The Ten Best Movies Ever Made, IMHO
by kleph on Aug 9, 2010 1:25 PM CDT
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Now I'll warn you right now, I'm whipping out my not-so-inner film snob here but the point is actually to get input from you all. We got three weeks left until actual honest-to-gawd football and anything that keeps us occupied till then is a godsend. The Wall Street Journal did a story today on what I consider the greatest film ever made, Max Ophul's "Earrings of Madame de..." and I thought I'd pull together my list and post it for you y'alls input (yeah, I pretty much know what to expect in terms of the response).
- "Ace in the Hole," Billy Wilder
- "Ashes and Diamonds," Andrezej Wajda
- "Beauty and the Beast," Jean Cocteau
- "Bicycle Thieves," Vittorio De Sica
- "The Earrings of Madame de....," Max Ophuls
- "A Man Escaped," Robert Bresson
- "Night of the Hunter," Charles Laughton
- "Notorious," Alfred Hitchcock
- "The Rules of the Game," Jean Renoir
- "The Searchers," John Ford
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my favorite scene from repo man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QKiYar9pI&feature=related
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 2:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Did you...
…eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 8:26 PM CDT up reply actions
What?? No "North Dallas Forty"?
Then this list is bogus.
This is the real list in SEC Country:
1. Smokey and the Bandit—UT about Lane Kiffin
2. Gator—Obviously for Florida fans.
3. The Bear—a half crazy Gary Busey before his accident that made him fully crazy, for Bama fans only in VHS and Betamax.
4. Where the Red Fern Grows- UK?
5. The Titanic-USC’s version with LK
6. O Brother, Where art thou? Ole Miss fans,natch…
7. Dog Day Afternoon- Georgia fans
8. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly- Auburn fans, fits description except the “good” part
9. One Flew over the Cukoos Nest- LSU or Ole Miss, mainly bout coaching
10. A Beautiful Mind-about a schizophrenic Coach…again Les Miles or Houston Nutt
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by mrpelicanpants on Aug 9, 2010 1:48 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
The Bear
is a bad movie. Someone needs to make a really good movie about Coach Bryant.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
I havent seen this movie since it was in
the theaters…when I was about 10 years old. Can it be rented or found anywhere?
Tom Hanks is standing by for that phone call.
"Only the strong survive, but the strong still get their ass whipped." -Nick Saban
Damn how did I not see "Deliverance" as Tennessee?
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i firmly believe
deliverance is the most unjustly maligned film of the 1970s.
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by kleph on Aug 9, 2010 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Deliverance...
…does a masterful job of recreating the sense of adventure, recklessness, and fear that permeates Dickey’s novel, which is superb, by the way, if you’ve never read it. I’m guessing most folks here know that Dickey appears in the film as well.
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 8:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Deliverance… …does a masterful job of recreating the sense of gayness, recklessness, and fear that permeates the Auburn fanbase…
fixed that for ya.
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Your list is wanting
Anchorman
Talladega Nights
Step Brothers
Old School
Super Troopers
Wedding Crashers
Elf
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Semi-Pro
Last King of Scotland
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Wow, I haven't seen any of those
First of all, I don’t think I can make a list because I don’t even know where to begin. Anyway, I obviously have some things to add to my netflix queue
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Hitchcock and Ford
You seem to be a bit more of an aficionado than I am, but of the two of yours who’s work I’ve seen, Hitchcock and Ford, I’d have to go with Rope by Hitchcock and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Ford.
For Hitchcock
I don’t think I’ve seen as much as others. I really liked Rear Window but the ending was a little disappointing I think.
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the searchers
is probably the most influential american film ever made. i’d even say it’s impact has eclipsed citizen kane by this point (but not by much).
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I've seen it, and its great
But not being a huge John Wayne fan, I loved his acting and the role he chose in TMWSLV, and Jimmy Stewart is always great. Maybe just being contrary here, the Searchers is no doubt great.
Serious Top Ten:
In no particular order:
1. Manchurian Candidate – Original, with Frank
2. The Last King Of Scotland – Damn did Forrest deserve that Oscar.
3. Signs – Yeah Yeah Yeah but I thought it was phenomenally written
4. Godfather – should have been directed by MC Hammer, cuz you can’t tough this.
5. The Departed – Scorcese at his best
6. North by Northwest – no need for explanation
7. To Kill A Mockingbird – one of the few book-based films that was actually close to being on par with it’s original material. Plus it was the acting debut of one of the greatest actors evah, Robert Duvall.
8. Braveheart – cuz he was badass (even though they took extreme liberties with the source material).
9. The Dark Knight – more than a comic book movie, extremely well written and dark. I could easily put more Nolan brothers movies in this list (looking at you, Inception).
10. My Pal Joey – sort of like Todd’s UAB pick in his top 25, this really isn’t a top ten movie but is Sinatra at his 60’s coolest. A fun movie and a favorite of mine to watch while I sip sip sip on some sizzirup (I mean whiskey).
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by BamaReturns07 on Aug 9, 2010 2:24 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Honorable Mentions
American Gangsta
American Psycho
Anchorman (for realzies)
Godfather II
Godfather III (ok, I keed, I keed)
Casino
Goodfellas
Chaplin
Batman Begins
Casa Blancha – yeah, a little cliche and not my typical fare, but an outstanding movie nonetheless
Raiders of the Lost Ark – practical effects don’t get much better, and a helluva nod to the genre.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Catch Me If You Can – DiCaprio is a damn fine actor
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by BamaReturns07 on Aug 9, 2010 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions
You forgot the Sinatra classic
The man with the Golden Arm…..great movie!
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i'm not a fan of manchurian candidate
but i believe frankenheimer is woefully under-rated as a director. everyone loves the chase scene in ronin but i believe the train is one of the best action films ever made. of course films like reindeer games certainly didn’t do his legacy any favors.
