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UTUSN

(74,306 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 10:35 PM Wednesday

Best movies (Citizen Kane exempted)

* All About Eve

* Sunset Boulevard

* Lawrence of Arabia - (Yeah, I know we love Gregory P/Mockingbird)

* The Third Man

* Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Cabaret, Romeo/Juliet

* (Navy) The Last Detail, Cinderella Liberty, Officer/Gentleman

* (comedy ) - Funny Thing/Forum, Fish/Wanda, Producers

* (European stuff) -

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Best movies (Citizen Kane exempted) (Original Post) UTUSN Wednesday OP
Cool Hand Luke BOSSHOG Wednesday #1
Excellent UTUSN Wednesday #2
My desert island list. FalloutShelter Wednesday #3
I'll go to that island! UTUSN Wednesday #4
Hud. Sneederbunk Wednesday #5
Gotta see it - SO out of it! UTUSN Wednesday #6
My Favorites LogDog75 Thursday #7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest LudwigPastorius Thursday #8
Crimes and Misdemeanors is an excellent movie. milestogo Thursday #16
Martin Landau gives a great performance in that one. LudwigPastorius Thursday #19
Here are mine, including 2 titles* that I did some costume graphics in... GReedDiamond Thursday #9
My list nuxvomica Thursday #10
The Graduate no_hypocrisy Thursday #11
To Kill a Mockingbird Grim Chieftain Thursday #12
Robert Duvall as Boo Radley milestogo Thursday #18
Godfathers i & II ProfessorGAC Thursday #13
Godfather I yes...but Godfather II?... KTB2025 Friday #21
I Consider II Superior To I ProfessorGAC Saturday #22
A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven) Doc_Technical Thursday #14
2001: A Space Odyssey milestogo Thursday #15
I'd add "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" to the comedy group. Paladin Thursday #17
The Wizard of Oz Alpeduez21 Thursday #20
Forrest Gump Emile Saturday #23
Mockingbird or Zhivago CTyankee Saturday #24
Comedy: Tootsie; Drama: Brokeback Mountain, The Color Purple Mad_Dem_X Saturday #25
The Maltese Falcon Ritabert Saturday #26
Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather l and 2, Goodfella... brush Saturday #27
My list Botany Saturday #28
A short list LSparkle Saturday #29
Casablanca Dale in Laurel MD Saturday #30
I will add ms liberty Saturday #31
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (don't judge me), Kundun, A Room With A View, Desk Set, Double Indemnity catbyte Saturday #32
A different list.. justaprogressive Saturday #33

FalloutShelter

(13,383 posts)
3. My desert island list.
Wed May 28, 2025, 10:57 PM
Wednesday

All About Eve
Some Like it Hot
West Side Story
Day For Night
Blade Runner
Good Fellas

LogDog75

(465 posts)
7. My Favorites
Thu May 29, 2025, 12:59 AM
Thursday

The Martian

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Lost Horizon

Casablanca

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

milestogo

(20,682 posts)
16. Crimes and Misdemeanors is an excellent movie.
Thu May 29, 2025, 11:34 AM
Thursday

Despite all his flaws, Woody Allen knows how to put together a good film.

LudwigPastorius

(12,565 posts)
19. Martin Landau gives a great performance in that one.
Thu May 29, 2025, 12:34 PM
Thursday

Before I saw that movie I only knew him from cheesy TV fare like Space: 1999.

GReedDiamond

(5,445 posts)
9. Here are mine, including 2 titles* that I did some costume graphics in...
Thu May 29, 2025, 03:16 AM
Thursday

Dr. Strangelove

2001: A Space Odyssey

They Live!

Assault On Precinct 13 (1976 original) - BTW, currently on YouTube movies, free with ads

Idiocracy

*To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

*Enemy Of The State

nuxvomica

(13,342 posts)
10. My list
Thu May 29, 2025, 04:04 AM
Thursday

If any of these is on the TV when I'm channel surfing, I watch it:

Casablanca (1942)

The Third Man (1949)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Touch of Evil (1951)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

Notorious (1946)

Deception (1946)

Jumanji (1995)

KTB2025

(13 posts)
21. Godfather I yes...but Godfather II?...
Fri May 30, 2025, 11:04 PM
Friday

I know I'm in the small, small minority on this one...but I just don't think Godfather II is a very good movie. It's predictable - since so much of it takes place before Godfather I - with very little action and rehashes of the same characters whose arcs will complete in the first film. Maybe if Clemenza had been the foil, as originally intended... Godfather I, yes, wonderful. Godfather II...nah...

ProfessorGAC

(72,912 posts)
22. I Consider II Superior To I
Sat May 31, 2025, 06:16 AM
Saturday

This is, of course, why there are many kinds of movies. People's taste can vary so much

Doc_Technical

(3,674 posts)
14. A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
Thu May 29, 2025, 11:02 AM
Thursday

The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Bringing up Baby
Doctor Zhivago (1965)

milestogo

(20,682 posts)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Thu May 29, 2025, 11:32 AM
Thursday

The Onion Field

The Pianist

Thelma & Louise

Black Hawk Down

Legends of the Fall

Paladin

(30,613 posts)
17. I'd add "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" to the comedy group.
Thu May 29, 2025, 12:04 PM
Thursday

And I would certainly hope that the "European Stuff" includes "The Lives Of Others."

Alpeduez21

(1,935 posts)
20. The Wizard of Oz
Thu May 29, 2025, 01:46 PM
Thursday

Gone with the Wind

Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis

Singing in the Rain

History of the World Part I

The Outlaw Josey Wales

brush

(60,075 posts)
27. Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather l and 2, Goodfella...
Sat May 31, 2025, 08:10 AM
Saturday

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Watch on the Rhine, Pulp Fiction, The Young Philadelpians.

Botany

(74,302 posts)
28. My list
Sat May 31, 2025, 08:11 AM
Saturday

Lion in Winter
Breaker Morant
The Silver Fox
Godfather 1 & 2
Blazing Saddles
Seven Samurai… Japanese
Midway
Animal House
Chef
Dances with Wolves
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
The Shootist
Gandhi
My Cousin Vinny
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Harvey
The Hustler
Remember the Titans

LSparkle

(12,021 posts)
29. A short list
Sat May 31, 2025, 08:24 AM
Saturday

Manhattan
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
Casablanca
Notorious
Life Lessons segment of New York Stories
Blue Velvet
Reds
Alphaville

ms liberty

(10,242 posts)
31. I will add
Sat May 31, 2025, 08:28 AM
Saturday

Grosse Pointe Blank
Almost Famous
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Editing to include the first and last of The Matrix movies, which were amazing. The middle two were formulaic and very meh for me.

catbyte

(37,016 posts)
32. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (don't judge me), Kundun, A Room With A View, Desk Set, Double Indemnity
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:38 AM
Saturday

Key Largo, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and Club Paradise are some of my favorites.

justaprogressive

(3,905 posts)
33. A different list..
Sat May 31, 2025, 11:18 AM
Saturday

1) A Shot in the Dark ( Peter Sellers ...breaks the 4th wall)

2) Casablanca (Humpty of course)

3) Monkey Business (Cary Grant Ginger Rogers)

4) A New Leaf (Walter Matthew Elaine May)

5) Seabiscuit (Jeff Bridges Tobey McGuire)

6) The Money Pit (Tom Hanks Shelley Long)


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