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Pithecanthropus wrote:

Predator (I such a sucker for that one!)

TBS was just showing that this weekend, but I prefer the unedited for TV version myself

Tallgeese wrote:

justine wrote:

You guys are making my head spin with Star Wars. I still can't get the order straight, so i'm watching them by date made. 

That's the best way to do it. Also, stop after watching three of them.

I've alctually already seen the first one. I saw it at the drive in when it was first released. I remember very little of it.

user wrote:

Yeah, I never remember movies that I saw when I was 4.

I dunno about Braveheart, but somehow I always end up watching Thunderheart when it's on. Oh, and Everything is Illuminated. Damn that movie's beautiful. Was a time it was on HBO every other hour. Haven't seen it lately tho.

The Star Wars story arc:

Episode I:  A young Obi Wan Kenobi and a very cool looking Liam Neeson find a kid who can't act his way out of a wet paper bag.  There is a cool Pod race and a pretty good light saber battle at the end.  Oh, and there's Jar Jar Binks who is a bad, bad mistake.

Episode II:  Obi Wan Kenobi trains a young Anikan Skywalker to be a Jedi Knight.  There are some really horrible "love" scenes between Anikan and his girlfriend.  I mean really horrible, the lines seem to have been written by a child.  There are also some very boring scenes in, of all places, the smurfing Galactic Senate.  Meanwhile, Obi Wan goes off and has some pretty okay adventures.  This one ends with another light saber battle.

Episode III:  Things start to heat up, but it's still pretty boring, especially anything that features Anikan and his (now) wife.  Obi Wan gets to go on some more cool adventures, and we learn that the senator who was supposed to be a good guy is actually -- THE HEAD BAD GUY!!  This one also ends with a light saber battle and the birth of Luke, Leia and Darth Vader.

Episode IV: Finally the story starts to get good.  We meet a young Luke Skywalker as he goes off to save Princess Leia with the help of an older Obi Wan and some new friends.  Although there is a light saber battle in this one, it ends with the thrilling destruction of the Death Star.

Episode V:  The best of the bunch.  Things get ugly for our heroes.  This one also ends with a light saber battle and we find out that Darth Vader is really Luke's father!!!!

Episode VI:  Our heroes are aided by a smurfing bunch of Teddy Bears.  This one ends with a light saber battle, the destruction of another Death Star and a really crappy song.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Home Alone
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies
Stand By Me
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
JAWS
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Romancing the Stone
Final Destination
Serendipity
Lethal Weapon series
Police Academy series

Arabian Nights
Terminator (I and II)
French Kiss
Bourne Movies
Lethal Weapon Movies
Back to the Future
School of Rock (I love the way it portrays rock as a somewhat innocent rebellion)
Starship Troopers (original)

Every 4 or 5 months - LOTR
Twice a year - Star Wars (all six)

resedit wrote:

Starship Troopers (original)

Starship Troopers II really sucked.
It was basically a slasher film - but with a worse plot than most slasher films.

III was a little better, but was so predictable it was pathetic.

The original though is a favorite of mine.

Last edited by resedit (2008-08-28 8:47 pm)

Pithecanthropus wrote:

The Star Wars story arc:
find a kid who can't act his way out of a wet paper bag.

Thanks! That explains a lot.
Mark Hamil wasn't that great of an actor either.
Guess it runs in the family.

macnuke wrote:

Groundhog Day

Seriously, this IS a movie I do watch over and over without getting tired. I will watch the marathons of the movie they play on groundhog day every February.

These arent movies that I think are exactly the best, they are just sort of comfort food for the idiot box:

Shawshank Redemption
Matrix
Alien & Aliens
Bourne movies
OG Star Wars trilogy
Rushmore
Duck Soup
Better Off Dead
Trading Places
Super Troopers
The Goonies
Spartan
Clueless
The Departed
Friday
Pride & Prejudice (the BBC miniseries)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (series and movies)
ROD the TV
Arrested Developmet (all three seasons)

resedit wrote:

Pithecanthropus wrote:

The Star Wars story arc:
find a kid who can't act his way out of a wet paper bag.

Thanks! That explains a lot.
Mark Hamil wasn't that great of an actor either.
Guess it runs in the family.

However, Mark Hamill has gone on to be a very successful voice actor.  Whereas Jake Lloyd...? 

Pithecanthropus wrote:

resedit wrote:

Pithecanthropus wrote:

The Star Wars story arc:
find a kid who can't act his way out of a wet paper bag.

Thanks! That explains a lot.
Mark Hamil wasn't that great of an actor either.
Guess it runs in the family.

However, Mark Hamill has gone on to be a very successful voice actor.

Mark totally killed as The Trickster on The Flash TV series. Too bad hardly anyone saw it.