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Top 27 best movies - ever

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duper said:
Of course, there being nothing new under the sun, it was probably largely inspired by this short story and this novel.
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There being nothing new under the sun, the "looping until you learn your lesson" plot device is hundreds of years old. Groundhog Day is still great, though. Very smart movie.

There are really only a couple dozen basic story lines, and the Greeks had nailed them all down by about 350 BC.
 
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The Black Cat, best movie with both Karloff and Lugosi, was on TCM over the weekend. Also best use of art deco interior in movie. (Best use of art deco exterior in movie is King Kong).

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True Lies (best tom arnold movie) starting now on fmc
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He certainly has the best bunch of lines in the movie. You really have to watch and listen a few times to catch them all. Good flick that really could have deserved a quick sequel but alas it was not to be.
 
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Two of the all-time best movies ever are on the Comcast "On Demand" menu these days.

The Serpent and The Rainbow is one of the only horror movies I like, and it is based on a true story. An anthropologist works for a pharmaceutical company, his job is to visit various indigenous peoples and bring back their folk remedies so the chemists back home can extract their active ingredients. He gets sent to Haiti to find the zombie drug (a real thing, by the way) and happens to be there during the revolution that overthrew the Duvalier regime. He gets drugged himself and has to escape from both physical and drug-induced traps to survive. Well worth the time if you are looking for some thrilling diversion!

Then one of the two best-ever fraternity brother movies, Animal House. Those of us [ahem] above a certain age remember it fondly; if you are not yet, um, "mature" and haven't seen it yet, you'll enjoy it.

Though I am partial to Revenge of the Nerds myself as an even better fraternity movie. the idea that the nerds were such social outcasts that the only fraternity organization they could get to sponsor them was the all-black fraternity organization was a lot more daring in its time than it would be now; however, I like their revenge better than the Deltas'.
 
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FreshFish said:
Two of the all-time best movies ever are on the Comcast "On Demand" menu these days.

The Serpent and The Rainbow is one of the only horror movies I like, and it is based on a true story. An anthropologist works for a pharmaceutical company, his job is to visit various indigenous peoples and bring back their folk remedies so the chemists back home can extract their active ingredients. He gets sent to Haiti to find the zombie drug (a real thing, by the way) and happens to be there during the revolution that overthrew the Duvalier regime. He gets drugged himself and has to escape from both physical and drug-induced traps to survive. Well worth the time if you are looking for some thrilling diversion!

Then one of the two best-ever fraternity brother movies, Animal House. Those of us [ahem] above a certain age remember it fondly; if you are not yet, um, "mature" and haven't seen it yet, you'll enjoy it.

Though I am partial to Revenge of the Nerds myself as an even better fraternity movie. the idea that the nerds were such social outcasts that the only fraternity organization they could get to sponsor them was the all-black fraternity organization was a lot more daring in its time than it would be now; however, I like their revenge better than the Deltas'.
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And Cinemax on Demand has Master and Commander on their list. Nice way to spend a bit of 2 hours today.:)
 
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FreshFish said:
Two of the all-time best movies ever are on the Comcast "On Demand" menu these days.

The Serpent and The Rainbow is one of the only horror movies I like, and it is based on a true story. An anthropologist works for a pharmaceutical company, his job is to visit various indigenous peoples and bring back their folk remedies so the chemists back home can extract their active ingredients. He gets sent to Haiti to find the zombie drug (a real thing, by the way) and happens to be there during the revolution that overthrew the Duvalier regime. He gets drugged himself and has to escape from both physical and drug-induced traps to survive. Well worth the time if you are looking for some thrilling diversion!

Then one of the two best-ever fraternity brother movies, Animal House. Those of us [ahem] above a certain age remember it fondly; if you are not yet, um, "mature" and haven't seen it yet, you'll enjoy it.

Though I am partial to Revenge of the Nerds myself as an even better fraternity movie. the idea that the nerds were such social outcasts that the only fraternity organization they could get to sponsor them was the all-black fraternity organization was a lot more daring in its time than it would be now; however, I like their revenge better than the Deltas'.
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The rush sequence in "Animal House" has a documentary feel to it: "Mohammad, Jugdish, Clayton, Sidney."
 
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The rush sequence in "Animal House" has a documentary feel to it: "Mohammad, Jugdish, Clayton, Sidney."
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I thought I knew that movie well.

I remembered Mohammed and Jugdish, and I remembered one of the other guys was blind, but there is no way I would have gone 4x4.

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I do, however, know why Larry's ΔΤΧ name is Pinto, from the Kefauver High School Yearbook parody.
 
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Kepler said:
I thought I knew that movie well.

I remembered Mohammed and Jugdish, and I remembered one of the other guys was blind, but there is no way I would have gone 4x4.

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I do, however, know why Larry's ΔΤΧ name is Pinto, from the Kefauver High School Yearbook parody.
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Clayton might have had a shot (assuming he wasn't Jewish) if he lost the glasses and white socks. Some stylist time wouldn't have hurt either.
 
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Clayton might have had a shot (assuming he wasn't Jewish) if he lost the glasses and white socks. Some stylist time wouldn't have hurt either.
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I'm pretty sure the guy with the glasses is Jewish. I had him pegged as Sidney, with Clayton as the blind guy.

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