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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Godot showed up on July 02, 2010, 05:01:43 PM
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I started thinking about this and it is tough. You get to name one movie that's your favorite. Just one. Not your top 10, not your top 20--just your single most favorite movie of all time.
I think this can say a lot about a person's personality. I still haven't been able to make up my mind, honestly. I am being honest with myself and whittling it down to that group of movies I watch over and over and over and over and never get bored of--I'm not going to deliberately to for artsy-farsty to try to impress. I think I have it down to 3, but I'm not saying which 3 because, again, I get to name only one--same as the rest of you.
Ok. I've thought about it a bit and my mind just keeps circling back to one movie, the one movie I've probably seen more than any other:
John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing.
I know. With all the amazing oldies and not-so-oldies out there, my favorite is in a niche genre. It'll never win a prize for most fascinating dialogue. But I've got to be honest with myself. I never get tired of the effects, which stand the test of time, the paranoia pouring off the screen, the tight scripting, the very smart decision by Carpenter not to have any women in the film and thus (in the normal world) have no love interest to detract from the main plot.
The dog scene and the vespiform version of the thing that comes out of one of the dogs; the tied-to-the-chair blood test scene...damn that's a great movie.
Now, my second favorite would probably impress more, but I can't honestly say it's my numero uno. See? This is tough.
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Blazing Saddles. No matter how shitty a day I've had, I can still laugh my ass off by the end of it.
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Grease...
is the word.
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I don't know if it's my favorite...but it is the movie that popped into my mind. It's the first movie I saw in the movie theaters. I was obsessed with everything Grease as a child. If I happen to come across it as I'm flipping through the channels...I'll watch it. I know most of the lines by heart.
Another that I will always watch If I am flipping through the channel is Overboard with Goldie Hawn.
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I don't watch a huge amount of movies, but there are a few I have been able to watch more than once; of those if I had to choose one it would be Ringu (the original Japanese version of The Ring).
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The Wings of Eagles........ a story of Naval Aviation. It's been my favorite since I can remember. Star Wars is a very close 2nd, though.
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The Wings of Eagles........ a story of Naval Aviation. It's been my favorite since I can remember. Star Wars is a very close 2nd, though.
You do realize that Wings of Eagles is on AMC this weekend, right?
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Godfather. It is the only movie I can watch and over and over and never tire of it.
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Blazing Saddles. No matter how shitty a day I've had, I can still laugh my ass off by the end of it.
Mel Brooks is the best.
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Kelly's Heroes. If you've ever seen it, you know why.
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Godfather. It is the only movie I can watch and over and over and never tire of it.
First one or second one? I prefer Godfather II.
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Kelly's Heroes. If you've ever seen it, you know why.
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All you friggin tread-heads, all alike. That's like saying my favorite movie is Hunt for Red October or Run Silent, Run Deep, or Das Boot.
Sheesh.
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You do realize that Wings of Eagles is on AMC this weekend, right?
right after The Horse Soldiers.
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right after The Horse Soldiers.
I see someone else watched Hondo last night too.
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The Hangover.
It was Anchorman, but it was beat out when The Hangover was released.
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I would have to pick a Mel Brooks' movie myself, but my choice would be Young Frankenstein.
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The 1933 version of King Kong.
First saw it on TV in the early to mid 70s and have loved it ever since.
Btw...Fay Wray was built the way a lady should be,curves and hips. :drool:
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The 1933 version of King Kong.
First saw it on TV in the early to mid 70s and have loved it ever since.
Btw...Fay Wray was built the way a lady should be,curves and hips. :drool:
I actually got to see King Kong or whats left of hin from that movie, Here is the link to the showing my friend Bruce had of it.
http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/kong.htm
Its not in the pictures but all thats left s the armature they used to make of Kong and its not in that great of shape
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If I had to pick a favorite I guess it would be this one,
http://www.speedski.com/images/people/JohnWayne/TheGreenBerets2.jpg
I have an autographed picture of John Wayne and George Takei Signed by George from years ago, He had some good things to say about John Wayne and the movie. I told him I wished I could have had both names on the picture.
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Boy there a lot of good choices here. The Thing, the first time I saw it, when the guy's head grew legs and ran off like a spider. Like another guy said "You have got to be ****ing kidding me".
