My Favorite Movies
In this list, these are the movies that I favor. These are my favorite movies.
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- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.This one is my all time favorite movie. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a very unique piece of movie-making, to me. It's also one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. Stanley Kubrick is definitely one of my favorite movie directors, along with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and so on. Whenever I watched 2001, I'm never or tired of seeing it. It's a masterpiece in my book.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.The Terminator is another favorite movie of mine that I will always treasure. I'll never forget the first time I saw was when I was 8 years old and I bought a VHS copy of the movie and to this day, I still have that VHS copy, which plays very well. What I always love about The Terminator is that although James Cameron is not one of my favorite directors, he can certainly direct spectacular action sequence better than any other movie director that I know. The story is so original and sometimes, beautiful when the love story between Reese and Sarah kicks in. The Terminator is awesome, no doubt about it.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWilliam HoldenErnest BorgnineRobert RyanAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.My favorite Western. That's say it for me. The Wild Bunch is a excellent western about a outlaw gang that's trying to hold on to their own little world while the 1910's continues to shape the country. Conversational when it was released, this movie never ceases to amaze. It is such a well-directed movie by the one and only Sam Packinpah. I especially love the shootout scenes in the movie. To me, the shootout sequences, while today it seems rather dated now, is very bloody and quite brutal. Perhaps it's the best choreographed shootout scenes in the history of cinema. It ranks up there with the bank robbery shootout in the 1995 film Heat, directed by Michael Mann. Great performances by William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. Terrific film, all around.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsSteve McQueenJacqueline BissetRobert VaughnA nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection.Steve McQueen is one of my favorite actors. That and Clint Eastwood. Bullitt is, like The Wild Bunch, another action picture that I love watching, over and over and over again. I like McQueen's performance in the movie. I never quite understand why he didn't get a Academy Award nomination for his work in this film. The direction by Peter Yates, is great. Another reason why I like this movie? The car chase. I really love that car chase in the movie, between McQueen's green Ford Mustang and the bad guy's black Dodge Charger. It's one of the best action movies ever and if I must say it is quite thrilling for the most part.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Favorite epic movie. Although I like Lawrence of Arabia a lot, my favorite epic picture is The Bridge on the River Kwai. That movie is another all time favorite of mine. David Lean can really tell a story through a scope that's larger than anything ever imagined. Bridge on the River Kwai is also great because it's a different war story than one could think of. It's a psychological war story that is between a British colonel and a Japanese commanding officer. The movie did win the top prize at the Oscars in 1958. It won an Oscar for Best Picture as well as a Oscar for Alec Guinness for his portrayal of Colonel Nicholson. It is such a big movie with a lot going for it and it doesn't waste our time. The story is very well-told and is well paced. The sight of the bridge is majestic and very well photographed.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsJames CaanTuesday WeldWillie NelsonAn ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight.Thief is another favorite of mine that I like so much. This movie didn't get the audience it needed back in 1981. James Caan, who's so good in this crime thriller, did say that in all of the movies that he starred in, two come to mind. Obviously, The Godfather, of course, but he also mentioned this movie as well. Michael Mann written the screenplay and direct this movie. This is his first motion picture after he directed a television movie back in 1979, called The Jericho Mile. I love the cinematography in this movie. Mann certainly knows how to shoot night scenes so well that even in the 2011 movie, Drive, such comparisons do arise between the two movies. It certainly has that neo-noir feeling to it. Also, the score by Tangerine Dream is another why I love Thief so much. Tangerine Dream really did a fine job making the music work throughout the movie. I can't seem to tell you how much I really appreciated how Mann can take a crime story and make it more stylish, but doesn't lose the story. Story definitely and always comes first. That I love Thief a lot.