"Raising Arizona"

me and a few of my law school friends can have hour long conversations that basically consist of reciting dialogue from this one. Drives my wife batty.

Ben in WI,

we have very similar tastes. i have not seen the Kill Bill movies, but all the other ones can stay. Big Lebowski is at the very top of my list. Napoleon Dynamite has already moved into the top 5.

I would add:

Lord of the Rings (favorite is Fellowship)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Breaking Away

Groundhog Day

Field of Dreams

Shawshank Redemption

Office Space

Zoolander

Sideways

Star Wars original trilogy (fav is Empire)

Starship Troopers

Drunken Master II

Garden State

1. The Gods Must Be Crazy I
2. The Gods Must Be Crazy II
3. Zorro, the Gay Blade
4. The Italian Job (original w/Michael Caine)
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Cool Hand Luke
7. Young Frankenstein
8. Animal House
9. What's Up Doc?
10. City Slickers

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sorry to disapoint you ;-) too much of a chick flick for you? :P

your list is not bad...

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nah...I really really liked

Notting hill, Love Actually, Four weddings and a funeral, Peter's friends...

british comedies are usally really good...

"Shawn of the dead" was delirious...

Godfather I and II

Philedelphia Story (Hepburn/Grant)

Lake Placid

Aliens

Omen II

Goodfellas

Naked Gun

Die Hard (I)

Empire Strikes Back

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"he wet himself, he wet himself! mr. McDunnah wet himself!" "hit the dirt boy!"

"I'm talking bout wife swapin!!"

no problem with 11 SAC ... you obviously had eXistenZ in there accidentally ... all the others are pretty bullet-proof, but d-cronenberg clearly let his weird body-machine-sex fetish get control of his movie. i have never seen a movie with so many f'ed up bone-gun, flesh-port, eating, inserting, finger-dipping scenes as that giant monument to creepy shit you don't want to look at while your mom's in the room! and nobody got naked!

dude just lost it with that one.

I've been on a Sean Penn kick lately, but "I am Sam" or whatever that one he stars as a handicapped Starbucks employee raising his daughter alone, that was pretty rough.

Anything with Ed Norton Jr. esp. "25th hour"

Truman Show/Forrest Gump get honorable mentions for creativity if there is such a thing.

more as I think of them.

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Jaws...

end of discussion..

B.

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i'd go with "American History X" for the ed norton nomination ...

got to add some personal faves that i haven't seen mentioned:

The Virgin Suicides

Unforgiven (Deserve's got nothin' to do with it)

Leaving LasVegas

Requiem for a Dream

... and some that have:

Fargo

Eternal Sunshine or Being John Malkovich

Hunt for Red October.

Do these blow up into funny shapes?

Not unless round's funny.

Silent Running: Probably the best Sci Fi film ever. If you don’t cry at the end, you’re not human.
Barbarella: Hubba, hubba, hubba.
The man who would be King: Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Two of my favourite actors
The Italian Job: Caine again
Out of Africa: because the visuals take me right back to the months I spent out in the bush.
Blade Runner:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Audrey Hepburn, wibble.
Withnail & I
Apocalypse Now
The Quiet Man: Best John Wayne film, and so different from all the westerns
Fifth Element: A visual feast
Matrix: A new form of film
The Lost Boys
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Ok, last 3 due to being an early 80’s teenager.
Laurence of Arabia: Oh they don’t make them like this anymore
The Crow
The Magnificent 7
True Grit: not bad for a fat old man.
Life of Brian: It just doesn’t get any funnier than this.

Dude,

Any cheery movies in there?

B.

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good catch ... no, not really ... i have this theory about all truly great movies having an essential element of sadness. which is not to say you can't enjoy them or say "that was a great movie" if it was happy go lucky, and all ... but it was not truly great. it's the way that a sad, or troubling movie leaves you affected, whereas happy movies are forgotten as soon as you pass the burger king drive through ... that's just the way it is ... in my opinion.

honestly, name a movie that doesn't have an undercurrent of sadness that makes it to the pantheon of truly great movies ... (i play this with my friends and co-workers, it's tougher than you think) ...

man Requiem for a dream is a TOUGH movie...it's really hard to watch...anyone who's got kids and worried about drugs...show them that movie...that makes you think twice for sure!

american history X was awesome. Wonder how Edward Norton goes from skinny to bulky then back to skinny in the 25th hour...he was also very very good in 'The players' (I think that's the title...with Matt Damond as a bright law student and card player)

rounders ... awesome poker movie ...

darn...translated from the french title...that movie was just great. loved it.

How about (in the disappointments...)

Ocean's eleven (that I really liked, awesome rhythm etc.) and the oh so disappointing Ocean's twelve...that could have been great...

Fearless (and almost any movie with Jeff Bridges)
Best in Show/Spinal Tap/Waiting for Guffman etc. (any Christopher Guest/Fred Willard combo..
Easy Rider
As Good As It Gets
American Beauty
Wild at Heart
Without Limits
5 Easy Pieces

Plus many others previously mentioned...

"It is never too late to fix your childhood!" Tom Robbins

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Lonesome Dove

The Searchers

Cool Hand Luke

Blade Runner

Full Metal Jacket

Blue Velvet

The Shining

Jennifer 8

The Yearling

Airplane

Dazed And Confused

Smokey and the Bandit

Blues Bros.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

Trainspotting

Beautiful Girls

Big Faus and Little Haulsey

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Breakfast Club

The Trial

Apocalypse now

The Searchers

The Seven Samuarai

Chinatown

81/2

Citizen Kane

The Battleship Potemkin

On The Waterfront

Singin' in the Rain

Not the 10 best, but 10 of the best...





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that's a pretty eclectic choice you have here...japanese, russian, italian, US

Here's more...

Cyrano D'Bergerac (w/depardeau)

Betty Blue/37*2 Le matin

Alien

To Have and Have Not

The Conversation

any of Maya Deren's short films...

M

The Seventh Seal

Rashoman

Nosferatu

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