What are your favorite movies? [Archive] - Small Stream Salmon Fishing

Twise95

02-07-2011, 01:12 AM

After sitting on my duff all weekend watching a few movies, it make me think of a great idea for a Coffee House thread post. ;)

I was able to catch Goodfellas and Forrest Gump, the latter being one of my top 3 favorite movies of all time, on TV this weekend. Both of which are timely classics. I also watched The Social Network, which I totally recommend. Its a really crazy movie (exaggeratively) depicting how Facebook was formed, and it has a lot of crazy twists and turns. Really interesting though.

Anyways... what are some of YOUR favorite movies of all time?

Doesn't have to be one, could be top 5 or whatever. Just getting the thought going!

Gabe

02-07-2011, 06:55 AM

There's my favorite all around waste of time movies....Galaxy Quest, Princess Bride, Rounders, Italian Job, Ronin....I can watch them while doing something else and not feel like I missed anything yet also feel satisfied if I do nothing and just zone into them for the 100th time.

My all time favorite make you wanna get out to the gym then go in the back yard and chuck a spear movie: 300

Damn it's such a good ending to the movie it makes me cry even though I don't wanna cry: 8 Seconds

Best damn emotional drama with a crap load of meaning: Schindler's List

Blow your mind away with theories and what ifs: Usual Suspects and Inception

Star Trek, I can still waste time with that one too.

I haven't seen Tron yet so I'm curious.....for me it's mood dependent.

Shortbus

02-07-2011, 06:58 AM

Tommy Boy, hands down. Any of the Bourne movies will hook me even if I've seen them in the last week. And lastly, every christmas like a moth to the flame, The Christmas Story.

Gabe

02-07-2011, 07:03 AM

Careful JT, I actually burnt myself out on the Bourne movies!!! Don't ruin a good thing. :D

As for that silly movie, I finally escaped it this year!!!! WOOHOO!!

hamfish

02-07-2011, 07:38 AM

Bucket List was one that I enjoyed a lot, and as for funny stuff I still laugh at the movie: When Aliens Attack! Ack Akka Dak....

riverdog

02-07-2011, 03:00 PM

Stalingrad, The Hidden, District 9, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels are just a few I can think of right now, oh yeah The Good, The Bad & the Ugly.
I really liked the Last Star Treck Movie. Came out last year I think?

worm slayer

02-07-2011, 03:34 PM

You all havementioned some great movies especially the Bourne ones. Another good set is Die Hard and if you want a movie that he really gets his butt kicked in is The Last Boyscout. Some good clean funny movies are the ones The Rock, Dwayne Johnson does like The Gameplan and Toothfairy, The Run Down and Walking Tall are good to.

ryank

02-07-2011, 05:42 PM

Team America and Roadhouse...

Twise95

02-07-2011, 06:10 PM

Some sweet movies here! The ones I haven't seen and have been meaning to see from this list I'm going to compile and acquire so I can watch them with my roommates hopefully.

If any of you are into watching extremely R-rated films (maybe you Ryan since you suggested Team America) I highly recommend Machete, that just came out last summer. That movie was unbelievably hilarious.

Arctic

02-07-2011, 07:26 PM

I really like Jackie Brown, and Pulp Fiction. Snatch is pretty good to. Guy Ritchie is crazy!

Some newer flicks that caught my interest were Inception, Wall Street, and Nowhere Boy. The story of John Lennon, age 15-17... basically the forming of the Quarrymen, til they(John/Paul) find George, and split to Gemany to become the The Beatles. For pure, crazy humor... Get him to The Greek is cool! Extremely funny! The new A-Team movie is a good one if you wanna see pure action. Alpha, Mike, Foxtrot! Hahahahaha! AMF!

RollinontheRvr

02-07-2011, 08:15 PM

Surprisingly enough, no one has mentioned Avatar. Fabulous in 3-D or BlueRay. The Bourne Trilogy is always good, I am with JT on that one. Another good action thriller is Replacement Killers with Mira Sorvino and Chow Yun Fat (?) some good butt kickin' in that one. I haven't seen Machete but the chick in there that was in Avatar in definitely on my Celebrity List (yes my wife knows about the list...she has one to...;)). It might sound kinda dorky but I still like all the Star Wars movies. Platoon was good and Apocolypse Now also. The new Star Trek was good the first 5 times but is getting boring now...:o

Gabe

02-07-2011, 08:20 PM

I did next to my 300 comment then deleted it. I'm burnt out on Avatar already. :(

spactrukn

02-07-2011, 08:43 PM

Although it moves a little slow The American was a good movie. Buried was a little creepy, it made me uncomfortable for a while and Case #39 was pretty good also. As far as all time movies. Hmmmm, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Exorsist, Damien, Where the Buffalo Roam, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Seven Mules for Sister Sarah, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and Lonesome Dove.........Oh, and Bullitt. I could keep going on but I'll stop right there.

RollinontheRvr

02-07-2011, 09:10 PM

ThousandsOfCasts

02-07-2011, 09:25 PM

Ace ventura pet detective part 1
Man on fire
300
Gladiator
Gran torino
The notebook...just kidding.

