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Top ten movies of all time, any category.

What a boring bunch of people you are...

Deliverence. "You got a pretty mouth boy".
Star Wars. "Help me Obi-wan, you're our only hope".
The Blues Brothers. "Sh**t. What. Rollers. No. Yep. Sh**t".
The Fifth Element.
Terminator. "I'll be back".
Matrix.
Monthy Python and the Holy Grail. "We are the nights that say nit".
Caddyshak. "Kill the golfers?"
Up in smoke. "How's my driving. We're parked."

No particular order except for...

#1. Predator. "We're all gonna die."


Lord of the Rings is not a movie. It's an experience.
 
Opportunity...

knocks.

americanwoman said:
Dirty dancing
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Yea, one of those movies I'll NEVER watch. Like Fried Green Tomatoes Suck, Thelma and Louis, Ya ya sisterhood or whatever, How I could care less about Stella's groove, see men, you wimps that puss out and go see these chick flicks cause you have no stones and cave into the ol' lady cause she's got that...thing, make it rough on the rest of us. But I'm doing what I can to counter act this breakdown of men into mice. I don't shop with women either. I go into a store and buy the things I went there to get and leave. I don't even browse the tool isle at Home Depot. Ya gotta make a stand somewhere men. You're putting the toilet seat down, letting her use the TV remote, you let her use you sockets and ratchets (how can you stand even watching them try to use that I'll never know), it's one thing to help with the dishes but the flowered apron?


Navy Pride said:
Brians Song
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You are such a girl.

Hoot said:
Coal Miners Daughter
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You too.

star2589 said:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Yea, now this is a spectecle if you get with a crew that knows the deal.

I was recently invited to see a Friday showing of this flick...

at a nudist resort.

I didn't think it could get any wilder seeing this show...

until I saw it there.
 
Re: What a boring bunch of people you are...

teacher said:
Lord of the Rings is not a movie. It's an experience.
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I never saw it then this weekend I was flipping through and started to watch The return of the king. Wow, I had no idea. I need to rent the other two and watch it now on my big screen to get the full effect.


Yea, one of those movies I'll NEVER watch
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well you are missing out on a classic. "nobody puts Baby in a corner"
 
Das Boat (Best sub movie other. Nothing else comes close)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (in a class of it's own)
Jay and Silent Bob (did not stop laughing)
Titanic (wowsers)
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (Cap'n Kirk at his best)
Star Wars (Emperor Palp is the ultimate puppetmaster bar none)
Lord of the Rings (Gollum rocks)
Last of the Mohicians (Music, Scenery, Story.. incredible)
Stalingrad (First "non-gung ho john wayne" movie. Ridiculously good)
Saving Private Ryan (best war movie ever)
 
Saving Private Ryan (best war movie ever)
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I thought it was dreadful.
War movies are a good genre, lots of good war movies out there.
What about Apocalypse Now?
Or The Deer Hunter?
Or Letters from Iwo Jima?
God, I can name a dozen good war movies... but Saving Private Ryan isn't one of them.
 
1069 said:
I thought it was dreadful.
War movies are a good genre, lots of good war movies out there.
What about Apocalypse Now?
Or The Deer Hunter?
Or Letters from Iwo Jima?
God, I can name a dozen good war movies... but Saving Private Ryan isn't one of them.
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I, too, enjoy war movies. And I, too, have no idea what the attraction to 'Saving Private Ryan' is. Didn't think that much of it.

Best War Movies?

Bridge Over the River Kwai (nothing else even close)
The Great Escape
Apocalypse Now
Bat 21
 
1069 said:
I thought it was dreadful.
War movies are a good genre, lots of good war movies out there.
What about Apocalypse Now?
Or The Deer Hunter?
Or Letters from Iwo Jima?
God, I can name a dozen good war movies... but Saving Private Ryan isn't one of them.
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Perhaps you're right. I just think its required viewing for the beach scene, the rest of it could be a bit iffy - attcking a position you didnt need to and losing your medic? WTF?

Id love to see Letters from Iwo Jima however.

One of the best war movies out there; A Bridge Too Far.
 
1069 said:
I thought it was dreadful.
War movies are a good genre, lots of good war movies out there.
What about Apocalypse Now?
Or The Deer Hunter?
Or Letters from Iwo Jima?
God, I can name a dozen good war movies... but Saving Private Ryan isn't one of them.
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I loved the movie 300 which I had to be dragged to kicking and screaming the entire way. It was the most beautiful and thrilling war movie I have ever seen.
 
talloulou said:
I loved the movie 300 which I had to be dragged to kicking and screaming the entire way. It was the most beautiful and thrilling war movie I have ever seen.
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Never heard of it.
I've had to be dragged kicking and screaming to every war movie (actually, we take turns picking movies; the war movies are never my picks).
But a lot of them turn out to be pretty good.
 
