Best movies evvvaaarrrrrr!!!1!!11!

[Nyghtewynd]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Groundhog Day
Let It Ride
Clerks
Pump Up The Volume
Total Recall
UHF
Stripes

[Blue Beagle]

Some honorable (Rowin Atkinson) additions to the silly comedy list:
"Johny English" - a spy spoof that's actually funny
"Keeping Mum" - off the wall dark comedy I'd have thought to be a Cohen

[Chudman82]

Wow, no mention of ANY Sergio Leone movies yet?

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
Ivanhoe(the 1982 TV movie)
Lucky Number Slevin
Layer Cake
Blood In, Blood Out
Always Outnumbered
Vanilla Sky
Coming To America
Trading Places
Boondock Saints
Dirty Pretty Things
Wicker Park
The Jacket
Brotherhood of the Wolf
NARC
City of God
Mississippi Masala
Event Horizon
Glory

And an honorable mention to most of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations, most notably Hamlet and Henry V.

[BF44]

Anyone mention "Memento" yet?

[big d note]

I'd forgotten all about that movie Brotherhood of the Wolf. I remember that the previews looked awesome, but I missed it in theaters and finally caught it on DVD but was less than impressed. Mani kicked ass, and there were some hot french women, but I don't remember much else about it.

Can't believe I forgot UHF before. And nearly every Mel Brooks movie qualifies for the comedy list: Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I, Young Frankenstein, etc.

[Blue Beagle]

Wow, no mention of ANY Sergio Leone movies yet?

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Dude, that just goes without saying, BEST MOVIE EVAR!!!1!ONE!1!one
(like better than The Big Lebowski)

A Fistful of Dollars

And a few ... (hey, if you're going to state the obvious)

Lucky Number Slevin

Pales in comparison to Keeping Mum

Cheers

[STL JA]

Anyone mention "Memento" yet?

I don't know if it's one of the best, but it is damn good.

[Blues Fan in SF]

No one else here shares my unhealthy infatuation with Miller's Crossing???

[SteveO]

I'm really not much of a movie buff, but some movies that have stood out in my mind:

History of the World
Animal House
Goonies
Shawshank Redemption
Crash
Snatch
Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels
Greenstreet Houligans
The Notebook (I cried like a little bitch.)
American Pies
Matrix
Strange Brew

[Carl Racki]

Nobody mentioned The Usual Suspects...surprising. Another great one with a good ending, especially if you are old enough to remember the Cold War is No Way Out with Kevin Costner, and a not-yet bipolar Sean Young.

Other favorites include Saving Private Ryan, Pulp Fiction, Boogie Nights...

Guilty pleasure in the hockey movie department is of course Youngblood. God love Cynthia Gibb...

[BF44]

Nobody mentioned The Usual Suspects...surprising

Agree -- a huge oversight on my part. I may only beg humbly for your forgiveness.

Kevin Spacey's best film....

[WaukeeBlues]

And Ruutu: The Big Lebowski is one of the stupidest movies ever made- maybe that kind of humor just doesn't appeal to me, but I thought it was God-awful and have no idea why people think it's so great.

Motha*ucka, slap yo'self.

No shit...

Waukee, why does it not surprise me that you think it is "God-awful"?

I think Goon kinda nailed it- it must just be one of those that you have to watch over and over and then start quoting all the time and that makes it more funny I guess... I donno, I thought it was terrible.

[the knob]

Underrated comedies:
Spies Like Us
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Spies Like Us made me think of Fletch!.... haven't seen it in forever and a day.

Which makes me mention The Three Amigos!

[Hannibal]

My favorites:

Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
300
Total Recall
True Grit
Silent Man
Blazing Saddles
Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Patton

thats all i cant think of right now.

hannibal

[the knob]

In memory of Roy Scheider's passing, even though I think the movie has already been mentioned, I'll list Jaws again. One of these days I'll sue TBS and TNT for having that damn movie on every week - if I flip there and start watching, I'll inevitably watch the rest of the show.

Trivia factoid - who here has read the book and/or knew that Hooper died in the book (shark crunch cage, shark eat Hooper) and the shark just up and dies, then sinks, instead of getting kablooied with the scuba tank?

[Hannibal]

I read the book when I was 11. Chapter 8 was my favorite.

I forget how they kill the shark though. There was a good reason...

[Carl Racki]

Gotta mention two from the Duke...Rio Bravo and The Searchers.

[Ehijo]

The girlfriend made me watch Stardust with her last night. Better than I thought! It was pretty funny for a fantasy movie.

Not that it's one of my all-time favoristes or anything. Just saying, it's pretty good.

[Portland Blues]

Bottle Rocket.

[cprice12]

In memory of Roy Scheider's passing, even though I think the movie has already been mentioned, I'll list Jaws again. One of these days I'll sue TBS and TNT for having that damn movie on every week - if I flip there and start watching, I'll inevitably watch the rest of the show.

Trivia factoid - who here has read the book and/or knew that Hooper died in the book (shark crunch cage, shark eat Hooper) and the shark just up and dies, then sinks, instead of getting kablooied with the scuba tank?

I had heard that somewhere before.

Another Jaws Trivia Factoid -- Who here knew that the actor who played the television reporter that was reporting from the beach in the movie "...a cloud, in the shape, of a killer shark." ...was the actual author of the book?