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[Bal]

Princess Bride is Rob Reiner, also Blazing Saddles is fucking awesome.

[Mongrel]

Oh, I hate Space Balls and Blazing Saddles too.

Spaceballs I can see pretty easily (I love Mel Brooks, but it's hardly an unconditional love), but Blazing Saddles? I'm genuinely curious as to why you hate it.

The combination of Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks had a really vicious potency. That movie presses so many of the right buttons in exactly the right way. I've never seen a comedy in my life that ever felt half so.... just.

Young Frankenstein is good times and High Anxiety is pretty good too, but I think my second favourite Mel Brooks movie will always be The Producers.

[Friday]

Since I posted those original lists I've thought of a bunch of movies I forgot, so. Like I said, there are just too many good movies. And I'm 100% sure there are still plenty of movies out there that are great that I just haven't seen.

[LaserBeing]

The best way to approach these things is not to try and make them definitive. My favourites change all the time and I know there are some movies I love that I'm just forgetting about at the moment. Don't overthink it, just answer with whatever comes into your head. What people want from questions like this isn't a be-all-end-all list of Time's 100 Greatest Things, they just want to get an idea of your cinematic taste, and if they already know you have similar taste maybe find one or two films they've never seen before to watch.

[Crouton]

I'm going with the "5 movies I would think of only after I already made a top 5" list.

The Brave Little Toaster
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Gangs of New York
Johnny Dangerously

[Brentai]

The first five that you think of are probably the most honest.

In fact, new game: list the next 5 movies that pop into your head.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Incredibles
Fellowship of the Ring
Transformers: The Movie
City Slickers

AMAZING.

[Mongrel]

Heh. On reading Brent's post, my brain literally did this:

Fern Gully.
"Oh come on, don't think of bad animated movies"
Fire and Ice
"Oh for..."
Wizards
"NOW WHAT DID I SAY?!"
Secret of NIMH
"That's uh, better, I guess?"
Casablanca
"... I uh... ...what?"

Can't remember why on God's green earth Fern Gully came to mind, but I think the chain of confusion that followed was self-propelled.

EDIT: Of course, I actually like Wizards quite a bit. Not that I'm under the illusion that it's any good.

[Lottel]

First five movies off the top of my head?

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Jurassic Park
Debbie Does Dallas
Christmas Story
A Scanner Darkly


I don't even

[Brentai]

Fern Gully.
"Oh come on, don't think of bad animated movies"
Fire and Ice
"Oh for..."
Wizards
"NOW WHAT DID I SAY?!"
Secret of NIMH
"That's uh, better, I guess?"

Three movies with noticeably copious amounts of cartoon ass.

And THEN...

[Frocto]

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Wind In The Willows
Willow
Die Hard
Star Trek 4

[Mongrel]

Fern Gully.
"Oh come on, don't think of bad animated movies"
Fire and Ice
"Oh for..."
Wizards
"NOW WHAT DID I SAY?!"
Secret of NIMH
"That's uh, better, I guess?"

Three movies with noticeably copious amounts of cartoon ass.

And THEN...

The only thing that came to mind for the first was that stupid bat and LOTS O' JUNGLE. I can't even remember the plot or the antagonists.

The other two though, well, yeah. It's everlovin' Ralph Bakshi. It's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE not to think of ass when Bakshi's name comes up.

Willow
Die Hard

I love this transition. Also: "PECK!"

[Büge]

Willow
Die Hard

I love this transition. Also: "PECK!"

  William Atherton was in Die Hard. He played Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Have you guys heard about Flickchart, yet? The service selects two movies at random and you pick the one you prefer (or indicate that you haven't seen one or both of the selected movies); then the service picks two more movies at random for your next comparison. It's alarmingly compelling.

I ranked movies 387 times, and they've calculated my top 5 movies as follows:

1. The Incredibles
2. Forrest Gump
3. Sherlock Holmes
4. The Fifth Element
5. Return of the Jedi

The abnormally high rank for Forrest Gump and Sherlock Holmes (and, to a lesser degree, Return of the Jedi) suggests I need to rank more movies. I can't stop.

Frocto edit: Fixed url.

[Brentai]

Weird, I actually though of doing something exactly like that for games (and then aggregating it somehow into a world top chart) but then I did not.

Anyway give me half an hour with this thing.

UPDATE: It gave me Starship Troopers vs. Avatar and I had to take a while to sort out which was which.

UP UPDATE: Okay it just reminded me I need to actually watch RoboGeisha so I think I'll do that later and come back.  But in the mean time it seems to believe that I really, really like Schwarzenegger.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Speaking of which, the people behind this are allegedly working on a game version, too.

[François]

As of this writing, the global rank for The Great Dictator stands at 1898. This website is invalid.

[Mothra]

The Abyss
28 Days Later
Children of Men
Tommy Boy
Jurassic Park

[Bal]

This thing keeps putting incredibly terrible movies next to Star Wars: Episode 3

[François]

I got Analyze This at 5 because it beat Face/Off at like the third iteration, while I keep getting "Is Dr Strangelove better than Dumb & Dumber? Yes! It's now rank 322!"

 

[Bal]

Apparently I fucking love Bowling for Columbine because it's always against something completely awful like Armageddon or some shit, but my number 1 movie is the most baffling because it was the first one I voted for, and then because nothing has beaten it since, even though other movies have gotten more "votes", it's still number 1. It's Watchmen, so it could be worse, but still. Their system is a bit odd.