I will rank your favorite movies lists on a scale of 1-10

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KCWM

KCWM

I'm going to go with the original "favorite" list...movies I can watch over and over without getting tired of. I'll also include some guilty favorites...movies that are silly but I only watch from time to time.

Good Will Hunting is my current favorite movie, but the list is in alphabetical order

CastAway
Die Hard
Ghostbusters
Good Will Hunting (Robin Williams' best acting, IMHO)
The Little Mermaid (the pinnacle of Disney's animation movies)
The Matrix
Scrooged
Seven Pounds
The Shawshank Redemption
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original live action)
Unbreakable (my favorite Bruce Willis performance because he didn't play John McClaine)
Wall-E

Guilty Pleasures

Enemy Mine
The Gate
Krull
The Last Starfighter
Monster Squad
There's Something About Mary
 
Shannow

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In no order, and these are favorites for various personal reasons, not any fucking merit. No social commentary, no real cinematographic reasons:

godzilla 1985 (i grew up on godzilla from my father...as a small child, I watched every single godzilla movie with him, and as they come out now, we see them as they get released here. Any that get in american theaters, he and I see opening night. this is the one he got me hooked on when I was like 7, and me and the old man still watch it to this day)

ghostbusters - classic of comedy, motherfuckers. my brothers and I watch it whenever we are all together, and can quote it verbatim)

return of the king - the fantasy nerd in me...this one brought it all out at once, i even teared up towards the end.

predator - fuck you, it is awesome. action and sci-fi, rolled into one, and done fucking perfect.

aliens - sci-fi war movie, mixed with a littl bit of horror. Watching this as a child had me engrossed, and I still can watch it at any moment of any day

necessary roughness - why...I do not know. this belongs no where on anyones mention, but i have always loved this movie.

empire strikes back - yeah, fuck off

how high - fuck you.

supertroopers - like how high...fuck you. Goes back to college and all the times we watched it, before after or while drinking. Still to this day we watch it when we get together

vampire hunter d - as a kid, it was the first anime id seen, over on sci fi - and my mind was blown at the time. still holds a special place with me, for whatever reason

anchorman - fucking funny - and keeps getting funnier after each watching

robocop - horribly violent, and fantastically great. Again harkens back to times as a child with my father. he and i watched a lot of movies when I visited him on the weekends as I grew up, and certain ones, we jsut watch now, and smile, remembering those times. 4 of them are on this list, they have that pull for me.

they Live: I love john Carpenter. all of his movies. every single one. I own them all. the bad and the mediocre. And they are all favorites of mine. This started it for me. fucking A. I would go into it, but carpenter movies for me are like heroin. i know its bad, but i cannot help myself. this is my favorite of them

there is more, but fuck it, this is enough for now, that i can pull from the top of my head
 
Frank

Frank

My favorite God damn movies, good or not:

Batman (1989) - One of my first theater movies (I grew up in a town without a theater) and probably the prime reason for my descent into nerddom. I fucking loved this movie and had my room covered in posters and shit all from the movie.

Commando - Because it's rad, pure rad.

Terminator 2 - One of, in my opinion, the most perfect action movies ever made.

The Thing - Same as above, only horror/suspense. I share Shannow's Carpenter love, even down to fucking Vampires.

Robocop - First movie I ever watched behind my parents back after I was expressly told I wasn't allowed to watch it.

Ravenous - I have no fucking idea why I like this weird black comedy about an 1840s northern California army outpost and all the awesome cannibalism therein.

Dirty Harry - Loved it, love the whole God damn series, but I'll go with the first one.

The Big Lebowski - This is the movie my brothers and I watch whenever we manage to all get together (which is maybe once every two years nowadays).
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I still plan to make my Shannow style list, as Frank has appropriately done, but something else first.

Something's been bugging me about this thread for the last couple days and I couldn't put my finger on what exactly. It wasn't exactly like Nick's outburst, because I don't give a crap what Charlie thinks (like most people). I figured it out today--the qualifiers for this topic are deceptive. Probably not on purpose, because Charlie has said he's confused by the words "favorite", and "best", and the English language in general. So for him, the best movies are his favorites (I won't say it's vice versa; that'd make him incredibly conceited). And he said he should've called the thread top/best movies instead of favorite. Favorite has to do with liking--people acknowledge it's on a subjective level, and a "fuck you, I like it" status.

