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Top 27 best movies - ever

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Best movie based on William Faulkner story:

TIE: The Reivers a great coming of age story and a great car story
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The Long Hot Summer. What a cast! Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Tony Francioso, Joanne Woodward, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury....
 
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that might be To Be or Not to Be with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, about a theater troupe that also were members of the underground resistance.
I'd like to put in a word for Chaplin's "The Great Dictator."
 
..... Ultimately, Moore prevailed in court and once again began wearing the costume and mask. Hi Yo Silver, away.

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that might be To Be or Not to Be with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, about a theater troupe that also were members of the underground resistance.

Truly a funny movie. But in Zelig, Woody personally pizzed off Hitler during a speech. In To Be or Not to Be the Hitler we see is an actor playing Hitler. And no indication if he was pizzed off or not. Sig Ruman played Colonel Ehrhardt and had the great line: "What Tura (Benny) did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."
 
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I'd like to put in a word for Chaplin's "The Great Dictator."

Terrific film. But no evidence Hitler ever saw it. And if he did, that would be real life, not the movie. In Zelig, Woody had an angry Hitler turn around, hand on hip, wanting to know who the h*ll was distracting from his speech. Adenoid Hinkel is different from our Adolph.

And if we can't agree on pizzing off Hitler, surely we can agree on "I say we lynch the little Heeb."
 
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91) Point Break
---best surfer/bank robbers movie
---also best use of a Red Hot Chili Pepper

92) Dummy
---best use of a dummy
 
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91) Point Break
---best surfer/bank robbers movie
---also best use of a Red Hot Chili Pepper

Also-
---best use of Gary Busey
---best name for main character "Johnny Utah"
---best use of Swayze as a surfing guru type
---best 100 year wave
---best use of presidents' masks
---best use of a lawnmower

There's so much awesomeness in Point Break, I can't hardly stand it. :)
 
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After Moore won his court case, he had his custom made silver inlaid chest stolen by a Continental Air Lines baggage handler in Houston. Moore transported the costume, the hat, the pistols and the mask in the chest. A major news story, coming so soon after the court victory. HPD quickly wrapped it up, caught the guy, and got the chest back to Moore.
 
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I think you could go on for a long time about movies that are based, at least in part, on Kurosawa movies. My personal favorite is, of course, Star Wars.

Fistful Of Dollars actually involved a lawsuit, I believe. Kurosawa won.
 
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Best opera written in German, sung in Swedish, with English subtitles:

Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.

The Papageno - Papagena duet is fun, and the Queen of the Night's aria in the second act is incredibly mind-blowing.
 
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Best opera written in German, sung in Swedish, with English subtitles:

Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.

The Papageno - Papagena duet is fun, and the Queen of the Night's aria in the second act is incredibly mind-blowing.
The cherubs in the balloon are great, too.
 
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