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In No particular order:

1) Monsters Inc.
2) Toy Story I & 2
3) The Others
4) Alien Series (Can I count those as one?  ;D)
5) Rocky Series, Except V (Ditto?)
6) Star Wars Series (Hmmm...?  ;))
7) The Exorcist
8) Tomb Raider
9) Raising Arizona
10) The Terminator Series (The Terminator 3 is coming out next year!!!  :D :D :D)
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (a childhood movie I will always love)
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Rocky V does not exist.  I (and others like me) will NOT argue about this.End Quote

What does "and others like you" mean?

What are you and others like you like?

I too would deny the existence of this travesty of a movie called "Rocky V".

But... alas...  ::) It does exist whether we liked it or not.  :-/

Trying to "block it out" may be a good idea afterall.  ;)

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I never quite understood that whole scene when they were on the candy boat on the chocolate river and then it turned into one really bad acid trip.  Was that supposed to appeal to the kids or to stoned theater-goers?  HMMM... ::)



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Most likely the stoned theater-goer.   ;) ;D  What can I say I am a chocoholic and the chocolate factory is the ultimate fantasy.   :D

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1.  Wonka and the Chocolate factory
2.  Krull
3.  Gremlins
4.  Underground (Serbia)
5.  Beautiful Village, beautiful flames (Serbia)
6.  Charlie's Angels
7.  The Empire Strikes back
8.  Beetlegeuse
9.  (dare I say) Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone (fun!)
10. The Lost Boys.

PS: Tarzanboy, I'm surprised to see "Breaker Morant" in your lineup! We had to study that to DEATH at school so I'm OVER it!  ;)
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Where's Rock Star?  ??? Not to mention Swedish On the Loose? ???

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Seen them. I like this one in particular. A lot of Japanese films (foreign films, really) focus on day-to-day things and dialogues, which is refreshing after most of the bigger than big Hollywoof fare in where everyone breaks into song, all problems are solved in the end, overdone situations/bad stories and scripts, acting that is just plain blah, big budgets overshadowing all these bad qualities, shock value, et cetera. Tokyo Cowboy (a Canadian film) is another one, even though the premise is strange and unrealistic - one can't help but get caught up in the drama of the situations portrayed later on.

I guess here in the US, one would call this type of film-making as "indie" or "guerrilla" since they don't follow the formulaic junk. The French were at the forefront on this from waaay back in the late 50s and early 60s - they called it Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) and have made some memorable, if iconoclastic and truly rebellious, material. Something like The 400 Blows :) is one of a kind - nothing like it existed before (!) and the ideas behind it are so innovative (it is certainly recognized by great film-makers worldwide as influential - try asking Martin Scorcesse and Paul Schrader about it). The closest thing the US could come up before this were films like Rebel Without A Cause and Blackboard Jungle, but when compared to Truffaut's vision of rebelliousness and alienated youth, Rebel... looks like a glossy poster. In the world of New Wave nothing is made up to look beautiful; it is meant to look as realistic as possible - if it's ugly, it's because it really is ugly; if it's beautiful, it's because it already was... strange concept that the US still has yet to grasp...

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I'm well aware of how "Great" the fancy-schmancy film connoisseurs (professional and amateur) think "400 Blows" is and all non-Hollywood films are.  So sorry, I don't exactly see your views as truly liberal or rebellious or unique at large.  Only us average guys would watch Hollywood tripe.  I don't gush over something because it's supposed to be avant-garde or even innovative (Jurassic Park?  please), any more than I praise things because they're "mainstream" and "bourgeois".  I call it as I see it myself, not as super-special "artistes" see it, and I'm not impressed by Truffaut or "reality" (as if boredom and ugliness and violence are always everyone's reality) shows.

Incidentally, in my (1 liberal-arts) film class, along w/"400 Blows", "Singin' in the Rain" also made it as 1 of the great films ever anywhere for its mixture of elements.  And the viewers got much more out of that, it was plain, than they did from the other.  So what if we get a few laughs out of it?  Is that so terrible to feel a bit better for having fun at a movie?  Must everything even be analyzed?

OK, maybe I better get off the soapbox again..... ;)  Sorry to go on so, it's just not new to me.    :)

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Where's Rock Star?  ??? Not to mention Swedish On the Loose? ???

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Right you are my friend! "RockStar' would DEFINITELY be in my Top films list *hee!*...as for "on the Loose", - if i could understand 3 words spoken in the film, I'd like it more...my copy is fully Swedish and has NO subtitles!!! Its great to watch though...Im sure you''ll agree!  ;D

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You want me to pick just 10? Okay, these are in no particular order:

1. The Road Home
2. Farewell My Concubine
3. The King Of Masks
4. Shall We Dance?
5. Adrenaline Drive
6. Sisters Of Gion
7. Monsoon Wedding
8. Gone With The Wind
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Arthur

If you're interested, the first 3 are Chinese movies and the next 3 after that are Japanese movies.
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Such diverse tastes you have...most of these are artsy films that I've never heard of.  I will have to see Full Metal Jacket sometime though :)

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Just read the last few posts, and here's my thoughts:

First of all the_OlLine_Rebel, I can see where you're coming from, but seriously you're a bit out of line.  Tarzan Boy never stated any of that pseudo intellectual film poseur crap that you are so against in his posts, so your attacking of him seems a bit unfair.  

The people here seem to have some really diverse tastes, which is cool, and you all like what you like, which is also cool.
(nice vocabulary there, huh?)

