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Jan-12-2006 08:49

A Few Good Men
Terminator 1&2
Life is Beautiful (Did he HAVE to die??!!??)
Amelie
The Princess Bride

Jan-12-2006 09:13

Charade
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fisher King
Rear Window
To Catch a Thief
Nuovo cinema Paradiso – get’s me every time
The African Queen
Most of what Woody Allen made between 1977 and 1994
On Golden Pond
The Big Chill
The Thomas Crown Affair (the new version)
Blade Runner
Big Fish

And I'm sure there are a lot I forgot :D

Jan-12-2006 09:24

Princess Bride is wonderful
Several of the Monty Python
Blade Runner was a great adaptation
Labrynth is a fun movie

I am not a real movie buff, but those of the top of my head

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Jan-12-2006 13:24

My favorites, picked for cinematic quality, mark of time, story that must been told, impacted or influenced me, or simply personal memories:

The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Forrest Gump
The Usual Suspects
Hotel Rwanda
Top Gun
ET
Color Purple
The Princess Bride
The Matrix 1
Gandhi
Die hard (part 1)
Blue Velvet
Fargo
Love and other catastrophies
Kingkong (1933 version)
Grease I
Grease II
Citizen Kane
Apocalypse Now
American History X
Singing in the rain
Terminator 1
When Harry met Sally

and of course

Dirty Dancing

Jan-12-2006 15:30

I loved Greyling's and Jstk dn's movies. I have to add The Quiet Man and Cary Grant movies, like Bringing Up Baby and Arsenic and Old Lace.

Jan-12-2006 15:37

Oh, and Wonder Boys - how could I forget

Jan-12-2006 18:08

I can't believe I forgot Enternal Sunshine!

Jan-12-2006 19:35

I just finished watching Phantom of the Opera. It's very good.

Favorite movies are:
Phantom of the Opera
The Westside Story
Mulan

There are others but I can't remember right now.

Jan-12-2006 20:06

Yes Amelie and Forrest Gump are great. And:
Zelig
No Man's Land
The Salton Sea
Motorama
The Karate Kid
The Truman Show
Cast Away
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream

And probably a whole bunch of others I've forgotten.

Jan-12-2006 20:22

:P Like Home Alone 1,2 & 3!