For me Blade Runner is in my top three along with Blazing Saddles. Lately though the latest Star Trek the Reboot is climbing to #1 real quick.
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Bringing Up Baby. At the very least it is the movie I think about the most. I was just thinking about it earlier today. Everybody and everything is funny in that movie.
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"Westward the Women" is entertaining and has Robert Taylor in it.
Also like "Friendly Persuasion," though.
Yeah, I know there are good newer ones, but I really like both of those.
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Kelly's Heroes. If you've ever seen it, you know why.
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Good grief, I've seen it more than I can count, thanks to it being DH's favorite movie of all time. Burning Bridges IS one of my all time favorite songs.
My favorite movie is The Two Towers, the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But it was hard chosing just one, that's for certain.
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I'm going to say "The Dark Knight." Who doesn't like a movie about a hero? Ledger played his part to a tee. I'm also partial to the "Vigilante" Eckhart played. Very good actor. The whole movie just blew me away, and since that thing was made, I can't think of a better movie.
PS: Some of the things in it make me think of the current administration we're in. Not just one, but a few.
Example: "Some men...just want to watch the world burn."
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Have to go by category's here.
Tear Jerky is --the world according to Garp.
Musical would be Jesus Christ Super Star.
Western, For a few dollars more.
Sci-Fi is Alien 1st' one.
Horror, Arsenic and old Lace.
Drama, "M" the first movie Alfred Hitchcock made in Germany with Peter Lorie
Spy Movie, Goldfinger
Comedy, History of the world part one.--
Contemporary film Natural Born Killers.
Historical, I Claudius--play boy version.
Most favorite of all--Cat Balloue
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COMPREHENSION FAIL.
Dear Vesta,
The question was SINGLE favorite movie. As in ONE. Overall. Not categorically. Not with caveats.
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In Harm's Way.....with John Wayne and Patricia Neal.
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I have several classics and I just wouldn't won't to trim 'em down to just one....
But if I had to be stuck with just one......"Ben Hur".
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All you friggin tread-heads, all alike. That's like saying my favorite movie is Hunt for Red October or Run Silent, Run Deep, or Das Boot.
Sheesh.
There you go again man, always making with the negative waves.
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There you go again man, always making with the negative waves.
Yeah, well, what can I say? My karma ran over my dogma.
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I'm going to have to say "Animal House". No matter how many times I catch it flipping channels, if I see it on, I have to watch it all the way through.
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You do realize that Wings of Eagles is on AMC this weekend, right?
Of course !!! :hyper: :-)
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Yeah, well, what can I say? My karma ran over my dogma.
No smoking in the karma, man, it leaks gas all over the place.
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Sparky, AMC has a John Wayne submariner movie on right at the moment, "Operation Pacific".It's about REAL submariners, not some fancy assed Nuke boats .
I can't wait until 14:00 CDT........
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Shawshank Redemption hands down! :bow:
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Shawshank Redemption hands down! :bow:
[youtube=425,350]138x9MCUjE0[/youtube]
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The 30th anniversary of its' release was a couple of weeks ago . . . and I hope this image from Wiki is big enough.
ETA: it is! :-)
(http://l.yimg.com/eb/ymv/us/img/hv/allposters/63/1800043163p.jpg)
The Snobs versus The Slobs! :cheersmate: :hi5:
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DRAMA: Network (a million innerweb bucks to whoever can tell me what the movie is REALLY about)
ACTION: The Quick and the Dead
COMEDY: The Life of Brian
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Reservior Dogs
Young Frankenstein
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Blazing Saddles
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings
The King of Comedy
The Breakfast Club
Aliens
Terminator 2
The Godfather series
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The Fifth Element
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DRAMA: Network (a million innerweb bucks to whoever can tell me what the movie is REALLY about)
ACTION: The Quick and the Dead
COMEDY: The Life of Brian
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Reservior Dogs
Young Frankenstein
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Blazing Saddles
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings
The King of Comedy
The Breakfast Club
Aliens
Terminator 2
The Godfather series
Another one that can't comprehend the "rules"........ :rulez:
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Another one that can't comprehend the "rules"........ :rulez:
I am bunny and I do what I want.
