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My top 100 movies: #1: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (2 Viewers)

#73 - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

I don't like comedies much. Usually they use up any funny material in the first half and turn into something else for the second. Or their humor is just vulgar.

I think this is funny throughout. And Pepper Brooks is an all time character.

Cotton McKnight: Looks like it's gonna be a two-on-one, a menage a trois of pain. 

Pepper Brooks: Usually you pay double for that kind of action, Cotton!

Trivia:

 WWE diva and godaddy girl, Candice Michelle, appears as one of the dodgeball cheerleaders.

The name of the bar, where the confrontation between White Goodman's team and Average Joe's occurs, is "The Dirty Sanchez".

 
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My 17 year old son quotes Dodgeball from time to time, especially "Bold move, Cotton".  I'm partial to adding 'The Ocho' if the number 8 comes up in a conversation.

 
the chest at the end of the film, which contains the winning wager $$$ La Fluer placed on Average Joe's, reads "Deus Ex Machina".

that's pretty self-aware.

 
#73 Dodgeball...one of the most underrated comedies of all time. 

-Suffers from length a bit and also the scenes between Hubby n wife fall a little flat. 

Vaughan is at the top of his comedy game here. Old School, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, he had a huge run of films where he did good work. Lately he stinks. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Humor is definitely subjective.
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For sure.  I don't think anything gets flamed more in the ranking threads more than the comedies.  Especially when you already said that something like Lebowski isn't on your list. 
People have pretty strong opinions on what is funny and what isn't.  Wouldn't make an all time list for me, but Dodgeball makes me laugh. 

 
#72 - Titanic

Blah, criticize, blah

This is an epic disaster movie. I'm not bothered by the love story as I think it's a fitting metaphor for the true life "iceberg as Gilded Age arrogance shatterer" it compares to. 

Lie one review read, is awesome even when it's awful.

I like James Cameron movies because he always pushes the media to it's limit. They are technical marvels and this one is king of them all (get bent, Avatar).

Trivia:

The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey to play Jack, but James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.

Most of the stuntmen in the engine room scenes were only about 5 feet tall to make the engine room look a lot bigger.

 
#71 - Contact

A movie about enlightenment - and that it takes small steps to achieve it.

It just all works for me. Even Foster, if whom I'm not the biggest fan.

Trivia:

All three acts of the film begin with a zoomed out shot of a celestial body, immediately followed by a tight shot of Ellie's eyes. This echoes Carl Sagan's opinion that humans are a way for the universe to experience itself.

The succession of colors in the space tunnel match the colors of the Chakra points as described in the New Age "religion", starting with red (materialism) and reaching gold (enlightenment).

Jodie Foster looks at "O.K. to go" as Ellie's way of saying she's accepted she may not survive.

Eleanor is Greek for "shining light." So Ellie Arroway points the way to enlightenment.

The vehicle in which Ellie Arroway travels through the wormhole system is a sphere surrounded by a dodecahedron, the fourth Platonic solid. This beautiful figure with twelve pentagonal faces was considered by some Greek philosophers to represent the structure of the Universe.

 
Contact was an ok movie, at least you have it above Titanic which was a horrible movie.

If we were ever going to hang on movie night I'd need to know in advance what we were going to see

:P

 
Two of your films are on my list so far. Both higher. I'm betting as we each move up the numbers there will be a lot of films on both lists. 

 
Oh, and Contact's main musical theme is quite beautiful.

Link

(I should have been including music cues as I've gone along...guess I'll start now.)

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
#72 - Titanic

Blah, criticize, blah

This is an epic disaster movie. I'm not bothered by the love story as I think it's a fitting metaphor for the true life "iceberg as Gilded Age arrogance shatterer" it compares to. 

Lie one review read, is awesome even when it's awful.

I like James Cameron movies because he always pushes the media to it's limit. They are technical marvels and this one is king of them all (get bent, Avatar).

Trivia:

The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey to play Jack, but James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.

