Know your movie buffs!

candy-gal1

Il start :

myself and the OH, we like our movie nights he gets me more into music dvds, I get him into all types of movies as well as my faves : Pretty Woman, Titanic, Moulin Rouge, Scream, Halloween series, The mask, Nightmare on elm street series, Liar Liar, Basic instinct, Mamma mia, My girl1 n 2, Mrs doubtfire, and the Brat Pack classics!
hmmmm and my lookalikes, of many lol, would be








Type their name

Galvasean

Not a bad idea for a thread. Perhaps posters could tell us a bit about their favourite films/genres/actors/directors etc. as opposed to just posting a pic (some of us are shy).

I'm Sean. I work as a sound recordist and voice actor and have a degree in Video & Film (I'm all about the movies me).
Favourite movies (in no particular order) are:
- Jurassic Park: I'm a huge dinosaur fan (as some of you may have guessed) and this is by far the best dinosaur movie ever made.
- Gladiator: I've always been interested in the whole Roman/ancient Greece era of history so this film delighted me. Great action sequences, story and acting.
- American Pyscho: a delight of dark comedy and an outstanding performance by Bale.
- Dumb & Dumber: I adore Jim Carrey and this balls out comedy makes me laugh every time like it was the first time.
- Commando: What can I say? When you want to turn the brain off and simply have fun you can't beat commando. OTT action and the cheesiest one-liners ever.


Fun fact: some people say I look like James Van Der Beek (of dawson's creek fame) who coincidentally played a guy named Sean in Rules of Attraction.

I don't see it myself.

krudler

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This is a stormtrooper helmet I built a few weeks ago, doing the whole armour but wont have it ready for this halloween due to being sick at the moment and having no money to get the rest of the parts I need, bah

anyhoo, big Star Wars fan obviously, favourite movies would be
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
The Matrix
Fight Club
Se7en
Empire Strikes Back
The Shawshank Redemption
Jurassic Park
Aliens
LOTR


Like all movies really, will watch anything once as long as its not by the guys who made Epic Movie and the like, love blockbusters when they're done well, adore Pixar's movies Up is my most anticipated movie this year, massive James Cameron fan so Avatar is way up the list of movies I expect to be great

Max Power1

seeing as im on this thread already, in the OP, theres not much point but heres me:



More of a lurker than a poster here. People say I look like Glenn Benton (lead singer of Deicide) but I dont really see it! (for most of you who wont know who he is heres a pic )


Oh yeah, fave films include Mean girls, Jerry Maguire, Legally Blonde, What women want & how to lose a guy in 10 days. Yes im a guy and yes they are chick flicks.. shurrup lol

the whole year inn

nothing wrong with mean girls,i loked it alot for what it was

CliffHuxtabel

heres me relaxing with my wife claire

L31mr0d

Well I'm the blonde guy that's airborne in this picture:



Edit oh I'm a cross between: Boomhauer + Johnny Bravo + Chris Griffin

The Fountain
A very long Engagement
Being John Malkovich
Shinobi
Game of Death
Battle Royale
[rec]
Martyrs
The Marine
The Matrix

missingtime

Hello.

Aparently I look like one of the supporting characters in Knocked Up...not sure which one?!?

Very wide range of tastes in movies ranging from La Haine to Tango & Cash.

I tend to drift in and out out movie sessions a little like what I do with music.

Michael Clayton
A Bittersweet Life
Jurassic Park - I think I watched it too much though
Clerks
Tell No One
Let the right one in
Incredibles
Wall - E

And lots more that will only pop into my head when I'm driving home from work this evening.

Elmo

I am more of TV person (too much so). I love movies at the same time.

I wouldn't rate Meangirls at least Clueless was nice about being a bitch and funny, I found Meangirls to be far too mean and lacking the punch of The Heathers.

As for Directors I love any Alfred Hitchcock film. I think his films are really well made, while also realizing that many feel he is over rated, perhaps his 1960s TV persona has caused this over rating to happen. I even like his early British movies. The original 39 Steps (his original I think there is one before it) and Sabotage which was referenced in the most recent Quentin Tarantino film (see the how I am linking this post ) Inglourious Basterds.

