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Top 5 Films - Your Opinion?
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 9:13 AM
Couldn't think of just five - The Apartment Guilty Pleasures: |
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Tiki Chris
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 9:49 AM
hhhmmmmm... in no particular order: The Muppet Movie The Elephant Man House of Sand & Fog Hable Con Ella O Brother Where Art Thou My Neighbor Totoro/Spirited Away Honorable Mentions: The Crazy Safari The Piano Wings of Desire Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Rushmore (& If you like L in T, you'll love ...) Brazil/Time Bandits Withnail & I Fargo Leone's Dollar Trilogy The Original Godzilla Ran Mean Streets Citizen Kane [ Edited by: Tiki Chris on 2004-08-07 10:23 ] |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 10:28 AM
Has everyone forgotten "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"? This is the best film (so far) of the year and possibly (so far) the decade.... |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 10:46 AM
Bottle Rocket |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 11:04 AM
Scarface-Carlito's Way-Rocky Horror Picture Show-Shawshank Redemption-Enter the Dragon-Any old shorts with Harlod Lloyd. |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 11:50 AM
It is so hard to choose only 5. Being only 29, I have seen countless movies, and I do appreciate that some of you are older, but I can't really do black and white movies to often. I grew up with color, stereo sound, and then surround sound. I have seen most of the old standby classics such as Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Casablanca, all of the James Dean movies, etc...but I am mostly a fan of movies within my lifetime with a few exceptions. |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 11:56 AM
What about the Godfather 1 + 2? |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 12:53 PM
This was my criterion as well. In no order: Triplets of Belleville Mon Oncle (or anything by Tati, but this is my sentimental favorite) North by Northwest Les parapluies de Cherbourg Scorsese: Raging Bull, Taxi Driver Cronenberg: Rabid, Scanners, Spider Egoyan: Calendar (his most overlooked & underrated), Exotica, Felicia's Journey Eraserhead Slacker The Man Who Planted Trees -- probably my favorite film of all time; truly inspiring. A big shout out to everyone who mentioned Tati and Ray Harryhausen! oooh, I forgot Bergman's Fanny & Alexander -Sweet Daddy T. [ Edited by: Sweet Daddy Tiki on 2004-08-07 12:54 ] |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 4:45 PM
Favorite directors : Jacques Tati
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 6:26 PM
Just off the top of my head: The Out of Towners - I've seen it umpteen times & still laugh my ass off every time Jack Lemon breaks his tooth on the Cracker Jacks. Black Orpheus - beautiful cinamatography & a must for all Bosa Nova lovers. Fargo - sick & funny. Sunset Boulevard The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 7:22 PM
SDT, glad to know that someone else remembers this classic!! |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 9:08 PM
Since many (understanably) cannot limit their picks to just 5, in addtion to my top 5 posted earlier, I would add: Not one movie by Jim Jarmusch mentioned yet, who is one of my all-time favorite directors. I would have to pick Stranger Than Paradise as my favorite by him, just because it was so unique and revolutionary when released. I can't count how many independent films imitated his style. One example: the black screens between scenes in Pulp Fiction were introduced in Stranger Than Paradise. How about Fellini? I would be hard pressed to pick between 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita, but since 8 1/2 was so impressionable on me during my young mod days I have to choose it as one of my top ten. I'm gald others picked Jacques Tati's films among their favorites. I would say Mon Oncle is my favorite work by the genius mind of Tati. Vintagegirl, you picked Duck Soup (one of my favorites by the Marx Bros.). I can tell you are a woman with a great sense of humor! Nevertheless, Monkey Business is my favorite by the brothers Marx, because of the comic mayhem that ensues among the stunning Art Deco ship interiors. I have to include Hitchcock among my top ten. I agree with the others here who picked North by Northwest as their favorite by the Master. |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 9:17 PM
"Did you say Wing Attack, Plan R?" -- Major Kong For some reason that's my favorite line in a movie full of great lines. |
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Sat, Aug 7, 2004 10:47 PM
"You can't fight in here, this is the WAR ROOM!" (Fun Factoid: "Dr. Strangelove" was James Earl Jones' screen debut.) |
