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Steely_Dan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 01:43 AM
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Okay...What are your favorite movies...
of all time? Just the top five.

Here are mine:

Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
On The Waterfront
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now

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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 01:47 AM
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1. ok
Amelie
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Breakfast at Tiffany's
La Vie en Rose
The Poseidon Adventure
Spirited Away
The City of Lost Children
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Night of the Living Dead.
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Steely_Dan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 01:49 AM
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2. Breakfast at....
is exceptional.

-P
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:01 AM
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6. Isn't it though?
Almost enough to switch over from Amelie, I love it so much... :D
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 01:51 AM
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3. like i have time to list them here...
:eyes:
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 01:55 AM
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4. hmmm


Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Blue - then White then Red in that trilogy
12 Monkeys
Amelie
City of Lost Children
Hero (w/ Jet Li)
Miller's Crossing
Run Lola Run
Lady From Shanghai
The Secret of Roan Inish
PeeWee's Big Adventure


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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:00 AM
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5. I'm a James Jarmusch fan so ....
I say:
Stranger Than Paradise and Mystery Train.

And then, coming up soon on TV are:
Midnight Cowboy
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Graduate

and I hope, this year, to catch:
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
She
Salem's Lot



Tikki
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Steely_Dan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:03 AM
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7. Oh Man, You Listed some good ones...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is really excellent. Top ten, definitely.

And, How could I have forgotten Midnight Cowboy? What a great movie. Probably Dustin's best work ever...."Hey, I'm walkin' here."

-P
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:06 AM
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8. No "Down By Law"?
:cry:
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:07 AM
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9. Love Mystery Train too
and almost listed it but didn't.

and, oh yeah, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate... too many movies to choose a dozen, even.
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some guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:14 AM
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10. The Princess Bride
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Charles Laughton / Maureen O'Hara
3. dunno
4. dunno
5. dunno

Lots of films I really like, but other than the top two, I've never ranked 'em. :)
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:40 AM
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14. Arg
:puke:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:19 AM
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11. Okay, here's mine:
The Shawshank Redemption

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...

Young Frankenstein

Jane Eyre (the 40's version, with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine)

Glory

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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:22 AM
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12. Chinatown! oh, and the Coen Brothers....Fargo, Raising Arizona etc
Edited on Thu Dec-27-07 02:23 AM by MnFats
plus:
Apocalyps now
Monty Python/Holy GRail
This is Spinal Tap
Bullet
The French Connection


it'll change by tomorrow....
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Diamond Dave Donating Member (252 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:39 AM
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13. Same vein
Taxi Driver
True Romance
Blue Velvet
Pulp Fiction
Network

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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 02:46 AM
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15. Barry Lyndon
Edited on Thu Dec-27-07 02:48 AM by JCMach1
Life of Brian
Blue Velvet
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Psycho
LOTR (Fellowship of the Ring was the best of the 3)
AI (though Spielberg nearly ruined it)
Wizard of Oz
Lolita (the one with Jeremy Irons/ loved that)
Dumb and Dumber (guilty pleasure that but had to put at least one comedy on the list)
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Ring (scariest movie of the past 10 years)
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