I like everyone in the 1990s was taken with QT. Pulp Fictions storytelling from beginning to end and back again. Probably done in other films before Pulp Fiction but defiantly a film maker who bring older styles of film making to a new audience and a filmmaker happy enough to go with some Kitch filmmaking from every era. I don't think any other director in Hollywood would get away with making a movie about Jew Killing Nazis in mainly German with only some English. But then it seem to me that Non-English speaking film has really caught on outside the Art house cinemas in more recent years. (Link number 2).

Let The Right One In is the most recent example of this really well made and haunting (even if that is a bit of a cliche) film, which is a horror due to the atmosphere and strangeness of the storylines with a love story and coming of age movie. It isn't always about blood and guts, of which there is some.

I like seasons of movies on TV. I am looking foward to the Cowboys series on TG4 just before their Westerns on Friday night, think it starts this friday produced by the guy that used to do The Last Picture Show on RTÉ One so I am hoping it will be good.

I am disappointed I missed the Film Noir season on BBC 4 . One of my favorite films is Sunset Boulevard.

Karl Hungus

Here's me, I'll add something about myself later:

johnny_ultimate

I am a long time film fan who hopes to pursue a career in the industry (once I decide what postgrad I want to do next year). Currently just finished college and bumming around for a year.

I have plenty of films that have been considered favourites at one time or another, but some films that define my overall taste:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Persona
My Neighbour Totoro
Toy Story
Rashomon
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Amelie
Serenity
Eraserhead

Favourite directors would be the directors of most of the above i.e. Bergman, Kurosawa, Lynch, Miyasaki.

Here is a picture of me with a giant Totoro, because Japan kicks ass.
totoro.jpg

Valmont

Argh! Karl, I had you built up in my head as an 8'4" movie reviewing German with long jet black hair and a Norwegian mom.

I'm a bored graduate and I love Bill Murray. My favourite movies are:

Lost in Translation
Brick
True Romance
Old Boy
The Big Lebowski
Closer
Groundhog day
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Zombieland
Ghost dog: Way of the Samurai.

As far as directors go, I'm not even sure what they do!

Max Power1

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Here's me, I'll add something about myself later:

Digging the 'tache Karl!!

kart

Can't think of anyone whos my lookalike..or whos lookalike i am... sry mates.
Sheesh, fave movie? Thats one hell of a hard question for me, coz i have no favourite. Im a known moviefreak, i like so many different movies from so many different genres and if i somehow manage type down all the movies i liove...i end up in hospital with transformed fingers of too much typing...
But i try to write down some what i like right now... the weird things is that probably i gonna leave out some what i consider as best.... but i just try to give some clue about my preferences:)

"Lord of the Rings" - all the trilogy
"Pirates of the Carribean" - all the trilogy
"Dirty Dancing"
"Forrest Gump"
"Back to the future" - the trilogy, U JUST can't miss it!
"National Treasure" 1 and 2 - actually most movies with Nicolas Cage are what i also like. Awsome very talented actor.
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
"Walk the Line" that one i like cos of actors and great soundtrack
"Sex and the City The movie"
"Pride and Prejudice" - only the version with Keira Knightley, breattaking views, perfect soundtrack.
"Derailed" - theres two different movies called with this name, i talk about the Jennifer Aniston thriller.
"Contact" - the movie that never fails to spark my interest to astonomy again and again!
"Island"
"Matrix" - love the first one the most, the rest are good too.
"Deep impact"

Scary movies - i don't enjoy seeing the ones with no mystery in it.. I will never see twice the movies like "hostel" or "texas chainsaw massacre"... they just aren't interesting or scary for me. BUT I LOVE the ones that play with ur mind, more like the thriller ones, or psychological scary movies.. or just the ones that are made really good...the example list:
"Butterfly effect" (only the first one, the second one is rubbish)
"Identity"
"28 days later"
"Final destination" - the trilogy
"Nightmare on Elm street" - well, Freddy Krueger is like father of all the modern scarymovies..
"The Ring" 1 and 2

From comedies... i like really many, i like the dumb ones as well as the good ones:P I love to see the ones with Rowan Atkinson, Adam Sandler, Leslie Nilsen, Eddie Murphy, Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey (dun like himself, but somehoe he manages to play in good movies), Steve Carell and Jim Carrey... So anything from them, count them into my favorites... Comedy list would come too long also... all depends on my mood.
"American Pie" - Stifler rules the most, love parts 1-3

Cant forget the animes and cartoons:
"Simpsons"
"Ice Age"
"Shrek"
"Family guy"

LOL, i know my list is huge, but it is just about 2 % of all the movies i like, not to mention many tv-series and some realllly old movies from all the different countries:P Could continue typing here til the next day...

