rule, not much on the chick flicks. Sleepless In Seattle springs to mind instantly as a shitpot.

 

[levana]

Ooo! Speaking of chick flicks... I loooooved The Notebook.

 

[Slim Pickens]

I'll not comment on your last, Lev, since I don't want SnP, Homie, Dave, or Paul to pull my man-card

Some of my faves, INPO-

original Star Wars Trilogy
Godfather trilogy
most Kevin Smith movies, esp Mallrats
Dazed and Confused
Top Gun
Princess Bride
High Society
Quiet Man
Hellfighters
Rio Bravo
Singin' in the Rain
Gone in 60 Seconds
M*A*S*H*
Ten Commandments
History of the World

Don't remember too many that I despised

 

[2minkey]

how 'bout a genre?

my vote goes to "c-grade women in prison flicks."

 

[StuTheWise]

Believe it or not, Starship Troopers is probably my favorite. Also happens to be my favorite book. Weird huh? Considering the two are virtually nothing alike.

Gets tough after that. On my Netflix account, of the 147 movies I've rated, only 9 get 5 stars... I'm pretty picky with my 5 star picks. Of those 9, it's really tough to pick favorites, but here are a few more:

K-19: The Widowmaker
We Were Soldiers
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Troy
Something the Lord Made

As for least favorite... well, I really hated The Butterfly Effect. White Noise was painful as well.

 

[paul_valaru]

tops:

Butterfly effect (sorry stu)
Princess Bride
Boondock Saints
any monty python

worst:

off the top of my head

Toys
Scarlet Letter

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Gone in 60 Seconds

The original rocked. The remake...meh.

 

[Dave]

As for least favorite... well, I really hated The Butterfly Effect.

which version did you see? the theatrical release or the directors edition?
two completly different endings. it made the difference between an ok movie and a good one IMO.

 

[Slim Pickens]

The original rocked. The remake...meh.

Original? Remake? help

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Original? Remake? help

It originally came out in the early 70s or so. The one with Nicholas Cage is a remake. I prefer the original...cooler cars, better stunts. Most video stores have both (now).

 

[Slim Pickens]

I'll have to try to find it...thanks!

 

[Starya]

I'll just give you one from the hate-list: The English Patient.

 

[Uki Chick]

Some of my fav's:

The Seventh Sign
The Notebook
Saw
Green Mile
Dead Man walking
.......and there are plenty more.

Some of the hates would be:

Dune
Children of Dune
.......there are others but they're just not coming to mind.

 

[K62]

#1 Das Boot

 

[Gato_Solo]

Empire Strikes Back
2001: A Space Odyssey(sp?)
Wizards (Ralph Bakshi)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)...for a 70's view of future society...
Princess Bride
Ice Pirates
Blue Iguana
Big trouble in Little China
(The last three were just fun to watch... )

I won't mention the least favorites because the mere mention of their names gives me the dry heaves...

 

[paul_valaru]

Ice Pirates

I loved that movie