Movies Ten Films To Know Me

1. Leon: The Professional
2. Casino
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Boogie Nights
5. Kids
6. Dazed and Confused
7. American Beauty
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Clerks
10. Forrest Gump
 
Jackie Blue said:
1. Leon: The Professional
2. Casino
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Boogie Nights
5. Kids
6. Dazed and Confused
7. American Beauty
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Clerks
10. Forrest Gump
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Nice movies!!! :) <3
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Indiana Jones Temple of doom
Conan the Barbarian
The Gladiator
Rocky IV
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Crow
Army of Darkness
The Quest
Nightmare before Christmas
The Princess Bride
 
sweetviolenturg said:
A friend of mine tagged me on Facebook to play this game & it proved to be pretty fun/interesting so I thought I'd import my list over here to Sherdog & see what others have to say about it as well as see what films they choose to represent themselves.
So, my list is as follows:
1) BLACK SUNDAY - Mario Bava's 1960 chiller is the first film that I can ever remember watching when I was five years old. It sparked the flame for my lifelong love of genre fare.
2) KING CREOLE - I grew up on a steady diet of monster movies, horror films & Elvis musicals. With this 1958 opus being my favorite of the latter bunch. Other favs included JAILHOUSE ROCK, FLAMING STAR & KID GALAHAD but KING CREOLE was the best IMO.
3) ENTER THE DRAGON - I've written extensively about my experience with this film before so I'll try to condense it as much as possible. After seeing it at the drive-in as a wee lad in 1974 it inspired me into a lifelong study of the martial arts & my participation in combat sports. It led to black belts in kickboxing & Kajukenbo Kempo as well as a professional boxing career. Plus a single pro kickboxing bout.
4) FAT CITY - This is my all-time favorite boxing film. It's an all too often overlooked classic from 1972.
5) ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 - This 1976 action-suspense film is representative of one of my favorite filmmakers John Carpenter. I could just as easily chosen HALLOWEEN, THE THING or PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
6) AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON - This 1981 film is right up there among my top two or three genre films.
7) BLACK CHRISTMAS - Bob Clark's 1974 chiller is at the top of my genre fav films list.
8) REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - this 2000 Jared Leto film is a masterpiece IMHO & a film that I can watch over & over again & never tire of.
9) I SAW THE DEVIL - 2010's best movie IMO & one of the best of that decade.
10) MANDY/ BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99/ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD - Yeah, I cheated by declaring that I couldn't choose between these three favorites for the final spot.

So, now you can comment on my list and/or create your own.
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Nice list dude, wouldn't expect anything less from you. I've still never seen Fat City, it's on the list but I'll make a note to watch it sooner rather than later

So these movies are not necessarily my favorites, more movies that have book marked my life in some way

1. American Werewolf In London - Being English the horror movies I grew up on were campy, gothic, classically accented Hammer Horror movies, but in 1981/82 I watched a movie preview show on daytime TV (I would have been 6 or 7 depending on the year) and it showed the Tube scene from AMIL. It scared the life out of me, shook me to the core, I wasn't comfortable in the dark for many many years after that.
It also started my obsession with US horror. Some years later I watched the movie on a 12 inch B&W TV and it scared the life out of me once more. Since then I've watched it at least twice a year in various formats and the special effects are still better than most horror movies some 40 years later.

2. 9 1/2 Weeks - Hugely important movie in my coming of age, stressing the 'coming' part here

3. Jaws - all time favorite movie, and is the movie that made me interested in how movies are made. Everything about it is perfect to me and I can watch any part of that movie at any time and never gget bored. I stil watch it at least twice a year.

4. Beverly Hills Cop or Lethal Weapon - tough to choose between the two, if I had to choose a movie I know the script to back to front it's these. Massively influential on me

5. Breathless - probably the first 'real' movie I fell in love with, no action, no horror, no sci fi, just a damn good tale with great music, Valerie Kaprisky and also one of the first movies I realised that I liked to see the (anti) hero die in the end. A real ending

6. Drunken Master - my first real foray into martial arts movies, I never looked back, took my first Karate lesson at 7 and have been studying martial arts one way or another ever since

7. John Woo's The Killer - First time I experience Eastern cinema away from traditional martial arts, and boy what a trip.

8. Rear Window - I'm a voyeur, I love voyeuristic movies, this movie may have made me a deviant!

9. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance KId - the movie that made me realise cinema wasn't created in 1975 and didn't have to be full of blood and swearing to be a great action movie.

