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    What kind of movies do you like?

    The excellent movie thread got me to thinking about this. I enjoy a lot of movies that the critics and even some of our RJ members would not care for very much.

    I enjoy a wide variety of movies. I think maybe my floor is higher than most as I seem to find enjoyment in some movies that are not so well received. Yet looking at my top 20 movies I have to believe a bunch would make your top 20 lists as well.

    So what kinds of movies do you like and how many of my top 20 would be in your top 20?

    1-Die Hard
    2-Tombstone
    3-GodFather 1 and 2
    4-Goodfellas
    5-Jurasic Park
    6-Young Frankenstein
    7-Plains Trains Automobiles
    8-Kill Bill 1 and 2
    9-Fargo
    10-Rio Lobo
    11- Pulp Fiction
    12-Big Jake
    13-Raiders of the Lost Ark
    14-Get Shorty
    15-The Big Sleep
    16- The Bourne Identity
    17- 12 Angry Men
    18- Poltergeist
    19-Home Alone
    20- The Outlaw Josey Wales
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Gregg View Post
    The excellent movie thread got me to thinking about this. I enjoy a lot of movies that the critics and even some of our RJ members would not care for very much.

    I enjoy a wide variety of movies. I think maybe my floor is higher than most as I seem to find enjoyment in some movies that are not so well received. Yet looking at my top 20 movies I have to believe a bunch would make your top 20 lists as well.

    So what kinds of movies do you like and how many of my top 20 would be in your top 20?

    1-Die Hard
    2-Tombstone
    3-GodFather 1 and 2
    4-Goodfellas
    5-Jurasic Park
    6-Young Frankenstein
    7-Plains Trains Automobiles
    8-Kill Bill 1 and 2
    9-Fargo
    10-Rio Lobo
    11- Pulp Fiction
    12-Big Jake
    13-Raiders of the Lost Ark
    14-Get Shorty
    15-The Big Sleep
    16- The Bourne Identity
    17- 12 Angry Men
    18- Poltergeist
    19-Home Alone
    20- The Outlaw Josey Wales
    I enjoy the bolded selection

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Gregg View Post
      The excellent movie thread got me to thinking about this. I enjoy a lot of movies that the critics and even some of our RJ members would not care for very much.

      I enjoy a wide variety of movies. I think maybe my floor is higher than most as I seem to find enjoyment in some movies that are not so well received. Yet looking at my top 20 movies I have to believe a bunch would make your top 20 lists as well.

      So what kinds of movies do you like and how many of my top 20 would be in your top 20?

      1-Die Hard
      2-Tombstone
      3-GodFather 1 and 2
      4-Goodfellas
      5-Jurasic Park
      6-Young Frankenstein
      7-Plains Trains Automobiles
      8-Kill Bill 1 and 2
      9-Fargo
      10-Rio Lobo
      11- Pulp Fiction
      12-Big Jake
      13-Raiders of the Lost Ark
      14-Get Shorty
      15-The Big Sleep
      16- The Bourne Identity
      17- 12 Angry Men
      18- Poltergeist
      19-Home Alone
      20- The Outlaw Josey Wales
      really enjoyed in bold, in my top 20 underlined.
      It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.

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      • #4
        What is The Godfather???


        Edit to say: I keed I keed!
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        • #5
          1-Die Hard
          2-Tombstone
          3-GodFather 1 and 2
          4-Goodfellas
          5-Jurasic Park
          6-Young Frankenstein
          7-Plains Trains Automobiles
          8-Kill Bill 1 and 2
          9-Fargo
          10-Rio Lobo
          11- Pulp Fiction
          12-Big Jake
          13-Raiders of the Lost Ark
          14-Get Shorty
          15-The Big Sleep
          16- The Bourne Identity
          17- 12 Angry Men
          18- Poltergeist
          19-Home Alone
          20- The Outlaw Josey Wales

          My favorite movies include The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Remember the Titans and Saving Private Ryan.