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If they hadn't tacked on that ridiculous...
…Hollywood ending, Reindeer Games would have been a passable neo noir.
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Agreed
although I totally forgot about Ronin. Bad. Ass.
Kleph – I understand, MC is a little different, especially for it’s time.
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by BamaReturns07 on Aug 9, 2010 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions
sure
but a lot of frankenheimer was like that. dig up his production of days of wine and roses done for playhouse 90 for an incredibly powerful example. the machurian candidate had a lot of wonderful parts but the whole of the film wasn’t nearly more than any of them. personally i thought janet leigh’s spooky love interest was one of the best things about it but it’s almost never mentioned about the film. that she didn’t turn out to be an element of the plot was a seriously overlooked opportunity.
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Afleck was THE BOMB in reindeer games yo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI9F8Xpxhl4
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 2:55 AM CDT up reply actions
"The Departed" was good, but
it was probably Scorsese’s 8th-or-so best movie.
“Taxi Driver,” “After Hours,” Bringing Out the Dead," “Goodfellas,” “Gangs of New York,” “Raging Bull,” “Mean Streets,” “Age of Innocence,” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” are all better ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 12:06 PM CDT up reply actions
i thought raging bull was good but not anywhere near worth the hype. but thats just me.
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+1 for Manchurian Candidate
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Anything by Michael Bay 'cause he makes big Xplosionsssssss!!!!!!!!!!
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thought for a while about this one
in no particular order:
1. Wizard of Oz (my personal favorite)
2. Casablanca
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
4. Easy Rider
5. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick’s best, IMO)
6. The Seven Samurai (been copied by how many?)
7. 8 1/2
9. The Godfather
10. Spirited Away (felt like the list needed something animated)
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 2:42 PM CDT reply actions
had a hard time leaving off:
Rear Window
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Maltese Falcon
Un Chien Andalou
The Shawshank Redemption
City of God
Duck Soup
Blade Runner
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 2:52 PM CDT up reply actions
spirited away and duck soup are inspired choices. both superb films. but instead of houston’s maltese falcon, i’d have to take the treasure of sierra madre.
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No love for City of God?
I highly recommend that movie for anyone who has never seen it.
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 5:10 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm glad to see that Akira Kurosawa and Fellini made a list
Seven Samurai is a phenomenal movie, but so are…
Yojimbo (remade by Sergio Leone as “Fistful of Dollars”)
Rashomon
Ikiru
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa’s version of “MacBeth”)
Kagemusha
Ran (his “King Lear”)
My favorite Fellini film is “Nights of Cabiria”. My wife prefers “La Strada” but I don’t think that characters are likeable enough to stick with the story.
I like this thread...
My top 10 in no particular order
1. Seven
2. Braveheart
3. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
4. Star Wars 4, 5, 6
5. Dumb and Dumber
6. American History X
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Gettysburg
9. Inception
10. The Shawshank Redemption
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Braveheart is
highly underated. It is a really good movie.
I liked Shawshank Redemption the first 20 times it was on TBS but now I am tired of it.
I’m surprised no one has said The Matrix because it will make you think…alot.
And Remember the Titans, Radio, and Blind Side are movies I could watch over and over again. I’m probably too much into sports movies, but The Rookie is also good.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
Saw the Office episode the other day
where Dwight and Angela have an arbitrator helping with their baby-bearing contract. They have a clause in there regarding what to do if it turns out they are in the Matrix. LMAO
I hate Braveheart for being too inaccurate.
It was called the Battle of Stirling Bridge, for crying out loud
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:48 PM CDT up reply actions
semantics…Gettysburg was crazy accurate. So much that it makes me mad just watching it. I was hoping they’d change the ending to us NOT walking over a mile of open field to attack a firmly entrenched union army….but they didn’t..and i cried..
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hmmm... I hate General Sherman as much as the next Southerner,
but I don’t generally refer to Confederate troops as “us”. Do other people?
(You guys can feel free to delete if I’m opening too much of a can of worms. I don’t like worms that much anway.)
like kleph
I had family die for the South and i’ve always considered myself as a long lost Confederate soldier.
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Well
I did have a lot of forefathers fight on the losing side in that war. So, in a way I “lost.”
However, in retrospect I’m actually glad ‘we" lost the War Between The States. Because, if the South wins that one then likely we’d all be speaking either German or Japanesse right now. Although I think a Confederate States of America would have freed the slaves at some point. It was best for all involved for the South to lose the war. I would also argue it is unconstitutional for a state to leave the union. It is kinda like a marriage for which once entered there is no divorce.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
You'd like Braveheart more
if you stopped worrying about some liberties they took with the story. I think the over all point, Scotland High School, who was at least a 70 point underdog, decided to take on the defending national champion England and won when their players gave their all, is what is really important. I mean who cares if they had the final score wrong or they didn’t play on the right field. They won, Scotland beat England in one of the great upsets of all time.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
If Hollywood changed the story so Alabama won the 1979 Sugar Bowl in a 38-31 offensive shootout instead of winning a defensive game with the greatest goal line stand in the history of college football, I’m sure no Alabama diehards would be upset.
I am a history buff. I really don’t know why I watched that movie because I should have seen it coming.
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions
there's just too many good movies to make a top 10
dumb and dumber however, is certainly a movie i’m going to force my kids to watch, along with airplane, ace ventura, caddyshack, fletch, slap shot, and three amigos.
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 2:58 AM CDT up reply actions
My
parents took me to see Dumb and Dumber in Theaters when it first came out. We could barely hear the movie because of all the laughter. It is a comedy classic.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 10, 2010 11:29 AM CDT up reply actions
I can't come up with a top ten, and there's a lot of classic films I haven't seen
But here’s 10 I haven’t seen mentioned.
