Top ten fave films

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Cryptic Bert

Quote from: Shooterman on March 01, 2011, 09:22:34 PM
Those that stand out for me as all time favorites;

The Quiet Man

In Pursuit of Honor

Bite The Bullet

How Green Was My Valley

The Magnificent Seven

Spencer's Mountain


Heh heh heh...

tbone0106

I honestly don't know how I missed it. I own the Collector's Edition DVD complete with separate soundtrack and a 70mm frame from the movie! Holy Cowski!


taxed

Quote from: tbone0106 on March 11, 2011, 06:13:50 PM
I honestly don't know how I missed it. I own the Collector's Edition DVD complete with separate soundtrack and a 70mm frame from the movie! Holy Cowski!



Great movie T-Bone!

Did you hear Buzz Aldrin on the monolith, btw?
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tbone0106

Quote from: taxed on March 11, 2011, 06:32:26 PM
Great movie T-Bone!

Did you hear Buzz Aldrin on the monolith, btw?
"God put it there?" Yeah. Hey, who's to say it ain't so? It's not what Clarke would postulate (were he around to do so), but it's really not so different from the 2001 narrative.

Have you read the book? 2001, that is?

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Quote from: tbone0106 on March 11, 2011, 06:13:50 PM
I honestly don't know how I missed it. I own the Collector's Edition DVD complete with separate soundtrack and a 70mm frame from the movie! Holy Cowski!



Now that was one move that I did enjoy. Along with Fiddler on the Roof.
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Quote from: tbone0106 on March 11, 2011, 06:55:07 PM
"God put it there?" Yeah. Hey, who's to say it ain't so? It's not what Clarke would postulate (were he around to do so), but it's really not so different from the 2001 narrative.

Have you read the book? 2001, that is?

I haven't read it...
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Solar

We were first in line when it came out.
Great movie all the way through. until it got so convoluted, that the ending really was a waste of a good movie.
I could have written a better ending...
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Quote from: Solar on March 12, 2011, 12:37:02 PM
We were first in line when it came out.
Great movie all the way through. until it got so convoluted, that the ending really was a waste of a good movie.
I could have written a better ending...
Quote from: taxed on March 12, 2011, 12:17:23 PM
I haven't read it...
Ah. You no read book, you no get story. Ah so.

2001 was a collaboration between two geniuses -- Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Both were credited for the screenplay; only Clarke's name appeared on the book, although Kubrick's input was important. Clarke later said it should have been "Kubrick and Clarke" on the screenplay and "Clarke and Kubrick" on the book cover. The book and the screenplay and the movie all came to be more or less at the same time, although the book wasn't released until the movie had been out for some months.

To put it mildly, both ends of the movie -- start and finish -- are a bit difficult to understand. Actually, without the book, figuring out wtf is going on in the movie is just about impossible. Part of the problem is the absence of dialog in most of the film. 2001 the movie has only a bit more dialog than did Caveman, and half of that is someone talking to a damn computer, and you don't get to stare at Barbara Bach's fabulous set of, uh, personalities.

  :-* :-* :-* :-* (Not really relevant, but why waste an opportunity to display such personalities?)

My advice: get yourself a copy of the book and sit down and read! WELL worth it, believe me. And as soon as you finish the book, I guarantee you'll get your hands on the DVD and watch it again.

Solar

Quote from: tbone0106 on March 12, 2011, 03:52:16 PM
Ah. You no read book, you no get story. Ah so.

2001 was a collaboration between two geniuses -- Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Both were credited for the screenplay; only Clarke's name appeared on the book, although Kubrick's input was important. Clarke later said it should have been "Kubrick and Clarke" on the screenplay and "Clarke and Kubrick" on the book cover. The book and the screenplay and the movie all came to be more or less at the same time, although the book wasn't released until the movie had been out for some months.

To put it mildly, both ends of the movie -- start and finish -- are a bit difficult to understand. Actually, without the book, figuring out wtf is going on in the movie is just about impossible. Part of the problem is the absence of dialog in most of the film. 2001 the movie has only a bit more dialog than did Caveman, and half of that is someone talking to a damn computer, and you don't get to stare at Barbara Bach's fabulous set of, uh, personalities.

  :-* :-* :-* :-* (Not really relevant, but why waste an opportunity to display such personalities?)

My advice: get yourself a copy of the book and sit down and read! WELL worth it, believe me. And as soon as you finish the book, I guarantee you'll get your hands on the DVD and watch it again.
Oh I understood it, I just didn't like it....
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mdgiles

I call them Channel Hop Stops. Any time I'm channel hopping and come across them, I stop and watch - no matter what point I'm at in the movie.

12 Angry Men
Unforgiven
The Shawshank Redemption
Sahara (Bogart)
Any of the Ring Trilogy
Any of the FIRST three Star Wars movies.
Snatch (you'll need to see it twice just to figure out what they're saying)
Rock and Rolla (you'll need to see it twice just to figure out what they're saying)
The Road Warrior
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
12 O'Clock High
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The Ten Commandments (Pharaoh Obama...Let my people Go!!!) (Chuck...please come back and give Obama a verbal thrashing!!!)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly  (Squint Eastwood)
Planet of the Apes (I will not apologize...Charlton Rules, you damned, dirty apes!)
Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Holy Grail (for utter silliness!!!)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
Practically any movie with Sean Connery
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Cryptic Bert

Pretty much anything with Peter Sellers in it...

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Quote from: McGoonagall on April 19, 2011, 05:44:13 PM
Pretty much anything with Peter Sellers in it...
"Does your dog bite???  Classic !!!!!  :))
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robmiller

Entries in my personal list of Greatest Films of All Time includes:

The Silence of the Lambs
The Godfather
Schindler's List
Braveheart
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Gladiator
The Star Wars Saga
The Lord of the Rings
Saving Private Ryan
The Shawshank Redemption

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