          I also can't turn away from football related movies and '80's movies. Can't Buy Me Love from the '80's is one of my guilty pleasures.
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          • #6
            I'd probably match you on:

            Tombstone
            Goodfellas
            Young Frankenstein
            Pulp Fiction
            Raiders of the Lost Ark
            Poltergeist

            My 20 favorites non-matches of the top of my head, in no particular order:

            Star Wars IV - A New Hope
            Apocalypse Now
            Planet Of The Apes
            Alien
            The Shining
            Boogie Nights
            High Fidelity
            Almost Famous
            Donnie Darko (director's cut)
            Fast Times At Ridgemont High
            Monty Python And The Holy Grail
            The Big Lebowski
            Clerks
            This Is Spinal Tap
            Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
            The Sixth Sense
            Blue Velvet
            Swingers
            Mrs. Doubtfire
            Love And Death (Woody Allen)

            Ask me tomorrow, and I'll probably have five different ones on my list. I'm already coming up with ones I should have included.
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            "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
            "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."

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            • #7
              Here's a list I came up with Jan 2015.

              1. 2001
              2. Godfather
              3. Memento
              4. Network
              5. Lawrence of Arabia
              6. Oldboy (original version)
              7. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
              8. The Thin Red Line
              9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
              10. Star Wars
              11. The Fellowship of the Ring
              12. Inception
              13. Full Metal Jacket
              14. The Big Lebowski
              15. Dr. Strangelove
              16. Fight Club
              17. Apocalypse Now
              18. Pulp Fiction
              19. The Dark Knight
              20. Amadeus
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              • #8
                Originally posted by DMT View Post
                Here's a list I came up with Jan 2015.
                I recall making a Top 20 list a couple of years ago ... do you have the link to the thread?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by senorsheep View Post
                  Ask me tomorrow, and I'll probably have five different ones on my list. I'm already coming up with ones I should have included.
                  This.
                  It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.

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                  • #10
                    I like movies that feature believable characters in tense situations, I also don't need everything neatly packaged at the end, or a happy ending. "The Thing" is the kind of movie I like better than "The Avengers"
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by johnnya24 View Post
                      I recall making a Top 20 list a couple of years ago ... do you have the link to the thread?
                      I pulled mine from an old email.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DMT View Post
                        I pulled mine from an old email.
                        Me too.

                        If I am remembering this correctly we did a movie draft and I sent myself my top 20 for drafting purposes.

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                        • #13
                          Here's an old list of mine (probably still pretty valid). As you see, I like many older movies and have a sentimental streak. Some you all probably wont like but others you will. Bogart is in 4 of these and Paul Newman is in 3:

                          1 - Casablanca
                          2 - Splendor In The Grass
                          3 - The Hustler
                          4 - Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
                          5 - Wuthering Heights (Olivier-Oberon version)
                          6 - The Grapes Of Wrath
                          7 - The Red Shoes (Powell-Pressburger version)
                          8 - Black Orpheus
                          9 - Hombre
                          10 - A Tale Of Two Cities ('50s British version w Dirk Bogarde)
                          11 - Waterloo Bridge (1940 version w Vivian Leigh)
                          12- This Property Is Condemned
                          13 - Heaven And Earth (Oliver Stone's movie)
                          14 - Sahara ('40s version w Bogart)
                          15 - The Four Feathers ('40s version w John Clement and Ralph Richardson)
                          16 - Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
                          17 - The Godfather I
                          18 - Requiem For A Heavyweight
                          19 - To Have And Have Not
                          20 - High Noon

                          Some other good ones that didnt quite make the list:
                          - The Seven Samurai
                          - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
                          - Miller's Crossing
                          - Witness For The Prosecution
                          - The Great White Hope

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                          • #14
                            Of your list, your Top 2 would likely make my list, and maybe Raiders would eek onto the list. I like a wide variety movies but making a top 20 would be close to impossible. But Daniel-Day Lewis would be all over my list.
                            Considering his only baseball post in the past year was bringing up a 3 year old thread to taunt Hornsby and he's never contributed a dime to our hatpass, perhaps?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by eldiablo505
                              I don't know that many of these would make my personal top 20 (Pulp Fiction probably would, probably Raiders, maybe Fargo, probably Godfather 2, maybe a couple others) but I definitely like all of these movies. I really love spaghetti westerns - sounds like you do, too.
                              I'm also a huge Nolan fan (3 of my top 20). Are you saying you liked the sequel better than the original Godfather?
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