Favourite Movies

[Fungal Infection]

This is a thread I've been meaning to start for a while but couldn't be arsed doing until now. Anyway, me and the missus have been watching alot of movies of late (with it being winter and all) and I'd like an opinion of what you guys recommend watching. I'm somewhat of a movie buff and have seen alot of movies but still looking for stuff that I may have missed. To get us started I've listed 3 random favourites (not in order) from various categories:

Comedies
1. Anchorman
2. Be Cool
3. Clerks

Anime
1. Ghost in the Shell series
2. Appleseed
3. Gundam Seed/Seed Destiny

Crime
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Sin City
3. Goodfellas

Action
1. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2. Kiss of the Dragon
3. The Matrix series

Asian cinema
1. Once Upon a Time in China series
2. Shinobi
3. Infernal Affairs

Cartoons
1. Family Guy
2. Futurama
3. The Simpsons

Top 3 regardless of genre:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Fight Club
3. Reservoir Dogs

So, what do you guys recommend? Feel free to add your own genres to those listed above.

[kurdt_the_goat]

These are some that are more just 'fresh in my mind good' rather than best ever. Except Aliens and T2, they're best ever

Comedies
1. Bedazzled
2. Clerks 2

Anime
1. Ninja Scroll
2. Vampire Hunter D
3. Any Studio Ghibli

Crime
1. Street Kings

Action
1. Aliens
2. Terminator 2
3. True Lies

[jaydisc]

• Brazil (and anything else by Terry Gilliam, although this one is clearly the best)
• The Incredibles - my desert island movie.
• Batman Begins - best recent action flick
• Beowulf = Not yet sure if it's earned all time great status, but I've seen it an extra two times recently (so it's front of mind) and it's just f@#$%ng awesome!
• The Prestige - Another recent movie I adore. Released at the same time as The Illusionist which might have overshadowed it in popularity, due to its overlapping genre, but is dwarfed by it in quality.

I'm sure there's more

[autobreadticon]

Movies directed by the Wachowski brothers
Matrix, V for Vendretta and speed racer

Any works by Makoto Shinkai , the places promised in our early days, voices of a distance star, a story about their distance

[GoktimusPrime]

Favourite Arthouse movies:
* The Elements Trilogy (Earth, Fire, Water)
* The Three Colours Trilogy
* Jay and Silent Bob movies
* Romeo + Juliet
* Brokeback Mountain

Favourite comedies
* Monty Python!

Favourite animé (aside from Transformers)
* Rurouni Kenshin
* Anything from Studio Ghibli
* Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (original series)

Favourite action/epics (aside from Transformers)
* Star Wars saga
* Anything from Kurosawa Akira
* The Lord of the Rings

Favourite Childrens movies:
* Anything from Pixar
* Harry Potter

[Pulse]

Hmm...

If I listed them all, I'd probably use up the 5000 character limit

But to sum up my favourite genres - I'd have to say Action, Comedy & Sci-Fi

for example Le Mans with Steve McQueen (Brilliant Movie!), Mad Max (Classic ), The Castle (It makes me laugh so hard, my sides hurt ) & all 6 Star Wars flicks (Awesome with a capital A )

[Fungal Infection]

So since you listed Sci-fi as a favourite, I guess you'd recommend Battlefield: Earth as a good movie eh Pulse?

[Pulse]

I actually haven't seen it

[Scattershot]

Heres a few of mine:

Predator
Days of Thunder
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

[gamblor916]

There's so many its hard to remember or list but here's my take.

Comedies
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Miss Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead

Anime
Anything from Studio Ghibli

Crime
Dirty Pretty Things, Catch Me if You Can, Snatch

Action
300, Highlander, The Professional

Asian cinema
Battle Royale, Infernal Affairs, Kung Fu Hustle/Shaolin Soccer

Top 3 regardless of genre:
Aliens, Predator, T2