The great movies thread

The Seven Samurai (original Kurosawa film)
Mr. Mom
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein
Rear Window

 

In no particular order - lots of these were previously mentioned of course...

Enter The Dragon - "Boards don't hit back!"
Good Will Hunting - "How about DEM apples?!?!"
Delirious (Eddie Murphy) - "...and den a big brown shark came!"
Bridesmaids - doodoo in the street scene kills me.
Silence of the Lambs - "Fefefefefe fava beans and a nice Chianti..."
Leon - The Professional
Goodfellas
Tombstone - "Poor Johnny, you were just too high strung"
The Usual Suspects - "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist"
Boyz in the Hood
Cool Hand Luke
Train Spotting
Superbad
Kids
Shawshank Redemption
Once Were Warriors
The Princess Bride
The Dark Knight

 

I watched Paul Newman in The Hustler last night, still a terrific movie that holds up. How often do you watch an old classic movie, and many times it just seems cheesy and overrated.

 

Brings up a good point, how many movies would just break your heart if you actually knew the subject matter intimately? Majority of movies with any motorcycle subject matter are painful. Me? Gonna stay blissfully ignorant and enjoy my 90-120 minute escape

 

Sometimes it's even a relatively small thing. In Deerhunter, which is set in Pennsylvania (and overall a good film), during a key hunting scene they show a deer against a backdrop of a large, snowcapped volcano (Mt Adams, in WA state near the BC border, was used). Wait! What?

 

Was mentioned but yeah, great movie, neighbor! The Lost Highway was great also.

 

Aviation scenes in movies stress me out even more than v-twin sport bikes with dirt tires, inline-4 sound and 12 gears.

 

So "Snakes on a Plane" wouldn't make your list then?

 

Haven't seen it but I'm gonna say "probably not."

 

Those Mission Impossible motorcycles can even change from street tires to knobbies and back while being ridden.

 

Wind River is one of the best films I’ve seen in a very long time. It’s so fucking exhaustingly heavy. It should have won best picture. It has to be one of my top ten of all time

 

if you enjoyed wind river @cortezmachine , you may like Indianhorse (on netflix). Ski

 

Tobacco Road (1941 based on the erskine caldwell novel) The caine Mutiny 1954 . A space Odyssey (the closing scenes in the white bedroom still amaze me) . Cool Hand Luke and also The others with nicole kidman and when dude comes home from the battle and then leaves again made my hair stand up . Great Thread

 

Once Were Warriors, not sure if that was mentioned yet.

 

Master and Commander
The Mission
Last of the Mohicans
Thunderheart

 

Post #182 about 10 before yours!

Loved that film...

 

Lemans
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
Pootie Tang
Coming to America
Spaceballs
Any of the first 3 Star Wars

 

Made in the town I grew up in and where Kubrick lived when in the UK. A friend of mine from school's dad worked for him and he had a bunch of models and drawings made for the film, pretty unique stuff, if he still has them they'd probably be worth something now.

I'd hardly say it was a film to love, a great movie that left me exhausted after watching it.

 

Most I can think of were already mentioned, and in the OP of not repeating someone, I'll say Edge of Tomorrow. I've seen that movie a million times and still love it.

 

To kill a mockingbird