Most of the stuntmen in the engine room scenes were only about 5 feet tall to make the engine room look a lot bigger.
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I think Titanic and less so, American Beauty, suffer from having a scene or two that is made fun of in the mainstream or are just so oversaturated in the mainstream that people just get sick of it, and therefore the movies associated with them.  We have the Leo/Kate at the front of the ship thing in Titanic, and the floating bag in American Beauty.  I really like Titanic and think the look of the movie is great.  It's just one of those movies that became uncool to like if you weren't a teenage girl. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
#71 - Contact

A movie about enlightenment - and that it takes small steps to achieve it.

It just all works for me. Even Foster, if whom I'm not the biggest fan.

Trivia:

All three acts of the film begin with a zoomed out shot of a celestial body, immediately followed by a tight shot of Ellie's eyes. This echoes Carl Sagan's opinion that humans are a way for the universe to experience itself.

The succession of colors in the space tunnel match the colors of the Chakra points as described in the New Age "religion", starting with red (materialism) and reaching gold (enlightenment).

Jodie Foster looks at "O.K. to go" as Ellie's way of saying she's accepted she may not survive.

Eleanor is Greek for "shining light." So Ellie Arroway points the way to enlightenment.

The vehicle in which Ellie Arroway travels through the wormhole system is a sphere surrounded by a dodecahedron, the fourth Platonic solid. This beautiful figure with twelve pentagonal faces was considered by some Greek philosophers to represent the structure of the Universe.
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Another one of my favorite sci-fi movies.  Sure, it gets a big hokey, but I think at it's core it has a lot of great ideas and I think a lot of the reactions to the message and the aftermath were fairly realistic. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
#71 - Contact

A movie about enlightenment - and that it takes small steps to achieve it.

It just all works for me. Even Foster, if whom I'm not the biggest fan.

Trivia:

All three acts of the film begin with a zoomed out shot of a celestial body, immediately followed by a tight shot of Ellie's eyes. This echoes Carl Sagan's opinion that humans are a way for the universe to experience itself.

The succession of colors in the space tunnel match the colors of the Chakra points as described in the New Age "religion", starting with red (materialism) and reaching gold (enlightenment).

Jodie Foster looks at "O.K. to go" as Ellie's way of saying she's accepted she may not survive.

Eleanor is Greek for "shining light." So Ellie Arroway points the way to enlightenment.

The vehicle in which Ellie Arroway travels through the wormhole system is a sphere surrounded by a dodecahedron, the fourth Platonic solid. This beautiful figure with twelve pentagonal faces was considered by some Greek philosophers to represent the structure of the Universe.
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Fantastic movie.  The last scene always brings a tear to my eye.  And Jodie Foster is actually kinda hot in the movie.  

 
#70 - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ahm... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

:lmao:   :lmao:   :lmao:

Trivia: 

Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55% of the film's budget. Stanley Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".

 
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

Love that movie.  So good.

 
Time for me to get flamed - I never really found Strangelove funny.  Probably my least favorite Kubrick that I have seen. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
#70 - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ahm... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

:lmao:   :lmao:   :lmao:

Trivia: 

Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55% of the film's budget. Stanley Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".
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top 10, maybe 5 for me.

every single Jack D Ripper line is gold. also loved increasingly insane names of people (col bat guano, if that really is your name). POE

 
KarmaPolice said:
Time for me to get flamed - I never really found Strangelove funny.  Probably my least favorite Kubrick that I have seen. 
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IMHO it's more social/(in context)"historical" commentary than humor, at least for me.

My least favorite Kubrick would be either Barry Lyndon (which is way way way overrated) or Eyes Wide Shut which I just plain can't stand

 
msommer said:
IMHO it's more social/(in context)"historical" commentary than humor, at least for me.

My least favorite Kubrick would be either Barry Lyndon (which is way way way overrated) or Eyes Wide Shut which I just plain can't stand
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I agree with this, but also find it hilarious. sterling hayden in particular kills me every time I watch it.

going towards what you're saying a bit... I saw it once in a theater in Paris with my ex who had never seen it. I was laughing throughout, and finally noticed that my ex was looking a bit uncomfortable. I look around, and people (frenchies) are glaring at me. I'm confused, and start reading the subtitles as best I could (in French). that move separated me from the humor and I realized turned it into a grim cold-war commentary more than a satire. the only line the french laughed out loud at was in the war room, when the russian ambassador said something "must be true... I read it in the new. york. times."

