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MUST SEE MOVIES
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Posted on 08/21/2011 12:00:53 PM PDT by mamelukesabre

I'm interested in what everyone would add to the list. In no particular order, my list of 15 "must see" movies of the last 30 years...

Bladerunner
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Stand and deliver
The big labowski
Buckaroo banzai
Oh brother where art thou?
Phenomenon
Fargo
Open range
Cindarella man
The Hitcher
Pay it forward
Once upon a time in america
Forest Gump
Last of the mohicans


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KEYWORDS: cinema; movies; theater
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To: mamelukesabre
Braveheart
Godfather I & II (I pretend they didn't make the 3rd one.)
The 1st Pirates of the Caribbean
Errol Flynn's version of Robin Hood
81 posted on 08/21/2011 1:01:23 PM PDT by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear; mamelukesabre

You're right about Phenomenon, tho'.

82 posted on 08/21/2011 1:02:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("Es Ist Für Mich.")
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To: mamelukesabre

* Conan the Librarian
* Attack of the Killer Fish (in 3-D)
* Firestorm
* Death Blow
* Fine Midnight
* Valley Horse


83 posted on 08/21/2011 1:03:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: mamelukesabre

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
The Road Warrior


84 posted on 08/21/2011 1:03:49 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Rennes Templar

If you liked The King’s Speech, I would also highly recommend “The Gathering Storm”, which was a Made-for-HBO movie, starring Albert Finney as Churchill. Just fantastic.


85 posted on 08/21/2011 1:05:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: yarddog

I first stumbled across the Zatoichi films back when IFC used to do “Samurai Saturdays.” I was hooked in short order.

Although the first few were in black and white, the remaining series got the most from color and incredibly beautiful composition and framing. Every frame seemed like a still photo.

The anti-hero character of Zatoichi was the epitome of “walk softly but carry a big stick”, and was a perfect folk-hero for a nation still licking its wounds from its stunning defeat twenty years earlier.

Beautiful films that have held up very nicely, even with the passage of time.


86 posted on 08/21/2011 1:06:33 PM PDT by Tigerized
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To: Track9

One of my favourite Clint shows heh.


87 posted on 08/21/2011 1:08:25 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Tigerized
Good movies all, but they DID say "in the last 30 years......

Sorry! :)

88 posted on 08/21/2011 1:10:06 PM PDT by China Clipper (My favorite animals usually are found next to the rice on my plate.)
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To: Armedanddangerous
Someone made a remake of Red Dawn last year, but it’s been on the shelf since the problems with MGM and Sony.

I wanna see if, but who knows if it will go straight to video?

They started off with the Chinese as the enemy then they went to the North Koreans. This rework they are changing it to rabid Ohio State fans, but everyone knows the Wolverines would be completely ineffective against them so now it's back to the drawing boards.

89 posted on 08/21/2011 1:10:11 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Repubs and Dems are arguing whether to pour 9 or 10 buckets of gasoline on a burning house.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
How about.. The Great Santini...

Sorry, but when it gets to the part where he discovers his pacifist son is having an interracial gay affair with the housemaid's son, I just start to snigger. Talk about piling on!

90 posted on 08/21/2011 1:11:21 PM PDT by Grut
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To: Domandred

that movie is excellent, I’ve seen it more times than I care to admit heh.


91 posted on 08/21/2011 1:13:49 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I just laugh watching Moonstruck. I’m of Italian extraction, it’s a rip.

I watched it with some people from the midwest once, and they turned to me and said, Italians aren’t really like that, are they? Ha! I love Nick Cage’s overacting in it. “I lost my hand! I lost my bride!”

I watched it with some people from the midwest once, and they turned to me and said, Italians aren’t really like that, are they? Ha! (Actually yes, Italians can overact in real life)

I forgot to mention a “woman’s film” I just love, Miss Potter. The closest thing to a tearjerker I’ll watch.


92 posted on 08/21/2011 1:15:39 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat; mamelukesabre

““The Lives of Others”, made in 2006. What was life really like behind the Iron Curtain? This movie, albeit fictional, shows the viewer...very well made, good story telling.”

Found it on youtube (14 parts, german w english subtitles) and started watching it - very well done.

Thanks for the tip.


93 posted on 08/21/2011 1:15:39 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: mamelukesabre
Where is Jack Ryan?

The Hunt for Red October

Patriot Games

Clear and Present Danger

Where is Jason Bourne?

Bourne Identity

Bourne Supremacy

Bourne Ultimatum

94 posted on 08/21/2011 1:15:50 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: mamelukesabre

Lonesome Dove

(I know it isn’t a Movie)

TT


95 posted on 08/21/2011 1:16:09 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
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To: mamelukesabre; All

in no particular order:

Secondhand Lions
Out Of The Past
The Big Sleep
Paths Of Glory
King Rat
The Wild Bunch
Sweet Smell Of Success
Who’ll Stop The Rain
The Thing From Another World
Seconds

Jack.


96 posted on 08/21/2011 1:16:17 PM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: China Clipper

Yeah, I caught the “30 year” thing after the posts.

It is Sunday, so my strict attention to these things is part time.


97 posted on 08/21/2011 1:18:19 PM PDT by Tigerized
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To: mamelukesabre

Add
True Grit and The African Queen and I’m all there.


98 posted on 08/21/2011 1:18:53 PM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: mamelukesabre

What? No “Blazing Saddles”, no “History of the World”, no “Patton”, no “Apocalypse Now” no “Midnight Cowboy”?


99 posted on 08/21/2011 1:20:40 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: mamelukesabre
Apollo 13. Every knows how it ends but it still keeps you on the edge of your seat.
100 posted on 08/21/2011 1:22:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Repubs and Dems are arguing whether to pour 9 or 10 buckets of gasoline on a burning house.)
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