Best Movies Ever

[sms316]

Comedy - American Pie
Action - Terminator
Drama - The Shawshank Redemption
Sports - Major League

Your nominations?

[adlo]

Comedy- Zoolander
Action- Matrix/LOTR- Return of The King
Drama- The Shawshank Redemption
Sports- White Men Can't Jump

[Courty]

Comedy - 40 y.o. Virgin
Action - Black Hawk Down
Thriller - The Departed

[adlo]

Good call on the Thriller- The Departed Courty. Didn't realise I could add genres :)

[Johnny Canuck]

Comedy- Flying High/The Blues Brothers/ This is Spinal Tap/American Pie
Action- The Running Man
Drama- Shawshank
Thriller- The Usual Suspects
Family- The Goonies
Sports- Slapshot/Happy Gilmore/Field of Dreams/Major League

[Minor_Threat]

Comedy - Detroit Rock City / Superbad
Action - Dark Knight
Drama - Scarface
Thriller - Monsters Inc.
Family - The Goonies
Sports - 1954 VFL Grand Final

[BrisWesty]

I'll chuck a couple of my favourite four word film reviews www.fwfr.com for each one too

Comedy - This is Spinal Tap - 11 out of 10 / Dumb and drummers / Hugeness of Stonehenge understated

Action - LOTR trilogy - Hobbit gains elf-respect / Tyler plays arrowsmith's daughter / Orcland, New Zealand.

Drama - The Shawshank Redemption - Raquel's arse hides hole / Morgan Freedman, eventually / Convict's shitty plan works!

Thriller- Se7en - Gwyneth reluctantly gives head / SINister Spacey sends F-HEAD-EX. / 10se but pre10tious (un4tun8ly).

Family - The Princess Bride - Columbo's tallest story yet / Witty wordplay, shitty swordplay / Old Falk's tale / Fingers go to 11

Musical - Grease - Become slut, get guy / Kenicke knervous about knewborn / Extremely old teenagers sing

Sports - Field of Dreams - Everybody loves Ray's mound / Catcher in rye field / Baseball Hall of Farm.

[jimandr]

Comedy - Life of Brian

Action - Die Hard

Thriller - Three Days of the Condor

Musical - The Blues Brothers

Sports - Bull Durham

Sci-Fi - 2001 A Space Odyssey

Movie that doesn't really fit any of these categories - Big

[Webster]

Comedy - Ford Fairlane
Action - Ford Fairlane
Drama - Ford Fairlane
Sports - Ford Fairlane
Family - Ford Fairlane
Love Story - Ford Fairlane
Chick Movie - Ford Fairlane

[goughy]

Comedy - Ford Fairlane
Action - Ford Fairlane
Drama - Ford Fairlane
Sports - Ford Fairlane
Family - Ford Fairlane
Love Story - Ford Fairlane
Chick Movie - Ford Fairlane

Clint Eastwood; I ****ed him! Whoa!!

Did you ever see his second movie 'Brainsmasher' (I think). Plain horrible, with a plain horrible Terri Hatcher in tow!

[Webster]

so many assholes....so few bullets.

[goughy]

Whores Devores!! We better stop or this will end up a Ford Fairlane'ism thread.

Wot, you thought we'd kill a ****in' Koala Bear?

[Webster]

have a Twinkie, snapperhead!

[Moe Norman]

Comedy: Life of Brian
Action: Tombstone
Drama: Unforgiven
Sports: Chariots of Fire

[gazgolf1]

Cmon Jazz Ive got my balls in a bunch!!!

[OMG]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Full Metal Jacket
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Color of Money
Cool Hand Luke
Better off Dead
Grosse Point Blanke
Doc Hollywood
Tin Cup

[goughy]

Most people play hard to get! I play hard to want!

[Webster]

You're 10 seconds away from the most embarrassing moment in your life!

[Dotty]

Better off Dead
Grosse Point Blanke

Two beauties. Add to that ...

Real Men
Hot Fuzz
Young Doctors in Love
Galaxy Quest
Slapshot
Life Of Brian
Vacation (original)

Okay, so I only watch one genre.

