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Top 27 best movies - ever

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mookie1995 said:
mookie has seen the player and the long goodbye which are both decent but not mash's league.
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I also like M*A*S*H best among Altman movies, it was really quite subversive in its day and it still holds up to the test of time quite well. Having a song called "Suicide is Painless" as your movie theme song?

I like The Player more than mookie apparently, but cannot move it ahead of M*A*S*H in the Altman canon. I liked Nashville up until the ending, which casts a pall on the rest of the movie.
 
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FreshFish said:
I also like M*A*S*H best among Altman movies, it was really quite subversive in its day and it still holds up to the test of time quite well. Having a song called "Suicide is Painless" as your movie theme song?

I like The Player more than mookie apparently, but cannot move it ahead of M*A*S*H in the Altman canon. I liked Nashville up until the ending, which casts a pall on the rest of the movie.
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MASH is certainly on our list also. Just watched Master And Commander again and that one may be added to my list also.
 
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A movie from the 1980's I just recently saw for the first time, Runaway Train with Jon Voight ? No LeBaron convertibles in this one.
 
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Looks likes its coming up on TCM
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King Solomon's Mines (Stewart Granger / Deborah Kerr)
 
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mookie1995 said:
-your list may be different, but you'd be wrong-
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Mookie's original list did not include any musicals! :eek:

Maybe Mookie can make the list the "Top 27 Best Movies - ever" plus one?

If Mookie were to choose among The Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain, The King and I, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss Me Kate, The Sound of Music, Cabaret, or another musical not listed for this category, which would it be?


Tough choice?

According to the film critics, it would be Singing in the Rain, which is hard to disagree with....
 
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St. Clown said:
It has to do with mookie being a man and not trying to please anybody else when making his personal top 27 list.
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I love musicals and the last time I checked my medical forms said "male."

For the record, here are my (current) favorites movie musicals:

01 The Music Man
02 Wizard of Oz
03 Singin in the Rain
04 West Side Story
05 The Sound of Music
06 42nd Street
07 Holiday Inn
08 The Band Wagon
09 Gold Diggers of 1933
10 Willy Wonka

11 My Fair Lady
12 The Gay Divorcee
13 Hair
14 Fiddler on the Roof
15 The King and I
16 Guys and Dolls
17 South Pacific
18 Top Hat
19 The Pirates of Penzance
20 Cabaret
 
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Kepler said:
I love musicals and the last time I checked my medical forms said "male."

For the record, here are my (current) favorites movie musicals:
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Men can like musicals all they want, I'm just saying that mookie didn't list them in his personal top 27 becuase he wasn't pandering or placating anyone. He posted his list. He was being a man about it.
 
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St. Clown said:
Men can like musicals all they want, I'm just saying that mookie didn't list them in his personal top 27 becuase he wasn't pandering or placating anyone. He posted his list. He was being a man about it.
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Oh, you were being sexist against women, not men.

Got it. :p
 
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Kepler said:
Oh, you were being sexist against women, not men.

Got it. :p
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Not at all. mookie just stated his opinion without taking into account what others wanted - because their his opinion. If mookie were a woman, I'd say the same about being a woman, because I meant it more like he's an adult and knows what he likes, not a child who's trying to be popular with others' opinions.
 
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St. Clown said:
It has to do with mookie being a man and not trying to please anybody else when making his personal top 27 list.
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I was merely engaging mookie in pleasant banter. I was not criticizing his original list.

Kiss Me Kate is definitely a man's musical: it is based upon The Taming of the Shrew. I like it more than Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, another man's musical, for which, by the way, the composer decreed there would be no ballet dancing, instead, the fight scenes would be choreographed in time with the music instead.

I suppose I could have included Viva Las Vegas in my post # 506, the theme song from that movie has been appropriated by the advertisers of a little blue pill, you know ;)
 
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FreshFish said:
I was merely engaging mookie in pleasant banter. I was not criticizing his original list.

Kiss Me Kate is definitely a man's musical: it is based upon The Taming of the Shrew. I like it far more than Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, another man's musical, for which, by the way, the composer decreed there would be no dancing, instead, the fight scenes would be choreographed in time with the music instead.
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The "barn raising" scene in 7 Brides is amazing.

IIRC the fight scene follows immediately after when the rivals first construct and then completely destroy the building.
 
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Kepler said:
I love musicals and the last time I checked my medical forms said "male."

For the record, here are my (current) favorites movie musicals:

01 The Music Man
02 Wizard of Oz
03 Singin in the Rain
04 West Side Story
05 The Sound of Music
06 42nd Street
07 Holiday Inn
08 The Band Wagon
09 Gold Diggers of 1933
10 Willy Wonka

11 My Fair Lady
12 The Gay Divorcee
13 Hair
14 Fiddler on the Roof
15 The King and I
16 Guys and Dolls
17 South Pacific
18 Top Hat
19 The Pirates of Penzance
20 Cabaret
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And here I figured you for a Rocky Horror Picture Show guy.
 
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SJHovey said:
And here I figured you for a Rocky Horror Picture Show guy.
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Did the rest of the country suffer through the same malady that afflicted Chicago in the late 1970s and early 1980s?

There was a midnight showing at the Biograph theater every weekend for years. People would dress in costume and act out the movie in front of the screen, everyone in the audience would bring props and have a running dialog with the characters in the movie, regulars would carry on correspondence with each other through the personal ads in The Reader, it was really insane.

I went once when a friend of mine chartered a bus to take a group of people there and back so that we could all be appropriately sauced before attending without worry of losing our way. While it was a fun and entertaining evening, I did not "get" the charm to make it worth a repeat visit.




I am reminded about a story with Voltaire and the Marquis de Sade. The Marquis had invited Voltaire to one of his, um, "soirees," and to his surprise, not only did Voltaire accept the invitation, he enthusiastically participated in all the evening's "festivities" with flair and gusto.

At the end of the night, the Marquis says, "So, Voltaire, will we be seeing you again next week?"

and Voltaire gave him a look of disgust, and said, "Once is philosophy. Twice is perversion."
 
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FreshFish said:
Did the rest of the country suffer through the same malady that afflicted Chicago in the late 1970s and early 1980s?

There was a midnight showing at the Biograph theater every weekend for years. People would dress in costume and act out the movie in front of the screen, everyone in the audience would bring props and have a running dialog with the characters in the movie, regulars would carry on correspondence with each other through the personal ads in The Reader, it was really insane.
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Yep, everybody had that. There were at least a three theaters on Long Island that had midnight RH shows for years. The Brattle near Harvard was still doing it into the 90s.

Like every other community for teenagers from summer camp to Campus Crusade for Christ, it was 10% about the ostensible purpose and 90% about having sex with as many of your fellows as possible.
 
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FreshFish said:
Did the rest of the country suffer through the same malady that afflicted Chicago in the late 1970s and early 1980s?

There was a midnight showing at the Biograph theater every weekend for years. People would dress in costume and act out the movie in front of the screen, everyone in the audience would bring props and have a running dialog with the characters in the movie, regulars would carry on correspondence with each other through the personal ads in The Reader, it was really insane.

I went once when a friend of mine chartered a bus to take a group of people there and back so that we could all be appropriately sauced before attending without worry of losing our way. While it was a fun and entertaining evening, I did not "get" the charm to make it worth a repeat visit.
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Those were still going on into the mid-90s. The attendance was likely not as strong as back in the 70s and 80s, but they were still happening. I never attended one, but I think it would have been fun to see once.

In fact, there's a novel written by a guy who's my age that takes place in Pittsburgh, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, where the core group of characters are involved as actors in those shows. The time period of the show was the 91-92 school year.
 
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