First, let me say, "Well said, ladyjdotnet."

Well, I find you generally intolerable. Does that count as being ticked off?

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Okay favorite movies:

[list]
[*]Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan -- My all time favorite. Not a single wasted scene in this flick. And who would have known? Shatner can actually act!
[*]Lawrence of Arabia -- Just gorgeous.
[*]Planet of the Apes (orignal) -- An exciting movie with depth. Unlike the remake.
[*]Airplane! -- The single funniest movie ever made.
[*]Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Just plain fun, and perfectly paced.
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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Hey, I managed to have a half-way decent conversation about churches and location with you! I figured you wern't all that bad.

Then again, sometimes having to drive all they way out to Derby to get my sax out of Banco's can get to my head...

On a side note, I noticed a large billboard stating that pro-sports were coming back to Conneticut. How? A basketball team called the "New Haven Ninja's".

Jeez, if you hate me, just say so.

Has anyone here ever seen Dream a Little Dream starring Corey Feldman. Easily one of my favorite movies, although I find the sequel to be very disturbing.

other favories include:

[i]AmityVille Horror
License to Drive
Goonies
Tron
Fight Club
Empire Strikes Back
Disco Godfather
The Godfather 1 + 2
Yellow Submarine
Brian's Song[/i] (original not the sub par remake)
[i]He Got Game
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Billy Madison
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Big
Garbage Pail Kids[/i]

How could I forget:

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
A Clockwork Orange
Eraserhead
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Peeping Tom

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Jeez, if you hate me, just say so.

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Ack, please don't. When abuse has failed, ignoring is the best option (actually, it is usually a better option than abuse in the first place, but is nowhere near as satisfying). This would only give he-who-must-not-be-acknowledged more attention than he deserves.

As for favourite movies, I have seen some good ones, and want to put a few into my own list, and add a few more of my own...

- Fight Club
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Stand By Me
- Martin
- Galaxy Quest
- Pi
- The Blair Witch Project
- Little Shop of Horrors (musical remake)
- Did I mention Polanski's The Tentant in my previous posting? I intended to.
- Run Lola Run
- Flying High (Airplane's Oz title for some reason)
- Birdy (a beautiful drama with one of the funniest final gags ever filmed - no spoilers, just see it)
- Pretty much anything by Italian horror maestro Dario Argento. Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red) is my favourite of his, but I also love The Stendhal Syndrome, Terror at the Opera, Suspiria, and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Willow
- Demons
- The Sixth Sense
- Unbreakable
- Proof (Andy will love this one - Russell Crowe's big break)
- The Interview (possibly the greatest Aussie drama ever filmed - highest possible recommendation)
- The Custodian
- The Mad Max trilogy, which I heartily suggest fans watch in a marathon sitting - they work beautifully together.

As I said, I love movies, especially horror movies, so I have many, many favourites apart from these...

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Ack, please don't. When abuse has failed, ignoring is the best option (actually, it is usually a better option than abuse in the first place, but is nowhere near as satisfying). This would only give he-who-must-not-be-acknowledged more attention than he deserves.

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Stand By Me is a fucking great film, top class, I love it.

Jerry and Tom is pretty good too, can't remember who's in it, but it's a black comedy about mafia hitmen, not side splitting or anything, but I watched it while half-baked one night and it was excellent.

Almost Famous
The Big Lebowski
Full Metal Jacket
Transformers - The Movie

(granted, there's a whole load of new Decepticons and Ironhide blows up, but the Optimus Prime death scene is worth it)

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Did anyone ever see "Journey of Honor"?

I just remembered this on a whim: It was a pretty neat film about a Japanese Price during the Edo/Tokugawa Shogun era(1400-1800). The deal is his dad(Toshiro Mifune) sends the kid to Europe to buy guns to win the war in Japan and he and his mentor(Sho Kosugi end up traveling all over, enslaved, escaping, etc. It's pretty cool, especially where they have a (sort-of)duel between the Spanish guy and the Samurai.

Right, about Pearl Harbour...that movie has awesome action scenes. TONS of explosions. It's kinda like titanic for me. I just fast forward til' i get to the part where the ship is sinking and everyones falling hitting the props. All you gotta do is ffwd until the part where those ladies are like "get to the hospital now" and watch from there until you get to the part where the president is talking, then fastforward it to when they bomb japan. Theres just too much "chick flick" parts in that movie.

