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 Sultan of Bahrain  Group: Purple Hazes Posts: 1,276 Joined: 2-May 09 Member No.: 95  |
So I'm not gonna do some fancy-schmancy RM-type polling thingy, but post your favorite movies of all time, and why.
I'll start. There are a whole bunch, but if I had to narrow it down to like 20 (originally 10, but there were still too many) , I'd say 1. Kramer vs Kramer 2. The Shawshank Redemption 3. The Silence of the Lambs 4. Raging Bull (New addition) 5. Gone With the Wind 6. Forrest Gump 7. Taxi Driver 8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 9. Twelve Angry Men 10. The Graduate 11. Amadeus 12. Casablanca 13. Network 14. A Beautiful Mind 15. Philadelphia 16. The color purple. 17. The Lion King 18. Quo Vadis 19. A Streetcar Named Desire 20. Rainman. 21. Ben Hur 22. Doubt Also, discuss various actors and their acting abilities. I guess you can discuss actresses too. For example, Dustin Hoffman is one of the greatest actors of all time and if you disagree you are wrong. This post has been edited by TheAwesomeKid: Sep 3 2009, 12:01 AM |
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Jun 24 2009, 06:58 PM
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 Major Major Major Major Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 3,017 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Duke University Member No.: 48 |
Greatest, or favorite? There's a difference. I can recognize greatness in a film without particularly enjoying it.
-------------------- "Slowly, I began to see--as if a veil had lifted--the tortured shadow of Cain everywhere, within me and without, his many cultural reincarnations parading through my mind like frames projected on a cyclorama. He was the first city-builder. Perhaps the father of science and philosophy. His war was with God, the Father who spurned him. Of the two--him and Abel--only Cain possessed subjectivity. A complex inner life. It was said that Western man himself was Cain, cursed with the burden of restlessness and the endless quest for selfhood."
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Jun 24 2009, 07:30 PM
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Typo Grasshopper Group: Purple Hazes Posts: 833 Joined: 1-May 09 From: CINCO, CINCO, CINCO Member No.: 87 |
I refuse to vote, due to the lack of Cohen brothers movies on the list.
-------------------- QUOTE (Mr. Tree @ Jul 12 2009, 03:54 PM)  If Pearland wins, then yay. If Dobie wins, then yay. If Cinco Ranch wins, however, I will pull my hair out and jump into a vat of tar :P It is every decathlete's job to take this as a guarantee. |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:35 PM
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 Typo Sensei Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 1,635 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Prescott, Arizona (That's Preskit like biskit) Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (gabrielcunha.7 @ Jun 24 2009, 12:30 PM) I refuse to vote, due to the lack of Cohen brothers movies on the list. Post your own list. That's the point. --------------------  "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." "Where we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people" |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:36 PM
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 Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
Independent thinking!? Perish the thought, Badgercam!
--------------------  It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:39 PM
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Typo Sensei Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 1,635 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Prescott, Arizona (That's Preskit like biskit) Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (overly_critical_man @ Jun 24 2009, 12:36 PM) Independent thinking!? Perish the thought, Badgercam! Yes, my master. 
-------------------- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." "Where we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people" |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:39 PM
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 Admiral and Love Guru Adama Group: Orange Crushers Posts: 3,562 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Dude I Go To Hogwarts Member No.: 8 |
Police Academy 1-Current Movie in production.
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Jun 24 2009, 07:42 PM
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 Now Zoidberg is the popular one! Group: Nazgul Posts: 1,502 Joined: 1-May 09 From: The FTW Member No.: 61 |
Pulp Fiction
-------------------- QUOTE If you get off of school grounds, kiss your ass goodbye as you’re now faced with angry centaurs, hungry spiders, and every variety of evil, man slaughtering mythical beast you can think of. Including trees. There’s a freaking tree that can kill people. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatrioitic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt Editorial in the Kansas City Star May 7, 1918 |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:49 PM
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 Hero of Socialism Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 80 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Ontario, California Member No.: 41 |
Serenity
This post has been edited by Somedude: Jun 24 2009, 07:50 PM -------------------- Come on Mr. FOXHOUND, the Commander is waiting.
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Jun 24 2009, 07:50 PM
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 Captain Hypertension Group: Usual Suspects Posts: 5,453 Joined: 1-May 09 From: neither here nor there Member No.: 51 |
All Monty Python.
