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02-06-2019, 07:17 PM
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In no particular order (there are 11; do I get extra credit?)
The Station Agent
An American in Paris
Singing in the Rain
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
The Bookshop
You've Got Mail
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Graffiti
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02-06-2019, 07:59 PM
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#82
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WhoDaresWins
I don't think any of these have been mentioned: Master and Commander, Cold Mountain, The Hunt for Red October, Pride and Prejudice,*** Howard's End, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Departed, Shakespeare in Love***, The Madness of King George, Far from the Madding Crowd*** and The Color Purple.
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*** thought hard about them!
And The Time Traveler’s Wife although I much prefer the book.
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02-06-2019, 08:11 PM
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#83
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: San Antonio
Posts: 371
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I have to add:
Life is Beautiful
Good morning Vietnam
Glory
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02-06-2019, 08:12 PM
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#84
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 7,586
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On the contrary, I am often described as "retiring"...
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02-06-2019, 08:23 PM
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#85
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 7,586
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanstar
I have to add:
Life is Beautiful
Good morning Vietnam
Glory
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You know the inspiring coach Jim Valvano in his speech at the Espy's, 1993, said, "What is a good day? If you laugh, if you think and if you cry, that's a full day, that's a heck of a day."
Jimmy Valvano would have loved "Life is Beautiful" had he survived cancer and lived to see it. I wish I had put that on my list.
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02-06-2019, 08:25 PM
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#86
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 23,037
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Casablanca
The Godfather
Dog Day Afternoon
Das Boot
Cool Hand Luke
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Deer Hunter
Unforgiven
A Streetcar Named Desire
Midnight Cowboy
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02-07-2019, 09:52 AM
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#87
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 4,722
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanstar
I have to add:
Life is Beautiful
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Roberto Benigni, I love this man.
This quote is hilarious. My DH is Italian.
[introducing Sophia Loren at a life-time award celebration] "When I hear the name Sophia, I jump and jump again because it's an explosion of life.. She is Italy and very Italian. When she moves, when she walks, all of Italy is walking. You can see Sicily, Tuscany, Lombardy move. Then Milan, Florence, Naples, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Colosseum, pizza, spaghetti, Toro, De Sica. She holds all these things and all these people inside"
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And don't forget "Manos the Hands of Fate"
02-07-2019, 10:28 AM
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And don't forget "Manos the Hands of Fate"
I'm a little surprised that nobody has brought up "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "The Creeping Terror", "Ishtar" or "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". They may not be Hitchcock-quality, but under the right circumstances they might be a fun watch...
...except for "Ishtar". All the Glenfiddich in the world still wouldn't make that one watchable.
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02-07-2019, 11:11 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2017
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Mine for the most part are older. These aren't in any particular order...
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
The Quiet Man
McLintock
El Dorado
Paint Your Wagon
Young Frankenstein
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Hatari
Hellfighters
Australia
Operation Petticoat
Luther
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02-07-2019, 11:15 AM
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#90
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Orlando
Posts: 125
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MuirWannabe
then you have to also like Dirty Dozen!
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Dirty Dozen -
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02-07-2019, 11:30 AM
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#91
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brucethebroker
What? No love for Dr. Zhivago? Deliverance? Jaws?
Totally agree with Eastwood, Newman, and Redford movies. Was Bullitt mentioned?
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When something is good it's good in its own way, and I never try to rank anything. But Dr. Zhivago is a favorite movie of mine due to the epic nature of the novel that the movie was based on.
A movie can be good, but it is rare that I enjoy something enough to seek it out and watch it multiple times. I first watched Dr. Zhivago as a kid in a theater, and much later in life sought it out in DVD and watched it again to catch up on some scenes that I might have missed.
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02-07-2019, 11:46 AM
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#92
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 2,223
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Just 10 ?
In no particular order : Cool Hand Luke . The Good The Bad and The Ugly . Dr Strangelove . The Choirboys ( Wambaugh) . Men in Black 1 . Caddy Shack. A Soldiers Story . 2001 . Animal House . Office Space . In the Heat of the Night.
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Ten Favorite Movies of All Time
02-07-2019, 03:48 PM
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Ten Favorite Movies of All Time
1. One flew over the Cukoos nest... [emoji3]
2. North by Northwest
3 . It’s a mad mad mad world
4. To Sir with Love
5. The Apartment
6. Kelly’s Hero’s (Dirty Dozen)
7. Good, Bad, & Ugly
8. Airport (George Kennedy & Dean Martin)
9. Pappilon
10. Rain Man
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02-07-2019, 03:57 PM
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This thread got me thinking about a movie which I much liked but I couldn't remember the name. So I googled "Japanese movie animated cat turns into bus" and this came right up:
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
I ordered the DVD again from Netflix. I hope that it has a version in Japanese with English subtitles - I hate movies dubbed in English.
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02-07-2019, 04:07 PM
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Franco Zeffirelli "Romeo and Juliet." I kept thinking "are you kidding me?" They missed the donkey on the way to give Romeo the message? She wakes up in the crypt missing Romeo killing himself within a few minutes, then she stabs herself!!!
I had to go see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" just to smile again.
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02-07-2019, 04:27 PM
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#96
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
When something is good it's good in its own way, and I never try to rank anything. But Dr. Zhivago is a favorite movie of mine due to the epic nature of the novel that the movie was based on.
A movie can be good, but it is rare that I enjoy something enough to seek it out and watch it multiple times. I first watched Dr. Zhivago as a kid in a theater, and much later in life sought it out in DVD and watched it again to catch up on some scenes that I might have missed.
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Oh true - I did love Dr. Zhivago! Watched it several times.
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02-07-2019, 05:16 PM
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#97
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Just want to second some others mentioned after I posted earlier.
Papillon
One Flew OverCuckoos Nest
Good, Bad & Ugly
Sound of Music
It’s a Wonderful Life
And another one I really liked not yet mentioned.
Marathon Man
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02-07-2019, 06:40 PM
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#98
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Two movies I love watching with my little granddaughters that are in my top ten:
The Black Stallion
A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuaron’s version)
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02-07-2019, 07:04 PM
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#99
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10 more
Lillies in the field
The Godfather
The Milagro Beanfield Wsr
Like water for chocolate
The Mask
Up in Smoke
From here to Eternity
Elvira Mistress of the Dark
Fargo
Kingpin
The Black Marble
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02-07-2019, 07:14 PM
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#100
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 2,223
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And another 10
The Sand Pebbles
The Right Stuff
Fail safe
The Stuff
THX1138
Fahrenheit 451
The Graduate
12 Angry Men
Silent Running
Airplane
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