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This morning I realised that the films I think are the best films ever made
and the films I think are my favourites are totally different.
I want your top 5 favourite movies and not your top five best movies. For bonus points add 2 movies that you love that are also really shit.

I'll start.

5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
4. Trainspotting
3. The Boondock Saints
2. Starship Troopers
1. Wild at Heart
Bonus - Demolition Man and Universal Soldier.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, 117 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Anything with Jean Claude Van Damme in it.
Spelling police, feel ok to convict me if I've spelt him wrong. I can't be arsed to Google him.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
You mean Jean-Claude Camille Francois van Varenberg?
Universal Shirter.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:26, Reply)
'LOL'

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:42, Reply)
Okey dokey
Back to the future
Ghostbusters
Aliens
Raiders of the lost ark
Predator
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)

5. Copland
4. Die Hard
3. Aliens
2. Last of the Mohicans
1. The Usual Suspects

Can't think of that many shit films I erm, enjoy, but 90's action blockbusters are generally quite enjoyable.

*EDIT* Just remembered one of my all time favourites - Taxi Driver. How the fuck could I forget.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:25, Reply)
Brilliant idea
My FAVOURITE films are (beyond no. 2 this is pretty much off the top of my head)

1. The Matrix
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future
4. The Dark Knight
5. This is Spinal Tap

but I'm prepared to admit they wouldn't all make the IMDb top 100

Edit: Bonus points - Follow the Fleet (still great but Top Hat and Shall We Dance are obviously WAY better) and Event Horizon
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:26, Reply)
I don't think Event Horizon is shit
It's genius!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)
I actually concur
But it is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. That sort of makes it shit by association
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:46, Reply)
Quickly done so may change.
5. Goonies
4. Brief Encounter
3. Secretary
2. Alien
1. Bladerunner

Rocky horror show and ? (get back to you on this)
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Shit, I forgot all about Blade Runner
like tears in the rain etc
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:30, Reply)
in no particular order
Starship Troopers
The Crow
Aliens
Endless Summer 2

shit, can't think of a 5th

and only one shit, but great film: Killdozer

edit: Spinal tap is awesome too, but not sure if it makes the list
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Mate, you've only got 4 on your list
Surely The Tap is worthy?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)
it is great
but I'm sure that I have films I like more that would take that 5th spot
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:35, Reply)
But if you can't think of them...
in all fairness I'm going to come back to that list later and revise it totally, I know I am
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)
I've only seen Endless Summer 1
my dad's infuence there....
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:40, Reply)
the first is a wonderful film
the second is great. narrated by the same guy as the first, it has two guys basically doing the same thing, visiting some of the same people and places.

entertaining, even if you aren't mad about surfing
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)
I'll buy that, then.
I love the innocent racism of the first one.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:45, Reply)
it is good
big wednesday is worth a watch too

did you notice me saying that Dick Dale is playing in London soon?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:46, Reply)
I didn't - but am very excited to hear that
*googles*
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:55, Reply)
I have a shameful secret love
for The Fast and the Furious

1. Dog Day Afternoon
2. Master and Commander
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Some Like it Hot
5. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

I have many favourite films, but the ones above are the ones I can watch over and over again
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:30, Reply)
I'm with you on the fast and the furious
to the extent I have seen Tokyo Drift three times.

I'm not ashamed!!!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)
tokyo drift is a buttload better than the second one at least

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)
Tokyo Drift is easily the best of the three
*edit* Its 4 now though
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)
There's four
and the acting in Tokoyo is even worse that Paul woodenface whatshis face
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:45, Reply)
Ha I got my edit in before you posted your correction so you lose!
Tokyo Drift is the best Fast and the furious film no contest, Three words, Hot Japanese Girls.

Oh and its Tokyo. Swish!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:52, Reply)
I'll do mine in a few
But have you managed to see Boondock Saints II yet? It's genius!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)
I've got both lined up after seeing a few people rave on about them
along with Christopher Walken at his most intense playing the Angel Gabriel in Prophecy. Some quality film time for me coming up.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:39, Reply)
I saw it a couple of weeks ago
And thought it was terrible. But as the days went by I found myself wanting to watch it again so I did and loved it. Who ordered the whup ass fajita?!! We are totally fucked! Not just fucked, like elephant dick, pound in the ass, no reach-around, jungle fucked!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:47, Reply)
Quiet!
Romeo's crying.

