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alexpop
12-01-2003, 01:45 PM
How about a Movie Poll.
Friendly Gort:thumbsup:
Nominations for the best film through the decades are!
30s Duck Soup
40s Maltese Falcon
50s, Shane
60s, The Good The Bad And The Ugly
70s, Taxi Driver
80s Blade Runner
90s Pulp Fiction
Interesting to see what decade wins!
alexpop:)
RetroSmith
12-01-2003, 03:01 PM
Duck Soup is the greatest movie ever made.
"Well, you didnt stay at the other college very long"....
Originally posted by alexpop
How about a Movie Poll.
Friendly Gort:thumbsup:
Nominations for the best film through the decades are!
30s Duck Soup
40s Maltese Falcon
50s, Shane
60s, The Good The Bad And The Ugly
70s, Taxi Driver
80s Blade Runner
90s Pulp Fiction
Interesting to see what decade wins!
alexpop:)
Good choices, but am I the only person who didn't "get" "Pulp Fiction"?
Oatsdad
12-01-2003, 03:29 PM
My picks off the top of my head:
30s: "Stagecoach"
40s: "Third Man"
50s: "All About Eve"
60s: "Lawrence of Arabia"
70s: "Star Wars"
80s: "Aliens"
90s: "Se7en"
Claviusb
12-01-2003, 03:47 PM
Off the top of my head:
30s: The Wizard of Oz
40s: Citizen Kane
50s: Sunset Blvd.
60s: 2001: A Space Oddessy
70s: Jaws
80s: Brazil
90s: Schindler's List
Ron Stone
12-01-2003, 03:52 PM
Originally posted by Mark
Good choices, but am I the only person who didn't "get" "Pulp Fiction"?
Me neither. I don't get Quentin Tarantino at all. Someone else said it perfectly: PULP FICTION is SEINFELD interrupted with spasms of violence instead of commercials.
He's a pretty divisive director. Some people love his stuff and rate it alongside Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese; or they wonder, like me, why anyone would bother to finish watching it. But for my friends, I would have walked out of KILL BILL halfway through.
ferric
12-01-2003, 04:05 PM
Great Picks So Far. :)
English Language
Not necessarily the best but personal favorites:
30s - Scarface
40s - Murder, My Sweet (after Kane)
50s - Sunset Blvd.
60s - The Hustler
70s - Chinatown
80s - Goodfellas
90s - The Player
Ron Stone
12-01-2003, 04:24 PM
40s - CITIZEN KANE
50s - PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE
60s - MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
70s - GODFATHER
80s - COLOR OF MONEY
90s - ROB ROY
00s - UNBREAKABLE
Dan C
12-01-2003, 04:24 PM
Ummmm...Ok, I'll try...
40s- tie, "Citizen Kane" and "Dumbo"
50s- "Blackboard Jungle"
60s- "Midnight Cowboy"
70s- "Last Picture Show"
80- "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", or maybe "Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade"
90s- "Beauty and the Beast" by Disney. Runner up: "The Crying Game".
Ok, flame me.
:)
Dan C
ferric
12-01-2003, 04:40 PM
Originally posted by Dan C
Ok, flame me.
:) Dan C
That would roast your duck avatar. :D
Last Picture Show is top drawer. IMO
Jimbo
12-01-2003, 05:04 PM
Without thinking about it too hard:
40s: Casablanca
50s: The African Queen
60s: 2001: A Space Odyssey
70s: The Godfather
80s: Local Hero
90s: Fargo
The 70s were THE golden decade, in my book.
MagicAlex
12-01-2003, 06:22 PM
...subject to change overnight:
30s - Gone With The Wind
40s - Citizen Kane (The Third Man & Casablanca very close)
50s - Rear Window
60s - To Kill A Mockingbird
70s - Star Wars
80s - Raiders Of The Lost Ark
90s - Forrest Gump
00s - The Fellowship Of The Rings
Originally posted by Ron Stone
Me neither. I don't get Quentin Tarantino at all. Someone else said it perfectly: PULP FICTION is SEINFELD interrupted with spasms of violence instead of commercials.
He's a pretty divisive director. Some people love his stuff and rate it alongside Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese; or they wonder, like me, why anyone would bother to finish watching it. But for my friends, I would have walked out of KILL BILL halfway through.
Ron: that's the perfect description for me, since I'm also in the minority that doesn't get Seinfeld, either.
MikePh
12-01-2003, 06:36 PM
Originally posted by Mark
Good choices, but am I the only person who didn't "get" "Pulp Fiction"?
I'm right there with you - nice to hear someone else admit it! I liked Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, The Usual Suspects, etc., but just never took a liking to any of the characters in PF, which is key to liking a movie...
alexpop
12-01-2003, 10:14 PM
[The 70s were THE golden decade, in my book. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah me to, great cinema days!
alexpop
12-01-2003, 10:17 PM
Originally posted by ferric man
Last Picture Show is top drawer. IMO
Ben Johnson was pretty cool !
JohnG
12-01-2003, 10:49 PM
30's: GONE WITH THE WIND
40's: CITIZEN KANE
50's: NORTH BY NORTHWEST
60's: 2001
70's: APOCALYPSE NOW!
80's: RAGING BULL....very honorable mention btw (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover)
90's: PULP FICTION....very honorable mention to 1990's GOODFELLAS.
00's: AI
**count me in as one who got Pulp Fiction and loved it from get go. I was just blown away by that movie...so many classic scenes...such dialogue....the comeback of a life-time (John Travolta).
How did FORREST GUMP beat PULP FICTION that year for Best Film Oscar?
and how did GOODFELLAS lose?
There's no way I can narrow it down to one per decade...
Good topic!
'30s: The Wizard Of Oz
'40s: Citizen Kane
'50s: Rebel Without A Cause
'60s: To Kill A Mockingbird
'70s: Rocky
'80s: Back To The Future
'90s: American Beauty
2000s (so far): Almost Famous
JohnG
12-01-2003, 11:01 PM
American Beauty was a great 90's film. Loved it at the movies..a keeper on DVD.
Great topic. It's difficult indeed to give one per decade, but here are my favourites:
'30s: Duck soup
'40s: The Third man
'50s: Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
'60s: Once upon a time in the West
'70s: Last tango in Paris
'80s: Paris, Texas
'90s: Silence of the lamb
'00s: Johnny English
alexpop
12-01-2003, 11:49 PM
Originally posted by RDK
There's no way I can narrow it down to one per decade...
True, but I tried to capture the essence of that decade.
Perhaps a Gort could set up poll
There is so many great films from previous years and hopefully some in the
21St Century yet to come.
Lets salute cinema!!!!
Roll cameras,action.................
alexpop
reechie
12-02-2003, 08:21 AM
Originally posted by mikey5967
Duck Soup is the greatest movie ever made.
What Mikey said! :righton:
Tyler
12-02-2003, 02:33 PM
The Godfather and Pulp Fiction should both be locks for their respective decades.
Oatsdad
12-02-2003, 07:51 PM
80's: GOODFELLAS
"GoodFellas" came out in the 90s...
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