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« Reply #15 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:09:35 » |
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Difficult. How many of these get in your book?
Brazil - YES
Belly of an Architect - NO
Saving Private Ryan - YES (TT claps)
In The Mood for Love - YES
Le Goūt des Autres - NO (but there are a ton of foreign language films in there)
Downfall - YES (more applause)
Lost in Translation - NO
The Lives of Others - NO
The Hours - NO
Crimes and Misdemeanors - YES
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« Reply #16 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:10:52 » |
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Convoy
BMX Bandits
The Goonies
Top Gun
This was the adult version, not the children's Sippo |
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« Reply #17 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:13:15 » |
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These are a few I just pulled from Plex:
The Big Lebowski - NO
Heat - YES
Inception - YES
Jurassic Park - YES
Leon: The Professional - NO (but I reckon the original should have been in there?)
Office Space - NO
Pulp Fiction - YES
Rain Man -YES
The Usual Suspects - YES
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« Reply #18 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:14:02 » |
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Everyone needs to see Moon, right now.
Moon - NO Although is that post 2014 John? |
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« Reply #19 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:16:03 » |
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My top 5 (in no particular order) are:
Back to The Future - YES
Captain Phillips - NO
Pulp Fiction - YES
Indiana Jones (Raiders) - YES
The whole of the most recent Batman series - Yes (Tim Burton 1989)
This was hard though, I love far too many films.
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« Reply #20 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:17:26 » |
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Blade runner - YES Shawshank redemption - YES (  Ells - YES!) Dumb and dumber - NO Usual suspects - YES Snatch - NO (I agree with you though) Can't think of many, I'm not really the movie type |
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« Reply #21 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:18:14 » |
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Ooh Big Lebowski and Usual Suspects are good calls.
And did anyone else like those offbeat Hal Hartley films - Simple Men and what were the others?
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« Reply #22 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:18:53 » |
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Oh, add Labyrinth and Never Ending Story.
NOPE to both Never Ending Story just prompted me to look up Groundhog Day - YES |
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« Reply #23 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:23:09 » |
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blues brothers - NO (surprisingly)
trainspotting - YES
die hard - YES
star wars - YES (I guess I would have to burn the book if it wasn't)
casino - NO
obviously trainspotting won't be in an American book
It's an English produced book Batch and covers global films. Lots of asian, German and French etc. films in there. You know, the ones that nobody watches except if you really are a film nut  |
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« Reply #24 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:26:11 » |
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Memento - YES
Clerks - YES
Anchorman - NO
Everything is illuminated - NO
The prestige - NO
High fidelity - NO
Gravity - YES
Inception - YES
Interstellar - NO (although too recent perhaps?)
The martian - NO
Interesting selections |
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« Reply #26 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:30:08 » |
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And did anyone else like those offbeat Hal Hartley films - Simple Men and what were the others?
These two made it in: The Unbelievable Truth Trust The other one noted but not in the book is Flirt |
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« Reply #27 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:41:44 » |
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Stupid book.
I'm a bit confused, is it a list of recommended films chosen by someone for others to watch, or is it a bucket list of those the author hasn't seen but thinks they should? Personally, there are no films that I think I should see, if they were that important, I'd have watched them already. |
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« Reply #28 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:42:59 » |
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These two made it in:
The Unbelievable Truth
Trust
The other one noted but not in the book is Flirt
Oh yeah, at least one of those two need to go in my top ten. Bugger. |
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« Reply #29 on: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11:53:18 » |
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I'm a bit confused, is it a list of recommended films chosen by someone for others to watch, or is it a bucket list of those the author hasn't seen but thinks they should?
Personally, there are no films that I think I should see, if they were that important, I'd have watched them already.
It's in its tenth year of publishing. About 60 contributors distilled the list. The preface says "it is not intended as a best of collection...it is an attempt to refine the thousands and thousands of films ever made into those that have inspired and vanguarded...you may hate some of them but they have been included on merit" I guess that there are loads of "Best 100 films" knocking around which are usually on box office ratings. This is somewhat different in its approach I think. To motivate to see interesting films that you would otherwise not know about perhaps. |
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