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Sofa King
11-19-2000, 02:56 AM
1) The Seventh Seal (Not Sign, dammit. I won't watch that brat-pack piece of crap twice.)

2) The General

3) Dr. Strangelove

4) Vanishing Point

5) Fistful of Dollars

I have Sanjuro on deck, so I suspect this list might change soon.

Typo Negative
11-19-2000, 08:26 AM
Requium for a dream Jennifer Connelly is very special
[b]Toy Story 2
Bamboozled
Almost Famous
Sleepy Hollow[b]

Little Nemo
11-19-2000, 11:09 AM
Arbitrarily sticking with movies I've seen in theatres, I've only seen four movies in the last month (and actually it would be more like six weeks). From best to worst:

Almost Famous
The Cell
X-Men
Urban Legends 2

Biggirl
11-19-2000, 11:17 AM
Toy Story 2
American Beauty
Three Kings
The Princess Bride-- I had seen this in the movies and loved it. There was a thread here about movie quotes (the one before the one on the first page now) that had Princess Bride quotes and my son said he didn't remember it. Seemed like a good reason to rerent to me.

quasar
11-19-2000, 02:13 PM
Excluding movies already seen

Scary Movie--best comedy ever.
What lies beneath --way better than The Sixth Sense, not as acclaimed though.
The Omen--I was born in 1976 too. Could I possibly be…? Nah! :)
U-571--would have been nicer had it included Bon Jovi's song "It's my life" in the soundtrack.
Ten things I hate about you--fun and entertaining.

Goose
11-19-2000, 02:52 PM
The Nightmare Before Christmas
American Psycho
Casablanca
The Godfather
Reservoir Dogs

obfusciatrist
11-19-2000, 03:07 PM
Don't watch much TV, watch many movies (may the nonexistent god bless Netflix).

Movies seen in the last month: 19

Top five (best to worst):

All About Eve (1950)
The Great Escape (1963)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) (I had seen this many times since 1994, but the new translation is superb)

Bottom five (worst to slightly better):

The Mod Squad (1999)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Permanent Midnight (1998)
The 6th Day (2000)
Jurassic Park (1993)

In the middle (no order):

Stuart Little (1999)
The Minus Man (1999)
High Fidelity (2000)
The Hitman (1998)
Shanhai Noon (2000)
Leon (1994)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Amistad (1997)

woodstockbirdybird
11-19-2000, 07:01 PM
1) The Manchurian Candidate
2) Miller's Crossing
3) Run Lola Run
4) Clockwatchers
5) Schizopolis

Fretful Porpentine
11-19-2000, 07:05 PM
Last month? I'm not sure I've seen five films in the last six months.

Starting to feel terribly old and boring. And poor.

yosemite
11-19-2000, 07:12 PM
I watch too much news these days, not enought films.

I just saw Mel Gibson in "The Patriot", good, fun, rousing film.

And, on Bravo, I saw "The Perez Family". Liked that as well.

I cannot remember what else I've seen this month. It's all a blur.

ladybug
11-19-2000, 07:23 PM
Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine
Last month? I'm not sure I've seen five films in the last six months.

Starting to feel terribly old and boring. And poor.

Same here. The last time I went to the movies was over a month ago.

yosemite
11-19-2000, 07:39 PM
Oh, you mean in the theatres? Shit, that requires effort. Getting dressed. Getting your shoes on. Getting in the car. Trying to make sure you get to the show in time. Phooey on that.

Besides, I have weird work hours. I rarely get to see theatrical films, only on my days off. And usually I'm too busy being a lazy bum for that.

I did see "Space Cowboys" and "American Beauty" in the theatres this year. Does that count?

Biggirl
11-19-2000, 08:53 PM
The last movie I saw in the theater was Iron Giant. No, wait! I was at the premier of Star Wars: The First Boring Installment. I liked Iron Giant better.

The Bean
11-19-2000, 08:58 PM
I just saw Return of the Thin Man last night on PBS.
William Powell, Myrna Loy, and young Jimmy Stewart as the heavy. He's lucky he didn't get typecast!

applsmak
11-19-2000, 11:26 PM
Being the poor, busy college student that I am, my list of movies seen in the past month is a short one. Oddly enough though, today, when I should've been doing something, I saw a few good movies on TBS. Anyways, here's my list...

Top Five:
1. With Honors
2. the Skulls
3. Pretty Woman
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Father of the Bride II
(in a distant 6th: Goonies)

I know the movies are sorta lame. But I didn't have much material to work with...

Keymain
11-19-2000, 11:40 PM
Here's some of my recient viewing in no particular order.

Touch of Evil
Paths of Glory
Notorious
The Third Man
MST3K-Eegah
The Big Sleep
American Movie
Citizen Kane
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? (sp?)

Dr_Paprika
11-20-2000, 10:44 PM
Hmm... watched nothing recent in the last month. All of these I did see were good, though.

1. Ridicule
2. U-Turn
3. American Graffiti
4. Burnt By The Sun
5. Strangers on a Train

Sublight
11-21-2000, 05:05 AM
In theatres? in the last 6 weeks:

1. American Beauty (it takes time for movies to get to Japan. The better the movie, usually, the longer the lag)

2. Gladiator

3. Bedazzled (the new one. Fun, but the Peter Cook version was better)

4. Taxi 2 (Predictable, stupid, but fun on a big screen. Plus everyone in the audience was laughing at the stupid Japanese stereotypes. Yep, ninjas on every corner. :rolleyes: )

--sublight.

SanibelMan
11-21-2000, 05:16 AM
Sublight, is that the sequel to the french film Taxi? I saw that on video when I was in Marseilles this summer. It was pretty good, even if I didn't get most of the dialogue. The car chase scenes were probably the best of any movie I've seen.

Edward The Head
11-21-2000, 09:12 AM
Fight Club
Idle Hands
Spinal Tap (I finally found a place that had it!)

there have been others but I can't remmeber them now. But the worst would have to be MI2. ugh.

Crunchy Frog
11-21-2000, 09:28 AM
The Perfect Storm
Toy Story 2
Cool Hand Luke
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Fantasia 2000

These are also the only films I've seen in the past month.

scratch1300
11-21-2000, 11:00 AM
I just got a TV and VCR (haven't had 'em in almost two years), so I've had some catching up to do....

Babe 2: Pig in the City
L.A. Confidential
The Straight Story
Three Kings
Billy Madison

The last one is tentative: I saw the last quarter of it on TV, but my girlfriend had been bringing home lotsa Adam Sandler movies and I found all of them uneven, but B.M. seems to be easily the funniest of them. I'm going to have to rent it someday....

bernse
11-21-2000, 12:34 PM
Hmm,
I would have to say (in no particular order)

The Green Mile
Das Boot
The Matrix
Forrest Gump
GI Jane - A little phoney at the end, but a pretty good flick