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the movie quotes thread got me thinking how i am always looking for great movies to watch. i would love to hear your top 5 movies. and if you have an obscure movie you really like, i'd love to hear that too, whether its a top 5 or not. so many to choose from. but i never seem to get tired of these:

american beauty (i wanna be lester one day!)
groundhog day (andie knocks my sox off!)
appolo 13 (i always get misty when mrs lovell says "if they could make a washing machine fly, my jimmy could land it")
gladiator (every list needs a little vigilante justice)
really torn on the 5th....leaning towards "the day the earth stood still"

my obscure favorite? "robinson crusoe on mars"!
 
  • Apollo 13 (space program, need I say more)
  • American President (great writing)
  • A&E's version of Pride and Prejudice (best version with really good actors, wish I could talk like them)
  • Notting Hill (Ok I am a sucker for Julia)
  • Lord of the Rings Series (Just plain cool)
 
Not necessarily in order, but these are among my favoites....

Caddyshack
Tin Cup
Strategic Air Command
Flying Leathernecks

and my all time favorite....
The Best Years of Our Lives
 
Well, as far as flying movies,

I enjoyed Top Gun, Flight of the Intruder, Memphis Belle, Battle of Britain, and really, my most favorite movie of all time, Empire of the Sun. That movie is great!

Off the wall...Napolean Dynamite.

My other favorite that might place my masculinity in question...My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
 
hmmmm
apollo 13
the jerk
right stuff
walk the line (got it on dvd yesterday)
battle of britain

not neccesarily in that order
 
tina you fat lard, eat your dinner!
sweet!
shocks, pegs, awesome!

bad thread creep here, sorry
 
Ken Ibold said:
Favorite offbeat movie: Mars Attacks!
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nyak nyak, nyak nyak!

both funny and sick. I loved it when they used their death ray to direct the Washington monument to change course and fall on and crush the boy scout troop. Sick humor. Sick sick sick. Loved it.
 
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Tombstone ("I'm your Huckleberry")
So I Married an Axe Murderer ("Oh, how I hated the Colonel, with his wee beady eyes...")
Jurassic Park ("..and here I am talking to myself, that...that's chaos theory..."
Star Wars Episodes IV, V, VI ("Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngghhhhhhhh")
too many other good ones to pick #5 right now...
after further review..
O Brother Where Art Thou? ("Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork.")
Couldn't stop at 5.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ("Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma!")
 
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Blues Brother
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Smokey and the Bandit
Animal House
Life of Brian

Says volumes about my taste, I guess...
 
Tough one as the change daily.

1. Twelve O'Clock High
2. Dr. No - the first Bond film
3. Battle of Britain
4. The Sergeo Leone "Dollars" trilogy with Clint Eastwood
5. The Ipcress file and Funeral in Berlin - Michael Caine as the poor man's James Bond

Honrable Mention - Dr. Strangelove
 
Bill Jennings said:
nyak nyak, nyak nyak!

both funny and sick. I loved it when they used their death ray to direct the Washington monument to change course and fall on and crush the boy scout troop. Sick humor. Sick sick sick. Loved it.
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AND it has general aviation in it!

"Do not run! We are your friends!"
 
Spirit Of St. Louis, Jimmy Stuart
Blade Runner, Harrison Ford
The Firm, Tom Cruise
Hot Shots, (I)
Airplane
Phantom Of The Opera, the newer movie
Devils Advocate
High Road To China
The Great Waldo Pepper
Hell's Angels, Howard Huges
Memphis Belle, + the making of...

Pick any five,
and add another five that I forgot!
 
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Too tough to pick just 5
Holy Grail
Dr. Strangelove
Office Space
2001
Shawshank
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
Christmas Story

Off the top of my head.
 
top gun
old school
office space
battle of midway
saving private ryan
 
Evil Roy Slade
The Great Waldo Pepper
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (it's goofy but I want that car flying or not)
Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines
Without A Clue
Anything Abbott and Costello
Noises Off - a runner up in the wacky humor department

The truth is that I decided movies were total bunk in 1991 and haven't been to one since. I don't miss them at all. The bits and pieces I very occasionally see on tv of new stuff just reinforces the total bunk placard.

I only go to live performances nowadays:
Anything symphony doing classical
Les Miserables
Fiddler on the Roof
Phantom of the Opera
Riverdance
Celtic Woman (next on the list)
Plus about 20 others that were fun but not as great.
 
fgcason said:
I only go to live performances nowadays:
Anything symphony doing classical
Les Miserables
Fiddler on the Roof
Phantom of the Opera
Riverdance
Celtic Woman (next on the list)
Plus about 20 others that were fun but not as great.
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You gotta go see Wicked, It is great!!
 
The Seven Samurai
Twelve O'Clock High
Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)
Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
(anything by Hayao Miyazaki)
The Fifth Element
The Princess Bride
and many more!
 
smigaldi said:
Ghosh!!

