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6 August 2013
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The Ten Faves
* The Godfather Part 2 (Part 1 is great, but Part 2 is on a whole another level- if Part 1 is Rubber Soul , Part 2 is Revolver )
* Sideways
* Spring Forward
* Rocky (the first one is brilliant, the rest I can do without except III, which is great on a “so bad it’s good” level)
* A Mighty Wind (skewers the whole “folk” era of music from the ’60s so expertly)
* Short Cuts (Altman’s masterpiece- yes, even over Nashville)
* Annie Hall (Woody Allen’s masterpiece)
* Office Space
* The Candidate (best last line ever in a movie- “What do we do now?”)
* Marty (the only movie I ever watched and felt like it was written with me in mind)
Chosen Not to Watch
Most of the Harry Potters (saw the last three when I got married), any of the Twilight films, Gladiator, The Matrix… any film where people tell me I MUST watch, I don’t
Regret Having Seen
* Pink Flamingos (if you’ve seen it, you know why)
* 120 Days of Sodom (ditto)
* A Smile Like Yours (I was an extra at the airport scene, yet never made the film- but watched the whole awful movie to see if I did)
* From Justin to Kelly (I’m convinced that if this movie had completely ripped off the ending from Karate Kid Part II and used it for their ending, it would have made FJTK 5,000% better)
* On the Line (my then-g.f. was a huge N’Sync fan, so I took one from the team. At least she paid me back. 
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* Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (just to see if it was as bad as people said it was- well, it was)
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Offline Movies that I love (in no particualr order):
•The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
•Grosse Pointe Blank
•The Castle (Canberra is mentioned twice!)
•12 Angry Men
•Inherit The Wind
•My Big Fat Greek Wedding
•Big Jake
•The Sons of Katie Elder
•Airplane
•The Holy Grail
Movies I’ve chosen not to watch:
•The Godfather (or any mob movie that glorifies a******s)
•Rocky II thru Rocky DCVII
Movies I regret seeing:
•Rocky
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
10.05pm
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1 May 2011
Offline 12 Angry Men, the 1957 Henry Fonda film, is excellent.
5 other films i forgot about but found to be excellent are
- The Hustler (1961)
- China Town (1974)
- Sabrina (1954) (not normally my kind of film)
- Life of Brian (1979)
- Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975)
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1 November 2013
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- •The Christmas tree
- •Hard Day’s Night
- •Help
- •Of Mice and men
- •Harry Potter
- •Lord of the Rings
- •Jersey Boys
- •Star Wars
Movies I’ve chosen not to watch:
- •Let It Be
- •Patch
- •Patch Adams
- •Star Wars Holiday Special (I gave up half way)
- •Garbage Pail Kids (Same as above)
Movies I regret seeing:
- •Wicker Man
- •2014
- •Robin Hood
10.37pm
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17 December 2012
Offline @Starr Shine? Which version of The Wicker Man do you regret seeing? The fantastic British original or the dreadful Hollywood remake.
Also curious about how The Star Wars Holiday Special (a dreadful Seasonal TV show) counts as a movie?
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10.40pm
1 November 2013
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The Remake
The Star Wars Holiday Special I think is a made for tv movie.
10.53pm
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17 December 2012
Offline Glad it was the remake. I’d highly recommend the Director’s Cut of the original.
The Star Wars Holiday Special was more of a variety show set in the Star Wars universe, but definitely couldn’t be classed as a movie.
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12.09am
15 May 2014
Offline @Ron Natsy, Annadog40:
The Wicker Man –I should have included it (the British one) among mine. Superb.
@Zig:
Grosse Pointe Blank! Another one I should have included!
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
12.16am
28 May 2014
Offline @Starr Shine? said
Movies that I like:
- •The Christmas tree
- •Hard Day’s Night
- •Help
- •Of Mice and men
- •Harry Potter
- •Lord of the Rings
- •Jersey Boys
- •Star Wars
Movies I’ve chosen not to watch:
- •Patch
- •Patch Adams
- •Star Wars Holiday Special (I gave up half way)
- •Garbage Pail Kids (Same as above)
Movies I regret seeing:
- •Wicker Man
- •2014
- •Robin Hood
Why have you chosen not to watch Let it Be? I can only assume it’s because of the stress around that time.
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1 November 2013
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Offline Oudis said
@Ron Natsy, Annadog40:
The Wicker Man –I should have included it (the British one) among mine. Superb.
@Zig:
Grosse Pointe Blank! Another one I should have included!
And I should have included Waking Ned Divine. I can’t believe I left it off my list!
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11.30pm
21 November 2012
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Movies I’ve Loved
Pulp Fiction – amazing, seen it so often and never get bored
Ooh I still have to see that one! I’ve downloaded it but haven’t gotten around watching it yet.
Movies I’ve Loved
Bridget Jones-All of them
Harry Potter-All of them
The Notebook
Dear John
Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny
Movies I’ve chosen not to watch
Twilight
Avengers
Movies I regret seeing
Avatar
The Purge
It (because I’m scared of clowns as f**k)
I sort of regret watching Trainspotting, it really wasn’t that great.
Bruno
Now you see me
The Painted Veil
There must be tons more for each category, but I can’t come up with them at the moment.
12.12am
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29 August 2013
Offline Caught up with the recent Captain America film on bluray last night – loved it. Great times to be a Marvel film fan.
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10.36pm
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18 March 2013
Offline Trying the 2nd half of ‘On The Road’ tonight was too tired to continue watching it last night so it’s getting another whirl in the DVD player. I bought the DVD in France therefore I have to change it from the French dub which is alright but the English version HAS BLOODY FRENCH SUBTITLES THAT I CAN’T GET RID OF!!! Grrr…. well at least I’m learning some French anyways.
I might watch The Great Gatsby tomorrow night, we shall see…
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20 August 2013
Offline I saw The November Man this afternoon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402157/
Pretty good movie. In movies like this they usually spend too much time on the chase and fight scenes and not enough time explaining why the scenes are happening. I could actually follow the “why” in this movie. The chase and fight scenes are mostly short enough that I didn’t start getting antsy during them.
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7.33am
15 May 2014
Offline Now that I think about it I should have included Barton Fink in my list, a 1991 masterpiece by Joel and Ethan Cohen, with the amazing John Goodman and a superb John Turturro. Has anybody seen it? I recommend it to you guys.
Cheers,
Oudis.
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
11.15pm
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1 May 2011
Offline I’ve just stumbled across the film ‘House of Wax’ (2005 version) and found Paris Hilton is in it. When did she become an actress? Does this mean the film is automatically crap?
Going by the five minutes i’ve seen the answer to the latter is yes and life is too short to waste on finding out if i’m wrong. Turn over time.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
11.21pm
1 November 2013
Offline I watched that it was funny. I think it is a remake of a remake.
12.04am
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1 May 2011
Offline I turned over and got bored by ‘The Purge’ so turned that off too.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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