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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: harvey andrews Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:40 PM Micca!..where are you....it's like a desert out here.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Micca Date: 19 Aug 03 - 03:40 AM I am right here in London, UK, Harvey!!!! and will be at Towersey this w/e |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Hrothgar Date: 19 Aug 03 - 05:45 AM Has nobody mentioned "A Man for All Seasons"? The Sting Casablanca Twelve Angry men O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Star Wars trilogy |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Beardy Date: 19 Aug 03 - 07:39 AM Been comtemplating for a few days, finally have a shortlist The Vanishing - Original Dutch/Belgian film NOT dreadful US remake! Gregorys Girl Local Hero Round Midnight Das Boot - German film about U-Boat crew Ice Cold in Alex - Good choice jOhn from Hull La Belle Noiseuse & most Will Hay comedies - one very dodgy one set in Africa Stewart |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Aug 03 - 08:31 AM Blazing Saddles Quiet Man McClintock Hamburger Hill (but only seen immediately after "Porkchop Hill") Monty Python and the Holy Grail Cat Ballou (except for Jane Fonda) Young Frankenstein Darby O'Gill and the Little People (for the SFX) 2001: A Space Odyssey Raiders of the Lost Ark I. Jones and the Temple of Doom ...lots of others, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Kim C Date: 19 Aug 03 - 10:00 AM So many of these I haven't seen but have wanted to! I'll have to start a new To See List. Mister bought us Zulu on DVD - I was so tired the night we decided to watch it, I fell asleep. No reflection on the movie - I was just sacked out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: kendall Date: 19 Aug 03 - 10:25 AM Moby Dick Count of Monte Cristo Barry Lyndon A Man for all seasons |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Aug 03 - 10:29 AM Come to think of it.... Lion in Winter Rooster Cogburn True Grit Hmmm...two out of three with K. Hepburn...could be a trend.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: EBarnacle1 Date: 20 Aug 03 - 10:07 AM I am shocked and amazed that no one has mentioned The Gods Must be Crazy or The Sea Hawk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,Angie Date: 20 Aug 03 - 11:30 AM Thelma and Louise ( although I refused to think they die at the end ! ) Sleepers Angela's Ashes |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,cetmst Date: 20 Aug 03 - 11:47 AM Not previously mentioned - Night of the Hunter directed by Charles Laughton with Robert Mitchum as his most villainous, also Wizard of Oz, Destry Rides Again, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, the first Pink Panther and many of its sequels. Other favorites already mentioned - Casablanca, African Queen, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Arsenic and Old Lace, Dr. Zhivago, Henry V, Richard III, It Happened One Night, Man For All Seasons, Rear Window, The Gods Must Be Crazy |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Kim C Date: 20 Aug 03 - 12:08 PM I do love The Gods Must Be Crazy. My favorite part is when the Reverend cracks his crankcase and the Jeep ends up hanging from a tree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Raptor Date: 21 Aug 03 - 01:19 PM Rush Club Paradise Oh Brother Apocalypse Now A Perfect Storm The Last Waltz AND... The Pirates of the Carribean (GO SEE IT NOW!!!) Raptor |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: thosp Date: 21 Aug 03 - 10:38 PM many of the aforementioned -- but my #1 by far "King of Hearts" Dir.Phillippe de Broka peace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Peter Kasin Date: 22 Aug 03 - 02:52 AM Ely - Yes, that's the one. The giant is called "Talos," (pronounce TAYloss). Ray Harryhausen's special effects are legendary. I was (was?) obsessed with that movie, too. Chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Leo Condie Date: 25 Aug 03 - 06:29 PM Wow. Being There really was as good as I had hoped it would be. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,boromirh Date: 26 Aug 03 - 03:11 PM My favorite movie of all time is entitled, "Babette's Feast"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: jacqui c Date: 26 Aug 03 - 03:19 PM LOTR 1 & 2 Independence Day Deep Impact Pirates of the Caribean A Matter of Life and Death The Magic Cottage JC Superstar Star Wars (all of) Sleepless in Seattle Matrix 1 & 2 Shakespeare in Love American Pie |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Amergin Date: 26 Aug 03 - 03:43 PM Das Boot henry V (branagh) Titus (hopkins) Indiscreet (boy ingrid bergman was so beautiful....sigh) High Noon The Trouble With Harry Matewan Secret of Roan Innish usual Suspects the sci fi channel version of Dune and the Children of Dune Apocolypse Now the first two LOTR films.... the first two Godfather movies (the third one sucked...but then Coppola was