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Your top 25 favorite movies.

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Shawshank Redemption
Little Miss Sunshine
Amelie
Italian for Beginners
Annie Hall
The Triplets of Belleville
American Splendor
Sideways
Million Dollar Baby
Big Fish
The Blues Brothers
Secretary
City of God
Dead Poets Society
Good Will Hunting
Donnie Darko
Glory
Life Is Beautiful
Schindler's List
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Lonesome Dove
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shakespeare in Love
Shrek
A League of Their Own
Field of Dreams
Desperado
Once
 
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OregonBuckeye;1211027; said:
Into the Wild- Went it knowing pretty much nothing about the story it was based on so the ending really surprised me. Touching movie.
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I second that, though, as I understand it, it is replete with factual inaccuracies that make the main character look like less of a moron. Nevertheless, wonderful story.

Let me also throw in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as one of the best flicks I've seen recently. I have no idea why it didn't get more press, but it just an outstanding movie.
 
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Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Goonies
Forrest Gump
Hoosiers
Pride of the Yankees
Bull Durham
Far and Away
Full Metal Jacket
Braveheart
Scarface
Super Troopers
Dumb and Dumber
Goodfellas
Happy Gilmore
The Outsiders
Night of the Living Dead
Stripes
Talledega Nights
40 Year Old Virgin
Office Space
Tombstone
Dark Knight
Boyz in the Hood
Menace II Scociety
Secret of NIHM
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Clerks
Back to the Future
Major League
The Toy
We Were Soldiers
Shawshank Redemption
Silver Bullet
The Stand
Legends of the Fall
 
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exhawg;1211320; said:
It's amazing that I can totally agree with you on half the list and hate the other half. You must have loved Oscar season last year. I personally thought it was the worst class of best picture nominees that I can remember.
I didn't know who Christopher Nolan was before The Dark Knight, but now that I check out his filmography I watched all but 1 of his films and loved them all.
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I don't pay too much attention to the awards. I would care more if I could watch them, but I think I've worked on awards night every night since I was 16.

Chris Nolan is probably my favorite director.. I could've had four of his films in my top 25 (The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Memento).

sepia5;1211395; said:
Let me also throw in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as one of the best flicks I've seen recently. I have no idea why it didn't get more press, but it just an outstanding movie.
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Great film.. Brad Pitt actually playing a character that fits his style, and Casey Affleck being a crazy good actor like usual. It's visually awesome too.
 
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This is the best I can do at work. A lot of cheating and I still couldn't get it down to 25.

Fight Club
Big Fish
Shawshank Redemption
Office Space
Forrest Gump
Back to the Future
The Game
The Matrix
The Usual Suspects
Star Wars
Anything by Kevin Smith
Indiana Jones 1 & 3
Anything by Christopher Nolan
Anything by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Space Balls
Jurassic Park
High Fidelity
The Goonies
American History X
Beautiful Girls
Happy Gilmore
There's Something about Mary
300
American Pie
Basic
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The 13th Floor
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

*I like most mob movies, but not enough to go on the list

Thanks for giving me some movies to add to my Blockbuster queue.
 
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i judge my favorite movies by this:
if i'm flipping through the channels and this movie is on do i stop and watch it even if its half way over
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Office Space - as long as i'm in a cube this will be my favorite movie
Monster INC
Summer Catch - i would go gay for Freddy Prince Jr
Clerks II - its OK to go ATM in the heat of the moment
Forrest Gump - probably saw this movie 100 times when it first came out
Young Guns (I & II) -
Terminator II
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Vision Quest - wrestled in JR and SR high school
Red Dawn
Beer League - i love Artie and i really thought this was a good movie
American History X
Fight Club
 
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LOTR Trilogy
The Matrix
Gladiator
Batman Begins
Dark Knight

Shawshank Redemption
A Beautiful Mind
Minority Report
Breakfast Club
Jurassic Park

Donnie Darko
Friday Night Lights
Casino Royale
Monsters, Inc
_____________ (reserved for Wall-E, once I see it)