Beruthiel

I love all sorts and it's hard to just break down to a few, however, these are the ones I would have watched the most:

LOTR x 3
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
Battle Royal
Old Boy
Star Wars (The first 3)
Matrix
Withnail & I
Life of Brian
Holy Grail
Terminator1 & 2
La Chevre
Dobermann
Tenu de Soirée

To name but a tiny few.

Otis Driftwood

Beruthiel wrote: »

Dobermann

Such a great movie.You are the first person Ive ever seen mention it on here.:)Havnt watched it in a while,thanks for the reminder.Cassel is sofaking good in it.

Myself,well I dont look like anyone famous.

Movie wise its primarily horror,my dvd collection is probably in a 4:1 ratio in terms of horror to all other genres,loved it since I was a tyke and always will.

Some of my other preferential genres would be

70s Kung Fu
All Bruce Lee movies (although I dont completly love Enter the Dragon for some reason)
Sonny Chiba movies.This guy is painfully overlooked in terms of the genre.Most would likely have seen him playing Hatori Hanzo in Kill Bill Vol 1.
His Streetfighter series are some of the best and most bonecrunching examples of the genre.
The Babycart series are also some of my personal favourites.All 6 movies are immensely enjoyable with more blood than you can shake a stick at.

Gangster
Most people would cite (and Im no different) the likes of Goodfellas or Casino in their favourites list but I also love the non mafia related gangster flicks.A movie like Thursday is criminally unseen.A large part of that is to do with the fact its never gotten an official UK or Irish release.I had to import mine from Denmark but its so worth it and I would highly recommend it to anyone with even a casual interest in the genre.I would put Yakuza movies in this bracket aswell.Stuff like Ichi the Killer,The Agitator,Man Bites Dog,The Elite SquadThe Yakuza Papers series,Hard Boiled,Bullet in the Head or The Killer are all super films.

Other
I still love movies from my childhood and would throw them on every now and again.Stuff like the Star Wars or Back to the Future Trilogy will always score highly in my eyes.Im not really a big fan of comedy but a few laugh out loud gems for me are Clerks 1+2,Dogma,Baseketball or South Park uncut.I prefer the darker edged comedy like In the Company of Men or Very Bad Things.In terms of drama again,I prefer the darker stuff like Nil By Mouth,Dans Ma Peau,Once Were Warriors,Dead Mans Shoes,Perdita Durango or Carindiru.Another movie that I only got to see in the last 12 months is Pasolini's Salo.Not everyones cup of tea but it really is a triumph in my humble.

Horror
What can I say,my favourite genre.Those that have read previous contributions from me on horror movies probably think I come across as a bit of a dick on occasion but I dont mind,I can freely hold my hands up and admit that I am somewhat of a horror snob and that I am very passionate when it comes to the genre.
I do appreciate that its difficult for casual horror fans to understand my disdain for 99.9% of modern day remakes but the best I can come up with is to ask people to imagine some of their favourite movies of all time taken,remixed with lots of strobe lights,a thumping soundtrack,a sickeninly good looking cast and marketed to a bunch of brain dead American teens.
Not a pretty sight.
In terms of favourite movies I guess top of the pile has to be Carpenters Halloween.To me,it is the perfect horror movie.An unstoppable monster,an isolated girl,its dripping with tension and Carpenters truly unforgettable score make this the greatest example of horror cinema of all time.In terms of modern day horror mainstream American is dead as dead can be.There may be the occasional gem - The Devils Rejects - or a new and different idea - Hostel - but apart from that its chock full of crap re-makes/boots/imaginings so in the last number of years Ive turned to the Underground or to Europe for my fix of genre bending horror.IMO the best Underground movie Ive seen is Fred Vogels August Underground.The movie itself spawned 2 sequels (it was originally planned to be a trilogy) Mordum and Penance.The original has frequently been touted as the sickest movie ever made.Is it?Personally I dont think so but thats not to say its not a tough watch.
Europe IMO has taken over from the US in terms of its horror output.Movies like Inside or The Orphanage take a simple premise and with a bit of imagination turn out 2 outstanding movies.
Some of my other horrors of choice include Last House on the Left (72) Cannibal Holocaust,Friday the 13th (81),A Nightmare on Elm Street,Romeros original Trilogy of the Dead,Evil Dead,Texas Chainsaw Massacre (74),The Thing,Ringu,Zombie Flesh Eaters,Shoguns Sadism and Murder Set Pieces.

