My Favorite Movies

Amazing...so incredibly amazing. The kind of film that makes me want to stop making films because I don't think I could live up to that standard...and the next day the kind of film that makes me want to try twice as hard to do so.

Best of the three...probably my favorite second favorite movie of all time.

The scariest movie i've ever seen. The only movie to keep me up all night. Michael Kermode is right when he called this the best movie ever made.

Hands down the greatest action film of all time. Possibly Spielberg's best

One of strangest, most profound, silly, touching, surreal, lovable, funny and oddly soothing films I've ever seen. It will be hard to knock this out of my top 10. Just submit to the power of the film and finish it in one sitting. You never know where it's going to go, just know you'll be glad when you do.

Holy photography this movie is gorgeous. Kubrick is defiantly finding his signature style...but the script with all of the flashbacks is not quite as sharp as it could have been. Well worth seeing in spite of that...oh and the mannequin sequence is amazing.

A classic film from my youth with a classic Tache'd Dalton performance

One of the best movies I have ever seen... a true masterpieces of ambition and obsession...

I can't even begin to describe the cornucopia of ocular delights that is Danger: Diabolik.

One of the grooviest movies ever! This movie DRIPS with pop coolness

The perfect Bond film. Girls, Guns, Gold. What more could you ask for?

The best movie of 2006. Bar none. Simply incredible.

Pam Grier maybe the biggest badass...ever

Every Marx brothers movie condensed into one hell of a zany adventure. This movie is gut bustingly funny.

Fantastic Drug Propaganda from the 50's

The beat poetry and Jerry Lee Lewis are particularly choice

Fosse's most personal and flamboyant work. One of my all time favorite films.

I can still hear the zither playing...

Hot damn this movie is cool!

The blue print for the big summer action movie.

Rita where have you been all my life?

This movie should be required viewing for anyone with eyes.

This is a cinematic orgasm of galaxial proportion.

My favorite movie of all time

This used to be my favorite Bond film, but I think Goldfinger may have taken over that spot.

FRWL is certainly one of the stranger Bond films. Bond doesn't show up for the first 20 minutes of the movie. There is no plot to take over the world. Bond only fights henchman rather than the top baddies.

However FRWL also provides times where Bond really seems to be in Danger. There is a reality to the story that goes on that makes FRWL very visceral.

Steve Mother Fucking McQueen!

My favorite swashbuckler...only Errol Flynn could make tights cool

Is there anything I can say that already hasn't? Hands down the most influential film in cinema history.

After recently seeing this on the big screen, I can't help but marvel at this film. Seeing it on the big screen was like seeing it for the first time. So many little details lept out at me that I had never seen before.

Truly a work deserving of it's praise.

Arguably Hitchcock's best film. Vertigo is a better crafted film...while Rear Window is the better story. Similar in the comparison of Citizen Kane and Casablanca. CK is the great technical achievement, while Casablanca is the greater emotional achievement.

The greatest musical ever made.

I double dare you not to love this film.

Maid Marion is such a fox in this.

How can you not love Kirk Douglas and a singing seal?

One of my all time favorites. Ground breaking in too many ways to count

The movie is genius

I love this film.

A deep & haunting dissection of betrayal and infidelity on every level.

Like all Kubrick films it gets better with every additional viewing

This movie cooler than the Fonz...

Yea I went there

The better movie

A perfect slasher film.

Possibly the best superhero movie ever made...possibly

Steve McQueen is a badass!

Steve McQueen and Paul Newman...
A burning skyscraper...
high levels of manliness ensue.

Hands down the greatest disaster film of all time.

Peckinpah's poetic tale of masculinity is a sight to behold. A truly brutal and beautiful film about the death of the old west. Holden, Borgnine, Oates, O'Briejn and Ryan are marvelous as the last of a dying breed.

Westerns, action and film were all never the same after The Wild Bunch .

It also features the most awesome director's credit in history.

"If they move, Kill em'!"

The better film

One of the most beautiful movie ever made. The last 3 strip techno-color film to be shot. Haunting and terrifying with a kick ass Goblin soundtrack

The movie that changed the industry.

I had the most surreal experience after seeing this movie...

A SUV drove by me when I was walking home from the theatre, and shot at me with a paintball gun...

What kind of cosmic forces where at work there?

Bridge Over the River Titty

Best Action Movie EVER!!!!

Hands down the best Potter film.

Can't go wrong with Alfonso Cuaron

Michael Mann welcomes Neon-Noir to the world.

Hands down, one of the funniest movies of all time.

