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Top 27 best movies - ever
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a very very close second for me is Kiss Me Kate. I think a well-done production of The Taming of the Shrew is my all-time favorite Shakespeare play. I saw a version once in which they played the final scene as a clever collaboration between Kate and Petrucchio to con everyone out of their money (where Kate gives the speech about being subject to her husband while winking at him, etc.) Very nice 20th century update (yeah, it was awhile ago....)
a very very close second for me is Kiss Me Kate. I think a well-done production of The Taming of the Shrew is my all-time favorite Shakespeare play. I saw a version once in which they played the final scene as a clever collaboration between Kate and Petrucchio to con everyone out of their money (where Kate gives the speech about being subject to her husband while winking at him, etc.) Very nice 20th century update (yeah, it was awhile ago....)
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I like the Shakespeare in "To Be or Not To Be" (both versions). And Colonel Earhardt's observation that what Joseph Tura did to Shakespeare, "we are now doing to Poland."
I like the Shakespeare in "To Be or Not To Be" (both versions). And Colonel Earhardt's observation that what Joseph Tura did to Shakespeare, "we are now doing to Poland."
duper
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The funny thing is, I typically don't like 20th century updates of Shakespeare. I can't stand crap like West Side Story, and I'd rather gouge my eye out with a spoon than watch that piece of **** Romeo and Juliet that Baz Luhrmann did. Watching crappy actors speak lines that they obviously don't understand ****ed me right off!
duper
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I did very much enjoy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I actually saw it before I had ever read or seen any production of Hamlet, and I loved it even though I couldn't possibly have understood a lot of the humor. Then, when I read Hamlet, I kept giggling at inappropriate stuff as I thought of R&G are Dead.
I refused to acknowledge the asinine fake ampersand. Stupid.
I did very much enjoy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I actually saw it before I had ever read or seen any production of Hamlet, and I loved it even though I couldn't possibly have understood a lot of the humor. Then, when I read Hamlet, I kept giggling at inappropriate stuff as I thought of R&G are Dead.
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We had a really cool English teacher in HS. We had to read the obligatory R&J, then Hamlet. Then he brought in RAGAD. Amazing movie. The coin flip scene I was in hysterics. And the Question Game? I fell out of my chair. Such great writing amongst the settings of one of Shakespeare's best plays.
We had a really cool English teacher in HS. We had to read the obligatory R&J, then Hamlet. Then he brought in RAGAD. Amazing movie. The coin flip scene I was in hysterics. And the Question Game? I fell out of my chair. Such great writing amongst the settings of one of Shakespeare's best plays.
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Our younger film buffs may not recall that in the 80's five films tied up in Hitchcock's estate were finally re-released to theatres, cable and home video. They had not been seen anywhere in decades. "Rope," "Vertigo," "The Trouble With Harry," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," and "Rear Window" (a truly great film, with huge dramatic tension and implied but never seen violence). It's worth a look if only to see the shockingly beautiful Grace Kellly.
Around that same time "The Manchurian Candidate" was also re-released. Legend had it that Frank Sinatra had pulled it because of the assassination of his friend, Jack Kennedy. Not true. Still one of the really great stories. Angela Lansbury is absolutely incandescently evil. How she didn't win an Oscar is beyond me.
"I know you will never entirely comprehend this, Raymond, but you must believe I did not know it would be you. I served them. I fought for them. I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they would ever have in this country. And they paid me back by taking your soul away from you. I told them to build me an assassin. I wanted a killer from a world filled with killers and they chose you because they thought it would bind me closer to them."
"But now, we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me."
Seeing these words in print is insufficient to gauge their power when Lansbury says them. When she promises to "grind them into dirt," you know she means it.
Another memorable performance was turned in by Khigh Dhiegh (pronounced Ki Dee) who played the Chinese scientist who set the plot into motion. He later had a recurring role as villain Wo Fat on Hawaii 50.
"Rear Window" and "Manchurian Candidate" are must sees.
Our younger film buffs may not recall that in the 80's five films tied up in Hitchcock's estate were finally re-released to theatres, cable and home video. They had not been seen anywhere in decades. "Rope," "Vertigo," "The Trouble With Harry," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," and "Rear Window" (a truly great film, with huge dramatic tension and implied but never seen violence). It's worth a look if only to see the shockingly beautiful Grace Kellly.
Around that same time "The Manchurian Candidate" was also re-released. Legend had it that Frank Sinatra had pulled it because of the assassination of his friend, Jack Kennedy. Not true. Still one of the really great stories. Angela Lansbury is absolutely incandescently evil. How she didn't win an Oscar is beyond me.
"I know you will never entirely comprehend this, Raymond, but you must believe I did not know it would be you. I served them. I fought for them. I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they would ever have in this country. And they paid me back by taking your soul away from you. I told them to build me an assassin. I wanted a killer from a world filled with killers and they chose you because they thought it would bind me closer to them."
"But now, we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me."
Seeing these words in print is insufficient to gauge their power when Lansbury says them. When she promises to "grind them into dirt," you know she means it.
Another memorable performance was turned in by Khigh Dhiegh (pronounced Ki Dee) who played the Chinese scientist who set the plot into motion. He later had a recurring role as villain Wo Fat on Hawaii 50.
"Rear Window" and "Manchurian Candidate" are must sees.
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mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
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Re: Top 27 best movies - ever
And I should have indicated some of those Hitchcock films should be on our list:
Best Voyeur Movie: "Rear Window"
Best thrill killing movie: "Rope" ("Compulsion," with Orson Welles playing Clarence Darrow would be a contender).
Best Cop Who's Afraid of Heights movie: "Vertigo"
Best comedy about repeatedly disposing of a body: "The Trouble With Harry"
Best hypnotic plot to install a commie president movie: "The Manchurian Candidate"
And I should have indicated some of those Hitchcock films should be on our list:
Best Voyeur Movie: "Rear Window"
Best thrill killing movie: "Rope" ("Compulsion," with Orson Welles playing Clarence Darrow would be a contender).
Best Cop Who's Afraid of Heights movie: "Vertigo"
Best comedy about repeatedly disposing of a body: "The Trouble With Harry"
Best hypnotic plot to install a commie president movie: "The Manchurian Candidate"
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Kepler
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I've heard that "Beyond The Sea" (Spacey) was excellent, also.
I've heard that "Beyond The Sea" (Spacey) was excellent, also.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
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Ted has potential to jump up this list in no time!
Ted has potential to jump up this list in no time!
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While I can't call it the "best" (unless I invent some limited category so that it's the only movie that fits!), I've always enjoyed Phenomenon.
Good cast (John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker), fun story.
Similar to Constantine. Good cast, fun story. Not "best".
While I can't call it the "best" (unless I invent some limited category so that it's the only movie that fits!), I've always enjoyed Phenomenon.
Good cast (John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker), fun story.
Similar to Constantine. Good cast, fun story. Not "best".
Slap Shot
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Would probably be found on my, "most underrated" list if ever asked to create one.
Would probably be found on my, "most underrated" list if ever asked to create one.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
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#23 has been on heavy rotation this weekend on the cable movie channels. can't.stop.watching.
#23 has been on heavy rotation this weekend on the cable movie channels. can't.stop.watching.