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Top 27 best movies - ever

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Personal tear jerker scenes, and the hell with any of ya that don't like it:

The bridge scene ("Till There Was You") in the Music Man.

The Winter Warlock tree-lighting in "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town."

The final line of "Wizard of Oz" (there really is no place like home)

All three for very different emotions: wonder, tenderness, relief.
 
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FreshFish said:
A Christmas Carol, the classic b&w version with Alistair Sims. Gets me every time.
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Yup. It's such a great story, almost any version is uplifting. But Simm really seemed to get it right. His Scrooge really is an evil b*stard, not just a misunderstood cranky old man who needs a little loving to turn things around ("More bread. It'll be a hapnenny extra. No more bread"). He's not just blowing smoke when he suggests they "better decrease the surplus population." He means it, in spades. The "changed" Scrooge is so completely different, so human (when he chases Mrs. Dilber down the stairs, then poofs up his hair to scare her, it's a pure delight). "I don't deserve to be so happy." H*ll, I even like the animated Disney version, but Alistair Simm, to me, set the standard that not even George C. Scott could match.
 
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Kepler said:
Personal tear jerker scenes, and the hell with any of ya that don't like it:

The bridge scene ("Till There Was You") in the Music Man.

The Winter Warlock tree-lighting in "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town."

The final line of "Wizard of Oz" (there really is no place like home)



All three for very different emotions: wonder, tenderness, relief.
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Did you ever watch "The Searchers?" The final scene is moving.
 
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Kepler said:
He was over a barrel, when Tarantula took to the hills.
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Grew up with him as Cosmo Topper on TV and then of course the Man From Uncle. But he just added so much to North By Northwest(even though they never felt it necessary to give him a name in that movie-just called him the Professor). I know it is just plain shlock-but Tarantula still kind of scares me even now.
 
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DrDemento said:
Grew up with him as Cosmo Topper on TV and then of course the Man From Uncle. But he just added so much to North By Northwest(even though they never felt it necessary to give him a name in that movie-just called him the Professor). I know it is just plain shlock-but Tarantula still kind of scares me even now.
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Didn't Kathleen Freeman play the maid in the Topper TV series? She's one of the all time best characters. She played the mother of a bad guy in one of the Naked Gun movies. And Leslie Nielsen asks: "What happened to the old bag, did she take one in the face?" She was in just about every Jerry Lewis film, and always delivered.

Leo was terrific in "Spellbound" and "We're No Angels."

Albert: Tell him there's a deadly poisonous snake inside of the cage. Tell him.
[Joseph eaves the room. Re-enters a few seconds later]
Albert: You didn't tell him?
Albert: [after a pause] He knows already.
 
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Old Pio said:
Didn't Kathleen Freeman play the maid in the Topper TV series? She's one of the all time best characters. She played the mother of a bad guy in one of the Naked Gun movies. And Leslie Nielsen asks: "What happened to the old bag, did she take one in the face?" She was in just about every Jerry Lewis film, and always delivered.

Leo was terrific in "Spellbound" and "We're No Angels."
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Kathleen Freeman was indeed a maid in the series-but then again, she may have been in almost everything I ever saw.:) I do not know how many credits she had in her career but I am sure she had to be in hundreds of things on TV and in the movies.
 
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Emotional scenes? The scene in Miracle that ends with Herbie saying "you think that'll get them going?"

Pure genius. [Awe.]
 
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Groundhog Day is an inspired movie. There actually was a detailed article about it in The International Journal of Psychology, which I have saved in pdf. The Journal is under new management since then and it's in German not English now.
 
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FreshFish said:
Groundhog Day is an inspired movie. There actually was a detailed article about it in The International Journal of Psychology, which I have saved in pdf. The Journal is under new management since then and it's in German not English now.
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Of course, there being nothing new under the sun, it was probably largely inspired by this short story and this novel.

Still a darn fine piece of entertainment. Interestingly, a facebook friend, who is a woman of the female persuasion, was posting how annoyed she is because her husband loves this movie and keeps watching on that marathon. It would seem, based on the anecdotal evidence of replies to her post on facebook, that the movie is quite a bit more popular among men than women. Eh. Bill Murray. Go figure.
 
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Of course, there being nothing new under the sun, it was probably largely inspired by this short story and this novel.

