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Old 08-10-2000, 08:05 AM   #1
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Hi all,
How about sharing your favourite all time movies,(or Films as some people call them)
with us all.

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Old 08-10-2000, 11:22 AM   #2
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Sleuth, Wizard of Oz, To Kill A Mockingbird, The first Star Wars movie, Toy Story 1, Lady and The Tramp,
I'll be back!
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Old 08-10-2000, 11:57 AM   #3
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For Comedy: What's up Doc
For Drama: The Fugitive
For Suspense: The Birds
For Romance: While You Were Sleeping
For Holiday: White Christmas
For Action Packed: The Terminator
For Blood & Guts: Saving Private Ryan

That's how it runs at the moment. Later I'll probably think of one and wish I had named it instead.

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Old 08-10-2000, 12:40 PM   #4
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I knew it . . .
Hunt for Red October. Then there's The Untouchables, any and all James Bond movies starring Sean Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Last of the Mohicians, JFK, Working Girl, US Marshalls, You've Got Mail, Lonesome Dove, Forrest Gump.

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Old 08-10-2000, 02:39 PM   #5
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Arthur ("Oh you're a HEDGE!")

Harold and Maude (Oh, Harold. I suppose you think that's funny?")

Rainman ("Yeah, DEFINITELY. Yeah.")

The Matchmaker (Janeane Garofalo in Ireland)

Local Hero (Oil company rep in small Scottish village)



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Old 08-10-2000, 05:11 PM   #6
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Anyone like the oldies?

Midnight cowboy.
(Back further)Any Billy Wilder directed Movies, The apartment,The fortune cookie etc.
(Back even further!)E.G.Robinson.Woman in the window.

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Old 08-10-2000, 09:58 PM   #7
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Oh, now you're talking classics . . .
Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Cat Ballou, Where Eagles Dare, True Grit.

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Old 08-14-2000, 09:02 PM   #8
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For Comedy: Duck Soup; Animal House
For Drama: The Godfather; Schindler's List
For Suspense: The Maltese Falcon; The 39 Steps
For Romance: Casablanca; Annie Hall; Roman Holiday
For Holiday: It's a Wonderful Life
For Action Packed: Goldfinger; The Empire Strikes Back
For Blood & Guts: Bonnie&Clyde
To Choke Me Up: Field of Dreams
Musical: Sound of Music; MaryPoppins

Quirky Pleasures: Slaughterhouse Five; Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Sean Connery's first, and a musical!)



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Old 08-15-2000, 05:07 PM   #9
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Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (lots of people!), Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner) and a very obscure...Belizaire the Cajun (Armand Assante). Belizaire is the only movie I've ever purchased. Don't care for Assante but as Belizaire I do!
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Old 08-16-2000, 07:42 PM   #10
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All time favorite movie huh? ....... hmmmmm... Well I would have to say...
Where the Red Fern Grows,
Forest Gump,
Patch Adams,
Phar Lap.
I'll think of more a little later.

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Old 08-16-2000, 11:17 PM   #11
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I love the classics: Casa Blanca, Wuthering Heights (original version), Little Women (1940's version), A Star Is Born (all versions), Pride And Prejudice (original), To Kill A Mockingbird, The Way We Were...

I also love musicals: Meet Me In St Louis, Funny Girl, Funny Lady, (actually, just about anything with Barbara S.), Oliver, My Fair Lady, Mary Popins, The Sound Of Music...

More recently, I really liked Sixth Sense...

