people always seem to think i’m joking when i say this, but two of my favourite films are Natural Born Killers and E.T.

Favorite Comedies:
The Jerk
Navin: I know we’ve only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

Peewee’s Big Adventure
Pee-wee: There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand. You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott.

Lolita (Kubrick version of course!!!)
Charlotte Haze: Hum, you just touch me and I… I… I go as limp as a noodle. It scares me.
Humbert Humbert: Yes, I know the feeling.

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the War and Love the Bomb
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it – nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain’t much of a hand at makin’ speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin’ on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin’. Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human bein’s if you didn’t have some pretty strong personal feelin’s about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin’ on you and by golly, we ain’t about to let ’em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I’d say that you’re all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing’s over with. That goes for ever’ last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let’s get this thing on the hump – we got some flyin’ to do.

Annie Hall
Alvy Singer: There’s an old joke – um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ’em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life – full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly. The… the other important joke, for me, is one that’s usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud’s “Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious,” and it goes like this – I’m paraphrasing – um, “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” That’s the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.

Slap Shot
Jim Carr: Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country’s refusal to accept him, well, I guess that’s more than most 21-year-olds can handle… Ogie Ogilthorpe!

Oh, and Rushmore– great dark comedy. Bill Murray is excellent in it.

Favorite Action movies:
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Dirty Harry
Indiana Jones trilogy
Star Wars original trilogy

Favorite Sci-fi movies:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alphaville
City Of Lost Children
Blade Runner
Plan 9 From Outer Space

Favorite horror movies:
Ones that I can watch over and over (despite my finding them scary)

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The Shining
Psycho
The Haunting (the original one, not the crappy remake)

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ones that really disturb me and I can’t watch often or never again (despite being really good):

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The Brood (never again)
Dead Ringers (never again)
Eraserhead (I can watch this ever once-in-awhile)
Tetsuo: Iron Man (could probably watch this more frequently than eraserhead)
Videodrome (not for awhile)
The Fly (never again)
Pan’s Labyrinth (not for awhile)
Devil’s Backbone (not for awhile)

There are a ton of other great movies- Seven Samurai, Cool Hand Luke, Wizard of Oz, and more. I feel I’ve listed enough for now.