Favourite Movies?

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DIETCOKE

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:58 AM

Okay, great movies THAT SPOKE TO ME! These are movies that at the time were just what I needed:

1. All three "Lord of the Rings"
2. "Shawshank Redemption"
3. "Rudy"
4. "The Philadelphia Story"
5. "Gone With the Wind"
6. "It's a Wonderful Life"
7. "Charriots of Fire"
8. "Ghandi"
9. "High Noon"
10. "Rear Window"

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:01 AM

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Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
(unless you're the idiot first year film student sitting two rows behind me

He goes to your theatre too?!?

Needless to say, I'm a great fan of the Shepherd's "special place in Hell" speech.

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JADEHAND

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:11 AM

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Originally posted by STEVEthePIRATE:
and Boondock Saints.

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BERENTAUR

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:00 AM

Don't really have a top 5... too much of a movie junkie. These are some I love:

Lord of the rings (all of them, but especially Fellowship)
Before sunrise and
Before sunset
Eternal sunshine...
Finding Neverland (or anything with Mr Depp in it)
Garden State
Donnie Darko
Hard days Night

there are many, many more........

ZOID

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:37 PM

p1nki:

Life-changing (coz movies can do that):

"It's A Wonderful Life" (this is what life is all about. No further primer is required to identify what's important and to illustrate how seemingly inconsequential choices place you in the position to affect thousands of other lives, either for good or ill.)

"Monty Python's Meaning of Life" (coz even tho' it's funny, there are some spookily true life lessons in it. The Galaxy Song kicked off a 20-years and counting obsession with cosmology and physics.)

"Fight Club" (coz it scared the beejeezus out of The Money, and they needed scaring.)

"Bladerunner" (coz it was the first to question what 'life' might include.)

"The Matrix" (coz it modernized Plato's Cave http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm ; tho' I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for the sequels, specifically, because that element was gone.)

Philosophically,

zoid

P.S.
I rewatched "The Devil's Advocate" last night. Although I am no fan of Pacino's and am lukewarm on Keanu Reeves (loved his "Little Buddha", no pun intended), the movie does have its strong philosophical moments in Pacino's monologues. (EDIT: ...and strong religious moments in Theron's full frontals. Just bringing it back from 'lofty'.)
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THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:45 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:
The Matrix" (coz it modernized Plato's Cave http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm ; tho' I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for the sequels, specifically, because that element was gone.)

more reasons to love Mr. Zed.

Salut! I lift my PepsiMilk to you, sir. Thank goodness someone has heard of Plato and the shadows in his cave.

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MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:51 PM

See...the machines in The Matrix should've gone the route of the machines in The Terminator and just tried to wipe us all out. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would've been a lump in The Matrix. I can't get up enough energy to type "I can't get up enough energy" sometimes. The Matrix would have spit me out for actually taking up their energy as opposed to providing it. Oh, and Plato's Cave, which I just read about here and looked up is pretty cool too.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

MILT

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:04 PM

1. Shawshank Redemtpion
2. Lost In Translation
3. Collateral
4. United States Of Leland
5. Fight Club

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:31 PM

Here's my lists:

MY FAVOURITE FIVE
Blade Runner
Back to the Future (1,2&3, it's one movie to me)
Star Trek the Motion picture
Superman the Movie
Aliens

...and having attained Kolihnar I will objectivly give you the FIVE BEST
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Star Trek the Motion Picture
The Abyss
Solaris (recent version)

I did not include Serenity 'cause I didn' see it yet, I did not include Airwolf 'cause technically it's a "pilot", not a movie, and I did not include the Terminator films 'cause the whole concept is ridiculous; one cannot send ones' father back in time to meet ones' mother when ones' father did not meet ones' mother in the original timeline, thereby never creating the son to send the father back in the first place! I did not include Star Wars or other Star Trek films due to the limit of only five films. I did not include The Matrix 'cause I can't get 2 and 3 out of my head. I did not include Army of Darkness 'cause it's not just a movie, it's another level of reality as we know it.

uh-oh, Deadites, gotta hit the gas!

Chrisisall

LISTER

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:28 PM

Finally someone mentioned Army of Darkness! That's #1 on my list. It's just movie fun.

Others:

Starship Troopers
Better Off Dead
The Quick And The Dead
The Hudsucker Proxy

I'm sure there are others, like Airheads and Gladiator, but these come to mind first.

I'm a little different in that I like the third Matrix best, as well as the second Predator and third Aliens movie, but just about anything Raimi does I like, with AOD tops of them all.

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If he has caused this, we'll tear out his pages
Throw him in shackles, AND REMOVE HIS HANDS!
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