Oddly I was considering one of the Spagetti Westerns The Good, The Bad and Ugly again for brilliantly made with director: Sergio Leon and sound by Ennio Morricone.

Fav film is a tough one, I haven't gone through the whole thread but I'll go with Keven Smith's Dogma.

Fantastic film, doesn't take itself too seriously and has tons of good dialog and has a bunch of subtle visuals which keep you noticing things the more times you watch it!

A good movie which hasn't been mentioned yet: 'The full monty'
I like the way it shows the desperation of the men, the unpolished view of
life in a british city mixed with the humour and absurdity.

Another movie which left a big impression: "the deer hunter"
Shows a group of friends from an average american steel-mill town being send to vietnam and being captured by the VC.

'Don't Come Knocking' -- it left a deep impression with its excellent casting, remarkable characters, beautiful locations and cinematography, good script and a semi-realistic story. It is about emotional courage and tells us that there's some good in most a$$h*les and that family ties are darn important no matter how cursorily begotten.

THE DEPARTED

Fantastically entertaining crime cinema made by master filmmaker Martin Scorsese (source material : the Hong Kong thriller 'Infernal Affairs') featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast (although I think Jack Nickolson overacted a tad)

Issues of honour, identity, loyalty, sin & redemption resonate thorughout this crime thriller, delivering a vision of an internally rotten society.

Roller-coaster energy .. start to finish

Yes, I forgot abou that one, but definitely a favourite.

While on the subject of music films, there was a Japanese one back in the ninetys called "shall we dansu" (dansu being spelt in Katakana, but don't know how to do that on EF), hilarious at times, absurd at others, and yet very very true throughout. Having done ballroom dancing myself for many years I laughed along almost all the time because these are the exact situations that will occur and the types of people that you tend to meet. Strangely, my dancing instructor at the time hated the film. It was probably too close to the truth to be comfortable.

Now sharkey, the Irish made some good fantastic films too, haven't they. But you don't wanna hear about it so ... back to the rulez. long live the rules !!!

I love watching films and many of my favourite ones are mentioned in this thread but the film I have watched over & over without once being bored is The Matrix"". I think Phos summed it up way better than I could as to why.

The rules lasted well enough for 100 posts. I'm done trying to enforce any kind of coherence now, so let rip...

I take it by Irish films, you are of course referring to that Masterpiece of Irish cinema, "Eat the Peach"

I loved this movie called Pay It Forward, about a kid who starts a chain reaction of good acts and deeds:



EVERYBODY should see this movie.

Nobody has named "The Princess Bride" INCONCEIVABLE!

Before there were DVDs they had these things called CD movies that you could play on your PC. I bought one for my five year old daughter for her to watch on the computer and it has been my favorite movie ever since.

It also includes my favorite scene of all time where Inigo Montoya confronts the six fingered man, but I won't link to that here because you really need to build up to it.

yes, but then they went and screwed it up with matrix 2 & 3

Animatrix was quite good though.

I love Office Space, made by Mike Judge (Beavis & Butthead )

You are so kind !!!

No, I haven't seen that nor In the Name of the Father.
I've discovered CAL only because I was looking up something about Mark Knopfler, he did the Soundtrack for CAL. Absolutely gorgeous music. There are plenty of other famous Irish films I haven't seen yet.

Some of Maeve Binchy's stories I've seen on film though. They are pretty lovely but the books are way better. as always.

and blah bla bla bla bla ...

Seriously, that whole franchise imploded in a period of 6 months, people went from being completely hyped to not caring completely. I can't remember ever being as excited for a movie as I was for The Matrix sequels, but they ended up so disappointing that in some ways they retroactively damaged my impression of the first film.

Oh please god no...

it has to be 'TRUE ROMANCE'

OMG what a truly great film.. loads of big names all coming together in a wonderful, wonderful film...

Gary Oldman is great..
Christian Slater.. cool..
Scene with Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walkden..

So...So...good... if you aint seen it, go get it and watch it... if you have seen it...go get it and watch it again..

Very true, but the first one still rocks.

Once upon a time in America - 1984

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087843/

I am surprised no-one has mentioned Being John Malkovich or Withnail and I