Best...(In the Movies)

1. Best...(In the Movies)

   #81

   Ohhh, Greccio! You are just a kid!
   I thought you were Cap or Scras having a bit of fun at our's expense!
   
   Awwww.... You can look forward to many fun years of gaming! I kind of envy you that ;)
   
   And my favourite movie quotes are Schwarzenegger's too! I love those cheesy old one liners: "Hang around!" and "I'll be back!"
   
   Such testosterone!
   GOOOOO GOVERNATOR!

2. Best...(In the Movies)

   #82

   Ok... you got me there what age are you anyways even my mother can still play games.
   
   and that's the spelling I'm looking for, hehe.

3. Best...(In the Movies)

   #83

   Ok, I will answer in this thread, as you requested per private message Greccio500:
   
   I am 30 years old and I play computer games too! You know what? I also create computer games and am currently reading some nice books about 3D engines and game programming. I have not applied for a job in a major game company and I never will; the mainstream market does not appeal to me.
   
   In regards to your age; it was easy to discover. Either you were a character created by one of the more mischievious forum GM's or you were indeed an active youngster. Your references to Disney and Pixar films busted you! As a parent I regard Disney films as a necessary evil, a chore even. My kids can watch'em but then I like to seclude myself in a room, far away and with a nice book.
   
   Hope that answered your questions Greccio and remember this: There are huge differences between conversations in real life, and those conversations we have on the web. Especially those of us who like to communicate via forums like Strolen's Citadel*, must be prepared to wait potentially very long for an answer. Often an answer isn't forthcoming at all!
   
   I wish you the very best and hope your future will bring many cool and enjoyable roleplaying-sessions.
   
   *(the forum you are reading right now)

4. Best...(In the Movies)

   #84

   Best Actor: Gregory Peck(I bet few know him)
   
   Best Movie Twist: The Others
   
   Most Stupid, but funney, move: Kung Pow
   
   Most boring movie: Nature Films
   
   The Greatest Movie of all time: The Lord of the Rings(All of them)
   
   The most sad move: Sommers By
   
   Best Action Movie: We Were Soldiers
   
   Best Historical Film: The Patriot
   
   Best Drama: Matchstick Men

5. Best...(In the Movies)

   #85

   Best Historical Film: The Patriot
   
   Best Drama: Matchstick Men

   
   
   Okay, if The Patriot is your best Historical and Matchstick Men is your best drama, we need to get to a movie rental place and force feed some classics down your throat (a subscription to AMC or Turner Classics might do as well). Might I recomend (historicals), Rob Roy, or Wuthering Heights, or Pride and Predujice, or Of Mice and Men, or... well the list goes on. On the Dramatic side (with a touch of adventure) Maltese Falcon, Cassablanca (my vote for best all around movie ever), African Queen, Third Man, Citizen Kane (while no adventure, very dramatic piece). Color can be highly over rated.
   
   Best Historical: Ben Hur. Though things could be say for Cleopatra or The Greatest Story Ever Told.
   
   Best Drama: Do not have one I want to list at this time.
   
   Best TechnoThriller: Sneakers, followed closely Hackers. Others might have more flash (read Mission Expensive... err... Impossible) but few deliver good plot, dialog, drama, and science as these.
   
   Best Dramatic Director: Hitchcock
   
   Best Action Director: Wu
   
   Best General Director: Spielberg

6. Best...(In the Movies)

   #86

   I've heard of Gregory Peck. Who hasn't heard of Gregory Peck? That's crazy.
   He played Atticus in the movie version of To Kill A Mockingbird.

7. Best...(In the Movies)

   #87

   He was excellent in that movie!

8. Best...(In the Movies)

   #88

   Your references to Disney and Pixar films busted you!
   *(the forum you are reading right now)

   I don't get this??
   Do you mean I like Disney Pixars movies?? C'mon I don't like their movies well not all. (Almost all just the others with good stories like ,Atlantis and treasure planet) But not all like Toy story and the others......
   And I know chatting in the computer and real life is really different...
   No hard feelings please....^_^!

