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Giampy

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #150 on: December 20, 2014, 12:05 PM »
Quote from: 40hz on December 20, 2014, 01:54 AM
+1! Awesome flick.

Among several unforgettable episodes, the following episode is the one that mainly touched me.
Music from 1:50 to 3:50, and especially the explosion of music at 2:43, always give me gooseflesh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV_j39lMwU8

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #151 on: December 20, 2014, 12:24 PM »
Quote from: Giampy on December 20, 2014, 12:05 PM
Music from 1:50 to 3:50

And then the famous phrase: "Are you able to play only... or are you able to shoot too?"
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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #152 on: December 23, 2014, 05:49 PM »
Quote from: Giampy on December 20, 2014, 12:05 PM
Quote from: 40hz on December 20, 2014, 01:54 AM
+1! Awesome flick.

Among several unforgettable episodes, the following episode is the one that mainly touched me.
Music from 1:50 to 3:50, and especially the explosion of music at 2:43, always give me gooseflesh:
This is close to one of my favorite movies of all time, along with it's companion OUTI America.  I went into both of these movies stone cold, and both times, as I was approaching the end of the movie, it hit me how crazy good everything was.  It just pounced upon me like that after 2+ hours.  What an experience.  I've tried so hard to try to understand what sergio leone is doing in these movies, but it's quite hard to explain.  Of the last 15 years, these two first-time watchings were probably my favorite movie experiences.  It usually takes me a lot of retrospect and analysis for me to call someone a genius, but by the end of these two movies, I was already thinking "This mutherf----r is goddamn genius."

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #153 on: December 23, 2014, 07:29 PM »
For the Holidays I'll toss in two of my favs. Both with Kate Hepburn. One of my favorite ladies of the silver screen.

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One film most definitely Christ-missy and (unusually) computer geeky is Desk Set. Hepburn as a company reference librarian (Anybody besides me remember those?) and Spencer Tracy, the computer whiz "methods engineer" who is overseeing the installation of several hulking room-sized IBM mainframes (then referred to as "electronic brains") in the NYC TV Network headquarters where Hepburn is working. Great back & forth dialogue, including a few rather risqué (for the times) moments.
One classic exchange here
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(Both characters are sitting on floor between the book stacks, half in the bag, and killing a bottle of Christmas Party champagne.)

Hepburn: Tell me, skipper,
why have you never married?
Don't you like women?


Tracy: Oh, yeah. Sure, sure. I like women,
specifically as a sex and specifically.


Hepburn: But not "pacifically"
enough to get married.


Tracy: Oh, no, no. That's not it at all.
I just never found anyone willing to put
up with me. Except Caroline, of course.
- Would you like more champagne?


Hepburn: No. What about "Caroline, of course?"


Tracy: Caroline?... Caroline was a model.


Hepburn: Mm-hmm.


Tracy:  5'9" in her stockinged feet.


Hepburn: You had occasion to measure her?


Tracy: Among other things.

Especially good is the dinner scene in Hepburn's apartment. IMO it's one of the best comedic moments to come out of that era of movie making.

Next up is the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby featuring Hepburn and Cary Grant this time out.

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #154 on: December 23, 2014, 09:15 PM »
OK I should update...based on the recommendations here, i've watched Gosford park.  Awesome!  It had a similar feel to that older epic that 40hz mentioned a while back.  That british class system always fascinates, and it really makes me angry to watch, I can't help it!
I've rewatched Clockwork Orange, Strangelove, Jacob's Ladder...all great.

I'll be seeing the Hobbit this week.  I don't expect much other than great special effects, at this point I've already been numbed by several unnecessary hours of Peter Jackson.

I want to go back and rewatch Chinatown.

I'm a sucker for twist endings, even though they've been overabused the last 20 years, maybe longer.  The Usual Suspects was the one that got me hooked in my teenage years, never seen one quite that good...but part of that is nostalgia.

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #155 on: December 23, 2014, 11:55 PM »
Quote from: superboyac on December 23, 2014, 09:15 PM
i've watched Gosford park.

I did too. Terrific movie! :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

Quote from: superboyac on December 23, 2014, 09:15 PM
I want to go back and rewatch Chinatown.

An absolute classic - and without a happy ending. That took guts. And also made it the film it is. :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #156 on: December 24, 2014, 04:30 AM »
One of my favorite movies of recent years:

The Cry of the Owl (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034302/

Featuring the great Paddy Considine.

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #157 on: October 03, 2015, 08:48 AM »
Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #158 on: October 03, 2015, 02:19 PM »
Quote from: bit on October 03, 2015, 08:48 AM
Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)


One of my favorite movies of all time.  I saw this as a young kid with my father and was blown away.

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #159 on: October 04, 2015, 02:12 AM »
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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #160 on: October 08, 2015, 10:04 PM »
Quote from: mouser on October 03, 2015, 02:19 PM
Quote from: bit on October 03, 2015, 08:48 AM
Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)

One of my favorite movies of all time.  I saw this as a young kid with my father and was blown away.

a very different film, but that sparked a memory for me of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness that I saw as a kid.
I just accidentally came across it today, and am watching it at the moment -- surprised to see it's in colour (we were late to get colour TV, but still showing my age...)
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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #161 on: October 09, 2015, 12:11 PM »
Amélie  - or Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain to give it it's full French release title.

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Probably one of the most unusual and charming "coming of age" films ever done. Audrey Tautou is flat out brilliant in the role.

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(Bit of trivia: This is the movie that inspired Travelocity's series of visiting gnome adverts.)

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #162 on: October 12, 2015, 05:56 AM »
I think movies  has a great roll in human life.It gives us entertainment, joy and sympathy i like movies very much. But am only like action movie most like mission impossible,ave-rangers etc.

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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #163 on: October 12, 2015, 01:24 PM »
I watched Ex Machina over the weekend. Good sci-fi flick.
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Re: What are your favorite movies?
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Re: What are your favorite movies? - A Man Called Horse.
« Reply #165 on: April 11, 2017, 07:14 AM »
A Man Called Horse (1970) - IMDb
I thought this was a great film. A sort of Wild West equivalent of the African Tarzan.

I watched the sequel last night - The Return of A Man Called Horse. Not so good. Predictable.

(There was a sequel book to Tarzan - The Return of Tarzan - which was a very good story IMHO - at least, i thought it was when I read all the Tarzan tales at age 12 or so.)    :)

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Re: What are your favorite movies? - A Man Called Horse.
« Reply #166 on: May 08, 2017, 05:22 PM »
Next - a precognition film starring Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel, and Julianne Moore.
It seems to me that I have heard one of the soundtracks in Next, in particular, #6 A Few Minutes of Your Time, as a full stand-alone classical music piece. Can anyone possibly help me to ID it; that is, the full classical musical piece #6 is based on?
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Re: What are your favorite movies?
« Reply #167 on: December 08, 2019, 05:02 PM »
The Connection -- a French film, originally La French. Showing what was happening in Marseille during The French Connection (must try to watch that again, I can barely remember it).
I saw the film dubbed (in German)

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It's not original; towards the end, especially, it lets you know what's going to happen.
But I found it a really great movie: beautifully crafted, but more importantly for me, the characters were gripping.
Reviews aren't that positive, I'd give it at least an eight:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2935564/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_connection
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