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"How many times do I gotta tell you boys, I don't want no horseplay on the airplane" - Major Kong "Well, I think I'll mosey on down to the war room and see what's cookin' on the threatboard" - Gen Buck Turgesen "do you think I go into combat with loose change in my pocket?" - Major Bat Guano "I do not support the labor of capitalist stooges" - Soviet Ambassador "mind you Mandrake, I do not make myself a stranger to women, but I do however deny them my essence" - Gen Jack T. Ripper a few of my favorite lines from Dr. Strangelove. another interesting factoid - when Major Kong was goig through the articles in their survival kit he said "hell, a guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this". The original line was "Dallas" instead of "Vegas" but while the movie was being edited JFK was shot in Dallas so they decided to change it to Vegas in the interest of "good taste" ('60's lingo for PC)plus the two words kinda sound alike so it was no big deal. |
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"Now, I ain't much of a hand for makin' speeches .... " |
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"Let us now bow our heads in prayer. [Looks up] LORD, ..." -- Gen Buck Turgesen |
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Sun, Aug 8, 2004 6:15 PM
What am I, chopped liver? I mentioned "Dead Man." Also, I just saw "Down by Law" (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) on the big screen. Now, I'm not exactly a huge Roberto Benigni fan, but he's awful funny in this, as are Tom Waits and John Lurie. Everyone should definitely see both films. Also, if you like Jarmusch, you should see some Aki Kaurismaki films, including "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989) which features Jarmusch in a walk-on. [ Edited by: DaneTiki on 2004-08-08 18:23 ] [ Edited by: DaneTiki 2009-08-30 19:03 ] |
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Tiki Matt
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Sun, Aug 8, 2004 6:35 PM
Since we all love Hitchcock here's a couple that you should rent if you haven't seen or revisit if you have: "The Birds" - Hands down, his best. Don't believe me? Watch it again. Isn't Antonio Banderas' mother in law hot? "The Trouble With Harry" - Shirly Mclane, Charlie (before he got those irritating angels) and the Beav! Hillarious fun, Hitch at his funniest. I'm pretty sure I could watch this flick every day and never get bored! |
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Sun, Aug 8, 2004 6:44 PM
So true. I thought of that after I listed my FIVE & came to the conclusion that if you're any kind of film fanatic (and I think I am) you just can't narrow it down that far. I have a hard time coming up with five favorite films from any genre or period much less overall, all-time! Other movies I think got overlooked: Un Chen Andalou, the brilliant Luis Bunuel / Salvador Dali collaboration shot in 1929. Crumb, the most revealing, bare your soul documentary I've ever seen. I've watched it twenty times and I could watch it twenty more. The Last Picture Show, The Days of Wine and Roses, Petrified Forest, Dead End, Sunset Blvd...well you get the picture. |
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"You is an ungrateful man-whore!" My second-favorite movie line of all time. |
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"Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo"! Should probably be under "guilty pleasure", with lines like, "Don't make me he-bitch man-slap you!" In no order after the first: "The Royal Tenenbaums" ("He died valiantly trying to rescue his family from a sinking ship" One of Royal's exaggerations, or was he the sinking ship?) Jaws (Peter Benchley's father suggested "What's That Noshin' on My Laig" as the title) And for general wackiness: "The Great Race" Almost any movie using an animation sequence to illustrate travel with an airplane leaving a dotted line trail over a map. Extra points if the countries have their names printed on the map! I'd like to think that this is an homage to "Casablanca". Watch "Ed Wood" (this may make you buy a Korla Pandit CD), then watch the real "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Strictly for people with way too much free time. |
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"Home? I have no home. The jungle is my home! Hunted. Despised! Living like an animal! But I will show the world who is its master -- by building a race of atomic supermen!" |
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 12:22 AM
In the immortal words of Ed Wood - "Cut! that's a print!" Ed Wood's movies weren't "movies" in the conventional sense of the word in the 1950's. They were more like Worhol but on a smaller scale. I don't sit around soaking up Ed Wood movies all day long, but I am glad he got the chance to make 'em and there's people who still watch 'em. |
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Stranger than Paradise is his best film. It was the first time I heard the fantastic Screaming Jay Hawkins. Highly recommended. |
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Tiki Chris
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 9:47 AM
Bergman slipped my mind too! The Seventh Seal is a great one. Wild Strawberries is brilliant too! & features Max Von Sydow's first on screen appearance. |
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 11:26 AM
