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Thedudeabides



Joined: 15 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

R-Seoul wrote:
10. Forrest Hump
9. Pulp Friction
8. Romancing the Bone
7. Snow White and the Seven Sailors
6. Saving Ryan's Privates
5. Buffy the Vampire Layer
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Dildoes
3. Rambone
2. Monty's Python and the Holey Girl
1. E-Three: The Extra Testicle


No room on that list for Schindlers Fist?
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Newbie



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

friendoken wrote:
The funniest movie ever made; Mississippi Burning


Was that a bad attempt at humour, or good attempt at making fun of the way Koreans use the words fun/funny/good.
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KOREAN_MAN



Joined: 01 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Godfather series
The Alien series
Glengarry Glen Ross
A Perfect World
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Cast Away
The English Patient
Love Story
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ForceOne



Joined: 25 Aug 2005

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A quick 20, in no order (except for #1)

Snatch
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Trainspotting
Sexy Beast
Training Day
Goodfellas
Casino
Usual Suspects
Rember the Titans
Departed
Blood Diamond
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
Reservoir Dogs
Dumb and Dumber
American Beauty
Fade to Black
Goonies
Shawshank Redemption
City of God
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Newbie



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ForceOne wrote:
A quick 20, in no order (except for #1)

Snatch
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Trainspotting
Sexy Beast
Training Day
Goodfellas
Casino
Usual Suspects
Rember the Titans
Departed
Blood Diamond
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
Reservoir Dogs
Dumb and Dumber
American Beauty
Fade to Black
Goonies
Shawshank Redemption
City of God


Some good movies there, but man oh man did I hate "There Will Be Blood." Worst movie I've seen since Clueless.
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gypsyfish



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chinatown
The Conversation
Raging Bull
Out of the Past
The Princess Bride
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
The Maltese Falcon
Mountains of the Moon
Young Frankenstein
Casablanca
High Noon
The Searchers
Dead Again
Gunga Din
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endo



Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Willow

(one of my favorite movies as a kid)


Big Trouble in Little China

(just pure awsomeness on so many level especially pertaining to Jack Burton)


Shogun Assassin

(the coolest king-fu movie ever made)



Inside Man

(good Spike Lee film with an interesting twist)



The Departed

(great plot, great actors!)



Apocalyptco

(left me on the edge of my seat for the entire movie)



Lawrence of Arabia

(just an epic of a movie)



Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

(visually stunning movie)



Gangs of New York

(Daniel Day Lewis at perhaps his best)



No Country for Old Men

(won the Academy award for a good reason)




The Great Escape

(perhaps my favorite film of all time)




Spy Game and Munich

(good espionage flicks
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tfunk



Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

spliff wrote:
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* Cult Fiction (2005)
* Double Dare (2005)
* The Muppets: Wizard Of Oz (2005)
* Words In Progress (2004)

ETC.


Awesome; I haven't seen a lot of those. I hope we have similar taste in movies.
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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These are all movies that had a profound effect on me when i first saw them.

Rear Window
Ringu
Rififi
Le Cercle Le Rouge
Fargo
Miller's Crossing(heavily indebted to LeCercle)
There will be Blood
No Country..

As you can tell, the coens are my fave directors.
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semi-fly



Joined: 07 Apr 2008

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No real order:

1. The Valet (French)
2. Clue
3. Ghostbuster (didn't care much for the others)
4. Real Genius
5. The Ten Commandments (I'm a little strange)
6. The Kid / The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin films)
8. The Goonies
9. Run Lola Run (German)
10. Stand By Me
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passport220



Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

spliff wrote:
* Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
Looks interesting, where did you find it?
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greedy_bones



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: not quite sure anymore

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The man with no name series

Casablanca

The treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Warriors

Hard Times

Duck Soup

The big Lebowski

The wild ones

Star Wars 4,5,6

Indiana Jones 1,2,3

The Muppet Movie

Stroszek

Fitzcarraldo

Django
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Rteacher



Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll throw in stuff no one's mentioned that I liked -

Blazing Saddles (with the "n" word left in ... )

Defending Your Life (neat screenplay and performances by Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, and Rip Torn...)

Mr. Holland's Opus (inspirational movie for teachers - good acting by Richard Dreyfuss)

Crimes and Misdemeanors, New York Stories, Bullets over Broadway, Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)

Airplane (Kareem Abdul Jabbar at the top of his game ...)

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick - Peter Sellers)

Groundhog Day (Bill Murray and clever script)

E.T. - the Extraterestrial (based on true story ...)

L.A. Confidential (Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger)

A Hard Day's Night (Be-AT-les)

The Producers (1968 Mel Brooks directed version, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder)

Kiss Me Kate (classic songs, Shakespeare, and spanking ...)

The Apartment (Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine)

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (Steve Martin, John Candy great holiday comedy)

Say Anything (John - and Joan - Cusak)

Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins, Jody Foster cannibal classic)

School of Rock - (Jack Black at his best plus natural student performances ...)

Sound of Music (Julie Andrews' favorite songs - and things - while dodging Nazis...)

West Side Story (classic stage play and Natalie Wood)

Woodstock (the mother of all music festivals - I was right near the stage for most of it ...)
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blade



Joined: 30 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sex y lucia, Y tu mam� tambi�n, magnolia, chasing Amy, innocent voices, Volver, The cat returns, My neighbor totoro, Spirited Away,Howl's Moving Castle, Tales from Earthsea,Kiki's Delivery Service, Am�lie, V for Vendetta, apocalypto, Babel, Three Kings, Pan's Labyrinth (laberinto del fauno), Half Nelson, Lord of the rings, Blood Diamond, The Departed, Blade, Saw, Star Wars IV, V, VI, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Little Miss Sunshine, Short Bus, Clerks I and II, From dusk till dawn, Iron Man.
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