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Patton

Brave heart

12 angry men

in the name of the rose

a bridge too far

apocalypse now

Shrek

Benhur

spartacus

the man who would be king

platoon

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

scent of a woman

scarface

godfather 1

godfather 2

uinforgiven

Alien

 

 

thats it.....

 

 

 

 

thats it.

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Couple more...don't think they're here,

 

Election

Rushmore

Kingpin

White men can't jump

Half-Baked

Traffic

French Connection I and II

The Graduate

The Great Escape

Das Boot

Empire of the Sun

Toy Story I and II

City of God

The Abyss

Logan's Run

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (remake with Donald Sutherland)

 

Good call with Ben Hur piggy, epic in every respect... :approve:

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Here goes nothing, in no particular order

 

Happy Gilmore

Apocolypse Now - Redux

T2 - Judgement Day

Aliens

Platoon

 

Full Metal Jacket

Godfather (Trilogy)

Armys of Darkness (Evil Dead 3)

Lord of the Rings

The Matrix

 

Scarface

Pulp Fiction

Star Trek - First Contact

The Wedding Singer

Resevoir Dogs

 

Battle Royale

Enter the Dragon

Braveheart

Saving Private Ryan

Dogma

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:D Though it has become the thread cliché, these are tenative and in no particular order. Also, keep in mind that I have seen only a miniscule percentage of the movies I want to see and am sure I'll like.

 

The Shawshank Redemption

 

Jurassic Park

 

Practical Magic

 

The Matrix (possibly along with the remainder of the trilogy; we'll see)

 

The House on Haunted Hill (please don't fry me; I'm talking the original black-and-white version, complete with cheesy special effects due to lack of better technology and the fact that the plot was significantly different; the remake just freaked me out of my pants like any good horror movie should)

 

Scream trilogy (yes, I'm a horror slut) :D

 

The Royal Tenenbaums

 

Dogma

 

The Craft

 

Little Women (you have to have sisters...)

 

Ghost in the Shell

 

Carrie (okay, so I'm a King slut, too)

 

Merlin (no one but me saw it; it was made-for-TV)

 

Heist

 

The Rainmaker

 

Castaway

 

The Talented Mr. Ripley

 

Brokedown Palace

 

Casper

 

Guinevere (NOT the 1999 movie of the same name having nothing to do with the Guinevere of lore)

 

Whew, okay, so those were all totally off-the-wall, but it's what I've come up with--tentatively.

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Dude, I just saw SE7EN. Okay, okay, so it was the cheesy, dubbed-when-they-curse, formatted-to-fit-your-screen-and-edited-for-content-and-to-run-in-the-time-allotted TNT version, but it's more than the five minutes of it I watched at Meghan's fateful birthday party when we were in eighth grade...

 

I'm gonna have to yank something off my list already to put that one in there.

 

Anyone read any of the (unfinished) book series based the same way? Lawrence Sanders? I think his series was pretty obscure--doesn't help that he gave up after four sins--but I read the first one. Never got a chance to start the second, then promptly managed to lose both novels (have no clue how I managed to lose BOOKS...), and I didn't know the third and fourth existed 'til now when I did some digging.

 

If any of you actually like reading wicked-weird, homicido-erotic stuff instead of just WATCHING it, The First Deadly Sin is for you. I won't plug the other three 'til I read them, and DAMN Sanders for quitting after only four!!!

 

Ya think it had some effect that I was, like, ten when I read that book? ;)

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Hate to tell ya, Brigit, but one of the reasons Lawrence Sanders never got around to the rest of the sins was because he died in '98...granted the last deadly sin book (the fourth, wasn't it?) was published in '85 and he put one out every four years, so I guess you're right maybe he did just give up on the series.

 

And by the way, not only did I see Merlin, I even have it on dvd so that makes at least two of us.

 

Now go see the widescreen uncut version of Se7en, will ya?

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Hate to tell ya, Brigit, but one of the reasons Lawrence Sanders never got around to the rest of the sins was because he died in '98...granted the last deadly sin book (the fourth, wasn't it?) was published in '85 and he put one out every four years, so I guess you're right maybe he did just give up on the series.