9. Best...(In the Movies)

   #89

   Yes, yes, Atlantis and similar Disney/Pixar films do have some nice features.
   Yes, yes, the Incredibles and similar are well made and funny too (or so insists my CGI loving buddies ;))
   
   But still, you mentioned them as favourites and said that some of them were really old... I mean, they were released like yesterday.
   
   Time is relative Greccio, and how you position yourself in the context of time will tell others a whole lot about your age.
   
   (Example: My grandfather would tell me about how he fought the Nazis as a part of a guerilla group, making it sound like it just happened. But to me WWII is something surreal and distantly removed)
   
   And that is what I have to say about this matter. I will not explain myself further, I will not translate difficult words. Instead I once again urge you to use google.

10. Best...(In the Movies)

    #90

    Worst Edited Movie (Sci-Fi): Dune
    
    Worst Movie Ever: Tie- Rollerball or Ishtar
    
    Best Animated Movie to Relate to World Politics: The Incredibles
    (Incredibles = USA, Frozone = Britain and other Coalition members, Syndrome = Muslim extremists, Mirage = Pakistan)

11. Best...(In the Movies)

    #91

    Yea, Dune the movie wasn't as good as I thought it would be, it didn't really show enough of the philisphical and politicial views of the books.

12. Best...(In the Movies)

    #92

    I have written in this thread because I got a private message demanding that I do so. I have tried to be pleasant and forthcoming for a long time, but I'll admit that I am losing my patience. If there is anything you want me to explain to you Sentinel, please send me a private message.
    
    Perhaps it is time that this thread reverted back to it's original purpose?

13. Best...(In the Movies)

    #93

    Best Godzilla Film: Godzilla 2000 (not the American one, the Japanese one featuring Orga.)
    
    Best Monster in a Godzilla Film: Destroyah, the Oxygen-Destroyer
    
    Best Movie Filmed in My Home State: Dante's Peak

14. Best...(In the Movies)

    #94

    Best movie filmed in my country: The Empire Strikes Back. (The scenes from Hoth)

15. Best...(In the Movies)

    #95

    Best silence breaker: "Damn them, damn them all to hell!" - Planet of the Apes. We watched this in my english class, it was so funny at the time because we were so immature... :D and the apes themselves kicked butt too!

16. ROOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR

    #96

    Best Godzilla film: Godzilla, King of the Monsters 1956 (The original US release with Raymond Burr, which is actually a better movie than the Japanese version Gojira (per some of my Japanese speaking friends). The whole symbolism of the movie, and characterization, is excellent.
    
    Best daikaiju movie: Godzilla (1998) Yes this is the one with Micheal Brodrick. I like this move best because it shows the Giant Monster as a creature, an animal. This is a monster getting the best of the Military and Man, without having to be an incarnation of a force of nature (which is one of the reasons they explain why Godzilla (in movies past the first) can only be hurt by other daikaiju and can shrug off all military weapondry).
    
    Best Daikaiju cartoon: Godzilla (1999) Given all the Godzilla cartoons, (US, Aussie, and Japanese) this series is the best of the bunch. This outweighs many of the other "friendly monster" cartoons including the Mothra one.
    
    Best Monster Movie in my opinion: American Werewolf in London, still one of the best ever.

17. Pixar rocks!

    #97

    Okay, I have not watched any movies except The Incredibles recently:
    
    "Its Showtime."
    
    "We're Superheroes, what could happen to us?"
    
    So could someone else post something movie-ish?
    
    Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.

18. Best...(In the Movies)

    #98

    Most inspiring movie for roleplaying: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. With the impossible made mundane, a band of talented misfits, and the world chanting their name, the Hong Kong Cavaliers are the ultimate pc troupe. In a sense, all player-characters are mere shadows of Dr. Bonzai. The movie has provided priceless inspiration, as a GM, player, and game designer. And the closing credits scene will have you whistling/humming the song for weeks.