Halloween – John Carpenter
Road to Perdition – Sam Mendes
Requiem for a Dream – Darren Aronofsky
Reservoir Dogs – Quentin Tarantino
Predator – John McTiernan
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa
Rope – Alfred Hitchcock
Fargo – Coen Brothers
There Will Be Blood – P.T. Anderson
The Graduate – Mike Nichols
Rope
good call
(also with you on Fargo and Reservoir Dogs)
Has anyone mentioned Trainspotting?
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by Wallacewade04 on Aug 9, 2010 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions
also...
you do know that numerous parts of martha coolidge’s valley girl were deliberately written to reference the graduate?
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Like...
…the boy-girl-mom lust triangle?
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 8:43 PM CDT up reply actions
LOVE Road to Perdition.
And if I ever have a kid, I’m going to make him watch Requiem for a Dream… at some point? What’s the appropriate age for scared shitless straight?
If they would show Requiem for a Dream...
….to every 3rd grader in the country there would be no drug problem in this country within 15 years.
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Most of my favorites...
have already been listed. Here’s a few I liked that haven’t been mentioned:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original version)
Escape from Alcatraz
Heat
A Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Casino Royale (yes, the newer one)
i highly urge you
to seek out and watch kind hearts and coronets
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Wow...
you are the second person in as many weeks to mention that movie to me! My sister was telling me about it, also. I’m going to have to watch this now.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Oh yeah
While Joel Schumacher’s made some absolute crap, I think Tigerland is his and Colin Farrell’s best work.
Off the top of my head. I’m sure this list would look different if I had a list of every movie I’d ever seen to review.
Unforgiven
Pan’s Labyrinth
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Dark Knight (the best, most complete cinematic experience I ever had)
Rocky
Jaws
Glory
That’s all I can come up with right now.
trivia time!
what specific allusion to the searchers is included in jaws? (for example. the burning of aunt beru and uncle owen’s home in star wars was deliberately designed to resemble the scene in the searchers when ethan finds his brother’s destroyed homestead.)
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SHARK!!!!
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by BamaReturns07 on Aug 9, 2010 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Ah ha!!!!
Brody’s deputy digging in the sand with his knife, after finding Chrissy dead on the beach, is similar to Ethan Edwards’ reaction when he found Lucy?
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by mrpelicanpants on Aug 9, 2010 7:51 PM CDT up reply actions
better yet, movie quotes is what I get into..like Scene It..
my wife says I am a warehouse of useless information. If only to get paid for it.
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by mrpelicanpants on Aug 9, 2010 7:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Quinn
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 8:45 PM CDT up reply actions
apparently you guys
have been nerds for a very long time.
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Best movies ever made:
1. Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergman
2. La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini
3. The Searchers – John Ford (have to agree with kleph here, for anyone who says John Wayne always plays John Wayne, which is a valid criticism for a lot of his movies, see this. He is pure hatred.)
4. Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder
5. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (cliched, but so so true. Amazing movie.)
6. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock
7. La Notte – Michelangelo Antonioni
8. Ghost Busters – Ivan Reitman
9. Monkey Business – Marx Brothers (Most say Duck Soup is their best, but Monkey Business is just pure unadulterated Marx Bros. brand silly)
10. Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
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interesting
no kubrick?
also, red desert was just re-released on dvd. get it.
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There were so many left off...
….I could have included Spartacus, Sierra Madre (should have, really), Touch of Evil, Suspicion, Dial M for Murder, L’Avventura, The Wild Bunch, Wild Strawberries, Children of Paradise, Heat, The Apostle, For a Few Dollars More, The Stranger, The Third Man, Lady From Shanghai (clearly I like Orson Welles), Donnie Brasco, The Vanishing (original, not the shitty Keifer Sutherland remake with the Hollywood happy ending), Seven Samurai, High Low (Kurosawa does noir=epic), Key Largo, In a Lonely Place (Bogey’s best performance), High Sierra (Bogey’s second best performance), The Asphalt Jungle, Ride the High Country….ok, I need to stop now.
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ANATOMY OF A MURDER...
…how did I leave that off? Seriously y’all, watch this movie. Jimmy Stewart’s finest performance not involving Alfred Hitchcock.
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what i meant was...
kubrick’s visual style was heavily influenced by antonioni and not far off from felini. and i kinda doubt you dug the whole ennuii-woe-is-me philosophy of the italians.
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That's where you are wrong...
….other than Spartacus and maybe Barry Lyndon I don’t much care for Kubrick, but I do dig the ennui of the Italians. Should have included Blow Up, 8 1/2, La Strada, L’eclisse, and I Vitelloni
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i'm stunned
since you despise the same aspects of wim wenders work.
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The difference is...
….the Italians make it seem cool, and Wenders makes it seem douchey and film schoolish.
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not in paris, texas
he doesn’t. (but, yeah, as brilliant as much of wings of desire is, a lot of it is art for art’s sake bullshit)
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Wings of Desire...
….was the first move of his I ever saw, so it pretty well tainted everything else for me. I will begrudgingly admit Paris, Texas annoyed me only a little.
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Sam Sheppard for the MF win
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by BamaReturns07 on Aug 9, 2010 5:10 PM CDT up reply actions
and the italians also had
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni. easily the coolest man who ever lived.
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damn, totally forgot Blow Up, good call
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions
"The Vanishing"
was extremely creepy, but good.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 11:14 AM CDT up reply actions
John Wayne plays himself.
Which is why he is so awesome.
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions
What does it say about...
…the testosterone levels around here that nobody’s brought up Steel Magnolias?
by Queen of the Universe on Aug 9, 2010 3:38 PM CDT reply actions
Well, it's in my top 5...
…but my favorite movie ever is Kicking and Screaming by Noah Baumbach.
And pretty much anything else featuring Parker Posy.
