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10 Movies that must be seen
Sydney Jacobs
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12-05-2005 19:01
I dunno if this thread has been done before... if it has i can't find it... So I'll do it anyway =p

10 movies that must be seen in my humble opinon.... In no special order

1 The Others
2 Office Space
3 Amelie
4 Dogma
5 Fight Club
6 Interview With A Vampire
7 Return to Me
8 Run Lola Run
9 Say Anything
10 The Wedding Singer


Feel free to post your must see list :p
Cid Jacobs
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12-05-2005 19:08
1. Edward Sissorhands
2. Fight Club
3. American Beauty
4. Beetlejuice
5. Freaked
6. Explorers
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Terminal
9. Castaway
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Lianne Marten
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12-05-2005 19:09
Serenity
What Dreams May Come
Memento
The Truman Show
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
City of God
Hero
To Kill A Mockingbird
Bicentennial Man
The Sixth Sense

shoot... Castaway...

11 now equals 10. So there :p

Erm... 14...

Whatever.
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Lo Jacobs
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12-05-2005 19:27
You liked The Others that much?

Mine, in no particular order (bear in mind that this reflects whatever I've been in the mood for lately):
  1. Kill Bill Vol 2
  2. The Incredibles
  3. Million Dollar Baby
  4. The LOTR movies
  5. Shakespeare in Love
  6. Eternal Sunshine
  7. The Jacket
  8. Royal Tenenbaums
  9. Galaxy Quest
  10. Dave
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Dark Korvin
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12-05-2005 19:30
1. Boondock Saints
2. El Topo
3. Pi
4. Fight Club
5. Interview with a Vampire
6. Fifth Element
7. Chroincles of Riddick
8. Pirates of the Carribean
9. Matrix (only the first one)
10. Both Kill Bills
Bertha Horton
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12-05-2005 19:49
•Brazil
•Star Wars
•2001: A Space Odyssey
•LOTR
•Time Bandits
•Tron
•Monty Python and the Holy Grail
•Kill Bill
•This Is Spinal Tap
•It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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Dark Korvin
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12-05-2005 19:52
1. El Topo
2. Boondock Saints
3. Fight Club
4. Both Kill Bills
5. Pi
6. The Matrix (only the first one)
7. Star Wars (not the new 3, and the Episode V, second made is the best)
8. Interview with a Vampire
9. Fifth Element
10. Pirates of the Carribean
Dark Korvin
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12-05-2005 19:59
1. Pi
2. Boondock Saints
3. Fight Club
4. El Topo
5. Interview with a Vampire
6. The Matrix (only the first one)
7. Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back)
8. Fifth Element
9. Pirates of the Carribean
10. Chronicles of Riddick
Cid Jacobs
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12-05-2005 20:01
From: Lianne Marten

Bicentennial Man

I thought I was the only one! :eek:
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Lianne Marten
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12-05-2005 20:08
From: Cid Jacobs
I thought I was the only one! :eek:


One of the best endings ever.

If you want me to cry like a baby, show me that movie or What Dreams May Come. God I love them :D
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12-05-2005 20:10
From: Lianne Marten
One of the best endings ever.

It was so sad :( I wouldn't have traded immortality for "humanity" though.
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12-05-2005 20:11
I'm gonna throw one into the mix because I saw it today, and it's one of the best movies of all time...
  1. Happy Gilmore
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Belaya Statosky
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12-05-2005 20:12
Santa With Muscles
National Lampoon's Golf Punks
Dudes
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Troll 2
Kazaam
Death Spa
Gigli
Madame Chao's Ancient Chinese Cathode Ray Whorehouse 1 & 2
Serenity
Lianne Marten
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12-05-2005 20:27
From: Cid Jacobs
It was so sad :( I wouldn't have traded immortality for "humanity" though.


That's because you currently have the latter and don't have the former.

His situation was reversed. :)
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Broken Templar
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12-05-2005 20:27
Alright, here's my contribution from my collection:
  1. Donnie Darko (Personal Favorite)
  2. The Crow (Personal Favorite)
  3. Princess Bride (Mandatory everyone must see this at least once)
  4. The Big Lebowski (Then go Bowling with your friends)
  5. Big Fish (Then go call your Dad)
  6. The Postman (Mayor Tom Petty)
  7. Memento (I keep forgetting this one, I need to write it down)
  8. The Patriot (If you're American, everyone else is excused. Apologies to Brittan)
  9. Snatch (Me Mum needs a caravan)
  10. Pirates of the Caribbean (Arrgh!)
Lianne Marten
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12-05-2005 20:29
Big Fish!

This thread is awesome...
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Dark Korvin
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12-05-2005 20:45
From: Broken Templar
Alright, here's my contribution from my collection:
  1. Donnie Darko (Personal Favorite)
  2. The Crow (Personal Favorite)
  3. Princess Bride (Mandatory everyone must see this at least once)
  4. The Big Lebowski (Then go Bowling with your friends)
  5. Big Fish (Then go call your Dad)
  6. The Postman (Mayor Tom Petty)
  7. Memento (I keep forgetting this one, I need to write it down)
  8. The Patriot (If you're American, everyone else is excused. Apologies to Brittan)
  9. Snatch (Me Mum needs a caravan)
  10. Pirates of the Caribbean (Arrgh!)


