buffalojim
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What Movies define you?? (1 Viewer)
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My dog, I forgot Being There. Had to add it to the list. Another great Peter Sellers movie was The Party...
Doh!! I'm an idiot, no idea how I left out Shawshank and Andy Dufresne. Get busy living.... or get busy dying. Top 5 movie overall too, if not the best.
Saving Private Ryan also hit me pretty deep when I first saw it (freshman in college), as my family was always very admiring/respectful of the military. In high school I had seriously considered attending West Point or the Air Force Academy, so that movie really struck me when it came out me several years later and further locked in those sentiments. Band of Brothers probably even more so.
Lots of great movies listed, keep them coming, this is a fun read
I adore pretty much anything from Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Villeneuve, Shyamalan, most of Scorsese, as well as the older Reitman and Zemeckis flics. Maybe not in terms of "defining" or relating (at least for me), but just great entertainment. And my guilty pleasure admission are Adam Sandler movies. You know they're bad, but I enjoy watching something that reminds me not to take myself too seriously. Plus he's always got a ridiculously hot chic next to him lol.
Saving Private Ryan also hit me pretty deep when I first saw it (freshman in college), as my family was always very admiring/respectful of the military. In high school I had seriously considered attending West Point or the Air Force Academy, so that movie really struck me when it came out me several years later and further locked in those sentiments. Band of Brothers probably even more so.
Lots of great movies listed, keep them coming, this is a fun read
I adore pretty much anything from Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Villeneuve, Shyamalan, most of Scorsese, as well as the older Reitman and Zemeckis flics. Maybe not in terms of "defining" or relating (at least for me), but just great entertainment. And my guilty pleasure admission are Adam Sandler movies. You know they're bad, but I enjoy watching something that reminds me not to take myself too seriously. Plus he's always got a ridiculously hot chic next to him lol.
Man, also forgot The Man Who Would Be King, Dogma, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Great, great, and great...
AH. Much as I loved everything-Python, I hated Brazil I've only walked out on two movies in my life: Brazil, and Police Academy 2.
Ah, I forgot these two. GPB in particular is in my top-ten all-time for sure.
Which reference to John Cusack makes me think also of Being John Malkovich, another great, great flick. I'm forever trying to get off on the 7-1/2th floor.
I can’t imagine walking out of Brazil. It’s an amazingly good movie, both very funny, very quotable, and very dark.
And as the decades have gone by, its message (about surveillance, superficial entertainment, bureaucratic nightmares, cronyism, state-sponsored torture, terrorism, and man’s desire to be free) become more and more prescient.
Gilliam nailed it.
Yes, how did I forget Being There? Top 5 all time for me.
DeeVee8
Straight
Ordained Dudeist Priest since 2007.
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Snatch
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Airplane
Fight Club
John Wick
Romancing the Stone
Live Die Repeat
Step Brothers
Blazing Saddles
District 9
Full Metal Jacket
Godfather part 2
Trainspotting
Whiplash
300
What we do in the shadows
Waiting
Those are just about the only movies I will watch more than once a year.
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Airplane
Fight Club
John Wick
Romancing the Stone
Live Die Repeat
Step Brothers
Blazing Saddles
District 9
Full Metal Jacket
Godfather part 2
Trainspotting
Whiplash
300
What we do in the shadows
Waiting
Those are just about the only movies I will watch more than once a year.
buffalojim
Royal Flush
Snatch, forgot that one, love it. Reservoir Dogs too.
SeenRed
Sitting Out
Movies that I’ll watch EVERY time they’re on, no matter how many times I’ve seen ‘em - and I’ve seen all these a bunch…
The Searchers
North By Northwest
Rounders
Caddyshack
Animal House
McLintock!
The Natural
Groundhog Day
The Quiet Man
The Sting
The Shawshank Redemption - My personal all time favorite movie
Get Shorty
Fletch
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Batman (the Keaton - Nicholson version)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Red
The Searchers
North By Northwest
Rounders
Caddyshack
Animal House
McLintock!