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you want to know the worst thing about losing a foot…?
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I thought...
…she was superb in that film.
But seriously, did you see The House of Yes by Mark Waters? Awesomely f@#!^’d up film.
by Queen of the Universe on Aug 9, 2010 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions
f@#!^’d up...
…is a good way to describe it. Also, she deserves admiration for being in the Christopher Guest mockumentaries, especially Best in Show.
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i loved the uptight yuppie with braces
she would project her own mental issues onto her weimeriener…. best in show was fantastic.
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 3:04 AM CDT up reply actions
I saw Inception yesterday.
It immediately catapulted into my top 10. One of the most brilliant movies I’ve ever seen.
An actual top 10 is tough, so many to choose from. I’d have to echo a few listed here (Casablanca, To Kill A Mockingbird, Unforgiven, Godfather) but there are so many I have loved. Dark Knight, The Departed, Sixth Sense, Raiders of the Lost Ark, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Shawshank Redemption…good Lord, I could do this all day.
i firmly believe
raiders of the lost ark has been done no favors by its sequels.
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it has not...
….though only Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is completely and totally without merit.
As for Inception, saw it over the weekend and as much as I love a good heist movie, was so disappointed by the ending. The entire theater actually groaned, and then started laughing because of it.
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Eh, KOTCS would have been better
without the alien bullshit at the end and Mutt Williams.
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by BamaReturns07 on Aug 9, 2010 4:34 PM CDT up reply actions
kotcs would have been better
it it never happened.
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by kleph on Aug 9, 2010 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
We'd all like to forget what happened to Indy in Peru...
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought the ending was predictable,
but I still laughed in appreciation, not in mocking.
Still though, I don’t think it touched The Dark Knight for me. Dark Knight would be Top 10 for me. Inception’s place in my top 10 is already occupied by the Matrix.
yeah. kubrick was the shiz
gomer pyle, alabama blacksnake, and r lee ermy? c’mon. FMJ is one of the all time best for sure
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 3:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, what you folks said.
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly — still great. And, always brings back memories of my granddad. Back in the ancient times, before VCRs, it came on the ABC Sunday Night movie about once a year. He would never miss it.
Nobody else mentioned American Beauty?
Off-the-beaten-path Coen Brothers — see The Man Who Wasn’t There, if you haven’t. Billy Bob Thornton has said it’s one of his all-time favorites.
i highly reccomend
millers crossing. it’s the spiritual adaptation of one of dashiel hammett’s greatest books, the glass key.
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they're pretty much all good.
except for whatever that garbage with clooney and catherine zeta jones was.
blood simple, o’ brother, lebowski, raising arizona, fargo, no country..
never saw the one with tom hanks from a few years back….
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 3:14 AM CDT up reply actions
The Ladykillers.
I enjoyed it a lot, but other people groaned I think.
Agreed, I love them all except the CZJ one.
Never enough love for Barton Fink though.
Maybe not as quotable as some, but truly wonderfully bizarre.
love that movie
and think it’s one of their best. but i know better than to recommend it to folks.
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Yeah, my buddy was watching all of the Coen Bros movies with his wife;
I told him he might want to let her skip that one if he wanted her to watch the rest. LOL
Man Who Wasn't There...
…definitely an overlooked gem.
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If you ever have the chance,
watch the DVD with the Coen’s commentary turned on. I think it was them and BBT all on there. Pretty hilarious.
Where are the comedies?
It’s hard to say Airplane is one of the ten greatest movies of all time, even though it’s arguably the funniest movie of all time and on a lot of people’s top-10 favorites list. So what comedies would be legit top-10 material? (Maybe some have been listed, but I have no idea what some of these movies are.)
Dr. Strangelove is my favorite comedy
I’d also include Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, This is Spinal Tap, Animal House
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 5:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Blazing Saddles
was one I had in mind as being outrageously funny and more than just funny for funny’s sake.
animal house is badass
i’m tempted to yell “you’re all pathetic and weak!” at people at my work, but i dont think they would get the reference.
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 3:16 AM CDT up reply actions
A few of those are on my list as well…
To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
The Godfather
but I’d have to round out the 10 with
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
The Wizard of Oz
The Natural
Cool Hand Luke
and to throw a comedy in there, either
the original In-laws with Peter Faulk and Alan Arkin, or Monte Python and the Holy Grail.
Cool Hand Luke FTW!
can’t believe I forgot that, one of my all-time favorites
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 9, 2010 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Meet the Fockers
SIKE! I wanted to throw up watching that movie. Good God.
I voted for Kleph and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
Ditto.
I enjoyed Meet the Parents though. So I’m torn about whether to bother seeing Little Fockers, or whatever the new one is called.
On the Waterfront.
Marlon Brando says, “I’m not weird yet. I’m a badass mofo”
I voted for Kleph and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
communist
also, remember the scene where he is sitting in the pidgeon coop, looks at the harbor and sees a ship heading out to sea? it’s the andrea doria.
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by kleph on Aug 9, 2010 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
+1 sir..keen eyes!
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I'm not playing anymore
I barely finished my post and thought of about 10 more I should have said instead. What you should do, Kleph is break it down more. 10 Best sports movies, best black and white movies, best comedies, best horror movies, best war movies best westerns etc. etc…
Yeah
Which is why I put Halloween and Predator on my list. I don’t really think either of those are part of the top 10 or probably even 1000 films of all time, but it irks me to no end that Horror and Action/Sci Fi films are dismissed completely by the Academy Awards, that I felt I needed a representative of each on there.
by Bobby Briggs on Aug 10, 2010 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions
No Way Out
…for a spy movie was pretty good. I hate movies that are predictable and that one reelled me in!
"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way." - Steve Martin
Caddy Shack?
