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Well I would never watch

The secret adventures of Tom Thumb
Street fight
Death race 2000
Meet the Feebles
Caligula

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I.D.10-t wrote:Well I would never watch

The secret adventures of Tom Thumb
Street fight
Death race 2000
Meet the Feebles
Caligula

Dali’s “Andalusian Dog” should not even be mentioned.
Then you would also not watch

Andy Worhol's Frankenstein or A Clockwork Orange
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My favorites, I think (in no particular order)

LOTR:ROTK
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Princess Bride
Mary Poppins
The Muppet Movie
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Flyingcursor wrote: A Clockwork Orange
Nor would I read the book (it has an extra chapter).
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Burrough's books were always much better than any of the movies I have seen based on them (but isn't that the way with so many others?).

What about horror? We haven't even touched on the horror genre.
- Anything from the Hellraiser series
- Scary Movie x (these are actually pretty funny if you know the films being satirized)
- The Exorcist (the original uncut one)
- nothing with vampires - vampires just don't do it for me

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How about "Streets of Fire" an early Willem Dafoe, Amy Madigan, Diane Lane, et al vehicle - a rock and roll blast set in an imaginary 50's type town.

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djm wrote:Burrough's books were always much better than any of the movies I have seen based on them
Yeah, I'm not fond of Tarzan movies either.
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some favorites:

Fargo
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color Purple
The Piano
Seven
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I couldn't think of five but Dix helped me out with one.

Fargo
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Deep End
Siberiade
La Femme Nikita (French version w/subtitles)
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Oh my - Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing, two Coen Brothers favorites.

As for Sci-fi or horror - Alien is a classic, because, besides being really good, I believe it's the first major movie to showcase a female lead as a physical hero in a realistic way (i.e., not Wonder Woman). Also the Terminator was great because of the sustained (throughout the entire movie) pure relentlessness of Ahnuld.

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My neighbor Totoro
Holiday (Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant)
Sense and Sensibility (the Emma Thompson one)
Buckaroo Banzai
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jbarter wrote:Yeah, I'm not fond of Tarzan movies either.
What? Not even <a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/dj.moulton/rea ... p3">Johnny Weissmuller</a>?

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What about horror? We haven't even touched on the horror genre.
My favotie horror movies are:

The Thing (by John Carpenter)
Prince of Darkness
Fallen
End of Days
The Ninth Gate
Predator
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