no order:

1. Desperado and Once upon a time in mexico-both excellent shoot um ups.
2. The creepers: filmed in the 60's or 70's a hilarious british horror movie. They literally introduce a new character 5 minutes from the end of the movie that commits all the crimes that have happened in the movie.
3. Haggard-a hilarious story with a ridiculous plot.
4. Happy gilmore
5. the shawshank redemption

Just watched "Waking Life". Watched it when I was really tired, too. If anyone has seen it, you'll know why that was so cool.

It's animated with a very bizarre animation style, and it's about lucid dreams. It has many subversive philosophical references, and it just totally rocks.

I rented it at Blockbuster, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

Posted by Fubster Just watched "Waking Life". Watched it when I was really tired, too. If anyone has seen it, you'll know why that was so cool. I rented it at Blockbuster, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

I rented my copy from the library, another place to try. I find my library is a good place to find unusual and foreign films, and it's free rental.

I always forget movies in these types of list, but off the top of my head:

Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
City of God
Being John Malkovich
Anything by Wes Anderson (sans Bottlerocket, which I haven't bothered to watch yet)

Posted by Kbasa 3. Haggard-a hilarious story with a ridiculous plot.

Oh man, hilarious movie!

k well here we go, in no order, and leaving MANY out..
5.Dazed and confused
4.Aliens/Predator movies, no not VS
3.Equilibrium
2.The Pest - Come on now, John Leguizamo, nothing more needed
1.Fubar - A must see, hilarous movie

A few other mentions....

Shaun of the dead
Office Space
28 Days Later
Kill Bills
Badder Santa
Resevoir Dogs
Bubba Ho Tep
Evil Dead 1 2, and Army Of Darkness
Of course Star Wars

I could go one forever with this one, I'm spent

Top 5 movies :

- Muriel's wedding
- Mallrats
- Grease
- Almost Famous
- Billy Madison



I gotta say that I love to watch Adam Sandler movies. He just kills me.

Posted by Fubster Just watched "Waking Life". Watched it when I was really tired, too. If anyone has seen it, you'll know why that was so cool. It's animated with a very bizarre animation style, and it's about lucid dreams. It has many subversive philosophical references, and it just totally rocks.

Awesome movie, but believe it or not it was actually shot using live actors.. then the animation was done with some custom software. Very bizarre movie even without the animation.

Posted by state of bean Awesome movie, but believe it or not it was actually shot using live actors.. then the animation was done with some custom software. Very bizarre movie even without the animation.

Waking Life was very good.

Now I'm looking forward to Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly (2006), done in a similar style...
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/

...though I'm also patiently awaiting Linklater's 2005 remake of Bad News Bears too:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0408524/

Fight Club
eternal sunshine
american beauty
Harold & Maude
dawn of the dead (original)

I'll just name off a lot of good movies...

Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, American History X, All of the Star Wars movies, Der Untergang (actually I haven't seen it yet, I'm downloading it now...), Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, American Beauty... I can't really think of others right now but theres a lot more that I enjoy. I guess my vision of movies is pretty much the big box office hits and violent movies. I haven't watched that many films that most people would call "intelligent". I guess I have bad taste in movies.

Whoa, only one fight club? What's wrong with you people?

I'm a big fan of Alice in Wonderland, I will definitely check out Alice.

1) Braveheart- only movie besides It's a Wonderful Life to make me cry

2) The Matrix(1st & 2nd)- I am soooo Trinity. =) Did anybody else notice how ridiculously obvious it was that that whole series was about the "Second Coming" or the end of the world: Neo=Messiah, Agent Smith=AntiChrist, Trinity, Zion(I mean come on).

3) Fight Club- Whoa...freakin' amazing. To this day when I here the closing credits song "Where is my mind" by the Pixies, I get all warm and fuzzy inside. =) And Edward Norton is sooo hotter than Brad Pitt. Love that scene of him running in those white boxers...*sigh*.

4) Pulp Fiction- Just plain cool and disturbingly hilarious

5) Muppets from Space- Freakin' good, clean fun

Other good ones: Donnie Darko, Snatch(amazing soundtrack), Disney's Pocahontas(just one of my personal faves =)), ANY MONTY PYTHON MOVIE, and many y'all have already named.

Posted by Zephyr 3) Fight Club- Whoa...freakin' amazing. To this day when I here the closing credits song "Where is my mind" by the Pixies...

best quotes from that movie:

"You met me at a very strange time in my life."

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."

"I see all this potential and I see it squandered... Goddamn it, an entire generation pumping, waiting tables, slaves with white collars."

"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place, we have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives."

Samurai

Snatch is a great movie i must say, good dark humor also just a great movie in general, the way its narrated makes it great.

