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I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 5:28:35 PM

vincent63

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im a huge movie fan,have been since i was a kid. I've never lost the magical feeling of walking into a movie theatre, even with rising ticket prices and the prices they charge at the concession stand I still go a couple times a month, more than that when the prime movie seasons hit, summer and around thanksgiving until after christmas. Im also in love with the 5 dollar dvd tubs they have set up at Walmart, i've gotten so many old movies there that i remember seeing in the theatre years ago.....anyway, there are certain movies i enjoy so much ive watched them 20 times or more , so many times ive got dialogue memorized....some of those are the omega man , the thing [john carpenter's version, not the original starring james arness before he hit big in gunsmoke] , the fog [another john carpenter classic] , big trouble in little china, the crow , kelly's heroes , the wild bunch [probably sam peckinpah's best picture] , the killer elite [another peckinpah classic] , dog soldiers , man on fire [the denzel washington version] , and quite a few more,,,,,are there any films that speak to you enough that youve watched them numerous times?

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 5:48:20 PM

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I have movies I have watched far more than twenty times! I have my chick or life impowerment movies.. my funny romance... drama, action and a few scary movies that are of the better sort. I love a wide varity and people that have seen my movies all say the same thing. You have some great movies here.

I don't like going to the movies... but cuddled up somewhere... I love to watch many in one sitting. But movies that move me or give me a feel good... oh yes! Just the sound of them, not even watching them... give me whatever feel good I am seeking at that moment.

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 6:33:51 PM

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are there any films that speak to you enough that youve watched them numerous times?

Many, and that's a good way of putting it. To me, the value of movies - perhaps more than any other art form - is that they inform me and teach me things about who I am. When I identify with the characters, watching them confront and resolve conflicts and crises in their lives helps me understand more about how I resolve similar conflicts, and watching them experience joy and passion helps me better understand and appreciate the joys and the passions in my own life. I can get that out of a surprisingly wide variety of movies, as long as the characters are well-written and well-developed. I mentioned earlier today in another thread that I've got over 1200 movies on DVD, but as I think for a moment I realize it's more like 1400 or 1500. Tonight, it's Bridge on The River Kwai; tomorrow, it could be the Bridges of Madison County or the Bridge to Teribitha. I find something different, and something of value, in every one.

I kind of miss the movie-going experience when I was a kid. It's different now. In a way, I think there was something more special about watching films before the VCR and the DVD era. It was more of an occasion, more of a treat. I appreciated it more. I like the fact that I can watch literally almost any movie I can think of just by walking over to the DVD racks and givin' em a spin, but the price of the convenience has come at the cost of some of the magic.

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 6:51:25 PM

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i love movies and have a fav list that i wouldnt know how to begin to write,
my sister was obsessed with the movie lost in space(the shitty one with joey from freinds) and whatched it tons to the point where all my family new pretty much the intire movies diolog of by heart, i hate that movie so much...

one of my fav movies that i own is gangs of newyork, its one im willing to whatch over and over with people if they want to so i can speak along with actors in it probly for the greater portion of it, but in general i tend to get bored with movies before i can memorise them,

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 7:10:36 PM

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heh.
My fav, that I have watched a gadzillion times, is My Geisha, with Yves Montand and Shirley McLaine.
I shoulda known.
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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 7:21:41 PM

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 7:41:04 PM

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for you, i might seriously consider renouncing my citizenship

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 8:08:39 PM

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ORIGINAL: vincent63

im a huge movie fan,have been since i was a kid. I've never lost the magical feeling of walking into a movie theatre, even with rising ticket prices and the prices they charge at the concession stand I still go a couple times a month, more than that when the prime movie seasons hit, summer and around thanksgiving until after christmas. Im also in love with the 5 dollar dvd tubs they have set up at Walmart, i've gotten so many old movies there that i remember seeing in the theatre years ago.....anyway, there are certain movies i enjoy so much ive watched them 20 times or more , so many times ive got dialogue memorized....some of those are the omega man , the thing [john carpenter's version, not the original starring james arness before he hit big in gunsmoke] , the fog [another john carpenter classic] , big trouble in little china, the crow , kelly's heroes , the wild bunch [probably sam peckinpah's best picture] , the killer elite [another peckinpah classic] , dog soldiers , man on fire [the denzel washington version] , and quite a few more,,,,,are there any films that speak to you enough that youve watched them numerous times?

