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Hmm, that is an interesting challenge. Here are my top 10 movies, so you can avoid them: 1. Army of Darkness 2. The Goonies 3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 4. Back to the Future 5. Star Wars: A New Hope 6. Elf 7. The Black Cauldron 8. Office Space 9. Die Hard 10. The Hangover Honestly though, I like most movies. I'm a pretty easy audience to please. I suppose I like action comedy more than most though.

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Mine would be in no particular order: The Man from Earth (2007) The Fifth Element (1997) Inception (2010) The Matrix (1999) All of them The Lord of the Rings (2001) All of them Warrior (2011) Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Princess Mononoke (1997) Ghost in the Shell (1995) About Time (2013) Dredd (2012) It's 11, so sue me. These are the movies I come back to and rewatch.

Some observations: The closest we come to agreeing there is, funnily enough, Die Hard, . Not that it would place anywhere near my "favorite films", of course, but as far as action movies go, I rather enjoyed it and can appreciate how good it is and why it would obviously be considered important and great. I think I also rated it the most highly out of anything you listed at a 7/10. Haven't seen The Hangover, Office Space, Elf, or Army of Darkness - I THINK the only one I would strongly consider watching is Army of Darkness. The Goonies (6/10), Back to the Future (6.5/10), A New Hope (6.5/10), and The Last Crusade (6.5/10) are all valid enough choices - lot of action-adventure movies there (with the exception, to a degree, of BttF), but at least I understand them. If you had chosen Temple of Doom (7/10) or The Empire Strikes Back (7/10) instead, they would've competed with Die Hard for being the closest, . I've seen The Black Cauldron (3.5/10) and basically all I remember is being shocked by how bad it was...but that was some years back, . All in all, it could be a lot worse! My top ten favorite live-action movies would be the following in no particular order: 12 Angry Men [1957] Downfall [2004] Parasite [2019] Heathers [1989] Monty Python and the Holy Grail [1975] Rosemary's Baby [1968] The Florida Project [2017] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001] The Thing [1982] 12 Monkeys [1995] Please let me know if you consider any of these particularly great, so that I can take some time to reflect and re-think whether they were actually that good or not, .

It's not really an 80's "action" movie... That was part of the intended comedy, or rather, that the viewpoint is from Jack Burton's perspective where he thinks he's the big brash American hero. When in fact he's actually just the comedy sidekick completely in over his head...

@Bartimaeus will have company in the well.

The Prestige gets the nod from me as favourite Nolan. Combination of multiple factors. The story, the way it's told, the balance of Jackman and Bale. Early Scarlett Johanssen, and above all else... Bowie as Tesla.

I'd probably give The Prestige the nod for favorite Nolan. Kurosawa is a filmmaker who I really I need to watch more of his work. I have some of his films I haven't seen in my watch queue I haven't gotten to. EDIT: Porco Rosso is more on Miyazaki's whimsical side; Mononoke was more on his serious, if that matters.

I'd really struggle for a top 10, if only cuz my tastes can change based on mood. But here's ten I really love. Stray Dog Parasite Thunder Road Pan's Labyrinth The Thing Bram Stoker's Dracula Tangerine Shortbus (major NSFW) Casino The Lighthouse Come at me I guess.

Considering how much we differed on The Wailing I'm surprised our tastes align so much! 12 Angry Men, Parasite, and Fellowship of the Ring (by far the best of the three Lotr films) are possibly in my top 10 as well. I like all the other films here too, but I've yet to see The Thing. It always creeped me out when I was younger so I never got around to fully watch it. I struggle with a top 10 list because it'd change so much depending on the criteria. I get so much pure enjoyment out of certain films, but are they meaningful enough to be in a top 10 list? Some films are also incredible as movie theatre experiences, but rather bland on the homescreen. So a spontaneous top 10 list without much consideration it is: The Twilight Samurai Manchester by the Sea Silence In Bruges The Act of Killing Das Leben Der Anderen Alien Children of Men Mulholland Drive The Royal Tenenbaums

