Top 5 movies

unkown1961 said:
FYI, The Irishman didn't win, Parasite did. I liked Irishman though but don't think it was a "best picture" nominee - that CGI of the young faces didn't match up with the old actors' body ovements. I actually thought that The Report should have been nominated.
About Apocolypse Now, I thought that was really overrated. There are much better Vietnam movies.
And what about Raging Bull losing to Ordinary People or Goodfellas losing to Dances with Wolves?
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Don't get me started om "Parasite"......worst $11 I've spend at a movie theater in a while.

I'm with you on Raging Bull & Goodfellas losing (Scorcese was not yet regarded as a Hollywood God, I guess) but to be honest "Dances With Wolves" was a really good film.

Worst part about "The Irishman"? DeNiro, the 70-something actor, playing a 20 year WW2 GI in Italy, taking Wehrmacht prisoners played by age-appropriate actors. Let's hope this CGI gimmick (old actors are YOUNG via movie magic!) is dead.

Let's let Pacino, DeNiro, Pesci, etc. (all tremendous actors) play roles for their real-life ages. There's gotta be some capable under-40 year old olds you can take on younger roles. Imagine if this technology was available in the past? George Clooney's breakthrough role on "ER" could have been played by an antique Jimmy Stewart! Ted Danson on "Cheers" could have covered by CGI-youthened Walter Matthau! Those young actors on "Friends" could have played by Katherine Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas - you know, proven box office winners instead on new faces.

Ugggh.
 
Capt MJ said:
For “films” - stuff that makes me think, as an art form, see below.

“Movies” - for entertainment, laughter, fun. Mission Impossible, Bourne, Bond, comedies, romances, etc. (Secretly love John Wick).

Favorite actors: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Tom Hanks, and many others, will watch whatever they are in.

Then I have my Navy/military/war movie category. There are other threads for that.

The ones below I never tire of watching as a form of art.

1. Glory
2. The English Patient
3. Henry V
4. The Emigrants
5. Raise the Red Lantern
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Glory is my number one movie. ive seen it so many times!
 
unkown1961 said:
The Searchers
Hud
Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest
Spotlight
The Report (just watched on Amazon Prime, Adam Driver does a great job as the Senate staffer who exposed the CIA's method of "interrogation"
Airplane
Holy Grail
From Russia with Love
Annie Hall
Kelly's Heroes
Casablanca
Ip Man
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Shout out to "Hud" - a classic! Maybe Paul Newman's best role (before Slap Shot)
 
1. Star Wars Ep 1-6 (I know this is cheating)
2. The Martian
3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
4. Jurassic Park
5. The Dark Knight
 
As a compliment to @Jarhead713 as OP who is on sabbatical at the moment, may I propose some categories to keep the thread going until they return?

How about:
Top 3movies That Make You Cry (or experience eye irritation)
(For me, that’s “Schindler’s List,” “Glory,” and “Field of Dreams.”)

Most memorable lines?
(from “Master and Commander,” “Everyone knows you have to choose the lesser of two weevils.”)

Best absolutely stupidly crassly funny?

Best cinematography?
( “Lawrence of Arabia,” at least)

Scariest?
(I never got past the flying monkeys in “Wizard of Oz,” so I avoid this category)

Foreign film with sub-titles?
(Das Boot)

Musical score?
(Out of Africa, Amadeus, Schindler’s List)

War pic?

Break-out performance by a star?

Best action series movies?
(I’ve already confessed to liking “John Wick,” but Bourne, Bond (Craig) and MI make me happy too.)

Best villain?



Pick any of these categories, make up your own, start some “worst” categories, let us see all kinds of movies brought in. I am always on the hunt for movies to put on my watch queue for travel.
 
THParent said:
Best foreign film with sub-titles?
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Pan's Labyrinth
La Femme Nikita and Das Boot, close behind.

Best absolutely stupidly crassly funny?
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Most memorable lines?
"We're going to have the hap hap happiest time since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny F*&#@ing Kaye" Clark Griswold.

Scariest?
The Exorcist, saw it when it came out and scared the crap out of me.

Musical score?
Tubular Bells from the Exorcist, still sends shivers up my spine.

Best cinematography?
How The West Was Won, recently got to see it in the original wide screen using the three projectors on a huge curved screen, amazing.

Best villain?
Hannibal Lector

I'll have to think about the rest, But I would add that anything with Grace Kelly would make my list.
 
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TexasAggie204 said:
So sad though. Every time I watch it, I pray for a different ending. (To the movie...NOT the war!)
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"Gonna come a time when we all gonna hafta ante up and kick in like men. LIKE MEN! You watch who you callin' ******." Sgt Major Rawlins (Morgan Freeman)
 
For me, "Hamburger Hill" is the most realistic portrayal of life as an Infantryman that I have ever seen. The inter-platoon banter, the brutality of combat... even the realistic toughness of trying to slog uphill in the rain, slipping, one step forward, two back while in the attack.

"It's a Wonderful Life" really causes me to pause and consider. What if I had never been born? Am I living my life in a way that positively impacts others?
 
Jimmy Stewart found that doing "It's a Wonderful Life" helped him with his PTSD. If you watch that movie closely, you see the rage in him. He just lets it out, and it was therapeutic. He got through it, and turned out to be the guy who wrote seriously funny poems and read them occasionally, on the Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson.

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