just trying to make a quick buck....the reason he made it was because he was in debt up to his ears) |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Kim C Date: 27 Aug 03 - 06:23 AM I watched a great one last night: The Four Feathers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: alanabit Date: 28 Aug 03 - 01:43 PM I am going to recall so many more when I have posted this. I am always astonished that Sidney Poittier's amazing performance in, "Cry The Beloved Country," is never mentioned. My list (for the time being): Cry The Beloved Country Harvey (film is crap but James Stewart saves it) It's A Wonderful Life To Kill A Mokingbird Spinal Tap Twelve 'O Clock High Support Your Local Sheriff (Maybe James Garner's funniest ever) 12 Angry Men The Third Man The Producers Das Boot M - Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder Es Geschah am Helligem Tag "Heimat" was shown as a TV series over here. Yes, it was excellent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Art Thieme Date: 29 Aug 03 - 01:02 AM Dead Man Monte Walsh (with Lee Marvin) Viva Zapata Grapes Of Wrath Spender In The Grass Treasure Of The Sierra Madre I Know Where I'm Going Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (the original) Wyatt Earp Vanilla Sky Field Of Dreams Easy Tider Mountains Of The Moon High Fidelity Reds Fried Green Tomatoes Night Of The Hunter/Iguana Black Robe The Organizer Young Man With A Horn Bird Round Midnight Lone Star Tender Mercies Edward Scissorhands Devil In A Blue Dress Julia Touch Of Evil The Fugitive Smoke Signals Three Kings To Have And Have Not Adventures Of A Young Man (E. Hemingway) Support Your Local Sheriff Baron Munchausen Excaliber The Dead Dick Tracey Dark City Relic Gilbert Grape Blade Runner (director's cut) Slaughterhouse Five many more... And probably three quarters of the films you all have mentioned too. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Beardy Date: 02 Sep 03 - 08:50 AM One I forgot in my earlier post Black Narcissus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: curmudgeon Date: 02 Sep 03 - 10:54 AM While I found lots of my favorites on this list, and one or two that I positively loathed, here's a few more that I didn't see there, or possibly overlooked. Z Tom Jones Far From the Madding Crowd Moby Dick -- Gregory Peck version with A.L. Lloyd The Fearless Vampire Killers Damn the Defiant The Charge of the Light Brigade - Tony Richardson version The Doctor and the Devils The 400 Blows Wild Boys of the Road The Innocents Blue Country The Grey Fox Picnic At Hanging Rock The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith ...and most of the films of Luis Bunuel, David Lynch, and John Waters. There are more, but not coming to me at the moment -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Benjamin Date: 02 Sep 03 - 03:03 PM I forgot to put Real Genius and Big Trouble in Little China on my list. Add those two! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: annamill Date: 02 Sep 03 - 10:06 PM Reading this list, I came across a frightening thought! I could honestly say, with a couple of exceptions, I seen every single movie listed here! Well, I did own a video store. Ely and ChantyRanger, I'm not sure if you mentioned the name of that movie, but it was called "Jason and the Argonauts" and there was another called "The Golden Fleece" in the same vein. Have a good night. Annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,heric Date: 20 Oct 03 - 06:44 PM They've closed the list Rick Fielding started requesting "film" recommnedations, but I need to thank the so many of you there who recommended Babette's Feast, also recommended by boromirh above. It was extraordinary, a delight, and I wouldn't have had it without you - you know who you are. Yes, it was like Chocolat or at least that's what one expects, but with so much more subtlety, compassion and tact. Instead of the puritans (boo) being taught by the sensualist (yay), it was so much more, ending with the stars coming closer that night. The minister's inane pronouncements turned out to be profound; the caricatured French romancer turned out to be a sincere seeker and admirer of fine artists. I've waited quite a while for a movie like that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: muppett Date: 21 Oct 03 - 05:01 AM Whiskey Galore The Railway Children The Blue Lamp The Lavender Hill Mob Brighton Rock |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,rick Date: 21 Oct 03 - 10:20 AM 1- SLEUTH 2- DAS BOOT 3- SHALL WE DANCE 4- MOSTLY MARTHA 5- MY LEFT FOOT 6- BULLETS OVER BROADWAY 7- THE MUSIC MAN 8- THE MIRACLE WORKER 9- TOPSY-TURVY 10- THE REMAINS OF THE DAY 11- BEST IN SHOW 12- CONSPIRACY |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Peter Kasin Date: 22 Oct 03 - 12:45 AM Yes, annamill, I mentioned the title in my post. It was my favorite childhod movie, and I bought it recently on video. I have to say Talos doesn't look so intimidating on video :-). I just saw Stanley Kubrick's third feature, "The Killing." Very good crime drama about a group of men who conspire to rob a racetrack. There's a scene where a chess club member outwrestles ten policemen! Chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,Suzanne Date: 22 Oct 03 - 04:20 AM The King of Hearts Babette's Feast Chocolat Duets Dancer in the Dark The Party (Peter Sellers) LOTR Braveheart Haiku Tunnel Gladiator George of the Jungle - only because I appreciate a nicely built young man in a loin cloth... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Oct 03 - 08:46 PM Okay... Comedies: A Fish Called Wanda Groundhog Day Ruthless People Love At First Bite Raising Arizona Almost anything with Peter Sellers in it...which includes the Pink Panther movies, The Party, The Mouse That Roared, Being There, and others... Westerns: The Magnificent Seven A Fistful of Dollars A Few Dollars More The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Indians: Dances With Wolves Windwalker Last of the Mohicans (the one with Daniel Day-Lewis) Son of the Morning Star (a 2-part series) Geronimo Little Big Man War/History: Lawrence of Arabia Das Boot Damn the Defiant Gladiator (for the amazing scene in the German forests) Empire of the Sun Seven Years in Tibet Adventure/comedy: Romancing the Stone Pirates of the Caribbean (AAA+++!!!!) Film Noire: Anything with Humphrey Bogart in it... And better yet with Lauren Bacall and Bogart! Body Heat (yowsa!)(Kathleen Turner as the greatest vamp of all time!) Winona Ryder flicks: Beetlejuice Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichel Heathers Bram Stoker's Dracula Mermaids Reality Bites Little Women (I enjoy almost any movie with Winona in it...almost...) Horror: original King Kong original Godzilla Bram Stoker's Dracula Cops 'n Robbers: The Fugitive Dick Tracey Bonnie & Clyde The Untouchables Mobsters Miller's Crossing Sci-Fi: Original Star Wars trilogy Total Recall Terminator 1,2, & 3 One or two of the Star Trek ones...with Picard Animated: Pocahontas Mulan Lion King Ants Dinosaur Toy Story I guess that'll do for now. One could go on almost forever at this... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Oct 03 - 12:53 PM Oh, and to favorite comedies I would like to add... Galaxy Quest (delightful Star Trek parody!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 23 Oct 03 - 10:40 PM Off da top o ma 'ed... Night on Earth, Babbett's Feast, Shakespeare in Love, Lord of the Rings, 2001, Babe, Field of Dreams, Moll Flanders, A Clockwork Orange, King of Hearts, Titanic, Harry Potter, Brazil, Koyanisquatsi, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Prisoner (tv series), Monty Pyhon et all... The Black Stallion, Black Orpheus, The Wicker Man, Circle of Friends, Sophie's Choice, Mindwalk, Hamlet, Silent Running, Shoot the Piano Player, Amelie, Quadaphenia, Il Mostro, Flight of the Phoenix, The Party, Dr. Strangelove, Bob Roberts, ...(And sadly)... The Big Labousky...ttr |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: hobbitwoman Date: 24 Oct 03 - 09:13 PM Let's see: I've always said Encino Man and George of the Jungle were my favorites... but lately would have to add LOTR I & II, and who said Pirates of the Carribean AAA+++? I agree totally! I have a horrible memory so will have to go w/ the ones I've seen relatively recently - A Beautiful Mind, Mr. Holland's Opus (ok, not so recent) - and I still cry every time I watch ET. Ok, not recent at all. Now I've got a cat lying on my arm and it's getting hard to type! Annie |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Oct 03 - 09:54 PM Whistle Down The Wind Harry and Tonto Trip To Bountiful The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner Tender Mercies Jurassic Park (I don't just like movies with touchy-feely messages..) Pete Kelly's Blues The Warriors The Little Fugitive with Richie Andrusco And a lot of the movies listed above. I love movies, and films, too.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,npole@bright.net Date: 09 Dec 04 - 01:04 PM I am looking for a list of Sidney Poittier Movies the names the date |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,chinmusic Date: 09 Dec 04 - 02:56 PM 1- Harold and Maude 2- Topsy-Turvy 3- The Madness Of King George 4- Sleuth 5- Shall We Dance (Japanese Version) 6- Best In Show 7- Waiting For Guffman 8- Funny Girl 9- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 10- Play It Again Sam 11- Dr. Strangelove 12- My Left Foot 13- Ordinary People 14- The Sting 15- The Hustler 16- Cool Hand Luke 17- All The President's Men 18- Das Boot 19- Tender Mercies 20- The Godfather I and II 21- Remains Of The Day 22- Babe 23- Bull Durham 24- I Never Sang For My Father 25- Network |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Ellenpoly Date: 10 Dec 04 - 09:50 AM npole@bright.net Click below for answer to your query on Sidney Poitier: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001627/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: alanabit Date: 10 Dec 04 - 10:23 AM I am going to correct my statement in