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eleltea Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 3:33 AM EST
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Yes, Charlie, I love that movie. I would watch it just for Lucy Liu (take note, Adroomi). Payback is one of those movies I never tire of, along with

Godfather I and II,
Matrix,
Farewell, My Lovely
Beetlejuice
Singin in the Rain
American in Paris
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Mask (Mme Diaz has never looked better, before or after)
Taxi Driver

I don't claim these are the greatest movies ever made, except for The Godfather, which in fact might be, only that I could watch one of these every week. A common denominator in all of them is a great musical score.

What movie(s) have you seen more than any other and seem to never tire of?
GetYourOwn Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 5:04 AM EST
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I generally do not watch movies over and over but anytime I see Jaws on I can watch it. "Back to the Future" was ahead of its time. I can also sit in front of the tube all day and watch Clint Eastwood or John Wayne.
gerber Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 5:31 AM EST
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Can't resist the topic of movies, so I thought I'd add a few other classics that rank high on my watch list:

The Third Man
Touch of Evil
Harvey
The earlier Marx Brothers movies (love Monkey Business)
The Haunting (1963 version)
The Innocents
The Big Sleep (can't resist Bacall and that girl in the bookstore)
Rear Window
Airplane
The Name of the Rose
The Game
The Ninth Configuration (obscure and odd but very satisfying)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
plabonte Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 5:43 AM EST
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Here are some of my "Could watch over and over" category. In no particular order:

Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Road Warrior
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Die Hard
Aliens
American Pie
Shawshenck Redemption
Krull
Lord of the Rings
DrMaddVibe Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 5:43 AM EST
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Suckered me in!!!

I like a lot of movies already listed, but I'll add...

Full Metal Jacket
Apocolypse Now
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Rock
Conair
Raising Arizona
The Professional
The Mechanic
Bullit
The Formula
Goodfellas
The Patriot(Mel Gibson)
Braveheart
Meet The Parents
What About Bob
Kingpin
Christmas In Connecticut(Barbara Stanwyck)
The Wizard of Oz
Shrek
Gone With The Wind
Anything by Alfred Hitchcock

Am I the only one that like James Bond flicks?
Charlie Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 6:56 AM EST
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Anything by Hitchcock......plus:
Godfather I & II
Goodfellas
The Killing
Double Indemnity
The Big Sleep
Maltese Falcon
D.O.A.
Touch of Evil
High Sierra
Mildred Pierce
Laura
This Gun for Hire
Out of the Past
Key Largo
Red Rock West
Red River
Das Boat
Saving Private Ryan
Magnificient Seven
Twelve Angry Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gladiator
LA Confidential
Payback
Gilda
Kiss Me Deadly

I could go on, but I think we are coming with great lists!


SteveS Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 8:59 AM EST
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Lots of good stuff on the lists above ... in no particular order, some of my very favorites of those mentioned are Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Wars, Shawshank Redemption, Bullit, What About Bob, Gone With The Wind, almost anything by Alfred Hitchcock, but particularly North by Northwest, the Godfather Trilogy, The Magnificent Seven and yes, DrMaddVibe, many of the James Bond flicks ...

I would add (again in no particular order), 12 Angry Men, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?", Giant, The Russians Are Coming, The Lion in Winter, One Eyed Jacks, Murder By Death, The French Connection, The Sting, Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Network, Slap Shot (best comedy of the 70s), The Candidate, Bonnie and Clyde, Three Days Of The Condor, Bridge On The River Kwai, The Graduate, All The Presidents Men, Marathon Man, Rain Man, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Usual Suspects, and oh, there are SO many more, but that's a good list except for one ... my favorite movie of all time that almost no one has ever seen ... if you've never seen this, and it's all but certain you have not, do yourself a big favor and rent it at your first opportunity:

A Big Hand For The Little Lady
It stars Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Paul Ford, Kevin McCarthy and Robert Middleton (oldie but goodie lovers might remember him in the ro
SteveS Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 9:01 AM EST
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hmmmm ... the last line got cut off ...

