OT Tortured Gets Cultured (Classic Movies)!

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  1. riverman

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    Spielberg
    Lucas
    Tarantino
    Spike Lee
    Ron Howard
    James Cameron
    Ridley Scott
    Coen Brothers
    Scorsesi
    Coppola
    Google these guys and chain watch their work....very few clinkers in the lot Must see directors in my view
     
  2. TorturedBlazerFan

    TorturedBlazerFan Well-Known Member

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    I’ll update the list when I get home. Think Im gonna watch animal house after the game tonight, will either keep the good times rolling or make me feel better about the day...

    Theres a few in here I havent heard of!

    Also I have watched Monte Python and the Holy Grail, but Im gonna watch it again... cause reasons?
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    History of the World Part 1
    Spaceballs
    Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    The Third Man
    Lost Horizons
    The Horn Blows at Midnight
    Love Thy Neighbor
    Support Your Local Sheriff
    Support Your Local Gunfighter
    The Apple Dumpling Gang (Don Knotts and Tim Conway)
     
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    I think there are better movies than these but I find the best movies from your list to be:
    Animal House - Movie was shot at U of O but the horse incident happened at Oregon State;
    Stalag 17;
    Sunset Blvd.;
    The Wizard of Oz;
    Caddy Shack;
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail;
    Full Metal Jacket;
    and
    Master and Commander.

    Some other great movies include:
    The Big Country (one of my top five);
    To Kill a Mockingbird;
    Gone With the Wind (my aunt was the babysitter for the author, Margaret Mitchell. My aunt and my uncle were invited to the premier in Atlanta and to a party afterwards with all the big movie stars including Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh);
    Forbidden Planet (an old science fiction that still has some great scenes in it that are nearly timeless);
    Soylent Green;
    West Side Story;
    Oklahoma (one of my top five);
    South Pacific;
    Mr. Roberts (one of my top five, perhaps the best);
    Raiders of the Lost Ark;
    Star Wars;
    2001 A Space Odyssey;
    Chinatown;
    Lawrence of Arabia;
    [anything with Harold Lloyd in it];
    I'll think of more later.
     
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    Oh, I've heard of most of these and seen a few. Added them to my list!
     
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    Here's a some more:
    No Way Out Early Kevin Costner movie
    Into the Night Early Michelle Pfiefer and Jeff Goldblum (somewhat B movie but entertaining)
    Lord of the Ring trilogy great movies
    The Hobbit trilogy same as Lord of the Rings
    Pulp Fiction John Travolta's vomeback movie directed by Quintin Tarantino
    Get Shorty another John Travolta
    The Spiderman movies
     
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    I've seen the Lord of the Rings / Hobbit Movies, Interesting story but I was having trouble reading when I was little so a family friend gave The Hobbit to help me "stay interested" and so outside of "Doctor Seuss" That was my first book! Been a huge Tolkien fan basically my entire life. Watched the Peter Jackson movies and they were really good though I didn't think the Hobbit Trilogy was as good. Still added most of those too my list.
     
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    You definitely need to watch Pulp Fiction if you haven't. I was listening to the Mark and Brian show which was a syndicated radio show based out of LA and they had Tarantino on as a guest and he told the story of how he hooked up with John Travolta. Tarantino invited Travolta out to his place on the coast to discuss the movie and Travolta goes up to his door (a multi unit complex) and knocks and Tarantino opens the door where Travolta without stepping into his place describes the unit to a T. It turns out when Travolta first came to Hollywood that he had rented the exact same unit years before
     
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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    Seven Samurai
    Yojimbo
     
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    I liked Peter Jackson's King Kong with Naomi Watts...I also liked the original with Faye Ray and the one with Jessica Lang....Peter Jackson is a great filmmaker in my view.
     
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    Jason and the Argonauts....the original
    Jason and the Argonauts.jpg
     
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    No Way Out and The War are the only two good movies Costner ever made.
     
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    What? No Field of Dreams or Dances with Wolves? I'm a big Kevin Costner fan. I also enjoyed Message in a Bottle, For the Love of the Game, Thirteen Men, JFK, Untouchables, ah hell, I just like Kevin Costner. :bgrin:
     
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    I think he's a lousy actor. He just seemed to fit the bill in The War and No Way Out.
     
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    I left off
    12 Angry Men;
    The Ox-Bow Incident;
    The Grapes of Wrath.
     
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    He acted very well in The War.
     
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    Pulp Fiction was good but Inglourious Basterds and Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2 are better.
     
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    I liked them all, but I would still put Pulp Fiction ahead of them. I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.
     
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    Some of the following movies may be classified in several genres (I chose one in the list) and some may have already been mentioned. Some are quite old and some are new. The Must-see movies, in my opinion, are emboldened in blue.

    Enjoy!

    Westerns

    Open Range
    Tombstone
    The Stalking Moon
    Coroner Creek
    Ride the High Country
    The Cowboys
    True Grit (with John Wayne)
    Big Jake
    Broken Trail (A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while herding their horses from Oregon to Wyoming)
    Crossfire Trail
    Last Stand at Sabre River
    Quigley Down Under
    Forsaken
    The Magnificent Seven (with Yul Brynner)
    Westworld

    Drama
    Apollo 13
    A Walk to Remember (Coming of age kind of love story)
    The Choice
    The Family Man
    Pretty in Pink
    Mr. Destiny
    Stand By Me
    Secondhand Lions
    Philadelphia
    Milo and Otis (family oriented)
    Babe (also family oriented)

    Sci-Fi
    Oblivion
    The Thirteenth Floor
    Planet of the Apes (with Charlton Heston)
    The Last Man on Earth (with Vincent Price)
    Back to the Future Trilogy (genre mix with this collection)
    Frequency
    Jurassic Park
    Mission to Mars
    Highlander
    The Martian
    Sphere
    The War of the Worlds (original)
    Star Trek Movies (with original cast)
    Terminator (the first two movies)

    War
    Gettysburg
    Gods and Generals
    Sahara (with Humphrey Bogart)
    The Caine Mutiny
    The Dirty Dozen
    Das Boot (one of the finest submarine movies ever)
    From Here to Eternity (more like a drama in a war setting)
    Flyboys (World War I aerial Dogfights)
    The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen)

    Comedy
    Ghostbusters
    Groundhog Day
    Grumpy Old Men
    Gremlins
    The Great Outdoors
    Uncle Buck
    Summer Rental
    Porky's
    Multiplicity
    The Dream Team
    Short Circuit

    Action
    Ben-Hur (with Charlton Heston)
    The Last Samurai
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Hunt for Red October
    In the Heart of the Sea
    Outlander (similar to Beowulf)
    The 13th Warrior (also similar to Beowulf)

    Animated

    Toy Story Trilogy
    Monsters Inc
    The Secret of NIMH
    The Lion King
    Wall-E
    The Fox and the Hound
    The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Watch when you can without your children
    The Flowers of War (1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing in China)
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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