Boomzilla's Favorite Movies

[Boomzilla]

In alphabetical order (and anything with an asterisk in front, I REALLY like):

28 Days

A Beautiful Mind

* A Clockwork Orange

A Real Job

A Zed and Two Noughts

About A Boy

About My Mother

About Time (Scotland? I'm not taking my knickers off for Scotland!)

Ali

All About My Mother

Almost Famous

American Pie / American Pie II

Antonia's Line

* Baghdad Cafe

Basic Instinct

Beau Pere

Beautiful People

Bedazzled

Being There

Better Than Chocolate

Big Wednesday - Special Edition

* Black Cat, White Cat

Black Robe

Blackhawk Down

Blame It On Rio

Blood Simple

Blue Velvet

Body Double

Body Shots

Bossa Nova

Bound

Boys Don't Cry

Brazil

Bridget Jones' Diary

Bull Durham

Chasing Amy

Chicken Run

Chungking Express

Citizen Kane

Clay Pigeons

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Closely Watched Trains

Conspiracy Theory

Contact

CQ - Special Edition

Crash

Croupier

Crumb

Dancer In The Dark

Dazed and Confused

Dead Ringers

Death Becomes Her

Deep Blue Sea

Desperately Seeking Susan

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Dogma

Dogtown and Z Boys

Donnie Darko

Don't Look Now

Down By Law

Dr. T and the Women

Draughtsman's Contract

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drowning Mona

Earth Girls Are Easy

Emma

Enigma

Entrapment

* Eve's Bayou

Exotica

* Eyes Wide Shut

Fantasia

Fargo

Fascination

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Femme Fatale

Flirting

Frenzy

G.I. Jane

Galaxy Quest

Ghost Story (1981)

Ghost World

Girls Can't Swim

Gladiator

Glengarry Glen Ross

Gloria

* Go

Goodfellas

Gregory's Girl

Happiness

* Happy Texas

Harry Potter Series

Heathers

* Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Henry and June

Homeward Bound

Hoosiers

Husbands and Wives

Il Postini

In The Bedroom

In The Company of Men

Insomnia

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Jackie Brown

Jade

J.F.K.

Joy Ride

Jungle Fever

Kissing Jessica Stein

Kwaidan

L'Aventura

* Lantana

Last Night

Les Bons Femmes

L.I.E.

Liquid Sky

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Love and Sex

Loves of a Blonde

Lumiere and Company

Magnolia

M*A*S*H

Me, Myself, and Irene

Men In Black / MIB II

* Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil

Mifune

Miss Congeniality

Monsoon Wedding

Moulin Rouge

Mrs. 45

Mrs. Brown

Mulholland Drive

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Favorite Year

My Left Foot

My Life In Pink

My Life So Far

Nadjia

Nashville

Natural Born Killers

Network

Never Been Kissed

Never Cry Wolf

Night of the Hunted

Nine Queens

Nixon

Nurse Betty

Open Your Eyes

* Out Of Sight

Pauline and Paulette

* Pauline at the Beach

Pulp Fiction

Raising Arizona

Rear Window

Reservoir Dogs

Reversal of Fortune

Rififi

Rob Roy

Romance

* Run Lola Run

Rushmore

Say Anything

Scanners

Scent of a Woman

Seconds

Serendipity

Seven Samurai

Sexy Beast

Shadow of a Doubt

Shallow Hal

Shampoo

Shanghai Triad

She's All That

Shivers

* Sirens

Sleepless In Seattle

* Sling Blade

* Smoke Signals

Some Like It Hot

Splendor

Stand By Me

Stormy Monday

Storytelling

Strictly Ballroom

Sullivan's Travels

Swordfish

Tango

* The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension

The Anniversary Party

The Banger Sisters

The Big Lebowski

The Blues Brothers

The Bourne Identity

The Center of the World

The Closet

* The Commitments

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

The Devil's Backbone

The Doors

The Favor

* The Fifth Element

The Full Monty

The Gleaners and I

The Hot Spot

The House of Yes

The Limey

* The Lincoln Lawyer

The Meaning of Life

The Minus Man

The Mummy

The Muse

The Opposite of Sex

The Perfect Storm

The Pillow Book

The Pledge

The Remains of the Day

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Seven Percent Solution

The Sheltering Sky

The Silence of the Lambs

The Spanish Prisoner

The Straight Story

The Tailor of Panama

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Underneath

* The Usual Suspects

The Vanishing

* The Wicker Man (Original - NOT the dreck with Nicholas Cage)

The Widow of St. Pierre

Thelma and Louise

Three Days of the Condor

* Three Kings

* Time Bandits

Time Code

To Die For

Touch of Evil

Truth or Dare

Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me

U-Turn

Unbreakable

Undercover Brother

Unfaithful

Unforgiven

Used Cars

Va Savoir

Vanishing Point

Vertical Limit

Very Bad Things

* Videodrome

Wall Street

* Wild Things

With A Friend Like Harry

* Y Tu Mama También

Z

[audiobill]

Where is Witness?

