your top 20 favorite movies of all time!

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did you mean to quote Pi also? as almost no one has seen it I figure not

but yeah Shawshank is an amazing film and it was filmed here in Ohio at Mansfield prison

I haven't seen Pi yet, but I've added it to the list of films to check out.

I got a stack of DVDs my friends suggested recently, so it could be a couple weeks before I get a chance to see it.


-Don

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Mallrats
Better off dead
Say anything
Highlander
The Princess Bride
Its a wonderful life
A Knights Tale
The Toxic Avengers
Basketball
Starwars (all of them)
Gleaming the Cube
Goonies
This Island Earth
The abomiable Dr Phibes
The Wizard of OZ
Blind Fury
Enter the Dragon
Clash of the Titans
Chasing Amy

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Mallrats
Better off dead
Say anything
Enter the Dragon

Damn. Every person's list is reminding me of movies I missed when I put mine together. I like Cusack. Hell, I should throw Gross Pointe Blank on mine as well. Better Off Dead is a key to my wacky sense of humor.

Enter the Dragon is all kinds of Bruce Lee ass kickin' greatness!

Knight's Tale was unique for the genre and a lot of fun too.



-Don

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

did you mean to quote Pi also? as almost no one has seen it I figure not

I've seen Pi. It's brilliant. But I couldn't find a film I'd kick out of my Top 20 to make room for Pi. I really enjoyed Pi. But the films in my list... I just enjoyed them more.

[Toriach Sinestro's Sparring Partner Find all posts View Profile Close Toriach]

as much as i love robin williams, my favorite two films of his are: the world according to garp and death to smoochie ...

both zorro films are favorites of mine ... was there ever a lone ranger film made ???

anyone else here who love(d) christopher reeves as an actor and person, but who didn't like him as superman ???

Sorry dude I'm not with you on that one. To me Christopher Reeve is and always will be the definitive Superman.

12 Monkeys was a good one, ever see the film it was based on? La Jette? A French independant movie with basically the same plot but a very strange cinematography.

No taking away from 12 Monkeys, truely an awesome film, just saying if you like it try to track down a copy sometime, its worth a look.

Yeah I'm aware of La Jete, there is a bit of it on the behind the scenes documentary on the 12 monkies special edition DVD. If I found a region 0 or 1 copy for not an unholy fortune I certainly wouldn't mind owning it. 12 Monkies is usually what I hand people if they want to carry on that Bruce Willis isn't a "real" actor.

Oh and I can't believe I forgot Tombstone. Best Western ever and look up a picture of Wyatt Earp sometime, the resembelance between him and Kurt Russell is uncanny.

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Toriach

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20. Star Trek (all of them)
19. Star Wars (all of them too)
18. The Matrix (all 3 of them)
17. Godzilla (any and all of them)
16. ID4 (my 1st Will Smith movie)
15. Superman (all but that crap one, you know the one)
14. It's a Wonderful Life (god i love seeing that one every year)
13. Superman: Doomsday
12. AvP:R
11. Army of Darkness
10. X2: X-Men United
9. Spider-Man 2
8. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
7. DBZ (the movies not the TV-show)
6. Harry Potter (all of them)
5. Shrek (all of them)
4. The Incredibles
3. War of The Worlds (yes i know all it had in it was Tom Cruise running around but it still looked good)
2. Ghostbusters (1 & 2)

and the number 1 movie of all time (for me anyway) is................................


Die Hard (all of them)

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Sorry dude I'm not with you on that one. To me Christopher Reeve is and always will be the definitive Superman.

fair enuff ... we're all entitled to our opinions and tastes ... i'm not a superman fan,
so i thought the role was far beneath christopher reeve's acting abilities ...

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This is what I came up with but there are many more that I realy like.

Star Wars (original trilogy)
Back the Future (trilogy)
Pirates of the Caribean (trilogy)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom
Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn
Star Trek The Mation Picture
Transformers
Forest Gump
Dragon The Bruce Lee Story
The Incredibles
Highlander
Tombstone
Unforgiven
Serenity
The last Starfighter
Signs
Skeleton Key
The Da Vinci Code
Jaws

[Toriach Sinestro's Sparring Partner Find all posts View Profile Close Toriach]

fair enuff ... we're all entitled to our opinions and tastes ... i'm not a superman fan,
so i thought the role was far beneath christopher reeve's acting abilities ...

Oookay. I got ya. I thought you dug supes but thought CR was not the man. Well I can't agree with you on the first one. That one was fairly tight except for the ending, and the fact that Hackman was the worst Luthor ever. (Oh my god I just became that guy). However I will largely agree with that assessment for subsequent Superman films. I find 2 unwatchable (even the Donner cut isn't great art) 3 is amusing but I'm a huge Robert Vaughn fan, and 4? Well I come from the parallell universe where they looked at four realized it would be an insult to the fans and shredded it.

And I won't deny that I do wonder where Reeve's career would have gone had he not had the weight of being Superman to bear.

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Whew, took long enough, this is not all of them, but enough to post here. Took so long that you guys will see some repetition, but better late than never.

No particular order...

Casablanca
300
Transformers
2001: A Space Odyssey (in moderation, like once a year)
Doctor Strange: Animated
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Superman II: The Donner Cut
Serenity
Chasing Amy
The Sword and the Sorcerer (don't fucking ask, horrible 80's movie but it has a special place )
Star Trek (The even numbers)
Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Thank You for Smoking
Apocalypse Now
Any Given Sunday
As Good As It Gets
Platoon
Unbreakable
Spy Game
Ocean's Eleven

Whew, done

[ion.nai existential absurdist Find all posts View Profile Close ion.nai]

tough list to come up with... in no particular order....

-The Day The Earth Stood Still
-Sin City
-Barbarella
-Land of the Dead
-Army of Darkness
-Return of the Living Dead
-From Hell
-Unbreakable
-Return of the Jedi
-2010: The Year We Make Contact
-Solaris
-Nanook of the North
-Brazil
-Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
-Signs
-Mallrats
-Big Fish
-Dreamcatcher
-King of Kong
-Brick

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Oooh, forgot about Solaris...good pick man!