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I need to see The Third Man, it's probably very great and kind of European. I saw: Brief Encounter not too long ago. It was beautiful. |
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The Third Man features a supporting role for Trevor Howard, lead actor in Brief Encounter, you'll be pleased to know. |
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excellent news |
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Directed by the great Carol Reed, written by the great Graham Greene, starring the great Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and great American actor Joseph Cotten, and featuring a hauntingly awesome zither soundtrack -- what could be better? |
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dr.strangelove is one of my top films at the moment. watched it 3 times in the space of a few months and it just gets better and better. peter sellers' acting is flawless and the whole paranoia surrounding communism and 'the bomb' is hilariously accurate. at the opposite end of the scale, i watched armageddon at the weekend. i've never laughed so much at such a shit film in my life, and how many american flags can they possibly put into one film?! i did feel slightly homocidal at the end. [point/star based ratings are so crass.] |
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wasn't some crappy remake recently done of Brief Encounter? did you see hobson's choice? |
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Aww c'mon Jack - it's just a little harmless fun :P Btw, I think Dr Strangelove probably represents the zenith of Sellar's career... although Being There features a great performance: I'm glad he managed to squeeze in one last great acting gig before he died. |
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I've seen the original Hobson's Choice (don't know if you're referring to a new version or not). Good film, been years since I watched it, though - was it a David Lean film? |
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yeah it was. not seen the new one. |
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ah yes, third man is definitely a film i need to see, and soon! |
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hah, imdb tells us that Lean made his in 1954 so it's the third 'Hobson's Choice' listed. one was made in 1920 and another in '31. |
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Yeah I'm sure I have.. you know what i'm gonna list the first 20 movies that come to my head that i've seen and that'll be top 20. 1 back to the future 2 back to he future 2 3 back to the future 3 4 ghostbusters 5 ghostbusters 2 6 terminator 7 terminator 2 8 the abyss 9 eternal sunshine of blablabla 10 citizen kane 11 2001: a space odiseey 12 12 monkeys 13 fight club 14 seven 15 memento 16 zoolander 17 happy gilmore 18 monty python and the holy grail 19 monty pyton and the meaning of life 20 nighwatch there! although i cheated, i didn't put movies that came to my mind that i thought sucked. |
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lord of the rings? |
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01:: The Godfather *** :: 02:: The Shawshank Redemption **** :: 03:: The Godfather: Part II *** :: 04:: The Return Of The King ** :: 05:: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly *** :: 06:: Casablanca HAVEN'T SEEN :: 07:: Schindler's List ***** :: 08:: Pulp Fiction ***** :: 09:: The Empire Strikes Back **** :: 10:: Seven Samurai *** :: 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest *** :: 12:: Star Wars *** :: 13:: Rear Window ***** :: 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring *** :: 15:: 12 Angry Men not seen :: 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark *** :: 17:: The Usual Suspects *** :: 18:: City Of God ***:: 19:: Dr Strangelove ***** :: 20:: Goodfellas *** :: |
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26. 8.6 Memento (2000) 3/5 27. 8.5 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 4/5 28. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 4/5 29. 8.5 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dunno 30. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950) dunno 31. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 1/5 32. 8.5 Fight Club (1999) 4/5 33. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 5/5 34. 8.5 The Matrix (1999) 5/5 35. 8.4 Vertigo (1958) 5/5 36. 8.4 Apocalypse Now (1979) 5/5 37. 8.4 Taxi Driver (1976) dunno 38. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 5/5 39. 8.4 Se7en (1995) 4/5 40. 8.4 Léon (1994) 5/5 41. 8.4 Paths of Glory (1957) dunno 42. 8.4 Chinatown (1974) dunno 43. 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) dunno 44. 8.4 American History X (1998) 3/5 45. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) dunno 46. 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004) 4/5 47. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 3/5 48. 8.3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 5/5 49. 8.3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) dunno 50. 8.3 M (1931)dunno |
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Here is the ones I have seen. Sorry, I hate star wars. 02:: The Shawshank Redemption 3/5 04:: The Return Of The King 4/5 07:: Schindler's List 3/5 08:: Pulp Fiction 3/5 09:: The Empire Strikes Back 1/5 10:: Seven Samurai 4/5 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 4/5 12:: Star Wars 1/5 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring 4/5 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark 3/5 18:: City Of God 5/5 19:: Dr Strangelove 5/5 20:: Goodfellas 3/5 |
