My Favorite Movies

My favorite film of all time.

An incredible Blend of Film Noir and Sci-fi. Alex Proyas' best film by far.

Best film of 2009

Simply Brilliant.

An incredibly artistic movie, one of my favorites.

Russel Crowe delivers one of his best performances in this film, only second to "A Beautiful Mind." This movie won best picture in 2000 and it definitely deserved it. Ridley Scott's best movie in my opinion, and great performances by Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, and Djimon Hounsou, and Oliver Reed. The action scenes were incredible, and the end fight scene was breathtaking, this used to be my favorite movie. The cinematography is great, and the movie flows nicely. My favorite quote from the movie would have to be this: "My name is Maximus...Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next." -Russel Crowe, Gladiator

Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus are great as two brothers who take the law into their own hands and start cleaning up Boston, thinking that they are on a mission from God. Great performances from David Della Rocko, Billy Connoly, and Willem Dafoe. Some amazing fight scenes, great music, and good cinematography. I was surprised that this was Troy Duffy's first film he has directed, this is one of the greatest directorial debuts I have ever seen. I own this movie, it is one of my favorites.

This movie was incredible, Spielberg's bet work in my opinion. Eric Bana and Geoffrey Rush did spectacular, and Daniel Craig did very good, this movie was made before "Casino Royale," which launched his career. I love how this movie shows the feelings and emotions of both nations in the movie, I really liked the scene where Bana is right there talking to his enemy at the hotel, and the symbolic dialog between them, and the scene at the end when Eric Bana was having sex with his wife as he was having the vision of what happened on the helicopter was amazing. This is an incredible movie.

This movie is incredible on all fronts. It is one of my favorite films. This is by far Denzel Washington's best acting in any movie I have seen him in. I am not surprised that he won best actor for this film, he well-deserved it. It was written by David Ayer, one of my favorite writter/directors, it was his vision. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua, who did an ok, but not great job directing. We are constantly meeting new characters in the film, seeing them for a few minutes, then they are dropped off from the rest of the movie. It seems like bad character planning, but then again the whole movie takes place in a single day, so they have to keep moving. Ethan Hawke is great as the rookie cop learning the ropes. Musicians Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, and Macy Gray all have small roles in the film, not all that spectacular, nor is Eva Mendes' role as one of Denzel's girlfriends. Scott Glenn is Denzel's friend, who ultimatly gets played by Denzel. Peter Green and Nick Chinlund play Denzel's men, Chinlund is very slick and cool. Tom Berenger plays a higher-up that helps Denzel out in exchange for alot of cash. Cliff Curtis is good as the head of the latinos. David Ayer likes putting Noel Gugliemi and Terry Crews, two of Hollywood's most famous rising character actors in his films, along with Samantha Esteban each have small roles in the film. The music is really good, which makes up for the so-so editing. Denzel's speech at the end is breathtaking, some of the greatest acting I have ever seen. "King Kong ain't got S#@*on me!"

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The scene where Brad Pitt's friends are pulling him back as he screams watching his house burn down with his family inside it, one of the most emotional scenes I have ever scene in a movie. Great performances by the entire cast in this movie, especially Pitt's acting, one of his best. Guy Ritchie is an amazing director.

One of the most under-rated movies. Hardly anyone knows that this even exists. It is one of my top 10 movies of all time. Sean Penn is amazing in it, and Gary Oldman delivers a remarkable performance as usual. It is about the Irish mob in New York. Ed Harris, Sean Penn, John C. Reilly, John Turturro, and Robin Wright Penn are also in it. (This was before she was married to Sean Penn, so her name was just Robin Wright.) Really powerful speech by Sean Penn that gives the movie it's title.

In my opinion, this is one of the best movies of all time, it has a great cast, and a great story or intertwining lives.

Ben Foster stole the show in this one, I was amazed by his acting, he got very intense in this movie.

Wow this movie was brilliant. I really like british crime movies, this is very much like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking barrels, and it seems that the director is friends with Guy Ritchie himself. The director of this film, (Matthew Vaughn) produced Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Swept away(All directed by Ritchie). This is an amazing directorial debut for Vaughn, and he moved from this film onto Stardust, an amazing film as well, but yet a different genre. This film seemed very symbolic to me, and there was alot of twists. I noticed that Vaughn also starred Sienna Miller in both of his films, along with Jason Flemyng. Great performances from everyone, Daniel Craig plays the slick character similar to his character in Casino Royale. The cinematography, lighting, and camera lenses seemed very similar to that of Guy Ritchie's new film Revolver. I saw it tonight for the first time and it is now a definite favorite of mine.

