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So many more I could add. Couldn't stop at just 10, had to go 12.

Papillon

The Shawshank Redemption

Bad Boys - Sean Penn 1983 film, not the Will Smith versions.

Pulp Fiction

The Perfect Storm

Blazing Saddles

Tommy Boy

Sn a tch (Brad Pitt)

Vacation

Drugstore Cowboy

The Outsiders

Slapshot

Edit: Can't believe the word "snatc h" got censored. 

 

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11 minutes ago, RangerDave said:

Am I the only one who thinks Citizen Kane was a stupid movie?  Just dumb.  "Oh, my life is so bad because I miss my childhood sled!"  Ugh...

I remember it being on channel 7's "Movies for a Sunday Afternoon."  My sister and I blurted out after the childhood scene ended, "it's the sled."

There is great direction, production, characterisation, and such in the movie -- but when the answer to the motivating plot point is immediately obvious to an 8 year old and his 7 year old sister, I figure that qualifies it as over-rated.

Addendum: the point of the sled is symbolic -- it was the last time Kane was really himself.  It symbolises his loss of identity and explains why he had no empathy and that all his achievements rang hollow in the end.

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7 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said:

I remember it being on channel 7's "Movies for a Sunday Afternoon."  My sister and I blurted out after the childhood scene ended, "it's the sled."

There is great direction, production, characterisation, and such in the movie -- but when the answer to the motivating plot point is immediately obvious to an 8 year old and his 7 year old sister, I figure that qualifies it as over-rated.

Addendum: the point of the sled is symbolic -- it was the last time Kane was really himself.  It symbolises his loss of identity and explains why he had no empathy and that all his achievements rang hollow in the end.

I get that it was very symbolic and that it may have been very avant-gard for its time.  I understand that people can really appreciate that type of movie.  I guess I am just big into artsy-type movies.  Give me good acting and good writing - that's all I need.

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The Terminator

Speed

Animal House

Caddyshack

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Talladega Nights

Ronin

Pulp Fiction

Inglorious Basterds

The Matrix

Full Metal Jacket

LA Confidential

The Man who Shot Liberty Valance

Miller's Crossing

True Grit

Blade Runner

On the Waterfront

Royal Tenebaums

Stand by Me

 

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2 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

 

 

The Terminator

Speed

Animal House

Caddyshack

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Talladega Nights

Ronin

Pulp Fiction

Inglorious Basterds

The Matrix

Full Metal Jacket

LA Confidential

The Man who Shot Liberty Valance

Miller's Crossing

True Grit

Blade Runner

On the Waterfront

Royal Tenebaums

Stand by Me

 

Htf did we miss Blade Runner until now?  Great call.

(Caddyshack & Animal House, AND Stripes are all personal favorites, but don't know that any rise close to "perfect."  But glad you named a couple of them.)

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29 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Has anybody nominated Idiocracy yet, or are documentaries excluded from this exercise?

I put in Hoop Dreams, Five Fingers, Network, and You Don't Mess with the Zohan.  Documentaries are fair game.

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10 of My very Favorites yet to be mentioned:

Tin Cup

Bull Durham

The Fighter

The Machinist

Cinderella Man

The Color of Money

Cool Hand Luke

The Illusionist

Lars and the Real Girl

Legends of the Fall

Silver Linings Playbook

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

(neither of those 2 are actually my favourite in the series)

The Third Man (Welles’ best IMO)

The Departed

American Psycho

The Maltese Falcon

Spider-Man 2

No Country for Old Men

Hot Fuzz 

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Yea 2001 space odyssey is a masterpiece 

Blade Runner is so well done 

Close encounters of the third kind is great 

Oulaw Josey Wales 

The good, the bad, and the ugly is another masterpiece

Full metal jacket

The Outsiders 

The Revenant

Hidden Figures 

To kill a mockingbird 

Goodfellas

The Princess Bride

 

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26 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Last batch of additional nominees for tonight:

Tombstone

The Sting

A Clockwork Orange

Doctor Strangelove

2001- A Space Odyssey 

All the President's Men

Wow!  Three of my all time favorites....and the only two movies of the AFI's Top 100 that I could not stomach to watch to the end!

I just don't know what to say...  😱

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19 minutes ago, RangerDave said:

Wow!  Three of my all time favorites....and the only two movies of the AFI's Top 100 that I could not stomach to watch to the end!

I just don't know what to say...  😱

3-2-1.  Almost on pace for the playoffs.  😉

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T-34. Its a Russian language movie but there is english translation version. Its a ww2 fiction movie. I have seen it so many times.

Odd Thomas. If you haven't seen it just watch it without reading about it 

Sixth sense 

 

Back to the future

 

Ford vs Ferrari was great too.

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11 hours ago, ubkev said:

True Romance

 

5 hours ago, BagBoy said:

Apocalypse Now

Both of these, plus, as a number of posters have noted, Hoop Dreams.

Also: 

Manhattan

Annie Hall

Major League

Broken Arrow

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Agree with most on here. 

Just have to mention again. This Is Spinal Tap (as a professional audio engineer and musician, you have no idea how often, still, this movie is referenced)

Sixteen Candles

Stripes

When Harry Met Sally

Escape From New York

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