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Your top 25 favorite movies.

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I have a hard time adding newer movies to my all time list without seeing how they stand up over time, so here are the movies that are already in for me (no real particular order):

Godfather - simply the best movie ever, except…
Godfather II - perhaps tied with #1
Shawshank Redemption - “Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’: that’s goddamn right.”
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - maybe the reason I studied religion in undergrad
Empire of the Sun - absolutely perfect movie featuring a young Bale, Malcovich & Pantoliano (and, randomly, a young Ben Stiller)
The Usual Suspects - I just love this movie
The Goonies - an early favorite movie
Back to the Future - an early favorite and now an iconic American movie
Star Wars IV-IV - I hate the new ones, but the originals are still fantastic
Casino - one of my favorite gangster films for the way it was shot - fantastic looking movie
Once Upon a Time in America - highly underrated gangster film
A Bronx Tale - one of my favorites
Hoop Dreams - the perfect documentary
Scent of a Woman - great movie, but probably ruined Pacino’s career by convincing him he needed to yell in all of his movies going forward
Dead Poet’s Society / School Ties - tied for second place behind Scent of a Woman in prep-school dramas
25th Hour / Malcolm X - Spike Lee’s best movies (and the movie that Denzel should have won best leading actor)
Glory - IMO the best war movie
Thomas Crowne Affair (the newer version) - it was hard to believe that Pierce could have been a bigger pimp than he was as Bond, but he was a genius in this movie
Se7en - Creepiest movie ever, IMO - tremendous performances by all involved
The Matrix - this and T2 started new movements in visual and special effects
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Gene Wilder’s performance gets better the older I get - his character is completely detached
Beverly Hills Cop / Coming to America / Trading Places - Eddie’s best work
Kings of Comedy / Killin’ Them Softly / Bigger and Blacker - my favorite stand-up videos (yes, ahead of Raw and Delirious)
Swingers - just a classic guys’ movie
Bad Boys I & II - highly entertaining, the Bruck produced the action - great on-screen comedy combination too

And here are some new ones that I think are great:

Syriana - excellent commentary on what’s going on in the Mideast these days
The Good Shepherd - great, great realistic
Blood Diamond - I still can’t believe that Djimon Hounsou didn’t win best supporting actor for his performance
The Last King of Scotland - scary-good performance by Forest Whitaker
The Bourne Trilogy - Damon kicks some serious ass
The Ocean’s Trilogy - hilarious with amazing ensemble casts
The Interpreter - for some reason I just really like this movie
The Departed - just a great movie, with a better cast

Still working on newcomers…
 
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sepia5;1210947; said:
Well, in no particular order, I'll name a few of my random favorites, starting with a serious Coen brother's fix:

1) The Big Lebowski ("Obviously you're not a golfer.")
2) Oh Brother, Where art Thou? ("I dont want Fop, goddamnit! I'm a Dapper Dan man.")
5) The Usual Suspects (Biggest twist in American cinema history? Well, there is still The Crying Game.)
6) Amores Perros (one of the best films I've seen in years, but can make you queasy if you're a dog lover like me)
12) Donnie Darko ("How exactly does one suck a [censored]?" This movie has a cult following for a reason.)
25) Cool Hand Luke ("Callin' it your job don't make it right.")
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Color of Money ( find your area of excellence, and rich can be arranged)
GodFather
Usual Suspects (Give me the keys you cock sucker, WTF)
Lucky # slevin (You to took everything I ever loved. Fuck you both)
Ocean's 11
Man on fire (hold on your brother has something he wants to say to you)
Snatch (ok, I'll do it for a caravan. Periwinkle blue)
Tombstone (you gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed)
Fallen ( time is on my side)
Basic
Unforgiven
Brave heart (FREEDOM)
Fist full of Dollars ( you got to aim for the heart Ramon)
Heat
Gladiator
Batman Begins
Smokey and the Bandit (a legend, and out of work bum look an awful lot alike)
Friday (you want some of this old man)
Super Troopers (stinks like sex in here)
Intolerable Cruelty (The Massey prenup)
Army of Darkness ( hail to the king baby)
The Matador
Thomas Crown Affair
Boondock Saints
Die Hard
 
