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Not sure I can say what is my absolute favorite..I like a wide range of movies...but I bought the "Saving Private Ryan" DVD...and have been putting off watching it for awhile, because I heard it was somewhat disturbing. But I finally watched it last night. Man...what a great movie...gorey, emotional, inspiring, troubling.
I'm sure most people have already seen it, but it was my first viewing. I highly recommend watching the commentary under the "Extras" category if you buy it. It has some great interviews with actual vets. I salute them all and have a renewed respect for their bravery and what they did for the country and world.
Those guys have a courage I'm not sure I could have mustered. What great American Heros.
The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven and a host of others top my list as well.
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Somewhere near the top of my list would be: Life as a House with Kevin Klien, never heard about it, just picked it up at the video store one day.... Now one of my favorite's
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1984, CONSPIRACY THEARY, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, STEPHEN KINGS "'THE STAND", and all the ed wood movies.
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Good ones! I forgot about Scent of a Woman...that was good. Risky Business, and a Fish Called Wanda were good too. Unforgiven, Tombstone, Breakdown I liked too.
Here's one that might not seem like a "guy" type flick, but I thought it was very funny...."Legally Blonde". I watch way too many movies....
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Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile My Cousin Vinny The Other Sister On Golden Pond Tombstone (that's the one with Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday I think) The Usual Suspects. The Piano Planes Trains and Automobiles True Lies Airplane Annie Hall To Sir with Love African Queen The Shootist Heat Terms of Endearment Blackboard Jungle Terminator Chapter Two Scent of a Woman As Good as it Gets The Score
Many others that are not coming to mind right now.
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The Blues Brothers Gone in 60 Seconds (original) Vanishing Point Raising Arizona The Rocketeer Toy Story...
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Today is a great day in the history of the cinema: It's today that you can buy MONSTERS, INC. in video!!! One of the best disney's animation movie along with TOY STORY both 1 & 2.
Sorry guys but my favourite movie is an intellectual one: CHRISTMAS VACATION. TRADING PLACES was a good one also.
Now I'm heading to Wal-Mart to get my dvd of Monsters, inc.!!!
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Westerns: I like Unforgiven, The Quick and the Dead, and Tombstone (Val Kilmer made the movie).
Adventure: Point Break (seen it 40 something times), and Highlander (seen it 15 or 20 times).
Comedy: Robin Hood, Men in Tights, or Blazing Saddles, or any Mel Brooks movie really.
As someone mentioned earlier, Brother Where Art Thou and My Dog Skip were shot down around Yazoo City where my wife is from.
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Hellhounds On My Trail (The Afterlife of Robert Johnson) Six-String Samurai Duel (Dennis Weaver vs. Peterbilt)
followed closely by a few others nobody's mentioned yet;
Blood Simple Pulp Fiction Little Big Man Waterhole #3 A Big Hand For The Little Lady Young Frankenstein Repo Man Mad Max plus a bunch of those old &/or little-known late night films on TV that I never caught the name of
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Tied for second- both Austin Powers' movies- they are hysterical. yES, YES, I know they are not exactly intellectual, but...
Saving Private Ryan was a sleeper- I thought it would hum, but it was a great movie. I've seen several in the last few months that were great, but I can't remember them (so I guess they were only SO great...). More intellectual movies are in this "thirds" list- great but not on the tip of my tongue.
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Forest Gump is way up there... Total Recall, the original Rambo, Driving miss Daisy, Christmas Vacation, A beautiful Mind.... It can go on forever... and Debbie does Dallas.. lets not forget that Family Classic... heh heh.. just kidd'n
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Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile Driving Miss Daisy Unforgiven The Godfather (all of them) Scarface Blow Forest Gump
and probably at lot more, just can't remember
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Matrix (more I watch it more I find new dimensions in it) Lord of the Rings (eagerly waiting The Two Towers) Shrek
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I can't believe it, no Star Wars! Aaaaargh Well here goes:
Star Wars- Hey I was 15 when it came out! The Quiet Man-Best date movie Princess Bride-inconcievable! The Shootist-John Wayne, what can I say Tombstone-"skin it!skin tht smokewagon and see what happens" I love that line! Raiders of the Lost Ark-Old School Action The Color Purple-Cursed movie makes me cry! Forrest Gump-I can relate Willow-Outta the way peck!-I love that line too! Toy Story 1 & 2-I love the cowgirl doll (Jessie), if only I can meet her in real life Born on the 4th of July-Tom Cruise should have won the oscar for it. Shindlers List-Inspiring Valley Girl-I lived this life
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Frequency Shaft (the remake with Samuel L. Jackson) What Things May Come w/Robin Williams Dave w/Kevin Kline Bull Durham The Shining w/Jack Nicholson (anything w/ Nicholson) including Chinatown! Being There w/Peter Sellers Analyze This w/Robert DeNiro (anything with DeNiro!) Sleeper w/Woody Allen (stupid, but good) Apollo 13 (I'd hoped for years they'd make a movie about the failed moonshot! I remember vividly that drama as it was unfolding in real life. Opie did a great job with it.)
