Favorite movies ever (and why)

[saintegenevieve]

Carny is Bruce Prichard's favorite movie, which says a lot about him. Hollywood people don't get that movie at all, which is amusing since LA people work themselves so much that they don't see their own carny in them

[saintegenevieve]

Great 80's movie about high school bully culture. Think JBL. Kind of the standard babyface model characteristic of 80's film but still preserving some of the 70's grittiness of such. 80's bullying was bad in ways that it isn't today. A lot of that got brutally cracked down upon by the State after Columbine, which is amusing since bullying didn't draw that event. The real theme was much darker, so much that the media couldn't cope with it

[saintegenevieve]

Boys Next Door was really violent. It's about two kids doomed for the monotony of manufacturing straight out of high school seeking an existential thrill in spree killings. Spree killers don't really exist anymore. I think the last one I remember were the DC snipers. It was a real thing in the 80's, when crime was much higher, of teenage boys (in one case, a girl shooting up an elementary school back in 1979 for fun) deciding to go on multistate shooting sprees. It didn't even make sense. It was like "We are in this town. Let's get a truck." Then knock on someone's door, rob and kill them, and steal. Drive until the gas is gone. Repeat. After 5 homicides, they'd disappear, caught later. The 80's had similar drifter killers. The I-95

It's surreal nowadays, even if school shootings are much more common. School shooters tend to have different psychological profiles. Thrill killers were absolutely terrifying and manifest of a deep psychopathy within society. Zoomers and millennials would interpret these movies as anti-hero fiction. It was a very real phenomenon

Herb Baumeister was a gay serial killer and another (seemingly) drifter killer. In 1992, he attacked flower and wedding shops along I-70, shot up like 6 women, then... disappeared. The killer's composite looks exactly like Baumeister's, who was a really angry gay guy in a straight marriage. It's confirmed that he killed around 20. I-70 spree killer isn't officially solved but it's Baumeister, no doubt. Same gun, same composite, same route

[saintegenevieve]

Speaking of which, this is what Herb Baumeister would be like in group therapy. One of the greatest acting scenes of all time

[Back to the Codyverse]

The Big Lebowski - hilarious and brilliantly written

Batman 1989

Thor Ragnarok

Avengers Endgame

True Romance

Pulp Fiction

I’ve got many others but these are ones I could never get tired of watching

[¡Twist Of 45 and 47!]

I didn't like it at first. I thought it was pretty boring compared to Tarantino's other work, which to be fair, is a lot different to his past movies. It was hard to believe that the same person that wrote the likes of Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds and The Hateful Eight wrote this movie where nothing happens. Being a Tarantino movie I gave it another go but thought of it as a day in the life of these three characters rather than a plot driven movie. That changed my whole perspective of it.

All three characters are great. There were some fools whining that Margot didn't get much screen time. She was always a supporting character. Her story was the back drop for Rick and Cliff. Seeing her watch her own movie and bask in other people in the theatre enjoying it shows off her innocence and sets up for the inevitable gut punch that we all know is coming.

Leo's ability to be a great actor pretending to be a bad actor thats trying to be a good actor is acting Inception. Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth is my favourite Tarantino character along with Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds (also played by Brad). Hes that one best friend that everyone needs.

The soundtrack is awesome and I still listen to it most days. Theres a Rolling Stones song in this movie that is absolutely perfect, as if it was written for that specific scene.





Runner up. A British gangster / comedy movie by Guy Ritchie. Can't go wrong. The dialogue is top notch. So many great one liners and witty comebacks. Something I don't get from garbage American comedies.

[PJ]

No particular order -

The Searchers

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Batman Mask of the Phantasm

[LA Times]

Bloodsport

Commando

Tom Yum Goong/The Protector

Mortal Kombat 2021

Enter the Dragon

[Figgycent]

Schindlers List

Very meaningful movie about the man
, and graphic depictions of the holocaust. It all leaves a lasting impression in the viewers mind.

Otherwise the LoTR films because they did a perfect job of bringing the books to life.

[JC Motors]

My Favorite movie is Hellzapoppin' from 1941. It's an insanely funny comedy that was way ahead of it's time. This movie paved the way for movies like Airplane! The Producers and MST3K. No other comedy in its era comes close to the insanity

[Back to the Codyverse]

Forgot to mention The Burbs.

Everyone in the film nailed their role. The characters had personality everything just kinda seamed perfectly.

Art Wiengartner: A thermostat on a home furnace; is that supposed to go to 5,000 degrees, you think?

[TheSystem 1.5]

Pick one of the first three Toy Story movies and you’ll be right

[Path 2 Glory]

All time? The Lion King. So many great messages and the nostalgia reasons. It's practically therapeutic to watch it at this point.

Movies I could never get tired of watching?

Rocky 1-3 (1976-1982)
The Never Ending Story (1984)
Lethal Weapon 1-4 (1987-1998)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Robocop (1987)
Road House (1989)
Blood In Blood Out (1993)
Toy Story (1995)
The Waterboy (1998)
Armageddon (1998)
Little Nicky (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Harry Potter 1-7 (2001-2010)
Holes (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)
Four Brothers (2005)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
Click (2006)
Role Models (2008)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Moana (2016)

[kinnikuman]

Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heroes
Empire of the Sun
Full Metal Jacket
Smoke
Oldboy (original)
Friday
The Shawshank Redemption
Shaolin Soccer
Funny Games (original)
Cast Away
Vertigo
Alphaville
Dumb & Dumber

[~*Young $ Money*~]

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