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Favorite Movies

bdreampixie

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Jan 22, 2004
What are your favorite movies of all time?

My top 10:

1. Casablanca
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Waking Life :rock: (it's brilliant)
4. Exit Smiling (silent)
5. Le Corbeau (The Raven)
6. Rear Window
7. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Gaslight
9. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
10. The Three Faces of Eve

Honorable mention to : Dawn of the Dead, and Strictly Ballroom.

What movies would you recommend?
 

Teresa Dawn

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Sep 2, 2005
And my top ten:

1. The Lord of the Rings (gotta be extended)
2. Timeline
3. National Treasure
4. The Phantom of the Opera
5. The Cutting Edge
6. Cool Runnings
7. Anastasia
8. Ever After
9. Grease
10. Beauty and the Beast
 

BronzeisGolden

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Jul 27, 2003
Hmmm...I've done this so many times, and it always changes. But, it is still fun.
So, as of right now, I'll go with this (in no particular order):

1. "Moulin Rouge"
2. "Aliens"
3. "Elizabeth"
4. "The Sixth Sense"
5. "The Color Purple"
6. "Glory"
7. "Forrest Gump"
8. "Cold Mountain"
9. "Kill Bill Vol. 1"
10. "Like Water for Chocolate"
 

Piel

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The Big Chill
Steele Magnolias
The Contender
Grease
Howard's End
Enchanted April
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Love Actually
Sense and Sensibility
Ocean's Eleven
Bull Durham
American Grafitti
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Joy Luck Club
The Age of Innocence
The Last Emperor
Raise the Red Lantern
West Side Story
Sophie's Choice
 

dlkksk8fan

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Jul 26, 2003
I love all the old Musicals. Also Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies.



Newer movies:
Billy Elliot
Cast Away
Chocolat
Cold Mountain
Forrest Gump
Pirates of the Caribbean
Almost Famous
Mr Holland's Opus
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
 

iluvtodd

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My favorites:

Fantasia (the original)
The Sound of Music
Mr. Holland's Opus
The American President
The 10 Commandments
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind
Apollo 13
The Princess Diaries (the first one)
Oklahoma
 

Tonichelle

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This is always so stupidly hard it's not even funny!!!

1. Big Fish
2. Arsenic & Old Lace
3. The Three Amigos
4. Star Wars (Epis 3-6)
5. The Philidelphia Story
6. Jurassic Park (all three)
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. Pirates of the Carribean
9. Miracle
10. Father of the Bride 1 & 2

honorable mentions go to
It's A Wonderful Life, Home Alone (1 & 2), Remember the Titans, The Terminal, All of the Muppet Films.... I could go on for days! :laugh:
 

CzarinaAnya

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Aug 29, 2003
Wow ,it's hard to pick just 10 Not in any particular order...

Sesame Street Presents-Follow that Bird

L.O.T.R. (all three)

The Cutting Edge

Oliver!

A Muppet Christmas Carol

Anastasia (Animator, Don Bluth rocks!)

Pride & Predjudice (1995 A&E version)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Joan of Arc (Leelee Sobieski)

Princess Diaries2:A Royal Engagement (have you SEEN Chris Pine?! :love: )
 
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Ptichka

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My top 10. I'm keeping it at 1 per director.
1. 8 1/2 by Fellini
2. Stalker by Tarkovsky
3. Seventh Seal by Bergman
4. Conformist by Bertolucci
5. Blow Up by Antonioni
6. Double Life of Veronique by Kislowsky
7. Last Metro by Truffault
8. One Flew over the Cookoo's nest by Forman
9. Ashes and Diamonds by Wajda
10. Cabaret by Fosse

Top 10 of the last decade (or so)
1 My Favorite Season (1993, French)
2 Window to Paris (1994, Russia/French)
3 Cookie's Fortune (1999)
4 Dinner Game (1998, French)
5 Dreamlife of Angles (1998, French)
6 Shrek
7 Maria Full of Grace
8 American Beauty
9 Mulholland Drive
10 Farewell My Concubine (1993, China)
 
Joined
Jan 30, 2004
American Grafitti
ET
Dirty Dancing
The Notebook
Forest Gump
Jaws 1,2 & 3
Back To The Future (all 3)
My Dog Skip
The Sixth Sense
Green Fried Tomatoes
 

bdreampixie

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Jan 22, 2004
oooh, I love your list Ptichka! I love that you have all the sophisticated films and then Shrek. LOL.