Princess Bride
What About Bob?
Man Who Knew Too Little
Dumb and Dumber
Meet the Parents

Zoolander
Office Space
Anchorman
Hot Shots
Tommy Boy
 
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Besides all the James Bond movies here are 25 of some my other favorites (no order):

The Deep
One On One
The Last Picture Show
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
E. T.
Animal House
Revenge Of The Nerds
M*A*S*H
Easy Rider
Forrest Gump
The Mask
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Graduate
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Curse Of The Black Pearl
How The West Was Won (in Cinerama)
Dirty Harry
American Grafitti
American Pie
Major League
The Bad News Bears
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
My Fellow Americans
Beetlejuice
Club Paradise
 
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3074326;1210906; said:
I need to see more classic films from pre-90s.
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That would seem to be a recurring theme in this thread.

Here's some "classics" that you might want to check out - titles in bold are "must see". I have arranged them in categories:

Alfred Hitchcock - director
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sabotage (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
North By Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Frenzy (1972)

Stanley Kubrick - director
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odessey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Billy Wilder - director
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Orson Welles - actor/director
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Stranger (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Othello (1952)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Compulsion (1959)

Sir Laurence Olivier - actor/director
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Rebecca (1940) (Hitchcock)
Henry V (1944)
Hamlet (1948)
Richard III (1955)
Sleuth (1972)

Cary Grant - actor
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Gunga Din (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Notorious (1946)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
North By Northwest (1959)
Charade (1963)

Humphrey Bogart - actor
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Big Sleep (1946) (with Lauren Bacall)
Key Largo (1948) (with Lauren Bacall)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)

War and Related
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Great Escape (1963)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Kelly's Heroes (1970) (Eastwood)
Breaker Morant (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979) (avoid the 2001 "Redux")
Gallipoli (1981) (Mel Gibson)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) (Kubrick)
Europa, Europa (1991)
Schindler's List (1993)

Historical
Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Henry V (1944) (Olivier)
Becket (1964)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Lady Jane (1986)
Henry V (1989) (Branagh)
Queen Margot (1994) (French)
Elizabeth (1998) (Cate Blanchett)

Heist Movies
White Heat (1949) (Cagney)
Ashphalt Jungle (1950)
Rififi (1954) (French)
Bob le Flambeur (1955) (French)
The Killing (1956) (Kubrick)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) (Italian)
Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round (1966)
The Italian Job (1969) (Michael Caine)
The Red Circle (1970) (French)
Dollars (1971) (Warren Beatty)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Comedies
Pygmalion (1938)
His Girl Friday (1940) (Cary Grant)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Ladykillers (1955) (Peter Sellers)
The Court Jester (1955)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Holy Grail (1975) (Monty Python)
Network (1976)
Slap Shot (1977)
Life of Brian (1979) (Monty Python)
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) (Sting)
Raising Arizona (1987) (Coen brothers)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Hairspray (1988) (avoid the re-make)
Without a Clue (1988) (Michael Caine)
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Barcelona (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Get Shorty (1995)
Lock, Stock and Two Smokin Barrels (1998)
Rushmore (1998) (Bill Murray)
The Zero Effect (1998)

Cult Movies
Carnival of Souls (1962)
A Hard Day's Night (1964) (The Beatles)
Help! (1965) (The Beatles)
The Incubus (1966) (William Shatner)
Shaft (1971)
Superfly (1972)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Death Race 2000 (1975) (Stallone)
Eraserhead (1978) (David Lynch)
Mad Max (1979) (Mel Gibson)
The Warriors (1979)
Rock 'n Roll High School (1979) (Ramones)
Great Rock and Roll Swindle (1980) (Sex Pistols)
Stunt Man (1980)
Polyester (1981)
Eating Raoul (1982)
Emerald Cities (1983)
Liquid Sky (1983)
Repo Man (1984)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Dead Again (1991)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Twelve Monkeys (1995) (Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt)
Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
Dead Man (1996) (Depp)
In the Company of Men (1997)
Pi (1998)
Ghost Dog (1999)

