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Movies; Another random thread for no reason!
Topic Started: Nov 9 2008, 12:04 AM (639 Views)
Dominik
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Well, we haven't had one of these random "what do you like" threads for a few weeks so I thought I'd start one on movies since we have a music one. The topic is:

List some of your favorite films:

I'll go first,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars Episode VI (yes I'm a nerd, get over it)
Silence of the Lambs
Terminator II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption
Planet of the Apes (Original of course)
Back to the Future
Forrest Gump

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Derek Apollyon
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some of mine:

Death of a President
The 11th Hour
The Protector
Appleseed
Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
Vexille
Windtalkers
Lord of War
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Zanalan
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A few of my choices,

Casablanca
The Lion in Winter
Arsenic and Old Lace
Road Warrior
Mad Max (not Thunderdome)
Platoon
Howard the Duck (it's so bad it is good)
Zorro, the Gay Blade
Babe
The Right Stuff
Psycho (the original)
The Birds

I will echo Raiders, Back to the Future and Gump
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Zblewski
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Airplane! and Airplane! II
anything by Michael Moore
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Forrest Gump
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edwardedison
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Movies:

Back to the Future
Forrest Gump
Enemy of the state
Truman show

Also LIKE THESE TV shows:
Friends,
Prison break
How I met your mother,
Office,
My name is Earl
Californication
Big bang theory
4400
Futurama,
Simpsons
American dad
South park
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Dominik
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Of those TV shows that I know, I generally like, especially Futurama (I was just watching the pilot on TV, probably the best episode), Simpsons and South Park. I also grew quite fond of the show "Arrested Development", but they don't show that anymore.
We also seem to have a consensus that Forrest Gump is a pretty damn good movie.
Edited by Dominik, Nov 13 2008, 07:11 PM.
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Marderofski
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I agree with Dominik in every way, and I add...

WARING: TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER PLAYED SEGA GENESIS, THERE MAY BE NOSTALGIC COTENT AHEAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Y--_aY70
Edited by Marderofski, Nov 17 2008, 03:48 PM.
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Mine:

Land of The Dead
The Man With The Golden Gun(old james bond movie, at the end bond fights a midget)
Dawn of The Dead
Hot Fuzz
Black Hawk Down
Predator(1,2,3)
Bad Boys(1,2)
AVP(haven't seen the recent one)

I can probably name much much more but don't feel like looking through my movie collection.
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Marderofski
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I was suprised how good the first AVP was, considering it's based on a video game.
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Mine:

The Terminator
The Love Guru
Star Wars Episode IV
The Bourne Identity
Batman Begins
James Bond 007: Live and Let Die
Austin Powers
The King (A youtube film)
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I think I'll go movie-watching at either Dominik's, or Zanalan's. Although I'm not really a big fan of the later Star Wars movies (Star Wars: The Money-Hungry Egotist Attacks Theaters Everywhere part 3)
Please put me down as the first party member who found Forrest Gump just too saccharine.

Show me adventure movies, modestly intelligent end-of-the-worlders, old film noir movies, an occassional western, and every once and awhile, something with a gladiator.

I don't "do" TV.



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Jay Bris
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Dominik
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I think we all feel the same way about the Star Wars prequels- but, putting it into perspective, they really weren't all that bad. Nowhere near the originals, but it could have been worse. The second half of Revenge of the Sith was actually almost on par with the OT.

I do see your point with Gump- them adding all the stuff with Jenny and Forrest's mother dying that wasn't in the book. But the funny parts are good and the idea of 1950s-1970s US through the eyes of an idiot was pretty fun.

TV isn't that bad- I barely watch it myself, but you must at least like the classics- Simpsons for example.
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Iron Eagle 1 & 2, Stealth, Sum of All fears, Hunt for red october, star wars(seen all except episode 3)
Favourite T.V. movies: The State Within(on Bravo) & H2O(starring Paul Gross; on cbc-missed the sequel(trojan horse) :( )
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Zanalan
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We have reached the downfall of modern society when the Simpsons are considered "classic" television!
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Dominik
Dec 27 2008, 07:01 PM
TV isn't that bad- I barely watch it myself, but you must at least like the classics- Simpsons for example.
I've watched one Simpsons episode from start to finish in my entire life.

Growing up, my sibs and I were only allowed to watch half an hour of TV show a day, down at Gramma's place - with us older kids having to acquiesce to the Barney needs of the younger ones. This does not instill a great love for TV. As we got older, we were permitted to watch such things as the discovery channel, but always had to "fit in" our TV time around a very early supper, my gramma's addiction to the Young and the Restless, and enforced play time in a basement room. (as well as homework, of course.) I watched far, far too many A and E detective shows during my teenage hood for "normal social development" as a result. Magnum PI, I hope one day to be able to forget you...

My unusual TV pattern in childhood has left me with little desire to watch TV shows. It's not that I think TV is necessarily dumb, or wasteful of energies or anything, it was just never really an enjoyable past=time in my "formative years," so when I want to goof off and enjoy myself, watching a TV show simply dosen't occur to me.

I do however, turn into a couch potato during the World Series. And I'll watch the odd hockey game. I am, after all, Canadian.
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"We have reached the downfall of modern society when the Simpsons are considered "classic" television!"

Well, maybe "classic" isn't the correct word, more like a "universal" show that is enjoyed by multiple demographics. What would you consider a classic TV show? The thing about TV is that different generations will consider different shows to be classic, because shows on television don't become "timeless" like movies do. They just go until it stops being profitable (or until the main cast quits, dies etc.), then it gets cancelled. Then future generations won't even hear about what you considered a "classic" when you were a kid.
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25Fulcrum
Dec 28 2008, 12:30 AM
Iron Eagle 1 & 2, Stealth, Sum of All fears, Hunt for red october, star wars(seen all except episode 3)
Favourite T.V. movies: The State Within(on Bravo) & H2O(starring Paul Gross; on cbc-missed the sequel(trojan horse) :( )
The Sum of All Fears is brilliant, I watched it last week.


Any zombie fans here?
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Nah, Zombies make me hungry. I love films where robots become evil though. :)

Oh, and I want to add KPAX to the list of films that I like, it's really insightful.

And Van Helsing was good too now that I think about it.
Edited by David Eastcorner, Dec 28 2008, 02:12 PM.
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David Eastcorner
Dec 28 2008, 02:11 PM
And Van Helsing was good too now that I think about it.
Please, no, I can't take any more Hugh Jackman...
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