Favorite Movie? (1 Viewer)

[joeyshin]

Comedy: my cousin vinny
Gang movie : blood in blood out
Dark comedy : pulp fiction, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels
Drama: there will be blood, river runs through it
Mafia: godfather I & II
Korean : chingoo, attack the gas station
Random: king fu hustle, American me, training day, usual suspects, the game, memento

I’m sure there’s a lot more

 

[Eriks]

Anyone else here enjoy UTurn? I still think that's a great flick. Of course, I enjoy most Sean Penn movies.

Always liked that one. Great performances all around

 

[Eriks]

Comedy: my cousin vinny
Gang movie : blood in blood out
Dark comedy : pulp fiction, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels
Drama: there will be blood, river runs through it
Mafia: godfather I & II
Korean : chingoo, attack the gas station
Random: king fu hustle, American me, training day, usual suspects, the game, memento

I’m sure there’s a lot more

This a great one, hard to get passed the acting skills of the Miklo guy though.

 

[raynmanas]

Can’t believe nobody said Rounders

I love Rounders, but I'm not sure it is even a top 5 Ed Norton movie.

 

[Taghkanic]

James Bond: Casino Royale.

That last poker hand… Really?

 

[SwissChip]

Inglorious Basterds

 

[upNdown]

Which film would you say is the most truthful to Vietnam reality?

Hey @Coyote!
on a recent WSOP stream, Norman Chad said that when he used to play in Turkey and Greece, 3 pair would beat 2 pair. Do you know anything about that?

 

[Coyote]

Hey @Coyote!
on a recent WSOP stream, Norman Chad said that when he used to play in Turkey and Greece, 3 pair would beat 2 pair. Do you know anything about that?.

There was a nice game with 3 hole cards and just 3 board cards (single-card flop, turn, river), with 2 or 3 usable hole cards (and, respectively 3 or 2 board cards).
A gambley variant of it was the "Mirror": if your hole cards were "mirrored" on the board (i.e. K-9-7 - so yes, three pair), then your hand was beating even the straight flush!

But this happened only in that sub-variant.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

"Favorite" varies a bit by mood or even time of year. There's a half dozen or so that rotate their spot on the top seat:

The Abyss (has to be the director's cut... the story has less impact on numerous levels without the extra material)
The Great Escape (amazing cast and a mostly true story)
2001 A Space Odyssey (had the chance to see this projected in 70mm before the pandemic and saw things that get missed on TV)
Doctor Strangelove (it's a comedy, folks)
Shawshank Redemption (I feel obligated to watch if it's on TV)
The Princess Bride (arguably what is a "perfect" movie)
Spaceballs (IMO, Mel Brooks best work)

There's another dozen that are way up on the list, but these are the ones I think of as my "desert island" list.

Bumping this thread only because I got to see one from my list here on the big screen at the local art-house cinema last night.

First time seeing it in a theater with an audience. It was nice to have the audience laughing along at all the right places and not just me chuckling at my TV.


[Side note, the construction is to expand the place into a proper movie "location" with another indoor screen, an outdoor rooftop screen for when it's not 107 degrees out (like it is as I type this), and increased accessibility throughout this wonderful but definitely older facility.]

 

[wootaki]

I have a list of maybe 20 movies I think everyone needs to see before they die. Most if not all made before 2010. Could never just choose one because of all the different genres.

But if I absolutely had to choose one movie to watch over and over again for the rest of my life, I'm going with "Heat"