Kelly's Heroes is one of my favorites. And I'm watching The Dirty Dozen right now. I do like most WWII flicks (with the exception of John Wayne movies - I only like him in The Cowboys.)

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 8:13:40 PM

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 10:10:11 PM

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 10:36:07 PM

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vincent63, Oh how we could be friends.

The Following is a List of Movies I think everyone should watch at least once, these are a collection of some of the movies I am Fond of.

In The Name of the Father (If you like Daniel Day you will LOVE THIS)
Father Goose (Great Cary Grant flick)
Anatomy of a Murder (One of Jimmy Stewards Very Best)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (One of the few Wayne Movies I will watch no matter what else is on)
The Crow (After 127 times watching the movie you get what normal people call obsessed)
The Immortel (Spelled wrong on Purpose the movie will annoy the hell out of you but you are better for having watched it)
The Peaseful Warrior (It didn't really change my life like the cover said it would but I liked it anyway)
Who is Cletus Tout? (No one ever saw this movie but GOD IS IT GOOD)
The Station Agent (Cause who doesn't want to Watch Peter Dinkledge look at train abd get drunk and loose it)
Confidence (THE ABSOLUTE BEST CON GAME MOVIE HANDS DOWN)
Snatch (To hear brad pit say Perrywinkle Blue)
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barells
Revolver
Rock-n-rolla (Just had to name all the great Guy Ritchie Films)
The Boondock Saints (To see something very bad happen to the Cat)
Stalag 17 (My Favorite Christmas Movie and the base line for Hogans Hero's)
Legend - Labyrinth - The Dark Crystal (All three in one because you really can't watch one without discussing the others)
Fight Club (Must be seen more than once so you can ask yourself how you didn't know from 6 mins into the movie)
SAW I - V (I know most people see just the blood and Gore but the Story UNDERNEATH IS FUCKING AMAZING)
The Four Feathers (Either Version however I like the Ledger Version To learn what Friendship really means)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Just to discuss is it a Christmas or a Halloween Movie and Drink Jolt Cola)
Sin City (Cause I think Marv is the MAN!)
Dream a little Dream (Favorite Movie ever, The Two Coreys at their Best, Not the Best Movie Ever just My Favorite)
Turk 182! (Civil Disobedience at it's Best)
Near Dark (Best Vampire Movie EVER)
The Puppet Master 1-6 + Retro (Cause what doesn't rock about Puppets Killing people?)
Tombstone (Cause we all know Val Kilmer was sleeping with the Script Girl)
August Rush (It's Okay to Cry.... I did)
Run Lola Run (It's like Speed meets Groundhogs on Crack and with a Hot Chick) Foreign
Moliere (To Understand how a Tragedy can be so funny... or a Comedy so Tragic) Foreign
Pans Labyrinth (There is no place for fantasy in an Ugly world, maybe that's why we seek it so) Foreign
The Orphanage (There are reasons for those bumps in the night we call ghosts) Foreign

Just to name a couple. There are SO MANY MORE

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/27/2009 10:58:12 PM

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i agree with about 80 percent of the above list good job

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 12:35:24 AM

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Silence of the Lambs
Princess Bride
Spinal Tap
Rocky Horror
anything Monty Python (or any of the Pythons)
anything Mel Brooks
Pulp Fiction
Moulin Rouge
Top Gun
Officer and a Gentleman
a boy and his dog
galaxy quest
Dogma
Clerks
Lock, stock, and smoking barrel

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 12:53:12 AM

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Way of the Gun, Diggstown, Shawshank Redemption, Father Goose, Oscar, A Christmas Story

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 3:12:36 AM

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Now, with me, many of the movies I most admire, I also find too emotionally difficult to watch over and over. I keep acquiring movies I love, and not watching them :P, for that reason.

