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Saint Tacky

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13 hours ago, Michael Knight said:
  1. The Searchers

Big, big props. I wanted it in my Top-Ten.  But, in no particular order (I cheated and included my final cut)-

1. The Godfather

2. Fargo

3. Pulp Fiction

Gone with the Wind

The Searchers

4. Apocalypse Now

5. Empire of the Sun

Life is Beautiful

Saving Private Ryan

6. Blade Runner

7. Rushmore

8. The Big Lebowski

Raising Arizona

Blazing Saddles

9. Tender Mercies

To Kill a Mockingbird

10. Boogie Nights

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17 hours ago, DoobieWah said:

These are movies I could watch anytime:

 

Best in Show

Casablanca

Last Starfighter

The Thin Man

Buckaroo Banzai

Animal House

The Commitments

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Some Like It Hot

Bell Book and Candle

 

 

But there are a lot more...

Damn solid list. You get extra credit for The Commitments.

I might swap out Best in Show, Buckaroo Banzai and Bell Book and Candle for Doc Hollywood, They Were Expendable and The Right Stuff.

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Gangs of New York

T2

Meet Joe Black

The Big Lebowski

Jurassic Park

Last of The Mohicans

Braveheart

Donnie Darko

Blazing Saddles

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

All have their place and I have a hard time turning the channel on any of them. Jaws, Inception, Reservoir Dogs, Ghostbusters, Wall-E, Monty Python and the Search For the Holy Grail, Avatar, American Beauty, Silence of the Lambs, To Kill a Mockingbird, Forest Gump, 

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Dbeasy

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Top 10 in Order
Gladiator
Field of Dreams
Sixteen Candles
The Big Lebowski
The Caine Mutiny
All the President’s Men
Office Space
Animal House
Blazing Saddles
The Sting

Just missed the list
My Cousin Vinny
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Basterds
Caddyshack
Bridge on the River Kwai
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dumb and Dumber
Tommy Boy
Top Gun
Jaws
The Jerk
The Matrix
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Saving Private Ryan
Airplane
Goodfellas
Die Hard
Close Encounters
Young Frankenstein
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind
The Dark Knight
No Country for Old Men
Good Will Hunting
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Godfather
Platoon
Shawshank Redemption

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On 9/11/2019 at 2:22 PM, Underdog said:

Most are favorites from childhood...  who am I kidding, I'm still a child at heart. 

Jaws

The Exorcist

The Poseidon Adventure

Airplane

Young Frankenstein

Bad News Bears

North Dallas Forty

Rocky

Blazing Saddles

A League of Their Own

If I could expand it to 15, then the following would be on the list: 

Hoosiers

Bull Durham

Die Hard

Smokey and the Bandit

Cool Hand Luke/The Verdict

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Braveheart 

ghostbusters 

raiders

shawshank

pulp fiction

reservoir dogs 

lebowski

Godfather 

The final two could be any of a million of those movies in the 90s that were awesome but also ‘just another movie’.  Sling blade, falling down, boogie nights, almost famous, memento, swingers, dazed and confused, good will hunting, Fargo, dumb and dumber, true romance.   Such a great era for movies and we were spoiled because genius stuff like this was coming out all the time  

 

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mchookem

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oh yay... lists! 😄

Fargo

Goodfellas

LA Confidential 

Godfather 1/2 (it's one story) 

Alien/Aliens (same)

There Will Be Blood

The Big Lebowski

The Talented Mr. Ripley

No Country for Old Men

Boogie Nights 

 

Hon. Mention: A Fish Called Wanda, Pulp Fiction, The Long Riders, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Burn After Reading

 

 

 

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I think this was a spinoff of a thread I started but I guess I never commented so I'll bite:

Anchorman

The Dark Knight

There Will Be Blood

LOTR - all 3 I'll just count as one 

Moonlight 

Raising Arizona 

Shrek

Alien

Wedding Crashers

Princess Mononoke 

And I think 4/10 here overlap on my 10 best list? I guess I could go check but who has the time. Maybe we can dig that thread up, too. 

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Damn, this is hard. In no order:

The Sting
All the Presidents Men
Big Lebowski
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Right Stuff
Jaws
LA Confidential
Jojo Rabbit
GoodFellas
Empire Strikes Back

I reserve the right to come back and edit as I remember ones that I’ve missed.

Edit: Man, I want to include 2001, Dr Strangelove and/or Clockwork Orange and Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein. Maybe a Connery Bond flick. Pulp Fiction, JFK. Step Brothers or Old School. Christmas Vacation. Fargo or Miller’s Crossing. Boogie Nights. Alien or Aliens. Or The Thing (Kurt Russell). Royal Tenenbaums or Rushmore. Godfather 1 or 2. Midnight Run. Slap Shot or MASH. Die Hard. Lots of great flicks.

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It will vary depending on how I feel at the time.  This is how I'm feeling tonight:
Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sideways
Goodfellas
Animal House
No Country for Old Men
Caddyshack (natch . . .)
Jeremiah Johnson
Heat
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 
 

I absolutely fucking love Sideways
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Jumping in here...

Tombstone

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Goodfellas

Die Hard

Major League

Godfather I & II

Smokey and the Bandit

Dirty Harry

All That Jazz

Unforgiven

Surprised that, unless I missed it, nobody else mentioned Tombstone.

Dirty Harry has been ripped off so many times, it's unreal. Eastwood has only recently been given credit as a visionary, but his movies were the jumping off point for three genres: Redefining the western with the "Man With No Name" trilogy, vigilante justice against a psycho killer genre with Dirty Harry, and the guy being pursued by a hot psycho chick, in Play Misty for Me. 

Goodfellas and the first two Godfather movies were interesting takes on the same lifestyle. Goodfellas was probably closer to the truth. The Tommy DeVito character, played by Joe Pesci, was just a great character, but seems almost mild mannered compared to Tommy DeSimone, the guy he was based on. Pesci is 5'3". DeSimone was something like 6'4", 230 lbs, and according to Henry Hill, enjoyed killing people like it was a hobby. 

Smokey and the Bandit and Major League are junk food comedies, but always make me laugh. I don't think they could be made today. 

 

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1 minute ago, Richard Kimball said:

Jumping in here...

Tombstone

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Goodfellas

Die Hard

Major League

Godfather I & II

Smokey and the Bandit

Dirty Harry

All That Jazz

Unforgiven

Surprised that, unless I missed it, nobody else mentioned Tombstone.

Dirty Harry has been ripped off so many times, it's unreal. Eastwood has only recently been given credit as a visionary, but his movies were the jumping off point for three genres: Redefining the western with the "Man With No Name" trilogy, vigilante justice against a psycho killer genre with Dirty Harry, and the guy being pursued by a hot psycho chick, in Play Misty for Me. 

Goodfellas and the first two Godfather movies were interesting takes on the same lifestyle. Goodfellas was probably closer to the truth. The Tommy DeVito character, played by Joe Pesci, was just a great character, but seems almost mild mannered compared to Tommy DeSimone, the guy he was based on. Pesci is 5'3". DeSimone was something like 6'4", 230 lbs, and according to Henry Hill, enjoyed killing people like it was a hobby. 

Smokey and the Bandit and Major League are junk food comedies, but always make me laugh. I don't think they could be made today. 

 

I fucking love Tombstone. I just love a lot of films. I think it's a better movie than Unforgiven, for one. Take a rep for putting it in your top 10. 

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