Movie night in recommendations
Re: What is your favorite movie?
Slingblade
Enemy at the Gates
A Beautiful Mind
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Away From Her
Animal/Pet related:
Babe
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Money more film titles escape me at the moment.
Enemy at the Gates
A Beautiful Mind
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Away From Her
Animal/Pet related:
Babe
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Money more film titles escape me at the moment.
Re: What is your favorite movie?
To Many Favorites:
Career:
Pursuit of Happiness -every High school and college student should be made to see this movie before they graduate
Action
Collateral-epic action, great relationship between the protaganist and antaganist
Fantasy
Lord of the Rings Triology-Need I say more?
Horror
Constantine-I like some quirky movies. This is the only Keanu Reeves movie I didn't want to punch him.
War
Platoon-Classic
Superhero
Batman-80's version, Michael Keaton is the only true Batman, Christian Bale and "his voice" can't touch on the menace that Keaton brought to the role
Comedy (these all tie..)
Beetlejuice-Still Hillarious
Turner & Hooch-Classic comedy, still cry like a big girl at the end
Uncle Buck-Classic comedy, the bowling ball to the head gets me everytime.
Sport/Life
Rocky Balboa-the speech to his son gets me everytime.
Drama
Green Mile
Road to Perdition
TV
Game of Thrones- Not a movie, but DANG good series
Career:
Pursuit of Happiness -every High school and college student should be made to see this movie before they graduate
Action
Collateral-epic action, great relationship between the protaganist and antaganist
Fantasy
Lord of the Rings Triology-Need I say more?
Horror
Constantine-I like some quirky movies. This is the only Keanu Reeves movie I didn't want to punch him.
War
Platoon-Classic
Superhero
Batman-80's version, Michael Keaton is the only true Batman, Christian Bale and "his voice" can't touch on the menace that Keaton brought to the role
Comedy (these all tie..)
Beetlejuice-Still Hillarious
Turner & Hooch-Classic comedy, still cry like a big girl at the end
Uncle Buck-Classic comedy, the bowling ball to the head gets me everytime.
Sport/Life
Rocky Balboa-the speech to his son gets me everytime.
Drama
Green Mile
Road to Perdition
TV
Game of Thrones- Not a movie, but DANG good series
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
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5 of my favorites with some classic lines.
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Snakes, it had to be snakes...
The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
Bridge on the River Kwai - Madness, Madness, Madness
The Searchers - That'll be the day
Caddyshack - Former greenskeeper, now about to become the Master's champion...
+1 - great call. Awesome B movie. Rowdy Roddy topped Hulk Hogan's cameo in Rocky III.They Live is a guilty pleasure of mine with a classic line:
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick a**...and I'm all out of bubblegum ."
I can't help but think of the subliminal messages that Rowdy Roddy "sees" whenever I encounter the "noise" in the different media outlets. OBEY, CONSUME, THIS IS YOUR GOD, BUY, etc. Makes me chuckle.
5 of my favorites with some classic lines.
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Snakes, it had to be snakes...
The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
Bridge on the River Kwai - Madness, Madness, Madness
The Searchers - That'll be the day
Caddyshack - Former greenskeeper, now about to become the Master's champion...
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
there was no bride on the river Kwai.brick-house wrote:joha31
+1 - great call. Awesome B movie. Rowdy Roddy topped Hulk Hogan's cameo in Rocky III.They Live is a guilty pleasure of mine with a classic line:
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick a**...and I'm all out of bubblegum ."
I can't help but think of the subliminal messages that Rowdy Roddy "sees" whenever I encounter the "noise" in the different media outlets. OBEY, CONSUME, THIS IS YOUR GOD, BUY, etc. Makes me chuckle.
5 of my favorites with some classic lines.
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Snakes, it had to be snakes...
The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
Bride on the River Kwai - Madness, Madness, Madness
The Searchers - That'll be the day
Caddyshack - Former greenskeeper, now about to become the Master's champion...
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
chaz wrote:
Thanks for the catch.
Father of the Bridge is another favorite....there was no bride on the river Kwai.
Thanks for the catch.

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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction and Caddyshack. Movies that I want to see again and could move up the list are Casino and American Beauty.
Re: What is your favorite movie?
Gattaca
Lot's of people have been mentioning caddyshack, why so much love for Bill Murray. We all know we loved Steve Martin in The Jerk so much more!