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I am bunny and I do what I want.
Uh huh...... ::) ..... I'd expect something like that coming from a Dogface......... :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :fuelfire:
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Yeah, well, what can I say? My karma ran over my dogma.
I loved Dogma. :rotf: :rotf:
I watched the Matrix about 200 times when it hit PPV on satellite.
BUT I think I lean towards liking Pulp Fiction more
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Follow the Sun..movie about Ben Hogan, a professional golfer, who was badly injured in a wreck. Was told he would never walk much less play golf again. A great inspirational movie of courage and determination.
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The Matrix was excellent. I can watch that one nearly every time it's on.
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I could NEVER EVER pick just one. Just the same with music. Some faves though:
Shawshank Redemption
Godfather I and II
Donnie Brascoe
Departed
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Schindler's List
Princess Bride (I was a kid, what can I say)
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Am I the only one who watches those ridiculously raunchy comedies? lol
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Only one? :p
The Desk Set. I always wanted Bunny's job.
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Am I the only one who watches those ridiculously raunchy comedies? lol
No way! I love comedies. And the raunchier, the better!
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The I recommend watching "The Ref" if you've not already seen it.
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The I recommend watching "The Ref" if you've not already seen it.
Oh yeah!! Loved it because I love me some Kevin Spacey. It was funny. I actually own that one.
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Have to go by category's here.
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Drama, "M" the first movie Alfred Hitchcock made in Germany with Peter Lorie
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M was directed by Fritz Lang. Great film.
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I could NEVER EVER pick just one. Just the same with music. Some faves though:
Shawshank Redemption
Godfather I and II
Donnie Brascoe
Departed
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Schindler's List
Princess Bride (I was a kid, what can I say)
:hammer:
:rulez:
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Spaceballs
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:hammer:
:rulez:
I know I know! But it is totally impossible for me. I will say that every time I am surfing the TV, and Shawshank is on, I stop and watch it. So maybe that one is it.
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I could NEVER EVER pick just one. Just the same with music. Some faves though:
Shawshank Redemption
Godfather I and II
Donnie Brascoe
Departed
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Schindler's List
Princess Bride (I was a kid, what can I say)
Princess Bride is one of my favorites too.
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DRAMA: Network (a million innerweb bucks to whoever can tell me what the movie is REALLY about)
ACTION: The Quick and the Dead
COMEDY: The Life of Brian
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Reservior Dogs
Young Frankenstein
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Blazing Saddles
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings
The King of Comedy
The Breakfast Club
Aliens
Terminator 2
The Godfather series
Monty Python needs a rank all of its own. Life of Brian -- classic.
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The First Godfather.
Honorable Mention goes to Caddyshack.
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Am I the only one who watches those ridiculously raunchy comedies? lol
No, I own some of the best too! Idiocracy, Old School, Hot Tub Time Machine, She's Out of My League, The Hangover.....
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Hmmmmmm, It's a Mad Mad Mad World.........hmmmmmm The Great Race........hmmmmmTom Jones.......
"The Great Race" wins! The other two close....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rzidagq6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BOOgW7rHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rzidagq6o
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Goodfellas . . .
"You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little ****ed up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to ****in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"
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My Cousin Vinny :-)
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Godfather. It is the only movie I can watch and over and over and never tire of it.
Wow lurker, i didn't figure a chic liking the Godfather. In my mind, it's really a guy movie. but hey, nice choice.
This is a tough choice for me because my knee jerk reaction is to say Godfather also. I never get tired of that movie. I loved James Caan as Sonny especially.
But................................................
My favorite movie of all time is Goldfinger; the best Bond movie EVER and also my favorite movie of all time.
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45553000/jpg/_45553602_goldfinger.jpg)
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Goodfellas . . .
"You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little ****ed up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to ****in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"
"Get the fu... outta here Tommy!"
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Hmmmmmm, It's a Mad Mad Mad World.........hmmmmmm The Great Race........hmmmmmTom Jones.......
"The Great Race" wins! The other two close....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rzidagq6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BOOgW7rHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rzidagq6o
Professor Fate and Max kept me laughing.
Did you see "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"?....came out about the same time....the German and Italian were :rotf:
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Smokey and the Bandit.