Dalton once thew a punch so hard it went back in time and hit Amelia Earhart; making her crash.

SOOOOO CREEPY...oh my god I saw this 2 years ago and I'm still having nightmares

Polanski + Huston + Nicholson = Genius

A taunt, paranoid thriller that hinges on Deneuve's amazing performance. Polish creep master Polanski masterfully crafts this low budget masterpiece.

Polish Lake country has never looked more beautiful or haunting

So after seeing this movie Steven King decided to direct Maximum Overdrive so another director wouldn't butcher his work...

Now I don't know what movie King saw...but I did see Maximum Overdrive...not so much...

Holy disturbing this movie is great...

The most beautifully shot comedy of all time.

This and the Killing are the 2 best noir heist movies in my opinion.

This movie is fantastic. No really I mean it.

Shane Black completely does to Film Noir what he did for...well not for Film Noir really Neo-Noir.

But I mean who of you who are reading this would know the difference. I'm not saying anything it's just--well the difference is subtle..technical really and--

I mean it's like the difference between ding dong's and ho ho's...they aren't the "same" really,

Look at me I'm completely off topic. I'm being a bad reviewer.

Okay back to the film. The dialog is really good too. It crackles with Black wit...oh that was clever...nevermind no it wasn't

Anyway see the movie, it's really good.

Oh and there's a monkey from the future too. Ugly Sucker. Only says "Ficus".

and you get to see Monaghan's goods too if your not convinced. Perverts...

Best Kung-Fu Soccor movie of all time

One of the best action movies of all time

When I fell in love with McTiernan

I slice of my childhood. This movie is distilled Schwarzenegger insanity.

Arnold squares off against the Australian Freddy Mercury in this bombastic 80's action super film.

Awesome Tech-Noir

If anyone had any doubts about Tarantino's directing talent...this settled it.

Wicked good time

Better than Planet Terror...no I'm sorry it is...I don't care if you grew up in the 80's you're wrong.

A Haunting Film. A tale of revenge, pain, and loss.

See this film.

One of my all time favorites. Got to love the Hot Chandler action

One Badass Train picture.

Frank Sinatra stars in this highly underrated action adventure film.

The best horror remake of all time...one of the best horror movies of all time...Love me some MacReady

Quite possibly the funnest movie ever made

My least favorite in the series, and the only one I would really call scary.

A few nice moments, but mostly meh

My favorite Truffaut hands down.

The camera and storytelling here are so playful, it's easy to see Truffaut's love of the Noir genre. The loose hand held style, rhythmic frequent cutting and the free form jazz soundtrack all bring this down and dirty character piece to life.

Extra kudos for the matricide by way of fibbing gag

Good old fashion high adventure. Featuring Michael Caine and Sean Connery's wicked chemistry.

My favorite non Kurusawa Samurai film

Great Great screwball comedy...Powell's best performance out side of the Thin Man series

Creeptastic

60% of the time it works, every time.

Best Making of Documentary Ever...I think I swallowed a bug

A Hammer Horror Swashbuckling Vampire film.

How you not love the Crash Zooms.

I think this deserved to win over Saving Private Ryan...yes I know I'm the only one... Second movie to ever make me cry

Like the Bird Cage...only with communists

Wolfman's got nards

Its like a Lifetime movie gone horribly wrong

Great Werewolf Movie...no CGI...all man in suit...

This movie is so cool. It revels in it's "movie-ness" at levels that could only be equaled by the love child of Quentin Tarantino and Errol Flynn

This movie is amazing... It's like like Plan Nine...only with Bird Bird on PCP

The jewel heist is almost an afterthought to this movie...it's not really a movie where you ask "why" this is happening...but "what" is...and how well that's executed.

This movie makes me giggle

Mommy, a naked American man stole my balloons...classic

I love film as much as this film loves film. Cinema at it's best

Seriously good popcorn entertainment

Love me some early Goldblum

Cronenberg's Direction is flawless

The DVD is worth it just for the Ted & Terry commentary track

I went into this movie with the lowest possible expectations...

I completely lost it during the gasoline fight

This movie is amazing...one character only speaks in animal noises and the monster is clearly a shag carpet with ping pong balls for eyes.

Tony Ja is awesome.

This movie is a masterpiece. Absolutely in my top 20 all time favorites list.

The camera work and imagery has a strange effect. A hypnotically surreal mediation on religion...

What it all means I don't really know, but it's a strangely beautiful film.

My Favorite WC Fields Movie

My second Favorite Fields film

One of my all time favorite films...best visual pun EVER!

