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I just finished watching "Eragon" (yay Murtagh) and I wondered what y'all's favorite movies are. "The Return of the King" is mine...

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Requiem for a Dream, Brick, Sin City, Cool Hand Luke, Slingblade, Children of Men, Mystic River, Zabriskie Point, ElectraGlide in Blue, Resevoir Dogs, Unknown, Clockwork Orange, Brazil, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Green Mile, Man on Fire ( remake ), Apocolypse Now, Goodfella's, Last Tango in Paris, Blow Up, The Passenger (1975), Straw Dogs, Dog Day Afternoon, Road To Perdition, American Beauty, In Cold Blood (1967), The Professional, Marathon Man, Blood Diamond etc etc etc etc etc etc
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Full Metal Jacket. When I saw the opening scene with Gunny Hartman in the squad bay, I knew then and there that R. Lee Ermey just wasn't acting as a drill instructor... he was one.

 

I love Lord of the Rings too... to me, it's all one big movie so I don't distinguish between the 3.

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Off the top of my head The Big Lebowski, Godfather I & II, Chinatown, The Big Kahuna, Dark City, Spaceballs, Unforgiven to name a few. My taste ranges pretty wide though, those are just a few.
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Uhmm.. yeah. Too many. Some of my favourites include "Nashville" (but pretty much anything by Altman will do), "Casablanca", "O Lucky Man", "300", "The Matrix", "The Last Adventure" (great soundtrack), "Underground", "La Strada", "Welcome To Blood City", anything by Sergio Leone, lots of foreign stuff, "anything by Jacques Tati and so on. Ditto on "Duck Soup", but "Coconuts" will do in a pinch.

 

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Off the top of my head The Big Lebowski, Godfather I & II, Chinatown, The Big Kahuna, Dark City, Spaceballs, Unforgiven to name a few. My taste ranges pretty wide though, those are just a few.

The Godfather is awesome! I want to be Don Vito when I grow up... except still female...

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An old favorite was "2001 - A Space Odyssey" - been a space cadet ever since.

 

Other than that, far too many to pick just a few!

 

I saw "Marty" last night for the first time, and it's a great movie in its own way. "What do you wanna do tonight, Marty?" "I dunno, what do you wanna do tonight?" etc. etc. I loved how he finally decided his OWN happiness meant something and went for the gusto!

 

And "Birdman of Alcatraz" is a great old one....

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The Godfather is awesome! I want to be Don Vito when I grow up... except still female...

 

I mean it's a classic, definitely one of the best American films ever made.

 

An old favorite was "2001 - A Space Odyssey" - been a space cadet ever since.

 

I had the privilege of getting to see the best 70mm print of this in existence a few months ago. Way, way awesome.

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I saw "Marty" last night for the first time, and it's a great movie in its own way.

 

It's a really sweet film, isn't it?

 

I love the guys he hangs out with. The ones in the background that are always going on about Mickey Spillane ("Two dames? Boy, that Mickey Spillane, he sure can write!"), and Marty's rat-faced buddy ("Nuffink but a buncha dawgs!") :grin:

 

 

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Dr. Strangelove

Return Of The Pink Panther

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Unbreakable

Citizen Kane

Them!

20 Million Miles To Earth

Duck Soup

Forbidden Planet

This Is Spinal Tap

Frankenstein

Son Of Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein

The Producers (original)

Village Of The Damned

 

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An old favorite was "2001 - A Space Odyssey" - been a space cadet ever since.

 

That is my favorite movie of all time...saw it in the theater with my parents when I was in first grade.

 

Spinal Tap, Office Space, Up In Smoke, Caddyshack, Mulholland Drive, The Lord of the Rings movies.

 

I tend to like comedy, sci-fi, and action films. I'm not really into movies that are considered classic...I just want to be entertained.

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I love thousands of movies, but:

 

Godfather trilogy is #1

The Quiet Man (and all of John Wayne's Westerns)

Local Hero

Fish Called Wanda

The Man Who Would Be King

Quigley Down Under

The 25th Hour

Enemy of the State

 

Many more I can't recall just now.

 

 

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There is no way on God's green earth I could narrow that down to a single page so I'll toss out something you won't likely have seen.

 

 

Swimming to Cambodia

 

No honestly.... watching a guy at a table with a pitcher of water talk for two hours might seem torturous but it was very humorous and educational.

 

but not for everybody.

 

Oh ya... every original movie version that was turned into an American Remake simply so it could have a happy ending. Like The Vanishing / Spoorloos (org)

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I think I've heard of "Swimming to Cambodia" before. Have y'all seen "The Pursuit of Happyness"? It's really sweet- I was the only person in the theater who wasn't crying.

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