I would find it hard to make a simple 10 film list. So much depends on mood for what's going to float my cinematic boat. Sometimes tis the quirky, sometimes tis the classic. Yojimbo or Throne of Blood. Great Kurosawa moments. A Fistful of Dollars, helped define a genre. The Goonies is one of those key films of youth. Half of any Cary Grant collection. Casablanca for the ambience , some of that dialogue, and just the beginnings of a beautiful friendship. Raiders of the Lost Ark or Last Crusade.. both wonderfully encapsulated that pulp serial feel. Goldeneye probably sneaks in as my favourite Bond film. The well-defined bad guy (which is unusual in a Bond film) and runs through all the beats without feeling like it's a Bond-film checklist. The Thomas Crown Affair - both the original and the remake. The original was impeccably smooth as a mastermind with a cat and mouse game, the remake is a great example of how to re-do a well structured story in a fresh way, while keeping the soul of the story there. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzaii across the 8th Dimension - for that acid trip experience and wacky vibe, plus all those fresh performances before they were big. The Mummy (1999) - Because that's one that if you happen to flip channels and find it playing you always end up watching the rest of the film. I do have to admit in regards to Tarantino.. I can find his films entertaining, I can watch them and enjoy the little nods, winks, and homages in them, along with the style and ambience.. But I never find them genius and amazing that so many others seem to feel.

Is that the lady I just mentioned that I wanted out of the movie more than literally anyone/anything else? ...Hmm, . I didn't have any problem with Kurt Russell's character - indeed, it was rather amusing to see him play a kind of dumb and incapable version of the type of character that he usually plays. ...I get the feeling I should've asked all of you guys "should I watch Big Trouble in Little China yes/no", to which all of you would've immediately said "absolutely, 100%"...at which point, I would've then included the following addendum to my question: "...given that I hate kung-fu, swordplay, cheesiness, usually action and comedy movies in general, and so on and so forth", to which all of you would've said "if you crap all over this movie, we will throw you down a well" or some such. Yeah, I'm not sure we've ever agreed on a film, and we probably never will, . Heck, if I had known you loved it, I would've probably taken it as a warning...

I feel jealous they can raise the beers to their mouths without wincing in pain

The coin got lost, so it's time for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

It's a fun film. Langella's Skeletor is great - you can tell he's enjoying it. Hyper-Skeletor aka God Skeletor is a cool design, Meg Foster is a great Evil Lyn, Billy Barty us his usual reliable self as Gwildor and Dolph isn't bad as He-Man...

This calls for an emergency trailer.

I like some Pixar, but a number of their films seem just to be maudlin.

GORDON'S ALIVE?!?!????!!!!

Next you'll say the same about Flash Gordon.

Fun Fact: The Black Hole gave me nightmares when I was a wee lad.

My biggest guilty pleasure is probably Disney's THE BLACK HOLE. Yes, the science is wrong. Yes characters walk through space without space suits (apparently some were built, but like Alien the suits fogged up and made it impossible to see so they ditched them), yes its clear that they hadn't planned the end, yes no one was fooled by not putting Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens' name in the credits and yes Yvette Mimieux looked ridiculous in the perm given to her so they didn't have to worry about her hair in weightlessness... ...and yet I love the initial mystery. The ships, the Cygnus and Palomino are great (the Cygnus may be my favorite movie spaceship of all time). The take on the robots is great, with a whole robotic subsociety hinted at. The idea of robotic-human telepathy is a proto-cyberpunk idea (and was Reinhardt driven mad by trying to forge his own connection with Maxmillian?) The cast is top notch late 70s casting - Maxmillian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Mimieux, Earnest Borgnine, McDowall and Pickens, Robert Forster and Joseph Bottoms. I've probably watched the film every 2-3 years since it came out on home media.

Is it Naruto or the Overfiend? What about two of Neil Breen's ballsacks? Coming soon in Twisteder Pair 2.

Memento seems like his most fun movie. I probably should re-watch The Prestige. The 5th Element is a good choice, Sarex. I re-watch that one all the time. I actually tried to rewatch a Chris Tucker movie recently, the buddy cop flick he did with Jackie Chan. It didn't age well.

My top ten would probably include The Last Dragon SW:TESB Monty Python and the Holy Grail I'm tired and going to go take a nap

The Prestige was my first Nolan movie and my second favorite. Inception just hit me right I guess. edit: I have to say Big trouble in little China held up great for its age.