Still a darn fine piece of entertainment. Interestingly, a facebook friend, who is a woman of the female persuasion, was posting how annoyed she is because her husband loves this movie and keeps watching on that marathon. It would seem, based on the anecdotal evidence of replies to her post on facebook, that the movie is quite a bit more popular among men than women. Eh. Bill Murray. Go figure.
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it's a guys perspective. and even if it's NOT the same day every day (like oh, this week for example :p), you are still sometimes stuck reliving your own groundhog day over and over.

interesting that bill is also in the #1 movie on the list :D
 
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mookie1995 said:
it's a guys perspective. and even if it's NOT the same day every day (like oh, this week for example :p), you are still sometimes stuck reliving your own groundhog day over and over.

interesting that bill is also in the #1 movie on the list :D
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bill is on right now in scrooged...
 
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duper said:
[Groundhog Day] Still [is] a darn fine piece of entertainment. Interestingly, a facebook friend, who is a woman of the female persuasion, was posting how annoyed she is because her husband loves this movie and keeps watching on that marathon. It would seem, based on the anecdotal evidence of replies to her post on facebook, that the movie is quite a bit more popular among men than women.
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That makes perfect sense to me. Bill Murray starts out the movie as an annoying self-centered jerk, which is a typical guy thing to begin with. He then offends the woman with whom he is infatuated, which also is a typical guy thing. However, he finds redemption, which gives all typical guys hope.

The IJP article about Groundhog Day was less about the "time loop" idea (they even did that in Stargate SG-1, it's not that unique an idea....), it was more about the psychological journey of Bill Murray's character. He progresses through phases, which also can be seen to correspond to phases of growth one is challenged to master.

It's fun for awhile to mess with people by finding out stuff about them, it's fun to get laid. Life is boring, day after day after day he commits suicide in different ways. He tries to seduce Andie McDowell but nothing "works." Finally, he decides to learn and grow by taking piano lessons, and (just like in Beauty and the Beast!), as soon as she falls in love with him, he is redeemed. There was nothing he could "do" to get out of the time loop, the only escape came from changing who he was at a fundamental level.

Anyway, as best I remember, that was the gist of the article.

For years, Roger Ebert had resisted putting Groundhog Day on his list of Greatest Movies Ever (or whatever he calls it these days). Several years ago, he watched it again and said, "y'all are right and I was wrong and I'm correcting that error: Groundhog Day indeed is one of the Greatest Movies Ever.
 
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In the same situation I would change much more quickly simply to avoid hearing Sonny & Cher every morning...Ahhhhhhh! :D
 
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FreshFish said:
That makes perfect sense to me. Bill Murray starts out the movie as an annoying self-centered jerk, which is a typical guy thing to begin with. He then offends the woman with whom he is infatuated, which also is a typical guy thing. However, he finds redemption, which gives all typical guys hope.

The IJP article about Groundhog Day was less about the "time loop" idea (they even did that in Stargate SG-1, it's not that unique an idea....), it was more about the psychological journey of Bill Murray's character. He progresses through phases, which also can be seen to correspond to phases of growth one is challenged to master.

It's fun for awhile to mess with people by finding out stuff about them, it's fun to get laid. Life is boring, day after day after day he commits suicide in different ways. He tries to seduce Andie McDowell but nothing "works." Finally, he decides to learn and grow by taking piano lessons, and (just like in Beauty and the Beast!), as soon as she falls in love with him, he is redeemed. There was nothing he could "do" to get out of the time loop, the only escape came from changing who he was at a fundamental level.

Anyway, as best I remember, that was the gist of the article.

For years, Roger Ebert had resisted putting Groundhog Day on his list of Greatest Movies Ever (or whatever he calls it these days). Several years ago, he watched it again and said, "y'all are right and I was wrong and I'm correcting that error: Groundhog Day indeed is one of the Greatest Movies Ever.
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I love the movie. Always have. But it IS very similar to some literature that came before. Right down to the way he spends the time during the time loop, eventually finding the way to grow enough to get out of it.

And for that matter, since there really is nothing new under the sun, there's nothing wrong with that. I was just saying that the premise of someone reliving the same period of time until he grew up enough to get it right wasn't a brand new premise. ;) It is always good when an interesting idea is presented in an interesting way, reaching a different audience.
 
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