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Post by jefflynnenut on Sept 25, 2014 16:19:52 GMT
1. Saving private Ryan. 2. E.T. 3. Starwars trilogy ('77-83) 4. Close encounters of the third kind. 7. Saving private Ryan. 8. Dead mans shoes. (Paddy Considine). 9. Pulp fiction. 10. Beetlejuice.
Feck y'all anyway I know the minute I press the done button I will be screaming another one I should have down!!!
Oh ye!!! 11. Bullitt.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 25, 2014 16:34:07 GMT
First of all, a disclaimer: I'm a bit of a freak when it comes to movies seen. Mi family wasn't exactly rich when I was young so there was only one TV in the house and it was in my parent's bedroom (and it didn't have cable, only 5 air channels). That means that during all of my childhood and most of my teenage I wasn't able to watch movies more than rarely at home, and most times it was at my friends or cousin's place. As a result, I haven't seen all those movies that everyone saw (Rambos, Rockys, Star Wars, etc...) so to this day my friends still consider me a strange guy in that aspect, and I can say I'm very ignorant compared to anyone here or anywhere.
That being said, my top 3 is:
- Super cool: never a movie made me laugh so hard. - Gladiator: great movie, you empathize a lot with the main character. - Neverending story: I saw it many times during my childhood so it definitely holds a special place.
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Post by Horacewimp on Sept 25, 2014 17:04:33 GMT
1) Airplane 2) Airplane 2 3) Borat I only like comedy films
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Post by BSJ on Sept 25, 2014 17:20:18 GMT
All Monty Python
...I'm not dead yet
Spinal Tap
Fargo
Casino
Goodfellas
A Christmas Story
My Cousin Vinnie
Moon Struck
China Town
Cool Hand Luke
Most of James Bond
Most of Star Wars & Star Trek
Dirty Harry
High Plains Drifter
Pulp Fiction
Forest Gump
Lion King
Grease
Shawshank Red. on and on...
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Post by 88keys on Sept 25, 2014 17:37:29 GMT
That's one of those movies I'll watch every time it pops up on TCM, or other various cable channels. The "Plastic Jesus" scene just puts me away.
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Post by queenofthehours on Sept 25, 2014 17:45:19 GMT
9 - The Poseidon Adventure (1972, Ronald Neame) One of my guilty pleasure movies. When I was about 10 I'd want to watch this on video almost everyday. 27 - Scrooged (1988, Richard Donner) My favourite Xmas movie. Bill Murray makes it an 80s masterpiece. 8. Dead mans shoes. (Paddy Considine). Paddy: I wouldn't say he was my most favourite modern actor but he's definitely in the Top 1. - Neverending story: I saw it many times during my childhood so it definitely holds a special place. I watched this movie so many times as a kid my mother now has a phobia about it. Artax's death makes me well up just by thinking about it.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 25, 2014 17:51:19 GMT
- Neverending story: I saw it many times during my childhood so it definitely holds a special place. I watched this movie so many times as a kid my mother now has a phobia about it. Artax's death makes me well up just by thinking about it. Same here, except that the part that obsessed me the most was G'mork's appearance in the cave. You're just about my age so it's definitely something characteristic of our litter. I'm sure it doesn't mean as much for people 5 years older or 5 years younger.
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Post by queenofthehours on Sept 25, 2014 18:57:03 GMT
I watched this movie so many times as a kid my mother now has a phobia about it. Artax's death makes me well up just by thinking about it. Same here, except that the part that obsessed me the most was G'mork's appearance in the cave. You're just about my age so it's definitely something characteristic of our litter. I'm sure it doesn't mean as much for people 5 years older or 5 years younger. I didn't know it was called G'mork. That was one scary beast. I still don't understand the story, after all these years.
I think the characteristic is that you needed to be at the right, impressionable age, when it was first broadcast on TV. That would have been around the late 80s and age 5 or 6 is a very impressionable age indeed.
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Post by Horacewimp on Sept 25, 2014 19:07:08 GMT
Don't know if I should admit this but I've got Neverending Story sung in French by Limahl on 7" vinyl
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 25, 2014 19:17:12 GMT
SPOILER ALERT. Briefly, the story goes that the land of Fantasia and all of it's creatures happened and existed in the minds of the humans who read that book (in this case, Bastian) and thanks to them imagining those lands and creatures. At the same time, there was a dark force called "the Nothing" who was fighting to empty the people's minds from all of those dreams, fantasies and hopes so as to be able to control them more easily. Atreyu had the ultimate mission to make Sebastian believe in his fantasies by having him follow him in all the adventures he got into (although Atreyu himself didn't know it and though he was just looking for a new name for the Empress), while G'mork had been commissioned to help the Nothing by killing Atreyu. At the end, Atreyu thinks he has failed but the Empress tells him that it wasn't so, because thanks to him Bastian now believed in Fantasia stronger than ever.
As you must have already noticed, both my avatar and the quote you can find below belong to that movie.