an earlier post, in which I mentioned, "Harvey - the film is crap but James Stewart saves it". I have seen it again this year and my kids fell in love with it. I can see that it is a low budget movie with a good script and some excellent performances - especially from Josephine Hull. It's a compassionate, funny film and I will never say another word against it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: clueless don Date: 10 Dec 04 - 12:22 PM I'm probably like most people in that my favo(u)rite movie varies from one time to the next. For a long time, I would have answered "Local Hero", but while I still like it, I would no longer call it my favorite. Bill D mentioned "The Wrong Box". Another Sellers movie from the same era that I like is "Only Two Can Play". Growing up, my mother and I had a particular favorite that we watched whenever it came on TV: "The Mating Game", with Tony Randall and Debbie Reynolds. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Firecat Date: 10 Dec 04 - 04:23 PM Depends on what mood I'm in. My Top Ten, in no particular order are:- Maybe Baby The Rocky Horror Picture Show Evita Oliver! Notting Hill Four Weddings and a Funeral Johnny English Seeing Double Mulan Robin Hood: Men In Tights Mind you, the Carry Ons deserve an honourable mention! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:37 PM As mentioned above, it depends on the mood I'm in. Some good ones have been listed. I recently introduced my teenaged daughter to the pleasures of the ULTIMATE "chick flick"--Now, Voyager. I recently saw on satellite the last half of the earlier film (Love Affair) that was remade as An Affair to Remember. While there are all sorts of interesting observations that can be made about the two (like how Irene Dunn and Cary Grant were costars in several earlier films but made their marks separately with these) I think the earlier film, with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunn was far better. The dialog is artificial and there are bits of the story that are just plain missing in An Affair to Remember that are spelled out in Love Affair. And the scene when Boyer discovers the answer to why she didn't turn up--his response is much more measured and nuanced than the large grimace that Grant offers Deborah Kerr. While Kerr did alright as a singer, it was only alright, never really convincing. I have no difficulty believing Irene Dunn as a singer. Wow--there's a reason there were so many musicals made when she hit Hollywood! Finally, and I wonder that this didn't dawn on the folks casting An Affair to Remember, I find Charles Boyer much more convincing as a Frenchman and Irene Dunn much more convincing as an American than Grant (was he French or Italian?) and Kerr (who are both British). Duh. I've ordered the earlier film as a holiday present to myself this year. SRS--okay--off of my film critic soap box now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: alanabit Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:39 AM Archibald Alexander Leach may have been born in Bristol, but like Bob Hope (whatever his real name was) nobody ever thinks of them as anything other than 100% American in my experience. Mind you, I wouldn't make any great claims for Leach as an actor either! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Dec 04 - 10:57 PM I don't think of him as American, I think of him as British, and he doesn't sound remotely American. And I sure wouldn't compare Cary Grant (Archie) with Bob Hope. Bob Hope was a big "yuck" in my book. He may have been popular, but I never liked him. He lived here from such an early age that he sounded American. Grant didn't. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 11 Dec 04 - 11:42 PM There are soooo many... But lately, I really enjoyed Gary Sinese in THE IMPOSTER. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies? From: GUEST,Clareling Date: 12 Dec 04 - 03:55 AM Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" ---my brothers are quite a bit older than me and grew up watching this movie, I loved it every time and just fell into the story of the evil Skekses and the gentle Urru and the poor Gelflings... everyone else was watching 90's cartoons and I was either watching that or "The Neverending Story." Lots of good monsters and crazy characters with good intentions but bad results... "Strictly Ballroom" is for the older more sarcastic me :). Funny with an odd flair to it. "Moulin Rouge" ( "Lili," very old movie with a big heart and a lot of innocence. And for a complete opposite side "Hellboy," "The Leage of Extradonary Gentlemen," "Catch Me if you Can," "Some Like it Hot," "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar" "Pump Up The Volume" is a fav I discovered while in high school... I had never seen anything that focused on the act and promotion of rebellion. It was strong, not like people talk about on 'some other level', but still strong. "Joe's Apartment"--a stupid, messed up, piece of trash movie... and I die laughing every time... |
