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What Movies define you?? (35 Viewers)

Doh!! I'm an idiot, no idea how I left out Shawshank and Andy Dufresne. Get busy living.... or get busy dying. Top 5 movie overall too, if not the best.

Saving Private Ryan also hit me pretty deep when I first saw it (freshman in college), as my family was always very admiring/respectful of the military. In high school I had seriously considered attending West Point or the Air Force Academy, so that movie really struck me when it came out me several years later and further locked in those sentiments. Band of Brothers probably even more so.

Lots of great movies listed, keep them coming, this is a fun read :) I adore pretty much anything from Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Villeneuve, Shyamalan, most of Scorsese, as well as the older Reitman and Zemeckis flics. Maybe not in terms of "defining" or relating (at least for me), but just great entertainment. And my guilty pleasure admission are Adam Sandler movies. You know they're bad, but I enjoy watching something that reminds me not to take myself too seriously. Plus he's always got a ridiculously hot chic next to him lol.
 
Taghkanic said:
Brazil
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AH. Much as I loved everything-Python, I hated Brazil I've only walked out on two movies in my life: Brazil, and Police Academy 2.
Taghkanic said:
Dr. Strangelove
Grosse Point Blank
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Ah, I forgot these two. GPB in particular is in my top-ten all-time for sure.

Which reference to John Cusack makes me think also of Being John Malkovich, another great, great flick. I'm forever trying to get off on the 7-1/2th floor. :cool
 
pltrgyst said:
AH. Much as I loved everything-Python, I hated Brazil I've only walked out on two movies in my life: Brazil, and Police Academy 2.
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I can’t imagine walking out of Brazil. It’s an amazingly good movie, both very funny, very quotable, and very dark.

And as the decades have gone by, its message (about surveillance, superficial entertainment, bureaucratic nightmares, cronyism, state-sponsored torture, terrorism, and man’s desire to be free) become more and more prescient.

Gilliam nailed it.
 
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Snatch
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Airplane
Fight Club
John Wick
Romancing the Stone
Live Die Repeat
Step Brothers
Blazing Saddles
District 9
Full Metal Jacket
Godfather part 2
Trainspotting
Whiplash
300
What we do in the shadows
Waiting

Those are just about the only movies I will watch more than once a year.
 
99%evil said:
Snatch
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Airplane
Fight Club
John Wick
Romancing the Stone
Live Die Repeat
Step Brothers
Blazing Saddles
District 9
Full Metal Jacket
Godfather part 2
Trainspotting
Whiplash
300
What we do in the shadows
Waiting

Those are just about the only movies I will watch more than once a year.
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Snatch, forgot that one, love it. Reservoir Dogs too.
 
Movies that I’ll watch EVERY time they’re on, no matter how many times I’ve seen ‘em - and I’ve seen all these a bunch…

The Searchers
North By Northwest
Rounders
Caddyshack
Animal House
McLintock!
The Natural
Groundhog Day
The Quiet Man
The Sting
The Shawshank Redemption - My personal all time favorite movie
Get Shorty
Fletch
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Batman (the Keaton - Nicholson version)
Raiders of the Lost Ark


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Outlaw Josie Wales
Tombstone
Shawshank Redemption
Casino
Raging Bull
A Fish Called Wanda
Caddyshack
Young Frankenstein
Animal House Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son!
Breaking Bad!! Walter White. Say my name!!
 
I saw this image yesterday and found it surprisingly moving. What’s interesting to me is that I had no use for either of these guys in the 80s. Seemed like Spader was typecast as a douche and Downey as a weirdo.
But by like 2000, and ever since, I’m in love with both of them.
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I was talking with a friend recently about films that we love that are very under-rated and no one talks about anymore.
the first was:
After Hours, 1985. Martin Scorcese directed with Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette. One of my favorites of all time.
also
True Romance, 1993. Written by Quentin Tarantino, with Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and one of my favorite characters of all time, Gary Oldman as Drexyl the pimp.
 
War
- Saving Private Ryan (kind of ruins all war movies before it due to the extreme realism)
- Full Metal Jacket (my wife and I saw this on our first date and R Lee Ermy is hilarious)
- Band of Brothers

Gangster
- Goodfellas
- Godfather 1 & 2
- Casino

Scifi / Fantasy
- Lord of the Rings movies (fan of the books and the movies were well done)
- Game of Thrones (seasons before dipshit TV writers screwed it up)

Middle aged guy
- Fight Club
- Breaking Bad
- Falling Down (I'm the bad guy? How did that happen? I did everything they told me to.)

Fun movies from when I was young
- Ferris Bueller
- Sixteen Candles
- Caddyshack
 
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As a child, with the understanding that good triumphs evil, and that all life has worth and value:
Fern Gully
Angles in the Outfield
Pete’s Dragon
Liar Liar
Flight of the Navigator
Homeward Bound
Mrs. Doubtfire
Space Jam
Blank Check
The Pursuit of Happyness

After realizing the above is bullshit, adults don’t have all the answers and are not infallible:
Harsh Times
Boondocks Saints
End of Watch
Gone Girl
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Beautiful Mind
Memento
Good Will Hunting
Brothers


Escaping the truth above:
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Moulin Rouge
Star Wars
The Prestige
The Grand Budapest Hotel
PS I Love You
It’s Complicated
40 Year Old Virgin
The Lobster
I Love You, Man
Superbad
Uncut Gems
Hustle
 
BarrieJ3 said:
Mrs. Doubtfire
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My brother saw Mrs. Doubtfire about a dozen times when he lived in a remote village in South America.

There was only one TV in town. People would stand outside the owner’s house to watch through the window.

They would also project movies on the central square, but would only get a new film reel delivered every 4-6 weeks. One month it was Mrs. Doubtfire, so my brother saw it as many times as he could stand.

The only other entertainment was drinking homemade corn liquor, made by chewing the corn and spitting it into a jug with some sugar.
 
Taghkanic said:
R.I.P., King

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I saw Blue Velvet in high school and Wild At Heart in college. Both really stuck with me. Twin Peaks came out during college, too, and the common rooms were packed every week to see the next episode.

It may be difficult for people who were born after some of his groundbreaking work came out to realize how he changed both TV and movies radically. His influence is everywhere.

Lynch was a true artist of the sort they used to mint regularly in the early 20th Century. Weird, driven, visionary, did his own thing. Not many left, unfortunately.

I gather he had to flee his home in LA during the last week of his life, and the horrible air quality can’t have helped his emphysema. I’m not sure whether his home and crazy collections survived.
 
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