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#97889 - 07/17/03 01:42 PM Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Have you ever had anyone ask you what is your favorite movie of all time - just movie, not comedy, etc.? It is always hard to decide, and I usually end up with 5 or so, but they always change - but I will start off by listing the 5 off the top of my head (and they are usually older movies that have passed the test of time where I could still watch them over & over):
In no particular order:

The Sting
French Connection
The Great Escape
Forrest Gump
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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#97890 - 07/17/03 01:45 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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A Few Good Men
Cape Fear (1962)
The Guns of Navarone

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#97891 - 07/17/03 01:47 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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The Patriot
Pink Panther series
Big
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#97892 - 07/17/03 01:55 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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This is an easy one Dave:
GoodFellas
The Breakfast Club
Sleepless in Seattle

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#97893 - 07/17/03 02:06 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Gone With The Wind
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#97894 - 07/17/03 02:06 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Indiana Jones series
Star Wars series
Jack Ryan series; Hunt for Red October, etc.

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#97895 - 07/17/03 02:06 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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CubDave--what, no Breaking Away?
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#97896 - 07/17/03 02:15 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Rainman
Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music
American President
Up Close and Personal
Yankee Doodle Dandy
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#97897 - 07/17/03 02:22 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Quote:

CubDave--what, no Breaking Away?



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#97898 - 07/17/03 02:58 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Casablanca
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#97899 - 07/17/03 03:01 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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The Rookie
When a Man Loves a Woman
Entrapment
Tomb Raider
The Matrix
Any of Julia Roberts movies
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#97900 - 07/17/03 03:03 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Gone With the Wind
The Crow
Nightmare Before Christmas
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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#97901 - 07/17/03 03:16 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Any with John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara

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#97902 - 07/17/03 04:05 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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The first two that popped into my head were:
The Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption

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#97903 - 07/17/03 04:23 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Quote:

Any of Julia Roberts movies




ANY of them? Even I Love Trouble?!
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#97904 - 07/17/03 04:40 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Quote:

Quote:

Any of Julia Roberts movies




ANY of them? Even I Love Trouble?!




Even I love Trouble!
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#97905 - 07/17/03 04:48 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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My all time favorite and I think I'm the only person in the world who has this as number 1 is Silverado. As Col. Potter once said on M*A*S*H it has the three things that make a movie great - Horses, Guns, & Horses. Plus it has a good dose of humor.

Others that I haven't seen mentioned here that I really enjoy:

The X-Men movies (My wife who is neither an action movie or comic book fan loves these.)
Tombstone
Scrooged
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#97906 - 07/17/03 04:49 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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The Cowboys (John Wayne and a bunch of kids)
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#97907 - 07/17/03 05:17 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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I'd tell you, but the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

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#97908 - 07/17/03 05:52 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Toy Story and Toy Story 2 I find enjoyable time after time. For great movies...I love the classics--pre 1960s: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, To Have and Have Not, You Can't Take it With You, Casablanca (of course), Dinner at Eight, To Be or Not to Be, The Big Sleep, North by Northwest (a personal fav) the Philadephia Story, The Thin Man, The Third Man, The Searchers, Mister Roberts, On the Waterfront, Best Years of Our Lives, Singing in the Rain (very funny--should be on my comedy list), To Kill A Mockingbird, All About Eve, Grapes of Wrath, Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre (Robert Blake's in that movie), It Happened One Night, .
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#97909 - 07/17/03 06:05 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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19 replies and no one said "Citizen Kane"?? OK:

Citizen Kane
Alien
The Wrath of Khan (within it's genre)
2001
The Shining
and I really liked Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Nee!)
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#97910 - 07/17/03 07:22 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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I have two all-time favs that my family members think of me when either of these movies come up. "My movies" are:

Grease
Wizard of Oz
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#97911 - 07/17/03 07:42 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Gee - there is no accounting for taste. Anyway, the actual answer is:

1950 >>>>>>

AMADEUS
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
APOCALYPSE NOW
BEN-HUR
BONNIE AND CLYDE
CHINATOWN
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
DR. STRANGELOVE
EASY RIDER
FORREST GUMP
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
GIANT
GODFATHER
GOODFELLAS
HIGH NOON
JAWS
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
PLATOON
PSYCHO
RAGING BULL
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
ROCKY
SHANE
SUNSET BOULEVARD
TAXI DRIVER
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
THE DEER HUNTER
THE GODFATHER PART II
THE WILD BUNCH
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD






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#97912 - 07/17/03 07:43 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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Anything with Katherine Hepburn.

I prefer the older movies, when the actors made a story believable. Now they depend too much on the special effects.
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#97913 - 07/17/03 07:45 PM Re: Flat Out Best All-Around Movies
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I prefer the older movies, when the actors made a story believable. Now they depend too much on the special effects.




It's the same with music. There was a time when artists were sought after due to their ability rather than their appearance.
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