However, while Charlie was judging the movie lists (unbeknown to the rest of us, on a "top/best" scale) he was using the term "like" as a qualifier. Ex: "I didn't like _____." That creates a double-standard in the topic, because like would imply it's about favorites, but he then says it's about objective top/best and he misused his terminology. The topic is inherently two-faced.

Bad Charlie. Very bad Charlie.
 
Shannow

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escushion said:
I still plan to make my Shannow style list, as Frank has appropriately done, but something else first.

Something's been bugging me about this thread for the last couple days and I couldn't put my finger on what exactly. It wasn't exactly like Nick's outburst, because I don't give a crap what Charlie thinks (like most people). I figured it out today--the qualifiers for this topic are deceptive. Probably not on purpose, because Charlie has said he's confused by the words "favorite", and "best", and the English language in general. So for him, the best movies are his favorites (I won't say it's vice versa; that'd make him incredibly conceited). And he said he should've called the thread top/best movies instead of favorite. Favorite has to do with liking--people acknowledge it's on a subjective level, and a "fuck you, I like it" status.

However, while Charlie was judging the movie lists (unbeknown to the rest of us, on a "top/best" scale) he was using the term "like" as a qualifier. Ex: "I didn't like _____." That creates a double-standard in the topic, because like would imply it's about favorites, but he then says it's about objective top/best and he misused his terminology. The topic is inherently two-faced.

Bad Charlie. Very bad Charlie.
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perhaps. but hey, I made my list the way I did,because I like those movies for those damn reasons. Screw the op's intentions. besides, its a silly thread that we all knew would be judgmental. That was the point with the op.

side note: nicks little outbursts and crying like that, i personally find hi-fucking-larious. I love it when they happen. like this one that was waaaaay over the top on a silly thread like this. It is gold! but that is just me.
 
Jay

Jay

The Last Samurai - Fuck you, Cruise was awesome in this.
Gladiator - Overrated? You can suck it.
Kingdom of Heaven - GOD WILLS IT
Terminator 2 - This was like... the fucken movie of my life when I was a teen.
Count of Monte Cristo - It's OK, you can stab yourself in the face now.
Cinderella Man - Fantastic period piece. I shed MAN TEARS.
The Shawshank Redemption - The ending was fucken perfect.
28 Days/Weeks Later - Ya, I don't give a shit about your opinion on this one. :)
Lord of the Fucken Rings - Yeah, I don't give a rat's ass about your opinion on it neither. This brought my book to life... and managed not to suck a dick.
Mystic River - No... not really. I literally drowned in boredom as I watched grown men cry for 3 hours. Can I rate your TOP 10 now?
 
D

Disconnected

the thread is about him rating your movie lists isn't it, you thought he wasn't going to use his own bias? that's what every critic every where ever does. you get what you post for.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I'm illustrating the difference between him saying "favorite" and him saying "best", because being a critic, he would know the difference between subjectivity and objectivity. And he does.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Because Charlie's too busy for his thread. But sure...

The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Network (1976)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Third Man (1949)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Die Hard (1988)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Goodfellas (1990)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Rocky (1976)
A Serious Man (2009)
Taxi Driver (1976)
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This is Charlie's best movies list. And it's going to get a 10, of course. Sure, Rocky is one big cliche today, but that's because it had an impact. Road to Perdition isn't the best mob movie, but it's a very strong film and he's got a bunch of great gangster films on that list. As Espy said though, it's a very safe list. There's nothing on here that's dodgy, that anyone would question. It's Charlie's list of best movies, but not a real favorites list. Not a list concerned with watching again and again for enjoyment's sake.

Here is a list of Charlie favorites we know of:

Talledega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby
Dirty Work
Die Hard
Ghostbusters
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Rate it. I give it a 7/10, even though it's one short of the minimum requirements. I'm that kind of guy.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

I really don't consider Talledega Nights or Dirty Work among my favorite movies. I just have watched them the most times. Dirty Work was my favorite movie when I was in middle/high school and I watched it first thing every day I played sick and skipped classes. Talledega Nights is really funny, but I saw it so much because my post-college gang of drunkard friends and I played it after every party or drunken night out for a year straight almost.