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    #99

    Best Unexpected Fight Scene: There is a tie. Both are in Serenity. Both involve with cute little 90lb girl. In the first she "removes" the patrons of an entire "tough guy bar" and casually takes down Jayne. (digression: Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: What in the hell happened back there?  Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90 pound girl cuz... I don't think that's ever getting old. ). The second is when the little girl goes out and takes out the most dangerous force of Reavers in the fricken 'verse.
    
    

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    #100

    (Ah, yes, all hail the River)
    
    Most Gruesomely Appropriate Death: Lt. Kraus's death in Puppet Master 3
    
    Best "Oh My God, CGI can do that?!": Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
    
    Best Animated Fight Scenes: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Most notably, the BahamutSin fight, and the final fight)
    
    Biggest Mindf***: End of Evangelion, with 2001: A Space Odessy a distant second
    
    Most Heartwrenching Moment: When Navarre and Isobol almost touch at dawn in LadyHawke
    
    Best Dorky/Cute Special Effect: the mechanical owl from Clash of the Titans
    
    Biggest Plothole: One the size of Nebraska in the first five minutes of Citizen Kane, that therefore renders the entire plot of the movie impossible
    
    Best Ad-lib: "You're not a eunuch, are you?"  Capt. Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribean
    
    Best Cold War-era Movie, non James Bond: Hunt for Red October
    
    Best Entrance: Capt. Jack Sparrow's arrival in Port Royal, Pirates of the Carribean.  Honorable mention to Jeryth from
    Labyrinth (any time he showed up, really)
    
    Best Robot Movie: Tossup between Short Circuit and Batteries Not Included
    
    Coolest Villian: Darth Vader
    
    Coolest Animated Villian: Maleficient, from Sleeping Beauty (yes, I know it's Disney.  Shut up; she kicked ass.)
    
    Best Sci-Fantasy Movie: Krull
    
    Best Conan Ripoff: Red Sonja
    
    Best Movie that was good until all of the bits that explained the plot were edited out: Scorpion King
    
    Best Line Delivered Immediately Prior to a Villian's Death: "This is where you fall down."  Johnny Cage, Mortal Kombat
    
    Coolest Baby: JackJack from The Incredibles
    
    Best No-Budget Horror Flick Director: tie between Roger Corman and Charles Band
    
    Best Spaceship Pilot: Han Solo, followed closely by Wash from Serenity (his attitude wins him that)
    
    Best Spaceship Flight Scene: Wash's blockade running in Serenity

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    #101

    Best Spaceship Flight Scene: the X-wing fight at the end of Episode IV StarWars.  Okay maybe I am old school, but it is truly great.  If you watch the re-re-cgi-ed version, it is still pretty cool.  Of course, any of the big Babylon 5 battles run a pretty close second.
    
    Biggest Mindf***: Ending of Se7en
    
    Best "Oh My God, CGI can do that?!":  Did you see the Lord of the Rings?
    
    Things we totally agree upon
    Best Line Delivered Immediately Prior to a Villian's Death: "This is where you fall down."  Johnny Cage, Mortal Kombat.  It may not be the best line, but it has style.
    
    Coolest Animated Villian: Maleficient, from Sleeping Beauty (yes, I know it's Disney.  Shut up; she kicked ass.)
    
    Most Heartwrenching Moment (in a fantasy/ science fiction film): When Navarre and Isobol almost touch at dawn in LadyHawke    With the qualifier it is hands down true, without the qualifier it could be true.
    
    Coolest Baby: JackJack from The Incredibles  No argument there. Of course, not a lot of competition.
    
    

22. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #102

    I will qualify.
    Best "Oh My God, CGI can do that?!" (total CGI): Advent Children
    
    Best Death of a Nameless Minion: In Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, when the Ents are marching on Isengard.  They break the dam, water comes rushing in, and an Ent casually tosses an orc he's holding into the oncoming wall of water.

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    #103

    Best Gamer Related High Schoool Movie: Sky High
    
    Best literal application of the term Ice Queen. Sky High - The Girl, with ice powers, that keeps freezing every guy who makes a pass at her.
    