Way of the Gun, that CuriousGirl mentions, is great - by the same guy who wrote The Usual Suspects - but I'd have a hard time watching it again, any time soon. Blue Velvet is genius, but I haven't watched it since seeing it the first two times, in short succession, years ago. Likewise, Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway, and Wild At Heart.

Ichi the Killer - That director is brilliant, you can't stop watching his work! But I have to be up for it, which isn't every day. Oh, Takashi Miike has an SM relationship with his audience, and we are the masochistics. Has anyone else here seen IZO? I want a copy of that!

I sometimes pick up copies of movies that I love but think may not always be available (Oh what a collection I'd have, if I could afford all my favorites!) But same thing with many of them. Flesh and Bone, Bad Guy (Korean), Blue Steel, Red Rock West, Deceiver, True Romance, B. Monkey, Suspect 0, Unleashed, Moonlight Whispers (Japanese), are a few of the slightly more obscure movies or collector's editions, waiting patiently for me in my home, till my urge to watch them overcomes my anticipation of their grueling nature.

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 3:15:21 AM

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...well, and I'm not generally an over-and-over again movie watcher, anyway. But! there are some exceptions.

The live action movies of the Death Note series, I just love. Constantine (now that's one collector's edition I do watch repeatedly). Cruel Intentions and Soapdish are two comedies with an ensemble cast, whose subleties continue to make me notice something new and clever, each time I watch them. Really, they're so tight, they're like a song. I watched Get Shorty and Other People's Money over and over, till I finally got my fill, for the time being. Say Anything, likewise.

The Lone Wolf and Cub series of movies, Japanese. "Ooogami Ito!"

Anytime The Crow, The Princess Bride, or one of the Godfather movies comes on, I'm hooked. Coppola's Dracula. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Mae West or the Marx Brothers, at their best. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey, and the Bruce Lee bio pic, with Jason Scott Lee.

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Now the streets of heaven are laid
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They shine for you, they shine for you,
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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 6:39:30 AM

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ORIGINAL: SteelofUtah

vincent63, Oh how we could be friends.

The Following is a List of Movies I think everyone should watch at least once, these are a collection of some of the movies I am Fond of.

In The Name of the Father (If you like Daniel Day you will LOVE THIS)
Father Goose (Great Cary Grant flick)
Anatomy of a Murder (One of Jimmy Stewards Very Best)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (One of the few Wayne Movies I will watch no matter what else is on)
The Crow (After 127 times watching the movie you get what normal people call obsessed)
The Immortel (Spelled wrong on Purpose the movie will annoy the hell out of you but you are better for having watched it)
The Peaseful Warrior (It didn't really change my life like the cover said it would but I liked it anyway)
Who is Cletus Tout? (No one ever saw this movie but GOD IS IT GOOD)
The Station Agent (Cause who doesn't want to Watch Peter Dinkledge look at train abd get drunk and loose it)
Confidence (THE ABSOLUTE BEST CON GAME MOVIE HANDS DOWN)
Snatch (To hear brad pit say Perrywinkle Blue)
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barells
Revolver
Rock-n-rolla (Just had to name all the great Guy Ritchie Films)
The Boondock Saints (To see something very bad happen to the Cat)
Stalag 17 (My Favorite Christmas Movie and the base line for Hogans Hero's)
Legend - Labyrinth - The Dark Crystal (All three in one because you really can't watch one without discussing the others)
Fight Club (Must be seen more than once so you can ask yourself how you didn't know from 6 mins into the movie)
SAW I - V (I know most people see just the blood and Gore but the Story UNDERNEATH IS FUCKING AMAZING)
The Four Feathers (Either Version however I like the Ledger Version To learn what Friendship really means)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Just to discuss is it a Christmas or a Halloween Movie and Drink Jolt Cola)
Sin City (Cause I think Marv is the MAN!)
Dream a little Dream (Favorite Movie ever, The Two Coreys at their Best, Not the Best Movie Ever just My Favorite)
Turk 182! (Civil Disobedience at it's Best)
Near Dark (Best Vampire Movie EVER)
The Puppet Master 1-6 + Retro (Cause what doesn't rock about Puppets Killing people?)
Tombstone (Cause we all know Val Kilmer was sleeping with the Script Girl)
August Rush (It's Okay to Cry.... I did)
Run Lola Run (It's like Speed meets Groundhogs on Crack and with a Hot Chick) Foreign
Moliere (To Understand how a Tragedy can be so funny... or a Comedy so Tragic) Foreign
Pans Labyrinth (There is no place for fantasy in an Ugly world, maybe that's why we seek it so) Foreign
The Orphanage (There are reasons for those bumps in the night we call ghosts) Foreign

