What are you favorite 15 films?

WeirdRaptor · **on:** December 06, 2004, 05:09:23 AM

Well, to start this off, I guess I'll go ahead.

(No particular order, other than putting my absolute favorite at the top, beyond that, no particular order.)

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Hidalgo
3. Troy
4. King Arthur (This year's adaptation.)
5. X-Men 1&2
6. Dragonheart
7. Braveheart
8. Jurassic Park
9. The Neverending Story
10. Star Wars: A new Hope
11. Black Hawk Down
12. Signs
13. The Sixth Sense
14. Pirates of the Caribbean
15. Ben-Hur

Malte279 · **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2004, 09:06:50 AM

I cannot give a particular order nor can I exclude that other movies that there are other movies that don't come to my mind right now which I'd like even better than some of those which I name here:

1. The Lord of the Rings Triology (I watched ROTK just yesterday)
2. Star Wars (I think I like the first three Star Wars movies better than the newer ones, while I don't say that the new ones are bad)
3. Braveheart (as with most Mel Gibson movies this one doesn't stick close to the historical fact, but it can make people interested enough to inform themselves, which is a great thing for a movie)
4. The Patriot (dito)
5. Gettysburg (unfortunately I've only the German version of the movie, but if you give me three connected words from it, I can continue by heart)
6. Dragonheart
7. Dinosaur (not bad, but it could have been better)
8. Lion King
9. Jeanne d'Arc (I'm not talking of a cinema movie here, but of a direct to TV movie which by far outmatched any cinema movie I've seen about her so far)
10. Shrek
11. Pirates of the Carribean
12. Forrest Gump
13. Shindler's list
14. Life of Brian
15. Das Boot

Malte279 · **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2004, 09:07:43 AM

Hi Weird Raptor!
I see you like the movie "The neverending story". Did you read the book? I'm sure you'd love it

Threehorn · **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2004, 09:16:14 AM

I watched all the films of it. They sooooo cool. But the first one has to be the best ever! of the three or was it four? can't remember havn't seen them in ages

-Threehorn

Nick22 · **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2004, 10:22:32 AM

1-3.LOTR Trilogy
4. Star Wars
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. The Lion King
7. Shawkshank Redemption
8. The Natural
9. Wizard of Oz
10. The GodFather
11. Hunt For Red October
12. It's A Wonderful Life
13. Jurassic Park
14. Superman
15. Pirates of the Carribean
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2004, 01:17:45 PM

My 15 favorites in no particular order.

1. Watership Down
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Jurassic Park
4. The original Star Wars Triology
5. LOTR Triology
6. Space Cowboys
7. Land Before Time
8. Dinotopia (could've been better)
9. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
10. Shrek 2
11. Liar Liar
12. Mrs. Doubtfire
13. Secret of NIMH
14. Pocahontas (even it's historically inaccurate)
15. Independence Day

There are many more I'd watch on any given day, but then my list would be too long.

Nick22 · **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2004, 01:24:12 PM

Dinotopia could have been MUCH better, it tanked after the opening miniseries.
Nick

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2004, 04:59:55 PM

Here's my list in no exact order:

1-3. Star Wars (the originals)
4. Dinotopia
5 & 6. Jurrasic Park (first two)
7. Iron Monkey
8. Dragonheart
9 & 10. Fast and Furious 1 & 2
11 & 12. Shrek 1 & 2
13. Matrix (first movie)
14. The One
15. *cough* Blade (first movie)

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #8 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:01:32 PM

I truly have 17 favorite movies, including Pirates of the Caribbean and Independence Day.

Malte279 · **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:05:39 PM

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Dinotopia could have been MUCH better, it tanked after the opening miniseries.

I was really disappointed that James Gurney who created the awesome books "A land appart from time" and "The world beneath" approved THAT movie! :angry:
However I wasn't very fond of his third bood "first flight" either.

Cera · **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:07:50 PM

hey i really liked Dinotopia. But of course, i have never read the books.
The tv series is pretty cool too

Nick22 · **Reply #11 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:11:06 PM

I think they changed many of the actors from the minseries.
Nick

Cera · **Reply #12 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:13:49 PM

yeah they did. i think they only had about 2 people from the film in it. :unsure:

Nick22 · **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:37:45 PM

Which is why I just couldn't connect with the series the same way.
Nick

Cera · **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2004, 05:46:47 PM

Yes i know what you mean

and its not even like the tv actors look anything like the film ones

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WeirdRaptor · **Reply #15 on:** December 06, 2004, 06:48:58 PM

Yeah, I've read the book, too, Malte. I was amazed to discover that the film only has abot 1/3 of the book's material in it.

Littlefoot1616 · **Reply #16 on:** December 06, 2004, 07:10:07 PM

There are soooo many flicks out there that I love. I can't possibly put them in any order so I'll just give ya a run down:

1. Anything made by Pixar! Love their films! I know the entire script to Finding Nemo (sad to admit)
2. Shrek 1 and 2
3. Resident Evil: Apocalypse - First one was poo but loved this one coz it was modelled much closer to the game. It also had Jill Valentine in it and she's my fav Resi character!
4. The majority of Jim Carrey films. All his funnies namely Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura, The Grinch etc.
5. Action films like Face/Off, Blade, Matrix, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
6. Kill Bill I also loved! Some real foot-to-butt hardcore action there!
7. Pirates of the Carribbean is another!
Man! I cant name them all! That's just a short list. You're probably be wondering "why isn't Star Wars or LOTR up there?" Erm...please refer to the topic "My Worst Movies" for those...

*braces for intense amount of screaming*

Nick22 · **Reply #17 on:** December 07, 2004, 10:10:37 AM

I love Jim Carrey too. He has a new film coming out, called " A Series of Unfortunate Events" It looks bizarre and he looks zany. I think I'm going to love this film. It looks almost Roald Dahlish in the trailers. But that's just me.
Nick

Threehorn · **Reply #18 on:** December 07, 2004, 10:11:28 AM

I must go see that film it looks funny!

-Threehorn

Nick22 · **Reply #19 on:** December 07, 2004, 10:16:30 AM

It opens on the 17th in America, I don't know when it will come out in Europe.
Nick