Lot's of people have been mentioning caddyshack, why so much love for Bill Murray. We all know we loved Steve Martin in The Jerk so much more!

Re: What is your favorite movie?
Sex, lies, and videotape. 

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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Nice, thanks.market timer wrote:One of the best movies I've seen in a long time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGQvhQvjIo
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Midnight Run
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
I'm sure there are others.
PS-Love this thread as I'm always looking for a good movie
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
I'm sure there are others.
PS-Love this thread as I'm always looking for a good movie
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Two of my favorites
Bogleheads:
I can remember many wonderful movies although I don't go often. Sound of Music is one of my all-time favorites.
From Here to Eternity is another favorite. It reflects part of my own career as a boxer who refused to box (for a bottle of schnapps) while in the 101 Airborne Division.
Best wishes.
Taylor
I can remember many wonderful movies although I don't go often. Sound of Music is one of my all-time favorites.
From Here to Eternity is another favorite. It reflects part of my own career as a boxer who refused to box (for a bottle of schnapps) while in the 101 Airborne Division.
Best wishes.
Taylor
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Star Wars (I cannot believe no one has said this)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Raiders of the Lost Ark
No Country for Old Men
Dr. Zhivago
GoldenEye
The Mummy
Predator
Man on Fire
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Raiders of the Lost Ark
No Country for Old Men
Dr. Zhivago
GoldenEye
The Mummy
Predator
Man on Fire
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Another good pic: No Country for Old Men.
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Re: Movie night in recommendations
Many that have been mentioned plus...
The boy with green hair
The man who would be king
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
It's one of my favorites, too. The song from the film, The Windmills of Your Mind, frequently plays in my mind when I am trying to solve some puzzle.czeckers wrote:The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
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Have you seen Hero or Unleashed?reggiesimpson wrote:Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Re: Movie night in recommendations
All Woody Allen movies.
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
The guy who played Satan in this movie was really really good I thought.redlbj01 wrote:Horror
Constantine-I like some quirky movies. This is the only Keanu Reeves movie I didn't want to punch him.
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"Antichrist" with Willem Dafoe. Warning...........very twisted and disturbing ending!
Re: Movie night in recommendations
A lot of great movies mentioned. Also wanted to give a shout out to "Patton."
Cheers!

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The Quest for Fire.............always nice to know how ones relatives survived.
Re: What is your favorite movie?
yeah, but, which one? McQueen (my favorite) or the remake with Brosnan?VictoriaF wrote:It's one of my favorites, too. The song from the film, The Windmills of Your Mind, frequently plays in my mind when I am trying to solve some puzzle.czeckers wrote:The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Victoria
McQueen's was grittier and he was sooo cool - as was Dunaway
Brosnan's was slicker and the love scene with Russo was

I could list a ton of favorites but Louis Malle's Atlantic City stands out
also, Woody Allen has some gems with Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan and Broadway Danny Rose
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
I like the 1999 film with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Both of them are very handsome, sophisticated, have fantastic chemistry, and are believable.1530jesup wrote:yeah, but, which one? McQueen (my favorite) or the remake with Brosnan?VictoriaF wrote:It's one of my favorites, too. The song from the film, The Windmills of Your Mind, frequently plays in my mind when I am trying to solve some puzzle.czeckers wrote:The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Victoria
McQueen's was grittier and he was sooo cool - as was Dunaway
Brosnan's was slicker and the love scene with Reno was
Rich
I don't like either Steve McQueen or Faye Dunaway. It's not that I dislike them, but their affair does not touch me.
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
VictoriaF wrote:I like the 1999 film with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Both of them are very handsome, sophisticated, have fantastic chemistry, and are believable.1530jesup wrote:yeah, but, which one? McQueen (my favorite) or the remake with Brosnan?VictoriaF wrote:It's one of my favorites, too. The song from the film, The Windmills of Your Mind, frequently plays in my mind when I am trying to solve some puzzle.czeckers wrote:The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Victoria
McQueen's was grittier and he was sooo cool - as was Dunaway
Brosnan's was slicker and the love scene with Reno was
Rich
I don't like either Steve McQueen or Faye Dunaway. It's not that I dislike them, but their affair does not touch me.Victoria
Victoria:
Interesting reply. Please help me out....how does one "not like someone" but "not dislike the same person"?
Easy does it/Live & Let Live/One day at a time. Thanks Bill.
Re: What is your favorite movie?
red,redlbj01 wrote:To Many Favorites:
Career:
Pursuit of Happiness -every High school and college student should be made to see this movie before they graduate
Which Pursuit of Happiness? Imdb.com says there are three of them...

