07-01-2003 08:19									#31
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Reefer Madness.

No need. Some overly funded federal agency is currently running a series of anti-drug "public service announcements" which are based upon the same disproven phony scare tactics.

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Best Junk Comedies:
Weekend at Bernie's (I & II)
Hallalujah Trail

Best Movies No One Ever Heard of:
Stone Boy
The King of Hearts

Best Movie Ever:
Amadeus (the original...not the director's cut)

Best Classic Comedy:
Bringing Up Baby

Best Modern Comedies:
A Fish Named Wanda
Clueless

Romantic Comedies I Can Watch Over & Over:
French Kiss
American President
One Fine Day

Best Silent Movies:
The Gold Rush...Charlie Chaplin
The General...Buster Keaton
Safety Last...Harold Lloyd

Best Poli-Thriller:
Fail Safe

Best Swashbuckler
The Adventures of Don Juan...Errol Flynn

Edan made some great suggestions...but avoid "Clue" like the plague. It's awful!!

	07-01-2003 08:29									#32
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A few that haven't been mentioned:

Mississippi Burning
La Femme Natikita (but whatever you do, avoid the US remake "Point of No Return" like the plague)
Amistad
A Bridge Too Far

	07-01-2003 08:48									#33
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Fight Club, American Beauty, Lord of the Rings, The Usual Suspects, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Indiana Jones, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Imposters (great comedy), A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket (good ****-with-your-mind movies), The Princess Bride, The Monty Python Movies. Hmm... brain's running low...

	07-01-2003 08:59									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Zkribbler but avoid "Clue" like the plague. It's awful!!

Shrug. Different tastes for different people.

I just realized no one mentioned Shawshank Redemption. While it falls short of being one of my favorites, the ommision does suprise me.

	07-01-2003 09:00									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Zkribbler Best Classic Comedy: Bringing Up Baby

Arsenic and Old Lace is better.

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	07-01-2003 09:00									#36
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quote: avoid "Clue" like the plague. It's awful!!

I hope you are not referring to the film based on the Cluedo boardgame.
That must have the highest gag-per-minute count of any film I've seen. And it's ****ing funny too!

	07-01-2003 09:01									#37
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The movie "Clue" sucked.

However they had a video version of the game that was VERY funny.

"I wasn't winking, I was blinking."

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	07-01-2003 09:58									#38
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From the United States:

Trouble in Mind

The Grifters

Brother from Another Planet

Hollywood Shuffle

Electra Glide in Blue

Running on Empty

Grosse Point Blank

From Great Britain:

The Lavender Hill Mob

Get Carter

The Wicker Man

Night of the Demon

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Mona Lisa

My Beautiful Launderette

East is East

From France:

Zazie dans le Metro

L'Ascenseur au L'Echaffaud

Les Yeux sans Visage

Alphaville

Mon Oncle

Le Samourai

L'Armee des Ombres

From Japan:

Tokyo Story

Kwaidan

Onibaba, Killer of Women

In the Realm of the Senses

Throne of Blood

Tampopo

From Scandinavia:

The Best Intentions

Fanny and Alexander

Pelle the Conqueror

Pathfinder

Babette's Feast

Honourable mentions:

Picnic at Hanging Rock, An Angel at My Table, Utu,
Cronos, A World Apart, Rue Cases Negres, French Connection I & II, The Last Seduction, I Heard The Mermaids Singing, Salaam, Bombay! and Earth and In the Mood for Love.

	07-01-2003 10:09									#39
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie

	07-01-2003 10:14									#40
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quote: Night of the Demon

Ooh, yes, thats a good one.

quote: However they had a video version of the game that was VERY funny.

Was that the vhs boardgame where the butler's name was Diddit? (As in, The Butler Did It). Fun, but Cor-ny!

	07-01-2003 10:19									#41
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Why has no-one mentioned any David Lynch films?

The greatest director of our time goddamn it...

for the classicly minded:

Blue Velvet, Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Straight Story

those who like the unusual:

Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive.

I mean this guy rocks.

	07-01-2003 10:35									#42
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quote: Originally posted by orange The House on Haunted Hill?? Man that film creeped me out for weeks

Surely you don't mean the piece of garbage with Geoffrey Rush that came out 2-3 years ago?

	07-01-2003 10:46									#43
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Thief Of Bagdad, from 1924
Amelie
Brazil
etc.

	07-01-2003 10:46									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Surely you don't mean the piece of garbage with Geoffrey Rush that came out 2-3 years ago?

I meant the original, myself (/w the creepy old lady that appears from nowhere. ). I actually enjoyed the remake, particularily in comparision to all the other "remakes" that Hollywood decides are such a good idea to make. But I wouldn't put it in my favorites.

	07-01-2003 10:57									#45
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I still say the 1963 The Haunting is the best haunted house movie ever made. It's just got the entire atmosphere and mood perfect. Running behind it are The Changeling, The Legend of Hell House and The Innocents.

	07-01-2003 11:00									#46
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While we're on the topic...