Posted by Particle Man I'll just name off a lot of good movies... Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, American History X, All of the Star Wars movies, Der Untergang (actually I haven't seen it yet, I'm downloading it now...), Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, American Beauty... I can't really think of others right now but theres a lot more that I enjoy. I guess my vision of movies is pretty much the big box office hits and violent movies. I haven't watched that many films that most people would call "intelligent". I guess I have bad taste in movies.

Hmm, I guess we are stuck in the same boat. I like a ton of those, pulp fiction, saving private ryan, and enemy at the gates are probably the best on that list.

Posted by Kbasa Snatch is a great movie i must say, good dark humor also just a great movie in general, the way its narrated makes it great.

That was an awesome movie.

Local Hero

Delicatessen

Curdled

Blade Runner

High Fidelity

Well, that's a start, but it would be more top-500 for me...

1)The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
My all time favorite movie ever. It's a very freaky German impressionist silent film. Very unnerving, with it's jagged, angular background paintings, pallid makeup affects, and eery pantomime movements of the actors.

2)Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The first and arguably the best movie of the zombie genre. Oddly enough, it doesn't focus on the zombies, but rather the inner turmoil among the people fighting to survive inside a farmhouse besieged by the living dead.

3)Tank Girl (1995)
B-Movie goodness. Loosely (and I do mean loosely) based on one of my favorite UK import comics. Storywise, nothing like the comic, but the set design and models have that one-of-a-kind Jamie Hewlett flair to them. And the humor in the movie, while not as raunchy as the comic, keeps to the spirit of the comics. Fun fact: Stan Winston re-used the animatronic kangaroo outfits from Tank Girl in the utterly crappy Warriors of Virtue.

4)Bubba Ho-tep
It's freakin' Bruce Campbell... playing as Elvis... fighting mummies! How the hell can anybody not dig a movie like this?!

5)Remo Williams (1985)
Best action movie ever made. Nuff said.

Posted by Mutt12 2)Night of the Living Dead (1968) The first and arguably the best movie of the zombie genre. Oddly enough, it doesn't focus on the zombies, but rather the inner turmoil among the people fighting to survive inside a farmhouse besieged by the living dead. 3)Tank Girl (1995) B-Movie goodness. Loosely (and I do mean loosely) based on one of my favorite UK import comics. Storywise, nothing like the comic, but the set design and models have that one-of-a-kind Jamie Hewlett flair to them. And the humor in the movie, while not as raunchy as the comic, keeps to the spirit of the comics. Fun fact: Stan Winston re-used the animatronic kangaroo outfits from Tank Girl in the utterly crappy Warriors of Virtue. 5)Remo Williams (1985) Best action movie ever made. Nuff said.

I'm glad someone mentioned the original Night of the Living Dead! I loved that movie and the 1985 remake with Patricia Tallman and Tony Todd was pretty good too. It stuck to the original, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tank Girl was a blast. Everytime I watch Law & Order: SVU, all I can picture is Ice-T as a bio-engineered kangaroo guy. The movie was a blast! As for Remo Williams, one of my most favorites of all movies. That, for me, is a rainy afternoon movie where I can just sit back, eat burritos and enjoy... "you move like a pregnant yak!"

Do you guys remember this movie: The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai? Now there is a movie I would love to see remade with a little more money. If I remember right, there were supposed to be a couple of these movies made, but alas, none ever materialized.

Anyways... Oh and for the "Alien" series, the first will always be the best. That was just 2 hours of fear and tension.

Samurai

Posted by SamuraiI'm glad someone mentioned the original Night of the Living Dead! I loved that movie and the 1985 remake with Patricia Tallman and Tony Todd was pretty good too. It stuck to the original, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tank Girl was a blast. Everytime I watch Law & Order: SVU, all I can picture is Ice-T as a bio-engineered kangaroo guy. The movie was a blast! As for Remo Williams, one of my most favorites of all movies. That, for me, is a rainy afternoon movie where I can just sit back, eat burritos and enjoy... "you move like a pregnant yak!"

*high five*

My top Fives
Brazil
I feel as though the main character mirror my own existence in some ways.
Eraserhead
First David Lynch film I have ever seen. It jarred me out of seeing stories as just plots.
Fight Club
I have an enormous appreciation for this film. I feel if people(including myself) were to utilize the truths pointed out in fight club, the world would be a better place.
Jacobs Ladder
This one is one of the main films that influenced my sense of aesthetics. Beyond just being a good story, it made the point that fears run deeper than what is conscious.
Ikiru (To Live)
This is the film that pointed out that I'am in fact dead, as I'm not living my life.