08-03-2005 08:40									#31
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In no particular order:

Seven

Lawrence of Arabia

Casa Blanca

Tora, Tora, Tora

The Empire Strikes back

Clock Work Orange

Saving Private Ryan

The Shawshank redemption

Bladerunner

	08-03-2005 09:14									#32
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1. Amadeus (that no one else so far has listed this is a damning indictment of Apolyton movie taste!)
2. A Night to Remember (Titanic can't even hold a candle to this film).
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Citizen Kane (Welles rocks!)
5. The Haunting (1963 version by Robert Wise--best haunted house movie ever)
6. Blazing Saddles
7. Clue (so many classic lines!)
8. Without a Clue (sorely underrated comedy about Sherlock Holmes with Michael Cain and Ben Kingsley)
9. The Two Towers (Standing in for all LotR films)
10. A Christmas Story (a movie I have to watch whenever it's on)

	08-03-2005 09:19									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Dracon II Swept Away and Battlefield Earth

swept away was cool. I got off seeing Madonna treated like a 2 bit whore.

	08-03-2005 09:24									#34
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Amadeus
Chinatown
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Titanic
Terms of Endearment
Election
Kill Bill 1
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Exorcist
The Conversation

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	08-03-2005 09:30									#35
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No idea how best to narrow it down to 10, but here's one way -- the 10 films I've (voluntarily) seen most often as an adult:

8 1/2
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
The Conversation (edit: which John T just posted, too! All Hail The Conversation!)
Duck Soup
Nashville
Singing in the Rain
The Wizard of Oz

Interestingly, 6 of the 10 were made before I was born, and none was made in my adult lifetime. Don't know what to make of that...

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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Amadeus Chinatown Moulin Rouge! (2001) Titanic Manchurian Candidate (1961) Election Kill Bill 1 Beauty and the Beast (1991) The Exorcist The Conversation

I'm just gonig to pretend you didn't just put Titanic in your top 10 list.

Even though the movie isn't as bad as everyone says it is, it just isn't cool to like the movie. you are required to bash it like everyone else.

	08-03-2005 10:11									#37
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Unlike other people on this thread, I didn't make my list worrying about whether some website folk will think my selections are "cool."

	08-03-2005 10:27									#38
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I'm sure I'm leaving out a quite a few but these spring to mind at the moment.

1. Clerks
2. The Usual Suspects
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Don't Be a Menace to South Central while drinking your Juice in the Hood
5. High Noon
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Fight Club
9. Alien
10. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Ask me tommorrow and the list will be different.

	08-03-2005 10:35									#39
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ahh ****, I forgot clerks, that definately belongs on my list.

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1. Passion of the christ
2. Coyote ugly
3. usual suspects
4. uncle Buck
5. Goodfellas
6. The Cure
7. Pay it forward
8. braveheart
9. emperors new groove
10. animal house

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Same thing with "Raising Arizona" and my list. Oh, well.

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In not really proper order:

1. Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
2. O'Brother Where Are Thou
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
6. Field of Dreams
7. Bull Durham
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. Animal House
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Alien (can't decide)

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I have to follow Rufus and base it on movies I'll watch whenever it's on:

1. Arsenic and Old Lace
2. The Usual Suspects
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. The Last Dragon
5. Bachelor Party
6. Fifth Element
7. Big Trouble In Little China
8. Animal House
9. Porky's
10. Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein

ACK!

	08-03-2005 12:03									#44
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Ah, so many good films! I had completely fogotten about Kurosawa. Several of his films deserve to make someone's all time list. I particularly like Rashomon, Yojimbo and The Hidden Fortress. Also, I agree that Aliens was terrific.

	08-03-2005 18:02									#45
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Utterly impossible to narrow down a list to ten favourites.

Ten I like a lot at this moment:

Tokyo Story

The Grifters

Rue Cases Negres

Monsoon Wedding

The Parallax View

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Get Carter

Culloden

Blade Runner

My Beautiful Laundrette

	08-03-2005 18:35									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Guynemer Of all of Mel Brooks' films, that's your favorite? Don't get me wrong, it's a hilarious movie. (I will often find myself humming the Inquisition song... and who can forget: "He's a eunuch... HE'S a eunuch... He's dead!") But better than The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles?

You took the thoughts right out of my mind!

And while I'm at it, what's with all the love for Apocolypse Now Redux? There's a very good reason why they left all that stuff on the cutting room floor. Much of it was boring / not as high quality as the rest of the film, and even the good stuff ruined the pacing of the film while making further inroads into its plausibility. I love the original and had high hopes for the extras, but in the end 1 + 1 ended up zero. A much better film to scratch that itch is Hearts of Darkness, which is a documentary by Coppola's wife about the making of A.N.

	08-03-2005 18:41									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov 1. Amadeus (that no one else so far has listed this is a damning indictment of Apolyton movie taste!) || \/ 3. The Empire Strikes Back <<===

quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov 10. A Christmas Story (a movie I have to watch whenever it's on)

I agree with you here, it's simply the best Chrismtas film ever made.