The Natural
Groundhog Day
The Quiet Man
The Sting
The Shawshank Redemption - My personal all time favorite movie
Get Shorty
Fletch
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Batman (the Keaton - Nicholson version)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Red
Knutman
Pair
Outlaw Josie Wales
Tombstone
Shawshank Redemption
Casino
Raging Bull
A Fish Called Wanda
Caddyshack
Young Frankenstein
Animal House Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son!
Breaking Bad!! Walter White. Say my name!!
Tombstone
Shawshank Redemption
Casino
Raging Bull
A Fish Called Wanda
Caddyshack
Young Frankenstein
Animal House Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son!
Breaking Bad!! Walter White. Say my name!!
well,
not that it defines me
but tonight is all snake:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
like the thread: more later
not that it defines me
but tonight is all snake:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
like the thread: more later
ksflying
New Member
Stand by me will always give me a childhood nostalgic feeling. Even just hearing songs from the soundtrack brings me back
FlushBlack
Straight
One of Ray Liotta's last movies, great cast and story
famous last words "Drink your fu*kin bourbon before the ice melts" sorta defines me
Fun thread.
Not sure about “defining me” but I certainly could relate to/see parts of myself in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”
Have probably seen that film a half dozen times now.
Not sure about “defining me” but I certainly could relate to/see parts of myself in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”
Have probably seen that film a half dozen times now.
Mike mac
4 of a Kind
mixed with ....
mixed with ....
Badass Mothe... r!
I saw this image yesterday and found it surprisingly moving. What’s interesting to me is that I had no use for either of these guys in the 80s. Seemed like Spader was typecast as a douche and Downey as a weirdo.
But by like 2000, and ever since, I’m in love with both of them.
But by like 2000, and ever since, I’m in love with both of them.
I was talking with a friend recently about films that we love that are very under-rated and no one talks about anymore.
the first was:
After Hours, 1985. Martin Scorcese directed with Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette. One of my favorites of all time.
also
True Romance, 1993. Written by Quentin Tarantino, with Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and one of my favorite characters of all time, Gary Oldman as Drexyl the pimp.
the first was:
After Hours, 1985. Martin Scorcese directed with Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette. One of my favorites of all time.
also
True Romance, 1993. Written by Quentin Tarantino, with Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and one of my favorite characters of all time, Gary Oldman as Drexyl the pimp.
BukNaked36
Straight
War
- Saving Private Ryan (kind of ruins all war movies before it due to the extreme realism)
- Full Metal Jacket (my wife and I saw this on our first date and R Lee Ermy is hilarious)
- Band of Brothers
Gangster
- Goodfellas
- Godfather 1 & 2
- Casino
Scifi / Fantasy
- Lord of the Rings movies (fan of the books and the movies were well done)
- Game of Thrones (seasons before dipshit TV writers screwed it up)
Middle aged guy
- Fight Club
- Breaking Bad
- Falling Down (I'm the bad guy? How did that happen? I did everything they told me to.)
Fun movies from when I was young
- Ferris Bueller
- Sixteen Candles
- Caddyshack
- Saving Private Ryan (kind of ruins all war movies before it due to the extreme realism)
- Full Metal Jacket (my wife and I saw this on our first date and R Lee Ermy is hilarious)
- Band of Brothers
Gangster
- Goodfellas
- Godfather 1 & 2
- Casino
Scifi / Fantasy
- Lord of the Rings movies (fan of the books and the movies were well done)
- Game of Thrones (seasons before dipshit TV writers screwed it up)
Middle aged guy
- Fight Club
- Breaking Bad
- Falling Down (I'm the bad guy? How did that happen? I did everything they told me to.)
Fun movies from when I was young
- Ferris Bueller
- Sixteen Candles
- Caddyshack
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