Favorite Movies thread - it's fun, let's do it again.

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Futo Inu

New member
....just like a roller coaster.

It's an oldie but goodie non-gun thread. Let's get the newbies on TFL to play. Here is my list.

Favorite Dramas/Epics:

1. Rudy
2. Braveheart
3. Forrest Gump
4. Dances with Wolves
5. Titanic
6. Unforgiven
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Rocky I
9. Schindler's List
10. Misery
11. Goodwill Hunting
12. Patch Adams
Oh yes, must add Shawshank Redemption and Platoon!

Favorite Comedies:

1. Raising Arizona
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. A Fish Called Wanda
4. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
5. There's Something About Mary
6. Back to the Future I (drama?)
7. Tommy Boy

Favorite Action:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Silence of the Lambs (Drama?)
3. True Lies
4. All Bond Films
5. Die Hard I
6. Armageddon
7. Enemy of the State
8. Top Gun
yes, absolutely must add True Romance and The Matrix!

I'm asking here for all-time masterpiece classic types, in your opinion, not just "good" movies.

[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited December 20, 1999).]
 
Newbie, is it? I been here for minutes! Hey, I'm a senior member -says so right under may fake name. ;)

How 'bout:

Best Soundtrack
Death Valley (soundtrack by The Police
with auto repeat)

Horror
Pyscho (with that really scary
no-knock shower raid)

Drama
Play Misty for Me (has really good
funeral scene)

War Theme
Dogs of War (coming to a theatre near you - at all twelve metroplexes!)

Special Effects
The Burning Bed (co-starring Your Wife!)

Comedy
Drop A Dime (that scene where the snitch
says "oops!" just cracks me up)

Need I go on? Tongue firmly out of cheek :(
Howz that for a newbie?


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we gladly feast on those who would subdue us
 
Futo, You wouldn't happen to be from the Joliet, Illinois area, would you? Dan Ruettiger, "Rudy", graduated from my high school, and I graduated with his neice. If you're into football, you've no doubt heard of Mike Alstott from the Tampa Bay Bucaneers. He also was a Joliet Catholic High School graduate. He graduated a few years before I did, but we partied none the less. During my senior year, we had an assembly where Rudy was the speaker. Really inspiring stuff.
 
ROAD WARRIOR [LOVE THE DOG]

MOSQUITO COAST [GOOD PRACTICAL SKILLS]

RAISING ARIZONA [RANDAL TEX,AND THE KID W/ JUGGS MAG AND 44]

TRUE ROMANCE [WISH I HAD A GIRLFRIEND LIKE HER]

ALIENS [VASQUEZ IS ANOTHER OF MY KINDA GIRLS]

FMJ [HARTMANN KICKED ASS]

QUIGLEY [I LOVE THOSE 45-110's, AND TOMS REAL LIFE BELIEFS]

HEAT ["YA KNOW FOR ME, THE ACITON IS THE JUICE", DENIRO SHOULD HAVE MADE IT TO THE ISLAND AND STILL KILLED WAINGRO]
 
In no particular order:
Lawrence of Arabia
Yojimbo
Star Wars (all)
Star Trek First Contact
The Seven Samurai
Ronin
Heat
Indiana Jones trilogy
Silverado
Casablanca
The Matrix
Jaws
American Graffiti
Independence Day
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
The X Files FTF
Happy Gilmore
Deep Cover

[This message has been edited by Phillip (edited December 20, 1999).]
 
Hey Foto,and you other guys--where do you find the time to watch all these movies?
I'm dammned if I've even seen as many movies
as you mention--and they're supposed to be
only the good ones?
For what it's worth I thought "Zulu" was a
great movie--and I could tell you why but it
would take too much time--see it and you'll
know.Modern times "Unforgiven"--never heard
so many quotable lines in one movie. eg
"any man who decorates his place with my
friend ought to arm himself".
And "deserve's got nuthin to do with it"
And "I've killed most everything that walked
or crawled--at one time or another"
And "don't you go cutting any more whores--
or I'll come back and kill you all"
And"killing a man --you take away everything
he's got and everything he's goin to have"
As you see--quite a bit of killing stuff
BUT WAIT there's more---a MUST SEE movie.
 
Wild Bill
The Long Ships
Zulu
The Sand Pebbles
To Hell and Back
Khartoum
The Man Who would be King
They Died with Their Boots On
The Sea Hawks
Captain Blood
Robin Hood
Hell is for Heroes
The Egyptian
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Casablanca
etc., etc., !!

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Be mentally deliberate but muscularly fast. Aim for just above the belt buckle Wyatt Earp
45 ACP: Give 'em a new navel! BigG
"It is error alone that needs government support; truth can stand by itself." Tom Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1785
We don't have a chaplain here, but I don't view that as any major problem... You can rest assured
that you will not go in that bag until I've said a few appropriate words over you
R. Lee Ermy as Sgt Major Haffner, from The Siege of Firebase Gloria
If you have to shoot a man, shoot him in the guts. It may not kill him... sometimes they die slow, but it'll paralyze his brain and arm and the fight is all but over Wild Bill Hickok
 
A sad day in movie history, Q the elder respected ouartermaster in the James Bond series has passed on due to complications from an automobile accident. He was 85 yrs old.
As his role in the Bond series he will sadly be missed
 
Ironic, that the last movie they had just introduced his asst. I would also like to add
"Tombstone" to the list. And "Zulu" was a great flic also.
 
I was a projectionist for 5 years so I'm pretty opinionated about cinema, but a few of my favorites:

Lawrence of Arabia
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
La Femme Nikita (the french one)
Brazil
The Godfather seires
Star Wars
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Snows of Kilamanjaro
Mad Max/Road Warrior
Zulu
Platoon
Watership Down
Babe
the Three/Four Musketeers
Romeo & Juliet
True Romance
FIGHT CLUB
The Razor's Edge
Day of the Jackal
One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
El Mariachi
My Life as a Dog
Cinema Paradiso
The Shining
Easy Rider
Fiddler on the Roof
Schindeler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Jaws
Natural Born Killers
Ghost and the Darkness
the 5th Element
Dark City
Bladerunner


Too many movies, not enough time. ;)

Dr.Rob
 
You all are helping to erode our liberty's by supporting many of those anti-gunners.
Danny Glover, Mel Gibson and a horde more give alot of their time and money to take away out Gun rights.
Sorry, I hope the above mentioned b***ards dye in the most miserable way possible. They are no different that Reno, Clinton, Feinstein and the rest. I think I'll continue this on the other forum on TFL.
 
Comedy:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Other:

Battle of Britain (love airplanes)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (love ships & airplanes)
The Battle of Midway (more ships & more airplanes)
 
My favorite movie of all time would have to be The Pirate Movie. It still amazes me how few people have seen it. :)

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Like an animal locked up in a cage, through my inheritance I was born to rage.
 
Talk about good quotes "Jerimiah Johnson"
"I've been to a town"
"You've come far, pilgrim"
"Can you skin griz?"

"Outlaw Josey Wales"

"Out of Africa" An epic, good hunting scenes, good scenery based on a true story. Your wife may like it, too.

If you liked "Zulu",a true story, there is another movies made years ago about the aftermath of the battle. There was another battle at Rorkes Drift, where a few brithish soldiers held off a vastly superior force of Zulus. It stars Michael Caine, but I don't remember the name of the movie.
 
The Longest Day is a good movie, but I am suprised that no one has mentioned Bridge on the River Kwai, and I don't recall seeing The Great Escape on the list. Two more favorites.

[This message has been edited by Phillip (edited December 21, 1999).]
 
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