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glauber wrote:
Will O'B wrote:How can you discuss the "Best Ever Movies" without the words "Billy Wilder"? The simple answer is that you can't.

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I had Gene Wilder! Twice!
Sorry, G, not quite the same :)

My favorite Billy Wilder picture is The Apartment with Jack Lemon and Shirley MacLaine. I'm also a big Jack Lemon fan -- he and Wilder worked well together.

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Skyward (Early Ron Howard film)
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Miracle on 34th Street
Man Without a Face
Waking Ned Devine
Roman Holiday
Cannonball Run
Mars Attacks
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Last year, Dale started a similar thread called The Undisputed Cimima.
You'll find five pages of all-time favorite movie titles there.
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CATEGORY:
War: Saving Private Ryan (Effects are fantastic)
Full Metal Jacket (Probably the closest thing to Marine Corp BC)

Comedy: Pee Wees Big Adventure
24 Hours (Eddy Murphy)
Holy Grail

Romance: Have no comment (Ask my wife)

Thriller: Six Sense
Keith

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blackhawk - thanks for mentioning "Black Robe." That is an excellent movie, and I don't know many people who have seen it.
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Not necessarily in this order:

Godfather II
Godfather I
Braveheart
1st 3 Starwars
Forbidden Planet
Rocky Horror
Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Highlander (1st one only)
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
Scarface
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a random list of some of my picks:

Wings of Desire
Tous les matin du Monde
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Piano
Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge
Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction
Swordfish
Baraka
Latcho Drom
Lord of the Rings - the trilogy
The Matrix - the trilogy
Michael Collins
The Commitments
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Time Bandits
A Fish Called Wanda
Apocalypse Now
Cry the Beloved Country (1995)
Hamlet (1996)
The Dead (1987)
Les Miserables (1998)
Wuthering Heights (1992)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars IV, V & VI
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Oops...

I forgot
the whole LOTR
Blues Brothers (original)
Starship Troopers
Holy Graille

Probably left out a few more but I really love all those.
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I went to the video rental just now to get a couple of movies for the next few days. Since I haven't seen the Matrix trilogy yet, I picked up The Matrix.

In the descriptive text on the jacket was this ...

"Reality: That world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us. Whoa."

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dapple wrote:blackhawk - thanks for mentioning "Black Robe." That is an excellent movie, and I don't know many people who have seen it.
Is that the movie about the French missionaries who lived with the Algonquin tribes?

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Will O'B wrote:
dapple wrote:blackhawk - thanks for mentioning "Black Robe." That is an excellent movie, and I don't know many people who have seen it.
Is that the movie about the French missionaries who lived with the Algonquin tribes?

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Yes, it is. It's a very realistic portrayal of that time period and place, with great attention to detail. I did my list, got off line and thought so much of that movie that I got back on line to amend my list just to include that one.
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• The Gods Must Be Crazy

Might be others I should add to the list, but certainly not the sequels to this film.
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Walden wrote:• The Gods Must Be Crazy
Oh yeah, that's one of the best! It puts me on the floor every time.

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I'm way to easy. I usually like the last movie I saw if it was at least half-way good. I've seen most of the movies listed and loved them. A few that haven't come up yet

Y tu mamá también

Also, I forget the title, but vampires v werewolves in Paris a few yrs ago. very stylied fun,

Hellboy was fun too.
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Some of my very favorites, in no certain order:

The Secret of Roan Inish
The Girl in White
Aliens
The Keep
Independance Day
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Toy Story

and many others.

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