Best movie you ever watched

zak425 said:
That was actually a Robert Rodriguez film if I am not mistaken. But it's easy to get them confused they basically do the same thing, although Tarantino is much better at it
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Tarantino was an actor in that one, co-wrote the screenplay.
 
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It's hard to pick one.. but this movie just blew me away

The Usual Suspects

Among the newer ones the ones that come to mind...
- LOR, Matrix, Bourne Identity, Shutter Island, Inception
 
Devil's Backbone.

by Guillermo Del Toro who also directed Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy series.
 
I've seen Scream 1 and 2, I am dying to see Scream 3. The sooner I see that, the sooner I see Scream 4 :P So far, no.2 is the best.
 
Patch adams and aladdin are my favorites. That robin williams is in both is coincidental

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Dilettante said:
I couldn't name one movie, but the films who got me into classic cinema were "The third man" by Carol Reed, the Italian movie "The bicycle thief" and two old Spanish movies called "Placido" and "Welcome Mr. Marshall", both by the same director (too bad these two are unknown outside Spain because they're magic).

"2001 a space odyssey", "The godfather I & II", "The apartment" and "Lawrence of Arabia" are also on my list of best films ever made.



And no "Once upon a time in the west"?

As much as I love the Eastwood/Leone trilogy, Leone's fourth western was his best. His best scenes as a director and some of the best scenes ever filmed are in that movie.
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Is that the one with Charles Bronson in it? If it is the one where he gets off the train and the 3 guys are waiting ofr him then thats a classic.
 
..speaking of Charles Bronson,...anybody ever see 'Hard Times',...starring him??????...freaking GREAT movie!!!!!:grin:
 
boojay said:
You should watch it! VERY emotional movie, very bittersweet. Robin William's finest work if you ask me. And it's all based on a true story too.
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Ehh...I get kind of burnt out on Robin Williams movies, so often he plays the same role. The quirky odd man, who goes against the establishment or colleagues, always the "seize the day" type.Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam, The Awakening, Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams. There are def. actors who do the same thing movie after movie, but usually they're not as over-hyped as Williams is.

No doubt that I love a lot of his movies, but the more and more an actor plays the same role, the less I believe he's acting or performing. Not too mention that Patch Adam's specifically was one of the most outright cheesy, sappy, hallmark type movies I've ever seen.
 
zak425 said:
Ehh...I get kind of burnt out on Robin Williams movies, so often he plays the same role. The quirky odd man, who goes against the establishment or colleagues, always the "seize the day" type.Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam, The Awakening, Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams. There are def. actors who do the same thing movie after movie, but usually they're not as over-hyped as Williams is.

No doubt that I love a lot of his movies, but the more and more an actor plays the same role, the less I believe he's acting or performing. Not too mention that Patch Adam's specifically was one of the most outright cheesy, sappy, hallmark type movies I've ever seen.
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Heh, I wonder if you would say that to the real Patch Adams.

"Yours is the most outright cheesy, sappy, hallmark type life I've ever seen. So you're nuts and lost your will to live, but you miraculously found a reason to live again only to tragically lose it once more. In the end, you found a greater reason to move forward and embrace life. Good for you! Sucker."

Anyway, I've heard of, but haven't seen the other movies you mention so I guess I got lucky.
 
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boojay said:
You should watch it! VERY emotional movie, very bittersweet. Robin William's finest work if you ask me. And it's all based on a true story too.
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To this day, I still think Robin Williams' best work is "Moscow On The Hudson". I like a lot of his movies. He does tend to play the same character in every movie. But in "Moscow On The Hudson" he really did play someone out of his usual character.
 
My top two are...

Raiders of the Lost Ark and Die Hard

After that there is a whole slew

Predator, Aliens, The Thing, Escape From New York, First Blood, Death Wish 1and 2, The Great escape etc. etc.

For Sports movies....

Cindarella Man, The Natural, Running (Micheal Douglas), Rocky, Tough Enough (Dennis Quaid) etc.
 
My choices:

On the Waterfront
Streetcar Named Desire
Godfather - Part 1 and Part 2
Blackboard Jungle
East of Eden
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Stalag 17
Great Escape
Ten Commandments
Pickup on South Street
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Forrest Gump
12 Angry Men
Patch of Blue
Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
Rocky
Vertigo
Yankee Doodle Dandy
White Heat
 
boojay said:
Heh, I wonder if you would say that to the real Patch Adams.

"Yours is the most outright cheesy, sappy, hallmark type life I've ever seen. So you're nuts and lost your will to live, but you miraculously found a reason to live again only to tragically lose it once more. In the end, you found a greater reason to move forward and embrace life. Good for you! Sucker."

Anyway, I've heard of, but haven't seen the other movies you mention so I guess I got lucky.
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I think you are getting the person and the character mistaken, if you believe that movie was exactly how his life was you would be sadly mistaken. It shouldn't be news that Hollywood has "artistic license" to make things more sappy and melodramatic.
 
Atherton2003 said:
My choices:

On the Waterfront
Streetcar Named Desire
Godfather - Part 1 and Part 2
Blackboard Jungle
East of Eden
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Stalag 17
Great Escape
Ten Commandments
Pickup on South Street
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Forrest Gump
12 Angry Men
Patch of Blue
Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
Rocky
Vertigo
Yankee Doodle Dandy
White Heat
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You have a few of my favorites in there. Suprised to see Blackboard Jungle. Good to see though. I have always been a big fan of Glenn Ford AKA....The Fastest Gun Alive!
 
