Another good movie is Chinatown.

My family owned the house it was filmed at (the one that had the lobster pond in the backyard. The mansion is on El Molino street in Pasadena, CA.



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A good one not mentioned was Sleepers (the one with Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, etc.)

I'll give my personal nod to the afformentioned Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, and Shawshank Redemption. Others will come to mind in time.

Pretty good ones I've seen of late: Pitch Black, and Deathrace 2000.

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Apocalypse Now.

A Clockwork Orange
Blade Runner

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donnie darko, fight club, LOTR, Matrix, Army of darkness, equilibrium, school of rock, harold and kumar go to white castle (they're the best/funniest duo since dumb and dumber) and south park bigger longer and uncut.

oh, and bubba ho-tep. possibly the best movie in the last few years.

[edit]i knew i forgot some... casshern(japan), and napoleon dynamite.[/edit]

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Oh and Akira. Can't forget Akira.

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UNCLE BUCK!

What's wrong with you people?!

Oh, and Shawshank's already gone hasn't it? Ice Age then. It's bloody hysterical.

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I second this, if Roach meant the new Chinese movie, and not any older American ones.

An absolutely amazing and beautiful movie. The strong message of this movie is so different compared to the basic Hollywood movies that you either love this or don't understand it at all. I deem this one of the best movies I have ever seen.

As a side note I might mention that this would be a very good propaganda movie, if it already isn't one.

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Thirteen
The Matrix
Fight Club

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Ed Wood (back when Tim Burton could do no wrong)

Anything by Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tennenbaums. Especially Rushmore though, if only for "Serpico as a high school play"...)

In no particular order: The 5th Element, 12 Monkeys, Se7en, Gattaca, Battle Royale, Magnolia, Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Ronin, Léon - The Professional, L.A. Confidential, Blade Runner, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Snatch, A Clockwork Orange, Memento, Grosse Pointe Blank, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Swimming with Sharks, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Chinatown, Drunken Master, Amélie, The Seven Samurai. They're all spanktacular.


[Yarr, here be potential non-blatant spoilers]
But... but... Hero comes off as mildly pro-tyrranical-dictatorial with the whole "yay for unification by conquering other nations as a necessary evil" thing. Otherwise I fully agree that it's a great movie.
[Yarrr, the spoilers be over]

There was a film on TV yesterday (in Finland) that I'd seen before and covers basically the same legend of the assassination plot of the first Qin Emperor. It's called The Emperor and the Assassin . It is lengthy, a bit excessively operatic, contains no flying people or anachronistic kung-fu swordplay, but it has collossal amounts of non-CGI extras clashing in huge seige scenes, a really neat looking assassin (braided hair with small bells attached to the tresses), and an excellently filmed coup-d'etat attempt (filmed in the same massive courtyard and palace as the opening and ending of Hero). More King Lear or Macbeth than a kung-fu flick, but still really good. Interestingly it presents an anti-unification viewpoint as opposed to the one in Hero (in fact, the PRC government saw it as a bit too allegorical and forced some cuts).

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Has Tombstone been mentioned? I've always liked that movie...
A little more recent, Road to Perdition is somewhere on my favorites list, too.

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Chopper
Akira
Memento

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

The Lost Boys was aweful, don't waste your time.

Silence of the Lambs

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Excellent choice

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

fear and loathing in las vegas
american history x
platoon

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Fifth Element
Blade Runner
SW trilogy
Spiderman 1&2
Terminator 1&2 (3 wasn't anywhere near as good)
Ronin
LoTR trilogy
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (haven't seen 2 yet, so I don't know)
Alien
2001: A Space Odyssey (hell, anything by Kubrick)
Back to the Future
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
True Lies (absolutely hilarious)
Meet the Parents
Rat Race
Memento

That's in no particular order.

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truman show

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Oh! And definately 2010: The year we make Contact (in addition to what Kyle already said). I liked it even better than the first one... less monkies, more Russians.

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Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

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Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.

I forgot Full Metal Jacket.

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Here is my really good movie list:

-The Matrix (Trilogy)
-Face Off (John woo movie, awsome stuff :P)
-Terminator 2 (A movie worth remembering)
-Kill Bill Vol.1&2 (havnt seen 2 yet, but its only 2 days away :P)

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Silverado
Fierce Creatures (Better then A Fish Called Wanda IMO)

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I'll second Napoleon Dynamite. I'm still not sure it was actually good, but I laughed my head off anyway.

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Open Range and The Missing, for new westerns

Hamburger Hill for Vietnam movies. Not nearly as well know, but it's a great movie.



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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

The Blues Brothers

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Someone or something that possesses unfathomable awesomeness

i don't know if this has been posted. (I havn't read the entire thread). But I would say The Lord of The Rings Trilogy has to be the best movie's of all time, in my opinion, and I bet many others aswell. Everytime I watch ROTK tears fill my eye. And I feel as if... it's finaly over, it's done. The ring is destroyed, Middle Earth is whole again. I feel as if a gread burden is lifted off my shoulders.

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Arkon............
Proud member of the Co-op

Planet of the Apes (the original, not the remake)

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I thought it sucked. Big time.

how could i forget

requiem for a dream

VERY good movie, not for the easily disturbed...

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Better soundtrack then film

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YES



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My ub3r l337 movie collection of infinit goodness
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Sneakers
Better off Dead
The Burbs
Fletch
Young Frankenstein
UHF
MST3K: The Movie
Goonies
Princess Bride
Happy Gilmore

And of course the obligatory Spaceballs & Holy Grail (though I won't be able to watch them for 10 years cause I know the lines by heart)

And a bunch of other movies I can't think of right now but will remember as soon as I press the "Submit Reply" button...

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"Life is like a vending machine, sometimes you don't get nothing."

Blazing Saddles

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Ghostbusters!

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Hell yah, that and Young Frankenstein too. I forgot those ones.

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007-- Goldfinger




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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

True Romance. My favorite movie- Brad pitt, Christipher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Val Kimlir, Gary Oldman, CHriusten Slater, Samual L Jackson. Written by Quinten Tartintino. It is one of the greatest movies i have ever seen, and theres a scene between Walken and Hopper that is probably one of the best scenes ever made. If you havent seen it, go rent it now. you will be happy that you did.

Oh, and very bad things.

It's really dark, but so very fuuny.

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If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.

Tomb Raider.

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Banks and banks of humming machinery! I've never seen so many knobs. We're going to have to do something, Charlie! Try pushing that button there. No? How about that one? No, not that one either. I know! I'll try pushing this one. Hold my hat will you? Good fellow.