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TwoBit said:
Dark City
Aliens
Heat
Dawn of the Dead
The Dark Knight
Back to the Future
Empire Strikes Back
Fellowship of the Ring
Matrix
Tron
Ghostbusters
Terminator 2
The Big Lebowski
Jurassic Park
Shaun of the Dead
Serenity

It's not the most original list ever, that's for sure.
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Pretty good list, minus Serenity. I guess I should see this Dark City movie, eh? I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and think you mean Dawn from the 50s and not the Zach Snyder one. 7/10

KCWM said:
I'm going to go with the original "favorite" list...movies I can watch over and over without getting tired of. I'll also include some guilty favorites...movies that are silly but I only watch from time to time.

Good Will Hunting is my current favorite movie, but the list is in alphabetical order

CastAway
Die Hard
Ghostbusters
Good Will Hunting (Robin Williams' best acting, IMHO)
The Little Mermaid (the pinnacle of Disney's animation movies)
The Matrix
Scrooged
Seven Pounds
The Shawshank Redemption
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original live action)
Unbreakable (my favorite Bruce Willis performance because he didn't play John McClaine)
Wall-E

Guilty Pleasures

Enemy Mine
The Gate
Krull
The Last Starfighter
Monster Squad
There's Something About Mary
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Good list, couple of weird picks. Something About Mary is legit good, I'd put it ahead of a few things on your actual list. Bruce Willis has been not-john-mcclane in a lot of movies. I think you're the first person I've heard of that didn't laugh at how bad Seven Pounds was, so kudos for that. 7/10

Shannow said:
In no order, and these are favorites for various personal reasons, not any fucking merit. No social commentary, no real cinematographic reasons:

godzilla 1985 (i grew up on godzilla from my father...as a small child, I watched every single godzilla movie with him, and as they come out now, we see them as they get released here. Any that get in american theaters, he and I see opening night. this is the one he got me hooked on when I was like 7, and me and the old man still watch it to this day)

ghostbusters - classic of comedy, motherfuckers. my brothers and I watch it whenever we are all together, and can quote it verbatim)

return of the king - the fantasy nerd in me...this one brought it all out at once, i even teared up towards the end.

predator - fuck you, it is awesome. action and sci-fi, rolled into one, and done fucking perfect.

aliens - sci-fi war movie, mixed with a littl bit of horror. Watching this as a child had me engrossed, and I still can watch it at any moment of any day

necessary roughness - why...I do not know. this belongs no where on anyones mention, but i have always loved this movie.

empire strikes back - yeah, fuck off

how high - fuck you.

supertroopers - like how high...fuck you. Goes back to college and all the times we watched it, before after or while drinking. Still to this day we watch it when we get together

vampire hunter d - as a kid, it was the first anime id seen, over on sci fi - and my mind was blown at the time. still holds a special place with me, for whatever reason

anchorman - fucking funny - and keeps getting funnier after each watching

robocop - horribly violent, and fantastically great. Again harkens back to times as a child with my father. he and i watched a lot of movies when I visited him on the weekends as I grew up, and certain ones, we jsut watch now, and smile, remembering those times. 4 of them are on this list, they have that pull for me.

they Live: I love john Carpenter. all of his movies. every single one. I own them all. the bad and the mediocre. And they are all favorites of mine. This started it for me. fucking A. I would go into it, but carpenter movies for me are like heroin. i know its bad, but i cannot help myself. this is my favorite of them

there is more, but fuck it, this is enough for now, that i can pull from the top of my head
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Actually a lot of these movies have profound social commentary and great cinematography. And it's probably subconsciously why you like them :) Also half of the movies you said "fuck off" about I really really love and enjoy. Buuuut this list still has a couple stinkers. 6/10


Frank said:
My favorite God damn movies, good or not:

Batman (1989) - One of my first theater movies (I grew up in a town without a theater) and probably the prime reason for my descent into nerddom. I fucking loved this movie and had my room covered in posters and shit all from the movie.

