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favorite movies (no classics)
65gtoman Offline
#1 Posted:
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I would like you guys to state your favorite movie, but don’t name a classic that everyone knows, pick a movie most people don’t know about, but you love.

My movie is:

Where the Buffalo Roam, staring bill murray and peter boyle 1980

Bill Murray is headed for some bad craziness in this film, portraying the off-the-wall Rolling Stone journalist Hunter S. Thompson who seems unable to keep himself on the straight and narrow path. Peter Boyle is his dangerous attorney who crucifies himself defying draconian drug sentences in court.

Many would know the more popular remake film fear and loathing in vegas.
Cavallo Offline
#2 Posted:
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SMOKE! as in the movie, Smoke, with harvey keitel. only saw it once, years ago, but i really want to watch it again -- i just remember that i loved the heck out of it when i saw it and vowed to own it someday and never got around to it.

hmmmmmm... it's the die-hard romantic in me, but Truly Madly Deeply (aka "the thinking man's GHOST") is a british import from the early 90's i believe. it's one of those make ya laugh/make ya cry kind of stories that will resonate with anyone who's ever loved, lost and loved again. watch it with your wife/gf so you get points for seeing a "chick flick" with her and really enjoying a good movie at the same time. :)

Cold Comfort Farm is a goofy fave, another brit flick, and if you like british humor at all, you should get a lot of chuckles out of this one.

i've liked tarantinos films for guys night with the vcr-- pulp fiction, jackie brown, reservoir dogs are three of my favorites. cohen bros. for laughs -- raising arizona, fargo, etc.
smelly4tay Offline
#3 Posted:
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The Big Lebowski is absolutely my favorite movie ever.

Runners-up, for faves: Willow, Fargo, U-Turn, and Big Trouble in Little China. I can't leave out Casino and Labrynth.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#4 Posted:
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The Razor's Edge
Saving Grace
Bladerunner
Evil Dead/Army of Darkness
tailgater Offline
#5 Posted:
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Not an all-time favorite, but the Princess Bride is a great movie when you simply want to laugh.

delarob Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 06-28-2001
Posts: 5,318
Goodfellas

Warriors

Little Big Man

Kelly's Heroes
billreif Offline
#7 Posted:
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I would also say Princess Bride
then Legend
osuride Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 10-23-2003
Posts: 323
The Last Detail with Jack Nicholson as a brig runner in the U.S. Navy

The Watermelon Man - A hiliarous movie about a White man who wakes up as a Black man
billyjackson Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 08-19-2002
Posts: 2,860
Stand by Me remains my favorite. A movie made from a Stephen King story (not horror).

Speaking of Stephen King, his stories were the foundation of some other pretty damn good non-horro flicks

Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Seems to be another than I can't remember
gerber Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 10-30-2002
Posts: 783
A few of my favorites:

The Name of the Rose
The Ninth Configuration
Smoke Signals
The Haunting (1963 version)
The Innocents
65gtoman Offline
#11 Posted:
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THE WAR OF THE ROSES!!! 1989

Comedy
Barbara and Oliver Rose were the perfect couple--he was a prominent Washington lawyer, she had a wildly successful catering business, they had a great house, great art, great cars and great kids. But when she sues for divorce, this black comedy shows clearly that divorce is war-- and war is hell

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

drnos Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 10-29-2003
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The Big Lebowski?

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man. I'm calmer than you are. These guys are like me, they're pacifists. Obviously, you're not a golfer.

65gtoman Offline
#13 Posted:
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F- It Dude, Let's Go Bowling lol

65gtoman Offline
#14 Posted:
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I like most Billy bob Thornton movies, sling blade and a movie called homegrown are some of his better ones.

coma-one Offline
#15 Posted:
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Reservoir Dogs

Full metal jacket

Toombstone

and ofcoarse LOTR trilogy!!!
JonR Offline
#16 Posted:
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Any Pauly Shore,Jerry Lewis,or Bill Cosby movie. Er excuse me for a minute... BARF..PUKE.. ah that's better. LOL JonR
DrMaddVibe Offline
#17 Posted:
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I see some picks that would be classified as "CLASSICS"...reach deeper!
Sonny_LSU Offline
#18 Posted:
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Conan The Barbarian.......what got the man started.
Braveheart......I know...I know. But, damn if it wasn't great!
rasdas Offline
#19 Posted:
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The Three Amigos....(Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short)...

RasDas

Joe
Charlie Offline
#20 Posted:
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Besides the classics:
"The Usual Suspects"
"Green Mile"
"True Romance"....not a chick flick, but a script by Tarantino, with Tony Scott directing!
"After Hours"
"Eight Men Out"
"Tin Men"

Many others to name, but these come to mind!

Charlie
JonR Offline
#21 Posted:
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Basketball Diaries, Joe, and Scarecrow. JonR
mkraus47 Offline
#22 Posted:
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Ninth Gate
Boondock Saints
Sylance Offline
#23 Posted:
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Any of you see Boondock Saints? It's a fantastic movie that went straight to video.
xibbumbero Offline
#24 Posted:
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Brazil. X
contendertotes Offline
#25 Posted:
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Field of Dreams i guess you'd consider a classic right ? damn good movie !


eddie murphy comedys ....nutty proffesor,doc dolittle and coming to america

other of honorable mention :
steven king....The Stand
Pulp Fiction
Dogma
and of course being a big tolkien fan "The Trilogy" Lord of the rings, The Two Towers and The Return of the king
ceo Offline
#26 Posted:
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The Big Chill
penzt8 Offline
#27 Posted:
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there are so many that I like but I'll limit it to a few

Pale Rider
Unforgiven
Fight Club
Armageddon
KingofSmithville Offline
#28 Posted:
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Groundhog Day ( try to count how many times he relives that same day )
E-Chick Offline
#29 Posted:
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Baron Blood...
E-Chick Offline
#30 Posted:
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Or anything with Seymore Butts in it...
Thom Offline
#31 Posted:
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LOL@ e-chick. "You nasty baby." ala Eddie Murphy.