Finding Nemo is my fave cartoon movie. So sweet. I cried :laugh:
 

Aloft04

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Mar 15, 2004
I love movies!! Especially foreign films or independents...not really in any particular order:

Elling (Norwegian), The Road Home (Chinese), The Chorus (French), Bread & Tulips (Italian as I recall), Italian for Beginners (Scandinavian, but can't remember), Antonia's Line (Dutch I think), Babette's Feast (maybe Danish), Cinema Paradisio, Comrades-Almost a Love Story(Chinese), God is Brazilian (Brazil), In July (German), Man on the Train (French) Mostly Martha (German), Truly, Madly, Deeply (British),

and from my own country: Defending Your Life, High Fidelity, Little Big Man, Bubba Ho-Tep, Baghdad Cafe, Smoke Signals, Bringing Up Baby, and Harold & Maude
 

Jhar55

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Some of my favorite movies:

1. Phantom of the Opera :thumbsup:
2. Cold Mountain - did any one else read the book? Was the ending the same, I read the book and don't think it was. Did Iman die in the book? Way I read it he didn't.
3. Steel Magnolias
4. Original Parent Trap
5. Lady and the Tramp
That's just a few
 

Johar

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Dec 16, 2003
I could never pick just 10 movies, not when I am 36 :rofl:


White Squall

Terminator 2

Taps

Ordinary People

Lord of the Rings

Lolita

Billy Elliott

Day of the Dolphins

What about Bob?

The Black Stallion

Saving Private Ryan

Stand By Me

Caddyshack

Titanic

Sunset Boulevard

Damien: Omen II
 
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equestrianguy

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Jan 20, 2004
I'll try to add a few that haven't been mentioned..

Far From Heaven
The Hours
Now, Voyager
Imitation of Life
Cleopatra (1968? with Liz)
Weathering Hieghts (1939? with Lawerence)
Mysery
Fried Green Tomatoes
The English Patient
Dangerous Liazons
Edward Scissor Hands
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
A Bug's Life
The Incredibles
On Golden Pond
Silence of the Lambs
Come Back Little Sheba
Mildred Peirce
Mommy Dearest
Fatal Attraction
Jezebel
Willow
All About Eve
The Piano
Shakespear in Love
ET
Star Wars Saga
Lost in Translation
Dirty Pretty Things
A Room with a View

many of my favs have already been used previous, but there are many more to add...lol
 
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Jul 11, 2003
I can't believe nobody mentioned Citizen Kane, my personal favorite, but I do like most of the films listed by others. I gues I'm just the oldest one in the Forum.

Joe
 

urmaniac13

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Sep 30, 2005
Stand By Me
Immortal Beloved
Dead Poets Society
A Fish Called Wanda
Billy Elliot
Finding Neverland
Finding Nemo
An Englishman who Went Up a Hill & Came Down a Mountain
Princess Bride
City of Angels
Lady Hawke
Biloxi Blues
Importance of Being Earnest

Probably I forgot something significant, but these are the ones just came into mind immediately...
 

Buzzz

Final Flight
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Jul 26, 2003
from the top of my head...

1. The Colour Purple
2. Taras Bulba
3. Sophie's Choice
4. Lord Of The Rings
5. Shindler's List
6. Star Wars (4)
7. Enermy At The Gates
8. What Happened To Baby Jane?
9. Imitation Of Life
10. All The Fine Young Cannibals

Honorable mention for THE KILLING FEILDS
 
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