I loved it, it's a simple pleasure.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:53, Reply)

The Man Who Fell to Earth
Labyrinth
Absolute Beginners
The Hunger
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.


Love,

Monty.
xxx
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I hope you're got a security system at Davros Towers
because I'm coming for you, pal....
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)
Oh yes,
locking front and back doors and everything!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)
You wouldn't want him near your back door

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)
Pfffft!

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:48, Reply)
I love shitty chick flicks
Legally Blonde, Clueless, Just Friends, The Holiday etc etc

Decent(ish) films I love...

(edit) Monsters Inc. Best. Film. Ever.
Groundhog Day
Shawshank Redemption
Tron
10 Things I hate About You (should that be in the first list?)
Ong Bak (and by extension The Warrior King)
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:35, Reply)
Shawshank and Groundhog only get decent(ish) status?
My gaster is well and truly flabbered
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)
They are awesome
but feel tainted by my love of really crap films.

I also like Trees Lounge. A film where absolutely nothing happens
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Haven't seen it
The idea of growing or re-planting trees in an enclosed space such as a lounge clashes with my eco-warrior ideals
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:42, Reply)
I see....
it's starring, writen and directed by.. crap just lost his name.. the weird looking one from Reservior Dogs.. Steve something... argh too stubborn to google... hard to spell surname... Buscemi! Yes woo go me.

*small victory dance*

OH how could I forget Monsters Inc? I freaking LOVE that film.
I've devised a plan using mainly spoons...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:47, Reply)
I was with you at "the weird looking one"
and before you even mentioned Reservoir Dogs :-)

Fargo! Oh my god, there's no Coens on my list! What am I thinking?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:05, Reply)
fucking love Clueless
but that is probably mostly to do with my enormous throbbing love for Alicia Silverstone
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:45, Reply)
Hmm...
1. Monte Carlo or Bust
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Alien (the first one, just in case there was any doubt)
4. Taxi (the original one in French - you know, which was actually funny)
5. A Very Long Engagement

Bonus points...I'll get back to you
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)
Grah
Have to agree with you about Monte Carlo or Bust, I love the film and as I havent seen it in ages I will now have to watch it when I get home.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 14:10, Reply)

The Warriors
Performance
Time Bandits
One Armed Boxer II
Wild Style
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)
Performance? Really?
Good film, but enjoyable and rewatchable? Might just be my Jaggerphobia.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:40, Reply)
I firmly believe it to be the best film ever made.
Seriously. I watch it at least 3-4 times a year.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)
That's sort of my point
I love Se7en, for example, to death (appropriately). But I still don't watch it very often, cos it's fucking upsetting

But it's not my FAVOURITE film nor the one I consider to be the best ever, so I see your point
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:48, Reply)
I went to sleep during Se7en in the cinema
Bongs before warm, dark cinemas do that to a fellow....
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:49, Reply)
Dude
*looks appalled and fails to think of any non-90's vernacular*
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:58, Reply)
Ooh forgot the Warriors
Although I'm going to argue that it's a favourite "shit" film..
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:42, Reply)
HOW DARE YOU
'Baseball Furies dropped the ball'

The soundtrack LP is one of my favourite records. The opening bars of 'In The City' fair bring a tear to my eye.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:48, Reply)
These are all films I will make a point of watching if I see them on
Mallrats
The Goonies
Labyrinth (sorry Monty)
Robocop
Gremlins

I also have a strange love for Thundercats the Movie and Garbage Pail Kids The Movie. Man, I was such an easy shill when I was a kid!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)
Mallrats!
How the fuck did I leave that or Clerks off my list?!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:39, Reply)
I thought the same reading that.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:49, Reply)
at least fucking spell it right, eh?

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:39, Reply)
Oops
changed now
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:41, Reply)
Here goes.
Evil Dead (all three of 'em) - "Aw, that was just pillow talk, baby."
Dazed and Confused - "That's what I like about them high school girls - I get older, they stay the same age."
The 5th Element - "Chi-kan. Goot."
Iron Man - "In a cave, with a box of scraps!"
Tank Girl - "I'm gonna need, like, a microscope and tweezers."