Just to name a couple. There are SO MANY MORE

Steel

i agree, we could be friends,,,in the name of the father is a fantastic film, especially the closing courtroom scene when the note :not to be shown to the defense" is held up....another great daniel day lewis film is last of the mohicans

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 7:13:28 AM

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The last movie I saw in a theater was Black Hawk Down in Georgia, when I was visiting my half brother. He treated my dad and I to the movie. He had seen it a couple times before. Before that the other movie I saw in the theater was True Lies, saw that in LBI, New Jersey. Quite a few years between the two movies, True Lies was shown in a rather large theater, lots of seats, and lot of empty seats, and Black Hawk Down was in a small theater. I was surprised by how much the size of theaters had shrunk. Both were enjoyable, but I rather watch movies at home. You can pause for interruptions, and you can be sure that the only noises to be had can be controlled.

As far as movies:
Matrix, the first one only really, seen that at least 100 times, saw the last two parts a couple of times, but the first was my fave of the series. Not a fan of sci-fi, and the first Matrix had just enough that I wasn't overwhelmed.
Fight Club, seen that about 30 times, and a great movie that is.
Point Break, now there's a movie I've seen roughly 150 times, watched it every other day with friends in the summer of '93 or '94 (I can't believe I forgot the year) I can still watch it through.
Man On Fire and Training Day, seen both at least 30 times each, guess I got a crush on Denzel.
Pulp Fiction, seen that so many times I can just listen to the audio and see the action, I had to have seen that movie more than 200 times.
I've seen Kill Bill 1 & 2, numerous times, wasn't a fan of them the first go round, but after watching them a year after release, I grew to love them and have since watched them all the way through a dozen times.
American History X is a great movie for the black and white "flashback" sequences, and the consequences of actions. Plus Edward Norton reformed in a suit and a slick hairstyle was nice to look at.
I may be one of the few that enjoyed Vanilla Sky, but even though Tom Cruise is in it, that is one of my favorites.

I've seen so many movies, and I am fans of classics, b&w silent movies, some westerns, horror, and a big fan of the revenge screenplays. Comedies are great. Hitchcock films, think I've seen most if not all. Documentaries. I've seen so many movies, forgotten so many, but really love a good movie.

I kinda got man crushes on Denzel Washington, Edward Norton, and Jason Statham, so it's a good bet that any of their movies will have been seen multiple times by me.

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 7:48:38 AM

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i agree with you about both the matrix and kill bill 1 and 2,,,im a huge sci-fi fan and loved the matrix and was really looking forward to the sequels, god did they lose sight of their original visions with the second and third parts,,,and i hated kill bill the first time i watched them, but they have both grown on me...another movie i love, but evidently not alot of other people did, was grindhouse,,didnt like the half about the crazy stunt driver who kills young girls on the road,,,as a matter of fact i blocked the title from my memory, but i loved the phony trailers, the old concession stand commercials, and planet of terror,,,,reminded me of cheesy movies i used to go and see when i was a kid

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RE: I wonder if any of you are like me? - 3/28/2009 7:51:06 AM

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I was watching a film on TV the other day but they cut off the end so now I'm completely in the dark as to who won world war 2.

I can't suspend my disbelief I'm far to disbelieving and the most annoying person to watch a film with.

For example I think Rose Killed Leonardo in Titanic (but we all think that I suppose) by acting like dead weight around his neck rather than getting the life boat when offered. Also that the film "The P..." (forget the name…about magic) has an ending with no logic at all since if there were two brothers doing the act why would the girl end up in care with the nemesis figure. a? a?

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