let's hear some of your favorite movies.
In no particular order
1) Shawshank redemption
2) Godfather
3) Pulp Fiction
4) Batman The Dark Knight
5) Tombstone
6) The usual suspects
7) Catch me if you can
8) Casino
9) The Goonies
10) Days of Thunder
I am definitely a movie buff, and I love just about every genre. I'm late to the theater here but I'll be the annoying guy spilling my popcorn on everyone as I Cosmo Kramer my way to my seat:
Cinderella Man
Patriot
Signs
Silence of the Lambs
Rudy
Hoosiers
Indiana Jones (the originals, not the Kingdom of the Crustal Skull)
Remember the Titans
Happy Gilmore
Braveheart
Gladiator
The Right Stuff
The Fugitive (and US Marshals)
Better Off Dead
Breakfast Club
Wedding Crashers
Sea Biscuit
Elf
...a whole bunch more, and many that have already been said. Great thread!
How could I have forgotten Silence of the Lambs? That was a good movie.
And I forgot Jeremiah Johnson! I have the CRS disease.
I've been meaning to watch that...I'm into that historical stuff, and HBO usually does such a great job.
and no one's even mentioned Deer Hunter.
I second @greshamdisco on Chernobyl. It's really compelling. I think it's really a good time to do a subject like that because the CGI/FX have gotten good enough to show how effed up the radiation and it's effects were...though it can be gnarly at times to watch.
I was thinking during one of the early episodes that it was almost like a horror/postapocalyse movie but instead of zombies or supernatural stuff it was the fallout and radiation. Since it was the Soviets you had the mindblowingly/frustratingly dumb decisions of a horror movie too. And yet it is based on real events.
True Romance (favorite Tarantino film, he wrote but Tony Scott directed)
Original Star Wars trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Shawshank
Dumb and Dumber
The Hangover
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Anchorman
Animal House
Blade Runner
The Watchmen
Princess Bride
V for Vendetta
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Ocean's Eleven
Avengers 1
The Dark Knight
The Matrix
Back to the Future
The Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
Leon: The Professional
The Fifth Element
Too many, I could go on and on...
fitzdawg. Walk Hard, This Is Spinal Tap and Best In show are all great mock-umentaries. This Is Spiral Tap gets my nod because it's great, it mocks a real and also great musical documentary ( The Last Waltz) and it was very original.
Forrest Gump. It's got it all.