Robert Middleton played Ming The Merciless in that old Flash Gordon series ...

Do see this pic if you never have ... it's really worth watching and has a great surprise ending
plabonte Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 9:18 AM EST
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Charlie and Steve, I haven't heard of half of the movies you guys listed. Are you to old or am I just to young?
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 9:27 AM EST
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plabonte

charlie and steve, may i?

you are too young.
SteveS Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 9:53 AM EST
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LOL ... thank you, Rick ...

Actually, Plabonte while you may be young enough that you didn't have the chance to see these while they were in the theatre, there ARE a few pics on the list I'm not old enough to have seen there either ...

However, you are not too young to rent any of the pics on my list, Charlies list, MaddVibe's list or any of the others above ... and I think it's very safe to say, you've got one hell of a lot of wonderful winter evenings ahead of you ... many of the pics mentioned were Academy Award winners and they were directed by and star some of the all-time Hollywood greats ...

What About Bob, Murder by Death and Slap Shot are comedies you absolutely MUST see ... another comedy that SHOULD have been previously mentioned, but was not is The Couch Trip ... that's from the late 80's so you might remember that one.

I'd watch any of the movies on the lists above any time and be interested ... they're all that good.
Charlie Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 9:53 AM EST
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plabonte, I suggest you take the time to at least investigate "Out of the Past", "Double Indemnity", "Tweleve Angry Men", "12 O'Clock High", "Kiss Me Deadly", "Touch of Evil" and "Casablanca" (left off my first list, but I think this is the greatest movie ever filmed)! All are in black and white, and most are film noir-throw "Laura" into the group! They are all from the 40's and 50's and no, I didn't see them in the theate either, but I am a "student" of great movies-or at least I think I am!

Actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, Gregory Peck are so much better than the leading "men" of today!

Charlie

PS Most of the movies I listed are among the favorites of Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Peter Bogdonavich, Steven Spielberg to name a few!
Charlie Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 10:02 AM EST
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I guess I should also say that I am not being critical of Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks and a few more of the leading men today..........they are great!!! I have a problem with the instant kid stars that are being heralded like the coming of Cary Grant or some one like that! Denzil Washington is one of my favorites, but he is allowing himself to become "type cast" as the angry leading man!

Charlie
jjohnson28 Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 12:06 PM EST
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Some great lists,you mention Slap shot,love it but nobody mentioned "the longest yard" great flick!

OK I've said this before but now has anybody else seen "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" (Sam Peckinpah) With Jason Robards and Stella Stevens?If you haven't,then go out and rent it.IMHO it is one of Peckinpahs best!

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/1912/hogue.html

eleltea Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 12:33 PM EST
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Steve, the young girl in A Lion in Winter is Jane Merrow. She is an old friend of mine, now living in London. I had dinner with her again a couple of years ago at a really nice seafood restaurant there. Thanks for reminding me. I have two copies of Lion and it is about time I saw it again. One of O'Toole's greatest roles, when he looked great, before he emaciated himself with alcohol. Sir Anthony Hopkins first role.
Charlie Offline
#16 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 12:58 PM EST
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Lion In Winter is certainly one of the all time great epic flicks along with two of Sean Connery's greats, "The Man Who Would be King" and "The Wind and the Lion"! I am going to have to begin revisiting some of these classics!

Charlie
BMW Offline
#17 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 3:59 PM EST
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"200 Motels" by Frank Zappa.
Very groundbreaking for it's time and resposnible for opening many doors for other movie makers.

