DLs top 10

tapout said:

Man I'm out of the loop never seen half those u guys said ;(

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Hey, tap watch Paint Your Wagon (1969) with Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and a very hot Jean Seberg. I hate musicals but this is one of my all time top 4 movies. This is a solid comedy from the beginning. They have Lee Marvin singing along with Clint Eastwood. You'd think 'what the hell?' but the whole movie works. watch it, you won't be disappointed.

Tell you what, if you don't like it, I'll send you a good stick as an apology for wasting your time.

Hey that brings "Cat Ballou" to mind. Another western comedy with Lee Marvin.

DGJ said:

Hey, tap watch Paint Your Wagon (1969) with Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and a very hot Jean Seberg. I hate musicals but this is one of my all time top 4 movies. This is a solid comedy from the beginning. They have Lee Marvin singing along with Clint Eastwood. You'd think 'what the hell?' but the whole movie works. watch it, you won't be disappointed.

Tell you what, if you don't like it, I'll send you a good stick as an apology for wasting your time.

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Dealllll is it on netflix ?

Oh my goodness, I can't believe I forgot "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman.

The Jerk with Steve Martin

National Treasure and the sequel Book of Secrets (and National Treasure 3 is coming).

Nicholas Cage and Johnny Depp generally mean a strange movie.

They just keep coming: The Maltese Falcon, It's a Mad, Mad World, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

tonygraz said:

They just keep coming: The Maltese Falcon, It's a Mad, Mad World, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

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Three GREAT movies!!!

This is a good discussion, we may not all agree on the best, but you have to admit, these are all movies worth seeing at least once.

1. Casablanca - Timeless film made back when the cast could act and Hollywood could tell a story without special effects. Watch it and report back on how many cliche's are in the American lexicon thanks to this movie.

2. Blade Runner - A dystopian future that could occur in our lifetime. Get the directors cut.

3. The Fifth Element - Anyone else want to negotiate?

4. Forbidden Planet - Monsters of the id.

5. The Outlaw Josey Wales - I notice that when you get to disliking someone they're not around for very long either.

6. Alien - The creepiest monster movie ever made. Compare this one to Mimic and Pitch Black.

7. The Maltese Falcon - (It's) the stuff that dreams are made of.

8. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

9. Mulholland Falls - See, that's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser.

10. Monsters Inc. - Get the DVD and watch the outakes after the watching the movie.

Honorable mention (In no particular order):
Once Upon a Time in the West - Henry Fonda plays the most cold blooded killer ever.

Rio Bravo and El Dorado - Howard Hawks shoots the same movie with John Wayne and a different supporting cast.

The Godfather - You can rent the mansion where they filmed the Horses head scene for 600K a month.

Ronin - The box isn't as important as who wants the box.

LA Confidential - Would be in my top ten except that the movie drags on a bit.

Brazil and THX 1138 - variations of a dystopian future.

The Big Sleep - Bogart and Bacall in a finely crafted story.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Enrico Morricone's haunting soundtrack sets the tone for this western.

Yojimbo and Sanjuro - Toshiro Mifune at his finest. Yojimbo was the story used for a Fistfull of Dollars (Clint Eastwood) and Last Man Standing (Bruce Willis)

The Matrix - Everything is illusion.

Dune - (The scifi channel mini series)

Bullet - The mother of car chase scenes (even if they passed that green Volkswagon several times).

The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Pulp Fiction - You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.

The Sorcerer - Driving a truck load of dynamite through the jungle.

House of Games - Cons working a mark.

The Package - Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones.

FX - Brian Brown and Brian Dennehy turn the tables on a crooked US Attorney.

Trinity and Beyond - A documentary of atmospheric nuclear testing. The only thing I didn't like about this documentary was how the sound track was diddled to synch up the sound of the explosion.

Predator - If it bleeds we can kill it. (Thanks Tony)

tonygraz said:

It's a Mad, Mad World

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I still smile when I think of the opening scene where Jimmy Durate kicks the bucket. It set the tone for the whole movie.

Uggghh! How on earth could I forget The Fifth Element. <hand to forehead>

I would like to end this, but then The Terminator and sequels came to mind and that morphed into the othe Shwartzenegger films Total Recall and Predator

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975

tonygraz said:

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975

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This one isn't on my list because it was depressing at multiple levels. At one level it was depressing for reasons similar to why I don't care for Gandhi, The Searchers, or The Deer Hunter.
At the second level this film was propaganda to encourage public support of de-institutionalization, a movement that started in the sixties. A Supreme Court Decision that allowed mental patients to refuse treatment accelerated the movement. This film emphasized the absolute worst of what was wrong with mental hospitals while portraying the patients as mostly normal. The fruits of de-institutionalization can be found in the large percentage of mentally ill homeless living on the streets of our cities and in the extreme violence committed at places like Virgina Tech, Littleton, Aurora and Sandy Hook which were all committed by someone who was mentally ill.

I didn't see it that way and rather than depressing, I choose realistic. At any rate, it and the Deer Hunter were still good movies.