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To: Jhoffa_
In addition to "Reservoir Dogs"

I have that on DVD but I can't bear the scene with the cop being tortured. That's just too over the edge for me so I "FF" past it. Otherwise, good film with some great scenes. My favorite scene is where everybody sits around at the breakfast place (at the very beginning) and get into this big argument over tipping. I like all the Taratino films. As well as those by the Coen brothers, especially "Fargo" and "Big Lebowski."

I don't watch a lot of films. I hate the "formula" films, you know, the ones with the obligatory car chases, overblown action scenes, and moronic dialogue. But the ones I like, I can watch over and over. They include:

Shawshank Redemption
Godfather (Parts 1 & 2)
Amadeus
Braveheart
Anything by Monty Python
Blazing Saddles
Patton
Anything directed by Stanley Kubrick
Deliverance
Cool Hand Luke
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World
Anything with the Marx Brothers

322 posted on 02/20/2003 7:46:56 PM PST by SamAdams76 (California wine tastes better - boycott French wine!)
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To: SamAdams76
what about scarface? that was a really strange/good movie. Has that been listed here?
325 posted on 02/20/2003 7:49:21 PM PST by ezo4
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To: SamAdams76
I hear you on the formula films.

Stupidist film I ever got drug to was that ridiculously overdramatic cliche-filled "Face Off". Hard for me to take Sean Hannity seriously when he opens his show with that music.

OTOH, "Backdraft" was sorta a formula film that still managed to 'work'.
330 posted on 02/20/2003 7:53:59 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: SamAdams76

Oh, I know.. Me also.

It's completely unique and it challenges the viewer as well as the actors at the table.

It's an awesome concept..

338 posted on 02/20/2003 7:56:04 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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