what is your favourite film?

[Arrival]

Action: Starship Troopers, the Matrix, Predator 1, and all of the Lethal Weapons

Cars: Days of Thunder, Gone in 60 Seconds (new)

Comedyumb and Dumber, Happy Gilmore, Me Myself, and Irene, and Billy Madison. Hahaha.

Drama: a Bronx Tale

 

[Reno]

oops

Cemetary Man

Man Bites Dog

Blood of Heroes (great slo mo action-oxymoron?)

The Man who would be King

Wild Bunch (gives new meaning to 'blaze of glory')

The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Kagemusha, and basically anything touched by Akira Kirusawa (except Tora, Tora, Tora), Toshiro Mifune(even 1945 with John Belushi), or Tatsuya Nakadai

I went Down (made on most of your folks side of the pond)

Conan the Barbarian for sheer blood pumping (and spraying) action

Bottlerocket (Dignan rules!)

Outlaw Josie Wales (Clint's best and he directed)

Angelheart (best deal-with-the-devil period, devil's advocate be thrice damned, Mickey Rourke is the king of f*ing up your own life)

books would be Neuromancer number one with a flechette bullet and its compatriots. Prefer Silmarillion to any of the LoTR books, books of the Black Company, Raymond Chandler for a little Phillip Marlowe and Robert Howard for the original Conan almost Lovecraftian feel. And Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings (in the most literal translation available).

 

[psycow]

All the Kevin Smith movies that had Jay & Silent Bob in them, Clerks, Mall Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob strikes back, especially Dogma.

The Wayne's World & Austin Powers movies.
Shreck.

The Matrix.

The Crow (Only the first one)

Pet Semetary 2.

Natural Born Killers, From Dusk till Dawn, Reservoir Dogs.

The Hole.

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

Books - Terry Pratchet's Disckworld series, Salem's Lot by Stephen King.

 

[Tom Tom]

IMO of course, Fear and loating in Las Vegas WTF. I watched 15 minutes to the part where he is cowering behind the sofa in his hotel room, Bizaree film and not one of my favorites.

But what I do like,

Toy Story 1 +2
Blues Brothers
Matrix
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,

Pay it Forward (rented it on a whim and bought straight away incredible film and a real tear jerker)

As mentioned b4 All Kevin Smiths Stuff.
SpiderMan is an incrediable film and I loved it.
Monsters INC
Oceans 11 (new one)
Fight Club.
Ghostbusters,

 

[Wookie]

Very tricky...

1) Apocalypse Now
2) Fear & Loathing
3) Blade Runner

Then everything else.

A basic rule of thumb is: If it has guns & explosions or drugs & humour, then it's worth watching. Unless it's a chic flick....

Wookie

 

[Richard Kirke (DUPS Rocket) UK]

Films

Citizen Cain (A clasic!)
Usual Suspects
To Die For (on last night, anyone se it?)
The Matrix ("Don't try to bend the spoon for that is impossible, symply realise the truth, that there is no spoon")
SW (of course)
Extreme Days (Obscure, but the snowboarding paintball scene was very cool)

Richard

 

[rob_evanson]

The Matrix, Lock stock, Snatch, The Usual Suspects, something dark with a hint of violent comedy.!!

"How d'ya miss that, it's hardley a packet of peanut's is it tyrone!"

 

[Al Woods]

easy

hercules in new york

If you've seen it you'll be smiling.

If you aint, you're missing a cinematic treat

 

[Simon Malone]

Hardboiled, the John Woo classic. You'll never beat that film Anything and everything staring Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon was very good. Hitman with Jet Li, if you havn't seen it you don't know what your missing.

Bought Life of Brian on DVD last wednesday, still very funny.

 

[TJ Lambini]

The Killer is better than Hard Boiled dude

and how come none of you Brits have mentioned The Wicker Man?

peace