Anyway, Steve H, have you seen Birth of a Nation or Battleship Potemkin?  Both excellent silent movies.

And Hairspray, I have seen some of Welles' work, and I may be in a minority here, but I don't really like it.  Citizen Kane is very overrated, and frankly, not particularly interesting.  Are you a fan of his work?  Personally, movies from the 40s don't really gel with me, Hollywood was brilliant in the 50s, great towards the end of the 60s, and fantastic in the mid to late 70s



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And Hairspray, I have seen some of Welles' work, and I may be in a minority here, but I don't really like it.  Citizen Kane is very overrated, and frankly, not particularly interesting.  Are you a fan of his work?End Quote

I'm not a fan. But I'm not a film buff either. I know of some of his work and the "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast thing, which I thought was brilliant and the reaction awesome. I think I saw "Citizen Kane" quite a long time ago and I don't remember it making any impression on me. But, again, I'm not a film buff. I only mentioned him earlier in the thread as a sheer guess to TB's query.  ;D

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Citizen Kane may be the greatest movie, but I wonder how many people enjoy it.  I think that's what OLine was talking about... at any rate, it may have been innovative, shocking, a perfect work of art, but it's not a  lot of fun.  And movies are supposed to be fun.  I'd rather watch
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You got it.  Except that I'd never say something is the "greatest" w/o it touching the public at large.  Not saying something is the greatest which pulled in the most people (NOT money - a bad misleading criterion), but it should be something that is very popular overall, and maybe then look at what the movie itself did.  After all, if alot of people don't like it, isn't there naturally something wrong?  (And please, no snide attacks like "Yeah, Americans never watch other films".  I mean of what they get to watch at least - how do the "foreign" films do in their respective heavy markets?  How many will see a movie?  Better yet, how many will gladly see same again in the theater ?)

I'm not a big fan of Citizen Kane.  I mean in some ways it's interesting, but it doesn't hold interest.  I can see it once and get over it.  That Marion Davies character is annoying and frankly, ol' Orson never looked old, just covered in makeup w/a skullcap.  But I did like that he was fixated on the sled; I thought that was sweet and actually quite realistic esp. for his situation as a child.  I'm amazed no1 ever seems to know that "Rosebud" is the sled - it's obvious at the end even - did people just fall asleep by the end that this would be a big question as if it were a mystery?

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You got it.  Except that I'd never say something is the "greatest" w/o it touching the public at large.  Not saying something is the greatest which pulled in the most people (NOT money - a bad misleading criterion), but it should be something that is very popular overall, and maybe then look at what the movie itself did.  After all, if alot of people don't like it, isn't there naturally something wrong?  (And please, no snide attacks like "Yeah, Americans never watch other films".  I mean of what they get to watch at least - how do the "foreign" films do in their respective heavy markets?  How many will see a movie?  Better yet, how many will gladly see same again in the theater ?)

I'm not a big fan of Citizen Kane.  I mean in some ways it's interesting, but it doesn't hold interest.  I can see it once and get over it.  That Marion Davies character is annoying and frankly, ol' Orson never looked old, just covered in makeup w/a skullcap.  But I did like that he was fixated on the sled; I thought that was sweet and actually quite realistic esp. for his situation as a child.  I'm amazed no1 ever seems to know that "Rosebud" is the sled - it's obvious at the end even - did people just fall asleep by the end that this would be a big question as if it were a mystery?
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Well, the only flick I saw more than once in a theater was Billy Jack... and if that was a great movie I'm still a teenager.  I don't think sales = anything worthwhile.  If it did, Titanic should be on a lot more lists than it is.  

I think "greatest" is a misnomer.  A Serious Movie Critic has to list Citizen Kane high, if for no other reason than to keep his credentials.  It's a lot better, in my opinion, to talk about "favorites".  People have different tastes, and a movie as highly regarded as Citizen Kane, I feel, is praised for reasons other than its intrinsic qualities.  The herd mentality is as strong in the film criticism circles as anywhere else.

I don't care if I see Citizen Kane or Casablanca ever again.  I've never seen Gone With the Wind and I don't feel the need to change that now.  

You do know the inside story on "Rosebud", don't you?  

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The first half of Full Metal Jacket was sensational.  The second half was a real big let-down.  Do yourself a favor if you're renting it for the first time; stop after Gomer Pyle makes his final exit.  You won't be missing much.
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Are you Kidding!! the whole movie is great.  I personally think post Gomer Pile is the best part.  It is where the "Moral" of the movie is contained. Just to watch the boot camp scenes would be to almost not watch the movie at all.

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PF4Eva, Britney Spears failed attempt at acting in the movie flop "Cross Roads" proved there is actually something worse than her singing; her acting.
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Anyway...I thought I'd make a top 10 comedy movies list...

1) My Cousin Vinny ("a yute?  what's a yute?")
2) The Naked Gun ("steeeeeeeeeeeeeeerike three!!!")
3) SpaceBalls ("I bet she gives GREAT helmet!")
4) Austin Powers Trilogy ("It looks like she's been beaten with an ugly stick!")
5) As Good As It Gets (the dog is so cute)
6) Rat Race (the scene with Jon Lovitz and Hitler's car is priceless)
7) Clerks (Dante and Randall's Star Wars argument is worth the whole movie)
8) Chicken Run (I love Brit humor)
9) There's Something About Mary ("How'd you get the beans above the franks!?")
10) UHF ("STUPID!!!  You're so STUPID!!!")

I'd list the Monty Python movies, but I haven't seen them...though I should ;)