Barry
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#18 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 4:00 PM EST
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just reading these lists warms my heart and brings a little tear. i think the reason this board is so well received is because of shared memories.

the first movie i always buy when ever there is a new format, vcr, lazar, dvd, and who knows what is next is
casablanca. i used to think jose ferrar was the only cyrano until i watched depardieu and derrick jacobi. they take nothing away fro ferrer, but he do interpret cyrano differently.

tuttles of tahiti
phar lapp
easy rider
lassie
american pop
manchurian candidate
purlie (stage play 1982 on video)
shane
dead end (the first of the dead end kids, with bogart in a supporting role that became a leading roll)
quantum leap (the leap home)

i can dup any of these and will be delighted to send anyone anything. the tapes are a buck, the mailing is special video rate, so this is not a trade. help youself.
rick
RknRmnd Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 6:03 PM EST
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Here are a few of many, but movies speak through the ages of time.

Star Wars "the original"
Casablanca - Really, anything with Bogart!
E.T.
Field of Dreams
Far and Away
Die Hard
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
My Fair Lady
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Mission Impossible
The Thomas Crown Affair
Any James Bond
RknRmnd Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 6:05 PM EST
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One More...
Pay It Forward
:o)
E-Chick Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 6:40 PM EST
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Uh, hello? Is this thing on? A few not already mentioned:

COMEDY:
Blazing Saddles
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Paint Your Wagon
Money Pit
Garp
Porky's
Dumb & Dumber

DRAMA:
Ghost
Forrest Gump
Cast Away
One Flew Over The Cookoos(sp?) Nest
Dumb & Dumber

HORROR:
The Shining
Dawn of the Dead
Dumb & Dumber

FAMILY:
White Fang
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Big
Dumb & Dumber

ANIMATED/COMPUTER ANIMATED:
The Little Mermaid
Toy Story
101 Dalmations (the original)
Dumb & Dumber

PORN:
Dumb & Dumber

gerber Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 7:12 PM EST
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Oh my gosh, yes, how could I have forgotten to mention Blazing Saddles in my list? Not only one of the funniest, but ironically, probably the strongest statement against racism on film that I know of.

Two more gems: Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and the post WWII flick The Best Days of Our Lives.
gerber Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 7:12 PM EST
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Oops, actually its The Best Years of Our Lives--and I don't even watch soap operas!
jjohnson28 Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Nov 7 2002, 9:09 PM EST
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E, Paint Your Wagon and One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest are quite frankly also on my all time favorite movies list that I could wacth over and over.Even given the fact that Paint Your Wagon is one of the silliest farkin movies I've ever seen. Great choices!!!
eleltea Offline
#25 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 4:05 AM EST
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Thanks all of you for reminding me of some great movies I left off my list that I need to see again soon.

RknRmnd, I agree with Thomas Crowne Affair, it's a repeater, but the McQueen one. I liked the new one, too, but it doesn't repeat well for me.

Three Days of the Condor, yes! Redford at his best. I have seen that one a dozen times, but not lately. Needed a reminder.
SteveS Offline
#26 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 7:04 AM EST
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eleltea ... not only was "The Lion in Winter" the first film for Anthony Hopkins, it was also the first appearance for Timothy Dalton, Nigel Terry and John Castle. Katherine Hepburn won an Academy Award as best actress and IMHO, O'Toole and the director also deserved to win and the movie should have been best picture.

Verbal jousting between the various characters in is at times absolutely scathing and is something that needs to be seen by the actors of today who are seemingly able to resort only to the use of vulgarity and profanity in order to convey anger and outrage ...



eleltea Offline
#27 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 7:12 AM EST
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Steve, you are so right. The English language soars and sings in that film. I urge everyone to see it. It's as classic as Shakespeare but you don't have to be a scholar to love it.
jjohnson28 Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 8:31 AM EST
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Here's another one I can watch over and over and I doubt any/many of you have seen it.Maybe Echick has?

On any Sunday,about the early days of offroad motorcycling...Great flick,rent it!
E-Chick Offline
#29 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 9:45 AM EST
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E-Chick Offline
#30 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 9:46 AM EST
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I hate when that happens!

Jim, yeah that IS a good one...

