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

#20 - Black Hawk Down

The look and feel of modern warfare brought right in front of your face. One of the most striking things is how YOUNG these guys were (and still are) that are fighting these battles. And further how much is expected from then and how much they deliver.

I remember thinking after the first Gulf War that we were screwed in future wars because it would give us a heightened sense that we could accomplish anything we wanted to at little or no cost. How right I was.

Many of the soldiers reflected the naivete of the government leaders who put them there. "No problem. We're Americans. Let's just go get him!" led to filled body bags and a retreat with our collective tail between our legs. A lesson not heeded a decade later.

For Ridley Scott to make sense for the viewer all the myriad events and people involved is remarkable.

Awesome characters based on real life heroes simply fighting for one another..It's the best war movie there is.

I squirm every time the medic searches for that femoral artery.

And even though I don't understand a word of it...Barra, Barra is a really cool song.

Trivia:

On the last day of their week-long Army Ranger orientation at Fort Benning, the actors who played the Rangers received a letter that had been anonymously slipped under their door. The letter thanked them for all their hard work, and asked them to "tell our story true", signed with the names of the Rangers who died in the Mogadishu firefight.

The sequence of events near the end of the movie, where some of the US Rangers were forced to run, unprotected, behind the rescue convoy, did indeed happen. This unfortunate turn of events was named by the soldiers after the battle as "The Mogadishu Mile".

The nickname given to the Somalis by the Rangers, "Skinnies," does not actually refer to the famine and rampant malnutrition in Somalia. It is the nickname given to an alien race in Robert A. Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers", which was a popular book passed around the battalion, and is on the required reading list at West Point. The Rangers felt that Somali culture was so strange that they seemed to be from another planet. 

An earlier cut of the movie opened with a quote from T.S. Eliot: "All our ignorance brings us closer to death."

 
Good list so far.  Keep up the good work :popcorn:

ETA:  curious to see if no country for old men, top gun, star wars (original trilogy), dances with wolves, good will hunting....make the top 20...so many good movies left.  This would be a very hard list to make, thanks for taking the time.  

 
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#19 - Tombstone

Most quotable movie ever? Earp is the quintessential man's man and Holliday is eminently quotable.

Poor Johnny Tyler. Lol

Not the most western Western there is, but it's possibly the best ride.

"You gonna do something or just stand there and bleed?"

"Oh. Johnny, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now."

"Why Ed does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend... I just don't think I could bear it!"

"There is no 'good life' Wyatt. It's just life. Get on with it."

"I'm your huckleberry."

"You're a daisy if you do!"

Trivia:

As extraordinary as the scene in which Wyatt kills Curly Bill Brocius in the creek is, it is true. During the shootout in the creek when Wyatt kills Curly Bill, the next person he shoots is Johnny Barnes (the cowboy who yells "JESUS CHRIST!!"). As in real life, Wyatt shoots Barnes in the stomach. However, Barnes was not killed on site. He managed to escape and died in a farmhouse. However, before dying, he told the story of how Wyatt REALLY did walk into a hail of Curly Bill's gunfire unscathed, walked right up to Bill and shot him point blank with both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun.

"I'll be damned" really are the final words of John "Doc" Holliday. Perhaps because he was surprised to die with his boots off.

The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is historically true and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting the fight. When confronted by one of the Cowboys at point blank range, the Cowboy reportedly said, "I got you now Doc, you son of a #####," to which Doc gleefully retorted, "You're a daisy if you do!"

