12 Angry Men
O' Brother Where Art Thou?
Spirited Away.
The Shawshank Redemption
As far as comedies go I'd say "Airplane!"
The Princess Bride
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Dr. Strangelove.
Goodfellas
Star Wars: Episode 5- The Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction.There was an X rated listed among them and I left it out.
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Dr. Strangelove and GoodFella's.
I always considered Shawshank Redemption to be fairly solid.
Anyone else seen The Stuntman?
Someone at reddit suggested Fifth Element? Maybe 10 for guilty pleasure, but the movie is nowhere near a 10 in perfection.
The Quiet Man.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Goodfellas.
For Comedies, "There's Something About Mary".
And nothing is ever a perfect 10 out of 10, except my opinions which occasionally even exceed perfect.
Compared to all other days, only one is a perfect 10 - It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!
Romantic comedies that need editing but are solid
The Proposal
Two Weeks Notice
Erin Brockovich
Laws of Attraction
You've Got Mail
Notting Hill
Music and Lyrics
Words and Pictures
The Rewrite
Also Get Smart (2008) if you mentally edit it right as a rom com.
You may have to substitute generic difficulties (eg in words and pictures) for drinking and disease to get past uninteresting cliches from lazy screenwriters.
Hugh Grant is a good sign as a male lead.
Tender Mercies
The Apostle
Seven Days In Utopia
The Sting
Ben Hur.
Gettysburg.
Raising Arizona.
Reservoir Dogs.
Dr. Strangelove is a fine movie, but here's where I take exception. Back in the sixties there were a number of movies like Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove which took the position that the American military forces were permeated with insane lunatics and that it was dangerous to leave nuclear weapons in their hands. The same thing could, of course, been said about the Soviet forces and with far more validity. During the Cuban crisis, there was a Russian submarine officer who tried to launch a preemptive nuclear strike. And nowadays the conventional Hollywood wisdom is that containment is the best way to handle N. Korea, Pakistan, and eventually Iran. There are no nut cases within the military services of those great countries.
Boondock Saints.
The Mask!
There are perhaps better movies but the very first Star Wars and Singing in the Rain I have seen more times than any other movies. The first Star Wars actually improves with repeated viewings. It has a fairy tale quality that reassures you about the balance and justice of the cosmos.......Singing in the Rain also has that quality. Sometimes Hollywood gets it right and produces pro humanity propaganda.
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
It's funny what makes a movie perfect for each individual. The Apostle was EXCELLENT. Haz, wasn't June Carter's cameo wonderful? I have wished we could all watch it and discuss Duvall's character because it's so complex.
The Quiet Man is wonderful. One of the top ten movie kisses of all time.
rh, movies with Hugh Grant you may like:
About a Boy
Bridget Jones' Diary
A Beautiful Mind
The Magnificent Seven.
Ditto Troop.
North By Northwest.
Prisoner Of Zenda (Colman)
Since I usually rely on Trooper for movie and TV evaluations, I'll step out of line a moment here:
PULP FICTION made me laugh from start to finish...very few can do that, even if I wait to watch them until they make it to "On Demand" services. But then, I do have a sick sense of humor...
Which is why I usually get a kick out of Trooper's picks :-)
I am sure there are really good movies with redeeming values (including the Magnificent Seven, from a soldier's point of view of values), perhaps in perpetuity, out there...I just don't watch many anymore and when I do it is usually due to insomnia in the wee hours. Haven't been in a "theater" in years, maybe decades, and even back then I usually opted for live theater on stage rather than film. My first date with Judi was to see "Jesus Christ, Superstar" on stage ... nearly 10 years late in a re-dux road trip version. It was great.
Maybe I need to get back to the future...and attend more live theater sooner than later. I like it because it "grabs you", musical or drama, ...such as "Glen Gary Glenn Ross" (sic?) could if ever done on stage near me.
The Sand Pebbles -- the view from the engine room and so much more.
