Favorite movies

[Kit]

[the blue fairy]

actually there are more than three to the prophecy series, but I decided not to watch the rest till I had somone willing to sit and watch them all with me.

heres a lil about one of the movies I listed, I watched this as a child and it scared the shit out of me, the horror part is downplayed a bit in this description I think but being it is out of production I havent had a chance to watch it as an adult. But believe me I have had nightmares all my life about this one, and being I grew up watching horror movies it was rare for one to really scare me.

Plot Summary for
The Company of Wolves (1984)

This movie is in fact a magical bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Grandmother Angela Lansbury tells her granddaughter Sarah Patterson strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smouldering look in their eyes; about sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round & the wolves are howling in the woods; about babies found inside stork eggs, in a stork nest high up a tree; etc., etc. Of course the story of Little Red Ridinghood is also present, with a very handsome he-wolf!(And of course this he-wolf consumes Grandmother, but 'consumes' Little Red Ridinghood). All the stories are somehow reducable to loss of innocence, and fear of/hunger for (a newly acquired sense of) sexuality; their Freudian character is mirrored in their dreamlike shapes. This movie is not really a horror movie; it's more a multiple tale about growing up into adolescence.
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[HR-Faith]

[the blue fairy]

Blade Trinity I liked and loved Constantine, and cant wait to see Hitchikers.
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Mellie Amresh says, "Send someone with a bigger dick."

A set of breast implants fall from the sky with a soft plop.

Caretaker Jornnoj Vunn looks up at the sky.

A passing guard suddenly shits himself.

[HR-Morrigan]

Awww, I'm too slow I was just about to mention Versus too. We had this topic before and it's just as hard as it was last time to nail down my favorites, so I'll just name some of my favs that weren't mentioned already...

Ichi the Killer - another Japanese horror, well sorta, its more a yakuza movie but its got a lot of gore. And it has Tadanobu Asano, I love that guy.

Seven Samurai - can't beat Kurosawa baby! It's long and it's old but that just makes it all the better

Silent Mobius (there's a movie and a series)- kind of a typical anime storyline with a pseudo police force that fights demons but there's still enough original stuff in there to make it interesting.

Anything animated by Ray Harryhausen like Clash of the Titans, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts...all oldies but goodies.

And since you're talking about Netflix, I'd suggest checking out some of the TV series they have too, like Deadwood and Six Feet Under.

That's about all I can think of right quick, but I'm sure more will come to me.

[Brokyn]

I don't think anybody's mentioned The Ring. Or Grudge.

Both of those were great.

--William
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[Brokyn]

Sometimes I'm fine with predictability as long as there's a good visual and/or method in return. My step-mom and I still try to scare the other with that odd creaking sound from The Grudge. It's kind of retarded, yeah, but it was a good hook for the movie I think.

I don't know. Maybe it's because I haven't immersed myself in Japanese movies. But I still think they're both pretty good movies.

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[Kit]

I was in Tokyo for the International film festival in 2002. We stood in line for 12 hours to get tickets to see k-19, Minority Report...and Ring was just sorta thrown in. It's cool going to see the screenings of big films. Tom Cruise was there and so was Harrison Ford...and for the Ring, they showed both back to back for the same ticket price.

I had my own apartment in Tokyo. I lived alone in Akasaka...all of my other friends lived just outside Tokyo in Jyugaku..it's a suburb. We didn't have a choice..and I was one of the five people that had to live in Akasaka. Not that it mattered. I didn't have to take the bus and could walk to school.

Anyhow, Ring got over at ten and then we went out to sing karaoke until the last train a little after midnight. I had my oral final the next day so I stayed up to work on it...okay. TV stations in Tokyo go out at 3:30am for some reason... Now, the TV started to go snowy AND my idiot friend Laura called me and did the 7-days crap.

... I didn't do well on my final the next day and didn't go home for two days after that. XD Stupid Japanese movies creeping me out.
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[maddie]

Ah, where to begin?
All-time fave is definitely Pirates of the Carribbean. It's got everything. Great soundtrack, great actors, great plot, great effects, awesome fight scenes.
As for my newest favorite:

[SolitaryTurnip]

Clerks, Office Space, The Big Lebowski. It's a tie for first.

[TheTrackerChick]

American Graffiti, good casting director they had I'd say. Star Wars will always be one of my favorites. I don't want to give my age away too much but I was young when it came out.

All the old Godzilla movies, Errol Flynn movies, Jason and the Argonauts, any and all that had special effects.

Shaolin Soccer I'd recommend, I hope Stephen Chow did as well with KungFu Hustle.

Hitchcock movies are great too.

As are all the Evil Dead ones.

Even Nightmare on Elm Street was a treat, gore and humor seem to work well for Wes Craven.

There are just too many movies that have been great though, for one reason or another. Whether tear jerkers, good guy/bad guy/, the ones where the loser makes good (Rudy), the epics, musicals, horror, thought provoking......we love them all.
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[Kit]

[HR-Hunter]

Just curious about the people who liked Hitchhickers Guide... Did you read the book and did you like it? I've read reviews and I'm trying to decide if it's going to piss me off by screwing up the book too much.
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