Mirrormask Boondock Saints meh, lots more, I'll fill out the list later. -------------------- QUOTE (Crow @ Mar 30 2010, 12:24 AM) Jonesy, who is, of course, the measurement of all things manly on this site QUOTE (zzzptm @ Nov 9 2009, 10:29 PM) JBroms is the voice of reason |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:57 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
QUOTE (Somedude @ Jun 24 2009, 12:49 PM) Serenity Dude, Summer Glau ain't that hot. -------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:57 PM
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Captain Hypertension Group: Usual Suspects Posts: 5,453 Joined: 1-May 09 From: neither here nor there Member No.: 51 |
QUOTE (overly_critical_man @ Jun 24 2009, 02:57 PM) QUOTE (Somedude @ Jun 24 2009, 12:49 PM) Serenity Dude, Summer Glau ain't that hot. She aint bad looking either, and it's still an awesome movie. -------------------- QUOTE (Crow @ Mar 30 2010, 12:24 AM) Jonesy, who is, of course, the measurement of all things manly on this site QUOTE (zzzptm @ Nov 9 2009, 10:29 PM) JBroms is the voice of reason |
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Jun 24 2009, 08:01 PM
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 Don't compare my beat with his... Group: Nazgul Posts: 2,153 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Pearland, Texas Member No.: 14 |
QUOTE (gabrielcunha.7 @ Jun 24 2009, 08:30 PM) I refuse to vote, due to the lack of Cohen brothers movies on the list. I love the COEN brothers, but wow dude. C'mon. -------------------- Pearland Academic Decathlon Alumnus '08
Dulles HS Girls Soccer Coach Dulles HS Volunteer Decathlon Coach Sans Regrets |
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Jun 24 2009, 08:07 PM
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Admiral and Love Guru Adama Group: Orange Crushers Posts: 3,562 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Dude I Go To Hogwarts Member No.: 8 |
Gigli
Pearl Harbor Alf Every Matrix but the First. -------------------- Funk Mission RIP MYSGSAB Never Forget :p |
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Jun 24 2009, 08:09 PM
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Major Major Major Major Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 3,017 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Duke University Member No.: 48 |
QUOTE (Mr. Tree @ Jun 24 2009, 01:01 PM) QUOTE (gabrielcunha.7 @ Jun 24 2009, 08:30 PM) I refuse to vote, due to the lack of Cohen brothers movies on the list. I love the COEN brothers, but wow dude. C'mon. I was gonna say about exactly this. -------------------- "Slowly, I began to see--as if a veil had lifted--the tortured shadow of Cain everywhere, within me and without, his many cultural reincarnations parading through my mind like frames projected on a cyclorama. He was the first city-builder. Perhaps the father of science and philosophy. His war was with God, the Father who spurned him. Of the two--him and Abel--only Cain possessed subjectivity. A complex inner life. It was said that Western man himself was Cain, cursed with the burden of restlessness and the endless quest for selfhood."
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Jun 24 2009, 08:15 PM
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Admiral and Love Guru Adama Group: Orange Crushers Posts: 3,562 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Dude I Go To Hogwarts Member No.: 8 |
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Other ones sucked)
God this is hard, I have so many great movies. -------------------- Funk Mission RIP MYSGSAB Never Forget :p |
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Jun 24 2009, 08:15 PM
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Don't compare my beat with his... Group: Nazgul Posts: 2,153 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Pearland, Texas Member No.: 14 |
QUOTE (iMatt @ Jun 24 2009, 09:15 PM) Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Other ones sucked) God this is hard, I have so many great movies. ?! Huh?! Que? What?! Are you...ok? -------------------- Pearland Academic Decathlon Alumnus '08
Dulles HS Girls Soccer Coach Dulles HS Volunteer Decathlon Coach Sans Regrets |
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Jun 24 2009, 08:17 PM
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Typo Sensei Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 1,635 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Prescott, Arizona (That's Preskit like biskit) Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (iMatt @ Jun 24 2009, 01:15 PM) Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Other ones sucked) God this is hard, I have so many great movies. Go die. The original trilogy was way better. -------------------- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." "Where we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people" |
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Jun 24 2009, 08:18 PM
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Major Major Major Major Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 3,017 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Duke University Member No.: 48 |
Look at all his posts. They are pretty much the worst movies.
ITT: Sarcasm? What is that? -------------------- "Slowly, I began to see--as if a veil had lifted--the tortured shadow of Cain everywhere, within me and without, his many cultural reincarnations parading through my mind like frames projected on a cyclorama. He was the first city-builder. Perhaps the father of science and philosophy. His war was with God, the Father who spurned him. Of the two--him and Abel--only Cain possessed subjectivity. A complex inner life. It was said that Western man himself was Cain, cursed with the burden of restlessness and the endless quest for selfhood."
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Jun 24 2009, 08:19 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
xXx2: State of the Union
And I'm not even kidding. -------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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