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Great Movies - 11/12/2011 2:06:51 PM   
hausboy


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What are YOUR great movies?  I'm not talking about the kind of movie that you leave and say, "hey ...good movie...wanna go get a burrito?" I'm talking about the movies that knock your socks off.  the ones that you talk about for days...and make you want to see them again....
Here's a few of my favorite contemporary movies...not in any particular order...although Wings of Desire is always tops for me

1. Wings of Desire
2. Slingblade
3. Amadeus
4. The Triplets of Belleville
5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6. Bladerunner
7. Boys Don't Cry  (couldn't watch it twice, but it was exceptionally powerful. yep. I have a bias on this one)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 2:24:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I agree with you, hausboy, on Amadeus and Cuckoo's Nest, defintely two of the greatest. I haven't seen the others you listed, but, given your good taste, they're probably awesome, too. :)

Some other ones that come to mind are probably ones that are probably considered pretty hokie or overdone by most, and I agree with some of those, but they did have the effect on me that you asked about, so I'm listing them. Some of those include Patch Adams, Shawshank Redemption, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Lake House, the old classics An Affair to Remember and Singing in the Rain. I like any movie that makes me think....as well as those where I didn't have to think at all. I probably have watched a lot more of those, lol.

There are more, I'm sure, but these are the ones that immediately popped into my mind.

*edited because there is no 'b' in redemption

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 2:35:03 PM   
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Godfather pt ii
Diva
Battle Royale
La Femme Nikita
Apocalypse Now
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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 2:39:10 PM   
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-Fight Club
-Usual Suspects
-Monsters Inc
-Dog Day Afternoon
-Clockwork Orange
-Goodfellas
-One flew over the Cuckoos nest
-Se7en
-12 Monkeys
-Raging Bull
-Pi


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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 2:48:54 PM   
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My Fair Lady
Sound of Music
Hair
Rocky Horror Picture Show

I love musicals

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:10:30 PM   
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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:15:51 PM   
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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:20:12 PM   
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These are movies I have collector's editions of, but still watch if they come up on TV.
Not in a preferred order, they're too different.

True Stories by David Byrne.
Seven Samurai and Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa
Blade Runner by Ridley Scott
Brazil by Terry Gilliam
The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer
Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and A Streetcar Named Desire by Billy Wilder
Citizen Kane and Touch Of Evil by Orsen Welles
To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
On The Waterfront by Elia kazan
Almost any movie by the Coen brothers
Strangers on a Train, Psycho and Rope by Alfred Hitchcock
The Grapes of Wrath and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by John Ford
8 1/2 by Federico Fellini
Rosemary's Baby by Roman Polanski
Les Diaboliques by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese

Better stop, just thought of 20 more.


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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:21:01 PM   
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Royal Hunt for the Sun
Oh What a Lovely War
The Wansee Conference
The Atomic Cafe
Aleksandr nevsky
Ivan Groniy
Battleship potemkin
Der Untergang
Beneath Hill 60
The Light horsemen
Breaker Morant (a must see)



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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:21:55 PM   
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The Bird Man of Alcatraz
Shawshank Redemption
Cool Hand Luke





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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:28:14 PM   
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Shawshank Redemption
yes!

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:29:05 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Delilya

The Great Escape
The Bird Man of Alcatraz
Shawshank Redemption
Cool Hand Luke






Ooh...yes...I second Shawshank Redemption.

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 3:29:06 PM   
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& I forgot Downfall.

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 4:01:49 PM   
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American Psycho
Alien
Fight Club
The Thing (such a simple theme, musically -- only 7 notes, but it puts a chill down my spine every single time =p)
Se7en
The Fly
The Iron Giant (i literally started crying when the bolts and pieces were reassembling. =p [/dork])
ETA 2 -- Dark City

(I'm talking about movies that had some sort of really deep impact on me. Different impacts, different feelings.... there are a lot of them, I'll probably post some others later. =p)

oh geeeeez and Disney movies -- Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty & the Beast -- they're kids movies, but I don't care. =p visually and musically so uplifting. ^_^ uplifting is good.

ETA -- AKIRA - yes it's an anime, but it's still freaking awesome.

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 4:17:38 PM   
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The Sound of Music
A Christmas Carol (w/ George C. Scott)
Alien, Aliens, Alien3
Mystic River
LA Confidential
Love Actually
The Party (At least i think that's what it was called. This really old, black and white thing.)
Gator Bait (yes, that's right)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Tango Feroz
The Very Long Engagement
Volver

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 4:18:44 PM   
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Like Water for Chocolate
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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 4:21:18 PM   
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And I said Shawshank Redemption first, so y'all are behind on the numbers

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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 4:25:09 PM   
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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 4:25:50 PM   
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Wings of Desire
Persuasion
Angels and Insects



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RE: Great Movies - 11/12/2011 5:05:07 PM   
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A Fish Called Wanda
Fierce Creatures
The Pink Panther series
The Naked Gun series
Being John Malkovich
Black Orpheus
Dark Star
The Sixth Sense
Young Frankenstein
The Carpenter version of The Thing.
Mystery Men
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Mixed Nuts
Almost anything with Madeline Kahn.
Chicago
Little Shop of Horrors.


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