Great movie and it doesn't even make my Kurosawa top 3, but that's no knock against it. That man made a lot of really great movies.

Pan's Labrynth is good, I also liked The Devil's Backbone from Del Toro (and the two Hellboy films) It was a bit of a toss-up, they're both really good. I could have went for either as well. Looking forward to The Northman from Eggers. I also could have included a bunch of Terry Gilliam's films (in particular Brazil and The Brother's Grimm, but also Tideland, 12 Monkeys, Baron Munchausen and Dr. Parnasus) or Hitch**** films. Or David Lynch for that matter.

Just edited it. The Lighthouse slightly edges it out for me right now, but the VVitch almost made my list.

Oooo, top 10 lists. Okay, in release date order my list based on how I feel would be... The Trouble with Harry (1955) The Big Country (1958) Charade (1963) Planet of the Apes (1968) Onna banchō nora-neko rokku (1970 aka Alleycat Rock: Female Boss aka Straycat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss aka Female Juvenile Delinquent Leader: Alleycat Rock aka Wildcat Rock) The Warriors (1979) Alien (1979) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) La Cité des enfants perdus (1995 aka The City of Lost Children) The VVitch (2015) Obviously if you ask me tomorrow it'd be a different list entirely.

Very much not safe for work to google, just a heads up in case any of you go "huh, what's that, funny name" right now.

My Top 10 in no particular order: Yojimbo (1961) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Total Recall (1990) Pulp Fiction (1994) The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) Evil Dead 2 (1987) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Starship Troopers (1997) Rashomon (1950) Goodfellas (1990) I have 1 movie in common with @Hurlsnot none with @Bartimaeus 2 Kurosawa movies and 2 Verhoeven movies on my list, along with Kubrick those are my favorite directors.

Further teases on the Trollocs and Myrdrall...

The hours are worse than trucking though.

Ok that's it, you're going down the well. I think you're supposed to see a doctor if you have an erection lasting more than four hours.

I love that dynamic where the main protagonist talks a big game and fails to back it up again and again because he's nowhere near the hero he thinks he is. I found Jack Burton incredibly compelling because he thinks he's an action hero but he's absolutely not, he just happens to have capable friends and dumb luck on his side. This is similar to why I loved the Space Quest games, with Roger Wilco being completely ill-equipped to be a hero. It also helps that I absolutely love camp and I love wuxia. I adore 70s Hong Kong cinema where... Well, I love 70s Hong Kong cinema in general, but I particularly love the more goofy kung fu flicks with comedy characters aplenty. While Big Trouble in Little China isn't really a kung fu movie it does have some of the elements of the wackier 70s kung fu flicks I love so much. It's the unholy love child of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Drunken Master I didn't know I needed until I saw it. Also, Kim Cattrall

I like a lot of things about deadfire. I like the mechanics, I like most of the companions, I like the faction system, and I really like the expansions. But I've still played it less than half the time I've played PoE1 because every time I think about it the main quest and the limits of main-character responses annoy me so much. It's not that I expect to be able to stop Eothas (though the fact that sending Wael in his titan against him does literally nothing is kind of lame), but game starts out with Eothas murdering you and destroying your home and there's no real option to express that you hate him for it and want vengeance as your main motivation (even if you realise true vengeance is going to be hard or impossible to achieve). Every conversation with Eothas is this big-picture discussion about the wheel and the gods vs mortals when my MC wouldn't care if Eothas is right or wrong in the grand scheme of things, they'd want Eothas to fail and suffer because Eothas made them suffer, and the game barely recognises that this is a thing a person might feel when it's the most human reaction I can imagine from someone in the watchers position.

is easy to forget that russians making a game in russia could be a different exercise than what you might expect from the hurdles faced by obsidian or other game developers. at the ~38:00 mark, james jacobs o' paizo stresses the importance o' making games inclusive... racial, ethic, sexual, etc. at this point the owlcat folks got uncharacteristic taciturn and subject were changed immediate following mr. jacobs' response. HA! Good Fun!

after kingmaker and wotr a starship combat system seems doomed to fail maybe a 2e game can use abomination vault as dlc

ending of wotr are pretty awful areelu the most awful and boring part baphomet are so much more interesting than any other villain in the game would make a great final boss