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Best film/movie ever?

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Impossible to decide this one, but if the choice was that you had to pick a movie that could be the only movie you would ever be allowed to watch for the rest of your life, then my choice would be The Great Escape.

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Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
I have no idea on the 50, but what comes to mind is "Mr. Know-it-all".

Maybe you should start a Bullwinkle trivia thread.
You got it -- and that's the point. Happy to stand in for Bullwinkle in that role as I'm sure the results would be quite similar -- 😉😵

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Originally posted by Scriabin
No one apparently is bright enough to have glommed onto the fact that there is a central theme common to all these films. they are all about the same thing.

But that sort of realization escapes the folks here.

why am I not surprised.
There must be something going on in that politician's brain wired for filibuster that the rest of us are missing, because we're all really stupid here.

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*sniff sniff*

I smell a thread drift....

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Star Wars: A new hope.
The big Lebowski
Pulp fiction
Full Metal Jacket
The Blues brothers.

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1. Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Bresson
2. Gertrud (1964) Dreyer
3. Vertigo (1959) Hitchcock
4. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Resnais
5. Taxi driver (1976) Scorcese
6. The Eclipse (1962) Antonioni
7. Journey to Italy (1954) Rossellini
8. Heat (1995) Mann
9. Tristana (1970) Bunuel
10. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Hellman
11. Home from the Hill (1959) Minnelli
12. Aguirre (1972) Herzog
13. The American Friend (1977) Wenders
14. Le mépris (1963) Godard
15. L’hypothèse du tableau volé (1978) Ruiz
16. To be or not to be (1942) Lubitsch
17. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) Syberberg
18. Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954) Mizoguchi
19. Moloch (1999) Sokurov
20. Sombre (1998) Grandrieux

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Originally posted by scherzo
There must be something going on in that politician's brain wired for filibuster that the rest of us are missing, because we're all really stupid here.
This, from a picture-hanging storyteller who tells tales in a coffeehouse.

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Originally posted by HfrMine antiperso
1. Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Bresson
2. Gertrud (1964) Dreyer
3. Vertigo (1959) Hitchcock
4. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Resnais
5. Taxi driver (1976) Scorcese
6. The Eclipse (1962) Antonioni
7. Journey to Italy (1954) Rossellini
8. Heat (1995) Mann
9. Tristana (1970) Bunuel
10. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Hellman
11. Home from the Hill (195 ...[text shortened]... gend of Bailiff Sansho (1954) Mizoguchi
19. Moloch (1999) Sokurov
20. Sombre (1998) Grandrieux
I'm copying this one down, some foreign films I've not seen.

Aguirre was great, but To Be or Not to Be? -- I've seen that and wouldn't rate it so highly.

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The African Queen

and Kill bill I & II

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what's the difference between a film and a movie?

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My Fair Lady.


Professor Higgins was the bomb yo.

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Originally posted by PocketKings
That's a good list for falling asleep.
still taking ADD pills?

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Originally posted by PinkFloyd
Billy Jack.
33 mins in at the first big fight scene (still watching it)
'you know what I'm going to do then? Just for the hell of it'.

Is that the bad guy out of the matrix??

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Originally posted by uzless
what's the difference between a film and a movie?
Here's a little hint:

Uzless > Film
Granny > Movie

GRANNY.

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Originally posted by Scriabin
I'm copying this one down, some foreign films I've not seen.

Aguirre was great, but To Be or Not to Be? -- I've seen that and wouldn't rate it so highly.
Heat was garbage too