Missy, glad to see I'm not alone in liking White Noise. I thought it was unfairly panned by critics, although I can readily identify several distinctly "cult" elements in it that give it that "midnight movie" appeal, so I could see an argument for it being a "personal preference" movie. I can't say the same for your other favorites however, but, "Eye of the Beholder" and all of that I suppose.
As I mentioned in an other thread, the business of critiquing a movie is somewhat subjective, but there are essential components that I think a majority of the more sophisticated film goers can agree on, in that sense there is at least some accounting for taste. I have so many favorites but I suppose I can simply copy my list from myspace in the interest of saving time, and in no particular order these are some of my favorites:
Into The Wild, A Scanner Darkly, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Blade Runner, Yojimbo, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, All The President Men, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Stranger than Fiction, Being John Malkovich, The Butterfly Effect, Raising Arizona, After Hours, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Matchstick Men, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Omega Man, THX 1138, Excalibur, The Man From Earth, Things We Lost in the Fire, Papillion, The Fountain, The Comedians of Comedy, City of God, Real Genius, Trainspotting, Killing Zoe, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and the Whale, The United States Of Leland, Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine, Ghost World, Juno, Smart People, Little Children, Beetle Juice, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Edward Scissorhands, Clue, Young Frankenstein, Deathtrap, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Snatch, Boogie Nights, Blow, Magnolia, The Game, Thelma & Louise, Jacobs Ladder, Stir of Echoes, Leon (The Professional), True Romance, Apocalypse Now, Natural Born Killers, Old School, Kingpin, Heat, Reservoir Dogs, Good Will Hunting, The Big Sleep, Million Dollar Baby, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Cell, American Me, Rush, Mystic River, Easy Rider, Marathon Man, Training Day, American Beauty, Usual Suspects, Se7en, Pulp Fiction, Spun, Ichi The Killer, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Eraserhead, American History X, Kill Bill 1-2, The Doors, Altered States, The Crow, Sin City, Sleepy Hollow,The Count of Monte Cristo, The Maltese Falcon, Logan's Run, Twelve Monkeys, Fargo, Happy Go Lucky, The Go-Getter, Be Kind Rewind, 2 Days in Paris, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Clerks, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Cloverfield, Syriana, Munich, Good Night and Good Luck, Michael Clayton, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Naked Lunch, Crash, Oldboy, Tideland, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Amélie, King of California, Serendipity, High Fidelity, House Of Sand And Fog, Sideways, The Big Lebowski, V for Vendetta, Repo Man, Mystic River, The Unforgiven, Fido, and The Call of Cthulu, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Videodrome, The Ring, Chopper, Kids, Human Traffic, Go, The Shining, C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Man Bites Dog), El Mariachi, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Thing (John Carpenter Remake), Vanilla Sky, Sunshine, Planet of the Apes, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Memento, Flatliners, Pan's Labyrinth, The Illusionist, Finding Neverland, The Last Samurai, Ghost in The Shell, Akira, Metropolis, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Blood The Last Vampire, Dead Ringers, Scanners, The Brood, The Fly, the Dead Zone, The Shining, The Changeling, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Suspira, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, An American Werewolf in London, Black Christmas, Deep Red, Hellraiser, Night Breed, Kairo (Pulse), Ringu (The Ring), Ju-On (The Grudge), Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Dark Water), Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters),The Ninth Gate, Night of The Living Dead, Evil Dead II, Rec, 28 Days Later, Near Dark, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Carnival of Souls, Princess Mononoke, Appleseed 2004, Gantz, The Matrix, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Seven Samurai, A Chinese Ghost Story, Kawidan, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Fearless, Audition, Lord of the Rings, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, War of the Worlds, The Blob, Godzilla, Forbidden Planet, The Time Machine
On a side note: (assuming you actually drudged through that unformatted list) every version that has a remake listed will always be the original/classic (The Thing notwithstanding).
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