10. The Longest Yard 1974 - I took my first ever acid tab to this movie at 13 years old, those 2 hours literally changed my life for ever. Burt Reynolds was also my first ever hero of cinema
 
HughPhug said:
Nice list dude, wouldn't expect anything less from you. I've still never seen Fat City, it's on the list but I'll make a note to watch it sooner rather than later

So these movies are not necessarily my favorites, more movies that have book marked my life in some way

1. American Werewolf In London - Being English the horror movies I grew up on were campy, gothic, classically accented Hammer Horror movies, but in 1981/82 I watched a movie preview show on daytime TV (I would have been 6 or 7 depending on the year) and it showed the Tube scene from AMIL. It scared the life out of me, shook me to the core, I wasn't comfortable in the dark for many many years after that.
It also started my obsession with US horror. Some years later I watched the movie on a 12 inch B&W TV and it scared the life out of me once more. Since then I've watched it at least twice a year in various formats and the special effects are still better than most horror movies some 40 years later.

2. 9 1/2 Weeks - Hugely important movie in my coming of age, stressing the 'coming' part here

3. Jaws - all time favorite movie, and is the movie that made me interested in how movies are made. Everything about it is perfect to me and I can watch any part of that movie at any time and never gget bored. I stil watch it at least twice a year.

4. Beverly Hills Cop or Lethal Weapon - tough to choose between the two, if I had to choose a movie I know the script to back to front it's these. Massively influential on me

5. Breathless - probably the first 'real' movie I fell in love with, no action, no horror, no sci fi, just a damn good tale with great music, Valerie Kaprisky and also one of the first movies I realised that I liked to see the (anti) hero die in the end. A real ending

6. Drunken Master - my first real foray into martial arts movies, I never looked back, took my first Karate lesson at 7 and have been studying martial arts one way or another ever since

7. John Woo's The Killer - First time I experience Eastern cinema away from traditional martial arts, and boy what a trip.

8. Rear Window - I'm a voyeur, I love voyeuristic movies, this movie may have made me a deviant!

9. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance KId - the movie that made me realise cinema wasn't created in 1975 and didn't have to be full of blood and swearing to be a great action movie.

10. The Longest Yard 1974 - I took my first ever acid tab to this movie at 13 years old, those 2 hours literally changed my life for ever. Burt Reynolds was also my first ever hero of cinema
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Excellent post, bro. Thanks for taking part, my friend. Wouldn't have been the same without you.
 
sweetviolenturg said:
A friend of mine tagged me on Facebook to play this game & it proved to be pretty fun/interesting so I thought I'd import my list over here to Sherdog & see what others have to say about it as well as see what films they choose to represent themselves.
So, my list is as follows:
1) BLACK SUNDAY - Mario Bava's 1960 chiller is the first film that I can ever remember watching when I was five years old. It sparked the flame for my lifelong love of genre fare.
2) KING CREOLE - I grew up on a steady diet of monster movies, horror films & Elvis musicals. With this 1958 opus being my favorite of the latter bunch. Other favs included JAILHOUSE ROCK, FLAMING STAR & KID GALAHAD but KING CREOLE was the best IMO.
3) ENTER THE DRAGON - I've written extensively about my experience with this film before so I'll try to condense it as much as possible. After seeing it at the drive-in as a wee lad in 1974 it inspired me into a lifelong study of the martial arts & my participation in combat sports. It led to black belts in kickboxing & Kajukenbo Kempo as well as a professional boxing career. Plus a single pro kickboxing bout.
4) FAT CITY - This is my all-time favorite boxing film. It's an all too often overlooked classic from 1972.
5) ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 - This 1976 action-suspense film is representative of one of my favorite filmmakers John Carpenter. I could just as easily chosen HALLOWEEN, THE THING or PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
6) AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON - This 1981 film is right up there among my top two or three genre films.
7) BLACK CHRISTMAS - Bob Clark's 1974 chiller is at the top of my genre fav films list.
8) REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - this 2000 Jared Leto film is a masterpiece IMHO & a film that I can watch over & over again & never tire of.
9) I SAW THE DEVIL - 2010's best movie IMO & one of the best of that decade.
10) MANDY/ BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99/ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD - Yeah, I cheated by declaring that I couldn't choose between these three favorites for the final spot.

So, now you can comment on my list and/or create your own.
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Thanks for the the list of 10 films.
 