More excellent films:

Rumblefish
Delicatessen, City of Lost Children
The Man Who Wasn't There (why has no one mentioned it?!?)
Natural Born Killers
JFK
Dead Man
Tetuso 1 & 2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

and more......

	07-01-2003 11:04									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov I still say the 1963 The Haunting is the best haunted house movie ever made. It's just got the entire atmosphere and mood perfect. Running behind it are The Changeling, The Legend of Hell House and The Innocents.

For Ghost movies, my favorite is Lady in White (which I already listed). I did like The Haunting, but I haven't seen the others (and now I'm going to have to find and watch them)

	07-01-2003 11:20									#48
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Do you mean The Lady in Black? Because that is indeed one frightening movie.

	07-01-2003 11:23									#49
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There are some bad movies in this thread.

	07-01-2003 11:28									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Do you mean The Lady in Black? Because that is indeed one frightening movie.

I suspect you mean Woman in Black which is also a good ghost story (although I found parts of it unfulfilling - IMO, it felt like it could do with another half hour to give more depth), but no, I mean, Lady in White

	07-01-2003 11:32									#51
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like what, Sava???
And yes, Delicatessen is brilliant

	07-01-2003 11:34									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Sava There are some bad movies in this thread.

It's all a matter of taste. (Unless I missed someone mentioning Plan 9 from Outer Space. )

	07-01-2003 11:43									#53
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quote: Originally posted by monolith94 And yes, Delicatessen is brilliant

Seen City of Lost Children? If not see it now. But for the love of god, NOT DUBBED.

	07-01-2003 12:14									#54
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Braveheart is my favorite movie ever, very much worth watching it if you haven't yet.

	07-01-2003 12:19									#55
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I can't believe somebody mentioned Electra Glide in Blue. I thought that was such a cool movie.

Some that may have been missed:

King of Comedy: De Niro tour de force
AfterHours: comedy of coincidences
Mean Streets: You pay for your sins in the streets

The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover: indescribable
Drowning by Numbers: numbers, games, drownings
A Zed and Two Noughts: ashes to ashes, ooze to ooze
The Draughtman's Contract: more to a picture, than meets the eye

Psycho: this one started them all
Frenzy: neckties, rape and potatoes
Spellbound: Dali designed dreams and Freud
The Trouble with Harry: Harry won't stay buried

The Conversation: is anyone listening?

Suspiria: stylish grand guignol
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage: stylish whodunnit

The Fisher King: Is it better to be mad?

They Might be Giants: George C. Scott thinks he's Sherlock Holmes
Patton: George C. Scott as Patton, nuff said.
Hardcore: George C. Scott again. Quirky, unintentionally funny, odd.

Tough Guys Don't Dance: Norman Mailer makes hilarious satirical debut

Liquid Sky: orgasm and drug eating alien lives on punk fashion model's rooftop in NYC. A low budget gem.

Does anybody really read these things?

and many mo. . .

	07-01-2003 12:36									#56
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quote: Does anybody really read these things?

I do, for one, though I am a film student, so I'm not typical
In fact, I intend to save this whole thread for later perusal and possible rental, my uni has a fairly decent video library which I am using to the full

	09-01-2003 04:52									#57
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quote: Originally posted by MosesPresley I can't believe somebody mentioned Electra Glide in Blue. I thought that was such a cool movie. Does anybody really read these things? and many mo. . .

Yes, that was me. I found an ex-rental video copy in a Melbourne music/video shop- along with After Dark, My Sweet, The Amazing Mr Blunden, Trouble in Mind, and Assault on Precinct 13. I think one of my favourite periods for films was the 1970s American cinema- as Rufus Firefly said in an earlier thread, it was the decade when Hollywood was still producing films for adults, rather than for those afflicted with arrested development.

Blue Collar deserves a mention, as does Altman's Quintet, Belly of An Architect, Sunday Too Far Away, Death in a French Garden, Colonel Redl, Mephisto, The Hit, Heatwave, City of Hope, Passion Fish, Welles's Othello, Wise Blood and Race With The Devil.

	09-01-2003 04:56									#58
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quote: Originally posted by Edan Ooh, yes, thats a good one. Was that the vhs boardgame where the butler's name was Diddit? (As in, The Butler Did It). Fun, but Cor-ny!

That's the one.

ACK!

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quote: Originally posted by Graag Seen City of Lost Children? If not see it now. But for the love of god, NOT DUBBED.

I thought the dubbing of CoLC was actually quite good, far superior to most dubbings. They actually got good actors to read the lines. It stands with the dubbing of Das Boot as one of the best dubbed flicks I've seen.

But I prefer subtitles, anyway.

Edan, right-o. I'd seen the Woman in Black on TV many years ago, and I can't forget it, especially the last scene. Frightening movie, on a par with The Ring in terms of terrifying atmosphere. I've never heard of the Lady in White...will have to look for it.

	09-01-2003 04:58									#60
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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski That's the one. ACK!

Good performane by Tim Curry in that movie. Not as good as his performance in Rocky Horror, but then again nothing is.