Shit but great - Hackers, BioDome, Dude Where's My Car.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:46, Reply)
I once went out with a girl whose favourite film was Biodome
I had to break up with her soon after finding out.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:50, Reply)
You are dreadfully, dreadfully wrong, sir.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:53, Reply)
tank girl is dreadful
although I would break Lori Petty (if that's indeed her name)

also, hackers is definitely one of my shit but great films too. nice one
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Tank Girl has Ice T as a furious ninja kangaroo.
This is the pinnacle of cinematography.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:00, Reply)
No I'm not
she had hairy nipples too
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:04, Reply)
How dare you!
Bio-Dome is comedy gold!

'Choo lose the blanket, choo lose the pillow'
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:03, Reply)
But favourite film?

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Evil Dead - Army Of Darkness, is a classic
Clatto Verata N... Necktie... Neckturn... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Clatto... Verata... N-
[coughs]
[pause] Okay... that's it!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:53, Reply)
"you're king of two things. Jack and Shit."
"and Jack left town"
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:55, Reply)
In no perticular order....
1) Big Fish
2) The Muppet's Christmas Carol
3) Love, Honor & Obey
4) Layinth
5) Pick any Will Smith film, they're all pretty much the same.
6) What Dreams May Come, Biocentinal Man & Patch Adams*
7) London (with Jason Strefham)
8) Reign Over Me
9) Rogue Trader
10) Boondock Saints

* It's all in one box set, so that counts.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Never have I seen a list
that vascillates from the sublime to the ridiculous so quickly.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:01, Reply)
Did I mock you for your really really shit choices? No, I didn't, because I'm not someone who aspires to be Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:03, Reply)
I wasn't mocking you
It was kind of a compliment. An eclectic taste is to be admired. Thanks for flying off the handle so quickly though
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:04, Reply)
I admit, I had to make up my own meaning for the word "vascillates".
=(((
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Hehe
I've used that word an unnecessary number of times in the last 24 hours. I'll be moving on soon. Am open to suggestions for a new word to use to make me look smarter than I am
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:24, Reply)
Hmmm
This changes all the time and depends on my mood, but the Number One never changes

1. Some Like it Hot
2. Jailhouse Rock
3. Little Shop of Horrors
3. Close my Eyes
4. A Room for Romeo Brass
5. Nikita

You know what, that's a load of shit because I've left no room for Coyote Ugly, Cinema Paradiso, Ten Things I hate About You, Gran Torino, Goodfellas, I could go on.

Sack it. I hate lists.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:58, Reply)
Close my Eyes?
You're SICK!!! I live in Norfolk and even I think that's wrong!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:01, Reply)
I'm an only child

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:03, Reply)
Ever wanted a casual brother?
Sorry. When in Rome...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:03, Reply)
If you look like a young, smartly-dressed Clive Owen,
then yes
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:06, Reply)
Define "young"
I'm younger than him...

Can you also provide very loose definitions for "smartly-dressed" and "good-looking"?

Actually, I've just remembered, I have pics on my profile now thnaks to my eventual conquest of easy-to-use technology. You can summarily dismiss me out of hand yourself
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:11, Reply)
Well, like an 80s yuppie
Like Clive in the film. You need a cream linen suit and an air of quiet chaos about you.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:19, Reply)
I can bring the chaos part
Quiet has repeatedly proven to be beyond me
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:24, Reply)
Nah he can get a bit raucous
Have you seen the film? It's WELL 80s.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:29, Reply)
I have, but not in years
Saw it when I was about 13. Weirded me out a bit. Have Googled Clive Owen and am confident that I look nothing like him. Am also devoid of cream suit, 80's effects and underlying air of menace. So... sex is probably off, I'm guessing
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:33, Reply)
I've always loved it
I've got it taped off the telly.
Yeah, sex is off, unless you do a bit of genealogy and find out we're related.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:39, Reply)
This is a first
Usually girls at least know what I look like before telling me sex is off. Not LONG before, obviously. Right, I'm off to www.forgeafamilytree.com to blackmail you into it
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:42, Reply)
Awww
I love Coyote Ugly, that is a shit film, but a good film!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:02, Reply)
I love it so much for its shitness and loveliness

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Oooh
1. Die Hard
2. Shoot 'Em Up
3. The Three Amigos
4. The Rock
5. American History X

Shit films that I love - Under Siege and Mannequin
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:01, Reply)
Oh'yeah', American History X should go on there.
And "Van Wilder: Party Liason".