Oh, I forgot about 1,2,3,4,7, and 9, hmmm, halfway want to switch around my list a bit now, but not sure what to put where anymore.
Cristiano Midnight
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12-05-2005 20:47
1. Donnie Darko
2. Y Tu Mama Tambien
3. Cinema Paradiso
4. Crash
5. Traffic
6. Blue Sky
7. Meet Joe Black
8. Disclosure
9. Drop Dead Gorgeous
10. Heathers
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Torley Linden
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12-05-2005 20:51
Gosh, my mind scatters... but... reading these lists are refreshers... here are 14 (which is like 10) of my faves in no particular order, mostly named from what I see here. With a personal note fer each one! These are great flicks which I resonated emotionally with for one reason or another.
  1. Run Lola Run
    Techno music, parallel timelines, and those cartoon scenes.
  2. Edward Scissorhands
    Remember that scene with the hedge animals? I really relate to that. The cinematography was haunting, and Danny Elfman's music was a perfect fit (as it was in that Pee-Wee movie, which almost made my list!).
  3. The Truman Show
    The whole aspect of voyeurism got into my head. That, and Philip Glass appearing as himself behind the keyboard.
  4. Bicentennial Man
    I'm a longtime fan of Asimov, so that in itself doesn't come as a surprise. I just adored the epic generational scope of this film, and how one woman looked very much like her granddaughter. I like movies where unhumans become more human than humans. And yup the choice at the end was a tearchoker for me!
  5. Adaptation
    I like most, if not all Charlie Kaufman+Spike Jonze films. The ending of this, and all the plot "twists" along the way were faboo!
  6. Boondock Saints
    My bro saw this film in art school, and then he recommended it to me, so we both watched it. Little did we know at the time that at Thanksgiving feasts later, I'd be saying a prayer from this film as grace. How nicely it has worked out!
  7. Happy Gilmore
    Adam Sandler and Bob Barker together in the same screen. I can't ask for more than that. I am inspired by Sandler's role of being a comic underdog.
  8. Freddy Got Fingered
    In my book, better than Citizen Kane. An unrivaled cinematic masterpiece. Saying "unique" is insulting. FGF is a true testament to observing the human condition. Poetic, stark, blunt, and gripping. My late Dad was kinda like Rip Torn too. Sigh.
  9. The Shawshank Redemption
    BEST STEPHEN KING MOVIE EVAR? What a theme of hope, integrity, salvation, and one of my fave actors, Morgan Freeman. Tim Robbins is great too. The whole cast is wonderful. Gosh, what a masterpiece.
  10. Donnie Darko
    I love a lot of time travel movies.
  11. 12 Monkeys
    Yeah, I love a lot of time travel movies.
  12. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
    Yeahhh... I LOVE A LOT OF TIME TRAVEL MOVIES!
  13. Appleseed
    The celshaded computery movie. Worth it for the old men who say DOOOONAN NOOTAY alone. Liquid battle scenes.
  14. Casshern
    With the budget they had to work with, it's amazing what they came up with. No, the story doesn't make sense, but I've never seen anything else with such wall-to-wall gripping emotion scenes counterpointed against the grinding action of killing robots. Bonus points for kickass breakbeat Mondo Grosso track! Liquid battle scenes.
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Sydney Jacobs
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12-05-2005 20:59
Wow torley great list!!!
Its funny I read the posts... and think oops forgot that one lol....
Lianne Marten
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12-05-2005 21:00
Agh Shawshank Redemption!

Geez... lol
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12-05-2005 21:03
Repo Man
Primer
Cable Guy
Swingers
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Old School
Full Metal Jacket
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Texas Chainsaw Mass.
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Torley Linden
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12-05-2005 21:07
:) Thanxies Sydney, I have many other faves also already named. Amelie is certainly a fave but I'm just not feeling in the mood for it right now, say if I were to choose from any films at this moment.

Lianne, one moment, I kid ya not, I was driving down the highway and listening to the radio and all of a sudden I hear the familiar, longing piano chords from the score of The Shawshank Redemption. It starts to rain. I stop the car by the side of the road (it's night, and besides, I'm a lousy driver) and I thrust my hands out in the air and lighting strikes RIGHT at that moment as the rain washes down. All of a sudden, it sounds like a heavy BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM... and I'm like "WHAT THE HECK???"

It sounds like the guy from "Kiss from a Rose" singing... turns out it IS Seal, doing vox on Jakatta's remix of that instrumental cue, called "My Vision".

My gosh... what a beautiful moment. So I crank up the volume, and I bust out dancing in the rain.
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12-05-2005 21:09
Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally (guilty pleasure)
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Meaning of Life
Vacation & Christmas Vacation (skip Euro Vacation.. ick)
Army of Darkness
Kill Bill vol. 1 (gonna watch 2 tonight)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Like Water for Chocolate
This Is Spinal Tap

ok ok, I know it's more than 10 :D
just be glad I stopped myself
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12-05-2005 21:47
Off the top of my head...

Cold Mountain
The Exorcist
Princess Bride
The Godfather, Part II
Big Trouble in Little China
City of Lost Children
Alien
Star Trek II (... just for 'KHAAAAAAN!')
Superman II (... just for 'KNEEL before ZOD!')
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... and... Torley, Freddy Got Fingered is the only movie that I ever just abandoned. I made it through about forty-five minutes before I had to flee the theater. Different strokes and all that... but just seeing it mentioned sent chills of horror down my spine...
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