[goughy]

I'm trying to think of them, but I'm struggling to narrow it down! Shawshank has to be up there as one of the best ever made!

I may have to stick to movies that I own...

[damoocow]

Big fan of Akira Kurosawa - have to say either Seven Samurai or Ran would have to be in the top 5 of best movies ever

[PeteyD]

Ran is definately great. Probably about time to watch it again.

Ford Fairlane is pretty stupidly funny, nothing like Ed O'Neil singing Booty Time, Booty Time, across the USA. Doesn't beat Life of Brian though.

The Program is one of the better sports movies around.

Action - The Terminator
Thriller - Alien

[Grunt]

Comedy: The meaning of Life
Sports: American Heroes. Was a good psych up when I was doing triathlons.
Family: Cats & Dogs
Thriller: Can't remember the name but it will come back to me.
Action: The Matrix Series
Best Music Theme Song: Local hero - Mark Knoffler.

[damoocow]

watched King of Comedy [Robert DeNiro/Jerry Lewis] last night after not having seen it for over 10 years - what a brilliant movie !!!

[Courty]

Watched a new flick called 'Taken (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/)' the other night with Liam Neeson in the lead role. He's sort of an unexpected casting for this part, but turns out to be an excellent choice. The story is pretty good, too.

[goughy]

Bit of a sleeper this one was. Kind of just turned up, and is one of the best movies this year so far! Written and produced by Luc Besson (The Professional, Fifth Element, The Transporters movies) and I really like his style. Had that european produced feel about it.

I like the work he does with the nails!!

This should be in the upcoming movies thread shouldn't it - but of course Taken is probably gone from the cinemas by now. I made mention of it in that thread a couple of months ago. I did say sleeper.

[Eldrick]

just finished watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious for the first time for close to 20 years

knew every line and still laughed

[Nut]

Delirious has to be the greatest stand up comedy of all time.

My personal favorite movies - Snatch, closely followed by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[mike]

Comedy- Let it Ride / Holy Grail
Drama- One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Thriller- The Shining
Family- Toy Story
Sports- Rocky 1 and 2.Hmm. Very close.

Comedy- Life of Brian/Holy Grail (can't decide)
Drama- Cuckoo's Nest ("Want some gum?" Love that scene)
Thriller- The Shining (Nicholson is the best actor of all time)
Family- Toy Story
Sports- Rocky

Also Usual Suspects (at the end I'm like, wtf, no way) Princess Bride, Wizard of Oz and the original Willy Wonka.

[TheNuclearOne]

Also Usual Suspects (at the end I'm like, wtf, no way) Princess Bride, Wizard of Oz and the original Willy Wonka.

I'm trying to get a group of mates to watch this and they are calling me all sorts of ghey. Little do they know it's quite the adventure for all ages.

[Johnny Canuck]

Fear and Loathing. Fantastic.

Princess Bride is a classic.

[PeteyD]

Apocalypse Now
Princess Bride

[Hatchman]

Comedy - American Pie, Happy Gilmore a close second
Action - Terminator
Drama - ​Sleepers
Science Fiction - Avatar
Sports - The Natural
Horror - A Nightmare on Elm Street

[Johnny Canuck]

The Natural. Great flick.

[razaar]

The Natural. Great flick.+1
As Good As It Gets is another goodie.

[Marto65]

My favourite is still Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrrels.

My wife hates it ... because she cant follow who is who ...

[BrisWesty]

While not the best sports movie ever, I'll always sit down and watch The Rookie (the Dennis Quaid movie based on the true story about the high school coach who ends up pitching in the majors).

TNO, I think you need to get new mates. The Princess Bride is all sorts of awesome! I give it 6 fingers out of 5! (That's my little nod to Christopher Guest. He's the 6 fingered Count Rugen in TPB, and Nigel Tufnell whose amps go to 11 in Spinal Tap.)

[Courty]

Agree about The Natural. I'd say The Departed would have to be up there for me. Great cast, and the plot is like a roller-coaster!

[timah!]

Agree about The Natural. I'd say The Departed would have to be up there for me. Great cast, and the plot is like a roller-coaster!