“Cinderella story… Tears in his eyes…
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I haven't come
up with a top 10 yet but Apocalypto will be on it. Mel Gibson made one hell of a movie. It is one of my all time favorite movies.
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Mel Gibson...
…may have gone bitchcakes crazy lately, but The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto are both undeniable masterpieces.
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by Todd on Aug 9, 2010 6:33 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Apocalypto
is an outstanding film. “bitchcakes” I love it!
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Tombstone
is another badass movie but I wouldn’t put it in my top 10. Val Kilmer was the shit in that movie as Doc.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 9, 2010 6:20 PM CDT reply actions
Tombstone
Gone with the Wind
Good Will Hunting
The Program
Scarface
Count of Monte Cristo
Braveheart
Rudy
Fight Club
Ocean’s 11
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by TopDaddy on Aug 9, 2010 6:30 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
also
Anything with jean Claude van damm…
Who’s with me? Lionheart anyone?
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by TopDaddy on Aug 9, 2010 6:33 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Lionheart
is a damn good movie.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 9, 2010 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions
What’s sad is I hate action movies, yet these are my top two favorites of all-time.
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I agree except
for the poker game. It brought the movie to a complete halt, and at a time when the popularity of poker was at an all time high, that problem could have been avoided by making the hands played more realistic and the players act like good poker players. It would be a small flaw if that scene wasn’t so dreadfully long.
This little rant makes me think of a great poker movie…
…Rounders
Rounders
really is an awesome movie.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 9, 2010 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions
It brought the movie to a complete halt, and at a time when the popularity of poker was at an all time high, that problem could have been avoided by making the hands played more realistic and the players act like good poker players. It would be a small flaw if that scene wasn’t so dreadfully long.
Really? I thought the poker game was rather well performed, especially the acting. The intensity that constantly built up between Bond and Le Chifre was phenomenal to say the least.
Sure, each move could almost be predicted if you studied that far into it, but I didn’t think that brought the movie to a halt. I thought it helped springboard it and gave it new life.
Just my opinion, though.
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Great review, Kleph!
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thanks
but i really approach it less as a review than an expository essay. i’m trying to understand how the film works, not tell people if they should go watch it or not.
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OK, here goes my list
1-Original Star Wars trilogy
2-Braveheart
3-Forrest Gump
4-Gone With The Wind
5-Casablanca
6-The Breakfast Club
7-Tombstone
8-Young Guns
9-Rocky
10-Radio/Remember the Titans/Brian’s Song…basically most football movies, except The Bear(that was a major hack job) and Rudy(screw that midget and his damned team).
Those listed above are the movies that I would watch over and over. There are plenty of humor films I left out, like Dumb and Dumber, Kung Pow, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, etc. I also left off my newest favorite movie, The A-Team kiss ass ya’ll.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
As far as pure drama goes, I am a sucker for all Mafia and war movies, and the family dynamic...
Goodfellas
Godfather
Saving Private Ryan
The Notebook-didn’t expect to get roped into that one…my grandma ended up very similar-tragic
The Green Mile
Shutter Island—jury is still out…
Sixth Sense—I kinda knew, but wasnt sure…
Fight Club
Top Gun—-because I was in the Navy, working on F/A-18’s
Full Metal Jacket—Gunny Hartman is the most memorable character ever.
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and while we are on the subject of movies...
click this link right here and behold the greatest movie review ever written.
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oh wow
that was great man…. sphere was fuckin lame too. that was a fabulous review.
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by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 3:21 AM CDT up reply actions
Fightclub
is a damn good movie also.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 9, 2010 9:01 PM CDT reply actions
i like fight club
but i’ve come to the thinking that seven was one of the most influential movies (at least visually) of the 1990s.
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Seven was a great movie, but I've only seen it a couple of times.
I’ll give you that Seven was a better movie and possibly darker (though neither one is exactly a ray of sunshine). Fight club must’ve been more popular because it seems to get referenced (by average movie fans) a lot more.
David Fincher
Seven is a masterpiece, but you can’t go wrong with The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, Benjamin Button, etc. I’m stoked about the The Social Network after the trailer, a concept that seems boring. And anyone should check out the extra long cut of Alien 3, where Fox tries to put back together the film of Fincher’s they butchered. The opening shot is amazing. An interesting note on that, and I believe its still true, when you click on the dvd extras from Fincher’s other films, to see other things he’s done, Alien 3 is never on there. He does his best not to claim it.
by Bobby Briggs on Aug 10, 2010 2:00 PM CDT up reply actions
seven was one of the most influential movies (at least visually) of the 1990s.
i 100% agree. Its my fav of all time
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I vote for "The Longest Yard" for the best sports movie ever . . .
It captures the true essence of sports to me — the movie makes it believable that a bunch of inmates would risk more prison time just for a chance to beat the guards. Few sports movies ever capture the thing about sports that resonates at a human level like the Longest Yard.
(And for best Western — I am duty bound to nominate “Son of Roaring Dan” of course — starring the greatest Western actor of all time — or at least the greatest running back movie star :))
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Letters from Iwo Jima
gotta let Clint get some behind the lens…..Unforgiven… wow… it’ll be a sad day when he passes on.
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Tough to pick such a list, but here it goes,
1. Gone with the Wind
2. La Strada
3. The Godfather
4. Sunset Boulevard (very funny)
5. Elmer Gantry (love Lancaster in this one)
6. Midnight Cowboy (great soundtrack also, love theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU)
7. Platoon —my fav of modern war movies, but Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, ect are all good
8. All Quiet on the Western Front (original)
9. Wizard of Oz
10. Annie Hall (funny stuff, love opening scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxSOnRsNZeY)
in my personal opinion
Full Metal Jacket is the greatest war movie of all time. But im definitely in the minority on that. I thought it was even better than paths of glory and i dont think a lot of people even agree wtih me about that either.
