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| "Fight Club;" Visa and Mastercard explodes. Pixies sing. |
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| "Star Wars;" The Death Star blows up. Our Heroes win big honkin' 70's medallions. |
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7% |
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| "A Clockwork Orange;" Little Alex smiles and eats eggy-weggs. |
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7% |
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| "Wizard of Oz;" Dorothy doesn't admit it was only a concussion. |
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7% |
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| "Ichi the Killer;" Asano gets a chopstick in his ear. Ichi gets hung. |
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| "Raiders of the Lost Ark;" Uncle Sam gets the Ark. Indy wears a suit. |
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7% |
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| "Planet of the Apes;" Heston says 'you bastaaaaaaaaaaards." |
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32% |
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| "Schindler's List;" Schindler cries. |
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3% |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| ... we can't quite hear that one line he whispers in her ear |
That was a great moment. Made me go 'wow' the way action filmgoers react to big explosions and crashes.
I still think about that. |
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swetepete

Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Oh yeah, I forgot--"the Italian Job," the original '60s version, not that awful Mark Wahlberg vehicle. Definitely worth a download.
And on that note...how the hell could I forget "Dr. Strangelove (or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)?"
I guess I'm...
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| Obviously not a fan of movies--how could you omit "Chinatown"? |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Has anyone out there seen a movie starring Christopher Reeves, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer called "Somewhere in Time"?
It's an old-fashioned romantic movie with a supernatural twist. It had an ending that made the hairs on my neck stand up. It was jarring, did not see it coming at all, and was like a punch to the gut. |
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skinhead

Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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I liked the way Travis did for the nasties in Taxi Driver.
Love, mrs skinny |
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swetepete

Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg
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| Hey Skinhead, what's your hanja/kanji say? |
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skinhead

Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| Tai Chi Chuan |
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Hanson

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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
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I'd go with "The Music Box" - I kept going back and forth as to whether the old Nazi Germany dude was guilty or not. Great ending, but don't want to spoil it, cuz it seems not many people have seen it.
And how about "The Jagged Edge"? Great ending! |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: |
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The ending to The Killing Fields with John Lennon's Imagine playing in the background. The only time I wept during a movie. Very powerful since it was a true story.
The actor actually survived the Cambodian killing fields, yet was gunned down years later in LA. |
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skinhead

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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| The be all and end all for me was Birdy, with Nick Cage and Matt Modine. |
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twg

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:42 am Post subject: |
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The gawdammed Rocky of talking animal movies |
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Nowhere Man

Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:39 am Post subject: ... |
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La Jettee (original French b/w still-frame version of 12 Monkeys)
Angel Heart
The Shining
Memento
The Classic Romantic ones:
The Graduate
Casablance
and no one's mentioned the original zinger:
Citizen Kane (although I hate this movie; probably because someone gave away the ending before I saw it) |
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The Cube
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I think that "No Way Out" with Kevin Cosner - the apparently patriotic "good guy" - seen conversing in Russian to his comrades, had as good a surprise ending as any film I've seen ...
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
| I think that "No Way Out" with Kevin Costco - the apparently patriotic "good guy" - seen conversing in Russian to his comrades, had as good a surprise ending as any film I've seen ... |
Either you're craving western food way too much, or that was a shamless plug. |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well, he probably learned to act at Costco!  |
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