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gleam 
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 Topic: Your favorite movie
Posted: June 18 2005 at 20:00 |
What's your favorite movie? Mine is "The magnificent seven", a great buddie movie.
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Laurent
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 20:28 |
I want through a period where I was obsessed with Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.
I remember buying it on VHS(I didn't have a DVD player at the time) and pretty much watch it almost everynight for a couple of months. I later read the book, which was eqaully great.
Not sure if it's my favorite movie anymore, though.
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maani
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 21:24 |
No question: Picnic at Hanging Rock. Not only an absolutely gorgeous movie photographically (and lovingly directed by second-time director Peter Weir), but so hyper-allegorical that you can watch it over and over and see new things each time. It's like watching a pastel painting that changes subtext every time you look at it.
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 21:57 |
I don't really have a favourite movie, but I really enjoy all those old-school movies, like The Sound of Music.....
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frenchie
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 22:14 |
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lock, stock and two smoking barrells. a gangster/comedy film set in london.
others include the matrix, donnie darko, magnolia, seven, star wars (all 6), halloween, friday the 13th part 2
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The Worthless Recluse
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 22:34 |
Iván
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 00:58 |
 Arsillus wrote:
I don't really have a favourite movie, but I really enjoy all those old-school movies, like The Sound of Music.....
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I already was hoping that somebody else would mention the movie before me.
So much for my street credibility, if I ever had any, but that's my all time fav movie .
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 01:32 |
The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
The original version, not the new one with Denzel  . Best political thriller ever.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 01:58 |
I dont really have a favorite persay...there are alot i like, but i really cant pick one out.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Trotsky
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 02:42 |
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He's lost all his credibility now, but once upon a time, Kevin Costner
did Dances With Wolves and convinced me to start believing in movies
again ...
I really, really, really love Dances With Wolves ...
(NB. what's sad is that when the movie came out, I looked like Wind In
His Hair (Rodney Grant) and now I look like the insane fat guy who
pissed himself and then commits suicide near the beginning of the movie
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 03:16 |
gleam wrote:
What's your favorite movie? Mine is "The magnificent seven", a great buddie movie.
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"The Magnificent Seven" is a good movie, yet it is a Western remake of
Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai". Have a look at the original. Some
of the scenes have been copied to a T, just replacing samurai swords
with guns. (Example given: The duel between the peasant and James
Coburn, Horst Buchholz ringing the bell of the churchtower).
My favourite movie probably is "Don't Look Now!" featuring Donald
Sutherland and Julie Christie. But if you'd ask me tomorrow I'd
probably name another movie. There are so many good ones.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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tuxon
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 04:08 |
Just to bge a huge Kubrick fan, A Clockwork Orange, 2001; A Space Oddyssey, Spartacus, to name but a few.
Kind of lost interest in movies lately. But some I still like watching.
Snatch is a good movie,
From Dusk Till Dawn is a progressive movie
Rocky I is one of the best movies ever
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yesman72
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 04:51 |
Monty Pythons and the Holy Grail!!!!!!! Then Robin Hood Men in Tights maybe........This is Spinal Tap was awesome. and Fear and Loathing is pretty damn good
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undefinability
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 04:54 |
If I could, my choice would be Band of Brothers, but that's more of a series than an actual film.
Having said that, lately my pick would either be American History X, Office Space, or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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"Don't listen to me."
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barbs
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 05:00 |
maani wrote:
No question: Picnic at Hanging Rock. Not only
an absolutely gorgeous movie photographically (and lovingly directed by
second-time director Peter Weir), but so hyper-allegorical that you can
watch it over and over and see new things each time. It's like
watching a pastel painting that changes subtext every time you look at
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Maani, you would nearly have to be an ex-pat aussie to make a choice like that.
It is not my favourite but I would have to agree with your description of it.
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barbs
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 05:26 |
I have always liked a John Wayne movie called 'The Quiet Man'
about a boxing champion who decides to settle in a quiet little region
of Ireland to try and forget about his past. A little dated perhaps
with the male/female stereotypes but a real feel good movie just the
same.
One of the most visually stunning movies I have seen is 'The Duellist',
one of Ridley Scotts first feature films about 2 officers in Napoleons
army who begin a life long feud. Some of the most realistically
portrayed swordfighting filmed in an exquisite manner.
Waking Ned Devine is a very humorous movie shot in Ireland
and
...a love it or hate it movie is one called Wit
starring Emma Thompson who absorbs the role of a university lecturer
who is diagnosed with cancer and how she deals with it. It is the most
incredibly realistic portrayal you will ever see IMO, if you can get
through the first 20 mins of the movie and give yourself a chance to
let the narrative take you where it wants you to go. Our whole family
ended up balling at the end of this one so if you don't like movies
that will really get at you like that...  you might want to give it a try anyway.
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Eternity
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Tony R
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 06:00 |
The Deer Hunter.
Cimino's tale is a tour-de-force of filmaking.Every frame has meaning and power and the build up scenes-especially the wedding scene-are strangely over-looked by many viewers who just want to get to the action.
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Richardw
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 06:18 |
A great film and some nice original music too.
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dude
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 08:26 |
Sorry Maani but i thought "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was Boooooooooriiiiing!! it came from a time in Australia,s movie history when all we seemed to be making was stuffy costume dramas!!! (of course there were excellent movies to SUCH AS SUNDAY TO FAR AWAY,SUNSTRUCK,BREAKER MORANT,THE ODD ANGRY SHOT,THE CLUB(THE LAST TWO WITH THE LATE GREAT GRAHAM KENNEDY).......etc)
Also the incident described in the movie(victoria 1900) while a nice peice of Aussie folklore,has apparently been over exaggerated with the passage of time!
THE ALVIN PURPLE MOVIES WITH GRAHAM BLUNDALL...NOW THERE ARE SOME GREAT PEICES OF AUSSIE FILM MAKING... SOFT CORE PORN FUN FOR ALL!!!(AND FUNNY TOO!!! )
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gleam
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 10:45 |
BaldFriede wrote:
gleam wrote:
What's your favorite movie? Mine is "The magnificent seven", a great buddie movie.
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"The Magnificent Seven" is a good movie, yet it is a Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai". Have a look at the original. Some of the scenes have been copied to a T, just replacing samurai swords with guns. (Example given: The duel between the peasant and James Coburn, Horst Buchholz ringing the bell of the churchtower).
My favourite movie probably is "Don't Look Now!" featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. But if you'd ask me tomorrow I'd probably name another movie. There are so many good ones.
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Actually, I saw the original Japanese version first. Like all remakes, the director will repeat scenes (specially powerful ones that help move the story line along).
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