In no particular order;

Boyz In the Hood
Leon
Predator
The Running Man
Ghost In A Shell - Original animated
Reservoir Dogs
The Godfather
The Thing
Terminator II
Big Trouble in Little China
 
Jackie Blue said:
1. Leon: The Professional
2. Casino
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Boogie Nights
5. Kids
6. Dazed and Confused
7. American Beauty
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Clerks
10. Forrest Gump
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Would like some extra info.......interesting and great choices.
 
sweetviolenturg said:
It's actually an incredibly deep, insightful look into your psyche & the darkest recesses of your mind. Hope you don't mind. :D
No, actually it's just an interesting little, poorly titled "challenge" that's been getting forwarded on Facebook a lot lately. I think it just provides a fun peek at how movies have shaped each of our lives & it's also cool to see one another's eclectic tastes.
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Yeah, great idea.... it a favorites list but movies that played a part in who u are....
 
Jackie Blue said:
1. Leon: The Professional
2. Casino
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Boogie Nights
5. Kids
6. Dazed and Confused
7. American Beauty
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Clerks
10. Forrest Gump
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I Am Legion said:
Would like some extra info.......interesting and great choices.
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I'll try my best...

1. I can relate to the character of Leon because I'm sort of the strong, silent type. I was born in the same month and year as Natalie Portman. Went to the same summer camp as her, just a different year. She also went to Harvard and I grew up near Harvard and my family is heavily connected to Harvard.

2. I don't know if I have much of a personal connection to this one, just an epic story that I really got into as a teenager and young man who was a film buff.

3. Again, not something I'm really personally connected to, but just a great work of art that I felt emotionally connected to, even though the characters' personal experiences were quite different from my own.

4. I've always had a lot of reverence for the 70s as a decade and I used to really be into porn, although not so much anymore. Great film and takes you along on their journey through their sordid lives.

5. I grew up in that era in a similar environment and my friends and I watched the movie and could really relate to it.

6. Just a cool 70s nostalgia movie with a lot of relatable characters and a great ensemble cast. Wooderson is iconic.

7. Incredible cinematography, writing, directing and acting. Was 18 when I saw this. Could really relate to the teenage characters as well as Kevin Spacey's middle aged character undergoing crisis. Now that I'm closer in age to Lester, I guess I can relate to his perspective even more in a sense.

8. Kubrick's finest work. Best war movie, IMO. I don't know what else to say, just epic. So many classic lines. "Me love you long time," "no boom boom wit soul brudda," "no more boom boom for this baby-san", etc.

9. I was a big Kevin Smith fan in the 90s. He's a legend. Great independent, low budget film, great writing and characters, and a soundtrack that cost like 10x more than producing the movie itself, LOL.

10. Epic American story. I guess it gave me a better sense of what my parents lived through and Tom Hanks is incredible.
 
1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Heartbreak Ridge
3. The Naked Gun
4. 9/11
5. Taylor Swift The Reputation Tour on Netflix
6. The Bodyguard
7. Forrest Gump
8. City Under Siege
9. A Few Good Men
10. Rambo
 
In roughly the order I originally saw them:

1. The Shining - that shower scene was my first time seeing a naked woman!
2. The Thing - I loved it, and how my parents reacted to it
3. Young Frankenstein - we lost almost everything we had in a house fire, so we didn't have a TV and just listened to it like a radio program
4. Terminator 2
5. Heat
6. Office Space
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Die Hard
10. The Man From Earth - probably my #1 top movie
 
Jackie Blue said:
1. Leon: The Professional
2. Casino
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Boogie Nights
5. Kids
6. Dazed and Confused
7. American Beauty
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Clerks
10. Forrest Gump
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Kids fucked me when I was like 12 or so truly a disturbing movie for someone not knowledgeable on sex, drugs ,.....rape. maybe having free showtime wasn't a good thing.
 
buffpants22 said:
Kids fucked me when I was like 12 or so truly a disturbing movie for someone not knowledgeable on sex, drugs ,.....rape. maybe having free showtime wasn't a good thing.
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I was at least 14 when I saw it. Only a few years, but it's a BIG difference at that age.
 
This is an interesting thread.
I don’t if by watching these ten films you could know me per say but we would definitely have a shit load to talk, quote and joke about.
10. 187, the acid rap/electronic soundtrack and camera work talks to me. If you refilled teletubbies this way I would be a die hard fan. Also the premise of the system failing people and how our choices corrupt us etc.. is all shit I am very interested in. Even though it’s a southern Cali movie it always reminds me of the $ir Dyno story.

9. Blood in blood out/ bound by honor. Me and my friends watched this flick from when we were just tots. We watched my friends tap until it broke.

