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Poll Question: Which one tickles your fancy the most?
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Lot of great films here but I'm choosing Dog Day Afternoon.  Such a fully committed performance from Pacino.
 
Loved Midnight Run too, not to mention Blow-Up and The French Connection.

As John Travolta says in the completely underwhelming Swordfish, it is genuinely Lumet's best work and up there for Pacino (a man that always delivers).
Based on a true story too. (Such a crazy little tale you just know it's got to be realLOL)


Embarrassed  I liked Swordfish (great cast).
The slow motion circular scene where the lady wearing the claymore mine vest runs into the street 
and blows up is amazing special effects cinematography.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

The first five are long time favorites.
From the second five I'm only familiar with Midnight Run which is also a favorite.
As a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut novels I'm embarrassed to say I have not seen
Slaughterhouse Five. But I do own Mother Night with Nick Nolte.

Ouch! Damn you've been missing out Gary! Sorry to say so, but yeahLOL
I think George Roy Hill did a wonderful job of translating Vonnegut's dark humour onto the screen. 


Hopefully I won't be missing out for long since I'll be going on Amazon shortly to see if it's available.
You should watch Mother Night if you can. Some may find it a bit slow but if you like the book then
that's not really a problem. John Goodman shows up in a couple of scenes as The Blue Fairy  Godmother.
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Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Lot of great films here but I'm choosing Dog Day Afternoon.  Such a fully committed performance from Pacino.
 
Loved Midnight Run too, not to mention Blow-Up and The French Connection.

As John Travolta says in the completely underwhelming Swordfish, it is genuinely Lumet's best work and up there for Pacino (a man that always delivers).
Based on a true story too. (Such a crazy little tale you just know it's got to be realLOL)
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I never saw any of those, although I have The French Connection on blu-ray Embarrassed (with a very stupid Portuguese title on the cover LOL)
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Lot of great films here but I'm choosing Dog Day Afternoon.  Such a fully committed performance from Pacino.
 
Loved Midnight Run too, not to mention Blow-Up and The French Connection.
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Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

The first five are long time favorites.
From the second five I'm only familiar with Midnight Run which is also a favorite.
As a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut novels I'm embarrassed to say I have not seen
Slaughterhouse Five. But I do own Mother Night with Nick Nolte.

Ouch! Damn you've been missing out Gary! Sorry to say so, but yeahLOL
I think George Roy Hill did a wonderful job of translating Vonnegut's dark humour onto the screen. 
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The first five are long time favorites.
From the second five I'm only familiar with Midnight Run which is also a favorite.
As a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut novels I'm embarrassed to say I have not seen
Slaughterhouse Five. But I do own Mother Night with Nick Nolte.
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

I've seen only 4 out of 10 on the list. Out of these 4 I really like Midnight Run. A twisty movie with a great Robert De Niro performance.

Great choice AndreyClap
I saw it last night (with Swedish subtitles no lessLOL). I'd completely forgotten about it. Well shame on me, because it is such an entertaining movie. No artsy stuff whatsoever but a sensational cast that really fires on all cylinders. Charles Grodin is hilarious as The Duke.
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I've seen only 4 out of 10 on the list. Out of these 4 I really like Midnight Run. A twisty movie with a great Robert De Niro performance.

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Pretty simple; I've chosen some completely unrelated films based purely on the fact that I love them all....for entirely different reasons. There are comedies, artsy stuff, ultra-violence, thrillers, gangster dramas and so forth yet they all feel like classics in one way or the other...maybe except for The Manchurian Candidate and Bronson. I guess we'll see in the future.

Which one tickles your fancy the most?
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