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Post by Buttler on Sept 25, 2014 19:29:28 GMT
Round Three
51 - Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner) 52 - Capricorn One (1978, Peter Hyams) 53 - Uncommon Valor (1983, Ted Kotcheff) 54 - Escape to Victory (1981, John Huston) 55 - Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick) 56 - Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman) 57 - Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) 58 - Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante) 59 - Big Trouble In Little China (1986, John Carpenter) 60 - Heat (1995, Michael Mann) 61 - Identity (2003, James Mangold) 62 - The Usual Suspects (1995, Bryan Singer) 63 - The 13th Warrior (1999, John McTiernan) 64 - The Virgin Suicides (1999, Sofia Coppola) 65 - The Great Dictator (B/W) (1940, Charlie Chaplin) 66 - The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel and Ethan Coen) 67 - The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) 68 - Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg) 69 - Airplane! (1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Robert Hays) 70 - The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Joel and Ethan Coen) 71 - The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin) 72 - Land of Plenty (2004, Wim Wenders) 73 - Lady Hawke (1985, Richard Donner) 74 - Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) 75 - The Cider House Rules (1999, Lasse Hallstrom)
Round Four
76 - House of Sand and Fog (2003, Vadim Perelman) 77 - Lost In Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola) 78 - Man on Fire (2004, Tony Scott) 79 - Million Dollar Baby (2004, Clint Eastwood) 80 - Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch) 81 - Mystic River (2003, Clint Eastwood) 82 - Nameless (1999, Jaume Balaguerò) 83 - Nikita (1990, Luc Besson) 84 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) 85 - No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen) 86 - Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone) 87 - Predator (1987, John McTiernan) 88 - The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser) 89 - Total Recall (1990, Paul Verhoeven) 90 - Robocop (1987, Paul Verhoeven) 91 - Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) 92 - Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) 93 - Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polanski) 94 - Session 9 (2001, Brad Anderson) 95 - Seven (1995, David Fincher) 96 - The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) 97 - Sweet November (2001, Pat O'Connor) 98 - The Beach (2000, Danny Boyle) 99 - The Blair Witch Project (1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) 100 - The Bourn Identity (2002, Doug Liman)
Round Five
101 - The Butterfly Effect (2004, Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber) 102 - The Call (2003, Takashi Mike) 103 - The Commitments (1991, Alan Parker) 104 - The Crow (1994, Alex Proyas) 105 - The Game (1997, David Fincher) 106 - Falling Down (1993, Joel Schumacher) 107 - The Ring (2002, Gore Verbinski) 108 - The Skeleton Key (2005, Iain Softley) 109 - The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky) 110 - Top Gun (1986, Tony Scott) 111 - Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) 112 - The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma) 113 - Training Day (2001, Antoine Fuqua) 114 - Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999, Pedro Almodòvar) 115 - Moon (2009, Duncan Jones) 116 - Shine (1996, Scott Hicks) 117 - The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner) 118 - Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) 119 - Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (1972, Werner Herzog) 120 - Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir) 121 - Awakenings (1990, Penny Marshall) 122 - The Ultimate Warrior (1975, Robert Clouse) 123 - The Warriors (1979, Walter Hill) 124 - I Am Legend (2007, Francis Lawrence) 125 - Forrest Gump (1984, Robert Zemeckis)
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Post by jefflynnenut on Sept 25, 2014 19:32:29 GMT
I was meant to put the green mile as no. 7 but forgot! B.T.W. Helmut....the no T.V. explains alot about the anger! Bahahaha for those who don't know what I'm talking about reat the "another OOTB review" page! OH AND BTW! YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF FREAKS! BAHAHAHA!
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Post by BSJ on Sept 25, 2014 19:39:35 GMT
I was meant to put the green mile as no. 7 but forgot! B.T.W. Helmut....the no T.V. explains alot about the anger! Bahahaha for those who don't know what I'm talking about reat the "another OOTB review" page! OH AND BTW! YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF FREAKS! BAHAHAHA! Be kind Dude. We didn't have a TV for over a year. How embarrassing having to go to a classmates house to watch a show given for homework!
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 25, 2014 20:12:35 GMT
I was meant to put the green mile as no. 7 but forgot! B.T.W. Helmut....the no T.V. explains alot about the anger! Bahahaha for those who don't know what I'm talking about reat the "another OOTB review" page! OH AND BTW! YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF FREAKS! BAHAHAHA! So you are saying my tendency to easily fall into uncontrollable rage could have it's genesis in not having had a TV at my disposal when I was a kid? It could be, but nowadays I have a beautiful TV set and that tendency hasn't disappeared nor decreased much. In fact, if you dare call me freak once again I'll... I'll better go watch TV.
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Post by jefflynnenut on Sept 25, 2014 20:31:56 GMT
I was meant to put the green mile as no. 7 but forgot! B.T.W. Helmut....the no T.V. explains alot about the anger! Bahahaha for those who don't know what I'm talking about reat the "another OOTB review" page! OH AND BTW! YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF FREAKS! BAHAHAHA! So you are saying my tendency to easily fall into uncontrollable rage could have it's genesis in not having had a TV at my disposal when I was a kid? It could be, but nowadays I have a beautiful TV set and that tendency hasn't disappeared nor decreased much. In fact, if you dare call me freak once again I'll... I'll better go watch TV. Love, peace and fear my brother of another mother! ;-)
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