Chick Flicks
Roman Holiday (1953) (Audrey Hepburn)
Anastasia (1956) (Ingrid Bergman)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Audrey Hepburn)
Room With a View (1986)
Babette's Feast (1987) (Danish)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
A Merry War (1997)
Happenstance (2000) (French)
Amelie (2001) (French)

Miscellaneous
Queen Christina (1933) (Garbo)
The Thin Man (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934) (won all five major Oscars)
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (Errol Flynn)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Laura (1944)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) (early Kirk Douglas)
All About Eve (1950) (Bette Davis)
D.O.A. (1950) (avoid the re-make)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (musical)
On the Waterfront (1954) (Brando)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (musical)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Manchurian Candidate (1962) (Sinatra) (avoid the re-make)
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) (Eastwood)
How to Steal a Million (1966) (Audrey Hepburn)
Blow Up (1966)
Bullitt (1968) (Steve McQueen)
The French Connection (1971)
Dirty Harry (1972) (Eastwood)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather II (1974)
The Parallax View (1974) (Warren Beatty)
Chinatown (1974) (Nicholson)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Elephant Man (1980) (David Lynch)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blood Simple (1984) (Coen brothers)
Bugsy (1991) (Warren Beatty)
Quiz Show (1994)
Invincible (2002)

Foreign Language
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) (German - silent)
Nosferatu (1922) (German - silent)
Metropolis (1926) (German - silent)
Pandora's Box (1928) (German - silent)
The Blue Angel (1930) (German)
M (1931) (German)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932) (German)
Grand Illusion (1937) (French)
Day of Wrath (1943) (Danish)
Beauty and the Beast (1946) (French)
Stray Dog (1949) (Japanese)
Orpheus (1950) (French)
Rashomon (1950) (Japanese)
The Seven Samurai (1954) (Japanese)
Diabolique (1956) (French)
The Seventh Seal (1957) (Swedish)
Black Orpheus (1959) (Brazilian)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (French)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) (German)
Kagemusha (1980) (Japanese)
Diva (1982) (French)
Jean de Floret (1986) (French)
Manon of the Spring (1986) (French)
Zentropa (1992) (Danish)
Run, Lola, Run (1998) (German)
Tuvalu (2000) (German)

Just a sample of the "great" movies that are out there - most should be available on Netflix.

If I had to pick just twelve films from the list that the casual moviegoer should see, they would be:

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Third Man (1949)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Killing (1956)
North By Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Bullitt (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
Dirty Harry (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
 
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WyoBuckeye;1211044; said:
Whispers in the Wind
To Each His Own
Put It Where It Doesn't Belong
My Pipes Need Cleaning
All Tit-F***ing Volume 8
I Need Your C**k
A**-Worshipping Rim-Jobbers
My C**t and Eight Shafts
C*m Clean
C*m-Gargling Naked Sluts
C*m Buns III
C*mming in Socks
C*m On Eileen
Huge Black C**ks with Pearly White C*m
Girls Who Crave C**k
Girls Who Crave C**t
Men Alone II: The KY Connection
Pink P***y Lips
oh, yeah, and, uh, All Holes Filled with Hard C**k


And especially Happy Scrappy Hero Pup
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GPA

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LordJeffBuck;1211567; said:
That would seem to be a recurring theme in this thread.

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odessey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Apocalypse Now (1979) (avoid the 2001 "Redux")
Full Metal Jacket (1987) (Kubrick)
Life of Brian (1979) (Monty Python)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather II (1974)
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I collect DVDs, and I've been waiting for all of those titles to drop a bit in price. I own The Godfather trilogy, just haven't watched it yet. Just bought it last week, along with Heat and The Shawshank Redemption. I call myself a film lover and I've never seen a Kubrick film. :shake:

I saw the beginning to 2001: A Space Odyssey last week, but it came on at 5 AM and I couldn't stay awake. I loved the first 30 minutes. Your recommended list looks excellent, though. It'll take me a while to get through all those. :biggrin:
 
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