even North? *shudders*

this is hard for me, I like too many movies and hate to choose favs so I'm keeping my list pretty short.

Badlands, Dogfight, Harold and Maude, Betty Blue, The Big Blue, Leon, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Bottle Rocket, Fight Club, Amores Perros, Heathers, Sweet Sixteen, The Princess Bride, A Chinese Ghost Story, Law of Desire, Storytelling, Amateur, A Clockwork Orange.

Glad to see someone mention Badlands. That's a very cool movie.

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How about a top 5

The Crow
Love and a .45
Natural Born Killer
Requiem for a Dream
Reservoir Dogs

Van Damme movies are great. I hate Swarzenegger, Stallone (with the exception of Terminator 2 and Death Race 2000) and any other action star movies you can think of, but I always liked Van Damme movies.

cyborg has to be van damme's best? the crucifixion scene was pretty f*ckin cool!

I enjoy that whole movie for some reason. Did you know that it was originally supposed to be Masters of the Universe 2??!!

get outta here. how did that almost come about? it's definitely his darkest, bleakest, most brutal movie. the kung-fun sort've takes a back seat if you know what i mean

I don't have a clue. But it's true.

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The first Van Damme movie I ever saw was Bloodsport. It's Van Damme kicking serious ass without any plot to get in the way. :p

The long kiss goodnight, ever after, dirty dancing, harry potter and tons more!!

Repo Man
Sid & Nancy
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Taxi Driver
Drugstore Cowboy
Raging Bull
Down By Law
Dead Man
Stranger Than Paradise
Barfly
Hated - GG Allin and The Murder Junkies
Class Of 1984
Bad Lieutenant
THX-1138

these are some of my favorites I basically like anything offbeat and gritty.

Fuck yeh!! Bloodsport is a great movie! That bit with the bone busting outta that guys leg is messed up.

Masters of the Universe 2 became Cyborg because whatever company it was that released them (Cannon, I think) had a contract to make a movie somewhere down the line with Van Damme but was more concerned with the Masters sequel because Van Damme was a nobody and Masters had at least name recognition. Then Bloodsport comes out and Van Damme's a star, so they shut down Masters 2 in pre-production and come up with a script for Van Damme utilizing the sets and costumes they already put together for Masters 2.

They also released a really, really bad movie tie-in comic (I have the first issue, because it was free. You had to order two thru four).

The only Van Damme movie I liked was Universal Soldier, because Dolph is the shit. Cyborg 2 (without Van Damme) was cool because it was the first place I remember seeing and taking note of Angelina Jolie (before she became Miss Hollywood and started making crap).

The Goonies would be my favourite non horror movie.

Raging Bull
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
A Beautiful Mind
All Monty Python films
Memento
Pulp Fiction
Requeim For A Dream
Taxi Driver.

ANYTHING with Robert De Niro in.

Cool you like Raging Bull and Taxi Driver there two of my all time favorites. Mean Streets is cool too I love the bit where De Niro enters the bar to the song Jumpin Jack Flash.

My favorite movie of all time is Edward Scissorhands.

Other non-horror movies I like:

Benny and Joon
Mercury Rising
Sleepy Hollow
Bubble Boy
Donnie Darko
The Crow
Signs

some more

My all-time #1 movie is... *drum roll*... Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. A movie so absolutely brilliant, yet so slow I can never get anyone to sit down and watch it all the way through. Their loss.
:-)

I also love:

Pi
Ichi the Killer
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Clockwork Orange
Spirited Away
Indiana Jones trilogy
original Star Wars trilogy
Labyrinth

... Eh, my mind is blanking out. More to be added as I remember, I'm sure.

Sadly I have yet to see Mean Streets.

a hell yea shout out to you, 'stalker' is AMAZING! tarkovsky is definitely some kind of demi-god, if not the real thing. the slow panning scene with the stream and all the colored artifacts at the bottom, or the girl at the end of the movie sitting by the table! some of it just takes your breath away. have you seen 'solaris' or 'andrei rublev'? hehee if you thought stalker was slow, andrei pushes it! awesome movies

'spirited away' was pretty great too, once i got over the annoyance of ichiro.

I've seen Solaris (another great movie), but not Andrei Rublev... I'd love to though. I absolutely adore Tarkovsky's method of direction. It may be considered slow, but the way he can focus on a single, simple object or scene and make it so beautiful ... well, it's the mark of a truly great director.

so true, the scene(s) in solaris with that horse..! so graceful yet trippy. or should that be trippy yet graceful ;)

Oh brother where art thou
Fargo
Donnie Darko
Phone Booth
Hanabi
Monty Python and the holy grail
Pulp Fiction


i tell ya man the list could go on and on forever

American Beauty
SpaceBalls
The Tenth Kingdom
Back to the Future
Clerks
Mallrats
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob
Orange County....

lots more