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Top 27 best movies - ever

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DrDemento said:
Hugh Griffith was a favorite of mine-he was absurdly good in Tom Jones. And as I was given to understand, mostly drunk the entire time he was being filmed. Truly a movie worth the 11 oscars it garnered-at a time when there were far fewer categories than there are now.
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That whole movie is wonderful, and one of the great scenes is when Griffith just non-sequitorially grabs the nearest milk maid and tumbles (completely blitzed) into a hay bale.

Every college sophomore should reenact the "food scene" with his girlfriend at least once in his life.

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"Repo Man" currently on the Retro Channel. Has this movie been on Teh List? Because if it hasn't, this list is IN-VALID, man!
 
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I'm not sure that it quite makes the top 27 of all time, still, the original Bedazzled with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore is fun. I love the way the Devil grants the wish when he says "I want to be surrounded by beautiful women," I laughed out loud at that one.
 
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FreshFish said:
I'm not sure that it quite makes the top 27 of all time, still, the original Bedazzled with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore is fun. I love the way the Devil grants the wish when he says "I want to be surrounded by beautiful women," I laughed out loud at that one.
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Wonderful, funny film. Peter Cook was marvelous. I especially like the scenes where he's doing random dirty tricks: scratching records, cutting the buttons off shirts, etc. "Julie Andrews."
 
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Old Pio said:
Wonderful, funny film. Peter Cook was marvelous. I especially like the scenes where he's doing random dirty tricks: scratching records, cutting the buttons off shirts, etc. "Julie Andrews."
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A wonderfully funny film. Cook and Moore just were great when paired together. The remake was flashy and i just adore looking at Elizabeth Hurley but doesn't hold a candle to the original (which is true of almost every remake sadly). And in the original, who better to play Lust??;)
 
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Kind of a tired choice for a favorite movie, but "The Sting" still pleases after all these years. I liked "The Fall," which is a Wizard of Oz kind of experience. Chaplin's "City Lights" is good stuff. When they come out with the movie version of the 2006 NCAA regional in GF, "Miracle" will have to step aside.
 
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For some reason, I am reminded of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest this morning.

Louise Fletcher put on a fantastic performance. Her character was so self-righteously certain that she was doing the right thing, yet so totally oblivious of the effects her policies had on the patients entrusted to her care. She definitely deserved her Best Actress Oscar.

It was also one of those "message" movies, like The Parallax View or Awakenings, that didn't tack on some saccharine ending merely to make people feel better.
 
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FreshFish said:
For some reason, I am reminded of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest this morning.

Louise Fletcher put on a fantastic performance. Her character was so self-righteously certain that she was doing the right thing, yet so totally oblivious of the effects her policies had on the patients entrusted to her care. She definitely deserved her Best Actress Oscar.

It was also one of those "message" movies, like The Parallax View or Awakenings, that didn't tack on some saccharine ending merely to make people feel better.
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Kesey wasn't real good at saccharine. Speaking of Kesey, you might also have been reminded this morning of Henry Stamper's severed arm hanging in their boat with the middle finger raised in defiance of the powers that be in Sometimes a Great Notion, also a decent movie and a great book. That one-fingered salute could come from a house republican, I suppose, or a defeated Tea Party candidate.
 
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I saw Constantine again recently. It has such a quirky plot, it's hard even to describe it, yet if you start watching it, it's so cleverly made you can hardly help yourself, it's nearly mesmerizing. It just draws you in and won't let you go.

I know people make fun of Keanu Reaves' "acting" or lack thereof, but in this movie he is absolutely pitch-perfect. Tilda Swinton is a real hoot as the archangel Gabriel, and Rachel Weisz is sufficiently conflicted as the damsel in distress to be enjoyably entertaining.

It's a very clever, subversive plot that takes typical stereotypes and turns them inside out and upside down to produce a wonderful piece of entertainment.

It won't change your life at all, and it is a lot of fun. :)









Another movie that I enjoy watching repeatedly is Stranger than Fiction. Another quirky plot that sucks you in and won't let you out. Fantastic cast, and the subtlety with which Emma Thompson develops her character is absolutely wonderful. Dustin Hoffman also is very good in his supporting role. The plot on its face is preposterous yet he is so matter-of-fact and deadpan he really makes it work. And Will Farrell as a straight dramatic actor as an IRS auditor? Who'd have guessed? :)
 
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For us older folk-TCM is showing Captain Blood right now with Errol Flynn followed by the Scarlet Pimpernel and later the Prisoner of Zenda. I am set for about 6 hours.
 
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DrDemento said:
For us older folk-TCM is showing Captain Blood right now with Errol Flynn followed by the Scarlet Pimpernel and later the Prisoner of Zenda. I am set for about 6 hours.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, and Alan Hale* is one of the greatest movies ever made!

Did you know that Basil Rathbone did his own sword fighting in that movie?


Also, I did not know this before today, but Trigger (Roy Rogers' horse!) played Lady Marian's horse in that movie (in an uncredited role), according to IMDB!



* The father of the actor who played Skipper on Gilligan's Island
 
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FreshFish said:
The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, and Alan Hale* is one of the greatest movies ever made!

Did you know that Basil Rathbone did his own sword fighting in that movie?


Also, I did not know this before today, but Trigger (Roy Rogers' horse!) played Lady Marian's horse in that movie (in an uncredited role), according to IMDB!



* The father of the actor who played Skipper on Gilligan's Island
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FF: All of that is very familiar to us-it was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. My dad took me when I was 5 or 6 to see a rerelease of it. I still try to watch it every time on TCM. Even more trivia-Olivia was terrified of riding Trigger who had a reputation at the time of being a rambunctious horse. But he performed famously in his role. The team of Errol and Olivia made plenty of movies together and all of them were very good (although Robin Hood in my opinion by far the best). See how many times Alan Hale was in a Flynn movie also.
 
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DrDemento said:
FF: All of that is very familiar to us-it was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. My dad took me when I was 5 or 6 to see a rerelease of it.
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WOW! That must have been spectacular! The color in that film is phenomenal. and on a big screen too! I would love to see that in a theater.
 
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FreshFish said:
WOW! That must have been spectacular! The color in that film is phenomenal. and on a big screen too! I would love to see that in a theater.
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You reminded me-it was the first movie i ever saw in a theater-and the first movie I ever saw anywhere in color. i was mezmerized. I think I have memorized most of the line over the years-"Why you speak treason!" Robin responds- "Fluently".
 
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FreshFish said:
The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, and Alan Hale* is one of the greatest movies ever made!

Did you know that Basil Rathbone did his own sword fighting in that movie?


Also, I did not know this before today, but Trigger (Roy Rogers' horse!) played Lady Marian's horse in that movie (in an uncredited role), according to IMDB!



* The father of the actor who played Skipper on Gilligan's Island
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I'm of the "younger" set, I suppose, and I LOVE that movie. Great movie!

Edit: probably the best Robin Hood besides the Disney animated one. :D
 
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