The Hustler -- one of the few American films about an artist (with a pool cue) that is not sentimental mush. And one of the greatest depictions of Mephistopheles (by Mr. George Scott) of all time.
Easy Rider -- who says you have to agree with a film's viewpoint to recognize its greatness?
For me O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a near perfect movie, but I can't help but be aware that it doesn't make the top 5 among Coen Aficionados. Interesting that a general choice is so different from a focussed choice.
Love Spirited Away and I have yet to find it on Netflix streaming. (Although I first saw it on Netflix disc.)
Anyone else increasingly disappointed with Netflix availability?
Aridog, I, too, howled with laughter all through Pulp Fiction.
What about Some Like it Hot?
A Bronx Tale.
Best Mafia movie to show you what the life was like in the heyday of the Mob in the 1950's and 1960's.
Master and Commander
The Big Lebowski
Better Question, What movie do you watch at least once a year every year? Or sit through every time it you come across it on television?
I watch Ben Hur every Easter,I bought the blu-ray to skip the commercials. The yearly broadcast attests to it's popularity. DeMille knows entertainment.
One Two Three
North by Northwest
Frankenstein/ Bride of Frankenstein
The Three Musketeers/4 Musketeers (Richard Lester), every other Thanksgiving weekend
I rotate it with The 3 Musketeers with Gene Kelly. I just bought The Return of the Musketeers dvd,it was Lester's last movie. I had to buy it from Amazon Germany.
Singing in the Rain
The Quiet Man around St Patrick's Day
Scrooge with Alistair Sims, every Christmas Eve
Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers, every Christmas .
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Sunset Boulevard.
Bedazzled (1967)
I'll stop and wacth any Ray Harryhausen film.
Almost any Peter Sellers movie, every one of the Pink Panthers.
All the Sean Connery's 007s.
Bull Durham
Amp, I will watch some movies through when I come across them on tv, but I can only think of Casino right now. Oh, and Coal Miner's Daughter.
Deep Throat.
I'm just kidding. Gotta say, deborah with The Big Lebowski was a great movie.
AND! ampersand with Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers, every Christmas, is something that I do.
I thought we were confined to the list. I'll just riff on other people's picks. Haz, like myself, really likes Robert DuVall. He grew up listening to those evangelical preachers and always wanted to make a flick about one. He used his own money and parlayed a lot of the locations and actors w/ Billy Bob who was making Sling Blade, another superb movie.
If you love dialogue, like I do, you love Coen and Tarantino flicks. Even their less than good flicks have superb dialogue.
ricpic has some very good, classic, flicks that often get overlooked. ricpic, I can still hear and feel the great George C. Scott saying, "YOU OWE ME MONEY!!"
Finally, I miss blake on posts like this, and other times. He taught me stuff about flicks and turned me onto some great ones.
Deep Throat.
R-rated "Lovelace" with Amanda Seyfried was well done.
Better Question, What movie do you watch at least once a year every year? Or sit through every time it you come across it on television?
Were it not for its underserved romance subplot, "The Caine Mutiny" would be perfection. "Children of the Damned" also always ensnares me when it's on TV (or TCM to be wistfully precise).
One of my favorites is the little kid who sees dead Republican establishment types. And every time the color red appears onscreen the kid sees another dead Republican establishment type, like red is a symbol for get ready for another dead Republican establishment type.
And my other favorite film is the one where the little girl adopts a gaggle of Republican establishment types and raises them and realizes they must fly south and go home and face the wrath of their constituencies so her dad builds a motorized hang glider starting a whole new industry of those things and also taught Republican establishment types how to fly away home and reestablish migration routes for endangered species of Republican establishment types. And the girl has an acting range of
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A remarkable range for a child. And she was ROBBED at the academy awards.
I meant to write The Ten Commandments every Easter. I only watch the Chariot race and the death of Messala in Ben Hur.
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