Excellent call on Mulholland Drive" clay!
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Forrest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Field of Dreams
Honorable mentions: Fifth Element, Patton, and Rear Window
That was tough - too many good ones left out.
But those on this list will stop me in my tracks every time - cannot turn away if they come on.
Five Favorite Films
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by Curmudgeon » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:02 am
Shawshank definitely right up there.
As a big sci-fi person from a young age, I liked 5th Element but it was just too campy for me to pin a high rating to. Fun flick all the same.
As a big sci-fi person from a young age, I liked 5th Element but it was just too campy for me to pin a high rating to. Fun flick all the same.
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by dagonz » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:01 pm
I've been lurking for a while here, but this definitely caught my attention.
In no particular order my five faves are:
Godfather I
Godfather II
Animal House
Stripes
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Honorable mentions for:
Brazil
Apocolypse Now
The Manchurian Candidate (the original)
Psycho
Refer Madness
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In no particular order my five faves are:
Godfather I
Godfather II
Animal House
Stripes
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Honorable mentions for:
Brazil
Apocolypse Now
The Manchurian Candidate (the original)
Psycho
Refer Madness
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by Curmudgeon » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:50 pm
I like these threads because I get reminded of films I really like that have just slipped off my list.
Brazil is a good movie, and one of the strangest I've seen.
Blue Velvet stuck me that way also.
Brazil is a good movie, and one of the strangest I've seen.
Blue Velvet stuck me that way also.
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“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am” - Monty Python
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by Cooley » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:19 pm
dagonz wrote: Monty Python's Life of Brian
Yeah, it was difficult for me not to put "Holy Grail" in my own list....
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by travis bickel » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:47 am
That's like asking who's my favorite musician. But it's a challenging question, which I like, so here we go:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Young Frankenstein
4. The Big Sleep tied with Maltese Falcon
5. Blazing Saddles -"it's twue, it's twue!!"
Like Cooley, I love Sgt. York and The Dirty Dozen. I would also list The Great Escape, The Longest Day and Iwo Jima in terms of war films. Oh yeah, All Quiet on the Western Front (the original).
I have to confess to liking the Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies.
Shit, I completely forgot about the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Martin and Lewis and Abbott and Costello (yes, Elvis Costello was a comedian).
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Young Frankenstein
4. The Big Sleep tied with Maltese Falcon
5. Blazing Saddles -"it's twue, it's twue!!"
Like Cooley, I love Sgt. York and The Dirty Dozen. I would also list The Great Escape, The Longest Day and Iwo Jima in terms of war films. Oh yeah, All Quiet on the Western Front (the original).
I have to confess to liking the Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies.
Shit, I completely forgot about the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Martin and Lewis and Abbott and Costello (yes, Elvis Costello was a comedian).
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by Cooley » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:59 am
Cooley wrote:Wow, tough one.
This list is subject to change at a whim, and is in no particular order. I would not call these the "best" films I've seen, but they're probably my favorites.
Clerks
Caddyshack
Sargent York (with Gary Cooper)
Pulp Fiction
The Dirty Dozen
Dude, how did I not put The Big Lebowski into this list? I definitely love that film. I'm not sure I can abide that, I may be out of my element.
Sean of the Dead is another film I consider one of my favorites; definitely my favorite movie to have been released in the few years.
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by Father Wrath » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:55 pm
The list of my five favorite films doesn't exist, but here are five films that I like a lot:
* The American Astronaut
* Blue Velvet
* Twelve Monkeys
* The Silence of the Lambs
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* The American Astronaut
* Blue Velvet
* Twelve Monkeys
* The Silence of the Lambs
* Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo
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