1. The Ten Commandments 2. Fight Club 3. What Dreams May Come 4. Forrest Gump 5. The Matrix
I got to thinking about my list. That list is more about "The Top 5 Movies The Evoked The Most Emotion". The movies that make me think about "The Human Condition". Maybe "The Spirit Of Man". Or something like that. It's hard to explain.
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Posts: 231 From: Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Registered: Apr 2006
Don't forget Elvis! Gotta have Elvis movies! Or maybe I am just old...
No, no your not. But how do you pick?! They were all kinda the same formula. I liked them all, for what they were. I just liked Elvis, period. Coolest of the cool!
Love Me Tender Loving You Jailhouse Rock King Creole GI Blues Flaming Star Wild in the country Blue Hawaii Follow That Dream Kid Galahad Girls Girls Girls It Happened At The Worlds Fair Fun In Acapulco Kissin' Cousins Viva Las Vegas Roustabout Girl Happy Tickle Me Harum Scarum Frankie & Johnny Paradise Hawaiin Style Spinout Easy Come Easy Go Double Trouble Clambake Stay Away Joe Speedway Live A Little Love A Little Charro The Trouble With Girls Change Of Habit Thats The Way It Is Elvis On Tour
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Posts: 1610 From: Tampa, Florida, United States of America Registered: Aug 2005
Right on! Elvis is the coolest of the cool! I just watched Clambake the other night. I started collecting them all on DVD a couple years ago. Viva Las Vegas is up there. Kissin' Cousins. Roustabout. All of them are great but GI Blues is probably #1 for me.
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Songman, it's cool that we have that in common. The Shawshank Redemption and The Count of Monte Cristo. Movies can tell about a person also.
My wife and I recently returned from Paris. We had planned to go to Chateau Monte Cristo, which is the home of Alexandre Dumas and is now a museum, but we didn't have time. We did go to his grave though. Obviously I am a huge fan of Dumas.
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Big Fish absolutely fabulous film, has you laughing and crying at the same time... if you haven't seen it, get it. Brazil been my favorite film answer for decades. Matrix like your first hit of heroin... nothing can match the first experience. Dusk til Dawn I had no idea going in the first time where this movie was heading. 12 Monkeys One of those movies I liked even more the second or third time, catching the subtle touches
Unbreakable Just so cool when you realise it's a... well go see it. Sixth Sense One of the most amazing mind f*cks of all time when you get to the end and realise all the clues were there. ... oops that's more than 5, early M. Night Shamilan stuff with, I love when Bruce Willis does stuff outside the formula Die Hard sort of movies. I thought the alien movie with Mel Gibson sucked, haven't watched his horror stuff.
I'd expand that with a bunch of martial arts movies like Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Hustle
Best movie I've seen lately, picked up DVD of "Lock, Stock and Both Smoking Barrels" Violent and hilarious with a good story and acting.
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Posts: 38235 From: Displaced Alaskan Registered: Jun 2003
1. Ghandi 2. The Last Emperor 3. Apocalypse Now 4. The Trials of Nuremberg 5. The Game
Oh man, Apocalypse Now! Don't forget "The Deer Hunter"! A little long winded, but man!
P.S. Did you see the "Full" version of Apocalypse Now? It really changed the "feel" of the whole movie! I'm not saying it was a bad thing. It just made the movie even wierder................ If thats even possable!
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Posts: 40712 From: Carrollton GA. Out in the... country. Registered: Oct 1999
Oh man, Apocalypse Now! Don't forget "The Deer Hunter"! A little long winded, but man!
P.S. Did you see the "Full" version of Apocalypse Now? It really changed the "feel" of the whole movie! I'm not saying it was a bad thing. It just made the movie even wierder................ If thats even possable!
Yeah! I've seen the directors version. It made it quite a bit longer and yeah, it did make it a bit stranger. Especially the French chick scene. It's a great movie. I always recommend Apocalypse Now to those who never seen it.
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Posts: 3461 From: Mansfield,Oh,U.S. Registered: Oct 1999
1) Romeo and Juliet (Newest one - not because of Leo - just the cinemetography) 2) What Dreams may Come 3) The Last Samurai 4) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 5) Old School
(also "The Last Starfighter" and "Never Ending Story")
What would be really interesting are the top five WORST movies of all time - in your opinions.
1) Jarhead 2) Requiem for a Dream 3) War of the Worlds 4) Deuce Biggalo European Jiggalo 5) *RULES OF ATTRACTION*
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1) Casablanca 2) McCabe & Mrs. Miller 3) Manhattan 4) Month Python and the Holy Grail 5) Zorba the Greek
I'm a little surprised that so far only Raydar has mentioned 2001: A space Odyssey.
Maryjane: I agree that Tender Mercies is a sleeper that would definitely be on my "Honorable Mentions" list. People who have never spent time in west Texas will never realize just how good Robert Duvall was in that part.
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Raydar Member
Posts: 40712 From: Carrollton GA. Out in the... country. Registered: Oct 1999
Too bad we let the whole program pretty much languish after Apollo. If there was one film I hoped would become reality (except for the strangeness, of course) it was this one.
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Marvin McInnis Member
Posts: 11599 From: ~ Kansas City, USA Registered: Apr 2002
1. Aliens 2. Mindwalk 3. Matrix 4. Tron 5. Star Wars (4-5-6) ;P Honorable mentions:
Predator TheDark Crystal Hellraiser Altered States Alien Serenity The "Spotless mind" movie The Truman Show All those Monty Python movies Private Ryan Clockwork orange Taxi Driver
and the list goes on...
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Posts: 20871 From: Roswell, Georgia Registered: May 2001
Brainstorm (Natalie Wood's last film. Christopher Walken co-stars.) Butterfly Effect A Clockwork Orange It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. (Starring nearly all of the old school comedy greats.) Devil's Rejects <shudder> Young Frankenstein Close Encounters of the Third Kind
And just because... Spaceballs Spaced Invaders <snicker>
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Posts: 12398 From: The Man from Tallahassee Registered: Aug 2001
Yeah! I've seen the directors version. It made it quite a bit longer and yeah, it did make it a bit stranger. Especially the French chick scene. It's a great movie. I always recommend Apocalypse Now to those who never seen it.
I didn't "get" the whole French scene. I'll watch it again though, because Its still my personal fave movie. I would add: Robert Duvals "The Apostle" Silverado The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension Hmm, only one more? Flip a coin, Forrest Gump or Tim Burtons "Nightmare before Christmas".
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