 
Barra, Barra

Barra Barra (Out! Out!) = bb

Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary

bb

Destruction, jealousy ; there is no trust left

bb

Thirst and people are unlucky

bb

No honour, but oppression and slavery

bb

Rivers were dried up and seas have ruined everything

bb

Stars are switched off and the sun went down

bb

There are no trees left and the birds stopped singing

bb

There are neither days, nor nights left, darkness only

bb

Hell ; there is no beauty left

bb

(solo of mandolute and ululation)

---

2.bb

Time has increased, there is no honour left

bb

Ruin and war and the blood is flowing

bb

There are only walls left, walls standing up

bb

Fear and people remain silent

bb

Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary

bb

Destruction and jealousy ; there is no trust left

bb

Rivers were dried up and seas have ruined everything

bb

stars are switched off and the sun went down

barra barra (in a low voice, plus crescendo)

---

3.bb

There is neither good, nor happiness, nor luck anymore

bb

There are no trees left; the birds stopped singing

bb

There are neither nights, nor days left; darkness only

bb

Desolation, hell, there is no beauty left

bb

(Silence)

bb

Time has increased, there is no honour left

bb

Ruin and war and the blood is flowing

bb

There are only walls left, walls standing up

bb

Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary

bb

Destruction and jealousy ; there is no trust left.

Stars are switched off, and the sun went down

bb

There is neither good, nor happiness, nor luck left

bb

There are no trees left ; birds stopped singing

bb

There are no neither nights nor days left; darkness only

bb

Desolation, hell, there is no beauty left

bb

Time has increased, there is no honour left

Barraaaaa! Barraaaaa, barraaaa, barraaaaaa!

 
Andy Dufresne said:
#19 - Tombstone

Most quotable movie ever?
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I would say so. My first college roommate had the amazing talent of reciting, word for word, three movies: Tombstone, Young Guns and Young Guns II. It was a nightly occurrence after a few drinks to get a performance of every Doc Holiday speaking part. 

 
#18 - The Iron Giant 

Hogarth Hughes: [in the Giant's mind] You are who you choose to be. 

The Iron Giant: Superman....

It tiptoes ever so slightly on the edge of being anti-gun but in general terms it IS bad to kill and guns are also used for defense so it gets a pass because all of the rest of it is so magnificent.

I love the artwork style.

And the message is perfect for building a kid's movie around.

Hogarth says grace. :lmao:

Hogarth Hughes: Welcome to downtown Coolsville! Population: us.

Trivia:

On the scene where the Giant looks over the hill at Rockwell, there is a moving star near the moon on the right hand side. This is meant to be Sputnik.

In order to better blend the computer-generated Giant into the traditionally animated film, technicians came up with a program that gave the Giant's lines a slight "wobble," in order to match the natural line imperfections found in hand-drawn animation.

 
Hmm this last one is sort of a little out of the blue I might say.

Don't get me wrong, I liked it, just based on your past movies, surprised it is this high.

 
Gotta admit I'm getting a bit worried about the direction this seems to have taken.  Maybe should have aborted after 20...

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
:confused: There have been TWO movies after twenty.

And if you don't like Tombstone I don't know what to say.
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I do like Tombstone but you seemed to have named every single awesome movie already.  The list has to go downhill from here and while TIG is a nice movie, higher than Jurassic Park?

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
#19 - Tombstone

Most quotable movie ever? Earp is the quintessential man's man and Holliday is eminently quotable.

Poor Johnny Tyler. Lol

Not the most western Western there is, but it's possibly the best ride.

"You gonna do something or just stand there and bleed?"

"Oh. Johnny, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now."

"Why Ed does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend... I just don't think I could bear it!"

"There is no 'good life' Wyatt. It's just life. Get on with it."

"I'm your huckleberry."

"You're a daisy if you do!"
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My favorite quote in this one is one of Wyatt's posse asking Doc why he's doing this.

Doc: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend

Posse Dude: Hell, I got lots of friends

Doc: I don't

Runnerup by Kate - "you touch that gun & I'll burn you down"

 
Iron Giant is a masterpiece, but I can't watch it because of how sad the ending makes me (Superman.) It's like the Futurama episode with Fry's dog, I get choked up even thinking about it. :bag:

 
My guess at AD's top 10:

(not sure about the order)

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek 2, E.T. Back to the Future, T2, The Incredibles, Ghostbusters, Die Hard, and Miller's Crossing
 
#18 is quality.  And so often overlooked.

This list is the best I've seen in a long time (I don't often pay too much attention to these lists, though, so don't get too cocky, Andy).  It makes me really want to see the ones I haven't gotten around to yet.

