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Top 27 best movies - ever

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TCM started there Oscar countdown month-there will be a ton of great movies. Cat Ballou is on tonight. Tomorrow they have Robin Hood and Captain Blood back to back and on Saturday I believe the Public Enemy and Little Caeser. Also they have Destination Tokyo for the Cary Grant fans. Oldies for sure but for the true movie fan-just a great bunch of flicks.
 
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not sure if mookie qualified "best movie with hot chinese girlie hostage" but The Transporter was on amc at 8p, and is gonna be on again at 10p :D
 
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My Man Godfrey definitely should be on anyone's 'best movie' list. I like the chemistry between Carole Lombard and William Powell even better than in The Thin Man and that's saying quite a bit, since The Thin Man also should be on a 'best movie' list.

The New York Post recently published an extensive review of Carole Lombard's movies and their availability.

To Be or Not to Be is also a good movie, but if we are limited to how many total we can pick, it would, sadly, be relegated to honorable mention.
 
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watching the dead pool, and see liam neeson. wierd seeing him in a role outside of his normal variety.
 
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School of Rock is on tmc-east (best kid rocker movie with 10yo's who grew up to be pretty hot)
 
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Best Movie that a Middle-Aged Man Can't Admit to Liking - "Adventures In Babysitting"

Best line in movie history - "Don't **** with the Babysitter!"
 
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Not sure if anyone here will agree-but Jenny and I are sitting back and watching The Green Mile right now. Maybe not in my top 27 but close enough that it can be watched a few times at least. Last night TCM had Ben Hur on and we would watch that any time it is being broadcast.
 
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DrDemento said:
Not sure if anyone here will agree-but Jenny and I are sitting back and watching The Green Mile right now. Maybe not in my top 27 but close enough that it can be watched a few times at least. Last night TCM had Ben Hur on and we would watch that any time it is being broadcast.
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I was underwhelmed by the movie (mostly due to the hype). It's a solid movie, but I just wasn't blown away by it.


Best movie that is based on an interview: Frost/Nixon. To hell with "Interview With A Vampire" and "Young Guns II" ;) . This movie is pure awesomeness.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I was underwhelmed by the movie (mostly due to the hype). It's a solid movie, but I just wasn't blown away by it.


Best movie that is based on an interview: Frost/Nixon. To hell with "Interview With A Vampire" and "Young Guns II" ;) . This movie is pure awesomeness.
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Brent-Jenny likes it more than I do-she is a Stephen King fan. Personally I like Sleepwalkers (but only because i was smitten with the actress Madchen Amick):) The day before TCM devoted to musicals and Singing in the Rain followed by 7 Brides for 7 Brothers made for a nice 4 hours of TV.
 
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DrDemento said:
Brent-Jenny likes it more than I do-she is a Stephen King fan. Personally I like Sleepwalkers (but only because i was smitten with the actress Madchen Amick):) The day before TCM devoted to musicals and Singing in the Rain followed by 7 Brides for 7 Brothers made for a nice 4 hours of TV.
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I've always liked Hitchcock's so-called missing films (and I know you're a Hitchcock fan, too): "Rope," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Vertigo" and "Rear Window." The fifth "The Trouble With Harry," got an early morning showing today. The "trouble" with Harry is that he's dead and the poor guy gets buried four times before the credits. IMDB says one of Hitchcock's all time favorite lines is in the film. Miss Graveley asks "What seems to be the trouble, Captain?" of Edmund Gwenn, who at the moment is dragging Harry's body, by the ankles, off into the woods!

The film also has some pretty suggestive dialogue for its time. At one point John Forsythe points out to Gwenn that he will be the first to cross Miss Graveley's "threshold." And Gwenn replies that Miss Graveley is like a jar of preserves, that should be "opened."
 
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Old Pio said:
I've always liked Hitchcock's so-called missing films (and I know you're a Hitchcock fan, too): "Rope," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Vertigo" and "Rear Window." The fifth "The Trouble With Harry," got an early morning showing today. The "trouble" with Harry is that he's dead and the poor guy gets buried four times before the credits. IMDB says one of Hitchcock's all time favorite lines is in the film. Miss Graveley asks "What seems to be the problem, captain?" of Edmund Gwenn, who at the moment is dragging Harry's body, by the ankles, off into the woods!

The film also has some pretty suggestive dialogue for its time. At one point John Forsythe points out to Gwenn that he will be the first to cross Miss Graveley's "threshold." And Gwenn replies that Miss Graveley is like a jar of preserves, that should be "opened."
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Hitchcock films were known to be ground breaking. Witness-Janet Leigh in a black bra in the classic and still scary as heck Psycho. Hitchcock in an interview noted that he wanted to represent evil in the character and felt a black bra would be appropriate. Still, to my knowledge that had never been shown in a movie before.

edit: Just had to add-I always found Hitchcock's choice of icy cool blondes for his movies intriguing. The list is long-and distinguished.
 
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DrDemento said:
Hitchcock films were known to be ground breaking. Witness-Janet Leigh in a black bra in the classic and still scary as heck Psycho. Hitchcock in an interview noted that he wanted to represent evil in the character and felt a black bra would be appropriate. Still, to my knowledge that had never been shown in a movie before.

edit: Just had to add-I always found Hitchcock's choice of icy cool blondes for his movies intriguing. The list is long-and distinguished.
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To me, that list is headed by Grace Kelly. Especially when we first see her in "Rear Window." It takes your breath away.