The departed was crap compared to the original Asian version. It was called 'Infernal Affairs'. Worth the watch if you can find it.

[Bruce Dickinson]

Top Gun - comedy, drama, emotion, expensive fighter jets, Kelly McGillis and most importantly a Kenny Loggins theme song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC976fuQm4E&feature=relmfu

[solarman]

BAIT........good Australian drama :)

[LeftyHoges]

I really only watch one genre of movies but for the sake of this exercise I'll try and fill the original 4 categories...

Comedy - Super Troopers
Action - Inception
Drama - The Green Mile
Sports - Fever Pitch

[AndyP]

The departed was crap compared to the original Asian version. It was called 'Infernal Affairs'. Worth the watch if you can find it.You should read the book. Wow!

[Courty]

The departed was crap compared to the original Asian version. It was called 'Infernal Affairs'. Worth the watch if you can find it.

Was that the one with Reonardo Di Caprio, Mark Wahrberg & Jack Nichol-san & ? ;)


You should read the book. Wow!

Do you mean The Departed, or Internal Affairs?

[AndyP]

I wasn't serious.

[Courty]

I wasn't serious.

I didn't know that. I'd never heard of Internal Affairs.

[timah!]

Infernal affairs...

[AndyP]

Timah!'s "the original is better" line was like "the book is better" line that is used often.

[timah!]

Aren't you on holidays?

[Courty]

Infernal affairs...

Lost in translation... the Japanese are notorious for it. ;)

[TheNuclearOne]

TNO, I think you need to get new mates. The Princess Bride is all sorts of awesome! I give it 6 fingers out of 5! (That's my little nod to Christopher Guest. He's the 6 fingered Count Rugen in TPB, and Nigel Tufnell whose amps go to 11 in Spinal Tap.)

I'll be quoting this, i've been giving it to them for 6 months now. One guy can't find it in the local video store and is too soft to ask the sexy counter chick where it might be.

[TheNuclearOne]

Loved Pulp Fiction immensely, Gump was good too.

[AndyP]

Aren't you on holidays?Not from OZgolf. My leave application was denied.

[PeteyD]

Cos it's one louder eh!

[AndyP]

The Princess Bride
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/


People who liked this also liked: Stardust, Stuart Little, Peter Pan, Up, etc...
Really?

[PeteyD]

The Dread Pirate Roberts needs to fix it up.

[Eldrick]

is the princess bride some kind of forum word filter?

[spanner039]

The war lover
12 o'clock high
Saving Ryan
Apocalypse now
Thin red line
Flags of our fathers

My wife and I obviously never watch movies together

[Johnny Canuck]

Watched The Sting again late last night...its right up there. What a great movie.

[AndyP]

The Princess Bride
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/

http://www.ozgolf.net/images/styles/GamerGreen/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by IMDB
People who liked this also liked: Stardust, Stuart Little, Peter Pan, Up, etc...


Really?
I watched it with the kids today. Maybe not a classic, but it was definitely enjoyable with plenty of laughs in there for the adults.

That's "The Usual Suspects" (ruined by Virge), "Blade Runner" (meh) and "The Princess Bride" done. Next up is the Godfather (1972! I have my doubts that it will age well), and Eddie Murphy's Delirious.

[Ashes]

I only watched Godfather for the first time about 10 years ago. Stands up just fine, as does Part II.

[Goldy]

Yep....Godfather and GF 2 - both stand the test of time.

Godfather 3....not so much.

Sofia Coppola......woof.

[oncewasagolfer]

Pick of destiny

[Jarro]

Hercules Returns

[Ashes]

Hercules Returns

"Ooh, black undies"

"Are you suggesting I'm a regular visitor to the Vegemite valley?"

Classic movie.

[TheNuclearOne]

That's "The Usual Suspects" (ruined by Virge), "Blade Runner" (meh) and "The Princess Bride" done. Next up is the Godfather (1972! I have my doubts that it will age well), and Eddie Murphy's Delirious.

Godfather will be fine as it's mostly drama and isn't reliant on special effects, unlike most old sci fi's. Great movie.

[Daves]

I think the Godfather was also remastered into HD for the DVD releases.