Best Vietnam film ever made..period

Awesome little hk classic. Chinese vs Japanese Styles...exploding ninjas...crazy voltron burrowing ninjas...naked lady ninjas...the list goes on and on

This movie smolders with sex...and Walter Brennan is the shit.

2nd favorite Disney film,

Great character study. It's Kubrick of course it's great

Great Noir. One of the best openings in film History.

The inclusion of Jessi Spano is genius

Possibly the best post modern comedy of the 90's

Bava where have you been all my life?

mmmm...peanut butter....

Underrated early Piven Classic...MEAT TOSSER!

3rd best Spielberg movie after Jaws & Raiders

A whole lotta fun. Great colors. Creepy atmosphere...the "going crazy" sequences are classic

Fun Fincher film. Not his best, but a solid piece of entertaintment

It's a romance flick...one of the best...but nothing more...the acting is great and the story is VERY British..the last few moments they have together are amazing.

It's the kind of movie that is hard to watch now because so much has been borrowed from it. Still worth checking out though

Good...it's a little out there...but then again what do you expect from a Godard movie?

Kudos to the machine gun jump cuts and the rockin song they play on the juke box...anyone know what it is?

Possibly...just possibly the most beautiful film ever photographed.

A film of imense beauty and power.

New York Harold Tribune!

Great little short film. Well worth seeing

Wicked performances by Kingsley & Winstone & the rabbit

So much better than it deserves to be

British Giallo...Hitchcock finally being able to show, in delightfully grizzly detail, all of the quirks and fetishes that had laid under the surface in his previous films

This movie is better than losing your virginity

I mean seriously who knew Jimmy Stewart kicked so much ass

A Haunting and Surreal nightmare. An Alice in wonderland like experience set in the cruel multifaceted societal jungle of Los Angeles

or

An excuse for a little lesbian action because Lynch is a big pervert

A zombie fights a shark...nuff said

Damned near a masterpiece. An almost perfect visualization of a nightmare on screen. Mitchum will give you the Heebee Jeebees

This movie is great. The chemistry between Ford and Brando (Marlon's older sister) is unbelievable. Lang is an under appreciated master.

Another William Goldman classic

A childhood favorite of mine. I really wish they would release this on DVD

A good remake of Fistful of Dollars.

It has possibly quirkiest/awesomest theme some ever.

This film was inspiration for both Rodriguez's and Tarantino's first films.

Well worth checking out.

Absolutely one of the best movies I've seen in years. No Bullshit, a must see for ANY film fan.

2 words

White Bikini

Brosnan's Best

See mjgildea's review. It says everything I don't need too.

The birth of Fincher into the common vernacular

Pure hand held grainy terror. One of the first and possibly the best Zombie film ever made.

The director of Cat People strikes again with may be a perfect noir.

As much as I love this film, it's William Goldman who deserves the Oscar for the screenplay. Sorry Ben. Sorry Matt

How can you not love this film? I mean seriously?

An amazing little seen film. Well worth your time.

Karloff's last great performance. Watch for future super producer Frank Marshall as the ticket taker at the drive in.

pretty shadows

Part black comedy, part satire and part horror film. A whole lot of fun, but not for everybody

It's Running Scared meets Bicycle Thief

I don't know why people don't like this movie. It's superb

Nicholas Ray is cinema!

More fun than a barrel of busty baboons

Good documentary, nothing mind blowing but a well done look at the prolific director's life.

Worth it to see Stararo's cinematography and the sequence with the little boy in the house.

Franco Nero makes the most of this run of the mill plot and turns this into a solid watch.

A shipwrecked crew? Giant Crabs and Bees? Captain Nemo?

Count me in!

I'm so glad I was high when I saw this

A Spagetti Western/Samurai flick starring
Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress and Charles Bronson. Directed by Terrance Young!

Seriously, how is this movie not better known?

A Sex kitten traveling through space in a fur-lined spaceship, I mean how cool is that.

What I like about this film is it's deliberateness.

What I love most about Barbarella is how hard it tries,

It's like Bono.

Trying so hard to be cool...somehow makes him cool.

A Sam PeckinpAsain ridiculous action film!!

From the land beyond beyond, from the valley past hope and fear. I bid you genie now appear.

Quintessential Hitchcock. Who knew windmills could be so cool

Pure unflinching Machismo

I'm not really sure what happened...but it sure was nice to look at.

Great B Noir. Well worth checking out, just to see Tom Neal's disheartening look.

Not at all what I expected. The use to the theater stage and "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood"-esque production design in fascinating.