WOW! That's more intestinal fortitude than I will ever be able to claim. If I had watched "Crumb" 20 times I would be doped up on Thorazine and bouncing off the walls. That movie ranks right up there with "Nil by Mouth" (Gary Oldman, 1997) and "Intimacy" (Patrice Chereau, 2001) as one of the most depressing, soul-searing films I have ever seen. Not that that's bad or anything, but I have lost the crust of jadedness that used to protect me from horrible emotions like the ones engendered by those films. [ Edited by: DaneTiki 2009-08-30 19:02 ] |
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 11:49 AM
On 2004-08-08 18:15, DaneTiki wrote:
Oops, I missed that! Sorry! |
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 7:34 PM
I hope the same criteria doesn't apply to drinks. If so, then any cocktail that was created before 1975 would be verboten. Whoops, that includes almost everything in, say, the Grog Log or Trader Vic's Cocktail book. You kids and your video games! It's a little known fact (and I shouldn't be telling you this) but people born before 1970 can ONLY see in Black and White. I don't have a top 5 "movies" list as "movies" are too new-fangled for me. I prefer the magic-lantern shows the traveling man puts on once a year. YAHOOOO, them dancing girls are PURDY! |
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 8:26 PM
and those of us who were born IN 1970 can only see in plaid. Plaid pants to be exact. -Z |
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 11:05 PM
You poor, poor people! City of Angels Other movies for consideration: My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
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As if written on a tablet and handed down from the mountain top, here are the five greatest movies in no particular order....
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Mon, Aug 9, 2004 11:43 PM
Red Rock West |
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 12:34 AM
Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V. |
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 3:07 AM
I love Dead Man! When Billy Bob Thornton starts obsessing over Johnny Depp's hair and says, "How do you get your hair so dang shiny? My hair's like ole' barn hay..." it kills me everytime! Two GUILTY Pleasure movies that always cheer me up when I'm down Village of the Giants Also, The Dancing Outlaw [ Edited by: stuff-o-rama on 2004-08-10 03:10 ] |
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 5:23 AM
After much deliberation, my top five films for this hour are..... Ask me again tomorrow and I reckon there will be at least three changes. |
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 7:56 AM
Dang, I plumb forgot "Hewig And The Angry Inch." The "Bad Santa" DVD is getting better with each viewing. |
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Tiki Chris
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 8:15 AM
how could i forget jesco (jessie & elvis too)? one of the MOST inspiring moments in cinema is the "i'm tired of eatin' sloppy, slimey eggs" scene. oh god it's so flippin' depraved! the "costly shades" scene is classic too! |
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 8:33 AM
I think we Americans have cornered the market on cinema (I truly believe we do it best), but here are some of my favorite foreign films (only 1 was mentioned in my first post - Rashomon). You all should go out and rent these today, I mean it...
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Tue, Aug 10, 2004 11:43 PM
and let's not forget the Tuesday night party at the White family's trailer where the "oldest and meanest" sibling tries to run over the camera man in her pick'em up truck, the brothers spinning donuts in the front yard until they blew up the engine and the impromptu music jam in the front room. **wipes tear ** beautiful as a super double buzz! |
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Wed, Aug 11, 2004 3:44 PM
sigh...did I marry this man?
others - triplets of belleville, empire strikes back, rushmore, rocky (yo, I'm from philly...) breakfast at tiffany's, to kill a mockingbird, she devils on wheels...I can't stop.... "You're the mayor of shark city, people think you want the beaches open." [ Edited by: mrs. pineapple on 2004-08-11 15:56 ] |
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Wed, Aug 11, 2004 5:35 PM
The Jerk |
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Wed, Aug 11, 2004 6:08 PM
Mrs.Pineapple,I think we'd be compatible,except I'm married to wonderful man.I have Jaws,Casablanca,and Citizen Kane on my list,but I forgot "To Kill A Mockingbird"-my absolutely favorite book of all time-You've got great taste!!! |
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Thu, Aug 12, 2004 7:09 AM
The Jseco documentary, though I haven't seen it, kinda reminds me of the one from here in Canada about the guy who builds the bearproof suit and goes out and tries to get atttacked by Grizzly bears. I think it's called Operation Grizzly. Totally insane. |
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Thu, Aug 12, 2004 7:38 AM
operation grizzly sounds like fun! i think the key diffence might be that the grizzly guy's got a few screws loose & has to work a lot harder than most for an endorphine rush, jesco is depravity personified & started huffin' whatever he could git his hands on in his early teens: |