In "Psycho" Hitch was trying to show he could make a really scary movie on a shoe string budget, with no major stars. I'd say he succeeded. And he killed off his one name performer in the first third of the film! Before she stole the money, Janet was wearing a white bra, afterward the black bra (who would notice that without having it pointed out?). "Psycho" was also one of the very first (perhaps the first) films to show toilets. For decades, movie bathrooms weren't equipped with them.

Norman Bates (as trivia buffs know) was based substantially on Eddie Gein, the "butcher of Plainfield," Wisconsin. However, Eddie was significantly more demented than Norman. Eddie also inspired Leather Face in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs." A very sick puppy.
 
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Brent-Jenny likes it more than I do-she is a Stephen King fan.
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hmm...two of my favorite movies, Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption were both based on Steven King short stories that were not in the horror genre.

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The day before TCM devoted to musicals and Singing in the Rain followed by 7 Brides for 7 Brothers made for a nice 4 hours of TV.
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Singing in the Rain I believe was ranked 5th best movie ever made by that Sight and Sound poll they conduct every ten years, if I'm not mistaken. And with Howard Keel, my favorite musical with him (my 3rd favorite musical ever) is Kiss Me Kate. Of course, I really like The Taming of the Shrew, my favorite Shakespeare comedy, and I also like the "play within a play" plot device when it is handled well (interesting that both of these movies have that device!).

My 2nd favorite musical ever is generally miscast as an opera, but it really is a musical, albeit from the 18th century....Ingmar Bergman filmed a version of The Magic Flute that is really fun if you can put up with the subtitles. During the overture, he uses the daughter he had with Liv Ullman as a focal point, what a beautiful picture of youthful innocence.
 
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Old Pio said:
To me, that list is headed by Grace Kelly. Especially when we first see her in "Rear Window." It takes your breath away.

In "Psycho" Hitch was trying to show he could make a really scary movie on a shoe string budget, with no major stars. I'd say he succeeded. And he killed off his one name performer in the first third of the film! Before she stole the money, Janet was wearing a white bra, afterward the black bra (who would notice that without having it pointed out?). "Psycho" was also one of the very first (perhaps the first) films to show toilets. For decades, movie bathrooms weren't equipped with them.

Norman Bates (as trivia buffs know) was based substantially on Eddie Gein, the "butcher of Plainfield," Wisconsin. However, Eddie was significantly more demented than Norman. Eddie also inspired Leather Face in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs." A very sick puppy.
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Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, Tippi Hedrin, Doris Day, Janet Leigh, Joan Fontaine, Ingrid Berman-quite a list of cool blondes in his films. I may have missed some in his early films-Madeline Carroll, etc after all he directed 53 films. he had so many little quirks in his films-the voyeurism, the use of staircases, the fixation with the numbers (13 and its multiples).
 
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FreshFish said:
hmm...two of my favorite movies, Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption were both based on Steven King short stories that were not in the horror genre.



Singing in the Rain I believe was ranked 5th best movie ever made by that Sight and Sound poll they conduct every ten years, if I'm not mistaken. And with Howard Keel, my favorite musical with him (my 3rd favorite musical ever) is Kiss Me Kate. Of course, I really like The Taming of the Shrew, my favorite Shakespeare comedy, and I also like the "play within a play" plot device when it is handled well (interesting that both of these movies have that device!).

My 2nd favorite musical ever is generally miscast as an opera, but it really is a musical, albeit from the 18th century....Ingmar Bergman filmed a version of The Magic Flute that is really fun if you can put up with the subtitles. During the overture, he uses the daughter he had with Liv Ullman as a focal point, what a beautiful picture of youthful innocence.
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FFish: there are days on TCM when they pretty much have a Howard Keel festival. Kismet, Kiss me Kate, Showboat, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Annie Get Your Gun, Calamity Jane. When watching Kiss Me Kate-look for the dance sequence with a young Bob Fosse. You can just see all the talent right there. I cannot describe myself as a big musical fan-but all of those are first rate along with Singin' in the Rain and Brigadoon and the Unsinkable Molly Brown.
 
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Best "I ain't a f'real cowboy" cowboy movie: Midnight Cowboy...

..."But I am one helluva stud!"

Hadn't watched this in many years. Great film!

The only X-rated movie to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture (1969). Was later re-released with an R rating.
 
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For some reason, I was thinking about different movies in which William Hurt had a starring role. I liked Altered States very much, and Broadcast News and The Big Chill were pretty good too (I never saw Children of a Lesser God but some people I know speak highly of it). Without a doubt, though, the top Willliam Hurt movie for me is Body Heat by far.

Body Heat also would be my top Kathleen Turner movie as well. I did like Romancing the Stone very much, and VI Warshawsky and Peggy Sue got Married were fun too.
 
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FreshFish said:
For some reason, I was thinking about different movies in which William Hurt had a starring role. I liked Altered States very much, and Broadcast News and The Big Chill were pretty good too (I never saw Children of a Lesser God but some people I know speak highly of it). Without a doubt, though, the top Willliam Hurt movie for me is Body Heat by far.

Body Heat also would be my top Kathleen Turner movie as well. I did like Romancing the Stone very much, and VI Warshawsky and Peggy Sue got Married were fun too.
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Could not agree more-pairing two very good actors in a movie sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The chemistry between those two was outstanding. If you do not feel the heat building in the first 30 minutes-you are either dead or very close to being so. The pick up lines Hurt uses early are classic-and the Turner retorts equally so. The movie made years ago still stands up well to the test of time.
 
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