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01:: The Godfather - 4/5 02:: The Shawshank Redemption - 4/5 03:: The Godfather: Part II - 4/5 04:: The Return Of The King - 4/5 05:: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly - N/S 06:: Casablanca - N/S 07:: Schindler's List - 5/5 08:: Pulp Fiction 5/5 09:: The Empire Strikes Back 4/5 10:: Seven Samurai - N/S 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest N/S (can't remember it properly) 12:: Star Wars - 4/5 13:: Rear Window - N/S 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring 4/5 15:: 12 Angry Men - N/S 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark N/S 17:: The Usual Suspects 5/5 18:: City Of God 5/5 19:: Dr Strangelove 4/5 20:: Goodfellas N/S |
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Rather than a list of stars that no one will read, I thought comments would be more useful. 01:: The Godfather Not seen it, so can't comment. 02:: The Shawshank Redemption Tremendously overrated. Animal Factory is ten times better and a great deal more realistic. 03:: The Godfather: Part II Not seen it, so can't comment. 04:: The Return Of The King Good film, but standard fantasy fare done well. Hardly "Great Cinema" and hardly desrving of 4th best film of all time. 05:: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Not seen it, so can't comment. 06:: Casablanca Ages since I saw it and I can hardly remember it, so can't really comment. 07:: Schindler's List Pretty good. 08:: Pulp Fiction Good. 09:: The Empire Strikes Back Great film. 10:: Seven Samurai Not seen it, so can't comment. 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Very good. An interesting subject matter worthy of discussion. Very well executed and no bad acting in it at all. 12:: Star Wars Good film, but hardly deserving of 12th place. 13:: Rear Window Not seen it, so can't comment. 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring Good film, but standard fantasy fare done well. Hardly "Great Cinema" and hardly desrving of 14th best film of all time. 15:: 12 Angry Men Not seen it, so can't comment. 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark Good action film. Pretty good all round. 17:: The Usual Suspects Pretty Good, but Spacey does his only character, as per usual. 18:: City Of God Quality. Probably deserves to be a few places higher. 19:: Dr Strangelove Real quality. Definately deserves to be several places higher. 20:: Goodfellas Good, but the characters are a bit too extreme to be really believeable, it almost seems like mild melodrama. I'm quite suprised that for someone who considers himself to be a film lover (even if I'm no knowledgeable buff) hasn't seen a lot of these. As an aside, thank fuck there was no entry for the tedious and dated, but forever praised, Citizen Kane. |
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01:: The Godfather - I love it! 02:: The Shawshank Redemption - It's absolutely a good movie, but not #02 material. 03:: The Godfather: Part II - It kind of just ties in with #1 04:: The Return Of The King - Boring 05:: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly - Definitely one of the most awesome films of all time! 06:: Casablanca - It's great! That guy who has the leading role, I can never remember his name, is awesome almost no matter what he does! 07:: Schindler's List - Quite well-made and sort of.. eh.. "powerful." I was actually moved slightly by that thing towards the end, but I can't really say that that has anything to do with the film itself.. it was rather that thing at the end. Still a good movie, though. 08:: Pulp Fiction - It's kind of hard not to like it, but it also gets tiresome in a way.. everyone's referring to it and everyone knows about it and no-one says anything new about it. It got so big it drowned in itself. In other words, it was and is a good movie, but there are negative things attached to it now. 09:: The Empire Strikes Back - I can't really tell the star wars films apart, and definitely not based on just its title. I like the movies, but mostly as a whole rather than as individual movies. 10:: Seven Samurai - AWESOME! I love Toshiru Mifunes character! 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - It must've been really boring 'cause I can't even remember a vague outline of what happened. 12:: Star Wars - The whole thing? I guess it ties in with the empire strikes back. 13:: Rear Window - Haven't seen, I think. What's it about? 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring - Ok. 15:: 12 Angry Men - Haven't seen. 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark - I regret never having seen any of the indiana jones movies. I believe they're truly entertaining, but I haven't seen any yet. 17:: The Usual Suspects - I think I've seen this, but I don't know... 18:: City Of God - This is great! 19:: Dr Strangelove - True awesomeness! 20:: Goodfellas - It doesn't stand out in my memory in any |
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Rear Window stars Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly, the film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Jimmy Stewart is a recuperating magazine photographer, stuck in a cast in an apartment overlooking an internal square--flanked by other apartment blocks. Grace Kelly plays his girlfriend. He becomes quite voyeuristic about his neighbours, and comes to suspect a young Raymond Burr of murdering his (Burr's) wife. It was spoofed in The Simpsons -- the episode where the family get a pool and Bart breaks his leg, and suspects Flanders of murdering his (Flanderses) wife. |