Favorite movie not many people have heard of...

"Wasabi" With Jean Reno
"The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen."
"Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."
"ET" ---- JK
sketcha Offline
#32 Posted:
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Three Amigos
Trading Places
Spies Like US
Airplane
Back to School
Half Baked
Amazon Women on the Moon
Slap Shot
Snatch
Dazed and Confused

There's just so many...
THL Offline
#33 Posted:
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Caddyshack
Repo-Man
The Quiet Man
Arsenic and Old Lace
00camper Offline
#34 Posted:
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Favorite:
Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins.
Fred Ward. Joel Grey.

Runner Up:
Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Seth Gekko Offline
#35 Posted:
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Sexy Beast w/Ben Kingsley

Pulp Fiction

Fargo

Usual Suspects
Big John Offline
#36 Posted:
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Outlaw Josy Wales
Fletch
Stripes
Blues Brothers

ferd6 Offline
#37 Posted:
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since i cant name Citizen Kane or The Day The Earth Stood Still, how about...
Let It Ride (richard dreyfuss, jennifer tilly)
Harold and Maude (ruth gordon, bud cort)
The Long Kiss Goodnight geena davis, samuel l. jackson)
or The Blood Of Heroes (rutger hauer, joan chen)?
E-Chick Offline
#38 Posted:
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Harold and Maude
coda Offline
#39 Posted:
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Comedy not yet mentioned: "Young Frankenstein".
My wife and I, dating years ago, went to see that sucker 6 or seven times... at a walk-in theater, no less, not a drive-in!
And I've grinned a lot just reading the great movie titles others mentioned.

The Unmentioned Drama: "Barry Lyndon". Incredibly long and slow, it's a fascinating example of Stanley Kubrick's magic.
hoagie55 Offline
#40 Posted:
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She Wore a Yellow ribbon
In Harms Way
The Fightin Kentuckian
Really any John Wayne Movie
Open Range (Kevin Costner, Robert Duval)
The Missing (Kate Blanchet, Tommy Lee Jones)

Do you see a pattern here????
cayman2b Offline
#41 Posted:
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"We were soldiers"
Mel Gibson
Messier11 Offline
#42 Posted:
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"This is my BOOM stick"
Army of Darkness
contendertotes Offline
#43 Posted:
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STAR WARS
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
RETURN OF THE JEDI


didn't care to see the new ones.....just the originals

AJ_CHICAGO Offline
#44 Posted:
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Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh! I can't believe some of the stuff in here. I guess everyone relates to different things. E-Chick...Baron Blood??!! (Truthfully, I don't think I've seen it.) This is like asking, "What's your favorite cigar"? It's the one burning in my hand, of course! I generally don't like watching movies twice 'cause I know what's going to happen! Anyone else like that? Some I have and would watch again every once in awhile:
E.T.
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Alien
Top Gun
You've Got Mail
Failsafe
Tora Tora Tora
10 Commandments
Pretty in Pink
Love Potion No. 9
The Thing
The Keep
Saturday Night Fever
Finding Nemo (love the turtles!)
Little Big Man
Dances with Wolves
Shawshank Redemption
The Exorcist
A Toy Story
Groundhog Day

nfldraftman Offline
#45 Posted:
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Let's see, no 'classics'. That in itself is a subjective term....but let's see, and trying to avoid as much as possible those already mentioned.

*Donnie Darko was a great movie that few people saw.
*Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke (okay that may be a classic - my wife got me a lunchbox from that movie that sits on my desk. I get complimented on it ALL the time)
*Honeymoon In Vegas
*Enter the Dragon
*You've Got Mail (KIDDING!!)
*Aliens
*anything with Nikki Dial in it ;-)
djheater Offline
#46 Posted:
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I'm posting before i read the thread lest it influence my decision. These are the ones I think of offhand:

Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
Glen Ford in - The Fastest Gun Alive
The spaghetti westerns in general and the Kurosawa films they are based on.
David Lynch films in general
Homebrew Offline
#47 Posted:
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Favorite comedy,
The Groove Tube
Favorite sick twisted Cult movie
Clockwork Orange, the guys at work, always stay out of my way, when I come in singing "Singing in the rain." LOL
Eraser Head, runner up

Favorite Twisted Cult Comedy
Tarantinos Four Rooms
Later
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)
Da-Glyde Offline
#48 Posted:
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ANY OF THE THREE INDIANA JONES!!!


AIRPLANE


SCARYMOVIE 2


GIG'EM,

Dan
Buddha Daddy Offline
#49 Posted:
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Homebrew is right about A Clockwork Orange but I can't beleive I didn't see listed here one of the greatest movies that didn't make it at the box office, Harlem Nights. This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
E-Chick Offline
#50 Posted:
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Salem's Lot...
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