Callous Jack wrote:

Shawshank Redemption.

All that man-rape kind of makes the movie a downer.

"Squeal like a pig BOY!"

Deliverance - Another pretty good movie that's easily identified and hard to stop watching... like a car accident or a train wreck or car accident on a train wreck.

PsychoticWarrior wrote:

kessukoofah wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

PulpCruciFiction wrote:

Back to the Future.

Damn.

Damn. Damn.

Damn. Damn. Damn.

I'm confused. What do you have against such a great movie?

That's a Dr. Brown quote when he, in 1955, is waiting for Marty to show up for their attempt to send him back to 1985. He looks at 3 different watches muttering 'damn' more and more times.

/end nerd mode

:-D

Yup! I love Back to the Future, and typically I will stop and watch whenever I find it on the air (particularly if it's near the end - I absolutely love the climax).

*Facepalm* Ya, I remember now. Don't know how I forgot in the first place. Time to borrow my brother's box set again.

Also, that make much more sense then you disliking the movie.

Callous Jack wrote:

Shawshank Redemption.

All that man-rape kind of makes the movie a downer.

Well I'd like to tell you that Andy fought the good fight and the Sisters left him alone. But prison is no fantasyland.

prison is no fantasyland.

Wait...prison isn't a fantasyland?

How come I'm just now hearing about this?
Why hasn't anybody told me about this until now?

All these years...I've been living a lie.
My dreams have been crushed.

So you are saying that women's prisons are not filled with stunning, sweaty, young, scantily-clad, oh-so-repentant bad girls and the beautiful but domineering female guards who watch over them in an atmosphere of unbearable sexual tension?

bummer

PsychoticWarrior wrote:

prison is no fantasyland.

Wait...prison isn't a fantasyland?

It's not a place of magic and happiness?

How come I'm just now hearing about this?
Why hasn't anybody told me about this until now?

All these years...I've been living a lie.
My dreams have been crushed.

This really doesn't seem to be the thread to try quoting the movies that are being discussed.

But the winner is Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Yes! Great movie!

So you are saying that women's prisons are not filled with stunning, sweaty, young, scantily-clad, oh-so-repentant bad girls and the beautiful but domineering female guards who watch over them in an atmosphere of unbearable sexual tension?

bummer

Hardly. It's mostly meth-heads with black eyes and no teeth.

Shadow13.com wrote:

PsychoticWarrior wrote:

prison is no fantasyland.

Wait...prison isn't a fantasyland?

It's not a place of magic and happiness?

How come I'm just now hearing about this?
Why hasn't anybody told me about this until now?

All these years...I've been living a lie.
My dreams have been crushed.

This really doesn't seem to be the thread to try quoting the movies that are being discussed.

Oh, don't worry.

Dragonslayer

This is IMO one of the best fantasy films ever made.

Zombieneighbours wrote:

But the winner is Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Yes! Great movie!

I like the part when the blind man "levels up".
You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it.

*whistles*

Let me help you. Step down. Here we go! The drum major's widow! She's worn his coat since the day he died. The horse's head has lost an ear! That's the florist laughing. He has crinkly eyes. In the bakery window, lollipops. Smell that! They're giving out melon slices! Sugarplum, ice cream! We're passing the park butcher. Ham, 79 francs. Spareribs, 45! Now the cheese shop. Picadors are 12.90. Cabecaus 23.50. A baby's watching a dog that's watching the chickens. Now we're at the kiosk by the metro. I'll leave you here. Bye!

Oh and Incredibles, that gets me every time.

Oh, don't worry.

That wasn't a quote, it was just a really bad joke.

Right, but what your joke was responding to about prison being a fantasyland was a quote; I wasn't sure you had caught that based on your response. Based on that and the fact that someone misunderstood Sebastian's Back to the Future quote earlier, I just meant that there wasn't a great record of people recognizing movie quotes in this thread. Sorry for the confusion.

Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Better of Dead
Lethal Weapon 1 or 2
Princess Bride

Wow, 80% compatibility. Although I suppose that goes up to 82% since I'll stop on Baron if it's the scene where Uma is painted into the wall...

Also, Princess Bride, original 3 Star Wars, Star Trek II, IV, VI, A Clockwork Orange, a bunch of other that have already been mentioned, Grifters, Blow, Crimson Tide, True Romance, Spaceballs, any pre-90's Bill Murray movie, any John Belushi movie other than 1941, any John Hughes movie, Serenity, (damn, it's a wonder I ever get anything done in life), most Paul Newman movies, especially The Hustler, The Color of Money and Slap Shot, The Jerk, and a bunch of other movies.

Even really bad ones.

Breaker Morant

+1. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and bump it to the top of the queue.

My own list would include 13th Warrior and any Bond movie, the older the better.

Bill Dunn wrote:

Breaker Morant

+1. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and bump it to the top of the queue.

And speaking of Breaker Morant, star of the movie Edward Woodward just died today. He was 79. I'm definitely breaking the movie out tonight and tossing it in the DVD player.

Jurassic Park, Apollo 13, Thirteen Days, Winged Migration, Star Trek: First Contact, Jackson's LotR trilogy, 1950's Day the Earth stood Still

If I come across Big Trouble in Little China, then I find I'm unable to change the channel.

Glad to know I'm not the only one. :D

But another one for me is Ghostbusters. It's on, I watch it.

Jurassic Park
Fifth Element
Super Troopers
Beerfest
Dark Knight
Batman Begins

Just can't get enough of those...

The Sea Wolf (Edward G. Robinson/Ida Lupino)
Soylent Green
The Omen (Gregory Peck/Lee Remick)

It's weird that two of those three movies have Edward G. Robinson in them...I think he must be transmitting a cultural truth to me, or something.

A true story: "The Sea Wolf" was on tv, and our new dog had just run away. All of my family went out looking for our dog, and I sat on the couch and I thought, "I need to see this; the dog can wait."

Also, I once watched "The Omen" three times in a row, straight. Then I took a break for dinner/bathroom, and then sat down and watched it a fourth time.

We don't have an aerial but everytime my niece watches "Monsters Inc." I feel compelled to join in. Also "Air Force One" with Harrison Ford. I love that film. Happy Gilmore too. I don't know what it is about "Happy Gilmore." I've even seen the French version before those were included on DVDs.

Goonies
Big Trouble In Little China
Horror of Dracula
7th Voyage of Sinbad

Wow, now I know I'm not alone in the world reading all of the previous posts. I probably have more than one, being a film buff, (including most of the ones mentioned before: Star Wars (ep. 4-6), Star Trek, Princess Bride, Kurosawa films, Blade Runner, Alien & Aliens, and so forth).

I was going to say 'Master and Commander' but I just realized that there is one (or rather three) that are my ultimate stumble-upon and watch to the end movies.

A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More

and, of course, the ultimate:

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

Fantastic. I didn't realize I had winners in this category. But those are also the most likely to be a weekend movie on a lazy Saturday afternoon (or night). Plus, there used to be a Clint Eastwood marathon every time I went to stay with my Grand parents, so any of those (plus 'Where Eagles Dare') is a sure winner and feel good movie in my book. No baggage, just great, stark storytelling and happy memories.

So awesome.