eleltea
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23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
plabonte

charlie and steve, may i?

you are too young.
SteveS
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
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23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
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23 years ago
"200 Motels" by Frank Zappa.
Very groundbreaking for it's time and resposnible for opening many doors for other movie makers.

Barry
RICKAMAVEN
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
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
23 years ago
One More...
Pay It Forward
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