Re: What is your favorite movie?
I distinguish here between disliking as an active attitude and not liking as a passive one. In the physical life -- and linguistically -- these concepts are close. In the realm of cinema it is difficult to actively dislike protagonists unless they are villains. The film industry creates heroes who are appealing to the masses, but some of these characters leave me cold.Dave C. wrote:VictoriaF wrote:I like the 1999 film with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Both of them are very handsome, sophisticated, have fantastic chemistry, and are believable.1530jesup wrote:yeah, but, which one? McQueen (my favorite) or the remake with Brosnan?VictoriaF wrote:It's one of my favorites, too. The song from the film, The Windmills of Your Mind, frequently plays in my mind when I am trying to solve some puzzle.czeckers wrote:The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Victoria
McQueen's was grittier and he was sooo cool - as was Dunaway
Brosnan's was slicker and the love scene with Reno was
Rich
I don't like either Steve McQueen or Faye Dunaway. It's not that I dislike them, but their affair does not touch me. Victoria
Victoria:
Interesting reply. Please help me out....how does one "not like someone" but "not dislike the same person"?
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Re: Movie night in recommendations
Pierce Brosnan in preference to Steve McQueen? Say it ain't so.
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Re: Movie night in recommendations
I find Pierce Brosnan handsome, and I don't consider Steve McQueen handsome at all. And so yes, I do prefer Brosnan.gkaplan wrote:Pierce Brosnan in preference to Steve McQueen? Say it ain't so.
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To borrow from a previous thread, the movies have been one of those "experiences" in life that have increased my happiness. I have seen many wonderful movies in my 68 years ( and some not so wonderful
) but here are a few of the wonderful ones:
The Searchers: John Wayne's greatest in my opinion
Shane Alan Ladd and a sinister Jack Palance
Charades: a clever mystery comedy with Cary Grant and Audrie Hepburn
The Sound of Music I can still remember all those songs forty years later
Patton: George C Scott was more Patonesque than the man himself
The great historical epics:
Gone With The Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
Dr. Zhivago
From here to Eternity: Like taylor I think this was a classic
A movie in which Sidney Poitier plays a handy man who helps some nuns build a church and whose title I cannot remember

