Top 25 Favorite Movies

[Orpheus]

But I think that the cause of Freddie's damage is sort of irrelevant

Really? To me, it's an entirely different movie without the war. But I should stop gumming up this thread, I always write way too much about this movie.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

Also, no love for my inclusion of The Five Obstructions? I thought at least LV might weigh in on that one

I remember mentioning you loved that one before. I actually haven't seen it. I have only recently come around to the whole Von Trier thing (he never clicked for me until Nymphomaniac, which I thought was kinda genius), so I never really sought out stuff he was involved with before. I'll give it a look.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[@SkitchP]

My kids caught a couple seconds of Who Framed Roger Rabbit the other day and wanted to watch it. So in my search for the DVD I found my copy of Quiz Show. Im totes excited.

[LoathedVermin72]

Here's my breakdown of your list, trag (* means it's been a very long time since I've seen it):

Love:
Do the Right Thing
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
The Truman Show
Barton Fink
Chinatown
Dr. Strangelove
Goodfellas
Heat
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love
Stepbrothers
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

Like:
Beetlejuice
No Country For Old Men
Before Sunset
Best In Show
Birdman
Goonies
Happy Gilmore
Midnight in Paris
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The Departed
The Insider
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

Meh:
12 Monkeys*
Alien
Amelie*
Anchorman
Before Sunrise
Cool Hand Luke
Ghostbusters*
JFK
Memento*
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rear Window*
Stand By Me*

Dislike/Hate:
Boyhood
Waking Life
Blue Velvet*
Dazed and Confused
Gummo*
Toy Story 3

Haven't Seen Yet:
The Five Obstructions
The Thin Blue Line
Friday
Going Clear
Instrument (Jem Cohen's Fugazi Documentary)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Karate Kid (I saw this when I was a kid and barely remember it, so I'm not making any judgments.)
The Endless Summer
The Hellstrom Chronicle
When the Levees Broke

I respect the diversity of your list. You seem open-minded. Gotta get some older stuff in there, though!

[darth_vedder]

Karate Kid (I saw this when I was a kid and barely remember it, so I'm not making any judgments.)

Man, I had such a crush on Elizabeth Shue

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[darth_vedder]

Oh, forgot to say, I like both 'The Master' and "TWBB', but I'm on team Blood. I LOVE that film.

Interesting that Life Aquatic is the #1 on LV's list, meaning it's his favorite WA film. I think I may go with Moonrise or Rushmore, although, I feel Aquatic is under appreciated.

[nyquillyn]

Instrument (Jem Cohen's Fugazi Documentary)

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Kalevi]

Shawshank
White men cant jump
Coming to america
Anchorman
I heart huckabees
Big lebowski
Grand budapest hotel
Royal tannenbaums
Modern times
Who frammed roger rabit
There will be blood
Pulp fiction
Casino
Ed wood
Dark knight
Batman
To kill a mockingbird
12 angry men
Raiders of lost ark
Glory
Kingpin
Eyes wide shut
Empire strikes back
Gangs of NY
Lego movie

[epilogue]

Updated list with an emphasis on "favorite". These are not necessarily ordered past the top 5, but probably more or less.

Fight Club
Birdman
Mulholland Drive
Upstream Color
Blue Valentine

Vertigo
Annie Hall
2001: A Space Oddessy
Barton Fink
Memento

The Shining
Fargo
Midnight in Paris
If Lucy Fell
Pitch Perfect

Drinking Buddies
Love Actually
Wet Hot American Summer
Lars and the Real Girl
The Godfather

American History X
The Shawshank Redemption
The Graduate
Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces 2009)
Reality Bites

[epilogue]

I also forgot Ghostbusters...

I'm the worst.

[Strat]

I also forgot Ghostbusters...

I'm the worst.

I hate coming up with lists and i dont know why. I do think Ghostbusters, back to the future and such films would make it though.

