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 Post subject: Favourite films?
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I am a big movie obsessive, as well as music and games. Have a ridiculous collection of all of these.

I enjoy a range of movies, both old and new.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Anything with Bogart is awesome, but especially this.


Casablanca


Blade Runner


The Matrix


Taxi Driver


Apocalypse Now


The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly


Dirty Harry


I own all of these, and countless other great movies. I have barely touched the top of the iceberg. I can think of loads more.

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I am a big movie obsessive, as well as music and games. Have a ridiculous collection of all of these.

I enjoy a range of movies, both old and new.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Anything with Bogart is awesome, but especially this.


Casablanca


Blade Runner


The Matrix


Taxi Driver


Apocalypse Now


The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly


Dirty Harry


I own all of these, and countless other great movies. I have barely touched the top of the iceberg. I can think of loads more.


All great movies!!! "Blade Runner" was WAY ahead of its time, IMO.

Here's the clip I really love from "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"


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So many great lines in that film. Especially that one!

As for Casablanca, it has more famous quotes than Shakespeare.

'Your winnings, sir'
'Round up the usual suspects'
'Of all the gin joints in all the world, she walks into mine'
'We'll always have Paris'
'If she can stand it, I can! Play it!'
'The Germans wore grey. You were in blue'
'Here's looking at you, kid'
'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship'

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So many great lines in that film. Especially that one!

As for Casablanca, it has more famous quotes than Shakespeare.

'Your winnings, sir'
'Round up the usual suspects'
'Of all the gin joints in all the world, she walks into mine'
'We'll always have Paris'
'If she can stand it, I can! Play it!'
'The Germans wore grey. You were in blue'
'Here's looking at you, kid'
'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship'



LOL!!! :coolbeans:

Yeah, Casablanca is one of the best films ever. Needless to say,
I love the entire "resistance" theme of the film too.

Hell, I cant think of a movie Bogie ever starred in that I didn't like.

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Bogart was a class act. I've yet to see one of his films I didn't like

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Great selections here.

Now, for a sample of my (fairly mundane) choices:

Forrest Gump


Top Gun


Lethal Weapon


Pulp Fiction


Terminator 2


Back to the Future


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Nice picks, fork!

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Casablanca is on my "to watch list", gotta watch it someday.
Love Forrest Gump as well, it has an innocence I'm fond of.


I love Leon, I found it simply beautiful. Jean Reno is awesome and Gary Oldman is crazy and great as usual.




Boy A as well, totally underrated and sadly unknown from a lot of people, it was for me one of the best and most moving movies ever made:




Requiem for a Dream, I watched it only once but boy, this movie left a significant impression on me. Clint Mansell's music plays a big part in it:




From the same director, The Fountain, beautiful but weird movie. Hugh Jackman at its best, in my opinion.



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Terminator 2



General Electric Mini-Gun: "Bringing good things to life" :check: :rofl: :rofl:

fork wrote:
Back to the Future


That is absolutely 1980's _CLASSIC_ "Marty McFly" style!!!! :coolbeans: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Casablanca is on my "to watch list", gotta watch it someday.
Love Forrest Gump as well, it has an innocence I'm fond of.


I have never watched " Gone With The Wind" yet, and am probably one of the
few who hasn't. One of these days, I need to catch up on a classic like that one.


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I love Leon, I found it simply beautiful. Jean Reno is awesome and Gary Oldman
is crazy and great as usual.



This film, "Leon", was renamed to "The Professional", here in the US.

Great action movie, with young actress Natalie Portman and Français, Jean Reno !!

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This film, "Leon", was renamed to "The Professional", here in the US.

Great action movie, with young actress Natalie Portman and Français, Jean Reno !!


I didn't know that, I thought it was the original title but this one makes sense as well. I think it's Nathalie Portman's first massive appearance in a movie and she's so cute in it, and very talented for such a young age.

I love Jean Reno but he sometimes "wastes" his talent I think, he plays in some lame stuff sometimes, you don't get why (The Da Vinci Code, Inside Ring/Le Premier Cercle...). But overall I think this man's one of the best French actors there's ever been. His voice is really a landmark for us, anyone could tell you right away "it's him".

Gone with the Wind is one of my favourite movies too. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh are amazing in it, the photography's gorgeous and even though they made changes from the book, it's really one of the best "unconventional" love stories for me.


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Being major horror fan I have tons of favourite well-known and extremely obscure genre movies.

But my absolute favourite film is "Angst" (1983) - low-budget Austrian serial killer movie with fantastic performance by Erwin Leder and lovely electro soundtrack by Klaus Schultze. The film is EXTREMELY disturbing, though.



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165623/

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Adam82 wrote:
So many great lines in that film. Especially that one!

As for Casablanca, it has more famous quotes than Shakespeare.

'Your winnings, sir'
'Round up the usual suspects'
'Of all the gin joints in all the world, she walks into mine'
'We'll always have Paris'
'If she can stand it, I can! Play it!'
'The Germans wore grey. You were in blue'
'Here's looking at you, kid'
'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship'

"Just remember this gun is pointed at your heart"

"That is my least vulnerable spot."

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Gone With The Wind is great. Epic, to be sure. It's a very long film (I remember the intermission, even on the DVD version :lol: ). With fine performances from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and Olivia D'Havilland.

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