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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 5:58:27 PM   
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A Few Good Men


*sigh*... And *what* was the name of the lawyer Tom Cruise played? Anyone?



Lt. Kaffee, of course.  I love this movie.  The last courtroom scene is one of my all-time favorites...........luci

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:02:04 PM   
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Yep, Picth black would be on my list too.  The second one to it was ok, but the first had me on edge through out much of the movie.  Love it.

Rosa


I couldn't even watch the second one all the way thru.  It bored the hell out of me.

I liked PB cuz it was so damn unpredictable.  Good ending, too.

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:19:08 PM   
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Psycho
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Casablanca
Hotel Rwanda
Silence of the Lambs
Forest Gump
Die Hard
Saw
Seven
Crimson Tide

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:23:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		These lists seem a little light on the comedy:

Airplane
Stripes
The Blues Brothers

And my all-time favorite movie, of this or any other era:

Groundhog Day


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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:28:40 PM   
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Agree on the Blues Brothers, watching Animal House right now.

I have to say that Snatch and Oh Brother Where Art Thou rank up there for me.

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:39:37 PM   
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Guess Who's Comning to Dinner?
To Have and Have Not
Grease!
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Same Time Next Year
The Gods Must be Crazy
Young Frankenstein
What Dreams May Come
Good Will Hunting
The Usual Suspects
Enemy of the State
To Sir, With Love
The Negotiator
A Mighty Wind
Uncle Buck
Roman Holiday
(Her Majesty) Mrs. Brown
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Slingblade

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:44:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		      Many that would be on my list are already here.  I'll add:

Independence Day
The Mummy
(just fun movies)

Dr Strangelove
Brazil
(strange, but they'll definitely leave you thinking)

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 6:50:01 PM   
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Cinema Paradiso
Like Water for Chocolate
Shall We Dance (the original version)
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
King of Hearts
Volver

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 7:16:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		01. Prospero’s Books (Greenaway) -- There’s simply nothing else like it
02. Hamlet (Branagh) -- Closest film adaptation yet! Sorry, Mel -- not even close...
03. Crash (Cronenberg, Ballard) -- Autoerotic with a twist!
04. The Hudsucker Proxy (Coen Bros.) -- You know, for kids!

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05. Salome’s Last Dance (Russell) -- Merde!
06. Brideshead Revisited (Lindsay-Hogg) -- Either 13 hours of boredom, or perfect bliss!
07. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (Attwood) -- Awoooo!
08. Fight Club (Fincher) -- I am Jack’s smirking revenge.
09. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway) -- Michael Nyman scores!
10. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader) -- Glass scores! With original voice over by Roy Scheider, not the new terrible one by Schrader himself. Blech.
11. Dark City (Proyas) -- stylish, visually stunning
12. Four Rooms (various) -- Combustible Edison scores, my nod to Tarantino & Rodriguez
13. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell) -- The origins of love, or The Banquet!
14. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) -- Eyecandy everywhere you look
15. All That Jazz (Fosse) -- Here’s an american for you
16. Akira (Otomo) -- Pretty much the last of a breed
17. Titus (Taymor) -- Visually stunning
18. Equus (Lumet) -- "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created."
19. Amadeus (Foreman) -- "They’re all so beautiful. Why don’t I have three heads?"
20. 1984 (Radford) -- With the original score please, not this new DVD fake one.
21. The Great Train Robbery (Crichton) -- Lesley Anne-Down, oh my heart be still
22. Bound (Wachowski Bros. and Susie Bright) -- Best lesbian film yet made
23. The Usual Suspects (Singer) -- "Keaton once said, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.’ Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."
24. Dangerous Liaisons (Frears) -- "You see, I have no plans to break down her morals. I WANT her to believe in love and virtue and the sancitity of marriage, and still not be able to stop herself. I want the pleasure of watching her betray everything that is important to her."
25. Latex (Ninn) -- no list is complete without some high production value pornography

Honorable mention:

The Grifters (Frears)
Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
Wild at Heart, Lost Highway (Lynch)
Blade Runner
Croupier
The Matrix (just the first one please)
Elizabeth
Orlando
The Piano

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 7:40:00 PM   
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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 7:45:33 PM   
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Hey, Bruno Ganz always makes me think of the Enki Bilal character "Nikopol" - it can't be an accident!

And boy, that hollywood version sucked so badly. What a stench!

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 7:49:45 PM   
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Abyss

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 7:50:21 PM   
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Everybody said I looked like Solveig Dommartin, but that's incidental. A thing of beauty: I wonder if it would have as strong an impact today?

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:07:25 PM   
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Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind


This one keeps coming up, but damn for my Charlie Kaufman fix I want Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (seen back to back).

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Slingblade


Another good one; forgot about that...

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:10:09 PM   
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11. Dark City (Proyas) -- stylish, visually stunning


Another under-rated movie almost nobody's seen.  Great story, too.  I like it for a lot more than the visuals (although you gotta include Jennifer Connelly in that).

And kittinSol will like it cuz Uncle Carl and Aunt Emma make a subtle cameo.

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:14:47 PM   
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Tombstone is totally great
The Outsider (Tim Daly)
Long Riders (Keachs, Carridines,Quaids)
American Outlaws (Colin F)
Bad Boys I & II
Love Actually
Donnie Darko
Jarhead
The Day After Tomorrow (Jake...yummm)
Brokeback Mountain
Revenge of the Sith
Pitch Black
Chronicles of Riddick
American Psycho
Batman Begins
Highway
Serenity
Road Dogz
Mi Familia
Selena
Benny and Joon
Freejack

I know there are many many more...lol




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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:17:46 PM   
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11. Dark City (Proyas) -- stylish, visually stunning


Another under-rated movie almost nobody's seen.  Great story, too.  I like it for a lot more than the visuals (although you gotta include Jennifer Connelly in that).

And kittinSol will like it cuz Uncle Carl and Aunt Emma make a subtle cameo.



Yet another classic I have to catch up with... if my Death Clock is accurate, I had better hurried, cos I haven't got much time left  !

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:28:40 PM   
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Last Detail

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Unforgiven

Assault on Precinct 13 (the original one directed by John Carpenter.  I didn't care for the remake.)

Escape from New York

The Thing

Beastmaster (I know it's a B-movie, but I watch it everytime it's on.  I actually love B-movies)

Conan the Barbarian

There are a lot more, but I can't remember the all the titles.  As I said I love B-movies, especially science fiction and horror.  There are probably hundreds of those that I would cite if I remembered them.


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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:40:21 PM   
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OK I am sitting here bored, and I would like to get into the minds of some of the folks here on the collarme.com boards, what in  your opinions are some of the best movies you have ever seen? List as many as you like. (porn dosen't count) defining our time, early 70s to present date.


Of course porn counts!!!!

(Porn always counts).

(GAWWWWWWD)....

And you can't limit movie favorites to "70's and older".

That's like saying...:

"There are some substantial movies...but only from Saturday Night Fever" and forward.
 
I think most movies suck (I doubt I'll get any argument there).  I love the popcorn.
 
And the Red Vines.

In answer....Anything with Robert Redford in it.  Anything with Robert Duvall....anything with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Dolly Parton (whom I would screen personally...I'm confident with a little coaching, she could make something of herself in this business).

As to specifics...anything with "Debby", "Dallas" or "Whores from Outer Space" in the title, would suit me fine.

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RE: Great Movies Of Our Time - 7/30/2007 8:49:41 PM   
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These would be movies I'll watch anytime they're on. Only 2 that haven't been mentioned yet...
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Abyss


Look up !!  Post #48 and isn't it hilarious?!??!!

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