    
    
    

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    #104

    I have to say, when i first watched Final Fantasy: The spirits within I was so fricken amazed by the graphics (of course i nearly wet myself when i saw the first cut scene in Final Fantasy VII)
    
    Best portrayal of Warewolves and Vampires: Underworld, no questions asked. I still haven't seen evolution, is it any good?
    
    Best one-liner: Routy Roddy Piper in "They Live" -- "I came here to do two things, chew bubblegum and kick some ass and it looks like i'm all out of bubble gum." *cocks shotgun*
    
    Cutest movie protagonist: Gizmo from Gremlins.
    
    Biggest mindf***: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind or The Usual Suspects (they're a different kind of mindf***)
    
    Best CGI for it's time: TRON!!

25. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #105

    Best portrayal of Werewolves: American Werewolf in London, with Howling I (and only number 1, we do not acknowledge the other ones existing) coming in a close second. 
    
    

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    #106

    Best Use of Mini Coopers:  The Italian Job
    
    Only Permissable Use of a Britney Spears Song: Robots
    
    Best "OMG What the HELL Were They Thinking?!" Movie That Still Somehow Works: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything - Julie Newmarr
    (Yes, all of that is the title)

27. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #107

    
    Best Animated Fight Scenes: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Most notably, the BahamutSin fight, and the final fight)
    
    

    I'll second that, as ammended to "bestest sword fight evar"
    
    And Bubo the Mechanical Owl rocks.

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    #108

    Best violence for the sake of violence: Tied with Hostel and The Devil's Rejects - Twisted crazy ass movies.

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    #109

    With this opinionated bunch, nobody has an opinion on a "best of"?

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    #110

    Best excessive violence:  John Woo's The Killer
    
    From the Hong Kong movie poster:  One Ruthless Killer, One Determined Cop, 10,000 Bullets

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    #111

    Most Disturbing (you've been warned!) Movie In a While: Old Boy
    
    oh boy.
    
    Best Were-Owl entrance scene ever!: Night Watch
    
    

32. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #112

    Best Were-Owl entrance scene ever!: Night Watch
    
    Where there any others in that category?

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    #113

    Best Action Movie With But A Symbolic Plot - Mean Guns (So here you are... now kill each other.)
    
    Best wrongly interpreted name of a Film - The Long Kiss Goodnight (Was supposed to be a romantic movie, went there on duty as high school kids to learn proper English. We learned that to kiss somebody goodnight means to kill him.)
    
    The Best Prison Movie Ever - Shawshank Redemption (Actually an excellent movie by many other accounts!)
    
    Best Movie That Made The Theatre All Quiet - American Beauty
    
    Best Mass-Murderer Investigator Type - Morgan Freeman
    
    The Nicest Assassin For Hire - Leon

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    #114

    Have forgotten one:
    
    Best Announcement That The Movie Is Not Over Yet: Aliens, when the Alien Queen puts her rather sharp tail through Bishop, and then rips him in half. Ouch.

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    #115

    Best use of the word "cheese" in a Movie: Old School (when they meet their old schoolmate who is now dean of the college)

36. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #116

    Best Were-Owl entrance scene ever!: Night Watch
    
    Were there any others in that category?

    
    
    
    hahahaha, nope, its the only entry, Moon.

37. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #117

    Best Movie Done Predominently in Black and White in the last 40 years:  Sin City
    (It beats the Woody Allen one hands down).

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    #118

    Best Classic Seafaring Movie: Master and Commander (Okay, this is the only one I can remember at the moment, besides the Pirates of the Caribbean, which is a little different category. So other candidates are welcome.)

39. Re: Best...(In the Movies)

    #119

    Best Classic Seafaring Movie in the last 30 years:
    Master and Commander
    
    Best Pirate Movie in the last 30 years
    Pirates of the Carribean, though something can be said for Cutthroat Island (which is certainly better than Pirates II and III).
    
    Best Pirate Movie older than 30 years: Captain Blood
    
    Best Classic Seafaring movie older than 30 years ago: Mutiny on the Bounty
    
    
    

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    #120

    Best Movie with Huge Non-CGI Battle Scenes
    
    Waterloo. 
    
    My goodness, what a lot of extras...
    
    
    
    
    
    

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