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Oh.... the breakfast club...Loved that movie...

ferris bueller´s day off...

Ok granted not in the top ten, but certainly fun and memorable.

What was that tom cruise one where he organises a house party and gets ripped off by a prostitute??

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(Padkapow Guy @ 2005-06-08 09:20:46)

I just breezed through the 10 pages of post so I might have missed it, but I did not see any John Wayne films in there. He is my all time favorite. There is too many to list but a couple of my fav's are.

Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.

Green Berets

Chisum

Sons of Katie Elder

other movies

meet the parents

meet the fockers

something about mary

PKG

Please, I accept anybodies opinion, but PPPPPLLLLLEAAASE ...

Meet the fockers/parents as on of the top ten movies of all time...

I´, I´,

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user has crawled into a corner and started crying.

:D:D:D

I quite liked meet the parents for what it was, best 10 movies of all time, not even close, and I haven't seen meet the fockers yet but I'm guessing that wont make it either. :o

Don't bother bkkmadness...

I watched Meet the Fockers on DVD last night... utter cr@p!

:D

For a comedy it took a long time to get going, and although there were some mildly humerous scenes, I found myself looking forward to the end credits. :D

The other half liked it though... :D

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For a comedy it took a long time to get going, and although there were some mildly humerous scenes, I found myself looking forward to the end credits.  :D

The other half liked it though...  :o

Speaking of comedies, I saw Mr & Mr Smith last night and it wasn't bad at all. Prizzis Honor and War of the Roses were funnier, but this one had more special effects. Sort of a Prizzis Honor for the MTV Generation.

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And why Titanic was never listed??? any idea?

Because it was a crap film?

Not only was it a crap film, but it was awarded Oscar's that should, if quality really was a condition for winning them, have been given to LA CONFIDENTIAL.

I havee to agree with you again TM, especially on the above comment.

Favorite movies of all time is just as impossible as the best music of all time. It will continually change and grow. There is always something that you missed, or simply can't fit on one list. But the few that come to mind easily and stay there:

Sarjit Ray's films: Song of the Little Road; World of Apu; The Unvanquished. Quite simply, the most beautiful films you will ever see. (circa 1950s)

Breaking Away (1979)

Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman

To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck

Taxidriver - Scorcese and Dinero

Dog Day Afternoon - Pacino

To Sir with Love - Poitier

Harold and Maude

American Beauty

Thelma and Louise - first chick road flick where they actually got revenge (Ridley Scott)

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise - Bunel

La Dolce Vita - Fellini

Cassavettes, period.

Megacities - docudrama by a dutch director

Blade Runner - Ridley Scott

Brother from another Planet

Ruthless People - this will gut and split you apart with hysterical laughter

Raising Arizona - Coen brothers

Orlando - quirky but mostly unknown

Psycho - Hitchcock

That's more than 20 films and I am still not finished. I'm a bit of a film freak.

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And definitely not last or least:

Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs

Pulp Fiction - bad muthafcuka Samuel Jackson

The Graduate - Hoffman

Good fellas - Scorcese

I need to stop, but I think it would be criminal negiligence to leave any of these off a list of best films.

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Forbidden Planet

cv

Well done, cv! You're the only other one who's noted this classic I think. Out of curiosity though, there isn't another FB is there? I'm thinking mid 1950s with Robby the Robot FB?

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You know, I have to admit that I've never seen it, which is why I love these kind of lists. Now I'm going to spend the entire week trying to track down a copy of it.

I know the director was the same who did the series "Lost in Space".

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I´ve left one , actually the main one for me, out of this list, accidentally.

Nick Cage, Liz Shue, in Mike Figgis´Leaving Las Vegas.

If any movie has had more impact on me, it must eb this one. In fact, I´m going to go over to the "Films that corrupted you most" thread and post this again.

That movie gave me some direction, somewhat sadly.

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Eyes Wide Shut was a good movie. It's strange (no pun intended) to say it, but they don't make them like that anyumore. Stanley Kubrick presented a minimal amount of story and then maintained a tremendous amount of suspense. Not many directors have the guts to try and pull it off when a movie costs in the 10s of millions and a flop can sour financers on the idea of investing again.

