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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #30 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:55pm That's a good list Frances but you left a few out, Casablanca, for instance
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Uncle Meat Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2434 Tasmania Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #31 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 11:00pm Rear Window Hitchcock, Stewart, and Kelly. Perfect!
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Uncle Meat Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2434 Tasmania Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #32 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 11:07pm Also on my list: Great cast (all of them), plus I love good wine and the Californian wine region
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Uncle Meat Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2434 Tasmania Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #33 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 11:09pm And of course: Brilliant!
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Reply #34 - Mar 13^th, 2012 at 12:43am

Yadda wrote on Mar 11^th, 2012 at 3:42pm:

not in this particular order, but i enjoy these...

Pretty Woman
Master and Commander
Bourne - trilogy
LOTR - trilogy
The Last of the Mohicans [the music in the last scenes!]
Devils Advocate
Millers Crossing
Elizabeth [Cate B]
Get Shorty
Starship Troopers
Walk on Water [an Israeli, English lang film]
Man From Earth [not well known, but a good movie, imo]
The Reader
Amelie
Hard Candy
Lincoln Lawyer
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - trigogy
Serenity [and the Firefly TV series]
Pride and Prejudice [Jennifer Ehle vers.]

After reflection, and with respect to the title of this thread....

If i could only choose one movie, at this time, it would probably have to be the LOTR trilogy.

Because imo, LOTR was such a very large and difficult project, and yet, Peter Jackson succeeded in doing a superb job, in the 'execution' of [i.e. making it] the story, of putting it 'on film', for all time, for us all.

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Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why?
Reply #35 - Mar 13^th, 2012 at 1:01am

Grey wrote on Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:55pm:

That's a good list Frances but you left a few out, Casablanca, for instance

I'm not really a huge fan of Bogart, but I do have a DVD of Casablanca and of The Maltese Falcon (although I prefer the earlier Ricardo Cortez version, which I also have), The African Queen and Up the River.

Mention of Casablanca reminds me of one film I left off my list: Conrad Veidt's The Spy in Black.

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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #36 - Mar 13^th, 2012 at 12:53pm Awww they just don't make'em like that anymore.
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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #37 - Mar 13^th, 2012 at 12:55pm Probably ‘lock stock and two smoking barrels’. But it’s impossible to pick one movie Just exclude all Hollywood movies and you probably have my list of favourites
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Reply #38 - Mar 13^th, 2012 at 6:32pm

bobbythefap1 wrote on Mar 13^th, 2012 at 12:55pm:

Probably ‘lock stock and two smoking barrels’.

But it’s impossible to pick one movie

Just exclude all Hollywood movies and you probably have my list of favourites

Did you see that link to 'salt of the earth' I made near the begining PolPup? You'd enjoy that I'm sure, and the story behind the movie

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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #39 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 6:19am Bruce Lees 'enter the dragon'- just cool! Here's some that might be interesting,...haven't checked 'em out yet! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/art-documentaries-netflix_n_4809419.htm...
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Winston Smith Gold Member Offline Ministry of Truth Posts: 1549 Oceania Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #40 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 6:22am A bitt off-topic, but I find this scene from 'Pacific Rim' both profound and inspiring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv73Me9hTQs
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Reply #41 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 11:12am

It's hard to pick just one movie but if I had to it would be Notting Hill.
- it's such a feelgood movie
- Julia Roberts is just so gorgeous in it
- there is a lot of good humour in it
- it's probably Hugh Grant's best movie
- I've probably watched it more times than anything else, although not for about a year

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Alinta Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1470 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why? Reply #42 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 11:30am Can't decide between three...... Presumed Innocent The Life of David Gale Zero Effect ...great twists and turns in the plot....
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Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why?
Reply #43 - Feb 22^nd, 2014 at 2:40pm

Master and Commander
Gladiator
Cinderella Man
(Yes I think RC can act, I could have chucked in Romper Stomper and American Gangster as well, but 5 RC films seemed a bit OTT.)
The Big Lebowski
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Lives Of Others (German)
Captains Courageous
A Night At The Opera
Go West
The Big Store
Planes Trains and Automobiles
TED
Wristcutters A Love Story
The Tao Of Steve
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

It seems I could go on forever, I LOVE movies, and have thousands of faves, but that is a few of the top of my head.

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Re: Tell us your favourite movie and why?
Reply #44 - Feb 22^nd, 2014 at 2:44pm

bogarde73 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 11:12am:

It's hard to pick just one movie but if I had to it would be Notting Hill.
- it's such a feelgood movie
- Julia Roberts is just so gorgeous in it
- there is a lot of good humour in it
- it's probably Hugh Grant's best movie
- I've probably watched it more times than anything else, although not for about a year

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