Commando - Because it's rad, pure rad.

Terminator 2 - One of, in my opinion, the most perfect action movies ever made.

The Thing - Same as above, only horror/suspense. I share Shannow's Carpenter love, even down to fucking Vampires.

Robocop - First movie I ever watched behind my parents back after I was expressly told I wasn't allowed to watch it.

Ravenous - I have no fucking idea why I like this weird black comedy about an 1840s northern California army outpost and all the awesome cannibalism therein.

Dirty Harry - Loved it, love the whole God damn series, but I'll go with the first one.

The Big Lebowski - This is the movie my brothers and I watch whenever we manage to all get together (which is maybe once every two years nowadays).
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This list is just aight. 6/10

Jay said:
The Last Samurai - Fuck you, Cruise was awesome in this.
Gladiator - Overrated? You can suck it.
Kingdom of Heaven - GOD WILLS IT
Terminator 2 - This was like... the fucken movie of my life when I was a teen.
Count of Monte Cristo - It's OK, you can stab yourself in the face now.
Cinderella Man - Fantastic period piece. I shed MAN TEARS.
The Shawshank Redemption - The ending was fucken perfect.
28 Days/Weeks Later - Ya, I don't give a shit about your opinion on this one. :)
Lord of the Fucken Rings - Yeah, I don't give a rat's ass about your opinion on it neither. This brought my book to life... and managed not to suck a dick.
Mystic River - No... not really. I literally drowned in boredom as I watched grown men cry for 3 hours. Can I rate your TOP 10 now?
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For someone that doesn't give a rat's ass about my opinions, you sure did post in this thread! With Mystic River, 5/10. Without 4/10

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Alright, I'll make an honest effort at a more "Favorites" list, which is more with movies that I really, really like even though they are not the 'best'.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
The Sting
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Star Wars
12 Angry Men
Psycho
Papillon
The Great Escape
Unforgiven
 
Shannow

Shannow

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Oh, I forgot one thing to say here. Fuck you Chuck, you pretentious little fuck. Go get a god damned job and be a fucking member of society. Shit, even if you follow the footsteps of that fucking **** of a mother you have and be the neighborhood cum dumpster...at least you will be contributing something to others around you.


There, I feel better. Chuck hurt my feelings rating mylist I posted that he would say he would rate. How dare he! That, and he is a fucking shithead. His movie tastes suck, his meanings in the thread title are ambiguous, and frankly, the only way he can feel any moment of pride in himself is trashing on those over the web.

it is a sad, small ego he has, and this is most likely caused by the massive rapings he received throughout his weak childhood. This also explains the insane white knighting he does here over the internet! powerless in real life, he instead uses the safety of the internet to try to champion things, for the creature that dwells behind the keyboard is, in fact, a pussy. But that is okay, you fucking cum burp. you continue to do what it is you do!




....Is that the reaction I am suppsoed to give this thread. I think it is, but I am not quite sure.
 
Shannow

Shannow

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But, wasnt that the point?? thats what I was getting frm the comments and reactions here!



M'sorry Chuck.

Man-hug?

 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

As promised, for your mocking or praise, here's a list of movies that are favorites for reasons that aren't cinematic greatness (although some of them are great movies)


Scream
- I love horror movies, and this is one of the slickest and most 90s horror movies you'll find, which is perfect since I grew up in the 90s. It also has a lot of awesome references to my favorite shitty 80s horror movies thrown in along the way. The Drew Barrymore twist is one of my favorite things in movies ever.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
- I went through a long period loving this show, and this was the climax of that. Also a really goofy and fun musical with really catchy songs.

Swingers
- This is probably the first ever "indie" type movie I saw and really loved. It's a guilty pleasure since it kind of has a really objectifying view of women. But it's legitimately a good movie. I have watched it many many a time when I needed a confidence boost.

(500) Days of Summer
Adventureland
- Lumping these together, I have been watching them a lot lately/ever since they came out. (500) has real personal significance to me because of a relationship/breakup that's eerily similar to the movie. Adventureland has a really great soundtrack that's used to perfection in the movie itself. I also am the proud owner of a GAMES GAMES GAMES t-shirt.

