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The film-enthusiast star of "Bulletproof Monk" gets enthusiastic at the video store, picking out his many favorites from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" to "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and letting you know why they rank.
Seann William Scott: Movies are basically the whole reason I wanted to be an actor, because of how they made me feel - the good ones. It's not like I ever had this desire to act. It was just really because I loved movies, so I'm pretty lucky to be in them.
MTV's Movie House:
"Chopper"
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
"The Killer"
"Dude, Where's My Car?"
"Rope"
"Being There"
"Bullitt"
"The City of Lost Children"
"Fishing with John"
"In the Company of Men"
"American Movie"
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
"Romper Stomper"
"Once Were Warriors"
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
"Thumb Wars"
"Bottle Rocket"
I'm gonna pick three of my favorite movies: "Chopper," Bana is great, "Once Were Warriors," Lee Tamahori was just awesome, and Hitchcock's "Rope," which I love. Once again, these are three of my many, many, many favorite movies. We're gonna go check 'em out.
This is one of my favorite movies. I don't know if anyone's seen this movie or seen an interview of the real Mark "Chopper" Read, but Eric Bana just nails him down. One of my favorite performances ever. What is so interesting about this movie is that Mark Read actually wrote an autobiography about his life and it was a bestseller in Australia. ... He tried to justify his actions, he said that these people that he had killed were people that society didn't need, bad people. I don't know if the violence is unnecessary because it is all apparently historically accurate.
Chow Yun Fat is the sh--. This movie is incredible. A cool little fact that ["Bulletproof Monk" co-star] Yun Fat told me is that Ang Lee actually trained with these guys. ... It's pretty cool and definitely shows in the movie.
Unbelievable. It's one of the first movies with John Woo. Actually, I think it's maybe the fourth or the third or fifth. I don't even know. Does it matter? I don't think so. What's great is the summer before I decided to be an actor, my brother introduced me to like four of Yun Fat's movies and that just made me wanna be an actor even more.
We really went for the Academy Awards on that one, but it was a tough year and sometimes the really amazing movies get overlooked. I choose to believe that that's one of those movies. I'm just kidding. I have no idea what I'm talking about.
We could go through every Alfred Hitchcock movie because they're all my favorites. ... I hadn't seen a lot of Hitchcock movies since I was a kid and then when I started this movie I had a lot of time on my hands so I just started watching the Hitchcock movies again.
Here's one that I love. Hal Ashby directed it, who was an incredible director. David Duchovny introduced me to this movie on the set of "Evolution" and after seeing it I could tell that so many people have been influenced by Peter Sellers. This is such a great movie. And I think every boy out there in the world can identify with the line, "I like to watch."
Steve McQueen, the ultimate bad ass, or one of the ultimates. It was a great movie. Great soundtrack as well.
This is ingenious. It is unbelievable, it's nightmarish, it's beautiful, it's visually stunning. Ron Perlman is awesome in this movie.
It's f---ing hil - it's super funny. My friend introduced me to this. We'd had a couple beers, watched a little "Fishing with John," and if you like the quirky humor, you'll enjoy that.
Neil LaBute is awesome. Aaron Eckhart is so great in this. Everybody used to say after "American Pie" came out that that character that I played reminded people of his character, because I think they're both a--holes. He does a great job though, much better than I did.
This quite possibly is my favorite comedy of all time. This gentleman right here, Mark Borchardt, grew up I think in Menomonee, Wisconsin. Yeah, Menomonee Falls, where I used to play basketball. It's just a documentary about this guy trying to make a horror film. It's very very funny and very endearing as well.
This movie actually freaked me out a little bit. I don't usually get scared much ... but what was messed up about this is that you could actually see this happening. Maybe where I grew up in Minnesota, you can just imagine going into some messed up town and running into some really weird family. I think this is a great movie.
Russell Crowe is awesome in this movie. Who's the guy that directed? Geoffrey Wright. This is about the skinheads in Melbourne, Australia and Russell Crowe plays the gang leader of these neo-nazi skinheads. He's fantastic.
This could be my favorite movie. This actually takes place in New Zealand and it's kind of a similar vibe as "Romper Stomper." What's this guy's name that's just a bad ass? I can't even pronounce his name, but this is a great movie. This is going to be one of my picks.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. This could be my favorite movie actually. If there was ever a movie that I would love to do if they made it into a musical would be this, [playing] Jack Skellington. Tim Burton, if you're listening, which you're probably not but just in case ...
It is hilarious. It is the funniest thing. I think I've said it about four other movies, but it's one of my favorite things to watch. It sounds kind of ridiculous, what they do is they have thumbs and they superimpose mouths and like eyes, whatever. It's all goofy, but you've got to see it. I got everybody on "Bulletproof Monk" talking about this movie ... they thought it sounded really dumb but I proved them wrong. This is a classic. This is one of my picks.
Wes Anderson is great. This is one of my favorite movies.