Wow, just wow. This is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen. Paul Thomas Anderson's directing was phenomenal, and Daniel Day Lewis delivered one of the best performances in any film to date in my opinion.

This movie was almost 3 hours long but it seemed really short because I enjoyed it so much. This just proves how good of a director Ridley Scott is.

Quentin Tarrantino's best work of art, and I am mostlikely going against everyone by saying tha I think it is his best work, even better than the infamous Pulp Fiction. Reservoir Dogs is one of the most influential movies I have ever seen. It really opens your mind up to an amazing style of screenwriting and filmmaking. This is one of the first movies that really inspired me to become a director, it is pure genious. It is an amazing character piece and shows the bonds of eight men, all brought together through a diamond heist. The cops were there way before they should have been, even if someone had called them there was no way that they could have got to the jewelry store that fast...so the men have to figure out who is the snitch. The film stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Edward Bunker, Quentin Tarrantino, Lawrence Tierney, and Chris Penn. It is a definite must see for anyone who loves films.

This movie ranks somewhere in my top 50 favorite films of all time, an absolute beautiful movie.

I prefer this one over the sequel, but both are strong films.

Apocalypse Now:

I had always wanted to see this film because it is a classic, and because of how the critics praised it so much. I just finished reading Heart of Darkness for school, and I just watched this movie for the first time. There were alot of similarities between both the book and the film. I really enjoyed the film more I would have to say though. The plot, soundtrack, and scenery was amazing. I didn't even recognize Laurence Fishburne at first, until I saw him smile. Very small role for Harrison Ford, and even smaller for Scott Glenn. I would have to say Robert Duvall's most memorable to date. Dennis Hopper was really good as the photojournalist who had lost it. Sheen did a good job as the protagonist, and Marlon Brando was by far the best performance in the entire film.



Apocalypse Now Redux:

I just finished watching Apocalypse Now Redux, and I thought it was very good as well. I only noticed 5 added scenes. The first was added footage of Duvall, where he rescues a child, gives Lance new shorts, and talks about how the wind from the Napalm is affecting the waves. Sheen stole his surfboard as they were leaving, and hit one of Duvall's men with it as he was running back to the boat, then they hid from him as he had helicopters searching for his board. The second added part was changed slightly, the scene from the original with "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones, was put in after they met Duvall, not before. In this part, Chef and Fishburne talking about the playmate bunnies, then Lance was gets the surfboard to surf behind the boat, in the original he was jet-skiing. The third part I noticed that was added was when The playboy bunnies traded a few hours of sex with the PBR Street Gang for diesel fuel. The fourth addition I found was the French plantation scene, and the fifth was where Kurtz came into a large steel container where he had Sheen imprisoned, and read him the article out of TIME Magazine that was released contrary to the report that Kurtz had provided to Lyndon B. Johnson. In this scene there are alot of kids arond listening as well. Those are the only differences I found between the two. I prefer this version the best, I really liked the added footage. I did really want to see more of Scott Glenn though, he didn't have anymore fottage than he did in Apocalypse Now.



Apocalypse Now Workprint:

There is another version the Coppola has not released to the public, where the photojournalist comes running to Sheen and says he thinks Kurtz is going to kill him because he took his picture again, and right then Scott Glenn takes out a gun and shoots him in the back. Then Sheen and Glenn have a shootout and Sheen kills him. I am very eager to see it.

I really enjoyed this movie, Viggo Mortensen did a great job, his most outstanding performance to date. Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vincent Cassel both did great as well. I watched this film a few days after Sweeney Todd, and the opening scene really made me think of it. The body count was alot less than in "A History of Violence", in this film only five characters died, but all of them are intertwined. The sauna fight scene was incredible. My favorite quote from the movie was when Azim told Kirill to show some respect for the dead, Kirill stops, turns toward Azim and says "Respect? This......is..........respect," and hands him an envolope of money for having Soyka killed. Naomi Watts showed some good acting here as well, not oscar material, but certainly good. She is always amzingly beautiful. It's hard for me to compare this with A History of Violence, they are both incredible films, they are a tie for which one I like better. They both have their ups and downs. The only reason that I didn't give this film a full 5 star rating was because of the ending, it really dissapointed me, it ended to abrupt. Hopefully Cronenberg will eventually make a sequel, there is still so much he can do with the characters.

