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Top 27 best movies - ever
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Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
My parents took me to "Being There" in the theater also. I believe that we are about the same age - I was born in 69. To say I didn't quite get that movie would be accurate. Haven't seen it since.
They also took me with them for Jaws. This was 1975 or 76. I was 6.
To make it even better, we were vacationing on a lake up in Northern Wisconsin. I woke up screaming in the middle of the night and wouldn't go near the lake. I was terrified of the stand-up shower in our cabin as it felt like I was in the shark cage and that the shark was swimming up behind me.
Good memories!
On the better side, they also took me to the Blues Brothers as an 8 year old. I still remember loudly asking what all that stuff that Belushi had at the prison was for and adults around us giggling.
My parents took me to "Being There" in the theater also. I believe that we are about the same age - I was born in 69. To say I didn't quite get that movie would be accurate. Haven't seen it since.
They also took me with them for Jaws. This was 1975 or 76. I was 6.
To make it even better, we were vacationing on a lake up in Northern Wisconsin. I woke up screaming in the middle of the night and wouldn't go near the lake. I was terrified of the stand-up shower in our cabin as it felt like I was in the shark cage and that the shark was swimming up behind me.
Good memories!
On the better side, they also took me to the Blues Brothers as an 8 year old. I still remember loudly asking what all that stuff that Belushi had at the prison was for and adults around us giggling.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
Probably time to see it again. I think you may pick up on a few more things.
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
As about a first grader I walked (we had neighborhood theatres in those days) to the Lido theatre to see "Greatest Show on Earth." A big, sprawling Cecil B. DeMille circus movie with a gigantic train crash, and lots of celebrity cameos. What could possibly attract a little boy? Well, I saw it through to the end. And saw it through to the end a second time. And watched it through 'til the train crash a 3rd time. It then occurred to me I'd been there all day, and I better be heading home. As I walked up the aisle, the old man was walking down the aisle looking for me. IIRC, he didn't kill me, but it was a long walk home.
One of the biggest head scratchers ever for the best picture oscar. But, jeepers, who cares when you're a little kid? Jimmy Stewart as Buttons the clown. Major win.
My parents took me to "Being There" in the theater also. I believe that we are about the same age - I was born in 69. To say I didn't quite get that movie would be accurate. Haven't seen it since.
They also took me with them for Jaws. This was 1975 or 76. I was 6.
To make it even better, we were vacationing on a lake up in Northern Wisconsin. I woke up screaming in the middle of the night and wouldn't go near the lake. I was terrified of the stand-up shower in our cabin as it felt like I was in the shark cage and that the shark was swimming up behind me.
Good memories!
On the better side, they also took me to the Blues Brothers as an 8 year old. I still remember loudly asking what all that stuff that Belushi had at the prison was for and adults around us giggling.
As about a first grader I walked (we had neighborhood theatres in those days) to the Lido theatre to see "Greatest Show on Earth." A big, sprawling Cecil B. DeMille circus movie with a gigantic train crash, and lots of celebrity cameos. What could possibly attract a little boy? Well, I saw it through to the end. And saw it through to the end a second time. And watched it through 'til the train crash a 3rd time. It then occurred to me I'd been there all day, and I better be heading home. As I walked up the aisle, the old man was walking down the aisle looking for me. IIRC, he didn't kill me, but it was a long walk home.
One of the biggest head scratchers ever for the best picture oscar. But, jeepers, who cares when you're a little kid? Jimmy Stewart as Buttons the clown. Major win.
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mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
i'm a couple years older than you... my grandmother took us to see The Swarm in the mid 70s. i didn't go outside for three weeks!!
My parents took me to "Being There" in the theater also. I believe that we are about the same age - I was born in 69. To say I didn't quite get that movie would be accurate. Haven't seen it since.
They also took me with them for Jaws. This was 1975 or 76. I was 6.
To make it even better, we were vacationing on a lake up in Northern Wisconsin. I woke up screaming in the middle of the night and wouldn't go near the lake. I was terrified of the stand-up shower in our cabin as it felt like I was in the shark cage and that the shark was swimming up behind me.
Good memories!
On the better side, they also took me to the Blues Brothers as an 8 year old. I still remember loudly asking what all that stuff that Belushi had at the prison was for and adults around us giggling.
i'm a couple years older than you... my grandmother took us to see The Swarm in the mid 70s. i didn't go outside for three weeks!!
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
mea culpa.
Three Days of the Condor
--Best CIA Movie
True Lies
--Best faux-CIA Movie
mea culpa.
Three Days of the Condor
--Best CIA Movie
True Lies
--Best faux-CIA Movie
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
With me it was 2001 at the Glendale Cinerama in Toronto. My best friends and I spent several Saturdays sitting in the front row watching Hal misbehave
With me it was 2001 at the Glendale Cinerama in Toronto. My best friends and I spent several Saturdays sitting in the front row watching Hal misbehave
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He fixes the cable?
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
With me it was 2001 at the Glendale Cinerama in Toronto. My best friends and I spent several Saturdays sitting in the front row watching Hal misbehave
With me it was 2001 at the Glendale Cinerama in Toronto. My best friends and I spent several Saturdays sitting in the front row watching Hal misbehave
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
"Dave." "Dave." The only movie that ever scared me. I mean really scared me, was "War of the Worlds." The thing had effects that were ahead of its time. And those big, triangular mo fos, with the showerheads of fire, floating down the street burning everything in their path really got to me. Called my older brother to come get me. Very few of those early sci-fi flicks were much better than Ed Wood projects. This one was. As was "Them." "Them" also had the huge advantage of some really good people in the cast: Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore, James Arness. Usually those flicks featured "actors" whose primary occupations included YMCA handicraft instructors and repo guys.
With me it was 2001 at the Glendale Cinerama in Toronto. My best friends and I spent several Saturdays sitting in the front row watching Hal misbehave
"Dave." "Dave." The only movie that ever scared me. I mean really scared me, was "War of the Worlds." The thing had effects that were ahead of its time. And those big, triangular mo fos, with the showerheads of fire, floating down the street burning everything in their path really got to me. Called my older brother to come get me. Very few of those early sci-fi flicks were much better than Ed Wood projects. This one was. As was "Them." "Them" also had the huge advantage of some really good people in the cast: Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore, James Arness. Usually those flicks featured "actors" whose primary occupations included YMCA handicraft instructors and repo guys.
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Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
"War of the Worlds" gave us Dr. Clayton Forrester, and also has the most beautifully-scripted first 30 seconds in movie history, recounted verbatim in this, uh, later treatment:
I think "Them!" has the greatest slow-burning fuse intro prior to the reveal for any monster movie. Also the best use of traumatized child actor (beautifully recreated decades later with the character of Newt in Aliens).
"War of the Worlds" gave us Dr. Clayton Forrester, and also has the most beautifully-scripted first 30 seconds in movie history, recounted verbatim in this, uh, later treatment:
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
I had the Skeleton Key for racist horror movie featuring voodoo and miscengenation, but given that yours has alligators I guess you win.
I had the Skeleton Key for racist horror movie featuring voodoo and miscengenation, but given that yours has alligators I guess you win.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
unofan
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Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
True Lies is also the only movie where Tom Arnold is actually funny.
True Lies is also the only movie where Tom Arnold is actually funny.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
i could have given it --Best Tom Arnold Movie (but that was too easy).
i could have given it --Best Tom Arnold Movie (but that was too easy).