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07-13-2017 , 09:49 PM

#25051

skiier04

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Whats everyon'e top 5 of all time here?

Taxi Driver
Good Will Hunting
Upstream Color
Boyhood
Finding Forrester

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07-13-2017 , 10:23 PM

#25052

Clovis8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by skiier04

Whats everyon'e top 5 of all time here?

Taxi Driver
Good Will Hunting
Upstream Color
Boyhood
Finding Forrester

One of these is not like the others.

All good/great though.

07-13-2017 , 10:51 PM

#25053

Eeyorefora

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Originally Posted by kioshk

If it was great, you coulda said it was a towering achievement in documentary film. But sounds like it was more hit and miss.

GROOOAAANNNN.....

Movies: Talk About What You've Seen Lately--Part 3

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07-13-2017 , 11:44 PM

#25054

Losing all

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Originally Posted by Eeyorefora

GROOOAAANNNN.....

Don't shoot the messenger.

07-14-2017 , 12:22 AM

#25055

wil318466

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Quote:

Originally Posted by skiier04

Whats everyon'e top 5 of all time here?

Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Schindler's list
Shawshank Redemption
Aliens

Runner up (in case godfather's count as one): Rocky.

07-14-2017 , 12:24 AM

#25056

Clovis8

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1 Before Sunset
2 Pulp Fiction
3 The Godfather II
4 Chunking Express
5 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

07-14-2017 , 12:25 AM

#25057

coolnout

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Originally Posted by mikech

re: 80s teen movies

I always thought Three O'Clock High was underrated

07-14-2017 , 12:37 AM

#25058

Losing all

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1 Alien
2 Apocalypse Now!
3 The Thing
4 Reservoir Dogs
5 2001

Wanna put Downfall on there but nothing to bump

07-14-2017 , 12:47 AM

#25059

wil318466

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Originally Posted by Losing all

1 Alien

Just to be sure, did you forget an S? Or no?

07-14-2017 , 01:23 AM

#25060

skiier04

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Clovis8

One of these is not like the others.

All good/great though.

Not sure which one you're referring to? I guess Upstream Color would be the outlier of that group but I thought that movie was a masterpiece. And then Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester are so similar thematically but I love them both so much they each have to make my personal top 5. Really hard to pick only 5!

07-14-2017 , 01:23 AM

#25061

Losing all

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Originally Posted by wil318466

Just to be sure, did you forget an S? Or no?

No, The S comes after it on my list of campy schlock

07-14-2017 , 01:42 AM

#25062

jalfrezi

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Vertigo
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather I
Taxi Driver
2001 A Space Odyssey

07-14-2017 , 02:17 AM

#25063

chopstick

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Immortal Beloved
The Godfather, part II
Memento
The Lost Boys
Aliens

I'm always tempted to include Tombstone until I remember that what I like about that movie is the Kilmer and Biehn performances and not much else.

07-14-2017 , 04:33 AM

#25064

riverboatking

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Originally Posted by biggerboat

Tower Documentary about the University of Texas tower sniper shootings in 1966.

This is a really weird film. It is a mix of animation, historic footage, and survivors recounting their experience.

The animation was sort of distracting to me. The voices of the characters seemed to be a mix of the actual person telling their story and actors reading from prior interviews of people (no longer living) that had been there.

The actual footage was riveting but there just wasn't enough of it (I'm guessing) to tell the story from all of the perspectives that they chose to tell.

Towards the end, they shifted to real interviews of some of the people, which I found much more interesting.

I don't think this was necessarily a top notch documentary but it was definitely worth a watch. I knew the story well (see below) and I had seen almost all of the footage, but I'm guessing if you don't know much about it you would find it pretty interesting.

I found it especially interesting because I lived it somewhat. My father was teaching at UT at the time, and on campus, and I remember my mother listening to the events on the radio. She was really upset not knowing what was going on.

I thought tower was excellent, really engrossing.

I dunno how ppl can narrow down a top 5 list.
I don't think I could narrow down a top 15 list honestly.

so many movies that are my "favorite".

07-14-2017 , 07:44 AM

#25065

MSchu18

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Not another top five list... top ten is almost impossible, top 25 is doable but quite a long list.

Top five from a genre list is doable.
Western
Sci fi
Drama
Comedy
Musical

07-14-2017 , 09:27 AM

#25066

Ra_Z_Boy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by wil318466

Just to be sure, did you forget an S? Or no?

Alien is the superior film imo but they are both in different genres almost and classics in their own right.

07-14-2017 , 09:28 AM

#25067

Ra_Z_Boy

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It's interesting that a film like Boyhood goes in the top 5 of all time for some, but I would have had it in my top 5 worst (that I saw) of that year. Different strokes I guess.

07-14-2017 , 09:30 AM

#25068

domer2

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Originally Posted by skiier04

Whats everyon'e top 5 of all time here?

godfather 1 & 2
the thin red line
apocalypse now
the good, the bad, and the ugly
slumdog millionaire

07-14-2017 , 09:34 AM

#25069

domer2

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no 70mm imax screening of Dunkirk in vegas is super annoying

it's still under embargo by the critics, but all the murmurs are that it is amazing

07-14-2017 , 09:56 AM

#25070

biggerboat

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godfather (1)
LOTR trilogy
Jaws
Forrest Gump
A Few Good Men
Wizard of Oz

oh wait,that's 6 or maybe 8

and I have more

this is too hard, I like a lot of movies equally

07-14-2017 , 10:10 AM

#25071

Clovis8

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Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy

It's interesting that a film like Boyhood goes in the top 5 of all time for some, but I would have had it in my top 5 worst (that I saw) of that year. Different strokes I guess.

This is lunacy.

07-14-2017 , 10:31 AM

#25072

Bluegrassplayer

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Moana was good, and imo one of the better animations to come from Disney recently. Better than Frozen and on par with Zootopia. Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords did my favorite song:

07-14-2017 , 02:43 PM

#25073

MSchu18

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Quote:

Originally Posted by domer2

no 70mm imax screening of Dunkirk in vegas is super annoying

it's still under embargo by the critics, but all the murmurs are that it is amazing

Extremely disappointing given the light that the hateful eight had a fairly successful run on a variety of film stock (35mm/65mm)...

I knew of the passing of v egas a few weeks ago, but I am still very hopeful that we'll get the iMax laser print... which is really probably the absolute best.