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sports in no order (unless otherwise indicated)
caddyshack
major league
necessary roughness
longest yard
field of dreams
the babe
we are marshall
remember the titans
the program (personal fav in drama category)
slap shot
happy gilmore
any given sunday
61
the natural
and sports movies that sucked: rudy, a league of their own, eddie, the replacements, juwanna man, blue chips, rookie of the year (except for the “funky butt lovin” quote…) the air up there, air bud, ladybugs, air bud 2, every “3 ninjas” (okay wait, martial arts has to be a separate or just a sub category? if it’s a real category the “Musa the warrior” is an actual good movie. badass even….)
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61*
is an underrated sports movie. I got it on DVD. Billy Crystal really did an outstanding job making that movie. My dad and I watched it all the time when it first started coming on HBO.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 10, 2010 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions
The Babe
is also a very good baseball movie. The ending is awesome where John Goodman is coughing up blood, hits those 3 homers, and then throws his hat down in front of the manager, walking off the field for good.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 10, 2010 11:38 AM CDT up reply actions
WTF?
No Bad News Bears? Shameful….
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
The Bad News Bears
The original of course…not the hack job remake with Billy Bob Thornton.
Great movie.
I'm afraid...
…I haven’t seen a lot of the older classics mentioned in this thread (I blame the fact that most of these movies are at least twice my age FWIW), so I’m going to abstain from a top ten list at this time… that said, I have to list two of my favorites that have not been mentioned yet:
Ben-Hur and Memento.
with all the love for the batman movies and inception, it’s nice to see nolan’s earliest work get a not.
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Easily one of my favorite directors...
…it’s sad that I couldn’t convince friends to watch Memento until after Batman Begins had come out and I told them it was by the same director. I also own and enjoyed Following, though I wouldn’t necessarily label it a favorite of mine. The Prestige is definitely a favorite. I thought Inception was overrated, but I did love it.
by CrimsonWraith on Aug 10, 2010 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions
i'm not in accord in the sentiment that the batman movies are his best
they strove far too hard to pack in everything from the source books to have any hope of creating a coherent whole for the films. that said, specific elements of both were absolutely superb.
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have you seen his first movie, Following?
I think its funny how on the main characters door, theres a batman symbol, and theres another character in the movie named Cobb.
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The Prestige is amazing...
….as is his adaptation of Insomnia. I think I’m the only one that liked it.
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Nope, I liked Insomnia a lot.
And loved Memento.
Not really a fan of The Prestige though (if it’s the one I’m thinking of; not sure about that).
The Illusionist
came out around the same time..about the same movie…both good, but, not Oscar-worthy.
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Did it?
Maybe its just my aged addled memory, but I seemed to remember people really not liking it. Maybe it was just the Memento people being weird about it being a fairly straight forward narrative in comparison.
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Not his earliest work I thought
Following is a pretty good black and white film that I believe is his first.
by Bobby Briggs on Aug 10, 2010 2:02 PM CDT up reply actions
My Top Eleven (at the moment):
“Joe Versus the Volcano”
“Bringing Out the Dead”
“After Hours”
“The Man with Two Brains”
“L.A. Story”
“Star Wars”
“Lawrence of Arabia”
“The Gold Rush”
“Seventh Seal”
“Life of Brian”
“Babe”
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 10:51 AM CDT reply actions
And by "Babe"...
I mean the one about the pig.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 10:55 AM CDT up reply actions
LA Story is good.
But I’m just a sucker for Steve Martin. I’d go for The Jerk and Parenthood over LA Story though. Also the Spanish Prisoner, for a more dramatic one.
Spanish Prisoner...
….is a good Mamet talker, but I’ve really gotten to like Shopgirl a lot for serious Martin (helps that he wrote it, I guess).
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"Shopgirl" was a good book...
He also wrote “The Pleasure of My Company.” High quality. I recommend it.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't know. I only saw Shopgirl once and it bored me a little.
Maybe I need to watch it again though.
I like "The Jerk,"
but for me “The Man with Two Brains” is his funniest movie. I could put “Roxanne” on this list as well. “Bowfinger” is very funny, too, as is the classic “Planes Trains and Automobiles,” although he didn’t write that one.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 12:02 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm
gonna give a mention to “The Hangover” also. It is the funniest comedy to come out in years.
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No love anywhere for Flash (i.e. Army of Darkness)?
OK, maybe it’s not a “good” movie, but it sure is fun! :)
Gah!
Sorry, didn’t get enough sleep last night and was done in by the Pain lyrics:
If I could run fast, as fast as the Flash
Or be as cool as Ash in Army of Darkness.
If I were a Gai-King or maybe a Viking,
Stronger than the Thing then I could win the one-legged girl.
Evil Dead 1 & 2
are awesome. Sam Raimi is one of my favorite horror directors. “Spiderman 2” and “Drag Me to Hell” are classics of their genres.
Also a fan of George Romero.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Clerks
and Clerks 2 also are some classic comedy movies. Randall is my favorite character in both movies. Dude is crazy as hell.
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Clerks 2...
….got real gay at the end. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
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I prefer the alternate ending to Clerks... that one changes the whole tenor of the movie.
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by AlabamaJammer on Aug 10, 2010 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I really, really liked
Unforgiven
The Searchers
This one movie with Gregory Peck. I can’t remember the name. He was a Spanish rebel from the Civil War. He dies at the end. It was really good. Omar Shariff was also involved.
Lawrence of Arabia
Twelve Angry Men
North by Northwest
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Doctor Zhivago
The Third Man
Casablanca
On The Waterfront
The Wild One
The Life of Emile Zola
The Godfather
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:45 PM CDT reply actions
Forgot: Cool Hand Luke, The Defiant Ones, Key Largo, and Run Silent, Run Deep
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Behold a Pale Horse was the Peck movie
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Two with Spencer Tracy for good measure: Bad Day at Black Rock and The Seventh Cross
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by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2010 12:50 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Spencer Tracy whips
the Skipper’s(Alan Hale) ass with one arm~! +1 , sir!