The Searchers: John Wayne's greatest in my opinion
Shane Alan Ladd and a sinister Jack Palance
Charades: a clever mystery comedy with Cary Grant and Audrie Hepburn
The Sound of Music I can still remember all those songs forty years later
Patton: George C Scott was more Patonesque than the man himself
The great historical epics:
Gone With The Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
Dr. Zhivago
From here to Eternity: Like taylor I think this was a classic
A movie in which Sidney Poitier plays a handy man who helps some nuns build a church and whose title I cannot remember
Re: Movie night in recommendations
Lillie's of the Field.wacobay wrote:To borrow from a previous thread, the movies have been one of those "experiences" in life that have increased my happiness. I have seen many wonderful movies in my 68 years ( and some not so wonderful) but here are a few of the wonderful ones:
The Searchers: John Wayne's greatest in my opinion
Shane Alan Ladd and a sinister Jack Palance
Charades: a clever mystery comedy with Cary Grant and Audrie Hepburn
The Sound of Music I can still remember all those songs forty years later
Patton: George C Scott was more Patonesque than the man himself
The great historical epics:
Gone With The Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
Dr. Zhivago
From here to Eternity: Like taylor I think this was a classic
A movie in which Sidney Poitier plays a handy man who helps some nuns build a church and whose title I cannot remember
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
True story.brick-house wrote: The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
The guy who wrote The Usual Suspects worked in the copy room at my law firm when he was writing it.
He named Kaiser Soze after the managing partner of my firm.
The are few things in life weirder than seeing the guy from the copy room give an Oscar acceptance speech.
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Well, Einstein was a patent clerk when he worked on the great "theory." And I think the guy who wrote "Grumpy Old Men" was working as some sort of stamp maker at the time. BTW I assume working in the copy room means just copying stuff?Petrocelli wrote:True story.brick-house wrote: The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
The guy who wrote The Usual Suspects worked in the copy room at my law firm when he was writing it.
He named Kaiser Soze after the managing partner of my firm.
The are few things in life weirder than seeing the guy from the copy room give an Oscar acceptance speech.
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Not just copying. Stapling too.Fallible wrote:Well, Einstein was a patent clerk when he worked on the great "theory." And I think the guy who wrote "Grumpy Old Men" was working as some sort of stamp maker at the time. BTW I assume working in the copy room means just copying stuff?Petrocelli wrote:True story.brick-house wrote: The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
The guy who wrote The Usual Suspects worked in the copy room at my law firm when he was writing it.
He named Kaiser Soze after the managing partner of my firm.
The are few things in life weirder than seeing the guy from the copy room give an Oscar acceptance speech.
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
IMHO (and I didn't see the Brosnan/Russo version), McQueen and Dunaway lacked chemistry, they didn't play off each other well, nothing there. It was almost hard to watch. As for the beautiful "Windmills," have you ever heard the song sound better than the opening glider scene in the McQueen version?VictoriaF wrote:I like the 1999 film with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Both of them are very handsome, sophisticated, have fantastic chemistry, and are believable.1530jesup wrote:yeah, but, which one? McQueen (my favorite) or the remake with Brosnan?VictoriaF wrote:It's one of my favorites, too. The song from the film, The Windmills of Your Mind, frequently plays in my mind when I am trying to solve some puzzle.czeckers wrote:The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Victoria
McQueen's was grittier and he was sooo cool - as was Dunaway
Brosnan's was slicker and the love scene with Reno was
Rich
I don't like either Steve McQueen or Faye Dunaway. It's not that I dislike them, but their affair does not touch me.
Victoria
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Got it.Petrocelli wrote:Not just copying. Stapling too.Fallible wrote:Well, Einstein was a patent clerk when he worked on the great "theory." And I think the guy who wrote "Grumpy Old Men" was working as some sort of stamp maker at the time. BTW I assume working in the copy room means just copying stuff?Petrocelli wrote:True story.brick-house wrote: The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
The guy who wrote The Usual Suspects worked in the copy room at my law firm when he was writing it.
He named Kaiser Soze after the managing partner of my firm.
The are few things in life weirder than seeing the guy from the copy room give an Oscar acceptance speech.

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Re: What is your favorite movie?
A copy room frequently also serves as a printer and fax room, and it can be one of the most haunted places in the office. The copiers jam especially when you try to make double-sided copies, color-rich PowerPoint slides quickly drain printers of ink, fax machines bunch several pages creating a discontinuity on the receiving end.Fallible wrote:Got it.Petrocelli wrote:Not just copying. Stapling too.Fallible wrote:Well, Einstein was a patent clerk when he worked on the great "theory." And I think the guy who wrote "Grumpy Old Men" was working as some sort of stamp maker at the time. BTW I assume working in the copy room means just copying stuff?Petrocelli wrote:True story.brick-house wrote: The Usual Suspects - Who is Kaiser Soze?
The guy who wrote The Usual Suspects worked in the copy room at my law firm when he was writing it.
He named Kaiser Soze after the managing partner of my firm.
The are few things in life weirder than seeing the guy from the copy room give an Oscar acceptance speech.
The knowledge of how to fix a copier jam or replace an ink cartridge in a printer is rare, but it is not appreciated in a modern office -- a poorly understood economic inefficiency.

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Just wanted to second the recommendation (made way back in December, I believe) of "Winter's Bone." We recently landed upon this film accidentally and could not take our eyes off the screen. Though the book and film are fictional, you won't doubt for one second that you are watching something real. Horrifying and encouraging all at the same time. Just a terrific film. OK, back to lurking now ...
Re: Movie night in recommendations
"Bernie", based on a true story.
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Re: Movie night in recommendations
The Kingdom
Collateral
Burning Man
Fargo
Caddyshack
Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
Reindeer games
H.E.A.T
Body Heat
All The Bourne movies
Collateral
Burning Man
Fargo
Caddyshack
Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
Reindeer games
H.E.A.T
Body Heat
All The Bourne movies
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Fargo was one of the best by the Coen brothers.
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We just watched The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix streaming. It was really, really good.
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I agree on this. I have a hard time picking my favorite Coen Bros. movie though. I have seen every Coen Bros. film at least twice, and have probably watched Miller's Crossing 10 times.chaz wrote:Fargo was one of the best by the Coen brothers.
We should be thankful that there are still a few creative filmmakers in Hollywood. If left to their devices, we get movie remakes of mediocre 60s TV shows (like Dark Shadows and the Avengers).
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