8 Heat. One of my favorite movies would prolly be in my top top 5 favorites. But I love stories with vulnerable bad guys who show up the people in power and then die ironic or poetic deaths. The story is very Chicano in that way.

7.fist of legend. One of the dopest jet Li jams around. Me and my friends watched this movie so many times it was crazy. It was le of the reasons I quit some cults Kung if mcdojo when I was a pipsqueek and joined a boxing gym.

6. Street fighter 2 the animated movie. I love 2d fighters and this was my jam back in the day. If you want to know me you have to make a concerted step into the contrived plots and expanded SNK and Capcom universes.

5. How high. Dumb stoner comedy poorly acted. This movie is me all over 90’s humor 90’s rap and a chuck liddell cameo. I would t put it in my top 10 movies.. but if you can dig this flick we got something in common.

4. Shoguns assassin. I love Japanese cinema and have dabbled in weebish behaviors. This flick is a great samurai flick that is tons of fun that will appeal to all nerds.

3. A better tomorrow. Gangster flicks are my jam. Heroic gangster flicks set in Asia even better. Cdonflicted gangsters living remorseful lives lives fuck yea. Also add in chow yuan fat.

2. City on fire. The perfect blend of romantic gangster HK cinema with modern ultra violence. It’s the perfect film for a wannabe film snob who is best described as the class clown.

1. Hard boiled. High action Chinese film with gangster sub plots and cop drama. It is is the perfect representation of what I like in a movie. Hell I need my son 润发 after the chow yun fats performance in this movie.
 
  1. Martyrs (French original); best thriller/ horror I've ever seen
  2. On Golden Pond; I'm not cryer, I swear! ;)
  3. The Man from Earth; just an awesome tale
  4. Murder by Death; saw this one as a wee lad, and the scene with the rock/ boulder falling near the entrance of the house, early on in the film, always stuck with me
  5. The Goonies; another one from my childhood
  6. My Own Private Idaho/ Mosquito Coast/ A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon; River Phoenix, need I say more?
  7. Beautiful Thing; the film that made me come out
  8. House of a 1,000 Corpses; Rob Zombie, Sheri Moon, Sid Haig!!!
  9. 300; blood, gore, some sci-fi, oh yeah!
  10. Schatjes/ Mama Is Boos (Dutch movies); simply hilarious, with some drama thrown in, best of Dutch cinema in the '80s
 
1. Jurassic park
2.lotr trilogy
3. Ghostbusters1&2
4. Demon Knight
5.castaway
6. Windrunner
7. Cinderella man
8. Ferris bueller's day off
9. Fright night
10. Orange county

I dont have the time right now to get into how these movies say about my personality or how I relate to the characters right now.ill do a follow up
Post later.
 
Clementine said:
1: Gifted ~ 2017 ~ It just brings the tears & feels outta me!! :confused:
2: The Girl Next Door ~ 2007 ~ Such an amazing coming of age and romance movie, I watch it at least once per year, it has legendary quotes like ''Was the juice worth the squeeze?'' And ''a fkn tripod!!'' :D
3: Captain America Civil War ~ 2016 ~ Chiefly for the acting of Robert Downey Junior during the scene when he finds out about his parents... :eek: Oscar worthy IMO.
4: Sucker Punch ~ 2011 ~ Such a trip of a movie and connected to a real good memory when I first saw it at the movies :D
5: Paranormal Activity ~ 2007 ~ Scared me senseless the first time I saw it, I literately backed up in the seat watching it at the movies during the ending scene.... :oops:
6: The Man from Earth ~ 2007 ~ Remember watching it at the house of my brother during a rainy night and it just blew our minds completely O.O We still discuss what the heck was true or not... xD
7: Aliens ~ 1986 ~ A perfect movie in my opinion, I've even gone through the books to get Newts perspective and how the colony fell, simply amazing!!
8: Titanic ~ 1997 ~ The perfect romance movie set in the backdrop of a disaster the viewer knows is coming. So many favorite scenes, the first time Jack sees Rose, sex in the car- the way she strokes his face... Or when Rose is alone near the end and looks up at the night sky while singing that song / Amazing!!
9: Dawn of the dead ~ 2004 ~ I was 14 when this movie came out and it had me scared for a week afterwards... :oops: ~ Also extra special because a friend writes extensive fan fiction about this movie!! :D
10: Mulan ~ 1998 ~ Watched it on repeat as a kid and I recently watched it again with my nieces ~ Also a timeless soundtrack like make a man outta you / Short hair ^^

I have no idea what this all means, but it was fun sharing some favorite movies of mine!! :)
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I'm shocked you didn't mention this movie. :p

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