The list could go on and on

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Old 10-16-2000, 04:52 PM   #12
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Frank, your asking for our fav flicks eh?
Here goes:

1. It Happens Every Spring-Ray Milland
2. The Natural-Robert Redford
3. True Grit-Big John
4. The Pink Panther-Peter Sellers
5. Cheaper By The Dozen
6. Sitting Pretty-Clifton Webb
7. Mr. Belvedere goes to College-Clifton
Webb
8. Apartment For Peggy-Jeanne Crane
9. Mr. Hollands Opus-Dreyfus
10. American Graffitti-Ron Howard, R. Dreyfus
11. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
12. What's Up Doc:
13 (anything from Stooges or Pete Smith
for shorts)
14. Oklahoma
15. Sound Of Music
16. Ten Commandments

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Old 10-22-2000, 02:42 AM   #13
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Gotta go with Char & The Wizard of Oz #1. I also enjoyed Dr. Strangelove, Titanic, The Next Voice You Hear(Nancy Reagan), Pink Floyd The Wall, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Kramer VS Kramer, JAWS, Evil Roy Slade(favorite comedy), Girl Happy, The Never Ending Story, Girl Interupted!, Some Like It Hot, Rock-a-Bye Baby(Jerry Lewis classic), Disney's The Little Mermaid, Contact(Jody Foster), HEAD(The Monkees), Labyrinth(David Bowie), The Long, Long Trailer & Forever Darling(Lucille Ball & Desi) etc. etc. etc.

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Old 10-25-2000, 05:08 PM   #14
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The Godfather I and II. Very rare for lightning to not only strike twice - but to strike truer the second time. It's never been done. The strength of the acting and writing saved Godfather II from being self-indulgent. No such luck for the 3rd. Despite top-notch actors the trail had long gone cold and others concur that the script inspired indifference.(IMHO)

2 offerings I highly recommend by Terrence Malick: Days of Heaven and, of course, The Thin Red Line. Thin Red is not a war movie - it's a work of art. Any Malick fans???
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Old 03-02-2001, 01:57 AM   #15
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The last time I went to a theater was in 1992, when I saw "JFK".
My favorite movies are: "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Milagro Beanfield War"
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Old 03-22-2003, 06:29 PM   #16
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A movie from the 60's called "Grand Prix" with Ives Montand and James Garner...

It cost MGM a mint....Filmed In "Cinerama" .. flopped at the Box office...

But it is my Favorite...

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Old 03-23-2003, 01:13 PM   #17
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Best western-Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid.2nd-Once upon a time in the west.Best comedy-Planes,trains and automobiles.
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Old 03-24-2003, 11:54 AM   #18
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Anything John Wayne
Anything Sean Connery during the 007 days.
Hunt For Red October
Last of The Mohicans
Amadeus
Glory
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning Vietnam
Top Gun
The Star Wars Trilogy
Grease - the first one not the sequel
Saturday Night Fever
While You Were Sleeping
Gone With The Wind
Wizard of OZ
Forest Gump
Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
Pretty Woman
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Old 03-25-2003, 10:39 AM   #19
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The Lavender Hill Mob.
Shawshank Redemption.
7 Days In May. (Burt & Kirk)
Only 3 I'm afraid.
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Old 09-04-2006, 02:03 PM   #20
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OMG there are SO many good ones. These are the ones I will watch any time they're on, and ask my husband, I can recite the dialogue along with the actors

Hopscotch (Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson)

Father Goose (Cary Grant playing against type)

The Goodbye Girl (Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason)

Barefoot in the Park (Jane Fonda, Robert Redford)

Becket & The Lion in Winter (Peter O'Toole as Henry II in two fabulously written screenplays)

To Kill a Mockingbird (quintessential Peck)

The Thin Man (William Powell and that "lanky brunette with a wicked jaw" Myrna Loy)

Singing in the Rain

Airplane! (what can I say, I'm a fool for puns)

Also, guilty pleasure, the original Airport with Helen Hayes

Meet Me in St. Louis (love the period details)

The Women (and just about any other movie from 1939 except Wuthering Heights - see http://members.aol.com/grbmd/year1939.htm for a listing)

I'm sure there are many more but I can't pick just one and can't remember them all.
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Old 09-04-2006, 03:16 PM   #21
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Favourite all time movie, "Dog Day Afternoon." w/Al Pacino...Jesse.
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