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I actually did enjoy watching LOTR but it didn't move me at all like fx "The Straight Story" by David Lynch. What a beautyful movie that is in every possible way :)
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Blade Runner
Lord of the Rings trilogy
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lots of good movies(including LOTR), but LOTR as the favorite of all time? really?

over
Casablanca? over Zardoz?
over The Conversation?
over Catch 22?
over 2001?
over The Jungle Book? :lol: :P
over Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein?
over The President's Analyst?
over Seven Samurai?(or any Toshiro Mifune movie)
over My Name is Nobody or They Call Me Trinity?
over High Plains Drifter?
over The African Queen?
over Playing in the Feilds of the Lord?
over Eraserhead? (yuck)
over Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle?!!!
over Tati?
over 8 1/2?
over Akira?
over Enter the Dragon?
over Simon?
over What's up Doc?
over Solaris?

so many good movies..........
entertainment sure is entertaining....
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entertainment? don't say so :-D
Nestor wrote: So what most got my attention about the LOTR was its deep meaning, well beyond special effects or something.
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Post by Michu »

garyb wrote:over Zardoz?
now that is a strong contender for the best film ever :D

really, there are 2 Peter Jackson films i'd rate over LOTR ;)

@darkrezin - miller's crossing, yea
- hudsucker proxy - a total capra homage
- o brother - hell, george clooney singing is one reason to like the film and there is so much more :)
- big lebowski - the best introduction of female character ever (julianne moore)
- fargo - mind blowing
- barton fink - john goodman
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yep, more good ones!
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Syriana
Fried green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Alien2 .....wasn't that bad, just more of a space opera and it didn't grind the gut so much but I thought it was pretty good

W.C. Fields did some very funny stuff too :lol:
Shawshank Redemption
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a hard one to answer...
Brazil
Chocolat
Lost Highway
The Wall
and many more ......
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the Big Store? (for the song "Sing While You Sell"!)
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LOLOTR
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old but good one
just because you cannot imagine something that doesn't exclude it from reality.
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sorry...
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oh dear.
the end of michu's story...
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"Being there" with Peter Sellers

What a terrific performance from Peter Sellers and the story just keeps on getting more and more relevant.
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no, i enjoyed the movies. :lol:

i've read the books.
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Petal, being there is another case where it's worth to read the book.
Peter Sellers is great tho' :)
just because you cannot imagine something that doesn't exclude it from reality.
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I just remembered 2 movies I never miss when they play on TV:

The Legend of Hell House with Roddy McDowell, one of my top 5 favourite horror movies of all times (right up there with Young Frankenstein :lol: )

Amarcord by Fellini for the absolute beauty of the photography and the caricatures he picked out to play in this movie. (I can't believe the enormous wart on the father's head!)
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paulrmartin wrote:I just remembered 2 movies I never miss when they play on TV:

The Legend of Hell House with Roddy McDowell, one of my top 5 favourite horror movies of all times (right up there with Young Frankenstein :lol: )
And it has a spooky electronic score by no other than the BBC Radiophonics' heroine Delia Derbyshire.
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the fellini films have great scores as well... :lol:

strange, but great.
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gary, you made my morning :D

"one does not simply telnet into mordor..."
I gotta name a host like that right now!

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