Favorite movies besides any Star Wars movie

I'd be interested in seeing other users favorite movies besides any of the Star Wars movies.

These are in no particular order:

Godfather
Casablanca
Rocky
High Noon
12 Angry Men
Die Hard
The Hustler
The Enemy Below
Patton
Judgment At Nuremberg
King of Kings(silent Version)
Dracula(Lugosi version)
Frankenstein(Karloff version)
Bride Of Frankenstein(Karloff)
Laura
Gone With The Wind
A Star Is Born(Garland version)
The Shootist
Rio Bravo
Stagecoach
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Shot in the Dark
Terminator 1 and 2
Star Trek I-IV

There are many others I could put on this list, but these are what come to mind right now.    

No I prefer Alien head and shoulders above Aliens.

In fact all fine films in that list C3PX.

For me.

The Ninth Configuration.

The Exorcist,

Raiders Of The Lost Ark,

Lawrence Of Arabia.

Picnic At Hanging Rock,

Alien,

2001 A Space Odyssey,

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974),

Night Of the Living Dead,

Anything via Michael Powell,

Anything via Val Lewton.

Almost anything from Hitchcock but I can't stand Frenzy.

C3PX said:

In now particular order, and just off the top of my head:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Blade Runner
Brazil
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Casablanca
Alien (am I the only one who liked Alien better than Aliens?)
Primer
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket

Nanner Split said:

Shaun of the Dead

Hot Fuzz

12 Angry Men

Witness for the Prosecution

Psycho

The Elephant Man

Silence of the Lambs

Bubba Ho-tep

 

Just a few that spring to mind.

man, I wish I had added the highlighted to my list. 

In no particular order - most of this is just me reading what's on my movie hard drive:

Blade Runner (Final Cut)

Planet of the Apes (original)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Let the Right One In

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director's or Theatrical cut; just not the SE)

Das Boot (4.5-hour miniseries cut)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (1&2 Extended, 3 Theatrical)

Almost Famous (Untitled Director's Cut)

Back to the Future (the first one)

Alien (theatrical cut)

Aliens (theatrical cut, but ONLY because the scenes on LV-426 before the Marines land there shouldn't have been restored in the SE)

A Boy and His Dog

City of God

Pan's Labyrinth

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

The Fountain

Moon

The Fugitive

The Hunt for Red October

Jaws

Jurassic Park

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Road

Office Space

Open Your Eyes ("Abre los Ojos" - was remade into the inferior Vanilla Sky)

The Wrestler

WALL-E

Toy Story Trilogy

Finding Nemo

The Incredibles

The Princess Bride

Six-String Samurai

The Terminator and Terminator 2 (either cut)

Thank You for Smoking

The Thing (Carpenter)

The Usual Suspects

In no particular order :  Robocop

                                      First Blood

                                      The Warriors

                                      Escape From New York

                                      Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

                                      Two Lane Blacktop

                                      Saving Private Ryan

                                      Christine

                                      Jaws

                                      Close Encounters

                                      The Thing ( Carpenter )

                                      Taxi Driver

                                      The King Of Comedy

                                      Raiders Of The Lost Ark

                                      Terminator 2                                       

                                      Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

                                      Bladerunner

No hesitation !

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Oh, and...

Anchorhead:

I recommend watching Aliens once.  The theatrical cut.  Part of why it's good is that it doesn't try to be like Alien - it is its own movie.  If you like it, watch the extended cut, too, because there are good things added.

Definitely skip the other sequels, though.

I agree with you about Back to the Future.  The sequels are unnecessary, and not nearly as good as the first.  I think it's the whole "chicken" thing that really turns me off of Part II and Part III.

There's nothing redeeming about any of the Jaws sequels, and I haven't watched them in about ten years.

And Conquest was the only Apes sequel I enjoyed.

Oh, shit.  I definitely need to add:

Apocalypse Now (theatrical cut)

Blue Velvet

Taxi Driver

and, because Taxi Driver got me thinking about Scorsese:

Raging Bull

After Hours

Goodfellas

The Departed

(I also kinda like Bringing Out the Dead, but it's not one of my favorites by a long stretch.  And Shutter Island was great, too.)

I still need to see Mean Streets, Casino, Cape Fear, and Gangs of New York.

I felt this deserved a list separate from my main one.

Bond films (this one IS in order, from my favorite to my least favorite):

1. From Russia with Love
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. The Living Daylights
4. Casino Royale
5. Licence to Kill
6. Goldfinger
7. GoldenEye
8. Dr. No
9. Quantum of Solace
10. The Spy Who Loved Me
    
11. You Only Live Twice
12. Live and Let Die
13. Thunderball
    
14. For Your Eyes Only
    
15. Diamonds Are Forever
16. A View to a Kill
    
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. The Man with the Golden Gun
19. Octopussy
    
20. The World is Not Enough
21. Moonraker
22. Die Another Day

Note that, in all honesty, I don't remember Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, or any of Roger Moore's films very well.  I plan to watch all of them and amend their positions on the list in the near future.  I should also probably rewatch Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough, but nothing can ever make me watch Die Another Day ever again.

Oh, and my top 5 shift around quite a bit, but that's where they are right now (Licence to Kill being the most recent one I re-watched).

Best Bonds:

1. Timothy Dalton
2. Daniel Craig
3. Sean Connery
4. Pierce Brosnan (too bad he only had one good one)
5. George Lazenby
6. Roger Moore

I don't forsee that list changing at all, unless Craig blows me the fuck away in his next one.

Aliens visually and content wise closely emulates Alien (and Them! and Starship Troopers) which is no biggy as Alien was in terms of plot practically steals from many a 50's B Movie, only with such Panache it really doesn't matter.

The action movie tone is the key difference (and the crappy aspect ratio and back-projection).

Cameron pinched all the lighting effects and the basic plot structure (replacing the one perfect organism with one bigger perfect organism with lots of squishable ones).

Aliens is visually more clumsy though and some of the performances are too cheesy.

The film I would love to see is Vincent Ward's Alien 3 because that would have really have been a visual departure from the first film and a completely unique story (but I'd have to jump through the dimension gate to find it).

Bingowings said:

Aliens is visually more clumsy though and some of the performances are too cheesy.

Boooooo.

ChainsawAsh said:

Best Bonds:

1. Timothy Dalton
2. Daniel Craig
3. Sean Connery
4. Pierce Brosnan (too bad he only had one good one)
5. George Lazenby
6. Roger Moore

 

I'm sorry, but you Sean Connery is only your 3rd favorite Bond?   

here is my list:

1. Sean Connery
2. Roger Moore
3. Pierce Brosnan
4. George Lazenby
5. Daniel Craig
6. Timothy Dalton