Major League
BASEketball
-These are probably my favorite two sports movies of all-time. Major League might actually be the BEST sports movie of all time. I usually watch it 3-4 times a year, around opening day, during the season, and after the World Series. BASEketball combined Parker/Stone with David Zucker parody insanity to really good effect. Some stuff doesn't work, but it's still insanely funny. Also the really cynical opening is strangely clairvoyant to what was going on in sports' near future.

Walk Hard
- Another great zany parody type movie/musical that I've seen a whole WHOLE lot of times. Half the movie is quoted as regular catchphrases and jokes among my friends. I legitimately think John C Reilly could have gotten an Oscar nod for his performance in a weaker year if the Academy ever gave a fuck about comedy acting.

The Cable Guy
- I always liked this movie a lot more than everyone else seemed to. And it struck a special chord with me since I was basically raised on Nick @ Nite. The running thing with him giving classic TV character names and addresses - I got that before the reveal at the end just from being a huge dork.

The Happening
The Room
- My life would have a lot less joy without these movies' existence. I have watched them several times in various stages of drunkeness and with rifftraxes and different groups of friends making fun of them. They are just both the perfect mix of inexplicably bad and unintentionally hilarious.
 
KCWM

KCWM

The Lovely Boner said:
Good list, couple of weird picks. Something About Mary is legit good, I'd put it ahead of a few things on your actual list. Bruce Willis has been not-john-mcclane in a lot of movies. I think you're the first person I've heard of that didn't laugh at how bad Seven Pounds was, so kudos for that. 7/10
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I do think that Mary is a really complete comedy, but it's not something that I pop into the DVD player whenever I'm bored and be entertained. Since I can only watch it once the jokes have time to be fresh again, I don't put it on my list.

You're right, Bruce Willis has played more "non-John McClaine" roles, but the movies that I find I enjoy him most in are the ones where he plays the "down-on-his-luck cop/soldier/etc in the wrong place at the wrong time, grumpass". For me, the roles I remember are those roles, the Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable. For the Sixth Sense, which I unoriginally enjoy, he took a departure from his normal role, but I don't think he fully grasped MNS's direction until Unbreakable. It was such a subtle, low key performance...more powerful than his other films.

The other guilty pleasures are movies that I used to watch on HBO and Cinemax during the summer...over and over. I was in choir when The Little Mermaid came out and my mom would dump me off at the theater to watch movies when she went on her pot runs, so I ended up watching it, and later TMNT, around 20 times in the theater. The concession kids at the dollar movie knew me by name.

As for Seven Pounds, I think I like it so much because Will Smith didn't play Will Smith. I'm not the biggest fan of Ali and while I do think Smith was superb in that movie, I'm not entertained by it. I watched Seven Pounds a little drunk, so I admit to not seeing the twist coming. It kind of punched me in the gut a little and I left more impressed than I should have been. It was better than his other recent offerings in I, Robot, Hancock, and I am Legend.

But, a 7 out of 10 from you is pretty good, so I'll take it.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

KCWM said:
As for Seven Pounds, I think I like it so much because Will Smith didn't play Will Smith. I'm not the biggest fan of Ali and while I do think Smith was superb in that movie, I'm not entertained by it. I watched Seven Pounds a little drunk, so I admit to not seeing the twist coming. It kind of punched me in the gut a little and I left more impressed than I should have been. It was better than his other recent offerings in I, Robot, Hancock, and I am Legend.
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You should really see Pursuit of Happyness, and (especially) Six Degrees of Separation. Six Degrees is amazing, and you'd never have known that it came out in the middle of the Fresh Prince era except for his obvious youth.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Well, Charlie put his money where his mouth is, so I have 80% less to bitch about. Damn. I'm not gonna rate it because I've only seen two movies on there (Scream, The Cable Guy) and that wouldn't be fair, but it was good to post such a list. I think people will be able to identify with him more as a person and less like an erection.
 
C

Chazwozel

Big Trouble in Little China
Rocky
Ghostbusters
Jaws
The Godfather
Back to the Future Trilogy
Bullitt
Pulp Fiction
Office Space
Shaolin Soccer
Pineapple Express
Old School
Gator Bait
 
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