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Citizen Kane!
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Layer Cake +1
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Formula 51
Snatch
Smokin' Aces
Fight Club
Officespace
Serenity
the first Matrix (liked 2 and 3, but they didn't measure up to the first one)
Kill Bill (and most Tarantino flicks)
Anything by Kevin Smith (except, perhaps Jersey Girl)
I actually liked Superbad. Does that make me bad?
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Streets Of Fire - A Rock and Roll Fable. Great movie, very campy acting by Willem DeFoe, Amy Madigan, Diane Lane (hubba hubba...) Micheal Pere, Rick Moranis, Ed Beggly Jr and many other very famous people in very bit parts. But anyway, it's all about rock and roll, motorcycles and guns, what better mixture for a flic? Oh, and the soundtrack is fantastic, by Ry Cooder with cameos from the Blasters and several other well know musicians/dancers. Very Meatloaf style concerts in it too. I give it a 4 star rating, but it really is campy, but so much fun besides that. 
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Oh, and the soundtrack is fantastic, by Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder also did some great music for "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest". Speaking of Nicholson's Cuckoo, how about Nicholson's "Five Easy Pieces"?
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The Kingdom
No Country For Old Men (Liked everything except the very end)
I Am Legend
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Streets Of Fire - A Rock and Roll Fable.
The first time I saw that was in the movie theater when it cam out in the mid 80's. I do have the DVD too.
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I'll add a prop for Bubba-ho-tep, I have it and loved it!
I am dieing to see I Am Legend the previews remind me of Charleton Heston in The Omega Man.
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Citizen Kane!
j/k
Layer Cake +1
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Formula 51
Snatch
Smokin' Aces
Fight Club
Officespace
Serenity
the first Matrix (liked 2 and 3, but they didn't measure up to the first one)
Kill Bill (and most Tarantino flicks)
Anything by Kevin Smith (except, perhaps Jersey Girl)
I actually liked Superbad. Does that make me bad?
Agree with all of this too, and yes I do own it all except for Formula 51, never saw it and although I own it I didn't think Smokin' Aces was that good. Oh and John I do love Citizen Kane, just cause it's old don't mean it's not good.
No comment on SuperBad, haven't seen it yet.
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Here is on that I have been trying to figure out the title to:
It was a British mobster/mob war movie. The story was kind of like one mob boss gets sent to prison. His protoge takes over and when the mob boss gets out the protoge kills him too.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Citizen Kane is friggin classic. My "final exam" at the end of one of my graphic design studio classes at CSU was to watch that movie.
Smokin' Aces wasn't great, but it was kinda fun. Formula 51 is priceless just for the car chase scene where Robert Carlyle was trying to explain to Sam Jackson the difference between bollocks and the dog's bollocks.
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I finally figured out that movie... Gangster #1
I still havent seen Smokin Aces. I might try to pick that up today.
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Tears of the Sun (another Bruice Willis movie) and Band of Brothers. Will watch them any time they come on.
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Sweeney Todd looks really good.
I'll see it soon if it comes to my daughter's theater.
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This weekend I'm going to try to see "I am Legend".
I've just seen it, like, two hours ago. Pretty cool, but I've seen better. It's a couple of things that grinds my gears in that movie, but I won't spoil the fun for you. 
Oh, Tell me before I see it tomorrow
seen it yet?
well, like one. He hasn't seen poeople for like three years. Suddenly, he gets himself into trouble and is saved by a woman and her son. When he wakes on his couch the next day, the woman and child is cooking breakfast in the kitchen, not explaining where the h**l they came from and how. It's like "hi. I made eggs... and I found some bacon..."
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anyhow...
goodfellas and godfather are good movies. oh, and casino (whilst on the gangster-movie-subject lol)
snatch is another... I could go on forever I guess...
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Once Upon a Time in America and Once Upon a Time in the West as well as From Dusk Til Dawn
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Yeah I did like Smokin' Aces I maybe just expected more from it. I'll have to give Formula 51 a try now just for the reason that you gave John.
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I want to see Sweeney Todd too, looks good.
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Yeah I did like Smokin' Aces I maybe just expected more from it.
Ya know, I'm feeling that way a lot this year. There are a lot of good movies that, while entertaining, left me wanting. I Am Legend is just such a movie. Transformers was good but felt like it was missing something. The "emo Petey" dance sequences ruined Spiderman 3 for me. Saw AVP:R the other night and it was pretty bad. Nonsensical even. Luckily I was able to cleanse my movie palette last night with No Country for Old Men, which is quite excellent. Tonight it's back into the vanilla mainstream realm with National Treasure 2.
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Last night I added a new movie to my list of good lesser known movies, Croupier. Soren
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John again I agree with you. The first movie this year that I enjoyed was the latest Harry Potter. Wasn't happy with Spider-Man 3, there were just too many characters that were introduced that are important to the mythos and weren't given the proper intro; Sandman, Venom, Gwen Stacy and her father plus the second Green Goblin. I like the eye candy but give me a good story with it or what's the point? Transformers, again beautiful but could they have maybe added more than 4 words to the story and half of those were just punchlines. I won't even discuss Fantastic Four.  I Am Legend looks completely different from the graphic novel that made it such a good idea but I'll be giving it a try. It just seems to me that a guy stuck in his house in a small town fighting off armies of vampires would be scarier than a guy in New York since he would have the luxury of having more resources at his disposal. Like I said earlier I was very happy with Gone Baby Gone and I want to see No Country for Old Men. My other wants right now are The Bucket List, Charlie Wilson's War and Sweeney Todd. I'm thinking about National Treasure 2, I like good clean fun too and The Golden Compass.