 
Tom Skerritt said:
Never said you shouldn't like them. Knowing what I know of you from an internet message board, I expected more. That's all. Lighten up Frances! Oooh, there's one! You should like Stripes. That should be on your list.  :thumbup:
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It was just a question. :shrug:

I was wondering what you thought was missing. 

Stripes is a comedy and I'm not a fan of the genre in general. There's, what, five on my list?

 
#17 - Return of the Jedi

I never really minded the Ewoks. They were plucky little creatures and served the story's purpose enough - don't underestimate the little guy!

As much as Lucas tried, he couldn't destroy my love for the original trilogy. I fooled him! I have the DVD copies that have the movies as they're supposed to be - The pre-doctored ones. The ones where Vader silently tosses the Emperor down the shaft, and there's not some stranger ghost standing with Yoda and Kenobi - it's old Anakin.

The effects were awesome then and they still amaze today.

Oh, and it was Like that brought balance to the Force. He showed that you don't have to be emotionally void to remain on the Light Side.

Trivia:

During the shot in which Salacius Crumb is chewing off C-3PO's eye, Anthony Daniels had a panic attack while in the C-3PO suit. While filming, he didn't actually say his lines (all his lines were dubbed in post-production), but repeated "Get me up. Get me up." over and over. This take is the take used in the final film.

The Emperor's chair was mechanized so that it could rotate however, the mechanism never worked properly, so Ian McDiarmid had to make it move by shuffling his feet.

According to Gary Kurtz, the original treatment ended with Luke Skywalker walking off alone and exhausted like the hero in a Spaghetti Western, going into seclusion by walking out into the Tatooine desert. George Lucas opted for a happier ending to encourage higher merchandise sales.

 
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Tom Skerritt said:
It's your list man. Carry on.
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I'm interested now, though. Based on your perception of me, I'm wondering what movies you thought I'd like that haven't been included. 

I already realize how easily you could psychoanalyze someone based off of a list like this.

Clearly, the events where I was bullied as a kindergartener had a big effect on me (Eff you, J. Larson!). I like movies where bullies get theirs and heroes do the right thing and prevail.

So, I AM curious.

 
#16 - Christine

John Carpenter + Stephen King + THE Classic Car + Rock & Roll = :excited:

I have a dream car and it is a 1958 Plymouth Fury. I mean, who wouldn't fall in love with THIS? I mean, just look at her face...I mean...grill! Check out her breasts...I mean...fins! 

I was never even close to as nerdy as Arnie Cunningham, but I was a bit nerdy so I can identify with him.

I read quite a bit of Stephen King too and this was my favorite of his stories. The movie and book are different but the spirit is similar.

And the soundtrack, both with Carpenter's score and the inclusion of cleverly chosen rock music, is perfect.

What other song would you kill fat Moochie to other than Little Bitty Pretty One?

And The Viscounts' Harlem Nocturne is ideal "stripper" music for when Christine puts herself back together (also an amazing feat of practical special effects).

The inclusion of Alexandra Paul and a very young Kelly Preston doesn't hurt either.

Oh, and yes, bullies get theirs. Eff you Buddy Repperton & Co.!

Trivia:

Alexandra Paul pranked John Carpenter by having her twin sister dress as Leigh and report to the set. Carpenter recalled, "It was like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Alexandra was a pod person."

After reading over the book, actor Keith Gordon (Arnie) and the costume designer came up with a visual way to show Arnie being possessed by Christine. As the movie progresses, Arnie begins to wear clothes that reflect the era of Christine's make. At various points, especially when Arnie is yelling at Leigh on the phone, Arnie is seen wearing button up shirts open with black t-shirts, black pants, and boots like a 1950's "greaser". When he's talking to Junkins (both times), he's wearing a leather vest over a button up shirt (a nod to western TV shows which were popular in the 50's), and he even starts to wear a red suede jacket like James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

 
Your list.  Wouldn't be on mine but I won't argue that it's one of the best of King's movies in my opinion.  Just a fun ride.

 
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