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This is really hard but I'd have to say Army of Darkness.
Cindie
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The scene in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" with Jonathon Winters as the truck driver ripping apart the gas station due to his "heightened state of pisstivity" ( :rotf: ) never fails to get the sides hurting and the eyes leaking from laughing so hard.
Jim Backus as the drunken pilot is also a scream. And the scene in the hardware store basement....aw, hell, the whole damned movie is funny!
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This is some really interesting reading. No one is reaching for something to impress. Most of you seem to have settled on my method: what movies can I always stop for and watch if I'm channel flipping? What movies DO I always stop for and watch? Some of them are other people's favorites, too--Shawshank, Grease, Kelly's Heroes...
I want to expand the rules, now that we've gotten a good response to single most favorite. I guess I can, since I started the thread and set the rules.
My point here was to make people really choose. Not to pick their 10 favorite movies and then arrange them, but at each level to have to pick ONE. So when I now open up the thread to your SECOND-most favorite movie, the rule is still the same: one movie to occupy the second spot. In a way, as we descend to number 10 (if people like, maybe we could go as far as 20), this way of doing things forces each of us to pick 10 number ones, instead of, as I said, the usual way of laying out your top 10 before posting, which you first have as a kind of mulligran stew of movies in your head, and THEN arrange in the post. That makes it too easy. This way, you're really forced to make a hard decision at every numbered spot.
I'm a case in point. I thought I knew what my second most favorite movie was when I made the first post. But as I chewed it over today, I realized that, although I think that movie is a magnificent movie (as do most people who love cinema), I don't watch it all that often. It's a bit of hard work to watch--the dialogue is some of the most bitterly self-aware and brilliant dialogue ever, and it's somewhere in my top 20, but I have to be honest and say it isn't number 2. I won't name it--that would be cheating, a way of sneaking in an extra, or qualifying the number 2 spot.
I knew number 2 for me would be a Bogey movie. Even THEN it was still hard. But when I stop to think of the movies I can watch a bazillion times, and watch any time, I finally came down to:
2--The African Queen
Man, I just love it when the captain of the Louisa (played by Robert Bull), says (to Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn) "I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution." Perfect delivery. Of course I like much else about the movie, but I'd have to say that's my favorite moment.
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I answered it with the right intent. Smokey and the Bandit is the only movie I own. It is, truly my #1 movie. :-)
#2? Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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My second most favorite movie is probably The Producers, the original version with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
I did see Toy Story 3 this weekend and it could move high up the list if it stands the test of time.
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No way! I love comedies. And the raunchier, the better!
Oh I'm completely schizophrenic when it comes to movies. I'm a Star Wars geek and watch all 6 of them as often as possible. If I watch them singly (rare) I'll watch Empire or Revenge of the Sith. But I'm an absolute B movie and horror (the bloodier the better) film junkie. There's not a horror or slasher film I won't watch. Cheesy older films like Plan 9 from Outer Space are a hoot. 2001 Maniacs, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Buckeroo Bonzai, Killer Klowns from Outer Space how can you beat dialogue like "I don't believe in UFOs, but if they do exist, then...then we're trapped in one right now".
Then I go totally the other way...I can't even count how many times I've watched Lion in Winter. The sheer scope of Cecile B. DeMille's films are breathtaking. Samson and Delilah has the best movie quote in history and perfectly sums up the relationship between men and women:
Samson: The oldest trick in the world. Silk trap, baited with a woman.
Delilah: You know a better bait, Samson? Men always respond.
I can't watch Carousel and West Side Story without crying. I just watched Oklahoma and GiGi the other day. GiGi is wonderfully politically incorrect! You want to make rock-ribbed feminists' heads explode, put them in a room and make them watch GiGi.
Cindie
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Wow lurker, i didn't figure a chic liking the Godfather. In my mind, it's really a guy movie. but hey, nice choice.
This is a tough choice for me because my knee jerk reaction is to say Godfather also. I never get tired of that movie. I loved James Caan as Sonny especially.
But................................................
My favorite movie of all time is Goldfinger; the best Bond movie EVER and also my favorite movie of all time.