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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov 1. Amadeus (that no one else so far has listed this is a damning indictment of Apolyton movie taste!)

I'd rather watch Tom Hulce in 'National Lampoon's Animal House' with Mozart playing in the background.

In fact I'd rather watch Tom Hulce playing Mozart on the kazoo. Hated the play, cordially loathed the film.

	08-03-2005 18:59									#49
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In alphabetical order...

Apocalypse Now
Days of Wine and Roses
Groundhog Day
Hannibal
It's a Wonderful Life
LA Confidential
Love Actually
The Usual Suspects
The Wickerman
Trainspotting

(some of those are just cos of memories attached to them though, I may not be so keen on rewatching the films without that)

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quote: Originally posted by Verres In alphabetical order... Groundhog Day LA Confidential The Wickerman

I thought Bill Murray was superb in 'Groundhog Day'- like a dry run for 'Lost in Translation'. It's that melancholy, lugubrious quality he has, with the rage bubbling underneath.


I loved ' L. A. Confidential' with the 'Sunset Boulevard' narrator and the compelling performance by Kim Basinger (of all people!) as the Veronica Lookie-Lakie hooker with a heart. There were so many good performances in it- and I loved the way the whole audience gasped when Spacey's character was shot.


'The Wickerman' is one of my favourites because it's so unsettling and bizarre, in so many different ways- the fake traditional soundtrack (songs that sound like old folk songs but aren't) the Scots who aren't (Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Diane Cilento) and the setting and denouement, when the audience realizes it's been fooled. A success despite all its travails.

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1.donny darko (duh)
2.ghost in the shell
3.garden state
4. full metal jacket
5.crazy/beautiful
6.pieces of april
7.mall rats
8.star wars: return of the jedi
9.finding neverland
10.Mullholland drive

EDIT: removed bad santa for mulholland drive

	08-03-2005 19:33									#52
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No particular order (except for #1):

1) Blade Runner
2) Jaws
3) The Godfather
4) Goodfellas
5) The Lord of the Rings (all 3 collectively)
6) The Thing (John Carpenter remake)
7) Raising Arizona
8) The Man Who Would Be King
9) Raiders of the Lost Ark
10) True Romance

	08-03-2005 19:40									#53
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quote: 1.donny darko (duh)

Forgot that one..

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1. LotR (I count them as one movie)
2. Spiderman (I & II)
3. StarWars (Might as well pile all the originalls in here. If I watch'em, it consecutively)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Private Ryan
6. Diggstown (Nobody seems to enjoy this one as much as me. Great Mafia boxing movie.)
7. Shawshack Redemption
8. Aliens
9. Matrix
10. Last Crusade

For those that don't know Diggstown, I highly recomend it. One of the greatest (and funny) fight scenes ever. It really gets you cheering for good guys.

	08-03-2005 20:41									#55
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Star Wars
A Beautiful Mind
LotR: RotK
Planet of the Apes (the original)
Shawshank
Goodfellas
Private Ryan
We were soldiers
Clerks
Napoleon Dynamite
Pulp Fiction

	08-03-2005 20:43									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Donegeal 1. LotR (I count them as one movie) 2. Spiderman (I & II) 3. StarWars (Might as well pile all the originalls in here. If I watch'em, it consecutively) 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark 5. Private Ryan 6. Diggstown (Nobody seems to enjoy this one as much as me. Great Mafia boxing movie.) 7. Shawshack Redemption 8. Aliens 9. Matrix 10. Last Crusade For those that don't know Diggstown, I highly recomend it. One of the greatest (and funny) fight scenes ever. It really gets you cheering for good guys.

Don't you mean ?



ACK!

	08-03-2005 21:07									#57
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Being condescending are we, Tubski?

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quote: Originally posted by alva Being condescending are we, Tubski?

No, you have to see Diggstown to understand......

ACK!

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quote: Originally posted by Sikander And while I'm at it, what's with all the love for Apocolypse Now Redux? There's a very good reason why they left all that stuff on the cutting room floor. Much of it was boring / not as high quality as the rest of the film, and even the good stuff ruined the pacing of the film while making further inroads into its plausibility. I love the original and had high hopes for the extras, but in the end 1 + 1 ended up zero. A much better film to scratch that itch is Hearts of Darkness, which is a documentary by Coppola's wife about the making of A.N.

Because AN is a surreal journey as much as anything. I thought the extras did a good job playing to that aspect. They weren't the most exciting scenes, but the movie doesn't work on that level if they only show the highlights. In the original, we've got enough downtime shown to make it work, but I still thought it worked better with the extra scenes. For the record, I'll take either version and not complain. I simply like Redux a little bit better.

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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski No, you have to see Diggstown to understand...... ACK!

definately. Great scene.