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On a side note, I noticed a large billboard stating that pro-sports were coming back to Conneticut. How? A basketball team called the "New Haven Ninja's".

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Actually, it's "arena football" played in the New Haven Coliseum. It's supposed to be the new thing, making football an inexpensive family thing (like The Bluefish in Bridgeport).

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If your religion bothers you so much, why don't you give it up?

speaking of ninja-

http://www.ninjahypothesis.com/

http://www.ninjaburger.com/

anyone here seen these?

I can't believe I completely missed out on Hong Kong cinema, one of my favourite genres...

Jackie Chan:
- Project A (1 & 2)
- Police Story (1 & 2)
- Fearless Hyaena
- Drunken Master (1 & 2)
- Armour of God II: Operation Condor
- Rumble in Vancouver, uh, the Bronx, sorry. :)

Jet Li:
- Once Upon a Time in China
- Fong Sai Yuk

John Woo (his US stuff has been pretty much all shithouse, sadly):
- Bullet in the Head (his best by far, in my opinion)
- Hard Boiled
- The Killer
- A Better Tomorrow (1 & 2)

Others:
- City on Fire
- Prison on Fire
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (yeah, I know, not Hong Kong)

Oh, and a new favourite, and one of the greatest horror films ever made, a fantastic little Japanese flick called Ring. This is quite easily the most terrifying films I have ever seen. Parts of it made my heart almost stop, and I felt shell-shocked for hours afterward.

Damn! I just realised I left my favourite director, Peter Jackson, out of all my lists so far:
- Bad Taste
- Mest the Feebles
- Brain Dead
- Heavenly Creatures
- Forgotten Silver
- The Frighteners

If only one director in the whole world could get The Lord of the Rings right, PJ is the one. He is a filmmaking genius.

Did I mention I love movies? The hundred or so films I have mentioned in this thread are just my favourites... :)

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Jackie Chan is great. Not well made, but still beter than Rodger Corman.

Jackie Chan:
Rumble in the Bronx
Police Story 1, 2
Supercop
First Strike
Who am I?
Crime Story
Twin Dragons
Drunken Master(remake)
Shanghi Noon
Rush Hour
Miracles
Mr. Nice Guy

Jet Li's "Once upon a time in China" series(1,2,3) rocks.

This is the day I finally give up all hope for the future of the human race.

Well, you being a movie critic...

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And I almost forgot:

Little Big Man

One of my all time favourites.

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I hope that is just a Russell Crowe thing and not an aspersion against Proof, one of my favourite films and one of the best movies ever made in Oz? If it's the latter, movie critic or not, you'd better prepare yourself for a severe beating... >:[

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No one has mentioned Night of the Comet. I know what I said about post-apocalyptic backgrounds, but they're OK for light entertainment.

And They Live.

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What others say about boorite!

BATMAN 1989 (the definitive greatest movie ever made)

GODFATHER TRILOGY

THE TERMINATOR

AIRPLANE!

SPINAL TAP

RESERVOIR DOGS

DELIVERANCE

DUMB AND DUMBER

THE CABLE GUY

SPACEBALLS

MEN IN TIGHTS

BULLET IN THE HEAD

ENTER THE DRAGON

SUMMER SCHOOL (anyone else remember the 'goofball' genre at it's peak?)

LIAR LIAR

STAR WARS 4, 5 AND 6 (fuck episode one)

HOTSHOTS 1

THE BICYCLE THIEF

GHOST IN THE SHELL

THE SHINING

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

HEAT

TAXI DRIVER

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

FROM DUSK TIL DAWN (...until it gets all crazy with the vampires)

BASEKETBALL

ORGAZMO

WEIRD SCIENCE

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

WARGAMES

TEENWOLF

PSYCHO

ONCE WERE WARRIORS

BLOODSPORT

STREETFIGHTER THE ANIMATED MOVIE

POINT BREAK

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

BEETLEJUICE

PACIFIC HEIGHTS

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

THREE AMIGOS

BLAZING SADDLES

N.B. if there was a simpsons movie, this list would just comprise of the simpsons movie and nothing else.

I hope your inclusion of Psycho refers to the classic Hitchcock version and not the 1998 plagiarism -- erm, I mean remake -- by Gus van Sant. *shudder*

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yeah, Titanic would've rocked without that fucking boat!

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