Favorite Movies/Good Movies You've Seen Lately

[Kanped]

Well, Victoria was naming some of her favourite movies in the ontroduction section but I thought that topic deserves its wn thread.

My personal favourites include; A Clockwork Orange, Oldboy, The Life Aquatic, Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence, In The Loop, Inglorious Basterds... there's so many more.

[john]

Inception, Shuter Island, Saw VI, Hangover I & II

[Curt]

Inception, Shuter Island, Saw VI, Hangover I & II

Woo! another Saw fan! In my opinion I,II and III created an amazing trilogy. V killed the franchise, they focused too much on gore and not enough on the plot. Six really went back to how the entire franchise should have been directed and was a great movie. Saw 3D......Such a predictable ending that I saw, now pun intended, coming since the the end of the original

[Kanped]

I never 'got' Saw.  I didn't like the first one; just seemed like a very behind-the-times cheap horror flick to me and the sequel jumped the shark a bit (the twists were a bit obvious, it broke the rules of the fist one a bit and it was WAY over the top).  Never watched any of the other ones.  Each to their own, I guess.  Maybe I've just gone off horror; I just watch them as comedies now but you need to find really bad ones for that.  Not too difficult.

[loldudex2]

My favorite movies are "Forrest Gump", "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World."

[Curt]

just seemed like a very behind-the-times cheap horror flick to me

Ya, to each their own, but that is the exact reason I loved the first one, I love the fact is was created on a low budget and that it was not a blockbuster horror flick.

[Gunshy1]

memento, The girl with a dragon tattoo, and the matrix trilogy are my favorite movies!!

[Victoria]

Kanped - A Clockwork Orange was an awesome movie.

[Evan]

Its not my favorite but its on my top 10 list: Inception. Its sooo insane and it hurts my brain... that rhymed!

[john]

Oh i forgot Brians song, still makes me tear up.

[phantom1412]

the Lord of the Rings.
My favorite movies of all time.

[Gunshy1]

Kanped - A Clockwork Orange was an awesome movie.

awesome if you look at it from a film making technique standpoint. disturbing if you look at it from a moral standpoint. If you know a little bit about the director it makes the movie much more powerful.

[Kanped]

Kubrick?  He's a great creative mind.  Morally, I think the message is pretty sound; state violence and totalitarianism is always worse than personal violence and never solves the underlying problems with individuals.

[phantom1412]

I forgot to mention "The Prestige"
A movies that every magician should watch

[John B.]

The new riddick movie is awesome.

[ronyo_faukx]

Is there a limit, cos I'm tempted to say 'All of the movies I've watched EVER! ... except for about 5'.

[Rob Wright]

A Long time ago.                               In a theater far, far away.                                 Star Wars began                                         I saw it 6 times at the theater

[Anthony]

A Long time ago.                               In a theater far, far away.                                 Star Wars began                                         I saw it 6 times at the theater

I have too many to list, but Rob I got ya beat by one on the Star Wars front...holding my breath to see what Disney does with the franchise.

[Don Boyer]

A Long time ago.                               In a theater far, far away.                                 Star Wars began                                         I saw it 6 times at the theater

I have too many to list, but Rob I got ya beat by one on the Star Wars front...holding my breath to see what Disney does with the franchise.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen "Star Wars", both in theaters and at home.  I actually went out one day, found the right theater, and watched all three Special Edition versions of the original trilogy in a single day.  When Episode III came out, I held a viewing marathon at my house, showing all five previous films in order of release followed by a midnight screening opening night of Episode III.

I'll put it this way - Disney knows the fans.  They've been very successful with fan-oriented events at the theme parks, especially in Orlando.  Expect some cutesy nonsense, since they are meant to appeal to kids, but expect enough meat-and-potatoes to keep dyed-in-the-wool fans happy.

[Rob Wright]

A Long time ago.                               In a theater far, far away.                                 Star Wars began                                         I saw it 6 times at the theater

I have too many to list, but Rob I got ya beat by one on the Star Wars front...holding my breath to see what Disney does with the franchise.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen "Star Wars", both in theaters and at home.  I actually went out one day, found the right theater, and watched all three Special Edition versions of the original trilogy in a single day.  When Episode III came out, I held a viewing marathon at my house, showing all five previous films in order of release followed by a midnight screening opening night of Episode III.

I'll put it this way - Disney knows the fans.  They've been very successful with fan-oriented events at the theme parks, especially in Orlando.  Expect some cutesy nonsense, since they are meant to appeal to kids, but expect enough meat-and-potatoes to keep dyed-in-the-wool fans happy.

At 8 years old in 1977, talking my parents into seeing a movie 6 times was pretty cool. Of course this was long before video tapes were around. If you wanted to see something more than once- the theater was the only option. I also saw the special edition versions as well, and lord knows how many times on tape/dvd.

[Don Boyer]

A Long time ago.                               In a theater far, far away.                                 Star Wars began                                         I saw it 6 times at the theater

I have too many to list, but Rob I got ya beat by one on the Star Wars front...holding my breath to see what Disney does with the franchise.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen "Star Wars", both in theaters and at home.  I actually went out one day, found the right theater, and watched all three Special Edition versions of the original trilogy in a single day.  When Episode III came out, I held a viewing marathon at my house, showing all five previous films in order of release followed by a midnight screening opening night of Episode III.

