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Offline Halo

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« on: January 03, 2007, 09:53:45 AM »
Another year of film splendor has passed so it's time to update the list of your All-Time Favorite Movies.  

Name as few or many as you please.  Year of release would be nice to know.  

No need to bicker, defend, or categorize.  Just what YOU have liked the best over the years.  

Here are mine:

1. A Man for All Seasons, 1966
2. Fargo, 1996
3. The Last Wave, 1977
4. Amadeus, 1984
5. The Night of the Hunter, 1955
6. Moonstruck, 1987
7. Jesus Christ Superstar, 1973
8. Husbands and Wives, 1992
9. Pulp Fiction, 1994
10. Breaking Away, 1979
11. Tell Me a Riddle, 1980
12. Tremors, 1990
13. Airplane!, 1980
14. Driving Miss Daisy, 1989
15. Crash, 2005
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Offline Neubob

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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2007, 10:50:11 AM »
1.)   Cuccoon
2.)   Dude, where's my car?
3.)   Big-boobed **** pigs #17
4.)   National Lampoons National Lampoon
5.)   Stop or my mom will shoot
6.)   Rocky 5
7.)   Richie Rich
8.)   Iron Eagle 3
9.)   Anything starring Synthia Rothrock
10.) The thin Red Line

Offline Mini D

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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2007, 10:51:19 AM »
In no particular order:

L.A. Confidential
L.A. Story
Animal House
O' Brother Where art Thou
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Better Off Dead
3 O'Clock High
Amelie
Van Wilder
Wierd Science
The Big Hit
Blade Runner
A Fish Called Wanda
Sin City
Princess Bride
Joe Dirt

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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2007, 10:55:24 AM »
Some good movies above.  In no particular order:

Ghostbusters
Star Trek 2
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was pretty damn fine.
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dr. Strangelove
Fight Club
Leon
Aliens
Bladerunner

Edit: Amelie was flippin fantastic.
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2007, 11:05:33 AM »
Matrix Trilogy
The Great White Hype
Step Into Liquid
Cube (1, 2, & 3)
Borat
Talladega Nights
Cars
Finding Nemo (I don't care if they are kids movies. Cars & Nemo were good.)
Thank You for Smoking
The Godfather
The Usual Suspects
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Apocalypse Now
Twelve Monkeys
Aliens
Forrest Gump
Crash
Kill Bill

That's in no particular order, and probably only 25% complete.

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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2007, 11:06:26 AM »
not rank in any way

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (all clint eastwood movies except "paint your wagon)
My Name is Nobody
Pulp fiction
Star Trek (all)
O'Brother Where art thou
the Long Kiss GoodNight
The Princess Bride
The Red Violin
(Just about anything with Samuel Jackson, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, Michael Cain, Clint Eastwood.  they dont make bad movies, but they can make bad movies worth watching)

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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2007, 11:28:54 AM »
the crow
star wars (all but 1)
breakfast club
less than zero
a few good men
fear and loathing in las vegas
the whole macross plus series
children of the corn.

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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2007, 11:48:52 AM »
No order

-Saving Private Ryan
-Band of Brothers
-The Great Raid
-Patton
-Night at the Roxbury
-Austin Powers (all 3)
-Airforce one
-Patriot
-Brave Heart
-Blood Diamond
-Rush Hour 1 and 2 (Oh, Oh hell no! You did not just touch my God (D word)radio!Don't you ever touch a black mans radio, YO boy. You can do that in China, but well get your @&^ killed down here man!
-Spy Games
-Forest Gump
-Star Wars
-Lord of the Ring
-The Mummy/Mummy Returns
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2007, 12:06:24 PM »
In order.


Vanishing Point
The road warrior
Mad Max
White Lightning
Smokey and the bandit
Le Mans

Hmmm seems to be a pattern.
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2007, 12:06:52 PM »
in no order...


Forrest Gump (maybe my favorite)
Fight Club
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Red Dawn
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (best book ever)
Full Metal Jacket (Possbily the best 1st 1/3rd of any movie ever)
Young Guns
Resevoir Dogs
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Band of Brothers
Second Hand Lions (EDIT: Almost forgot this one. Anyone else enjoy it?)
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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2007, 12:27:02 PM »
Band of Brothers :)
When trumpets Fade
12 o'clock High
Empire of the Sun
Top Gun  (Feel good movie)
Downfall
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Gladiator
Braveheart
Land Before Time (Best Cartoon Movie, Spielberg and Lucas Produced)
Plus a few others :)
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« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2007, 12:39:53 PM »
Guess I like old movies.

It happened one night (Gotta love Gable and Colbert)
Casablanca (Gotta love Bogie and Bergman)
12 Angry Men (Some seriously good acting.  And it makes ya think)
Battleground (Best war movie ever)
Maltese Falcon (gotta love Bogie)
The Professionals (Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster.  They don't make tough guys like that anymore)
The Philadelphia Story (Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant. Can't miss)
Kelly's Heros (Oddball!  It's a hunka junk! and it's got Clint.  Gotta have one Clint Eastwood film on the list)
Die Hard (a guilty pleasure)
Animal Crackers (or any other Marx brothers film up through Night at the Opera)
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« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2007, 12:59:49 PM »
i likes that 1 on ut00b where the dude get hit in the nuts:lol :lol :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

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« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2007, 01:38:13 PM »
Kelly's Heros , "tigers, you didn't say nutting about any tigers!!"

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« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2007, 06:24:22 PM »
A few of my must watch flicks in no particular order:
The Right Stuff
The Commitments
That Thing You Do!
Island in the Sky
Decision Before Dawn
Kelly's Heroes
Silverado
The Aviator
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Serenity
Marooned
Patton
Startegic Air Command
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
and a kazillion more...
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