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Cranberry wrote:I've never even watched five whole movies. It's just never been something I've gotten interested in, and growing up we didn't have a moviehouse so as a consequence now I mainly read.
I love how each new day can bring something unbelievably amazing.
Well, I have watched three. When I was in grade school the class went on a trip to see 101 Dalmatians (I can just barely remember it, I was about 7 or 8 years old), and then we went to watch Deep Impact when I was in junior high. And a cousin took me in 1999 to watch The Blair Witch Project with her. That's the last time I stepped foot into a moviehouse.

The other day the people at my lunch table were talking about Rocky Horror and they said something about a certain scene or some such so I asked a question and everybody thought I was joking but I honestly didn't know the answer because I've never watched it. They seemed to think that watching Rocky Horror was a required part of being fully human. From the way the conversation went, I think I am the only person in the entire world who has never watched it! :P
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Cran wrote:When I was in grade school the class went on a trip to see 101 Dalmatians
My favourite dalmation was the one named Spot.
Cran wrote:They seemed to think that watching Rocky Horror was a required part of being fully human.
They didn't merely think it, it is a well-known fact. (Its just a jump to the left ...)
Missy wrote:the first time I saw "Eraserhead" it was a double billing. With "Freaks".
Man, I had forgotten Freaks. :lol: But that's a one-time view. I didn't include one-timers (you have to see it once, but then you can't watch it again), e.g. The Game, The Sixth Sense.

Has anyone seen this new media format, I think its called UMD? I'm guessing its a new DVD format for hi-def tv, but I haven't seen anything specific yet.

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....and then a step to the right......
....put your hands on your hips.....
....and bring your knees in tight.......

HOW could I forget Rocky Horror???!!!!!!


Ok - how about American Graffitti??? Granted, the plot sucked - but the music and cars were fantastic!!!!!
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Yes, American Graffiti was a great movie, and wasn't it one of the first "our gang" type films of a group of young adults having adventures and coming of age etc.? I think it was a precursor for films like St. Elmo's Fire and stuff like that.

But the music in AG was what really set it apart - all that grease!

Hot patootie, bless my soul
I really love that Rock and Roll
Hot patootie, bless my soul ... oh ... darn ... :o

Did you ever see that episode of Drew Carey where the Rocky Horror crowd ran into the fans of that transvestite movie and they had a big sing & dance off in the streets outside the theatre?
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djm wrote:
Hot patootie, bless my soul
I really love that Rock and Roll
Hot patootie, bless my soul ... oh ... darn ... :o

Did you ever see that episode of Drew Carey where the Rocky Horror crowd ran into the fans of that transvestite movie and they had a big sing & dance off in the streets outside the theatre?
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No - but he looks like Elton John with those glasses!!!! :D

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In the velvet darkness
Of the blackest night
Burning bright
There's a guiding star
No matter what or who you are

Man, what warped mind thought up lyrics like that! :o

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Wow - you guys bring so much to mind. Eraser Head I always viewed as the worst movie I'd ever seen and with no redeeming value whatever (I'm not a Lynch fan) - as I recall a B&W shadowy movie shot in a tenement - eraser head and company standing a crib leering at the deformed baby he had with a prostitute - nah, couldn't be; I must be misremembering.

Henry V was wonderful (the Branaugh version) and historically the Battle of Agincourt was near unbelievable.

Remember those midnight showsat the Elgin in Greenwich Village - Freaks, Reefer Madness, the Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff).

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The magic of Eraserhead is in the soundtrack. All this subtext is built into the background sounds leading you into to expect something and suddenly - nothing. Its a total mind game! :lol:

The only thing I can remember about Battle of Agincourt was the joke about "Pluck yew!". :D

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You said favorite, not the five we think are best. in the order they occur to me:

Holiday
Buckaroo Banzai
Sense and Sensibility (the Emma Thompson one)
Young Frankenstein
My neighbor Totoro (see avatar)

BTW, I knew someone in college named Frankenstein. Anyone else know a Frankenstein? AFAIK, she pronounced it FRANK-en-stine rather than FRAUNCK-en-steen.
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djm wrote:In the velvet darkness
Of the blackest night
Burning bright
There's a guiding star
No matter what or who you are

Man, what warped mind thought up lyrics like that! :o

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What warped mind, you ask?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

This warped mind! (as if you did not know)
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I do love Rocky Horror, although it would not make my top 5 list. It would definately make the top ten though. ...

"It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!"
my favorite quote from that movie.....

And now back to the topic at hand- my top five are-

The Lion In Winter
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? snap, snap
Arthur
Yellowbeard(my very favorite by those Python fellows)
Rob Roy
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I love those shoes! :lol:
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Yellowbeard kind of disappeared real fast. I don't think the American comics were able to fit in at all. But there's some other solo Python gems like Time Bandits, Clockwise and Jabberwocky that have a permanent place on my shelves. Oh, and let's not forget Brazil!

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Five is hard. Here goes.

Les Enfants du Paradis
Los Olvidados
Battleship Potempkin
Babette's Feast
On the Waterfront
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Babette's Feast ( :thumbsup: Wombat)
Chariots of Fire
Wings of Desire
Lord of the Ring
Muppets' Christmas Carol


There are others in close competition, though the first four would stay no matter what.

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My list is now totally different to the one I posted.
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
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