Amazing, have seen it twice so far...ready for round three. =)

WOW

I'm mostlikely going against everyone when I say that I think that this is the best film of the series. It is a very bold statement, but it is my personal opinion. Right from the start it is great. The film opens in 1912 as Indiana Jones as a young boy played by River Phoenix. The sequence shows why Indy is afraid of snakes, why he allways has a whip, and why he allways is wearing the same hat. The next scene takes place on a boat on the Portuguesse Coast, in 1938, where Indy is battling against the same villian from when he was a kid in 1912. Sean Connery comes along for the ride plaing Indy's dad, and there are alot of hilarious one-liners throughout. The thing that cracked me up was whenever anything bad happened Sean Connery would yell out "This is Intolerable!" That's one of the many factors that really made the movie for me. Julian Glover and Michael Byrne both play the two main villians, and Alison Doody plays Indy's love interest, and my personal favorite out of all of Indy's girls. There are alot of very cool characters in this film, like Fedora, the guy Indy is trying to escape in the beginning, who ultimately becomes's his role model. I really liked Kazim, the leader of the group who protect the secrets of the grail, and my favorite charter in the whole film would have to be The Grail Knight. I agree with Ray Winstone completley when saying that the scene at the end when The Knight waves his hand in that sweeping motion as Indy and his dad look back is just completely heartbreaking. It is one of the most touching and most real scenes I have ever seen in any movie. Pat Roach, the only other person besides Harrison Ford to be in all three films in the original trilogy, has a cameo appearance as the Gestago running up to the zeppelin with Vogel. He was supposed to ave a fight scene with Indy while Indy and his dad were trying to steal a plane in the hanger of the zepelin, but the scene was cut because Spielberg felt that it made the film drag on longer than it needed to. The only things I would have done different if I were to have made this movie would be keeping the scene with Pat Roach, and giving Kazim and The Grail Knight both some extra screen time. Alltogether a great end to a great trilogy.

O, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?!?!?

I saw this when it was a gem, thought it was incredible, now it is up for 9 Awards, did not see it coming, I remember when it was first coming out people were just calling it a great action film, it is so much more.

Imaginative storytelling at it's best.

I am baffled that some of you have marked this as "not interested" and call yourselves fans of cinema. This IS one of the top 5 films I have seen this year. Do not miss this disturbing, beautiful, piece of art.

Incredible.

Amazing.

Before I start, I think you should be informed that this film took a period of four years to film, in EIGHTEEN different countries.

This film has the most beautiful and BEST cinematography that I have ever seen. It also marks the sophmore film for director Tarsem Singh, who made his debut with 2000's poorly received "The Cell." The cast is virtually made up of no big names, besides the main actor (Lee Pace) who is known for his role on the popular television show "Pushing Daisies." The story takes place in 1920s Los Angeles, where a stunt goes wrong and a stuntman misses the jump onto the horse, and breaks his legs. He is then sent to a hospital where he lays in bed day after day, until he meets a little hispanic girl who is also in the hospital recovering from a fall. He starts to tell her a fantasy story about a bandit and a group of outcasts all with one thing in common, seeking revenge on an evil govenor. After a while, the line between reality and fantasy starts to dissapear and we begin to see the symbolism, and that there is more to it all than a friendly kids story. Two scenes in this movie were some of the most remarkable scenes I have ever seen in any movie before. The first was when the main character, Roy, tells the little girl the start of a story about King Alexander. She pictures Alexander on a horse in the middle of ruins in a beautiful forest, and the girl asks Roy about the ruins, and how the horse is going to get through them. Roy says that Alexander doesn't have a horse, it was killed in battle. We then see Alexander get off his horse. At the same time Roy is saying that Alexander isn't surrounded by ruins in a forest either, he is in a desert. We then see the camera pan 180 degrees and he is now in the desert. The director really did an amazing job portraying the differences between their imaginations. The bandit in the film is also portrayed by the main actor, which is completely obvious because they show him without a mask quite often. My FAVORITE scene in the film and one of my favore scenes in any film in general takes place at the climax of this film. The little girl calls Roy's character in the story "bandit" the whole movie when they are in the fantasy realm. Not until the very end when the bandit was dying because he had given up, she made the connection and called the bandit Roy. She knew that Roy was actually the one giving up on life in the real world, and was considering suicide. She started yelling "No!, don't die Roy, stop it, Roy get up!" I thought that this was one of the most powerful scenes that I have ever seen in any movie. The movie uses alot of vibrant colors and wonderful cinematography.There is alot of swooping shots of nature, a flaming tree, and an elephant swimming underwater. Not to mention the opening of the movie done in slow motion, black and white, with no dialect; only the marvelous score as a horse is being lifted out of the water. This film is a landmark in independent filmmaking, and should be seen by anyone interested in film. It will be most enjoyed by someone who can appreciate the finer and more artistic films in cinema.

One of Soderbergh's best.

My second favorite movie of all time.