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You must be talkin to me...............lmao

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I don't count?

I started to watch Bang Rajan this morning before Mass just to get an idea if it's suitable to watch with an 11 year old. No language or nudity problems but a whole lot of violence in the first 8 minutes. Still too early to tell if I'll let Michael watch it. Tog wrote me some about his martial arts background but I don't remember the details and no longer have that PM.

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Bob, my husband and I were just watching Taxi Driver and commenting on the fact that if Martin Scorsese had just made a single movie, and it had been Taxi Driver and then he kicked off, it would have been like the best movie ever.

I know he did a lot of other stuff, Godfather series etc, but the combo of him with Di Niro, Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel in Taxi Driver was so good it was almost scary. Then that creepy lowdown jazz score behind everything....goosebumps, LOL

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Absolutely G.A. it's tough for me to find a lot of flicks believable but that had a long lasting impression.

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Movies that I have to watch whenever they come on TV:

Saturday Night Fever (I know...waiting for the comments...)
Cool Hand Luke
The Breakfast Club

Other favorites:
Dead Poet's Society
St. Elmo's Fire
Unforgiven
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back
Superman II
Rambo: First Blood
Predator
Terminator

There's a bunch more, but that's a good start, LOL.

Frank

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Don't feel bad, I'm a compulsive SNF watcher myself. It drives my friends bonkers, because I'm normally a rudie and they just don't get it.

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[quote=bigdog;81299]Movies that I have to watch whenever they come on TV:
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Saturday Night Fever (I know...waiting for the comments...)
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Frank. You in the white polyester leisure suit?:2757::moonwalknaner:

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Neither do I.:ha::ha::ha:

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I'm new but will just jump in anyhow..lol

There are many movies that I love. I am a big John Wayne fan. I would add many of his movies to the inspirational category. Here are a few more:

The Ultimate Gift
Field of Dreams
Mr. Holland’s Opus
The Sound of Music
Follow Me Boys

Follow Me Boys has to be one of the best. It may be because it is just good, or be because of how it reminds me of a great uncle, who was just as dedicated the the boys....and was a similar scoutmaster.

aaron

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I tend to go more for horror and sci fi. Not exactly I guess what most would term "inspirational" but I don;t really watch movies to be inspired, just to be entertained.

My 14 year old and I were watching "Mimic 3" on Sci Fi last night and it was such a load of dog poo...whereas, the original 'Mimic' was actually a pretty good creepo film. It has these bugs....oh well you just have to see it LOL

We were discussing the fact at lunch today that 'back in the day' when mom was younger than her, maybe 10-11, all the movies with bugs and dinosaurs and stuff were mainly black and white films where they had taken actual creatures (like real ants or spiders of maybe an iguana for a dino film) and filmed it up real close, then put all the people in front of it all blown up huge so that they looked like little inch tall folks.

She finds it difficult to believe that they didn't have Industrial Light and Magic to build realistic monsters in the 1960's and early 70's like the shark in Jaws or the alien in Alien, and when I explained to her that we actually did not have computers capable of viewing, much less generating, graphics and stuff like we have now until well into the 90's she was stunned.

AH, youth....

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Lilith we continue to share the same good taste in film. Boy did I love the cheesy black and whites.

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I LOVE Braveheart...
"Ego nunquam pronunciari mendacium! Sed ego sum homo indomitus."

And Saturday Night Fever...
'... the only way you're gonna survive is to do what you think is right, not what they keep trying to jam you into. You let 'em do that and you're gonna end up in nothing but misery! "

The Breakfast Club...
"I never did it either. I'm not a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive liar. "

Clint Eastwood movie fan too...
"Well, if there's gonna be any shooting, I gotta get my rest."
"You know you're a nag? A very pretty one, but a nag."
"You think nuns don't laugh?...I don't know, I never spent the night with one before."

I could go on... :D

Hope it's a great Monday y'all! :) ~Cheryl

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most of the moves I'm really in to would probably not be ever ones cup of tea but i like moves that have well developed and interesting characters which leaves out 98% of all Hollywood moves
favorite moves going backward

Blue Citrus hart 2007
Shelter 2006
Lonely harts club 2001?
Crouching Tiger hidden Dragon 2000
What's Eating Gilbert Grape ?
dispirit lives (not that schlock seres)1999
Dead Poet society ? i cant remember I'm old you know!
Grand canyon 1993 ?
Eagles 1982
Omega Man 1974 ?
the Boys in the Band 1969/
Sunday bloody Sunday 1968?
Fahrenheit 1967
All About Eve 1967?
The guns over Navarron ? dont think i spelled that right but i was under 6 when it came out
thats just a drop in the bucket i didn't want to boar you but i think from the titles iv selected you can get a pretty good idea of my taste
Now if you want to open this up to favorite Books we could really get a good thread going

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Pauly I remember being scared out of my wits seeing the zombies with white eyes in the omega man... Now a days kids would just laugh. :ha:

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yes i just recently rewached it and i was thinking that the affects were hokey
but the character is still in my mind one that exemplifies a man that refuses to give up even in the face of futility and a bleak future a tuely selfless man wiling to give his life in the service of the week and helpless a true hero

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i left out one
QB7 not because it was such a good move but because it was the first move to bring out publicly what the Nazis doctors did to the people that were interred in the concentration camps i think it was 1965 or 1967ish black and white it left an indelible lesson in my mind i did not see the move until 1976 my parents felt it was to intense for me to watch at any younger an age this was were i developed my intense dislike of war and the cruelties of man ageist his fellow man sorry if thats preachy

Many of the moves i have listed are there because of the lessons i learned from them i have been impacted by every one of them in some way

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I have to break up the movies in categories:

Inspirational
Forest Gump
Field of Dreams
Dead Poets Society
Apollo 13

Comedy
Black Sheep
Tommy Boy
50 First Dates

SciFI
Fire in the Sky
Signs

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I realize, having reviewed my collection, that I've left some out.

Boondock Saints
Brazil
Waterworld (shut up, shut up!)
The Cotton Club
All of the Die Hards, but especially the first one
Space Cowboys.

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And I would definitely add Apollo 13, Mr. Holland's Opus, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, Black Hawk Down, Flags of Our Fathers, Exodus, and We Were Soldiers.

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"Defiance"