Arctic

02-07-2011, 09:28 PM

Yes! Bullitt!...Bitter!

worm slayer

02-07-2011, 10:10 PM

Oh yes man on fire. Alright I'm gonna get a little sappy now but Ladyhawk with Michelle Pheifer and Rutgers Haugher is an awesome movie Matthew Broderick is in it to. I thought of another movie and that kiss taken with Liem Niesen,'I have special set of skills' in the end when he hooks the guy up.....if you've seen it you know what I mean anyway that is pretty accurate as to what would really happen.

Chinook SSSF

02-07-2011, 11:05 PM

Chinooks top 5 of all time! <---is turned on by a good story and movies that start with the letter T....

The Outsiders - Stay Golden Pony Boy
The Patriot - For the Millitia!
Taxi Driver - Martin you rawk! Best Director....
Tombstone - I'm your huckleberry
Stand by Me - Chopper, sick b@ll$

Noteable mentions

Seven Year Itch - Yes, Marilyn Monroe
Miracle on 34th street - B&W
Pale Rider or High Plains Drifter
Pulp Fiction - The 5 dollar Milk Shake
A whale for the killin - it's complicated

Documentarys

Winged Migration
American Drug War
Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Anything Fly Fishing Film by good director

salmonsteelheadsam

02-08-2011, 12:20 PM

big wedensday
goodfellas
the decline of western civilization
three amigos
american me
blood in blood out
full metal jacket
another state of mind
jessco white the dancing outlaw
electraglide blue
falling down
romper stomper

OregonSportsman

02-08-2011, 12:56 PM

Larry McMurtry films (Lonesome Dove Series)
Blow
Wedding Crashers
Dumb and Dumber
Dazed and Confused
Any John Wayne western
Jeremiah Johnson
No Country for Old Men
My Cousin Vinnie
Grump/Grumpier Old Men
The Great Outdoors
Tombstone
American History X

uofodux

02-08-2011, 02:08 PM

Comedy: Airplane! Caddyshack and Slap Shot
Drama: The Shawshank Redemption
Action: 300, Lethal Weapon
Old School: Sargeant York, Red River
Western: Shane, Good Bad Ugly
Whodunnit: The Usual Suspects, North By Northwest (I Love Hitch****)
Horror: Psycho (Did I mention Hitch****?)

OregonSportsman

02-08-2011, 02:19 PM

Man, how did I forget Caddyshack? I had a feeling I was leaving something out. One of my all time favorites, Caddyshack is a classic!

lesserevil665

02-08-2011, 06:16 PM

OK...*grabs the DVD case*...looking for some not mentioned yet..

- Lord of War
- Cannon Ball Run
- American Graffiti
- The Hollywood Knights
- Hot Rod (Made for tv movie from 1979...with the primer grey Willys)
- Strange Brew
- Remember the titans
- Casino
- 1941
- The Godfather (how was this missed???)

and shall finish with "The Hangover" :)

So there is the really short list...and 2 points for mentioning "Red River" earlier...

Chinook SSSF

02-08-2011, 06:26 PM

Cannon Ball Run was good an all but do you remember Gumball Rally? That was a great race movie!

http://www.smallstreamsalmonfishing.com/sssf2011images/gumballrally.jpg

lesserevil665

02-08-2011, 06:45 PM

Sadly no I don't remember that one...may have to dig deeper into the VHS cabinet to jog my memory...lol

I did leave out Midnight Madness though...with the amazing "Game Master" - Leon...and the trip to the PBR factory

Bohemian

02-08-2011, 08:07 PM

All mine are pretty "old school":

The Deer Hunter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harold and Maude
On the Waterfront
Twelve Angry Men

02-08-2011, 08:22 PM

Shomer shabbos!

Osmosis

02-08-2011, 08:25 PM

Shomer shabbos!

I was waiting for someone to bring up the Big L!

Osmosis

02-08-2011, 09:03 PM

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Twise95

02-08-2011, 09:44 PM

Oh no... not the GIF images! Those kill me everytime. :D

I was waitin' fer the Big Lebowski!!! Definitely one of my top 3 of all time.

MARK IT ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gabe

02-09-2011, 07:02 AM

I still have yet to watch Lebowski.....

ThousandsOfCasts

02-09-2011, 07:28 AM

I still have yet to watch Lebowski.....

That's just weird, man.

OregonSportsman

02-09-2011, 07:29 AM

Dude! You gotta watch the Dude!

OregonSportsman

02-09-2011, 12:18 PM

One of my favorites......

"Look, let me explain something to you. I'm not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That or His Dudeness... Duder... or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing."

Gabe

02-09-2011, 12:32 PM

Green Street Hooligans.

spactrukn

02-09-2011, 06:43 PM

Sam mentioned Electraglide in Blue. That is a great movie. Especially the end is just Epic!

Alan, those gif images remind me of some of those "weird dreams " I used to have back in my 20's.:)

worm slayer

02-09-2011, 07:27 PM

Ah yes lord of war lots of 'f' word and 'bad' 53X but its Nicolas cage another one of his is 8mm. And I love the dude to. Here are a few more classics, how 'bout Goonies and Stand by Me.