 
Andy Dufresne said:
#70 - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ahm... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

:lmao:   :lmao:   :lmao:

Trivia: 

Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55% of the film's budget. Stanley Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".
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In my Top 5

 
msommer said:
IMHO it's more social/(in context)"historical" commentary than humor, at least for me.

My least favorite Kubrick would be either Barry Lyndon (which is way way way overrated) or Eyes Wide Shut which I just plain can't stand
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I could see that, and that would also require some base knowledge for the commentary to hit a note as well, which was probably another hurdle for me when I watched it.  It's been awhile, and I am on the waiting list for the Criterion edition at the library, so I will give it another try fairly soon.

The only one I haven't seen is Barry Lyndon.  I actually really like Eyes Wide Shut.  I am sure I have that one higher than most, and 2001 lower than most. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Time for me to get flamed - I never really found Strangelove funny.  Probably my least favorite Kubrick that I have seen. 
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You're not alone.

Strangelove is one of those films with classic scenes that everybody loves, but as a whole film it didn't work for me. The main test for my own list is: if I'm flipping channels and this movie is on, do I stop to watch it? For every film on my list the answer is yes. Also for many of the films on Andy's list. But not this one. 

 
timschochet said:
You're not alone.

Strangelove is one of those films with classic scenes that everybody loves, but as a whole film it didn't work for me. The main test for my own list is: if I'm flipping channels and this movie is on, do I stop to watch it? For every film on my list the answer is yes. Also for many of the films on Andy's list. But not this one. 
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Philestine

 
Andy Dufresne said:
#86 - X-Men: First Class/Days of Futures Past

#85 - Tron: Legacy

#84 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier

#83 - Man of Steel

#79 - Revenge of the Sith

#77 - Rudy

#73 - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

#72 - Titanic
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Are you sure you've watched a lot of movies?

 
timschochet said:
You're not alone.

Strangelove is one of those films with classic scenes that everybody loves, but as a whole film it didn't work for me. The main test for my own list is: if I'm flipping channels and this movie is on, do I stop to watch it? For every film on my list the answer is yes. Also for many of the films on Andy's list. But not this one. 
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It is the movie together as a whole that works in this one. There are a few classic scenes in this one that people can pull out obviously, but the movie on a whole works very very well. Top 5 classic.

 
shuke said:
Are you sure you've watched a lot of movies?
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Yes. But who thinks, "You know, I've really got a hankering to watch Schindler's List or maybe Se7en."?

Awesome movies - better than a lot of the movies I've listed and you've quoted - but they're not  favorites. I don't think I want to watch them ever again. Definitely not Se7en.

Most often I'd rather watch light cycles whoosh, big ships sink, or mutants fight than people be incinerated, curb stomped, or decapitated.

 
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I may be in the minority here but Se7en IMHO had serious internal flaws in the ending that ruined it for me

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Yes. But who thinks, "You know, I've really got a hankering to watch Schindler's List or maybe Se7en."?

Awesome movies - better than a lot of the movies I've listed and you've quoted - but they're not  favorites. I don't think I want to watch them ever again. Definitely not Se7en.

Most often I'd rather watch light cycles whoosh, big ships sink, or mutants fight than people be incinerated, curb stomped, or decapitated.
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:bag:

You've just described my viewing habits.  You've seen my lists - I tend to gravitate to the dark side.  I have seen Se7en dozens of times.  Hell, I have put myself through Requiem for a Dream a dozen times. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
:bag:

You've just described my viewing habits.  You've seen my lists - I tend to gravitate to the dark side.  I have seen Se7en dozens of times.  Hell, I have put myself through Requiem for a Dream a dozen times. 
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Hey kids, gather 'round! We're popping in Mulholland Drive again! :excited:

Don't get me wrong. I really like Mulholland Dr.
 
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#69 - A Few Good Men

Cruise vs Nicholson and including a cool supporting cast (Moore, Sutherland, Bacon, et al.)

Just has lots of good quotes I use often.

Trivia:

Tom Cruise's Jack Nicholson impersonation (when his character is quoting Col. Jessep) was not scripted.

Jack Nicholson was paid $5 million for ten days' work.

 
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