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45553000/jpg/_45553602_goldfinger.jpg)
I'm a gal, and I love almost any mafia movie. Godfather III wasn't so good though. A Bronx Tale. Awesome. Donnie Brasco. Awesome. Road to Perdition. Awesome. Goodfellas. Awesome.
The Sopranos was one of my favorite series ever. I even met Uncle Jr. while in Little Italy in New York. This was right when he shot Tony. It was fun to ask him about it, and he loved talking about it. Real nice guy.
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I'm not a big movie watcher (or TV) but I love the movie Braveheart. I've only seen 3 movies multiple times, guess I'll save those for #2 and #3.
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Wow lurker, i didn't figure a chic liking the Godfather. In my mind, it's really a guy movie. but hey, nice choice.
This is a tough choice for me because my knee jerk reaction is to say Godfather also. I never get tired of that movie. I loved James Caan as Sonny especially.
But................................................
My favorite movie of all time is Goldfinger; the best Bond movie EVER and also my favorite movie of all time.
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45553000/jpg/_45553602_goldfinger.jpg)
OK--trivia time--Did you ever notice--after Oddjob takes off Tilly Masterson's head (that's the sister who shows up to avenge the gal who was painted gold at the beginning), that there's a shot of her and her head separated by some distance (looks like 7-8 feet to me, as I recall) and then when Bond goes to inspect the body head and body are right in line as if still attached?!
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Johnny, yes, of course I saw "Magnificant Men....". Professor Fate made the movie in the beginning trying to ruin the Great Leslie's plans.....
For my second choice, I'm going to change dears completely
"Seven Samuari"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqQXC8Tv8U
predated the American and "spaghetti" westerns....
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OK--trivia time--Did you ever notice--after Oddjob takes off Tilly Masterson's head (that's the sister who shows up to avenge the gal who was painted gold at the beginning), that there's a shot of her and her head separated by some distance (looks like 7-8 feet to me, as I recall) and then when Bond goes to inspect the body head and body are right in line as if still attached?!
Lots of gaffes in Goldfinger.
Oddjob throws hat at statue and the hat is shown to slice head off and keep traveling in straight line; but next shot shows statue head and hat lying on ground next to each other. lol
still a great flick. Sean Connery was THE MACK. Before me of course. :-)
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ok....
1. In Harm's Way.
2. An Affair to Remember...the one with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
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Wow, #2 seems harder than #1! I'd have to say Halloween.
Cindie
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Well, my #1 pick was the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers.
The second favorite movie for me, which I almost chose as #1 is Independence Day.
Different movies on the surface, but both contain a bit of romance, lots of action culminating in the ass kicking of the villains and awesome special effects.
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I'd have to go with Star Wars, without a doubt. Saw parts of it when I was standing Shore Patrol in Marseilles. It was in French, so I understood very little of it. Saw it when I got back stateside (Feb 78) and fell in love with the movie. I even have the soundtrack on vinyl......
(http://www.tk1995.com/page1/files/694px-star_wars_logosvg.png)
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If I choose Shawshank as #1 (and I said I couldn't choose, and I mean it), then #2 would have to be Godfathers I and II. Please don't make me pick between those two. Can't do it.
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Kelly's Heroes. If you've ever seen it, you know why.
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Same here....
Best line in the entire movie: Big Joe talking to the German officer,
"We're not worried about the German army, we have enough troubles of our own. To the right, General Patton; to the left, the British army; to the rear, our own ******* artillery; and besides all that, it's raining; and the only good thing to say about the weather, it keeps our Air Corp from blowing us all to hell, because it's too lousy to fly!"
Oddball and his Shermans, priceless!
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Same here....
Best line in the entire movie: Big Joe talking to the German officer,
"We're not worried about the German army, we have enough troubles of our own. To the right, General Patton; to the left, the British army; to the rear, our own ******* artillery; and besides all that, it's raining; and the only good thing to say about the weather, it keeps our Air Corp from blowing us all to hell, because it's too lousy to fly!"
Oddball and his Shermans, priceless!
"We fill the shells with paint . . . makes pretty pictures."
Ya gotta love that flick.
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The Holy Grail
Gone with the Wind
Cindie, I have Lion in Winter on my DVR, and can you believe I haven't watched it yet? Maybe tonight; husband's golfing.