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Old 03-17-2009, 12:01 PM
 
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In your opinion, what are the best of any era, comedies, dramas, horror, of any genre, ever made?

1. In the Heat of the Night ... Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
2. On the Waterfront ... Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb
3. Raging Bull ... Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
4. The Godfather ... Brando, Pacino, Caan, Cazale
5. The Godfather II ... Brando, Pacino, DeNiro, Cazale
6. Bugsy ... Warren Beatty, Harvey Keitel, Annette Bening
7. American Beauty ... Kevin Spacey, Bening, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper
8. Dog Day Afternoon ... Pacino, Cazale, Charles Durning
9. Unforgiven ... Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
10. The Graduate ... Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

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Old 03-17-2009, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Oxford, England
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I have too many favourite movies to choose but these would definitely make the list :

Cyrano de Bergerac
The Shawshank Redemption
Citizen Kane
To Kill a Mockingbird
Local Hero
Heartbeat Detector
Ghandi
Joyeux Noel
Cry Freedom
Das Boot

So many others I could add to the list though, as different films suit different moods.
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Arlington Virginia
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Best Baseball film: The Natural


YouTube - Robert Redford in the Natural - Batting Practice "...Not bad kid..."
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:43 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Best Baseball film: Field of Dreams
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:45 PM
 
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"Bang the Drum Slowly" ain't bad either.
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Wherever women are
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In your opinion, what are the best of any era, comedies, dramas, horror, of any genre, ever made?

1. In the Heat of the Night ... Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
2. On the Waterfront ... Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb
3. Raging Bull ... Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
4. The Godfather ... Brando, Pacino, Caan, Cazale
5. The Godfather II ... Brando, Pacino, DeNiro, Cazale
6. Bugsy ... Warren Beatty, Harvey Keitel, Annette Bening
7. American Beauty ... Kevin Spacey, Bening, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper
8. Dog Day Afternoon ... Pacino, Cazale, Charles Durning
9. Unforgiven ... Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
10. The Graduate ... Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
You seriously sat through the painfully boring wedding sequences in Godfather 1?
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:49 PM
 
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You seriously sat through the painfully boring wedding sequences in Godfather 1?
Yeah, it was long; not as bad as the one in Deer Hunter though. Also, the stuff going on in the Don's office (the funeral director, Johnny Fontaine, plus what James Caan was up to broke it up a little. Still a great movie imo. What are your ten? Five?
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Old 03-17-2009, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Wherever women are
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Yeah, it was long; not as bad as the one in Deer Hunter though. Also, the stuff going on in the Don's office (the funeral director, Johnny Fontaine, plus what James Caan was up to broke it up a little. Still a great movie imo. What are your ten? Five?
Ok I'm not gonna sound like a movie-a$$ like Roger Ebert and pick the artistic wonderfuls. I'm gonna do some me-likes.

These are the movies, in no particular, I have seen over and over, and still do, I can't get enough of the dialogues and the way the scenes have been filmed, in total, everything:

Maverick
Gladiator
A good year
Ben Hur
Hot Fuzz
Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy
Master and Commander: Far side of the worl
Buster Keaton: The general (no dialogue though)
Hidalgo
Alexander (2004) [This is a must for the history geek, though Farrell sucked]
Quills
Les Miserables
1492: Conquest of Paradise

That's all I can think of. I am sure there are more. Will add when I can recall.
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Old 03-17-2009, 02:50 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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First two that come to mind....

The Outlaw Josey Whales
and
Gone With the Wind
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