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMel GibsonDanny GloverGary BuseyTwo newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.Like Bullitt and The Wild Bunch mentioned above, Lethal Weapon is one movie that, if it on TV somewhere, I'll definitely watch it from beginning to end. Lethal Weapon is such a fun and funny movie because despite the fact that there are a lot of action sequence that are quite thrilling, you can't help it but to appreciate Mel Gibson's and Danny Glover's chemistry together. Whenever they get into a argument, that's just one of the reasons why I love this movie. Without it, I don't how this movie wouldn't be loved by action fans. Shane Black wrote a great script that took the buddy cop genre and sort of gave it a upgrade for the better. About the direction by Richard Donner, he certainly knows and understands how to stage big action scenes like the one where Gary Busey's character and Mel Gibson's character chases each other on Hollywood Blvd. Every time I see that scene, I get so pumped up talking about it that it certainly shows that this movie is exciting and the pacing is never slow down. Not in this movie. This is a fun action picture.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.Alien is another film like The Terminator that I've seen when I was 8 years old. What's interesting about Alien, The Terminator and 2001 is that I'm a big fan of science fiction. I was never into the Star Wars movie myself. Even though they are quite special and really wonderful movies, my love of sci-fi came at a very young age. The first time I saw Alien was when I first saw it on TV. I didn't anything about this movie in the beginning. I didn't know any of the actors in the cast. I didn't know Harry Dean Stanton. I didn't know Veronica Cartwright. After I watched Alien for the first time, there was one actress in that movie that I didn't know and she certainly left an impression on me and that was Sigourney Weaver. I love Sigourney Weaver. She is one of my favorite actresses. Her and Marilyn Monroe. She was so great in this movie and at a very young age, looking back on that first movie-going experience for me, I thought that she played her character so well that I was convinced that if I was in that particular situation, I would on her side. Also, I have to admit, she was pretty, too. She's beautiful and you can tell that she was quite sexy in this movie. Alien is another favorite of mine. Can't help but to watch it.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.Alfred Hitchcock, what can I say? Another favorite director that I've admired. Hitchcock movies to me were like templates. Templates on how to make a great suspenseful thriller. It's very hard to pick a favorite Hitchcock movie. I love Vertigo so much, but Rear Window is one of my favorite Hitchcock thrillers. Back then, Alfred Hitchcock couldn't do no wrong in the world of cinema. He was the Master of Suspense. Looking at Rear Window again, I had to reminded myself that as a kid, I never knew that Hitchcock made movies for himself and he held on to his movies because, well, obviously, he made movies that he like to make. What I admired the most about this movie is that I like James Stewart and Grace Kelly a lot in the movie. Watching again, I've appreciated the movie more than when I first saw it. I love that the Stewart character is played at a typical Jimmy Stewart character. He's a photographer who's bound to a wheelchair because he has a broken leg. I like that Hitchcock took an everyday, ordinary fella and put him in a situation where he believes that a murder have been committed across his apartment. That being said, I love how Hitchcock directs this picture. It's up there with some of the greatest thrillers of all time, with Vertigo and others as well.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsGene HackmanJohn CazaleAllen GarfieldA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.The Conversation is a spell-binding thriller like Rear Window where an ordinary every day person is suddenly put into a very dangerous problem. This movie intrigues for a number of reasons. First of all, I think it's one of the best thrillers to come out of the 1970's, along with The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor. The way Gene Hackman is able to transform himself from an actor to a very disturbed and isolated character is something tragic. Harry Caul is one of the most saddest and perhaps, the most miserable character in the movie. The sound by Walter Murch is phenomenal. The way sound is used in this little mystery is quite remarkable. Of course, it came out the same year the Watergate scandal was wrapping up. Francis Ford Coppola once said that the reason the film didn't do too well at the box office was because of the scandal. Or for another reason, people didn't get the mystery. People were confused. To me, I love The Conversation because like the movies of Alfred Hitchcock, it takes you into the mind the characters, especially Harry Caul. This movie have been compared heavily toward the 1966 mystery film, Blow Up. This film uses sound as a way to replaced the photographs of a murder. Sound is important in this movie. Pay attention to the way it's edited into the action. Watch how sound is made effective in the movie. It's makes me want to watch it again. Spell-binding.