Can defiantly see it's influence on Wes Anderson and Monty Python.

Just see it. Also Bill Clinton's favorite movie

This movie is a hoot!

Wow...

A perfectly crafted film.

Possibly the best boxing movie ever made.
Better than Cinderella Man
Better than Rocky
Better than Body and Soul

Almost better than Raging Bull (almost)

Yeah. I went there.

Love that opening shot

Machinima at it's best

A perfect film noir using every film convention to their utmost potency.

Distilled Noir

100% Columbian Noir

This shit will make you crazzzy.

My favorite Kubrick. One of the best hiest films of all time. Sterling Hayden is a god.

I am so disturbed.

It's like Kubrick meets Polanski via Godard in German

Fantastic, one of the best tv docu-series around.

But it would be really hard to make a boring show about a 20,000 miles motorcycle trip around the world.

An early police procedural that was the template for Dragnet. Although this picture is said to be directed by Alfred Werkler it's actually a early directorial project by Anthony Mann.

Worth seeing just for the final chase through the sewers of LA

This is a 100% nostalgia pick. I remember I though this movie was so cool when it came out....

I make me sad

Great early action movie.

A great slow build until the admittedly "slightly" over the top ending

Cary Grant is unchained in this!

Best use of an umbrella EVER!

What happens when sociopaths fall in love

This movie is incredible. 2 Guys, 1 House and a hell of a wild ride.

The acting here is beyond top notch.

Wicked cool heist film.

An obvious influence in Reservoir Dogs and Walter Matthau is a bad ass... who knew?

Wow, just wow. This is my third to last Kubrick to see (Fear and Desire and 2001 are left) and man is it good.

The photography is breathtaking, the performance perfect and the humor delightfully dry.

I don't really know what just happened...I just know I want to do it again

Great character driven tragedy about master criminal Pepe Le Moko!

A great performance by Gabin that defines tough guy nihilism. One of films original badass anti-heroes

What's cooler than being cool?
Ice Cold.
What cooler than that?
Absolute Zero
What's cooler than that?
This movie

Endlessly watchable. Benigni is the shit in this movie.

Awesome Fuller Film Noir. Richard Widmark shines in another smarmy star performance!

A campy creepy cult classic from the madman Otto Preminger.

Performances all round are top notch. Extra awesome creepy award goes to the landlord. I feel all dirty.

Veronica Lake actually singes the film stock she's so hot in this movie.

My favorite Christmas Movie

Great early film from Doug Liman. Captures the late 90's late teen's x driven existential crisis

a beautiful film about the silence of god

Super Geeky fun

Superb Con film from David Mamet.

One of the scariest movies in a decade. Avoid hearing as much as you can about this movie. Just see it. Bring some depends

The best silent movie of all time. Beautiful, funny, romantic, suspenseful and inspiring...all without the use of words

Simply Amazing

Somewhere between Clive Barker, Bertoluccis the Dreamers, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Godard's Band of Outsides.

It's certainly an Experience

To know death Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!

Great 60's Sci-Fi

This is a very cool British gangster psychedelic sex romp with Mick Jagger and some very nice editing

Nearly perfect

Best Hobo movie ever! A great Evil vs. Not so Evil showdown.

This is a great James Bond film. Don't let the "rumors" that this is the blacksheep of the series dissuade you from seeing it. It's even got Emma Peel as the Bond girl. How cool is that?

Beautiful Cinematography and ridiculously good acting bring this haunting masterpiece to life.

Polyanna got hot in this awesome little British thriller/character study about a Scitzophrantic socio-path.

This is Badass.

Jack Palance as a mexican
Lee Marvin as Lee Marvin
A mine car chase
Exploding arrows
The glorious cleavage of Claudia Cardinale

Possibly the best bank robbery movie ever made

This is so the epitome of everything my childhood was. What that means I have no idea...

WAY WAY better than it has any right to be.

Pure Peruvian Pekinpah...this shit will make you loco!

This movie is amazing and I'm an idiot for not seeing it sooner.

Could the colors be anymore rich? This goes on the pedestal with Robin Hood and Wizard of Oz for pure Technicolor bliss

Bronson is great in his first starring role. This Roger Corman crime flick is a lot of fun and whizzes by at a blistering 80 minutes

The special effects are what really standout about this really interesting film.

A precursor to David Lynch, Tim Burton, Rex Meyer and Guillermo del Toro.