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Oh, I have seen that after all: I think it's very good and I really enjoyed it. |
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shawshank: 5 |
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oh right, I've seen it, or rather maybe only most of it, and not all. Its title, translated to norwegian and back to english, as the "official" translation that the movie company decided on would be "Window facing the back yard." |
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01:: The Godfather 5/5 02:: The Shawshank Redemption NOT SEEN 03:: The Godfather: Part II 4/5 04:: The Return Of The King 0/5 05:: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly 5/5 06:: Casablanca 4/5 07:: Schindler's List NOT SEEN 08:: Pulp Fiction 2/5 09:: The Empire Strikes Back 0/5 10:: Seven Samurai 5/5 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest NOT SEEN 12:: Star Wars 0/5 13:: Rear Window NOT SEEN 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring 0/5 15:: 12 Angry Men NOT SEEN 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1/5 17:: The Usual Suspects 2/5 18:: City Of God 3/5 19:: Dr Strangelove 4/5 20:: Goodfellas NOT SEEN |
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01:: The Godfather : 3.5/5 VASTLY Overrated 02:: The Shawshank Redemption : 4/5 but VASTLY Overrated 03:: The Godfather: Part II : 4/5 but Also VASTLY Overrated 04:: The Return Of The King 4/5 : but Overrated 05:: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly : 5/5 06:: Casablanca HAVEN'T SEEN : 07:: Schindler's List : 3.5/5 Overrated 08:: Pulp Fiction : 3.5/5 Slightly Overrated 09:: The Empire Strikes Back : 3.5/5 Definitely Overrated 10:: Seven Samurai : 5/5 11:: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest : Haven't seen + Don't care to see 12:: Star Wars : 4/5 13:: Rear Window : 4/5 14:: The Fellowship Of The Ring : 4/5 15:: 12 Angry Men : Haven't Seen 16:: Raiders Of The Lost Ark : 5/5 17:: The Usual Suspects : 2.5/5 Overrated Wank 18:: City Of God : HAVEN'T SEEN 19:: Dr Strangelove : 5/5 VASTLY Underrated 20:: Goodfellas : 3.5/5 |
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If any film here is underrated, it's probably... 12 Angry Men, which... none of us have seen, apparently. |
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I believe you'll find that I've rated it 4½ stars! |
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don't get me wrong, i like the LOTR movies but I don't think they belong in the top 20 of all time. i certainly don't think Shawshank Redemption deserves a number two spot. While we're looking here, where's A Clockwork Orange? I'd expect at least two Kubrick films here. Where's Citizen Kane? Where's BRAZIL, damn it? What benevolent omnipotent mind at IMDB compiled this list? |
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Several thousand idiots compiled this list (so it would appear). |
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HUMPHREY BOGART, and yes he's great. Coincidentally I just watched Sabrina, and it was pretty awesome. There's an incredibly cynical quasi-suicide scene in it, very surprising for a 1954 film. |
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Old films are a lot more adventurous than a lot of the modern generation give them credit for: normally in a much more subtle way as befits a time not yet poisoned by mass crass commercialism and sophisticated brainwashing techniques etc etc etc (Continues on Page 12). |
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You're right and I know that. I should know better but I can't help being surprised like an idiot when an old film doesn't conform to narrow stereotypes. However, I'm not sure which I like better: mindless exploitation or having fun within and with the boundaries of the Hays code? |
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It was also a heavy influence on Brian de Palma's tongue in cheek voyeuristic schlocker "Body Double" which is one of my top 20 films and has a great soundtrack by Pino Donaggio. |
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Well I think restriction breeds creativity. Doggers: I don't think I've seen Body Double, but I know De Palma is accused of being a Hitchcock rip-off artist: sounds like maybe he was having a little fun with that reputation? |
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Body Double is super. People who knock it because it's kitsch or ridiculous don't know a thing about Brian De Palma or cinema as a whole. Yay. |
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Awesome! I'm going to revert to my "Body Double" avatar in recognition of OUR recognition of a great film. |
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yeah! that's it! I love his style! The Maltese Falcon is another classic with him in it! what's body double about? I may have seen it... |
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It's a biopic of Bruce Lee, wherein it's revealed that "the dragon" actually didn't do his own martial arts; in actuality, a young Steven Seagal was his... Body Double. |
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