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Come on a bit late on this thread, oh well, here goes

1. Jaws (Robert Shaw perfomance was a classic)

2. Glory

3. Planet of the Apes

4. Close Encounters

5. Up in Smoke

6. Tremors

7. Mad Max 2 (best carchase scenes ,even comapared to today's movies)

8. Spinal Tap

9. Thunderball

10 Zulu

If I had room for one more would put ' Bad Santa' saw it tonight , funniest and most politically incorrect movie I have ever seen . :o

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What ever happened to Robert Deniro, he does some embarrassingly crap roles these days? :o

Kat, you've great taste in movies. I'm always saddened when I see so many great movie lists leaving out the foreign language movies, theres tons of them out there and some have got a uniqueness that america and now the UK seems to have forgotten.

Saying that, really enjoyed Layer Cake, good british gangster flick.

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Forbidden Planet

cv

Well done, cv! You're the only other one who's noted this classic I think. Out of curiosity though, there isn't another FB is there? I'm thinking mid 1950s with Robby the Robot FB?

That was the one I meant. first saw it at a saturday matnee back in the 70s. It was credited by Gene Roddenberry for inspiring him in creating Star Trek.

Oh, a bunch more I forgot.....

Apocolypse Now (Particularly the redux)

Bringing Out The Dead

Goodfellas

Rocky (My #1 favourite of all time)

A Summer Place

Mr Smith Goes To Washington

The Apartment

Brigadoon

Mad Max

National Lampoon's Vacation

The Jerk

Planes Trains & Automobiles

Red Dawn

*Late addition*

Scarfies

Once Were Warriors

Everytime one of you starts a topic like this I wind up spending money on cds and dvds.... stop it! :o

cv

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Forbidden Planet

cv

Well done, cv! You're the only other one who's noted this classic I think. Out of curiosity though, there isn't another FB is there? I'm thinking mid 1950s with Robby the Robot FB?

That was the one I meant. first saw it at a saturday matnee back in the 70s. It was credited by Gene Roddenberry for inspiring him in creating Star Trek.

There is only one.

Synopsis.

Shakespeare's ' The Tempest' is transformed in this landmark science-fiction film with groundbreaking special effects. Space men travel to a planet ruled by the ex-patriot played by Walter Pidgeon, who has built a Kingdom with his daughter and faithful robot Robby. There the good doctor is plagued by his mad quest for knowledge through his ' Brain Booster' machine, and by Freudian 'Monster from the Id' as his daughter discovers other men and learns to kiss. (1956)

Also stars the ageless and timeless Leslie Nielson, with Anne Francis as the daughter.

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What ever happened to Robert Deniro, he does some embarrassingly crap roles these days? :D

they carved out another private jocker from a talented actor

Didn't he run out of money or something? Perhaps got carried away in a Casino :o

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Cassavettes, period.

Jeez. I loved The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Too Late Blues but most of Cassavettes films were really mushy with everyone kissing and hugging each other all the time.

A Woman under the Influence with Gena Rowlands is one of my favorite films. He makes it impossible to keep his characters at a distance, and when you see this film you understand why some people know Gena Rowlands as a brilliant actress.

Kat, you've great taste in movies.

 

Thanks very much.  That's a real compliment.

I'm always saddened when I see so many great movie lists leaving out the foreign language movies, theres tons of them out there and some have got a uniqueness that america and now the UK seems to have forgotten.

Yeah, I know what you mean.  As an American who loves film, I wandered over to the foreign film section very early in life 

Saying that, really enjoyed Layer Cake, good british gangster flick.

I like Mike Leigh's films a lot.

Oh, a bunch more I forgot.....

The Apartment

Brilliant.  Come to think of it, I also meant to include Rear Window.  I love this list because it has dredged up all these scenes from my favorite movies.  I heard that a vendor somewhere in MBK has great expat movie selections.

cv

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