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^ ^^  Forrest Gump is also on my list and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is definitely an "off the beaten path" type of movie but that appeals to me sometime. I don't think anyone could have played the lead as well as Tom Hanks. John Travolta was the original choice and I'm glad that didn't happen. 
Gary Sinise was excellent as Lieutenant Dan and Mykelti Williamson was great as "Bubba".
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I just hated the lead character throughout the movie.
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My list is pretty amorphous since I'm not really a movie expert and haven't seen a ton/forget about ones I've seen and basically cant commit LOL I like too many diff styles and genres


The Shawshank Redemption 
Forrest Gump
Goodfellas
A Scanner Darkly
2001: A Space Odyssey 
Fight Club
Dr Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
The Good the Bad & the Ugly
Oldboy (original, South Korean version of course)

After the first 5 it gets kind of random. And no, won't apologize for Forrest Gump!
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Points: 4335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2016 at 14:47
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

I just hated the lead character throughout the movie.


Agreed.  I also hated the movie.


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

I just hated the lead character throughout the movie.

I can certainly see that happening with Forrest being the lead character and  the narrator.
I just concentrated on some of the other characters whenever Forrest got to be a little too much.
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Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

I just hated the lead character throughout the movie.

I can certainly see that happening with Forrest being the lead character and  the narrator.
I just concentrated on some of the other characters whenever Forrest got to be a little too much.
everything I have ever heard/read about that movie makes me very grateful I have never seen it.
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What About Gillbert Grape is a fantastic movie
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A pretty weird thing happened in our (my family) experience of viewing Forrest Gump.  The first time we saw it was sometime in the 90s on TV and loved it though we could not follow some of the dialogues thanks to the strong Southern Accent sported by Tom Hanks.  Years later, somebody gifted us a DVD with subtitles and we discovered that some of the lines weren't saying what we had assumed them to.  Halfway through, we began to feel like the movie was actually some sort of send up and have never watched it since.  I am curious to find out what exactly it was that conveyed that impression and need to watch it again for that.  Regardless, I still think Hanks did a great job in the film; the only problem is I have grown a little tired of these Walt Disney-ish manipulative screenplays.  Tell people at least some of the time that you have to be happy with what you have and you don't always get to make all your dreams come true by wishing on some magic fairy in the sky.
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

(... ) Tell people at least some of the time that you have to be happy with what you have and you don't always get to make all your dreams come true by wishing on some magic fairy in the sky.

That is exactly also the problem that I have with Forest Gump. Always this underlying "be stupid and happy and everything will turn out fine" type of (manipulative) message.
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-V for Vendetta
-The Godfather
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Se7en
-The Dark Knight
-Memento
-The Prestige
-Point Break
-Lucky Number Slevin
-Fracture
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Originally posted by Formentera Lady Formentera Lady wrote:

Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

(... ) Tell people at least some of the time that you have to be happy with what you have and you don't always get to make all your dreams come true by wishing on some magic fairy in the sky.

That is exactly also the problem that I have with Forest Gump. Always this underlying "be stupid and happy and everything will turn out fine" type of (manipulative) message.

 
That's exactly the reason I never wanted to see it. I'd rather be intelligent and miserable if it means I think for myself.
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I didn't much like Gump. You've got the runs, Forrest, the runs.

I don't have a top ten, so here are first to spring to mind.

The Bothersome Man, I adore this film. Don't think many know it.



Clockwork Orange
Brazil
Das Boot
Ju Dou
Element of Crime
The Wicker Man (original of course)
Never Let Me Go
Paris, Texas
Black Rain (Japan)
And mention bonus Hot Fuzz for being so fun. Could also mention Alphaville, Three Colours Trilogy. Pan's Labyrinth, Kill Bill etc. etc. Think Kill Bill should be in my top ten.
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I'm probably overlooking something but these all came to mind quickly:

Life of Brian
Winter's Bone
Warriors
Fargo
Spinal Tap
The Shining
The Wizard of Oz
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mr. Holland's Opus
The Thing (John Carpenter version)
 
and one more because I think it deserves a mention - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
 
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I have overlooked a film, so I edited my post on page 2
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=105451&PID=5277195#5277195
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Originally posted by Formentera Lady Formentera Lady wrote:

I have overlooked a film, so I edited my post on page 2
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=105451&PID=5277195#5277195


 
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1) "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" ("M - A City Searching For a Murderer) by Fritz Lang
2)  "Viva la Muerte!" by Fernando Arrabal
3) "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski
4) "La montaña sagrada" ("The Holy Mountain") by Alejandro Jodorowsky
5) "De Wisselwachter" ( "The Pointsman") by Jos Stelling
6) "Don't Look Now!" by Nicolas Roeg
7) "Malpertuis" by Harry Kümel
8) "Touch of  Evil" by Orson Welles
9) "Belle de Jour" by Luis Buñuel
10) "Charade" by Stanley Donen

The list may be different some other day, but "M" will always be at the top.




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"Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa
"Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens" by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
"Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles
"Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari" by Robert Wiene
''Nóż w wodzie'" ("Knife in the Water") by Roman Polanski
"The Night of the Hunter" by Charles Laughton
"Arsenic and Old Lace" by Frank Capra
"Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock
"Aguirre - Der Zorn Gottes" by Werner Herzog
"Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum") by Volker Schlöndorff

like Friede's list this could change on another day, but "Rashomon" will always be my absolute favorite

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Here is a scene from "De Wisselwachter", from the first ten minutes. It is not a very talkative movie.


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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2016 at 09:53
And here one of the most powerful scenes from "M". In fact one of the most powerful movie scenes of all time.


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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2016 at 10:09
and here an iconic scene from "The Night of the Hunter"



and the second sword fight scene from "Rashomon". while the first sword fight scene, as described by the bandit Tajomaro, was a heroic fight by two excellent swordsmen the second version of the sword fight, as described by the woodcutter, shows two clumsy cowards fighting. one of my favorite scenes from the movie




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