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Ha... Nicolas Cage is my favorite actor...
…but I’m not tempted to see that movie. Speaking of Cage, I recommend “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” if you haven’t seen it.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 2:18 PM CDT up reply actions
From a story standpoint, Batman Begins was a billion times better than The Dark Knight, and without a doubt, quite possibly, one of, if not THE best superhero movie ever told. The only advantage The Dark Knight had over Batman Begins was the excitement factor. That’s it.
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And The Joker... how could I forget that? :-)
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That role was
the “one” for Ledger…that role was to him, what The Shining was for Jack.
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And
All the twist. Seriously, when Gordon died I thought I was about to get up and walk out but Nolan went Shyamalan on us.
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I totally disagree
Both were phenomenal stories. Dark Knight was much more relevant to modern society and presented more things you could take and apply in a classroom setting (not film class). I think it’d be a mistake to say that Dark Knight is any more empty of thought or storytelling than Batman Begins – that said, theres a tendency for people to shove BB under the rug in the shadow of Dark Knight.
Seriously though, the comic Dark Knight Returns trumps all.
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speaking of which, great movies based on graphic novels?
Sin City and 300 stuck to source material, but I thought Watchmen, 30 Days of Night, Wanted, and Surrogates pretty much sucked. Alan Moore refuses to have his name attached to either V for Vendetta or Watchman, but he’s also a crackpot who worships a Roman snake god.
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Watchmen...
….was one of the biggest disappointments of my cinematic life.
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by Todd on Aug 10, 2010 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
reppity rep there, son
that book has so much raw potential and they just wasted it. it would have been easier if they stole all of moore and gibbons original sketches and took a big dump on them.
i think “the crow” sets the bar in this category (although i’m not arguing that it’s a great movie).
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Unbreakable
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think anyone has mentioned
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/House of Flying Daggers/Hero
Those movies are so visually stunning and the endings are really powerful.
Crouching Tiger...
….is awesome, House of Flying Daggers and Hero are all style and no substance.
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Not movie related but...
…I just finished watching “Twin Peaks,” and I feel the need to point out how perfect that show is. So…
Best TV Shows:
1) Twin Peaks
2) Veronica Mars, Season 1
3) The Office (Ricky Gervais)
4) Extras
5) Spaced
6) Curb Your Enthusiasm
7) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8) Seinfeld
9) Doctor Who
10) Fawlty Towers
11) Monty Python’s Flying Circus
12) Adventures of Pete & Pete
And "Strangers With Candy"...
I can’t believe I forgot that.
by crimsontsunami on Aug 10, 2010 3:54 PM CDT up reply actions
i highly urge you to get this dvd set
if you’d like to understand the vast potential the medium has and has not met.
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Television-Criterion-Collection/dp/B002M36R1O
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Buffy but no Firefly?
Fail. In my ever so humble opinion, of course.
My wife and I were also huge fans of Veronica Mars, though it certainly went downhill after the first season.
by CrimsonWraith on Aug 10, 2010 6:49 PM CDT up reply actions
I own every season of Buffy...
…yet I could never get into Firefly.
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To each his own
There are very few science fiction shows or movies that I’ve enjoyed watching. Loved the original trilogy of Star Wars and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, but I never got into Star Trek or, well, just about anything else. Based on concept alone, Firefly is something I would’ve never bothered to watch, were it not for Serenity being played for free at a theater while I was stationed in Korea (thank you AAFES). But I saw it there, loved the movie and picked up the show on DVD immediately afterwards. Been a favorite of mine ever since.
Out of sheer curiousity, did you watch it on TV when it first came out or did you try watching it on DVD afterwards? IMO, Fox screwed over Whedon by running The Train Job episode first instead of Whedon’s intended pilot.
by CrimsonWraith on Aug 10, 2010 7:08 PM CDT up reply actions
I watched it on DVD...
….got about five or so episodes in but just couldn’t keep going. Same with the new Battlestar Galactica. I watched the mini-series and maybe the first 5 episodes of the series but I just couldn’t dig it, which is weird because I was (well, am) such a huge sci-fi dork. I mean, I watched Babylon 5 people, that’s hardcore.
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 10, 2010 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I could make a list a mile long...
But I’ll keep it under 20. Not in any particular order…
1. Forrest Gump
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Inception
5. Pretty Woman
6. Bad Boys II (one of the few sequels that was better than the first)
7. Freedom Writers (the teacher in me)
8. A League of Their Own (might be more nostalgic than actual quality since my little sister thought she really was Dottie Henson when she was a catcher in little league)
9. To Kill a Mockingbird (even though the book is 10 times better)
10. Seven
11. Blow
12. Top Gun
13. Memento
14. The Little Mermaid
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A couple others...
The Punisher and Training Day. Both are damn good movies.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 10, 2010 9:27 PM CDT reply actions
If you want a Chick Flick
I suggest Million Dolllar Baby. Of course the chick in that movie dies but still it will make grown men cry.
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wow..
you just ruined that movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it…lol
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Darth Vader
is Lukes father.
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Brad Pit wasn’t Tyler Derden..or was he?
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soylent green
is people
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 11, 2010 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions
The Chick in the crying game?
Don’t let yourself get a stiffy over “her” or you’ll feel dirty for weeks.
Rhett Bulter does give a damn
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Marcellus Wallace's briefcase contains
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by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 11, 2010 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Top ten movies?????
Not possible. Can’t be that limited. Maybe top ten westerns, plus top ten comedies, plus top ten drama . . .
