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Interests => Games & Home Entertainment => Topic started by: KnowThyself on January 22, 2018, 11:43:00 PM
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What are some of your favorite movies, t.v. shows, or famous actors/actresses?
I like; Everybody Loves Ramond, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Pawn Stars, Antiques Roadshow, John Wayne,
Humphrey Bogart, Gene Kelly, The Andy Griffith Show, Don Knotts, Black and White movies, Casablanca.
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While I don't have one favorite movie, and my lists of favorites is long and varied (Hence my handle here), what I usually consider to be my top 3 favorite movies are 'The Fifth Element,' 'The Mask of Zorro,' and 'Sleepy Hollow.'
For favorite shows, there are tons. I loved 'Smallville' and watched it religiously when it was on. I've also been a big fan of shows like 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' 'Once Upon a Time,' 'Grimm,' 'Arrow,' and 'The Flash.' Two shows that I currently am devoted to are 'Izombie' and 'Black Lightning.'
I have loads of favorite actors, but a few that I particularly like watching are Johnny Depp, Tim Curry (Best villain actor in history), Geoffrey Rush (I find it positively criminal that he has so far only won one Oscar, he deserved Best Supporting Actor for 'The King's Speech'), Bruce Campbell, and Alan Tudyk.
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Favorite movies - plural - is easier!
TOOOOO many great ones to choose just one!
For you youngsters out there, give these a try! :-)
(Simply off the top of my head, and trying to be eclectic, and also trying to recommend less obvious things)
Dramas
Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, White Heat - James Cagney
The Champ - Wallce Beery, Jackie Cooper
Gone With the Wind - Clark Gable
The Women - Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford
David Copperfield - Basil Rathbone, W.C. Fields
A Tale of Two Cities - Ronald Colman
Shadow of a Doubt - Joseph Cotten (Alfred Hitchcock, dir.)
Comedies
It's a Gift, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, My Little Chickadee - W.C. Fields
Horse Feathers, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup - The Marx Brothers
The Music Box - Laurel and Hardy
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Inspector General, The Court Jester - Danny Kaye
Horror/Science Fiction
King Kong - Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
Frankenstein - Boris Karloff
The Black Cat - Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
Forbidden Planet - Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen
Westerns
Three Godfathers - Two versions 1936 - Chester Morris and 1948 - John Wayne
Cimarron - Richard Dix, Irene Dunne
Red River - John Wayne
Shane - Alan Ladd
The Searchers - John Wayne
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If I had to pick on it would be Excaliber
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Stalingrad or Dos Boot they are timeless.
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La Revolution francaise, from 1989, the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, has surely got to be the very best movie ever made in the history of cinema, but for some reason the movie didn't do well.
Waterloo, from 1970, nothing beats watching the British beat somebody excepting of course us.
Lawrence of Arabia, from 1962.
Just about every and all versions of War and Peace, although the various BBC productions (there's been many) stand out. The 1972 BBC version, part 11, where Napoleon has a conference with the chief of his secret service concerning a proposed invasion of Russia, has surely got to be one of the most gripping scenes in cinemadom.
Napoleon, from 2002, apparently a continuation of La Revolution francaise.
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Many films. Comedy, perhaps "Blazing Saddles". It depends on my mood. Lots of Hitchcock movies & oldies that are fantastic.
TV - Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos. To start with.
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I own over 400 Movies.
Here is a partial list of shows I very much liked,
They Were Expendable
Fright Night
Conjuring
Band of Brothers (Mini-series)
Stargate SG1 (10 years)
Lawrence of Arabia
The Changeling (1979 Genie award winner)
Firefly
John Adams (Mini-series)
Rome (Mini-series)
King Arthur
The Batman Trilogy (Nolan)
The Martian
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC)
Das Boot
Monseiur Verdoux
Once upon a time in the West
Barry Lyndon
Lonesome Dove
Insidius
Breaking Away
1776
The Lion in the Desert
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