1069 said:
Never heard of it.
I've had to be dragged kicking and screaming to every war movie (actually, we take turns picking movies; the war movies are never my picks).
But a lot of them turn out to be pretty good.
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I don't think 300 is out on video yet but when it is check it out. It's just visually stunning.
 
Going to see "Bug" w/ Ashley Judd tonight. It's supposed to be highly intense.
Fully expect to be wowed just like the crowd at Cannes was; will make a full report afterward.
 
Great God in heaven.
I just got back from seeing Bug.
Whoo-ee.

It was pretty incredible.


/ twitches. :crazy3:
 
1069 said:
Great God in heaven.
I just got back from seeing Bug.
Whoo-ee.

It was pretty incredible.


/ twitches. :crazy3:
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Okay... Bug.
This movie does for Ashley Judd what Monster did for Charlize Theron; namely, gives her a chance to prove her worth as an actress by stripping away her prettiness and allowing her to prove that she can still hold our attention without it.

This movie is unapologetically adapted from an off-broadway play, and it's very much like watching a play.
It's profoundly dark, creepy, and disturbing.
Only the last scene- in particular, Judd's last monologue- fails to ring true.
In short, she goes too far, and the high-pitched, razor-edged tension maintained throughout the movie crosses the line into campiness.
Then she and Mike Shannon, her partner in bug-infested paranoia, rip off their clothes and douse themselves with gasoline, and light a match, and blow themselves to kingdom come, laughing like loony-birds all the while.
This also seems out of keeping with the tone of the movie; I felt they should've done this with solemn deliberation.
Some of the camera effects are cheesy, as well (scenes of hysteria filmed from above, spinning, and things of that nature).

These are my only criticisms; beyond that, the performances were captivating.
If you can imagine a full-length movie involving only five actors, 98% of it filmed in one (evolving) room, that could somehow maintain your full attention and in fact keep you on the edge of your seat, gripping the armrests... Bug is that movie.

Four and a half stars.
 
Just off the top of my head...

1. Lawerence of Arabia
2. Pulp Fiction
3. The Matrix
4. Ponette
5. Sling Blade
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. The Unusual Suspects
8. Chinatown
9. The French Connection
10. Unforgiven
 
Slingblade is on my list, too.
 
yeah...great movie.
Billy Bob made the All-Time "A" List with that movie alone...
 
Watched El Laberinto del Fauno (released in the US as "Pan's Labyrinth") last night.
It was mighty interesting, I thought.
Anybody else seen it?
 
1069 said:
Watched El Laberinto del Fauno (released in the US as "Pan's Labyrinth") last night.
It was mighty interesting, I thought.
Anybody else seen it?
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One of the best movies ever IMHO.
 
Thelost1 said:
One of the best movies ever IMHO.
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I wouldn't go that far.
I just watched it for the second time, though.
Very, very interesting movie.
 
The greatest movie of alltime was

Baseketball

Baseketball

Baseketball

Baseketball

...aaarrrggghhh!
 
1069 said:
Watched El Laberinto del Fauno (released in the US as "Pan's Labyrinth") last night.
It was mighty interesting, I thought.
Anybody else seen it?
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I almost rented it, then found it out was subtitled. So no. :lol:
 
In no particular order:

1) The Godfather, Part I
2) The Godfather, Part II
3) Scent of a Woman
4) Saving Private Ryan
5) Apocolypse Now
6) Chinatown
7) Casablanca
8) The Shining - my fav movie of all time
9) Scarface
10) Goodfellas
 
10. Goldeneye
9. Toy Story 2
8. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
7. Rocky III
6. Tommy Boy
5. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
4. Schindler's List
3. Die Hard
2. Rocky II
1. Saving Private Ryan
 
I almost rented it, then found it out was subtitled. So no.
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You should watch it. It's incredible.

Hmm... Top 10? Nearly impossible, so we'll see how this goes. In absolutely no particular order:

1. All Kubrick films (if I listed these they'd cover my top 10)
2. 8 1/2
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc. Saw it for the first time last night and was completely blown away. Probably my favorite silent film of all time.
4. Mulholland Drive/Eraserhead
5. À bout de souffle (english: Breathless). Groundbreaking film that brought about the French New Wave.
6. Either Eisenstein's Strike!, Battleship Potemkin or October. Huge Eisenstein fan.
7. Star Wars Trilogy :cool:
8. All Darren Aronofski's films (The Fountain is probably my favorite but that might just be because it was the last one I saw)
9. Jan Svankmajer's Alice (Best telling of the Alice in Wonderland story by far)
10. Can't decide

Yes, I'm a film nerd.
 
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