I'm not sure why one made me think of the other.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:04, Reply)
That is a strange pairing right there!! :S

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:05, Reply)
BITE THE CURB ! THAT'S NOT A CURB ! IT'S FOR MY SCHLONG !

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:08, Reply)
Under Seige is NOT a shit film
you take that back right now!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Anything with Seagal is automatically shit
I'm sorry to break this to you.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Well it is a bit shit...
but I love it anyway!

Sort of like Con Air and Executive Decision! Hehe I bloody love Executive Decision, mainly because of John Leguizamo!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:07, Reply)
I always think of that film whenever I see those little plastic coffee stirers

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:15, Reply)
Hahahaha
Madness!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:24, Reply)
I had to download mannequin the other day.
I just had the urge! Its awesomely 80's
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:07, Reply)
I brought it for £6 off Play.com
in an 80's box set which contained:

Say Anything
Mannequin
Overboard
When Harry Met Sally
Big

Woo!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:09, Reply)
I'm still jealous of the apartment in "Big"
i'm almost 33
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:13, Reply)
When harry met sally and big are awesome films
But Overboard I haven't seen.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:17, Reply)
Overboard is thoroughly entertaining
Just for the early chemistry between Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:23, Reply)
Die Hard is just brilliant
another film that PROVES that all the best films were made in the 80's. And before anyone can argue with me I would just like to say "la la la, i'm not listening".
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Fuck.
1. Under Siege
2. The Rock
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Ghostbusters
5. Indy - Raiders
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:14, Reply)
In no special order....
Usual Suspects
Leningrad Cowboys
Shawshank
Blues Brothers (orig)
North by Northwest

Have problems staying awake for a whole film these days (Nurse!)
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:21, Reply)
No particular order
Back to the Future
Elf
xXx
Dead Silence
Gothika

and an extra 1 - The Great Escape
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:28, Reply)
This was very difficult.
Bladerunner
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Leon
My Neighbour Totoro
Dogma

Bonus Duel and Aliens Resurrection
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:30, Reply)
Duel's fucking awesome!
*highly unconvincing outrage*
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:31, Reply)
Yeah but my favourites went to seven so that's the only way I could get those two up there.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:35, Reply)
Fair play
I thought you were classifying it as a shit film you liked
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:38, Reply)
Goodfellas
Tim burton's the nightmare before christmas
Fight club
La haine
Raiders of the lost ark

My shit choice is Dirty dancing
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:34, Reply)
Aww good shit choice
I do like that film... but not as much as I like Pretty Woman! :D
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:44, Reply)
Woo, crap films I love....
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
The Omega Man.
Pineapple Express.
Eyes Wide Shut.
Head (The Monkees go psyche)

Edit - and Vanishing Point/Death Race 2000 (original one)
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:35, Reply)
I only own 5 movies. So i suppose they would be the favourites
Once were Warriors
Memento
Usual Suspects
Leon
La Haine

Although I only own the first to remind me to never watch it again.

Utterly shit films that I love? The Fast and the Furious. Starship Troopers.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:40, Reply)
starship troopers isn't shit
it's fucking awesome
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:50, Reply)
By the cinematic definition of shit
it's shit. Awful acting. Piss-poor plot. Cringeworthy script.

which was the point of this, surely?

And yet, yes, it is awesome.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Is it not an ironic parody?
La Haine is superb btw
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 13:27, Reply)
I don't know. I've always assumed not
I mean, it's a bit tongue-in-cheek - but still shit, in a good way.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Here we go
Versus
Super Troopers
Boondock Saints
Akira
Dogma

Shit films I love - Alien Vs Predator, Ong Bak, 300, Universal Soldier, Spirited Away, Transformers 2.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 13:47, Reply)

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