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Elster88 Jul 24 2006 12:40 PM |
What are your favorite movies? Not which ones have the best stories, have the best acting, or were the most groundbreaking in cinematography....unless those are the criteria you use to pick your favorite movies. As In the Bedroom taught us, a movie can have all the pieces of a great movie and still be a snooze-fest.
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seawolf17 Jul 24 2006 12:54 PM |
In no particular order, my Top Ten:
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ScarletKnight41 Jul 24 2006 12:54 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 24 2006 12:56 PM |
In no particular order, and totally off the cuff -
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metirish Jul 24 2006 12:55 PM |
1 - Unforgiven
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Vic Sage Jul 24 2006 01:03 PM |
Here's 10 off the top of my head, in the order in which they occurred to me (tomorrow would likely be an entirely different list):
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metirish Jul 24 2006 01:04 PM |
See I forgot Field of Dreams.....
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ScarletKnight41 Jul 24 2006 01:07 PM |
All That Jazz is a great choice.
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Elster88 Jul 24 2006 01:27 PM |
I think my top 10 list would stay relatively the same from day to day, it would just take some time to come up with it.
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TransMonk Jul 24 2006 02:14 PM |
1. Glengary Glenross
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Elster88 Jul 24 2006 02:26 PM |
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Oh my god you said it perfectly. I didn't see it in theaters but rented it, and I was depressed for the rest of the day after I watched it. Felt like a zombie.
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Edgy MD Jul 24 2006 02:40 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 26 2006 11:47 AM |
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metirish following the flag: 1 - Featuring notable Irish actor Richard Harris 2 - Starring notable Irish (assumed citizenship as an adult) actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Full of themes of Irish-American controlled gang activity in New York. 3 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of, though there was a Latvian in the cast. 4 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of. 5 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of. 6 - Again featured Day-Lewis, in a story about Irish prisoners allegedly steamrolled in Britain. 7 -The story of an Irish Immigrant family in New york. 8 -Scottish. 9 - Very Irish story again featuring Richard Harris 10 - Very Irish story. Very Irish cast. Very British director. Very American music.
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Elster88 Jul 24 2006 02:51 PM |
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I think De Niro has Irish ancestry on his mother's side.
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Elster88 Jul 24 2006 02:54 PM |
Funny story about about a friend of a relative. She was working at a store (jewelry I think, but can't remember) and was filling out a customer's order form. She asked for his name while looking down at the form but didn't quite hear him.
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Edgy MD Jul 24 2006 02:56 PM |
Sure. So does Clint Eastwood. I've got to give metirish the benefit of the doubt somewhere though, and I'll assume that his Eastwood Jones and his DeNiro DeSire aren't ethnically linked.
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Elster88 Jul 24 2006 02:58 PM |
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Sure. I only posted that to be a pain in the neck.
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Edgy MD Jul 24 2006 03:16 PM |
Like I wasn't?
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ScarletKnight41 Jul 24 2006 03:22 PM |
Perhaps the solution is to focus on employers who aren't in their right mind?
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metirish Jul 24 2006 07:19 PM |
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You lads are too funny..I just thought of Gladiator...I love that movie...and Crowe thinks he's Irish.
They were steamrolled, plain and simple.....
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RealityChuck Jul 25 2006 06:47 AM |
My list changes all the time, but for now:
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Benjamin Grimm Jul 25 2006 07:14 AM |
I'll do the top-of-my-head thing too:
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Edgy MD Jul 25 2006 07:22 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 25 2006 08:05 AM |
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Hook baited. Fish caught. Of course they were. I was working at a bookstore inthe mid-nineties. It was starting to get aggravating how many "real" stories featured book covers, not with the real person who lived the story, but instead with Daniel Day-Lewis.
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MFS62 Jul 25 2006 07:26 AM |
No particular order:
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dgwphotography Jul 25 2006 07:45 AM |
In no particular order:
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Edgy MD Jul 25 2006 08:13 AM |
I think your common thread is ruggedly handsome leading men, with sinewy forarms and a charming rascally anti-heroism.
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Vic Sage Jul 25 2006 08:49 AM |
well, since today is another day, here's my new "top 10 desert island movies":
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Willets Point Jul 25 2006 09:16 AM |
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Saw that a few weeks ago at a local ahts theatre. Meant to put up a poll. Pretty darn hillarious.
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ScarletKnight41 Jul 25 2006 09:42 AM |
Hail Fredonia!
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Vic Sage Jul 25 2006 11:23 AM |
I gots guns
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Benjamin Grimm Jul 25 2006 11:39 AM |
I had Duck Soup on my list too. In fact, I had three overlaps with Vic, (Duck Soup, King Kong, and Casablanca) and they were probably my only three no-brainers.
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MFS62 Jul 25 2006 12:16 PM |
Oh crap!
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dgwphotography Jul 25 2006 07:22 PM |
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um. That Thing You Do?
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ScarletKnight41 Jul 25 2006 08:50 PM |
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That was one of the reasons that we almost considered naming MK Spartacus.
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Willets Point Jul 25 2006 09:35 PM |
I thought of several movies I like that would make a good pretentious list to show how cultured I am but figured instead to go with movies I've watched over and over and over again and still like:
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seawolf17 Jul 26 2006 07:27 AM |
Ah! The Princess Bride! How did I forget that? That knocks Bill & Ted off my list.
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Edgy MD Jul 26 2006 07:40 AM |
Leprechaun
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Willets Point Jul 26 2006 07:42 AM |
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Worth watching if only for the unlikely moment when Sean Connery sings.
