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RE: Top 5 films
April 21, 2013 at 5:09 pm
This was hard. I'm not even sure this list is my top 5 (apart from Shawshank Redemption; I'm certain that is my favourite movie).
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Lincoln
3. Fight Club
4. No Country For Old Men
5. The Dark Knight
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RE: Top 5 films
April 21, 2013 at 5:13 pm
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(April 21, 2013 at 6:19 am)Napoléon Wrote: (April 21, 2013 at 3:20 am)Jerome Wrote: 3) Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of Crystal Skull
Of all the Indiana Jones films you pick this one???
He is obviously also an X-Files fan.
In that year the X-File movie was not an X-File but the Indiana Jones movie was. It was a very odd year.
(April 21, 2013 at 3:30 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: If Crystal Skull was a turd, Temple of Doom was a racist and sexist watery pile of diarrhea.
That was just a plot device to play the Jones character against the opposite kind of woman from Raiders. It avoided the necessity of making Jones be really different in the obligatory sequel. I mean the script and scenes could be very similar but the woman and kid made them play different.
Seriously. The pisser is the kid.
(April 21, 2013 at 4:51 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (April 21, 2013 at 3:27 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Crystal Skull was a turd. I nearly walked out of the theater when they started using CGI for many of their stunt scenes.
Absolutely unbearable.
I didn't think it was that bad... hell I still consider it a good film.
But the last crusade just seemed the obvious choice.
I found for myself whether or not I like a movie depends in large part on my expectations. When I first saw The Blues Brothers I was expecting a comedy as in SNL. I did not like it. All the music made no sense. A few years later I read that it was a musical comedy. Literally almost a light dawned and I have liked it ever since.
Take Crystal Skull as an X-File movie and it isn't half bad.
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RE: Top 5 films
April 21, 2013 at 5:23 pm
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(April 21, 2013 at 6:19 am)Napoléon Wrote: Of all the Indiana Jones films you pick this one???
And Terminator 3?!?!?
(April 21, 2013 at 5:13 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: Take Crystal Skull as an X-File movie and it isn't half bad.
Nah. There's no way to take Crystal Skull to make it anything but all bad.
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RE: Top 5 films
April 21, 2013 at 7:34 pm
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(April 21, 2013 at 4:51 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (April 21, 2013 at 3:27 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Crystal Skull was a turd. I nearly walked out of the theater when they started using CGI for many of their stunt scenes.
Absolutely unbearable.
I didn't think it was that bad... hell I still consider it a good film.
But the last crusade just seemed the obvious choice.
I agree with you about Crusade.
Speilberg didn't use any CGI in his original three movies - at least not where the action stunts were concerned. The stunts during Last Crusade especially were absolutely fantastic. It looked real and authentic (remember the tank scenes). Fast forward to the chase scenes in Crystal Turd: looked and felt totally fake and unbelievable. Add to that the shitty plot line and it was just an awful movie.
In my mind, Crystal Skull does not exist. There is only the Indiana Jones Trilogy. Speilberg and Lucas should be ashamed for selling out their incredible franchises.
just my humble (flawless) opinion.
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RE: Top 5 films
April 21, 2013 at 7:47 pm
I've finally decided to take a peek into this thread...The top five movies of all time... tough selection...
As a sci-fi fan...
- Start trek II, the wrath of khan
- Star wars VI, the return of the jedi
- Aliens
Now, the last 2?.... keeping in the horror theme, there's one that marked me
- Nightmare on Elm Street, the first, watched when I was 8... how did I not end up with some psych problem requiring meds just to stand up is beyond me!
And, for some reason I can't pinpoint, I've watched the Last Boy Scout, with Bruce Willis, once too often... But if I had to choose a Bruce Willis movie, I'd go for the obvious Die Hard!
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RE: Top 5 films
April 21, 2013 at 9:54 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 7:47 pm)pocaracas Wrote: And, for some reason I can't pinpoint, I've watched the Last Boy Scout, with Bruce Willis, once too often... But if I had to choose a Bruce Willis movie, I'd go for the obvious Die Hard!
And here I thought you were gonna pick The Fifth Element to round out the fantasy / sci-fi theme...
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RE: Top 5 films
April 22, 2013 at 3:39 am
(April 21, 2013 at 6:19 am)Napoléon Wrote: (April 21, 2013 at 3:20 am)Jerome Wrote: 3) Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of Crystal Skull
Of all the Indiana Jones films you pick this one???
(April 21, 2013 at 3:27 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Crystal Skull was a turd. I nearly walked out of the theater when they started using CGI for many of their stunt scenes.
Absolutely unbearable.
I don't care of adverse comments about the movies I mentioned. We have different sensations.
Don't read.
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RE: Top 5 films
April 22, 2013 at 3:44 am
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1. Life of Brian
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Space Balls
4. Monty Python Quest for the Holy Grail
5. The Princess Bride
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RE: Top 5 films
April 22, 2013 at 4:41 am
I wish people would stop making lists longer than 5. Fuck it, let's just rename the thread favourite movies....
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RE: Top 5 films
April 22, 2013 at 4:56 am
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(April 21, 2013 at 9:54 pm)apophenia Wrote: (April 21, 2013 at 7:47 pm)pocaracas Wrote: And, for some reason I can't pinpoint, I've watched the Last Boy Scout, with Bruce Willis, once too often... But if I had to choose a Bruce Willis movie, I'd go for the obvious Die Hard!
And here I thought you were gonna pick The Fifth Element to round out the fantasy / sci-fi theme... I should have.... but I didn't like it that much...
(April 22, 2013 at 3:44 am)Dragonetti Wrote: 1. Life of Brian
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Space Balls
4. Monty Python Quest for the Holy Grail
5. The Princess Bride
Very good choices....except for the last one.... (?)
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