I could list countless others but Id be here all night.Anyway,heres me looking grumpy.

bnt

I'm a relative newcomer to serious film, and even then I'm not all that serious about it. I became a university student for the first time two years ago, and my studies are not related to Film (or Art) at all, but I joined the IFI and have been trying to educate myself a bit. I've enjoyed various movies over the years, but a few films deserve credit for opening my eyes to the possibilities and helped me figure out what I like. (I called these Litmus Test Movies in a previous thread.)

What I've found I don't like is what you might call the "kitchen sink" drama, the Ken Loach "socialist realism" cinema of "the people". Yes, poor people have problems, but I just find these stories claustrophobic and limiting. The ordinary lives of people are boring if that's all there is: give me wide screens, big ideas, expansive fields of vision. American Beauty or Buffalo '66 might have focused on a few people, but the questions they raise are not parochial. Perhaps not as big as those of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but nearly as universal.

Another key factor for me is the soundtrack and sound design. I hate the way Nora Ephron films (When Harry Met Sally etc.) use the soundtrack to hammer the emotions of the characters in to your head. I prefer a much more subtle approach. Heat (Michael Mann) would have been great as it was, but the classy ambient soundtrack elevated it in to the movie stratosphere, I thought. The same is true of Lost In Translation, which I first listened to through good headphones; the sound design is so immersive it's scary, and cathartic when the characters get out in to Tokyo. None of the humans need to say much, when the hotel is practically a speaking character in the film. :pac:

Lord of the Rings? I like the book, and I like the films. Different media have different requirements, and I don't have a problem with what Jackson, Walsh & co. did.

The one film I am most looking forward to, in the near future, is the restored Metropolis. (A 16mm print was found in archives in Argentina last year, a 210 minute version with many previously-lost scenes, and other copies are coming to light.)

Galvasean

This is not a thread to quiz/grill people's choices of film.
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Elmo

Galvasean wrote: »

This is not a thread to quiz/grill people's choices of film.
Posts deleted.

Apologies I didn't mean to sound like I was quizzing or grilling anyone or stating any facts as btn pointed out I was making an opinion that may have come across as me stating a fact thinking my thoughts are facts.

I was just stating that I feel that films like American Beauty are really just about suburban life and could be set in any country and hence I feel that it is quite a general film. And everyone is entitled to their opinion. I never stated I was a fan of Ken Loach.

Necronomicon

I apparently (don't see it however) bare resemblence to Elijah Wood, which led to me being dubbed Frodo for the latter of my school years, thankfully it didn't last long after the films finished!

Horror is and forever will be my #1 love. Everything from the classic franchises to overseas offerings, be they French (Martyrs, Switchblade Romance, Them), Spanish (The Orphanage, The Devil's Backbone, [Rec]) or Asian (Ringu, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Eye etc). Away from horror I do love overseas films in general, some of my favourites being La Haine, Park Chan Wook's Vengeance Trilogy Zatoichi.

Anyway in the spirit of the impending Halloween, and being on the film board and all, this picture is of me a couple of years ago:

candy-gal1

Think il revive this thread a little with a new piccy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Anyone else?

Renn

Me just chilling out with a beer watching Coven (pronounced Coven)

duckworth

Hello, nice to meet everyone. That's me above there.

Here's my top ten films of all time as they popped into my head just now:

Vertigo
In the mood for love
Happy Together
Groundhog Day
Barry Lyndon
Sideways
Cache
Annie Hall
That Reckless Moment
There Will Be Blood

I decided to leave out Goodfellas and the Godfather just for sh1ts and giggles.