[The Argonaut]

Here's a variation on the thread: Favorite Movie of the Year, 1921-2015 (so far). By IMDB year. A number of these would be easily eliminated by some years' #2, #3, #4, or #5, etc. movie. Just favorite movie of each year.

2015 The Martian ---------- Ridley Scott
2014 Two Days, One Night ---------- Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis ---------- Joel and Ethan Coen
2012 Killing Them Softly ---------- Andrew Dominik
2011 Melancholia ---------- Lars von Trier
2010 Toy Story 3 ---------- Lee Unkrich
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox ---------- Wes Anderson
2008 Synecdoche, New York ---------- Charlie Kaufman
2007 The Darjeeling Limited ---------- Wes Anderson
2006 Children of Men ---------- Alfonso Cuaron
2005 Broken Flowers ---------- Jim Jarmusch
2004 Before Sunset ---------- Richard Linklater
2003 Dogville ---------- Lars von Trier
2002 Punch-Drunk Love ---------- Paul Thomas Anderson
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums ---------- Wes Anderson
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? ---------- Joel and Ethan Coen
1999 Fight Club ---------- David Fincher
1998 The Thin Red Line ---------- Terrence Malick
1997 Lost Highway ---------- David Lynch
1996 Fargo ---------- Joel and Ethan Coen
1995 Dead Man ---------- Jim Jarmusch
1994 Pulp Fiction ---------- Quentin Tarantino
1993 The Fugitive ---------- Andrew Davis
1992 Malcolm X ---------- Spike Lee
1991 Barton Fink ---------- Joel and Ethan Coen
1990 Close-Up ---------- Abbas Kiarostami
1989 Do the Right Thing ---------- Spike Lee
1988 The Vanishing ---------- George Sluizer
1987 Wings of Desire ---------- Wim Wenders
1986 Blue Velvet ---------- David Lynch
1985 Sherman's March ---------- Ross McElwee
1984 Paris, Texas ---------- Wim Wenders
1983 The Meaning of Life ---------- Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
1982 Fitzcarraldo ---------- Werner Herzog
1981 Time Bandits ---------- Terry Gilliam
1980 Raging Bull ---------- Martin Scorsese
1979 Vengeance is Mine ---------- Shohei Imamura
1978 Dawn of the Dead ---------- George A. Romero
1977 Annie Hall ---------- Woody Allen
1976 Taxi Driver ---------- Martin Scorsese
1975 Grey Gardens ---------- Albert and David Maysles
1974 A Woman Under the Influence ---------- John Cassavetes
1973 Badlands ---------- Terrence Malick
1972 The Godfather ---------- Francis Ford Coppola
1971 A Clockwork Orange ---------- Stanley Kubrick
1970 Le cercle rouge ---------- Jean-Pierre Melville
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ---------- George Roy Hill
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey ---------- Stanley Kubrick
1967 Point Blank ---------- John Boorman
1966 Persona ---------- Ingmar Bergman
1965 Pierrot le fou ---------- Jean-Luc Godard
1964 Band of Outsiders ---------- Jean-Luc Godard
1963 Shock Corridor ---------- Sam Fuller
1962 The Exterminating Angel ---------- Luis Bunuel
1961 Une femme est une femme ---------- Jean-Luc Godard
1960 Psycho ---------- Alfred Hitchcock
1959 The 400 Blows ---------- Francois Truffaut
1958 Vertigo ---------- Alfred Hitchcock
1957 Kanal ---------- Andrzej Wajda
1956 A Man Escaped ---------- Robert Bresson
1955 I Live in Fear ---------- Akira Kurosawa
1954 The Seven Samurai ---------- Akira Kurosawa
1953 The Wages of Fear ---------- Henri-Georges Clouzot
1952 Ikiru ---------- Akira Kurosawa
1951 Strangers on the Train ---------- Alfred Hitchcock
1950 Rashomon ---------- Akira Kurosawa
1949 The Third Man ---------- Carol Reed
1948 The Bicycle Thief ---------- Vittorio de Sica
1947 Brute Force ---------- Jules Dassin
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives ---------- William Wyler
1945 The Lost Weekend ---------- Billy Wilder
1944 Lifeboat ---------- Alfred Hitchcock
1943 Day of Wrath ---------- Carl Theodor Dreyer
1942 Cat People ---------- Jacques Tourneur
1941 Citizen Kane ---------- Orson Welles
1940 The Great Dictator ---------- Charles Chaplin
1939 The Wizard of Oz ---------- Victor Fleming
1938 Port of Shadows ---------- Marcel Carne
1937 Make Way for Tomorrow ---------- Leo McCarey
1936 Modern Times ---------- Charles Chaplin
1935 Bride of Frankenstein ---------- James Whale
1934 The Thin Man ---------- W.S. Van Dyke
1933 Land Without Bread ---------- Luis Bunuel
1932 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ---------- Mervyn LeRoy
1931 City Lights ---------- Charles Chaplin
1930 L'age d'or ---------- Luis Bunuel
1929 Un chien andalou ---------- Luis Bunuel
1928 Lonesome ---------- Pal Fejos
1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ---------- F.W. Murnau
1926 The General ---------- Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
1925 The Gold Rush ---------- Charles Chaplin
1924 Sherlock Jr. ---------- Buster Keaton
1923 The Pilgrim ---------- Charles Chaplin
1922 Nosferatu ---------- F.W. Murnau
1921 The Phantom Carriage ---------- Victor Sjostrom

