Directors What Are Your Favorite Movies...? (1 Viewer)

[Richard Meadows]

For me it has to be the Universal Horror classics.

From Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) The Wolf Man (1941) and all the related sequels.

I grew up watching these movies with my Dad as a kid Friday nights on "Creature Features" from the mid 70s to the early 80s.

They showed these classics as well as the 50s SciFi films and other stuff like the Godzilla films.

I can still vividly recall staying up late, since it wasn't a school night, on the living room floor with a pillow and blanket and all the lights turned off watching the black and white monster classics with a giant bowl of popcorn.

They usually showed 2 movies and ended around 2 am. Sometimes I would wake up Saturday morning still in the living room.

As a little kid I used to look forward to "Creature Features" every weekend.

Still love these movies.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

Wouldn't this one more appropriately be in the "Movies" section than in "After Hours"?

I'm fond of the Universal horrors as well, though less so of most of the sequels. (Bride of Frankenstein being the exception.) When I was very young I was badly scared by The Mummy and developed a genuine horror of the creatures (and of skeletons, which I somehow came to associate with mummies), so I never had much affection for the original film. (My sister delighted in tormenting me with Mummy pictures and the like when she was left to watch me.)

But I'm not sure that I have a single "favorite movie" - and if I did it would probably be something like Casablanca or The Philadelphia Story or His Girl Friday. Similar period, but more mainstream storytelling.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Titanic

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Die Hard

Before Sunrise

Field of Dreams

Toy Story

Gremlins

Halloween

Jurassic Park

Jaws

The entire Star Wars saga I-VI

Terminator 2 Judgement Day

Back to the Future

Robocop

Predator

Sin City

Lord of the Rings trilogy Extended Editions

Three O'Clock High

The Exorcist

Sneakers

Air Force One

Speed

Psycho

Beverly Hills Cop

The Hunt for Red October

Lethal Weapon 1 & 2

Dawn of the Dead 2004 Directors Cut

Return of the Living Dead

Plains, Trains & Automobiles

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Matrix

Top Secret!

Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2

Clue

Duel

Moulin Rouge

Goodfella's

Judgement Night

Forrest Gump

The Burbs

Apollo 13

The Green Mile

The Shawshank Redemption

In the Line of Fire

Unlawful Entry

The Hidden

The Saint of Fort Washington

Harry and the Hendersons

The Changling

Breakdown

The Incredibles

Collateral

Saving Private Ryan

Say Anything

Independance Day

American Psycho

Dead Again

Phonebooth

Braveheart

A Beautiful Mind

Good Will Hunting

L.A. Confidential

Swimming with Sharks

The Ref

The Dream Team

Total Recall

Twins

The Fly 1986

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Child's Play 1 & 2

Election

Sleepy Hollow

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Silver Streak

Stir Crazy

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

In Country

Falling Down

Passion of the Christ

Rebel Without a Cause

Shindler's List

Ghostbusters

What About Bob?

Quick Change

Groundhog Day

Pacific Heights

Evil Dead 2

The Naked Gun

Airplane! 1 & 2

Superman The Movie

The Goonies

Rudy

The Lost Boys

Fright Night

The Crow

The Big Lebowski

Raising Arizona

The Breakfast Club

Phantasm 1 & 2

The Hitcher

The Relic

The Negotiator

Lean on Me

Pulp Fiction

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Carol (George C Scott)

Point Break

Ghost

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Transformers The Movie

Lilo & Stitch

My Girl

The Prince of Egypt

The Iron Giant

The Lion King

The Karate Kid

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Cast Away

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Bowfinger

Father of the Bride (Steve Martin)

The Three Amigo's

Innerspace

Only the Lonely

Short Circuit

Adventures in Babysitting

Rain Man

Hot Shots 1 & Deux

A Walk to Remember

A Few Good Men

The Shining

Pleasantville

Spider-man 1 & 2

Interview with the Vampire

The Firm

Das Boot Directors Cut

Poltergeist

The Frightners

The Re-animator

Creepshow

The Amityville Horror (original)

The Entity

Arachnophobia

Fly Away Home

Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael

Somewhere in Time

The Time Machine

A Perfect World

Tombstone

Young Guns 1 & 2

Heat

Nick of Time

Minority Report

Ben-Hur

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Black Hawk Down

Boyz in the Hood

Mulholland Dr.

Chicago

A Fish Called Wanda

Throw Mamma from the Train

The War of the Roses

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Men at Work

Short Time

Starman

Arlington Rd.

Dogma

Clerks

Office Space

Scarface

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Galaxy Quest

Aliens

True Lies

The Terminator

The Abyss

The Sixth Sense

 

[brentl]

Is that all John?? I was expecting more

Brent

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Actually, I did leave off...

Training Day

My Cousin Vinny

The Super

Big

Enemy of the State

The Last Boyscout

Girlfight

Tommyboy

The Apostle

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

White Men Can't Jump

The Rock

There's Something About Mary

Dumb and Dumber

Liar Liar

Under Siege

Monster's Inc.

Finding Nemo

Pump Up the Volume

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

The Exorcist III

Out of Time

The Score

 

[george kaplan]

Actually, look for it to get moved to polls as soon as a mod finds it.