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  • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

    Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
    Mookie's original list omitted an important genre: "best 'fish out of water' movie."

    My nominee in that category probably would be The Gods Must be Crazy. The scene in which he drives his Land Rover into a gas 'station' and the attendant goes to clean the window is one of the funniest moments I've ever seen in any movie ever.
    Even the sequel was rather funny.
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    • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

      Originally posted by JF_Gophers View Post
      My fav sci fi will always be Brazil.
      was that really sci fi?
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      • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
        was that really sci fi?
        What about it wasnt?

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        • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

          Originally posted by JF_Gophers View Post
          we'll see


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          • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

            Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
            "best 'fish out of water' movie."
            Ball of Fire. The incomparable Barbara Stanwyck as a gangster's girl laying low by living with a bunch of elderly Encyclopedist professors and Gary Cooper. One of the funniest movies ever made.

            Speaking I, I just rewatched Spinal Tap for the first time in about 15 years. It is much funnier than I remembered. It has really held up well, and all the main characters are gems.
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            • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

              Originally posted by JF_Gophers View Post
              My fav sci fi will always be Brazil.
              Hmm. Maybe the best in the Dystopia subgenre but if I was going for a best I'd want a hard SF movie to represent the genre.

              And the winner is:

              2001

              Some other very good choices:

              Metropolis
              Blade Runner
              Five Million Years to Earth (TV serial is better)
              Forbidden Planet
              The Martian (best pure hard SF movie ever made)
              Gravity (the best before that)
              The Andromeda Strain (the best before that)
              Twelve Monkeys and La Jetee
              This Island Earth
              Alien
              The Thing from Another World
              Dark City
              The Day the Earth Stood Still
              Stalker
              Solaris (1972)
              The Fifth Element
              Buckaroo Banzai


              Some brilliant movies but I'd avoid because not quite SF-y enough:

              Brazil
              Star Wars, Close Encounters, Akira (fantasy)
              Terminator (action movie with SF elements)
              Inception (caper movie with SF elements)
              Dark Star (farce in space)
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              • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Hmm. Maybe the best in the Dystopia subgenre but if I was going for a best I'd want a hard SF movie to represent the genre.

                And the winner is:

                2001
                Some other very good choices:

                Forbidden Planet - The Robot and when the thing hit the force field

                This Island Earth - The Interocitor and the MST3K send up
                Alien - scared the poop out of me
                The Day the Earth Stood Still - the original, not the remake
                The Fifth Element - weird, just weird
                Buckaroo Banzai - weirder

                I'd add Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and how did you forget Things to Come??

                The 1950s radiation causes monsters and aliens attacking earth movies are campy but good.

                The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
                The Giant Behemoth (UK)
                The Cape Canaveral Monsters
                And the campy monster movie of all time:
                Attack of the Crab Monsters.
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                • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

                  2001 sucked.
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                  • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

                    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                    2001 sucked.
                    We've been over this before. Try watching it again in a few years. It's one of the greatest movies ever made.
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                    • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

                      The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
                      I should have included this. Not only it this a very good movie, it has the ridiculously sexual Paula Raymond, the poor man's Margaret Sheridan.


                      Attack of the Crab Monsters.
                      I love this movie!!!! One of best stupid movies of all time. God bless Roger Corman. I'm sure he shot it in like 4 days.
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                      • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

                        I'd need to watch the original (assuming there's been at least 1 crappy remake?) Creature Of.... again.

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                        • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

                          Originally posted by Old Pio View Post
                          Best British upperclass ruthlessness film:
                          "The List of Adrian Messenger"
                          Rebuttal: Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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                          • Re: Top 27 best movies - ever

                            Forrest Gump!

                            Ever since I was a kid, my family loved watching movies at our local drive in. Unfortunately, drive-in theaters have become a relic of the past. While you might have glorified visions of a 5.1 surround sound system in your backyard, you might not want to do this.
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                            • The Other Guys needs to be somehow titled here.
                              a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                              • The Shawshank Redemption
                                Green book
                                Green Mile
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