[LoathedVermin72]

All right, I'll play.

2015: Magic Mike XXL
2014: Godzilla
2013: Spring Breakers
2012: The Master
2011: Drive
2010: Valhalla Rising
2009: Bronson
2008: Step Brothers
2007: There Will Be Blood
2006: The Hills Have Eyes
2005: The Devil's Rejects
2004: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2003: Lost in Translation
2002: Punch-Drunk Love
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2000: Cast Away
1999: Eyes Wide Shut
1998: Velvet Goldmine
1997: Boogie Nights
1996: Fargo
1995: Heat
1994: Dumb and Dumber
1993: The Nightmare Before Christmas
1992: Unforgiven
1991: Barton Fink
1990: GoodFellas
1989: Do the Right Thing
1988: Die Hard
1987: Walker
1986: Aliens
1985: Commando
1984: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1983: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
1982: Conan the Barbarian
1981: The Beyond
1980: The Shining
1979: Apocalypse Now
1978: The Grapes of Death
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1976: The Tenant
1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1974: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1973: The Crazies
1972: The Godfather
1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1970: Ryan's Daughter
1969: The Color of Pomegranates
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967: The Fearless Vampire Killers
1966: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1965: Juliet of the Spirits
1964: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963: The Terror
1962: Lonely are the Brave
1961: Breakfast at Tiffany's
1960: The White Dove
1959: North by Northwest
1958: Man of the West
1957: Paths of Glory
1956: The Searchers
1955: East of Eden
1954: Touchez pas au grisbi
1953: The Master of Ballantrae
1952: On Dangerous Ground
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1950: The White Tower
1949: A Letter to Three Wives
1948: The Red Shoes
1947: Black Narcissus
1946: The Yearling
1945: Leave Her to Heaven
1944: Laura
1943: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1942: Les visiteurs du soir
1941: 49th Parallel
1940: The Mortal Storm
1939: Gone with the Wind
1938: Port of Shadows
1937: The Edge of the World
1936: Things to Come
1935: Transatlantic Tunnel
1934: Zouzou
1933: King Kong
1932: Grand Hotel
1931: M
1930: Morocco
1929: Un chien andalou
1928: Lonesome
1927: The Jazz Singer
1926: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1925: Battleship Potemkin
1924: The Red Lily
1923: -
1922: Nosferatu
1921: The Kid

[E.H. Ruddock]

Wtf