Boo Ya!

homerun_homer

Here's me in the office, or "Death Star" as our rivals call it. They tend to overreact to these sort of things like us blowing up their home planets:rolleyes:



Anyways my favourite films would have to be;
(A lost of obvious ones but hey that's why they are great movies)

Fight Club
Seven
Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back
LOTR trilogy
Toy Story trilogy
Jaws
The Dark Knight
The Shawshank Redemption
Donnie Darko
Dr Strangelove
The Big Lebowski
The Lives of Others
Inception
Memento (Chris Nolan can do no wrong)
Being John Malkovich
Time Bandits
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Amelie
Battle Royale
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pan's Labyrinth
Top Secret

*I need to go home and root through my DVDs to see what gems I'm missing.

LittleBook

Me at Graumann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood coupla years back. My OH and I are both passionate about films and we actually "met" on IMDb

I'm not good with lists but love pretty much everything from the Coen's, Hitchcock, Jonze/Kaufman, Gilliam, Nolan, Burton, Aronofsky, Jeunet/Caro ... sorry, even this list goes on and on.





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LittleBook

LittleBook wrote: »

I'm not good with lists

homerun_homer wrote: »

Fight Club
Seven
Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back
LOTR trilogy
Toy Story trilogy
Jaws
The Dark Knight
The Shawshank Redemption
Donnie Darko
Dr Strangelove
The Big Lebowski
The Lives of Others
Inception
Memento (Chris Nolan can do no wrong)
Being John Malkovich
Time Bandits
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Amelie
Battle Royale
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pan's Labyrinth
Top Secret

*I need to go home and root through my DVDs to see what gems I'm missing.

Actually, your list will do nicely for me

MrSir

Hey I'm Rory (Hi Rory) and I'm a film fan. Here's some of my favorites.

The Room-Often dubbed "The Citizen Kane of bad movies" I feel this is the greatest achievement man has to offer.

The Jerk-I'm a Steve Martin fan (who isn't?) and I think "The Jerk" could be the funniest film of all time.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin-It's just so win.

Plan 9 from Outer Space-This sci-fi/horror film is another film that's condending for the worst film of all time but I feel it's a close second behind the Room. Great non the less.

Dog Day Afternoon-I firmly believe that the best performance of all time is in this movie from John Cazale. When he says that he can kill people I fcuking believe it!

Aguirre the Wrath of God-Madness has never been portrayed better in any other film.

And some of my favorite actors include Jack Nance,Steve Buscemi,Nicolas Cage,Tommy Wiseau,John Cazale,Bruce Campbell,Chris Morris,Sam Rockwell,Leslie Nielson and Jason Bateman (Teen Wolf Too for the win)

johndoe99

First off here I am:



My Top 30 (in no particular order):

Soylent Green (1973)
The Thing (1982)
Predator (1987)
Alien (1979)
Commando (1985)
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
Cube (1997)
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Equilibrium (2002)
Fight Club (1999)
Frequency (2000)
Halloween (1978)
Jaws (1975)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Lifeforce (1985)
Mad Max (1979)
Manhunter (1986)
Marathon Man (1976)
Ravenous (1999)
The Terminator (1984)
The Blue Max (1966)
The Bravados (1958)
The Night Flier (1997)
The Ninth Gate (2000)
The Professionals (1966)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Total Recall (1990)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Zodiac (2007)
From Hell (2001)
The Omega Man (1971)

My full collection is here (you'll understand why I had trouble picking less than 30):

http://homepage.ntlworld.ie/custodianguard/

Mackman

This is me & my OH a few years ago.


We're both big movie fans. I dont know if you would call us movie buff's, but we do love to watch them and talk about them. Does that make us buffs?

Anyhoo, to my taste in movies. Well i like a lot of movies. I take them for what they are, and dont over analyze them. My main dislike is Rom/Com's. Cant stand them! I love Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller mostly, like the odd comedy too.
some of my favourites are:

Die Hard
Matrix x3
Apollo 13
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 1 & 2
Tremors
Dazed and Confused
Back to the Future x3
Shawshank Redemption
Airheads
Wall-E (Pretty much all Pixar movies actually)
Aliens
Lethal Weapon x4
The Goonies
The new Star Trek

Loads more, but you get the general idea.

johndoe99 wrote: »

Mad Max (1979)

here's a bonus pic for you johndoe99, i took it in the ACMI in Melbourne

:cool:

johndoe99

here's a bonus pic for you johndoe99, i took it in the ACMI in Melbourne :cool:

damn that looks good, were u allowed to go inside the car.

Mackman

johndoe99 wrote: »

damn that looks good, were u allowed to go inside the car.

no bastards