[vneal]

Good list.
No GODFATHER ?

[Deleted]

It's a good thing you narrowed it down to a fairly short list!   

I got bored about C or D.  You only had 42 movie titles that begin with the word the.  I have to disagree with the The Big Lebowski, one of the worst and most over-rated comedies ever.  95% of the script was made up with the two words fxck and dude.   Also, you left out Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  

[klinemj]

Hello? Blazing Saddles? Stripes? Young Frankenstein? And of course Debbie Does Dallas.

Mark

[Deleted]

Nov 22, 2015 17:57:34 GMT -5 klinemj said:

Hello? Blazing Saddles? Stripes? Young Frankenstein? And of course Debbie Does Dallas.

Mark

It's Fronkensteen!

[hemster]

No love for Office Space?   One Flew Over the *bleep*oo's Nest?  Or E.T.?  Snatch?     

[Deleted]

Nov 22, 2015 18:12:40 GMT -5 hemster said:

No love for Office Space?   One Flew Over the *bleep*oo's Nest?  Or E.T.?  Snatch?     

Snatch?  Was that the movie that starred Linda Lovelace? 

[hemster]

Nov 23, 2015 0:23:50 GMT -5 @chuckienut said:

Nov 22, 2015 18:12:40 GMT -5 hemster said:

No love for Office Space?   One Flew Over the *bleep*oo's Nest?  Or E.T.?  Snatch?     

Snatch?  Was that the movie that starred Linda Lovelace? 

 

[melm]

Duel (Spielberg's first)

Red Rock West

The Forbin Project

The Killers (Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes)

El Cid (I wrote a book about that one)

The Train

Touch of Evil

Manchurian Candidate (the original of course)

Runaway Train (John Voight)

Inherit the Wind

This is Spinal Tap

Zulu

Man Who Would be King (Connery, Caine)

Bad Day at Black Rock (Spencer Tracy)

Gravity

Winter Kills

The Hidden

[Deleted]

I'm quite surprised Boom didn't list this movie:    

A Flea Market Documentary (2001)(PBS)





www.imdb.com/title/tt0292516/

[Boomzilla]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I knew that I'd get lots of "Why didn't you include..." feedback, and I welcome it to see if there's any greats that I missed.

I also knew that some of my preferences (chick flicks in particular) would probably draw some ire.

So my next step will be to edit the list with some star ratings. Some of the list denizens are dearer to my heart than others.

I also didn't list a lot of classic movies because I just assumed that everyone liked them and had seen them.

Boom

[Bonzo]

You have WAY too much time on your hands sir.

[Boomzilla]

Well... I started watching when I was about 10, and now I'm OLD - so a lifetime of movie viewing yields a long list.

[klinemj]

Just a guess, but I think he meant you have too much time on your hands if you publish the list.



Mark

[geebo]

Nov 23, 2015 12:43:48 GMT -5 Boomzilla said:

Well... I started watching when I was about 10, and now I'm OLD - so a lifetime of movie viewing yields a long list.

Was that all from memory?

[Boomzilla]

Nah - I've kept a list.

[Boomzilla]

Nov 23, 2015 13:31:09 GMT -5 klinemj said:

Just a guess, but I think he meant you have too much time on your hands if you publish the list.



Mark

There's a marvelous new invention - it's called copy & paste!

LOL

[Bonzo]

Nov 23, 2015 15:20:16 GMT -5 Boomzilla said:

Nah - I've kept a list.

My main list is the Blurays, DVD's and VHS tapes in my storage case. Of course there are more great movies out there that I don't have in my collection, but not nearly as many that are on my wall.

You forgot Patton by the way.

[melm]

By the way, if you have a lot of movies, there's a neat iOS app, called Fantastic Library. You shoot the disc barcode with your iPhone camera, and it creates a database of all your stuff. I've got somewhere North of 1500 movies, both DVDs and Blu-ray. I make a library for each location. Later, if I don't know the title and am looking for a John Wayne movie it tells me what room, or shelf or drawer it is in.

It also creates a web page of that same data, complete with disc covers etc. And it can manage your loan-outs. It backs everything up to the cloud as well. Clever for a couple of bucks. Just my $.02.

Mel