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Johnny Dickshot Jul 26 2006 08:05 AM |
Ten movies I pretty much know all the lines to:
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Vic Sage Jul 26 2006 09:13 AM |
LOCAL HERO is a great movie. Great Mark Knopler soundtrack, too.
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Vic Sage Jul 26 2006 09:37 AM |
[u:2cme3bkh]Day 3, 3rd top 10 list (again, in no particular order):[/u:2cme3bkh]
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Willets Point Jul 27 2006 03:04 PM |
If we're doing different lists for different days, here's my list for today.
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Vic Sage Jul 27 2006 03:25 PM |
day 4, list #4:
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MFS62 Jul 28 2006 07:13 AM |
Vic, your mention of Magnificent 7 made me ponder a while.
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Willets Point Jul 28 2006 07:58 AM |
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What I like about Jaws beyond the thriller aspects is the relationship among Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss. The movie works well because its really about these three very different men and how they're changed on this boat journey. The sequels were all about the shark and thus failures as drama. Same thing with the Rocky franchise. Rocky was about people, one of whom happened to be a boxer. The sequels were about boxing.
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Benjamin Grimm Jul 28 2006 08:03 AM |
Interesting point, Willets. Rings true to me. (I only saw the first Jaws sequel, and the first two Rocky sequels, by the way.)
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Frayed Knot Jul 28 2006 08:10 AM |
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The sequels were about making shit-loads of money ... but that's a different story. I generally suck at these 'list' projects, but here goes: Casablanca Godfather (original) Some Like it Hot Cabaret (NTTAWWT) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Monty Python & the Holy Grail Duck Soup Wizard of Oz Network The Sting (I need some newer flicks)
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MFS62 Jul 28 2006 08:14 AM |
More about Jaws.
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Johnny Dickshot Jul 28 2006 10:08 PM |
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Absolutely. Though the movie was more shark and less people than the book! In the book, Hooper banged Brody's wife and got eaten by the shark.
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dgwphotography Jul 29 2006 02:49 PM |
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How did I not include The Right Stuff?!?
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batmagadanleadoff Apr 21 2008 01:30 PM |
Here's my top 10 list off the top of my head, without giving this topic too much thought other than to alphabetize my picks. BTW, that Vic Sage had a nifty idea here, back when this thread was active during the Salty Parker era, about posting different top 10's every so often as a nod to the fact that a person's list changes often:
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sharpie Apr 21 2008 01:54 PM |
Yow. Magadan doing a big reachback.
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batmagadanleadoff Apr 21 2008 04:21 PM |
Yeah. I'm reachin' here. I'm reachin' here.
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Nymr83 Apr 21 2008 04:40 PM |
I'm going off the top of my head here so this is all subject to change:
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Batty31 Apr 21 2008 06:26 PM |
The top 7 are locked in...the bottom 3 change upon my mood, but basically any old Universal, Hammer or Vincent Price or film noir movie goes in the rotation.
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soupcan Apr 22 2008 07:51 AM |
I guess I missed this thread the first time.
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Centerfield Apr 22 2008 12:47 PM |
Star Wars
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Nymr83 Apr 22 2008 01:15 PM |
I'll take Sixth Sense and Ghostbusters off my list in favor of Back to the Future which i didn't think of and a Bond movie - likely Goldeneye or Goldfinger.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 22 2008 01:36 PM |
Top of my head:
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Centerfield Apr 22 2008 01:51 PM |
Grimm's head is remarkably consistent to the tune of 8 out of 10.
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metsmarathon Apr 22 2008 03:12 PM |
in no particular order, save the first, and with many a presumed oversight:
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TransMonk Apr 22 2008 03:50 PM |
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nice
as well
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Batty31 Apr 22 2008 04:49 PM |
Oh I forgot The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Better Off Dead (I can quote that movie line for line). Grimm...very impressed to see Bride of Frankenstein! Great pick. BTW, I've met Boris Karloff's daughter several times and she's a really nice lady..tells some funny stories about her father on the set in the Monster makeup.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 22 2008 06:12 PM |
Bride of Frankenstein is my favorite of the old Universal horror movies.
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The Second Spitter Apr 23 2008 04:41 AM |
1. GoodFellas
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sharpie Apr 23 2008 09:46 AM |
Surprised to see Full Metal Jacket show up on two recent lists. Toward the bottom of the Kubrick ouevre IMO, above Killer's Kiss, The Killing and Eyes Wide Shut but certainly below the rest (Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining).
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AG/DC Apr 23 2008 09:58 AM |
"Full Metal" deserves a poll. It's like two movies, and I'm not sure what to make of the second.
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batmagadanleadoff Apr 23 2008 11:28 AM |
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I always liked Full Metal and rank it as one of my favorite Vietnam, if not all purpose War movies. It could easily make my top 10 list if my top 10 list were permitted to go to 20. MILD SPOILER ALERT COMING UP To me, the second half of Full Metal was a perfect metaphor for the senselessness of war. All of those American soldiers, and all the training they went through to get to where they were, all the resources assembled, human and machine, and for what? To commandeer a building already reduced to rubble before the soldiers even got there, and to eliminate what turned out to be just one sniper who perhaps was not even affiliated in an official sense, with the opposing forces. I write this post with the caveat that I do so only for the purpose of reviewing the Kubrick movie. I have no real opinion on whether Wars in general, or the Vietnam War specifically, were senseless, although I do suspect that there are people out there with concrete opinions on the matter. If I were forced to opine as to the senselessness of Wars, I would probably take the easy way out, and note that all Wars have some purpose and are also senseless in some other sense, and that some Wars, I would suppose, are more senseless than others. Or less senseless. Does this make any sense?
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