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Any thread on Good movies should include the caveat "DON'T LET DWIGHT PICK MOTORCYCLE MOVIES!"  (Just ask anyone who was at the SWTF last year.)
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Gone Baby Gone just arrived Friday to our little local independent theater (where I saw No Country for Old Men). That's definitely on the must see list.
I'd completely forgotten about FF2. It was okay, but after the first one I wasn't expecting much. Half the time the enjoyment of a movie is all about managing expectations.
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Was "No Country for Old Men" as good as the critics say?
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I am still trying to track down 1984 on DVD.
Here you go if you're willing to fork out the cash...
1984
+1 for Bubba Hotep, I thought I was the only one who liked that movie.
I just watched Shoot em up. If you haven't seen it, watch it. It has Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti. In the opening scene Clive Owen is sitting at a bus station when a pregnant lady runs by crying. Next a guy with a gun walks by screaming about how he's gonna kill her. Clive Owen feels it necessary to get involved so he follows them and ends up getting in to a gun fight with a large group of guys during which the lady goes into labor so Clive Owen is forced to deliver the child and have a gun fight at the same time. This pretty much sets the scene for the whole movie, an hour and a half of gun fights while other things are going on. It's very funny and very well shot.
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OUCH! $70 is a bit much!
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No kidding, I was looking to buy it about a year ago and the price has actually gone down $30 since the last time I looked.
Let my dying thought be that every mile was fun and let my tombstone read,"They never made one fast enough for me."
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I have been checking ebay the last couple of years hoping to get a steal of a deal. Unfortunatley there are too many people that know the value of it.
What needs to happen is that they need to do is re-release it on DVD. With as much as it is in demad, not sure why they havent.
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http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7000000087222i buy dvds from these guys alot, great service,however you will need a region free or a hacked dvd player to watch it as its a different region dvd.or send it to me and i,ll convert it for you, or you could try downloading it as a torrent thingy. possibly my fav all time movie is Bladerunner  , incredible on a big screen .
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Saw National Treasure book of secrets today. It was very entertaining but since I saw the first one I thought it was predictable.
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Half the time the enjoyment of a movie is all about managing expectations.
Problem is lately I've been downgrading expectations.
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Anti-religion, anti-christian..................
and thats a negative? who the heck wants that in a movie!
christians, muslims, you all can fight all u want over the real God, leave the rest of us out of it.
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But getting back to movies,
I am legend is awesome,
The Godfather 1 and 2
Goodfellas
The Soprano's, (not a movie, but just as good)
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"Fracture" with Anthony Hopkins - hadn't heard about it when it was in theaters but got it in the mail from Blockbuster. Pyschological crime thriller with Hopkins being as suave and evil and brilliant as Hannibal...without the face-eating.
Also just saw "Stardust" - good fairy tale with a healthy side of goofiness...a bit PrincessBrideish. And with some really good actors, including a light-in-his-loafers Bob DeNiro (gasp).
And Susan from "Coupling" (for the brit comedy fans) plays a witch (with heavy age makeup) - finally figured out from the voice it was her, would have gotten it sooner if she'd said "apparently?" (if you've seen Coupling you'll get that)
Going to see National Treasure in a couple days - what I'm really waiting for is "Cloverfield" - monster movie where nobody knows what the monster is going to be. Only see a glimpse of something huge moving between buildings in the trailer. Internet buzz is divided between saying it's another Godzilla, and saying it's Cthulu. Good move by the director not revealing the monster, hope the movie keeps it a mystery til the end. That trick worked great for Ridley Scott in Alien, a lot of movies now want to show off the CG and ruin the suspense.
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Just saw the new Halloween, great movie but don't expect it to be like the old series. A little too much nudity for that kind of movie in my opinion.
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what I'm really waiting for is "Cloverfield" - monster movie where nobody knows what the monster is going to be.
I've seen that trailer too, made me really wanna see that movie!
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A little too much nudity ...
I don't understand what he's saying here...I'd swear it was in English but I'm just drawing a blank here.
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Was "No Country for Old Men" as good as the critics say?
Yes. Amazingly so. If I had to describe it I'd call it "understated intensity." It moves slowly most of the way but builds intensity the whole time. You know things are going to go horribly wrong, but you just don't know how or when. It's "real" filmmaking, no gimmicks.
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No country was fantastic. Also all of Guy Richie's films are must sees,Lock stock and two smoking barrells, Snatch, and Layer cake. Sean of the dead, Memento, Requium for a dream, True romance. I could go on forever.
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Best Western: Tombstone (runner up: Outlaw Josey Wales)
Best Comedy: Sixteen Candles
Best Si-Fi: Serenity (BTW the Firefly series on DVD is great)
Best "Campy" movie: Rocky Horror Picture
I also enjoy and watch Quinton Tarantino's over and over.
Death Proof is way over the top! The slow start sets up the finish.
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