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Originally posted by scherzo
Is it not in Spanish? I prefer Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, or French movies. Or, of course, English.
It's Swedish. But I don't mind what language a movie is in, as long as it's English or has English subtitles. 😉

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Originally posted by Gatecrasher
It's Swedish. But I don't mind what language a movie is in, as long as it's English or has English subtitles. 😉
Fair enough. I do prefer not being distracted from what's on a screen though. Interestingly, that's why I learned French -- to be able to watch the large French sections in the Battle of Algiers without having to have my eyes jerk all over the place while potentially missing something -- I'm a relatively slow English reader. 😉

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Originally posted by Gatecrasher
Cheers. I'm going to pop into the video store tomorrow. If you enjoy Gothic horror told though the eyes of a young boy, and you haven't seen it yet, check out "Let the Right One In" (Låt den Rätte Komma in) My favourite movie of 2008.
I saw this last week, an instant classic.. Stripped away the romance usually associated with the children of Cain 😉

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In no particular order...

Fight Club,
Wall E,
Delicatessen,
Amelie,
La Vita E bella,
Changeling,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
The Green Mile,
Amores Perros,
Hotel Rwanda,
Se7en,
Benjamin Button,
Forest Gump,
Cidade de deus,
Dancer in the dark,
O Brother, where art thou,
Atonement,
Leon,
Hero,
Lord of the rings

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Se7en
Isn't that spelt 'Sesevenen'?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Isn't that spelt 'Sesevenen'?
I believe it's just pronounced "seven."

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Originally posted by scherzo
The Devil's Backbone is an amazing movie.
Rented it. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for the tip.

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Originally posted by Gatecrasher
Rented it. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for the tip.
🙂 Glad to help.

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No particuliar Order

1. Alien
2. Swiss Family Robinson
3. The Odd Couple
4. Wages of Fear
5. Stagecoach
6. The Vikings
7. Jaws
8. Treasure island (Walt Disney 1950's)
9. The Old Maid (Bette Davis )
10. Plan 9 from Outer Space
11. The Graduate
12. 2001 Space Odyssey
13. The Pirates of Blood River *
14. A Miracle on 34th Street (the old b/w original)
15. The Music Box
16. Dr. Strangelove
17. West Side Story
18. True Grit
19. Clockwork Orange
20. White Heat


* Pirates of Blood River
Cheap Hammer film, they did not have the budget for a ship
so you get this pirate film with no pirate ship and no shots at all of the sea.
They go up and down a river on a raft!

But Christopher Lee portrays the best ever pirate captain seen on screen.
Much better than Johnny Depp and Robert Newton (Long John Silver).
The film is naff but I watch it now and then to see Lee, he is simply magnificent.

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Originally posted by scherzo
Have you seen "Devil's Backbone"?
Dude? Zardoz? No offense but that has to be one of the worst movies ever. Good for a laugh though. You might want to check ou Krull if you like that sort of thing.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
My list would be horizontal, I wouldn't try to say one was 'better' than another, how would you compare Mrs Doubtfire to Light the red lantern for instance, both on my list.
So in no particular order, Zardoz, 2001 space odyssey, Silent Running, Fargo, Contact, Silence of the Lambs, Birds, Citizen Kane, Mutiny on the Bounty (Marlin Brando version), Patriot ...[text shortened]... films I loved, and have seen twice, if anyone thinks there is one stinker in there, tell me!
I meant to respond to this one. Too many beers tonight

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1. Glengarry Glen Ross
2. The King Of Comedy
3. Love Liza
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. This Is Spinal Tap
6. Bad Boy Bubby
7. American Buffalo
8. Death And The Maiden
9. Elephant Man
9. This Boy's Life
10. Thin Red Line
11. Taxi Driver
11. Born On The Fourth Of July
12. Salvador
13. Big Night
13. Naked
14. Fahrenheit 451
15. Walker
15. Raging Bull
16. The Tailor Of Panama
17. Memento
17. Apocalypse Now
18. Jacknife
18. Tootsie
19. As Good As It gets
19. Eraserhead
20. Slacker

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Zardoz, 2001 space odyssey, Silent Running, Fargo, Contact, Silence of the Lambs, Birds, Citizen Kane, Mutiny on the Bounty (Marlin Brando version), Patriot Games, Hunt for Red October, Broken Trail, The man from Snowy river, The gods must be crazy, part one and part two, Mad Max, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Mrs. Doubtfire, Beautiful Mind, Light the red Lanter ...[text shortened]... the films I loved, and have seen twice, if anyone thinks there is one stinker in there, tell me!
Oooh, sonhouse, yours is one of those kinds of lists of films that makes me pore over my own wondering how I hadn't been able to include more of those you thought to choose!

Ohmygod you're right: 2001 space odyssey...

Silent Running (what about Dark Star too?),...

Fargo, Birds, ...

Mutiny on the Bounty (no no NO the Anthony Hopkins v Mel Gibson version using the long unmade David Lean script!), ...

...Pulp Fiction, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Amadeus, Godfather, Part 1 and part 2. All should have somehow made it onto my list.

What are you like? (Norfolk U.K. accent): [in direct response to your if anyone thinks there is one stinker in there, tell me!)

Kill Bill 1 and Kill Bill 2 (two films I found utterly utterly awful and worthless, even on post-ironic or proto-neo-ironic levels... simply cannot understand the wisespread admiration for these two... a true enigma to me... I concede that I may simply be totally in the wrong),

Mrs. Doubtfire (mmm alright... but wouldn't the 'cross dressing slot' be taken by the peerless "Tootsie"?),

Forest Gump (always feel more-than-irritated by its apparent message),

Shawshank Redemption (found it mawkish and contrivedly 'feel good' rather than a genuine study of the human condition... was I missing something? Loads of people rate it. Only watched it once. Any pointers if I were to try it again?)

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Originally posted by TSaffle
Dude? Zardoz? No offense but that has to be one of the worst movies ever. Good for a laugh though. You might want to check ou Krull if you like that sort of thing.
I said The Devil's Backbone.

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Originally posted by TSaffle
I meant to respond to this one. Too many beers tonight
Oh. OK. Sorry.

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