Favorite Movies

Miscellaneous General
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I understand that there has already been a must-see movie thread, but I think that one was only geared towards documenting movies that have an underlying libertarian theme to them. I am curious to know what movies my libertarian/agorist/anarcho-capitalist/anti-statist pals here on the Mises forums find good, regardless of the film’s theme. In other words, just tell everyone your favorite films, because my intention with this thread is to get the libertarians on these forums sharing their taste in movies.

P. S. I’ll list mine later on in the thread.

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I have a varied taste, and I ain’t too picky. My favourites range from Hollywood blockbusters to the most obscure of arthouse film.

Here’s a few off the top of my head:

  • The Shawshank Redemption

  • Ossos

  • Back to the Future

  • Let the Right One In

  • The Brave Little Toaster

  • The Lives of Others

  • No Country for Old Men

  • 2001: A Space Odyssy

  • Aguirre the Wrath of God

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

  • Raise the Red Lantern

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I may edit this later to include some that I may miss as of this posting.

In the order that these movies come to mind:

Persepolis

The Bourne Series

The Matrix

Master and Commander

Gangs of New York

Braveheart

Inception

Office Space

Shaun of the Dead

Run Fatboy Run

The Road to Perdition

It’s a Wonderful Life

The Departed

The Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Gandhi

The Godfather I & II (haven’t seen the third part)

Anchorman

Inglorious Basterds

Pulp Fiction

The Social Network

EDIT

Apocalypto

Goodwill Hunting

Gran Torino

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Movies that immediately come to mind, in no particular order:

The Producers

Blazing Saddles

Ghostbusters

Men in Black

Casablanca

Die Hard

Bourne Trilogy

Fifth Element

History of the World Part 1

Ikiru

Seven Samurai

Schindler’s List

Spirited Away

The Hogfather

Going Postal

Good Will Hunting

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Benny and Joon

Disney’s Aladdin

Duck Soup

Little Miss Sunshine

The Usual Suspects

Zombieland

Star Wars (Original Trilogy)

Inception

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Yojimbo

That list ended up a lot longer than I expected.

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Okay, here’s mine. My movie tastes are a bit strange, I like surreal, art-house style movies, and at the same time, I love Kung-fu movies from Hong Kong and China, and what not.

The Legend of 1900

The Star Wars Trilogy

The Godfather Trilogy

Scarface

Letters from Iwo Jima

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Taxi Driver

Apocalypse Now

Breaking Bad (I know it’s not a movie, but it’s still awesome as hell)

Patton

Blazing Saddles

Duck Soup

Hana-bi

Team America: World Police

The Ip Man films (I know they are Chinese mainland nationalist films but…you have to admit…they are fun to watch)

Hard Boiled

The Killer

Dark City

The Crow

The Matrix

The Killing

A Clockwork Orange

Star Trek - Wrath of Khan

The Birds

…And basically every Bruce Lee movie and most of Jackie Chan’s films. Get your laughs out now, but I love Hong Kong kung-fu and crime movies.

I’ve probably missed a bunch being that there are so many movies out there that I like, so I’ll continue to add on as I remember.

EDIT:

Blade Runner

Gran Torino

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What’s to laugh about Bruce Lee? His films (particularly Enter the Dragon) are great, and while they are highly entertaining, they also have interesting philosophical subtext. Bruce co-wrote a lot of the scripts.

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Nothing’s laughable about Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan in my view, but a lot of people seem to get the giggles when I tell them that I find those films to be very entertaining, and that was what I was referencing to.

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The Lord of the Rings and Braveheart. I like movies with really good soundtracks like The Fountain, The Village, Last of the Mohicans etc. Old Westerns are always fun to watch and I usually like whatever Clint Eastwood is in.

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The Abyss

K-Pax

American Beauty

Schindlers list

The Matrix

Total Recall (old)

Empire Strikes Back

Wedding Crashers

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I definately need to get around to watching American Beauty. I’ve seen many scenes from it on YouTube.

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Requiem For A Dream

The Fountain

Mr. Nobody

Inception

Skeptical, you say you wanna go to film school right?

Requiem for a dream has great movie shots, so does the fountain.

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Yeah, I do. Thanks, I’ll be sure to check them out.

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Oh and one film I’d really like to see by the director of both of those films is “The Wrestler.”

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[view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CTECzJTK7c]

You can watch requiem for a dream here in parts but the quality isnt that good.

If you want to get a better impression id suggest renting it on dvd, so you can watch big screen or just download at the good ole piratebay.

The guy recording it says a few words on commentary but most of the video he keeps quiet.

P.S

Do not watch requiem for a dream for a first date movie with girlfriend.

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I hold Ferd Morton to be the greatest American composer, and yet I still haven’t seen that film. Shame on me (although the actor who plays him in the movie looks nothing like him).

Some of my favourites:

The Room

A Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

The Lord of the Rings

Team America: World Police

Star Wars (originals)

Many old westerns and samurai films.

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@ Aristippus

You can watch the film here on YouTube, actually:

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Thanks. They should do the piano-string-as-lighter on Myth Busters.

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lolz.

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Another movie i like is Kungfu Panda.

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IT’S A TRAP!!!

Amusing, but this would probably be better left in the low content thread.