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My 20 most favored movies of all time. What are yours?

 

The Godfather

One Flow Over The Coockoo's Nest

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (plus Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More) spaghetti western trilogy

Unce Upon a Time in America

Unce Upon a Time in the West

Taxi Drive

A Clockwork Orange

Bourne Trilogy

French Connection

Blazzing Saddles

Casino

Goodfellas

Airplane

The Great Dictator

Gold Rush

Raging Bull

Dirty Harry

Scarface

A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers)

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Top 25

 

 

Dumb and Dumber

Superbad

Old School

Scarface

A Bronx Tale

Goodfellas

Bad Santa

The Warriors

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Star Wars (both trilogies)

Football Factory

Green street hooligans 

Friday

The Hangover

Slumdog Millionaire

Oceans 11

Donnie Darko

The Replacements

Animal House

Jurassic Park

The Punisher (2004)

The Myst

Herald and Kumar go to Whitecastle 

Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2

Basketball Diaries

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My favourite films:

Chinatown

300 Spartans (1962 film)

Lawrence of Arabia

Ten Commandments

El Cid

Jesus of Nazareth

The Godfather (only I and II)

Gandhi

Star Wars (all of them)

The Longest Day

Schindler's List

Indiana Jones (I and II)

Casablanca

Gone with the Wind

Back to the Future

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Ben Hur

The Mummy (1999 film)

 

Greek films

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Just finished watching Daredevil. Every time I think I'm tired of superhero movies/shows, Marvel knocks another one out of the park. A very welcomed change of pace from most superhero flicks, much darker and more violent (almost gruesome) than what we're used to. Fisk might be the best comic book villain I've seen yet.

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Just finished watching Daredevil. Every time I think I'm tired of superhero movies/shows, Marvel knocks another one out of the park. A very welcomed change of pace from most superhero flicks, much darker and more violent (almost gruesome) than what we're used to. Fisk might be the best comic book villain I've seen yet.

Agreed! Very entertaining show! The show has been renewed for a 2nd season by Netflix! Can't wait for some more mayhem in Hellskitchen!

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Just watched the new Mad Max - incredible. Absolutely the best action flick I've seen in years, and it blew Avengers 2 out of the water. Of the two hour run time, maybe 20 minutes were without insane action. HIGHLY recommended.

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As a film on its own, it was good. It was entertaining, but within the context and grandness of Jurassic Park it could of been much more. I'm not mentioning the 2nd and 3rd movies because this movie pretty much neglects them all together. So in the respect that this is a sequel to Jurassic Park 1, then it was a let down in my opinion.

 

The character build up was non existent and some of the dull scenarios they threw at us to try and tie the characters together were ridiculous. That scene where the kids talk about their parents divorce was unnecessary and awkward, we only saw these people on screen for 2 minutes, thus we don't and shouldn't give a F*** about their divorce.  Then Pratt's character was a complete cliche action film , good looking, former military, blahh blahh badass character who really could of done much more in the movie and wasn't the least bit interesting to begin with. The main female character was non-existent and her stupid date/relationship with Pratt was awkward and forced. Masrani's character is so forced I don't even know where to start. The stupid accent where I couldn't understand s%$#!? The fact that you can't even tell what the F*** his role really is? Or the fact that he died in 2 seconds and no one, including the audience gave a s%$#!. You look at characters like Dr. Malcom, Dr. Grant, John Hammond, EVEN the lawyer , and you compare them to this movie and there's no comparison.  

 

Honestly if from one scene to the other every character we saw on screen died, I really don't think the audience would care or feel any sort of way about it. The only character I would of been sad about dying was the one guy int he control panel with the Jurassic Park T-shirt. In his 10 minutes of screen time he was more interesting than any of the main characters.

 

 

The CGI was too much and it didn't feel real at any point. I watch Jurassic Park, a movie from 1993 and I feel like I can be in this world, it feels so real. You watch this movie, especially towards the end and it might as well be a video game. The T-rex especially was botched hard. 

 

 

Even the storyline was badly done where they pretty much turned the movie into a good dinosaur-bad dinosaur wrestling match where 3 of the "good guy" dinosaurs tag teamed to take out the bad guy dinosaur.  What a weak, soulless ending in my opinion. Then there's scenes like the ridiculous motorcycle scene that was not the least bit believable. The scene where Masrani aka THE LEAST COMPETENT person to fly a helicopter, flies a helicopter to attempt to kill the I-rex. The scene where Claire is just waiting in the truck with the kids and they're watching everything only to have the I-rex come right to them was so predictable as was the rest of the movie. 

 

 

I was entertained and the first few minutes of the movie made my hair stand up and come close to tearing, especially after seeing the Hammond statue. Even the first minutes of the I-Rext were good. Then a quarter of the way through the movie the writers got lazy and let the CGI guys have a field day. 

 

 

Jurassic Park was so epic because it not only opened our eyes up to a new world of special effects and captured our imaginations, but because it made the audience think. It provided a dilemma where the characters and the audience were genuinely conflicted about this new world. The characters were smart, they were interesting, and entertaining. The Jurassic World characters are boring, cliche, uninteresting. The world they bring us into is mesmerizing and beautiful for the first few minutes but as the movie progresses, the plot is so all over the place and directionless that we get no sense of theme park. This is a typical CGI dumb viewers movie, just like most things out recently. 

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I'm not so much of a Bond fanatic as you guys, but I thought Spectre was good. I'd put it up there with Skyfall and Casino Royale, but royale is still (and probably always will be) my favourite Bond film. Batista was good playing Mr. Hinx, and I found out on my way back from the cinema that he is half Greek/half Philippino, funnily enough I was with my Philippino friend at the time too.

 

I found most of the action scenes enjoyable, apart from that bit at the end when he managed to shoot down the helicopter with a little pistol. Not so much because its improbable, just because it seemed anti-climatic. But I don't think Oberhauser died in the end, so I'm guessing they wanted an ending where he is still alive, incase he might reappear in a later film.

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I saw Spectre the other night and must say was pleasantly surprised. I was entertained and for the 1st time since Casino Royale felt like I was watching a 007 movie! (Q actually supplied cool tech, James hooked up with chicks for Queen and Country, James saves the girl, James confronts a global threat, etc...). I find that Quantum and Skyfall had lost their way and tried a little too much to be like Jason Bourne movies...

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