Classic "Guy comes into town and decides to clean up the rotten element" Western by the master John Ford. The economy of storytelling is really impressive in this kind sublime re-telling of the Gun Fight at the OK Corral

Watch Jimmy Cagney and Jean Harlow do something amazing with a grapefruit.

*snicker*

I've always been a huge fan of both Kilmer & Mamet's work and they are both in top form here.

A delightfully complex film that never quite pans out the way you think it will.

Worth it just for the line.
"Set your mother fucker to receive!"

Great psychological crime drama from the master Fritz Lang

PTA's first film is a stong beginning to an amazing carrer.

Fantastic sound design and editing.

Why does nobody talk about this movie? Coburn and Steiger are note perfect. The Flashbacks are a little much, but tolerable given the abundance of amazingness that is the rest of the film.

Way better than it has any right to be.

DePalma's masterpiece

Hitchcock meets Blow Up meets The Conversation

Unsettling or disturbing is a term that gets thrown around a lot today. Usually in regards to Cronenberg or Miike or Irreversible.

This film a text book of how to achieve an atmosphere of menace and unease without showing a thing

All Hail Dalton's mustache supremacy!

Really well done, only Hitchcock would take on the challenge of making a film that takes place completely on small life boat.

Really interesting film based (loosely) on the life of George Armstrong Custer. It's certainly guilty of a little hero worship, but a whole lot of fun.

Trivia Tidbit: Flynn and DeHavilland's last film together.

Best film of 2007

This retelling of King Lear is a cornucopia of lush colors and textures. From the Kabuki theatrics to the immense & bloody battles, Ran delivers on all cylinders.

Kurosawa's deep appreciation of John Ford can be seen through out this film. His use of master shots and landscapes allows the viewer to actually understand the tactics being used in the battles. A refreshing change from the "everything's a closeup" phase current cinema seems to be in

This retelling of King Lear is a cornucopia of lush colors and textures. From the Kabuki theatrics to the immense & bloody battles, Ran delivers on all cylinders.

Kurosawa's deep appreciation of John Ford can be seen through out this film. His use of master shots and landscapes allows the viewer to actually understand the tactics being used in the battles. A refreshing change from the "everything's a closeup" phase current cinema seems to be in

Brilliant British Gangster Film. Michael Caine goes on the warpath after his brother dies in mysterious circumstances.

Extra Bonus: Britt Ekland is wicked hot.

You know you love this movie too

Yes, I just saw it. No, I don't know how that happened.

First and best in the series

Great little Thriller by the only female directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, Ida Lupino.

It starts out amazingly and then sort of peters out toward the end, but overall very enjoyable.

How do more people not know about this movie? It's amazingly good.

I actually screamed holy shit 4 separate times.

A solid entry in the franchise, not nearly as bad as I had been told it was.

Seeing Bond operate outside of MI6 and all hopped up on angry juice was a refreshing change from the "Bond formula". however this is also likely the reason for the backlash it has received.

I've always liked Ben Affleck, something that has gotten me a lot of shit in my days.

So to all the nah sayers...

You we're wrong, he's got talent. Go fuck yourself.

= )

Awesome adventure film from John Huston.

It's great to see Katherine Hepburn have the stick pulled out of her ass

Bob Fosse's Boogie Nights.

Eric Roberts gives a fantastic psychopathic performance in this heavy drama by the master director.

Sam Peckinpah does Noir

This IS the Coen Brothers best film, and the 2nd best film of 2007, only slightly bested by "There Will Be Blood"

Another Great "Bunch of Guys (and this time girls) get together to kick some ass movie

Not quite as good as Where Eagles Dare but still a hoot

Absolutely charming. Peter O'Toole gives a fantastic performance as an Errol Flynn facsimile named Alan Swan.

Cabaret is a beautiful piece of film making and not to mention directing.

Liza won the Oscar that year, and she deserved it...how Fosse got that performance out of her I'll never know.

Also, hands down one of the scariest pieces of cinema ever created is in this film. When a group of young Nazi's sing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in a park, I literally get shivers up my spine.

This movie is awesome. You get the amazing scenery of Macao, Jane Russell & Gloria Grahame and Robert Mitchum is also once again an amazing badass. The fantastic character actor William Bendix does solid work as well.

Ryunosuke Tatsue would f@*k Anton Chigurh in prison.

This movie is amazingly bad ass. The camera work i's like the love child of Kurosawa and Leone, simply incredible.

A must see

Walter Matthau is amazing in this crop dusting heist film

Rockin film that is sadly not on DVD
*cough?* torrent *cough cough*

Stunning cinematography and delightful performances really bring this forgotten classic to life.