its mainstream hollywoodcentric

Interesting list of films...
Austin powers is obviously the best movie in existence. LOL

On a serious note, whoever said Godfather 2 wasn't good, is insane! That's my favorite one, I loved the whole history of Vito back in Sicily and his growing up in the whole crime syndicate.

Someone mentioned Platoon and Apocalypse now, those are amazing films I thought, and definitely ones I would recommend to any war buff. The Killing Fields about the Cambodian war is also really good, though it lacks action and is more focused on the drama aspect it was still a powerful film. I can't think of any more at the moment, Band of Brothers is good, but it's a TV miniseries...Carlos: The Jackal might fit in the category of war but it's mainly about a terrorist.

I'm also a pretty big fan of foreign films, Sin Nombre, City of God are good foreign films from Brazil I believe, Takashi Miike makes some CRAZY movies residing in Japan, Ichi the Killer is so over-the-top-in-your-face gore that it's such a fun film to watch. He also does some quite strange films, Visitor Q being one of them - I never actually managed to finish it because it was a nuisance to watch and had zero appeal to me.

House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Bloodsport, excellent martial art films if anyone likes those.

Black Dynamite, Balls Out, Shaun of the Dead for the comedy lovers.

Pretty much anything with Ahnuhld Schwarzenegger for action films, mindless entertainment is always great.

There are way too many movies I like to actually write here, just tried to give a quick rundown of what I enjoy more or less...just my 2 cents.

Don't forget scarface I live by tony Montana's credo

what credo is that? make as many posts of as little consequence as possible?

@mhiof i never used the word 'mainstream', since im not a 12 year-old and it isnt 1991.

incidentally, taken was awful, i had to stop watching 10 minutes through, it was infuriating me. incomprehensibly stupid. i heard that in taken 3 hes going to get his cat stolen.

Actually x, in taken 3 there is a real plot twister- it is his ex-mother-in-law that is taken, and at the end it is revealed it is all a ruse as HE is the actual kidnapper...... hope i didn't ruin it for anybody.

lol based on how dumb you guys make it sound, no it doesn't

Christmas Movie Survey Challenge!

Everyone make a list of their top 6 films(movies) in order highest first. Then using the following points system (Yes! I stole it from F1) we can decide The Warlight Favourite Movie Of All Time!!

Closing date: December 24th Midnight GMT +0

Can you wait this long for the result? :P

Points awarded as follows:

1st choice: 10 points
2nd choice: 6 points
3rd choice: 4 points
4th choice: 3 points
5th choice: 2 points
6th choice: 1 point

So my (WO) picks are in order:

1) Bridge on the River Kwai
2) Lawrence of Arabia
3) Schindler's List
4) Unforgiven
5) Zulu
6) Ice Cold in Alex

1- rambo first blood
2- braveheart
3- the hangover
4- the thirteenth warrior
5- abyss
6- the lion king (yeah i like this kids movie)

hmm not my picks, but it is your opinion. Here is mine.

1. Star Wars Episode 5

2. The Matrix

3. Tron (first one)

4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

5. Star Wars Episode 4

6. The Dark Knight

i watched the scott pilgrim movie and i was comletely lost

At least it looks cool. You have to watch it more than once or read the graphic novels to understand some parts, but it has an awesome blend of action, humor and love. Basically, the Matrix, but with pop culture references.

i guess i just liked the comic word when sombody got hit

Only 3 people taking part?

Come on make this survey count :P

Godfather
Gladiator
叶问 (Ip Man in English: I'm fairly sure the Chinese spoke Chinese)
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (and other Eastwood Westerns)
The Dark Knight
Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
The Lion in Winter
The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Amorres Perros
Desperado
All Cold on the Western Front
Bloodsport

6. Fearless
5. Damage
4. The Ninth Gate
3. Kill Bill vol.1
2. American beauty
1. Scent of a woman

6 movies is a really random number... Most people would need >20 I think to list their favourites.

GMontag has leading!

i recently saw american beauty and it wasn't great. i also disliked six feet under (same screenwriter) and stopped watching it about halfway through the series.

it's like richard yates but clichéd and unrealistic. and the boy's film of a plastic bag floating around in the wind made me laugh out loud.

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1. aguirre: the wrath of god.

2. wild strawberries (2nd: winter light, 3rd:persona, 4th:the silence, 5th:the one where death plays chess or whatever, 6th:summer interlude, 7th:sawdust and tinsel.)

3. my neighbour totoro/grave of the fireflies/only yesterday. they're all so dissimilar.

4. monkey business (could easily be duck soup (but i find the musical interludes to be a nice respite), night at the opera, animal crackers. possibly cocoanuts if there wasnt such bad sound quality on the one i heard. also could have been woody allen's bananas, or perhaps sleeper. but i prefer annie hall to those.)

5. monsters inc. (though it could be finding nemo, up or toy story 1 or 2)

6. i dont fucking know, the cabinet of dr caligari or something.

sorry chinatown, sorry kubrick, sorry orson welles, sorry scorsese, sorry hitchcock, sorry ozu, sorry rashomon. probably shouldnt have chosen kids films as 2 of my top 6.

i had to look up so many of those titles, i have a terrible memory.

1) Avengers
2) Skyfall
3) Dark Knight
4) Elf (it is christmas after all)
5) Matrix
6) StarWars IV

change 6 to the third man (noir runners-up: big sleep, brighton rock.)

the monologue on the ferris wheel is so great.

Paul,
ted,
slumdog millionaire,
Lion king