Pedro: Like what are my skills?
Napoleon Dynamite: Well, you have a sweet bike. And you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're like the only guy at school who has a mustache.
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My daughter gave that to me as a stocking stuffer last Christmas. It is so lame it's comical. I'm still undecided if I should try to watch it a 2nd time to try to understand the movie.
 
Richard said:
My daughter gave that to me as a stocking stuffer last Christmas. It is so lame it's comical. I'm still undecided if I should try to watch it a 2nd time to try to understand the movie.
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I don't think there is much to understand, just a silly SNLish type movie that makes you laugh.
 
"Nappy D" must be watched again and again. It usually funniest when viewed in a group of your friends and family. Especially the younger ages. The innumerable one-liners can be quoted in all kinds of life's situations. Watch it again and enjoy.
 
Casablanca
the first Star Wars movie
Singin' in the Rain

Lots of other excellent movies are below these, but these are the ones I never get tired of.

Judy
 
not a top-5 movie BUT a very worthwhile movie to see if you have not seen it.

Intermission, with Colin Farrell. One of those late night / early morning movies on Showtime or IFC. Caught this over the wkd - surprisingly really good. FABULOUS soundtrack.

I'm not sure this made general cinemas - I don't remember it from 2003 - but who knows. It's quite Irish - bleak and dark humor - about a bunch of losers whose lives intersect in unusual ways. Colin looks quite intense (does he ever NOT look intense) and there are a few other well-knowns if you like foreign films.

I'd give it a thumbs up - and see it again.

another recent thumbs up - Up at the Villa with Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. Worth it SOLELY for the Tuscan/Florence countryside, but a good movie on its own.
 
terzap said:
The Seven Samurai
Twelve O'Clock High
Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)
Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
(anything by Hayao Miyazaki)
The Fifth Element
The Princess Bride
and many more!
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Oh, yes! Hey let's have a movie party, I think we have the same taste.
I'll also bring: "Serenity" and "Contact"...

--Kath
 
The thread has ended and nobody mentioned "The Right Stuff?"

"We get two kinds of pliots in here. We get your prime pilots who get to fly all of the hot planes, and we get your pudknockers who wish they could get to fly the hot planes.

Now. What're you two pudknockers gonna have?"

Pancho did not look anywhere as good as that actress who played her.

Bob Hoover said she looked like she was always pulling 5 G's.

We threatening to have Jann play Pancho in a one woman show.
 
Lawrence of Arabia
Rear Window
LA Confidential
anything by Miyazaki (ditto what someone else said)

never can figure out the fifth one. Top Gun? Guns of Navarone? anything with planes in it?
 
Frank Browne said:
and my all time favorite....
The Best Years of Our Lives
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That is just a great movie. I love the part where the main character (forget name) gets in the B-17 in the scrap yard.

My top five list changes a lot but I enjoy:

Patton
The Sergio Leone "Dollars" trilogy with Clint Eastwood
Any Hitchcock movie with either Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant
Funeral in Berlin
The Dogs of War
 
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Amadeus - just a brilliant view of Mozart's life
Cool Hand Luke - Newman's best movie.
Blazing Saddles - Do I need to say anything more?
Unforgiven - Nothing captures the beauty of the west and the pain of a retired cowboy quite like this movie.
Fight Club - I Am Jack's Seething Ball of Rage

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Not a movie, but the Royal Shakespere Company's 1982 production of "Nicholas Nickelby" (starring Roger Rees as Nicholas) has to be my favorite A&E product, bar none. The Colin Firth P+P is also excellent, but I'll take Dickens any day over Austen.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
Drama

Crash
Schindlers List
Dances with Wolves
Deer Hunter
Scar Face

Comedy

Animal House
Caddy Shack
Stripes
American Pie
Fast Times at Ridgmont High ( Gotta love Spicoli his dad has an awesome set of tooools)
 
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Where Eagles Dare (Clint Eastwood / Richard Burton) - one of the best WWII movies - my all time favorite.

Kelley's Heros (Clint Eastwood / Donald Sutherland / et al) - again, one of the best WWII movies

The Green Berets (The Duke) - Vietnam movie

Apocolypse Now (Martin Sheen, Marlin Brando, Robert Duvall) - Vietnam movie.

Strategic Air Command (Jimmy Stewart, June Allison) - Cold war bombers

I'll add a 6th......Full Metal Jacket - Graphic, but good.

Hmmm..kind of a war theme going...

Greg
182RG
 
1. Casablanca
2. Shindlers List
3. Cider House Rules
4. The Piano
5. Amelie (French Film)
 
Waht, no one has mentioned Blues Brothers? Or Monte Python?
 
good point Bill! Monty Python for sure.

other good ones:

Dumb and DUmber (boo hiss, I can hear it now)
English Patient
Saving Private Ryan
FRench Kiss
Trainspotting
 
Caddy Shack
Psycho
On Golden Pond
Guess Who's Coming for Dinner
Indiana Jones
 
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