By the way, it's a good thing the question wasn't "What's your least favorite movie?" Can you imagine the bandwidth used up on that one?
There are 1000 bad movies that hit the theaters for every good one....and 10,000 bad ones for every great one. Gotta wonder how these guys put out such junk and still make fortunes! It's one of the wonders of the world today. (Maybe we're in the wrong business.)
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Falling Down- Micheal Douglas rocked in this movie! The Matrix Pulp Fiction The Shining The Crow Twinners Night Breed
For me, the darker the movie the better. As for Rob, well his taste don't run like mine
Blazing Saddles Monty Python and The Holy Grail Caddyshack and the claymation movies with the little dog, done by the guy who made Chicken Run and the Chevron car commercials (we own these movies and I can't even remember the names of them).
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Meet me in St.Louis, saw it in 1948 in Chicago. It was a musical, loved it and fell in love with Margaret O'Brian, a child star, I was 8 yrs old. Moving on..... The Emerald Forest What about BOB ? Pulp Fiction and yes, Mark Fair and Steve Purcell, I'm with you 1000% on the SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS from O' Brother where art thou? By the way... that is an acronym. Hmmm?
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Out of Africa The Big Chill The Godfather I & II My Cousin Vinny (yea, and you blend!)
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Gladiator Bullit The Great Escape (both Steve McQueen the coolest bloke ever) Brassed Off Star Wars Aliens (IMO better than Alien) The Mummy & The Mummy Returns Platoon Top Gun (just for the laugh that I got watching lots of drunken lads in pubs singing "you've lost that loving feeling" for months afterwards) Shawshank Green Mile Pythons "Life of Brian" & "Holy Grail" Anything with Sandra Bullock in dont care if she made "Watching paint dry with Sandra Bullock" i'd buy it
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I rented 'i am sam' starring Sean Penn...man, what a great film!!!!! (get a BIG box of tissues!)
among the top of my list...
3 Lives of Tomasina So I married an ax murderer Sleepless in Seattle The incredible Mr Limpet Being Human Monty Python and the Holy Grail Braveheart Tim All the Mad Max films The other Sister When Harry met Sally Uncle Buck
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One Flew over the CoCo's Nest The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Cat Ballou Blues Brothers 1 & 2 Independence Day Godfather 1 & 2 Cool Hand Luck The Great Escape Red Dawn Saving Pvt Ryan Rush Hour 1 & 2 A Man called Horse Jerimiah Johnson Dances with Wolves The Longest Day The Right Stuff
Radio Days Chocolat Amelie Jackie Brown Godfather I and II Lord of the Rings Casablanca The Women The Big Sleep The Maltese Falcon Death on the Nile Murder on the Orient Express To Kill a Mockingbird A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Jagged Edge Pollyanna When Harry Met Sally Hannah and her Sisters Love and Death The Thin Man A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy Reds The Big Easy Scrooge The Little Foxes Shadow of a Doubt Rope Rear Window Looking for Richard The Omen 1776 Practical Magic Get Shorty Out of Sight Raiders of the Lost Ark Anything with William Powell " Robert Montgomery " Norma Shearer
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Wages of Fear ...an obscure foreign flick that's only shown on PBS
Cool Hand Luke... I watch it every time it's on "Shakin" it up here Boss " North by Northwest Vertigo Rear Window The Man Who Knew to Much ...OK OK ALL HITCHCOCK movies Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( original ) Body Heat ( pant, pant, pant ) Twelve Angry Men Wild at Heart Fargo African Queen Deer Hunter American Grafitti
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