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My top 25, no particular order

The Dark Knight
Wedding Crashers
Bad Boys II
Friday
The Rock
Gone In 60 Seconds
Dodgeball
Remember The Titans
Batman Begins
Caddy Shack
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (The old ones)
The Sting
Old School
I:Robot
Enemey Of The State
The Bourne Series
Transformers
Mr. Deeds
Big Daddy
Wild Wild West
National Treasure
Sandlot
Meet The Parents
40 Year Old Virgin
Oceans 11/12/13
 
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LordJeffBuck;1211567; said:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Well, I got started on your list and just finished this. I greatly enjoyed it. I need to watch it again to make sure I fully comprehend everything it was saying. :)

(The "ummm..... :frown2:" factor of this film is pretty much off the charts.)
 
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3074326;1212970; said:
Well, I got started on your list and just finished this. I greatly enjoyed it. I need to watch it again to make sure I fully comprehend everything it was saying. :)

(The "ummm..... :frown2:" factor of this film is pretty much off the charts.)
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A good place to start - definitely one of my top 25.

Lurid and shocking and violent to be sure ... but so is Macbeth. A very beautifully filmed movie, despite the disturbing images.

Actually, a very spiritual message is at the heart of the movie: Free will is God's greatest gift to man, and thus forcing a man to act "good" is itself "evil" because it removes his free will.
 
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LordJeffBuck;1213031; said:
A good place to start - definitely one of my top 25.

Lurid and shocking and violent to be sure ... but so is Macbeth. A very beautifully filmed movie, despite the disturbing images.

Actually, a very spiritual message is at the heart of the movie: Free will is God's greatest gift to man, and thus forcing a man to act "good" is itself "evil" because it removes his free will.
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What's your problem with Happy Gilmore? :p
 
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LordJeffBuck;1211567; said:
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odessey (1968)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Picked up those three tonight (and Raging Bull). Dr. Strangelove is fantastic. Every scene in the war room = classic. I'm glad I listened in history class, the film wouldn't be nearly as great if I had no idea about our views of communism back in the day.
 
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3074326;1223843; said:
Picked up those three tonight (and Raging Bull). Dr. Strangelove is fantastic. Every scene in the war room = classic. I'm glad I listened in history class, the film wouldn't be nearly as great if I had no idea about our views of communism back in the day.
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I still think 'Raging Bull' is DeNiro and Pesci's best.
 
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Not in order, and if I gave it more thought, some things would probably change.

Godfather
Godfather II
Chinatown
Drunken Angel (Kurosawa)
Harakiri (Kobayashi)
Rashoman (Kurosawa)
The Big Lebowski
Blues Brothers
Animal House
The Sting
Night and The City (Jules Dassin)
The Third Man
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Get Carter (the original with Michael Cain)
Dazed and Confused
Where Eagles Dare
The Grand Illusion
Shawshank Redemption
City Lights
The Great Dictator
Pulp Fiction
The Maltese Falcon
Superfly
Rear Window
39 Steps
Key Largo
 
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Not sure I'll come up with 25. I don't think I've stayed awake through that many.

Braveheart
Gladiator
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Beverly Hills Cop
Better Off Dead
Animal House
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Wayne's World
Star Wars Episode IV
Star Wars Episode III
Star Wars Episode V
Eight Below
Remember The Titans
Radio
Falling Down
Coming To America
Rocky
Independence Day
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
An American Werewolf in London
The Howling
The Shining
Castaway

Well shit, I think I made it
 
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no real order but here be mine:

1. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
2. BRAVEHEART
3. FIELD OF DREAMS
4. GOOD WILL HUNTING
5. SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
6. DUMB AND DUMBER
7. TOMMY BOY
8. JERRY MAGUIRE
9. CHINATOWN
10. POINT BREAK
11. FORREST GUMP
12. A FEW GOOD MEN
13. STAR WARS EPISODE IV
14. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
15. HOOSIERS
16. BULL DURHAM
17. CADDYSHACK
18. HEAT
19. CASINO
20. ANCHORMAN
21. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
22. THE SHINING
23. GONE IN 60 SECONDS
24. TOY STORY
25. GODFATHER II
 
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