<p>I loved a Fish Called Wanda.
Some funny classics:
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times.
Buster Keaton
Laurel & Hardy
Jacques Tati</p>
<p>I just found this thread - perversely, I wanted to claim as favorites movies that several others seem to have hated on the awful movies thread - but to pay some dues for those, here are a few more:</p>
<p>Classic comedies: </p>
<p>It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - cast made in heaven
The Producers - Gene and Zero, both geniuses
The World of Henry Orient - obscure but very funny
Time Bandits (Napolean - Ian Holm still cracks me up, as does David Warner as the Evil Genius)</p>
<p>Comedies - last few years:</p>
<p>Dogma (if you were ever Catholic or studied theology of philosophy of religion, you GOTTA love it!)</p>
<p>“Lite” sci-fi/fantasy:</p>
<p>Spirited Away
The Fifth Element
Underworld
Chronicles of Riddick (Vin is just terribly cool, admit it)</p>
<p>Sacred Fantasy:</p>
<p>LOTR - (but I still haven’t fully forgiven Peter Jackson for messing with the Revealed Word of God - adding material, having Frodo show the ring to the Nazgul, destroying the plot completely at the end of the first movie!?!?! PLEASE!)</p>
<p>Ancient classics:</p>
<p>Gone with the Wind (with deathless lines like “You ain’t nuthin’ but a mule in horse harness!”)
North by Northwest</p>
<p>Quentin, the genius:</p>
<p>Kill Bill 1&2, esp. 2 - fabulous soundtrack, Platonic form Pei Mei, the under-rated ultra actress Uma Thurman, and the incomparable, legendary David Carradine. </p>
<p>Pulp Fiction - Samuel Jackson steals the movie</p>
<p>A far more exciting ‘reveal the psychosis’ movie that makes Beautiful Mind taste like soggy oatmeal:</p>
<p>Fight Club - Brad’s acting lessons paid off, Edward Norton is phenomenal</p>
<p>And finally, the movie that should have won Best Picture instead of the low-budget tired tear-jerker Million Dollar Baby:</p>
<p>The Aviator - a true epic about an American genius, and who knew Leonardo was talented?</p>
<p>I didn’t think Aviator was all that. Just your run-of-the-mill big budget epic. Entertaining enough. Well made, but nothing special. Put it in the same category as Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p>Of course, next to the unbearable Titanic, anything seems like a masterpiece!</p>
<p>Glad to see Schindler’s List and Shawshank Redemption listed by others; like just about every movie on Interesteddad’s list; also love Moonstruck.</p>