I'll put it this way - Disney knows the fans.  They've been very successful with fan-oriented events at the theme parks, especially in Orlando.  Expect some cutesy nonsense, since they are meant to appeal to kids, but expect enough meat-and-potatoes to keep dyed-in-the-wool fans happy.

At 8 years old in 1977, talking my parents into seeing a movie 6 times was pretty cool. Of course this was long before video tapes were around. If you wanted to see something more than once- the theater was the only option. I also saw the special edition versions as well, and lord knows how many times on tape/dvd.

I was ten when I saw it in October of '77, nearly five months after it was released.

I got as a Christmas gift a Kenner toy that was a movie viewer.  It took cartridges of 8mm film rigged in a continuous loop, and you hand-cranked the viewer while looking through an eyepiece with one eye and holding it out to a bright light source.  The one cartridge I got with it was a few scenes from Star Wars.  I played that thing to death, literally.  It was actually kind of cool, doing it in slow motion, frame-at-a-time.  Closest thing to a VCR I had at the time!

Video tapes actually WERE around at the time, but the players were still bulky, expensive and primitive - only wealthy people had access to them.  A few months before Star Wars was in theaters in America, there were bootleg videotapes (probably in Beta format) of it circulating in Saudi Arabia.  At the time, Saudi Arabia was the biggest market for bootleg video - it had a potent combination of Americans/Europeans working in the oil fields/company offices earning serious coin living and working in a country that at the time had no movie theaters and only cultural programming on television.  Oh, and no bars, either, because alcohol is illegal, and extremely restricted access to local women, especially to Westerners.  That Star Wars tape was selling for $1,000 a copy, and people were gladly buying them.  (I'm sure a few of the Arabs making oil money like crazy were curious enough to check it out as well...)

[Nurul]

So so so many to name, here's a "few" off th top of my head ..

Inception
Godfather I & II
To kill a mockingbird
Sleepers
Clockwork orange
Goodfellas
Casino
Batman TDK
Avengers Assemble
Toy story 1&2
Aladdin
The lion king
Finding nemo
Die hard with a vengeance
Pulp fiction
Scar face
Kill bill 1&2
Reservoir dogs
The list goes on n on n on

[Anthony]

Aside from your favorite Movie/s...lets add an alternate category, also include your favorite Movie/s about Magic. Haven't been a lot of them, and I saw The Prestige mentioned, and I watched "Now you see me" last night.

The Prestige - Loved this movie and I think it was set in the perfect period to go into a little bit of the behind the scenes of magic's history.
The Illusionist - More of a love story, but not terrible.
The Illusionist - (Animated) I loved the animation, and again more of a personal story than a magic story, but enjoyed if very much.
Now you see Me - Better than I thought it would be, the entire movie is about misdirection...and they pretty much remind you the whole time, see how soon you catch the twist.
The Great Houdini - This was a "Made for TV" movie from 1976, I was really into magic and this was about Houdini, who I was and still am fascinated with. Paul Michael Glaser (yes, from Starsky and Hutch)played Houdini and it went into a lot of his obsession with mediums and debunking their claims and builds on a theory about how he died leading to that climactic ending.  Probably very dated at this point but very good for a made for TV, IMO.

[Nurul]

I've only watched the prestige, illusionist, now you see me and Burt wonderstone. Out of them 4 now You See Me is my favourite

[Rob Wright]

At 8 years old in 1977, talking my parents into seeing a movie 6 times was pretty cool. Of course this was long before video tapes were around. If you wanted to see something more than once- the theater was the only option. I also saw the special edition versions as well, and lord knows how many times on tape/dvd.

Video tapes actually WERE around at the time, but the players were still bulky, expensive and primitive - only wealthy people had access to them.  A few months before Star Wars was in theaters in America, there were bootleg videotapes (probably in Beta format) of it circulating in Saudi Arabia.  At the time, Saudi Arabia was the biggest market for bootleg video - it had a potent combination of Americans/Europeans working in the oil fields/company offices earning serious coin living and working in a country that at the time had no movie theaters and only cultural programming on television.  Oh, and no bars, either, because alcohol is illegal, and extremely restricted access to local women, especially to Westerners.  That Star Wars tape was selling for $1,000 a copy, and people were gladly buying them.  (I'm sure a few of the Arabs making oil money like crazy were curious enough to check it out as well...)

Yea, we didn't have oil money. I think VCR's at the time wear $1,000 and up. We didn't get one until the early 80's. Even then they were $350. I think the first tape my parents bought was Footloose.

So so so many to name, here's a "few" off th top of my head ..
Pulp fiction
Kill bill 1&2
Reservoir dogs

A lot of people do not like Tarantino's movies. I think he's a genius.
Wiki says Reservoir Dogs had a 1.2 Million budget. It looked like it, but what a great movie. He always has a great cast of characters in his movies.
 
You can add Django Unchained to that list.