what is your favourite film, and why

[druglessdouglas]

my fav film is OldBoy.
it has an excellent story
its very well directed
the violence is so realistic

 

[Amroth]

i don't really have a favorite movie.
Always forget the names.
Movies from Quentin Tarantino are great, the conversations and all...
i also like movies that are more like a form of art.
Movies wich are weird to look at, movies that aren't perfect.

i'll check oldboy out one of these days, looks good.

 

[silv]

Well I don't really have a favorite movie, but I'll have to mention "The Usual Suspects" because it was the first movie that really surprised me at the end.
Isn't old boy japanese? I think I've heard of it, and I'll def watch it if you recommend it.

 

[druglessdouglas]

OldBoy is Korean. directed by Chan-wook Park and one of three centered around revenge. OldBoy, Lady Vengance and Sympathy for Mr Vengance

 

[magickmumu]

The movies of Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, David Cronenburg and of course Terry Gilliam.

Why? Because I like surreal film

 

[GOD]

I like Kurosawa and felilni . I also like films with chesty morgan .

 

[magickmumu]

the saddest music in the world.
:thumbsup:

breakfast of champions. :thumbsup:

 

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[Peyote&Syrup]

Three way tie:

The Big Lebowski: Funny, off beat, overly complex and generally unimportant story with memorable characters.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A perfect translation of a great book. It is Gonzo journalism turned visual.

THX 1138: A great film that is overshadowed by Star Wars (they were great too). It's eerie, it's surreal, it's one of the first films I watched while very stoned.

 

[????????]

damn, we seem lo like the same movies......

I like Oldboy a LOT too, the plot's so great just telling it would gather an audience.

also, can't get tired of watching The Big Lebowski and Pulp Fiction even though I've watched both several times.

I can still remember when I watched The Matrix (1999) and it blew my green socks out off my extremities. I wrecked a chair at my house because I jumped on it like it were some rooftop just to fall all matrixesque like 8)

I like a lot Before Sunrise-Sunset too....

BUT if I have to pick an absolute favorite I would go with Waking Life. There's just so much going on in that movie......

 

[random]

- Broken Flowers (unusual and very nicely produced)
- Babel (have to watch to understand)
- 21 Grams (have to watch to understand)
- Amores Perros (have to watch to understand)
- Nine Lives (have to watch to understand)
- Basketball Diaries (a kid that involves with heroin addiction, leaving school,house,family,friends, etc..)
- Billy Elliot (it makes me want to dance)
- BlueBerry (basically, because of the effects)
- Boogie Nights (drugs, pornography, money, lies, etc..)
- Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (had a good laugh)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (unusual and very nicely produced)
- Down by Law (have to watch to understand)
- Easy Rider (strange production, still I liked it. Involves drugs, hippies, motorcycles and freedom)
- Ed Wood (weird, still it's amazing)
- El Topo (probably the strangest and weirdest movie I ever saw)
- In This World (have to watch to understand)
- Midnight Express (classic)
- More (Drugs, hippies, 60's, lies, sex, girls, addiction)
- PI (I have to watch it many times again, because I couldn't understand the whole movie. Still it's amazing)
- Slacker (have to watch to understand) * same producer of waking life
- sUbUrbia (have to watch to understand) * same producer of waking life
- Spirited Away (japannese. Magical, fantasy, beautifull)
- Hauru no ugoku shiro (japannese. Magical, fantasy, beautifull)
- Tape (weird. just because of that)
- Taxi Driver (have to watch to understand)
- The Newton Boys (funny, and real story)
- The Road to Guantamano (have to watch to understand)
- The Fountain (have to watch to understand)
- Waking Life (have to watch to understand)
- The People vs Larry Flynt (fighting the system. Pornography magazines, sex..)

 

[GOD]

 

[druglessdouglas]

@GOD ^^

 

[st.bot.32]

there's a lot of things in this thread already mentioned i like! terry gilliam in general, i noticed somebody was mentioning hayao miyazaki films lynch, kubrik, big fan of early ridley scott films blade runner and alien.. tarkovsky (especially Stalker), neat to see THX1138 on the list here too.. takeshi miike films score highly on my list too usually, Gozu, audition, happiness of the katakuris, ichi the killer

I do plan to watch oldboy at some point as well! i had many years of being into asian cinema in general at one point, went through a lot of japanese directors (kobayashi, seijun suzuki) and a lot of chinese gangster and kung fu films..