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you was faster than me ^^

Sin City is one of my favourite videos, too. Fight Club is very good, too. But Sin City has that great Soundtrack and the sound in the movie is that perfect.

Sin City was awesome the first time. The second time I felt ill watching it...never again.

i think ill second that one

Great point Buck! Perhaps that's why I also like Dead Poets Society and Stand By Me. While those have a moral they reflect some of what you're getting at because they deal with youth and angst over growing up.

Casablanca is pure movie magic, for me it is easily my favourite film.

I'm afraid that, for me, Casablanca can join The Usual Suspects (irony) on my list of highly praised movies that leave me cold. Add Heat to that list too.

There's a funny review of Casablanca on Mr. Cranky:

http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/casablanca.html

Of course, the site's rate scale ranges from "Almost Tolerable" to "Proof that Jesus died in vain," so hating everything is kind of his shtick.

If you haven't already, you should check out some of Terry Gilliam's older stuff (Brazil, Time Bandits, etc).

Yeah, Time Bandits is good, though my little brother loves it more than I do. But it is a good one

I love that movie too. It's one of my favorite comedies. It was a comedy... right?

Of course, if I really took the time to think about all of the movies I have seen, I might alter my list slightly. That being said, "Casablanca" is a movie that can be watched over and over again. There are so many good scenes and great dialogue. Some movies when you watch a second or third time, you find yourself waiting for the good parts and tuning out the other parts. I am a big Bogart fan also, and have about 10 of his movies in my DVD collection and the Maltese Falcon is one of them ( also enjoyed the book ). I love Film Noir movies and old classic musicals such as "Singing in the Rain". My most recent DVD purchase was "A Tale Of Two Cities" - great movie and great book ( my favorite author is Charles Dickens ).

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funniest dirty movie ever made.
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'W'! 'A'! 'N'! 'G'!
Emperor Wang's the one for me!
Without him the planet Porno...
Would be oh so forlorno!

(Not sure what tune that was to.)

Leon! Yes. I second this.

Cool Hand Luke is another good film in the same vein. They make good films to watch together; I've always found it interesting that The Shawshank Redemption is the darker film, but has a happy ending - while Cool Hand Luke is much lighter, but has an unhappy ending.

Oh joy of joys! I thought I'd be the only person to mention Cool Hand Luke...which is my favourite film.

This is one of the few stories where I liked the movie better than the book. Especially the ending. In the book, Red is on the bus hoping to see his friend, but in the movie, he sees him on the beach and it brings a sense of positive closure I really liked.

Plus-freakin-plus.

I enjoy turning my brain off and watching a decent action flick as much as the next person, but most of them in the last few years are next-to-unwatchable thanks to jump-cut and shakey-cam combination. It always gives me the impression that the filmmakers or actors were incapable of doing convincing fight scenes, so they just resort to a cheap trick to make the scenes seem intense without actually showing anything.

Oh noooo. I saw that movie as a child - still gives me the creep very much. Never slept worse than that night.

I'm totally with you on that. It really set the stage for the 'epic trilogy' that we're now seeing so much of (X-Men, Spiderman, LotR).

I think epic trilogies are more likely inspired by Star Wars. '80s had a lot of such long movie series.

Right on, there were some great adventure-comedy films in the 80s. Someone has mentioned Indiana Jones already.

And we can't forget Ghostbusters! Some of the best lines ever:

"Listen! Do you smell that?"
"When someone asks if you're a god, you say 'YES'!"

I.... am a knight who says Nee

It is not Nee, it is Ni!

Oh no I said it! And I said it again. No stop it! It it it!

EDIT: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberry!

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you left out the best part of that.... let me indulge myself...

"don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. our mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberry!"


lol priceless

Haha yes yes

I fart in your general direction

I don't understand the insult but it's really funny

Amen reverend!

Except for no Super Troopers and obviously Holy Grail before Life of Brian

The problem is that most so-called hacker movies gets all/most of the tech wrong.

Anti-Trust - information theory says the claimed super hack is impossible.

Strange-Days - Ok I loved this one but logic about how people would and did react does not match the real-world I live in. Mob do not think that fast.

Avalon - left me cold.

Existenz - left me cold too.

The Thirteen Floor - seemed like a weak, feel-good ending to me.

TakeDown - Left me disliking Kevin Mitnick as a person.

The Matrix - got so many things wrong I don't even want to try and list them.

SwordFish - Starring Johnie T. Do I need to say more?

Real Genius - Was a great movie where the details went over the head of most viewers.

The Net - Where hacker is being hunted to keep a secret but never considers to the final five minutes that posting the secret on the internet will remove the reason they are hunting her. Plus what women send her time dressing up to look like S.B. did and has no-one who remembers what she looks like?

Hackers - these kids could not hack themselves out of a paper bag. There were a few good ideas but their approach again was all wrong. Worse the evil master plan would not have worked in real-life, at-least no for all the ships, and if one ship reports in what have the finger points right back at the bad guys.

WarGames - you don't crack codes that way.

Disclosure - loved the interface.

TRON - Fun but no real tech.

Johnny Mnemonic - was out of date before it even hit the theatres.

Sneakers - also upset me by having the tech so wrong.

Enemy of the State - Did the tech wrong, but I can see the desire for such control existing in the real world already.

Pirates of Silicon Valley - was interesting to watch.

Just a few comments.

Hackers was a good movie if you liked comedy thanks to cereal killer. I think thats why I like it a lot, it was just pure comedy for me. Not my favorite movie but very fun to watch.