I’d consider putting Unforgiven and the Searchers both in though if I were limited to just ten. Searchers always gets the sentimental nod, but Unforgiven is a well acted piece which moves so well and doesn’t have any corny sidekicks, etc.
if i were being sentimental
i’d say stagecoach which is every bit the masterpiece the searchers is. but it lacks the moral whallop which has enabled the searchers to resound as one of the most influential films ever made.
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but don't get me wrong
it packs quite a punch as well.
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Yeah
The professionals, also a very good film and I never did mind watching the Wild Bunch.
Recently watched Dirty Little Billy with Michael J. POllard for the first time.
Oh, another great western people forget about? McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
Is it just me, or is Searchers completely overrated?
I mean, it was OKAY
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Wait a few years...
and watch it again.
That’s what I did, and picked up a lot the second time around. Aside from cinematography that is still unmatched, it is an amazing study of Wayne’s character. The best scene of the entire movie is at the very last moment, when Wayne does not participate in the welcoming home celebration (sorry for the spoiler). Why not?
it's one i didn't understand the hoopla when i first saw it...
but it certainly stayed under my skin. later i re-watched it and got a better sense of why it was so powerful. here’s my take.
http://kleph.com/blog.php?b=1&e=1090&pg=The+Searchers
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was the same way for me.
The first time I saw it, it had been overhyped. But it grew on me after that.
funny you should mention that...
http://kleph.com/blog.php?b=1&e=1217&pg=The+Treasure+of+the+Sierra+Madre
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How can all y'all's lists be so obviously wrong.
The True Top Ten has capitals and runs thusly:
Salo
M
I know where I’m going
To be or not to be
The marraige of Maria Braun
History of the World, part I
Dr. Strangelove
Fanny and Alexander
My life as a dog
Sullivan’s travels
but including M was very much inspired
it’s certainly in my top 20.
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Salo...
….and Satyricon are the only two movies I’ve ever seen that made me so extremely uncomfortable that I literally felt like a horrible human being for having watched them. I know that’s kind of the point but at the same time, since you referenced Sullivan’s Travels up there, film (and any art) ought to be used to entertain its viewers and give them an escape. I can appreciate the lofty “artistic goals” that a movie like Salo is intended to have, but there’s enough true horror and depravity in the world without it also being fictionalized and splashed on a movie screen (and yes, I know it’s based off of writings by Marquis de Sade). Instead of making a movie to point out the depths of human cruelty, take a camera to Darfur or somewhere else truly desperate and horrifying and see how much more effective you can be at trying to “make a statement” to your audience.
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Top Ten in alphabetical order
Alien
Barry Lyndon
Casablanca
Godfather
High Noon
Jaws
Nights of Cabiria
Seven Samurai
Usual Suspects
Vertigo
I'm going to go ahead and open my mouth and prove myself a fool,
rather than keeping quiet and only having it be assumed… I’ve never seen any of those movies, Kleph. The newest one was made in 1958. Obviously I can’t say that you’re wrong, but I just can’t discuss them directly.
Not being a film student myself, I’ve had much more exposure to newer films. So how about best movies from your lifetime? (Or mine, I was born in ‘75, and I think you’re about the same age? Excuse me if I’m wrong there.)
Off the top of my head, here are some of my favorites that I’ve seen, by decade:
1970s:
The Godfather
French Connection
80s:
Raising Arizona
Parenthood
90s:
Big Lebowski
The Matrix
Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
00s:
Requiem for a Dream
Old School
Road to Perdition
The Dark Knight
…OK, I’m already over 10 there. Clearly I’m not up to this task. :)
Your list shows...
You are clearly up to the task, good list. Maybe a good thing to take away from this excellent thread is a motivation to go see some of these other pre-1975 movies as well. (That and a subscription to Netflix)
After perusing the video store Saturday night,
I realized I left out one of my new favorites: Inglorious Basterds.
With all due apologies, that’s now my favorite Tarantino movie.
Well since we have the 10 Best Movies.....
Shouldn’t it naturally follow to name the 10 Worst Movies of all time as well?
I know everyone is going to jump on Gigli, but I think that Howard the Duck can give any bad movie a true run for its money!!
Might be cheating just a bit...
but, there have been a couple of absolute stinkers on MST3K. I’d nominate “Manos, the Hands of Fate” as one of the worst ever. Of course, the worse the movie the funnier it makes the show.
That's...
…a call for a new thread, boys….
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 13, 2010 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions
BTW...
…this is the list I posted last time we played this game:
-Schindler’s List
-The Godfather
-Star Wars
-The Blues Brothers
-Apocalypse Now
-Raising Arizona
-Harold and Maude
-Malcolm X
-Rear Window
-Casablanca
I realize most of these are major studio productions, and most of them have been made since the 1970s. Since I haven’t seen every film ever made, I won’t say they’re the best ever made. They made my top ten then because I love them all and I think each of them attains a high level of excellence of at least one primary aspect of great filmmaking. If I pondered upon it at length, I may feel compelled to replace a couple of these…but I would still consider them great movies. Reviewing my list now, I’m surprised that Blue Velvet didn’t make the cut. Sorry, Frank…such is life. Happy Sunday to all.
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 15, 2010 12:09 PM CDT reply actions
The Correct Answer
In no particular order:
The Bicycle Thief
On the Waterfront
A Streetcar Named Desire
Godfather, Pt II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Dark Knight
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2001: A Space Odyssey
No Country for Old Men
Cool Hand Luke
HM: Patton
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by troy145 on Aug 16, 2010 2:18 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I am completely
shocked not a single Twilight movie is on anyones list.
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still...
any film boasting paul newman, gene hackman and stockard channing can’t be all bad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119594/
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...and Catherine Deneuve...
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 17, 2010 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm
a huge Gene Hackman fan also. Mississippi Burning, Enemy Of The State, and the original Poiseidon Adventure were all great.
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