 

And by the way, not only did I see Merlin, I even have it on dvd so that makes at least two of us.

 

Now go see the widescreen uncut version of Se7en, will ya?

Yeah, but if we had a modern-day Edgar Cayce...wait a sec! Call the Sci-Fi Channel! Get John Edward over here, stat!!!

 

Kudos, props, and whatever other outdated terms I can think of for "way to go, Bob!" I thought I was the only one... :') :D

 

Will do.

 

Wasn't there a sequel to that'n? Indiana Bone and the Temple of Screw?

I'll ask around at my next Pornographers Anonymous meeting. Hey, wait, this means I'm not anonymous anymore, doesn't it? Whoops! :wary: :D

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Here it is....

 

(1) Happy Gilmore

(2) Platoon

(3) Full Metal Jacket

(4) Lord of the Rings

(5) The Matrix

(6) Scarface

(7) Pulp Fiction

(8) Jackie Brown

(9) Braveheart

(10) Saving Private Ryan

(11) Dogma

(12) Just Married

(13) Indiana Jones: triligy (No crappy young Jones)

(14) Starship Troopers

(15) Behind Enemy Lines

(16) Enemy At the Gates

(17) Daredevil

(18) Spiderman

(19) X-Men

(20) Pink Panther Movies

(21) Top Gun

 

Oh... That was in no particular order...

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here i go:

 

1. Hard Day's Night

2. Clerks

3. Half Baked

4. Pulp Fiction

5. Roman Holiday (love the chemistry w/audrey hep and gregory peck, classic)

6. The Sixth Sense

7. Monsoon Wedding

8. The Shining

9. Amelie

10. Rushmore

11. Wedding Singer (best Adam Sandler movie)

12. Momento

13. Vertigo (my favorite hitchcock)

14. Blow

15. The Way of the Gun (gotta show my love for del toro)

16. Girl Interupted

17. Resevoir Dogs

18. The Jerk (i'm like the only one who digs steve martin in this movie)

19. Sixteen Candles (gotta show love for John Hughes)

20. Trainspotting

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spongebob, i don't know why, but what is jakie brown doing there? starship troopers is 10x better than that imho.

 

due to the undisputed nature of these films and previous postings, i count these films that were in my top 20 as given kickass movies - no need to be repeating. Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, Matrix, Braveheart and Gladiator (super, super awesome, but Braveheart being the better epic.)

 

Now, in no particular order....

 

Office Space

The Killer

Hard Boiled

Face Off

Total Recall

Aliens

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

The Rock

Titanic

Aliens

Leon (the professional)

Heat

The Abyss

American Beauty

Back to the Future

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ocean's 11 (new version)

Akira

Scream (saw in theater first day out. leaves quite an impression)

Crimson Tide

 

 

note: as far as trilogies go, i feel it's only fair to pick one, since you get to choose 20 films.

 

and i wish i could name anime, since there's stuff here that rivals film. i would say macross plus and ranma season 1 and 2.

 

furthermore... sorry guys, i haven't seen movies such as amalie, memento, castaway, and catch me if you can as of yet. have seen road to perdition, but didn't quite make it here.

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Man, im finally gonna see that one this week, i can feel it. Spiffy - no love for "A better tomorrow"? If i was puttin Woo up there, that'd make it for sure.

Hearltess - put me down for "The Jerk" too..i recall this scene, might be way off...Steve Martin just has sex, writes home about "ive found what my purpose is for, you should watch me!" or somethin innapropriate, was funny.

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Some good pics...you just put Just Married in there to spite me.

Mabey I wouldn't have if you had taken me to see Gangs of New York

 

Ok, I swore to myself I wouldn't say anything about anyone else's movie taste in here, but...oh fuck it. Starship Troopers?!

What's wrong with it??? I liked it

 

 

as far as trilogies go, i feel it's only fair to pick one, since you get to choose 20 films.

Fine then I'll have to go with Last Crusade

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By pure coincidence they showed The Sting on TV last night. Excellent film, probably preferred Butch Cassidy... but a very funny and clever film overall.

 

Also, Boondock Saints is estimated to finish DLing in about half an hour so I'll let you know on that one....

 

Then I'm coming back for my lists so start thinking people.... :D

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