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brumdog44 May 19 2008, 04:21 PM Post #1
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I know we had discussed this before, but I got to thinking lately. When I start thinking, I have to stop everything because I don't know when it will start again.

Anyway, here are my top ten in no particular order:

1. Matchstick Men

2. Lord of War

3. Bladerunner

4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

5. The Departed

6. The Usual Suspects

7. Last King of Scotland

8. Memento

9. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

10. Unbreakable

11. Goodfellas

12. Snatch

Okay, I went over. Might remove Matchstick Men, but it's still a hell of a movie. It's a story about Nicholas Cage, who's an obsessive-compulsive con man. Maybe take out Snatch, since Lock, Stock, etc. is basically the same movie...but both are great.

Honorable mention: Ladykillers; very underrated dark comedy starring Tom Hanks.

12 Monkeys.
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...damn brum, are you a nic cage fan?...awesome to see that there's someone else who appreciates unbreakable...i'm excited as hell about shyamalan's 'the happening' this summer...anyway here are mine...(also in no particular order)...

shawshank redemption - (this will be very hard to top as my alltime favorite)
seven
pulp fiction
memento
following - (if you like memento check this out, it's chris nolan's first film)
fargo
hoosiers
reservoir dogs
die hard
lethal weapon
predator
robocop
dumb and dumber
boogie nights
heat
scream
bound - (the wachowski brother's first movie)
say anything
pretty woman - (along with say anything they, imo, are the two romantic comedies that all others are measured against)

...damn i could go on and on...
"The possibilities of basketball as seen here were a revelation to me. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana."
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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops. Anyone else see this one?
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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops. Anyone else see this one?

Great movie. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are probably my two favorite actors. The bad guy (name escapes me right now) was brilliant.
“He’s always been a guy — maybe to a fault — he would always try to do what I said. That seems like something simple in coaching, but those are the guys I hang my hat on. We’ve had some guys in our program, we had a couple guys that felt I had a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. And they were right — I do have a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. I like guys that go to class, that are academic All-Americans, that come early, that stay late, that love the game of basketball. I am biased towards those guys. And I’m biased towards Rob Hummel. But I’m also biased towards their habits, their work ethic, and how they carry themselves."

"I’d take him to the ends of the earth — I’d want him playing for me.” - Bo Ryan on Robbie Hummel

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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops. Anyone else see this one?

...just saw it about a month ago and i agree...definitely one of the best westerns i've ever seen... :cheers:
"The possibilities of basketball as seen here were a revelation to me. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana."
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The bad guy (name escapes me right now) was brilliant. [/QUOTE]
...are you thinking of ben foster...six feet under, alpha dog, 30 days of night?...
"The possibilities of basketball as seen here were a revelation to me. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana."
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The bad guy (name escapes me right now) was brilliant.

...are you thinking of ben foster...six feet under, alpha dog, 30 days of night?... [/QUOTE]
Yes sir, he was absolutely brilliant I thought. I just loved the way he talked and moved about during the movie. Him plus Crowe and Bale made the whole movie.

I'll try and throw together a top 10 sometime, I really haven't watched enough movies lately to make it worth while though. It'll be Tom Hanks, Christian Bale, and Russell Crowe dominated though.
“He’s always been a guy — maybe to a fault — he would always try to do what I said. That seems like something simple in coaching, but those are the guys I hang my hat on. We’ve had some guys in our program, we had a couple guys that felt I had a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. And they were right — I do have a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. I like guys that go to class, that are academic All-Americans, that come early, that stay late, that love the game of basketball. I am biased towards those guys. And I’m biased towards Rob Hummel. But I’m also biased towards their habits, their work ethic, and how they carry themselves."

"I’d take him to the ends of the earth — I’d want him playing for me.” - Bo Ryan on Robbie Hummel

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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops.  Anyone else see this one?

Great movie. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are probably my two favorite actors. The bad guy (name escapes me right now) was brilliant.

Christian Bale is slowly becoming one of my favs. He is just flat out fun to watch on the screen.
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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops.  Anyone else see this one?

...just saw it about a month ago and i agree...definitely one of the best westerns i've ever seen... :cheers:

Original was better. Also was drastically different. If they would of kept the same storyline and dialogue for the new one....I can only imagine how good it could of been.

You guys that like Westerns, have any of you seen Open Range with Duvall, Costner, and Bening?

In the movie lies a scene more hardcore, chilling than Eastwoods ending in Unforgiven.
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Memento
Requiem for a dream
Eternal Sunshine
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
The Departed
True Romance
Knocked Up
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Me, Myself, and Irene (i don't care what anyone says, my favorite Jim Carrey Comedy)
the Truman Show

i have a ton of favorites, too many to list :P
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Me, Myself, and Irene (i don't care what anyone says, my favorite Jim Carrey Comedy)


Which could actually be a topic all it's own. It's close, but I'd have to go with Liar, Liar as my fav, and Bruce Almighty a close second. B)
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Dark Days
Perfume
Pride and Prejudice (the colin firth version)
high fidelity
ferris buehlers day off
godfather 1 & 2
the queen
dead alive
LOTR trilogy
any b-rated horror flick

fuck...too many to list. and these will all change tomorrow.

shawshank redemption
AMADEUS

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Me, Myself, and Irene (i don't care what anyone says, my favorite Jim Carrey Comedy)


Which could actually be a topic all it's own. It's close, but I'd have to go with Liar, Liar as my fav, and Bruce Almighty a close second. B)

haha
yeah it could

Dumb and Dumber is a classic indeed
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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops. Anyone else see this one?

Yep, good flick. I'd take the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Unforgiven over it, though.
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Still thinking about my Top 10 movies, but if I had to vote for best Cowboy movie, 3:10 To Yuma would have to be tops.  Anyone else see this one?

...just saw it about a month ago and i agree...definitely one of the best westerns i've ever seen... :cheers:

Original was better. Also was drastically different. If they would of kept the same storyline and dialogue for the new one....I can only imagine how good it could of been.

You guys that like Westerns, have any of you seen Open Range with Duvall, Costner, and Bening?

In the movie lies a scene more hardcore, chilling than Eastwoods ending in Unforgiven.

"You shot an unarmed man!"

*dramatic pause*

Eatwood slowly talks: "He shouldn't armed himself."
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