Atherton2003 said:
My choices:

On the Waterfront
Streetcar Named Desire
Godfather - Part 1 and Part 2
Blackboard Jungle
East of Eden
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Stalag 17
Great Escape
Ten Commandments
Pickup on South Street
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Forrest Gump
12 Angry Men
Patch of Blue
Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
Rocky
Vertigo
Yankee Doodle Dandy
White Heat
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It looks like Yankee Doodle Dandy is your favorite since you watched it 3 times. :)
 
Didn't realize I put Yankee Doodle Dandy there 3 times...LOL....I like that movie. Magnut - I like Blackboard Jungle. Glenn Ford was a very good actor. I also liked Vic Morrow in that film. He should have been nominated for an Academy Award. Nobody played the "bad guy" as good as him. I also liked him in the COMBAT t.v. series from back in the 1960's.
 
rk_sports said:
It's hard to pick one.. but this movie just blew me away

The Usual Suspects

Among the newer ones the ones that come to mind...
- LOR, Matrix, Bourne Identity, Shutter Island, Inception
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It is interesting. I share your exact sentiments about The Usual Suspects. I was just blown away. All the people I talked to about this movie were either blown away by it or simply respond "I knew what the ending was. How exactly is that a twist?".
 
billsgwn said:
Cool Hand Luke and pretty much any Clint Eastwood movie
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i once got called for jury duty. they handed out a questionaire one of the questions was name your favorite movies. i wrote down "dirty harry"

the next day, the prosecutor picked me to serve but the defense attorney immediately dismissed me but before he did that, he put me on stand and asked me "you indicated that one of your favorite movies is "dirty harry." why do you like that movie?" i replied "i like it because it's a real good movie." :)

the trial that i got off was the state against an accused serial killer. they said he had killed 10 people over the years.
 
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Didn't expect to see many from my fav's list posted...

-Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
-Vanilla Sky
-Amelie
-Alice in Wonderland (original disney cartoon)

...to name a few off the top o my head.
 
Ben Hadd said:
Didn't expect to see many from my fav's list posted...

-Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
-Vanilla Sky
-Amelie
-Alice in Wonderland (original disney cartoon)

...to name a few off the top o my head.
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My man. That's my personal FFOAT.
 
I have so many favorites
Matrix (nothing beats first one)
Terminator 2
KM 0
Just a question of love
x-men all series
Harry potter and Deathly Hallows1
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
 
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I would go with ‘Apocalypse Now’. Top five might be in no particular order: Das Boot, Kagemusha, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Le Samourai

There was a thread on best movies by decade a couple of years ago where I posted my favorite movies.

socallefty said:
1940s
Casablanca 1942, Double Indemnity 1944, The Third Man 1949

1950s
Rashomon 1950, Seven Samurai 1954, On the Waterfront 1954, Dial M for Murder 1954, Paths of Glory 1957, Vertigo 1958, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958

1960s
La Dolce Vita 1960, The Hustler 1961, Mutiny on the Bounty 1962, High and Low 1963, Dr Strangelove 1964, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly 1966, Blow-up 1966, Point Blank 1967, Cool Hand Luke 1967, In the Heat of the Night 1967, Bonnie and Clyde 1967, Le Samourai 1967, The Thomas Crown Affair 1968, Bullitt 1968, La Piscine 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969, Easy Rider 1969

1970s
The French Connection 1971, Klute 1971, Dirty Harry 1971, The Godfather 1972, Serpico 1973, The Sting 1973, Chinatown 1974, The Godfather, Part II 1974, The Parallax View 1974, Three Days of the Condor 1975, Apocalypse Now 1979

1980s
Kagemusha 1980, Das Boot 1981, Body Heat 1981, Scarface 1983, The Killing Fields 1984, Once upon a time in America 1984, Amadeus 1984, Soldier‘s Story 1984, Blood Simple 1984, Ran 1985, Platoon 1986, The Last Emperor 1987, The Untouchables 1987, Dangerous Liaisons 1988, sex, lies and videotapes 1989

1990s
The Silence of the Lambs 1991, Raise the Red Lantern 1991, Hard Boiled 1992, Schindler’s List 1993, Short Cuts 1993, Sonatine 1993, Chungking Express 1994, Pulp Fiction 1994, Heat 1995, The Usual Suspects 1995, Fargo 1996, LA Confidential 1997, Run Lola Run 1998, The Thin Red Line 1998

2000s
In the Mood for Love 2000, Nueva Reinas (Nine Queens) 2000, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000, Lantana 2001
Training Day 2001, Gosford Park 2001, Ciudade de Deus 2002, Infernal Affairs 2002, The Pianist 2002, Hero 2002
Der Untergang (Downfall) 2004, Syriana 2005, Letters from Iwo Jima 2006, Das Leben der Anderen (the Life of Others) 2006, Mongol 2007, No Country for Old Men 2007, Michael Clayton 2007, There will be Blood 2007, Un Prophete 2009, El Secreto de sus Osos 2009, Inglorious Basterds 2009

2010s
Animal Kingdom 2010, Incendies 2010, 12 Years a Slave 2013, Zero Dark Thirty 2013, La Grande Belleza 2013, Mystery Road 2013, The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014, The Revenant 2015, Hell or High Water 2016, La La Land 2016, Moonlight 2016, Parasite 2019
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Since this thread has been resurrected, I'll say The Third Man is the best I've ever watched, better than Citizen Kane, but O Lucky Man! is my favorite. For the type of movie it is, I'd say Mary Poppins is nearly perfect, and the same could be said for 2001 and Dr. Strangelove.
 
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