Akin to the "Musical Picks" topic, I want to hear what your all time favourite movies/television shows are. It can be anything from action to drama to sports to romance (who watches that anyway though?). Don't be shy and don't be mean to other members, even if they really did enjoy Superbaby-Geniuses or whatever that piece of crap was called

 

I'll start off with a couple of my favs; I find most of the ones I put down are great films all together, but have shining endings.

 

Blood Diamond (Thriller/Drama): Leo DiCaprio picks up a sick south african accent in this eye-opening thriller/drama. Great music but if you're a Leo fan, you can probably already guess how it ends lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPX2kXhu7I

 

Friday Night Lights (Sports): I'm not a football guy, but the cinematography and story made this a refreshing change to the typical, predictable, sports movie. Plus, the instrumental music by Explosions in the Sky fits perfect (note: the trailer is crap, watch the film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzyp4qOW0F0

 

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Fantasy): If you are on a Lego forum where Lego LOTR products are frequently discussed, you probably already know how awesome the films are. If you don't, I'll leave it up to the mods to immediately revoke your membership to BrickPicker (jk).

 

And last I'll just end with my favourite TV show, which is probably going into its final season this year, The Mentalist (crime procedeural): this murder-a-episode series focuses on a former psychic who is now tracking the serial killer who murdered his family. The show can be light and funny, but when the serial killer ("red john") gets involved, it can get pretty unnerving. The series has spent 5 years tracking down murderers so feels a bit tired, but it is still my favourite. And, I'll post a trailer for the 3rd season finally:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzejrms4YLk

 

Phew, if you got through all that... you don't get bored easily, do you? Now tell me your picks!

 

Anyone ever see the South Park episode where Cartman dressed up like a robot and gave a bunch of movie execs 800 film ideas all staring Adam Sandler? I'm pretty sure this was one of them.

This may be the one time I beat Emazers in posting a movie trailer. Haha.

Anyone ever see the South Park episode where Cartman dressed up like a robot and gave a bunch of movie execs 800 film ideas all staring Adam Sandler? I'm pretty sure this was one of them.

I think you're right. The large Galaga alien spaceship in the sky was a pretty cool sight and the rest of the film looks like stupid fun but still gives a major "are you serious?" moment.

If you are remotely a fan of Star Wars and/or the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter PC game, then you must check out this short animated film. I am dead serious.

 

TIE Fighter

If you are remotely a fan of Star Wars and/or the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter PC game, then you must check out this short animated film. I am dead serious.

 

TIE Fighter was what I did my sophomore year in college instead of studying.

Friggin awesome. Reminds me of a newer version of the old Japanese cartoon Star Blazers.

Wow. Loved that short film. Old school Japanese animation is just awesome. They should redo the whole trilogy this way.

TIE Fighter was what I did my sophomore year in college instead of studying.

Haha. I remember being originally introduced to the Star Wars PC flight sims back in the day by one of my sister's boyfriends. He was pretty cool and we would trade off playing this stage or the next. I could say it was his fault for my computer gaming habits to begin with.

 

Friggin awesome. Reminds me of a newer version of the old Japanese cartoon Star Blazers.

Going by the video description, that was the feel he was hoping to achieve using a lot of rotoscoping much of the classic animation used to use.

 

Wow. Loved that short film. Old school Japanese animation is just awesome. They should redo the whole trilogy this way.

That would be incredible to see.

The animator behind that TIE Fighter animation was also behind the Doctor Who anime plus he has a few other projects you can see on his channel.

 

OMG!! That short movie was great!! Motto! Motto! (More! more! )

 

 

 

 
TIE Fighter was what I did my sophomore year in college instead of studying.

Heck yeah.  I played X-Wing then "graduated" to TIE Fighter

 

I have not played those games in a while. But, from time to time I feel the urge to dogfight / destroy a bunch of rebel scums so I load up my SW Battlefront II  

If you are remotely a fan of Star Wars and/or the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter PC game, then you must check out this short animated film. I am dead serious.

On the opposite spectrum, there's this

On the opposite spectrum, there's this

"It can't be worse than the prequels, right?" Ha, that was great.

I'm finally starting "The Hobbit" trilogy tonight.  What else am I to do now that "The Walking Dead" is on hiatus and "Game of Thrones" doesn't start until next week?

 

I fully expect to break the viewings up over at least 6 days, but we'll see how many it takes.

I'm a big comic book guy, but I'm just not sold on this movie. I hope it proves me wrong.

When does the Lego set come out?  Not really a movie guy but the Lego set caught my eye.

I'm a big comic book guy, but I'm just not sold on this movie.

Seriously - ant man? Are they out of better ideas?

I hope we didn't see the two funniest parts in the trailer (I always like some good comedy with my action movies).

 

- "My days of breaking into places and stealing stuff are over!"

- "This is how you punch."

 

Honorary mention for the Thomas the Train scene.

 

But yeah... not sure it's worthy of it's own movie. I hope all this one-offs have the end-goal of some massively awesome finale rather than just milking a few more dollars from everyone's pockets.

I hope we didn't see the two funniest parts in the trailer (I always like some good comedy with my action movies).

 

- "My days of breaking into places and stealing stuff are over!"

- "This is how you punch."

 

Honorary mention for the Thomas the Train scene.

 

But yeah... not sure it's worthy of it's own movie. I hope all this one-offs have the end-goal of some massively awesome finale rather than just milking a few more dollars from everyone's pockets.

 

I bet they are building up the additional characters to fill up either sides of the "Civil War" storyline for Avengers 3.  We cannot have a civil war with just 6 or 8 heroes currently in Avengers roster.

If they can tackle such a more obscure character with enough finesse, it would give me better hope for all the other heroes out there in the Marvel or DC universes. How many times can it always be the same ones they have done a billion times over to save the day again? Creating an entire film around a person like Ant Man sounds rather daunting not to mention when the fight scenes spring forth but I still remember the teaser from a couple years ago and thought they appeared to be taking this guy very seriously.

Next I want to see Deadman or the demon Etrigan or Dr. Fate. What the heck, surprise me!

Starman (Jack Knight) is always going to be fan favorite.  But this needs to be at least an HBO miniseries to do the character justice.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(Jack_Knight)

 

This looks interesting, Sir Ian McKellen as older Mr. Holmes