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Post by Calidus » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:19 am

What is your all time favorite movie?

This one is actually kind of tough for me. There are so many that I REALLY like, that I do not know if I can pick just one, so, here are a few of my favorites:

Gardens of Stone
A Few Good Men (you can't handle the truth!)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shawshank Redemption
Second Hand Lions
Robin Hood, Prince of Theives (I know, I know, a Robin Hood without an English accent!!)
The Hunt for Red October
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Post by Vortan » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:12 am

I am afraid I too have multiple resoponses for this one and some are = sigh - predictable:

Conan the barbarian/destroyer etc.
End of Days
Star Wars 4 - 6 (stuff the new stuff)
Ring Trilogy
Postman
Gladiator
and finally King Arthur

Could go on but these are my top selection and I own them all.
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Post by Dragonette » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:23 am

i like all the harry potters
spartucus
waterloo
labyrinth
dark crystal

i have tens of favourite films but i like tese the most.

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Post by Lardmaster » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:30 pm

Star Wars (the original)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Zulu
It's a Wonderful Life
Towering Inferno
A Few Good Men
Event Horizon

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Post by Saladin » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:43 pm

For me the best film is a film you can watch over and over again never getting bored of it. So for me that has to be the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Two Towers being the best). I think i've seen the movies 11 times in the cinema and uncountable times at home.

Plus my house is a bit like a Lord of the Rings museum. The hallway is lined with several posters, there are 19 LotR statues standing throughout the house. I've got a lifesize Smeagol standee in the dining room and the 'piece the resistance' is a 8 foot by 12 foot big Return of the King canvas...yes the original one that was used at the premiere in Wellington. :D

Hey at least i'm not collecting the LotR CCG or table top game...hmm the table top game...now that would be cool. :wink:


Other movies i really like are Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Army of Darkness and of course SPACEBALLS!
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Post by Calidus » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:54 pm

Saladin wrote:......and of course SPACEBALLS!

I LOVE that movie! May the Schwartz be with you!
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Post by TBert » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:38 pm

I'm a big fan of Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, so Clerks, Clerks II, Mallrats, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma. If you want a serious movie... Full Metal Jacket and Jarhead were pretty good.
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Post by trewqh » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:40 pm

If I was to name the geniuses of cinematography it's have to be:

Jean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro ('Delicatessen', 'City of lost Children')

Terry Gilliam ('Brazil', 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', 'Twelve Monkeys')

Coen brothers ('Blood Simple', 'The Man Who Wasn't There', 'Fargo', 'Barton Fink', 'Miller's Crossing')

If you've seen these then you know I need to SEE something special (rahter than experience a story) to be breathtaken.

'City of Lost Children' is probably the movie I go back to most often.
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Post by Duke » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:01 pm

*Looks at Trewqh* Delicatessen?

Well, I put in Groundhog Day.....(it actually is, stop laughing)
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Post by trewqh » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:20 pm

What? Too weird for you? :)
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Post by Nemesis » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:58 pm

No one said Terminator 2: Judgement Day yet? :shock:

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Post by Saladin » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:00 pm

Groundhog Day is fun!

Terminator 2? Muwhahahaha. :D
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Post by Calidus » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:39 am

trewqh wrote:If I was to name the geniuses of cinematography it's have to be:
I didn't ask who the geniuses of cinematography where.....I asked what would be your favorite movie.......Are you sure you're a teacher??? Surely not an English teacher??? :twisted:
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Post by trewqh » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:44 am

You make a false presupposition that I care what you ask for. :winkwink:

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Post by Hryllantre » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:19 am

Movies wow unlike the TV movies watched at the cinema is a great experience...

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The Lost Boys
City of God
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Full Metal Jacket
Gladiator
Zulu - led by a Royal Engineer :@)
My all time favourite is The Great Escape

Foreign films are brilliant too

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Post by Calidus » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:41 am

trewqh wrote:You make a false presupposition that I care what you ask for. :winkwink:

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So you just don't want to play well with others, do you? :bluejester:
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Post by Aussie Gaz » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:10 pm

Mad Max. (gotta love the aussie landscape).

Monty Python - Life of Brian
Monty Python - Search for the Holy Grail

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Post by Vortan » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:34 pm

AG you reminded me - I haven't got those on my list, which is criminal as I have all three! Mad Max I mean - Monty Python were alright in 30 minute doses not full feature length. :roll:
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Post by Temujin » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:32 pm

Mad Max. (gotta love the aussie landscape).

Mine is "The Road Warrior".[/quote]

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Post by Aussie Gaz » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:58 pm

Temujin

The Road Warrior - not a bad movie although I think they overdid the bit with the feral kid and his boomerang.


Vortan

Mad Max - The best part of the entire movie is the opening credits where all you see of Mel Gibson is him getting into the V8 interceptor and chasing down the looney in the other car.

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