I totally forgot to add Papillon(sp?) to my list...I never miss it when it's on.
plabonte Offline
#31 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 11:10 AM EST
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RknRmnd, Far and Away should have been on my list as well. Great movie.

Thanks for the help guys. I seriously doubt if our video store has a lot of these. But I think i'll print out this list and check the cable stations. TCM (Turner Clasic Movies I think) probably will have a lot of these on sooner or later.

I'd be remis if I didn't add two of my wife's favorite movies:

The parent trap (the original with Hale Mills)
The Farmer's Daughter (older b/w film)
DrMaddVibe Offline
#32 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 11:47 AM EST
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I forgot my personal all-time favorite movie!

The Razor's Edge with Bill Murray. The laughs are few and far in-between, but it did win Best Cinematography award for a reason.

I saw the original, and this one really captured it better!

I saw the original Ocean's 11 too, and I like the remake 100x better!

Save an aisle seat for me!
Charlie Offline
#33 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 1:19 PM EST
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Funny on all the lists, I do not remember seeing "Sunset Boulevard" or "Stalag 17" both great William Holden roles! I had left them off of mine, but that was an oversite!

Charlie
Charlie Offline
#34 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 1:21 PM EST
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Vibe, speaking of Bill Murray, my favorite Murray flicks would be : "Groundhog Day" and "What About Bob" both are hilarious!

C
jjohnson28 Offline
#35 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 1:50 PM EST
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STRIPES and Ghostbusters #1....I'll bet my kid has Ghostbusters,I'm gonna go rent Stripes tonight on the way home."thats a fact Jack".
RknRmnd Offline
#36 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 7:34 PM EST
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Don't forget Mr. Destiny... shows the soft side as well
RJ
rayder1 Offline
#37 Posted: Fri, Nov 8 2002, 11:52 PM EST
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My turn to jump in:

Patton
The Longest Day
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Pearl Harbor
Tora Tora Tora
Midway
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
" " " " Life of Brian
all James Bond Movies (except anything with Timothy Dalton)
The Green Berets
Apocolypse Now
A Bridge too Far
Guns of Navarrone
The Great Escape
The Big Red One
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry
Star Wars (all)
Star Trek (all)


I guess I have a slightly violent spin to my choices. These movies work well to keep kids out of the room and the wife shaking her head.
eleltea Offline
#38 Posted: Sat, Nov 9 2002, 3:07 AM EST
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Thomas Crowne Affair both had musical scores by Michel LeGrand, who also composed the music for The Summer of '42.

Bernard Herrman wrote the score for The Day the Earth Stood Still (still one of the best sci-fi's of all times and another I can see over and over) and the score for Taxi Driver. What a stretch!

David Raksin composed Laura and the score for The Bad and the Beautiful.

Some wonderful music has been composed for the screen.
xibbumbero Offline
#39 Posted: Sat, Nov 9 2002, 3:46 PM EST
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Gort...klatu vorada nictu. X
RknRmnd Offline
#40 Posted: Sat, Nov 9 2002, 4:02 PM EST
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No Kidding eleltea, one of my favorite music scores was on a more recent movie Gladiator!
eleltea Offline
#41 Posted: Sat, Nov 9 2002, 5:44 PM EST
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X knows how to keep Gort from zapping everybody. How many times have you seen it, X?
xibbumbero Offline
#42 Posted: Sat, Nov 9 2002, 6:22 PM EST
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Sober...once as a kid. X
eleltea Offline
#43 Posted: Sun, Nov 10 2002, 12:53 PM EST
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You can memorize dialogue in an unknown tongue when you are drunk? Come on, man. . . .

By the way,

Squa Tront!
xibbumbero Offline
#44 Posted: Sun, Nov 10 2002, 2:53 PM EST
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SAME to ya LLT,only double. X
joemar4 Offline
#45 Posted: Sun, Nov 10 2002, 3:18 PM EST
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I don't believe nobodys mentioned "Animal House"

Thats John Belushi at his best!!
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