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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:46 pm    Post subject: Top 5 Best Movies

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1. Pulp Fiction
2. Godfather
3. Fargo
4. Gladiator
5. Blow


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:42 pm    Post subject:

1. Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Louis)
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Star Wars-Return of the Jedi
4. Matrix
5. Planet Terror-GrindHouse
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:02 pm    Post subject:

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Godfather
3. Seven Samurai
4. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
5. 12 Angry Men
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:20 pm    Post subject:

rchanou wrote:
3. Seven Samurai


Best movie of all time!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:23 pm    Post subject:

My top favorites:

Forrest Gump
The Beach
Trainspotting
Black Hawk Down
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Bourne series (Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:25 pm    Post subject:

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rchanou wrote:
3. Seven Samurai


Best movie of all time!


Akira Kurosawa was simply amazing an amazing director/producer/writer.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:28 pm    Post subject:

There's actually a remake in production for Seven Samurai.

What a shame!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:49 pm    Post subject:

impossible to do but I'll try.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Manhattan
Goodfellas
Citizen Kane
Do The Right Thing
Apocalypse Now
Magnolia
Pulp Fiction
Happiness
Vertigo
Taxi Driver

Ah hell. I can't do 5. I've already left too many out.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject:

Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellows
American Beauty
Sling Blade
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:02 pm    Post subject:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Shawshank Redemption
Godfather(more of a consensus pick)
Gattaca(probably one of those you all think sucked or you never heard of)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:27 am    Post subject:

Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
Schindler's List
12 Angry Men
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:08 am    Post subject:

In a Lonely Place
Barton Fink
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Empire of the Sun
Cyclo
Klute
Out of the Past
Drunken Master 2
The Getaway

a few more than five, but i'm leaving tons off the list so it balances out.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:09 am    Post subject:

phenotul wrote:
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Shawshank Redemption
Godfather(more of a consensus pick)
Gattaca(probably one of those you all think sucked or you never heard of)



Gattaca was surprisingly good.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:10 am    Post subject:

rchanou wrote:
There's actually a remake in production for Seven Samurai.

What a shame!


another one?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:16 am    Post subject:

off the top of my head...

Double Impact
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:41 am    Post subject:

Muad'Dib wrote:
off the top of my head...

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:47 am    Post subject:

These movies are not my top 5 favorite movies, but I think they're the best made films I've ever seen. It's really hard to narrow it down to just 5, but...

1. Godfather
2. Matrix
3. Psycho
4 Goodfellas
5. Apocalypse Now
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:14 pm    Post subject:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3. Knocked Up

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:16 pm    Post subject:

PS. Thought that Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump were vastly overrated.
Most movies I don't like I can at least see why others would - those two, not so much. Care to enlighten me?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:24 pm    Post subject:

REPPIN 818 wrote:
PS. Thought that Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump were vastly overrated.
Most movies I don't like I can at least see why others would - those two, not so much. Care to enlighten me?


i can't imagine not being entertained by Pulp Fiction. it's like a meal at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.

Forrest Gump is a movie i have problems with actually.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:34 pm    Post subject:

REPPIN 818 wrote:
PS. Thought that Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump were vastly overrated.
Most movies I don't like I can at least see why others would - those two, not so much. Care to enlighten me?


Your opinions on movies (and everything else) will change when you finish highschool. Then again when you're in college. Then they'll change again after college and after you've have had a little more exposure to life. Pretty soon you'll have grown to the point where change won't be so drastic, rather, it'll be more incremental.

Then you'll look back and say "I used to think Knocked Up was a good, funny movie!" and slap yourself.

Pulp Fiction has one of the most well-written screenplays of any theatrical work in history.

I liked Forrest Gump but I won't dare to make any arguments in favor of its quality as a movie.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:20 am    Post subject:

Star Wars
Groundhog Day
Dazed & Confused
Swingers
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:31 am    Post subject:

REPPIN 818 wrote:
PS. Thought that Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump were vastly overrated.
Most movies I don't like I can at least see why others would - those two, not so much. Care to enlighten me?

I agree with you on Forrest Gump. But I think Pulp Fiction was one of the great works of cinema history.

It's funny -- I was thinking about the recent Off Topic thread on the Beatles. I've had conversations with people who just don't get what was so special about them. Looking at them today you see a band who put out a bunch of good songs, but it's rather mundane to warrant all that fuss. The flaw in this viewpoint, of course, is that it overlooks what a huge musical, cultural and social revolution they represented. It's mundane today because their influence is so interwoven into so many acts that followed them. But take them out of the equation....it's hard to imagine what music would have been like had they never existed.

Pulp Fiction is like that cinematically. The dialog-driven, non-linear & interlocking telling of three stories was dazzlingly original, and has since been woven into our culture. Banal conversations (what do they call a Big Mac in France?) are thrust front & center, and not only do they drive the movie, they provide great richness & depth to the characters -- while being entertaining as hell. All of this juxtaposed on a world where the characters are quirky without ever becoming comically unbelievable, and even the minor characters (Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken) are something special.

Prior to 1994, it would've been hard to imagine Pulp Fiction, and the impact it would have on cinema and culture. Today, it's hard to imagine cinema and culture without it.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:00 am    Post subject:

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REPPIN 818 wrote:
PS. Thought that Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump were vastly overrated.
Most movies I don't like I can at least see why others would - those two, not so much. Care to enlighten me?

I agree with you on Forrest Gump. But I think Pulp Fiction was one of the great works of cinema history.

It's funny -- I was thinking about the recent Off Topic thread on the Beatles. I've had conversations with people who just don't get what was so special about them. Looking at them today you see a band who put out a bunch of good songs, but it's rather mundane to warrant all that fuss. The flaw in this viewpoint, of course, is that it overlooks what a huge musical, cultural and social revolution they represented. It's mundane today because their influence is so interwoven into so many acts that followed them. But take them out of the equation....it's hard to imagine what music would have been like had they never existed.

Pulp Fiction is like that cinematically. The dialog-driven, non-linear & interlocking telling of three stories was dazzlingly original, and has since been woven into our culture. Banal conversations (what do they call a Big Mac in France?) are thrust front & center, and not only do they drive the movie, they provide great richness & depth to the characters -- while being entertaining as hell. All of this juxtaposed on a world where the characters are quirky without ever becoming comically unbelievable, and even the minor characters (Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken) are something special.

Prior to 1994, it would've been hard to imagine Pulp Fiction, and the impact it would have on cinema and culture. Today, it's hard to imagine cinema and culture without it.


While I agree that Pulp Fiction was original in it's dialogue and characters, Tarentino was not the first director to weave many stories & characters together. Robert Altman had already put out The Player and Short Cuts in the early 90's that did this.

The Onion pointed out last week that Quentin Tarantino "made his name by spinning pop-culture trash into arthouse gold..." I think this is exactly how he was able to reach a large audience. Now, as you pointed out, his films have become pop-culture.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:14 am    Post subject: Re: Top 5 Best Movies

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