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I felt 2 was as good as one and they really set up the story for 3 ... I came out of the theater needing to google something from the movie to findout more.

 

National Treasure to me is like a Dan Brown book without as much violence and black ops.

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Good comparison. I remember thinking a lot of Dan Brown when I was watching the first movie. That whole discovey/adventure mixed in with fact and speculation, conjecture... tasty stuff.

 

Okay sold, and on my list, I'll report back

 

:P

 

gogo

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Mystery

 

Not in any particular order.

 

Rear Window (1954 Alfred Hitchcock)

 

North By Northwest (1959 Alfred Hitchcock)

 

Vertigo (1958 Alfred Hitchcock)

 

Psycho (1960 Alfred Hitchcock)

 

The Trouble with Harry (1955 Alfred Hitchcock)

 

The Maltese Falcon (1941 John Huston)

 

The Manchurian Candidate (1962 John Frankenheimer)

 

The Exorcist (1973 William Friedkin)

 

Rashômon (1950 Akira Kurosawa)

 

 

if any questions please feel free to ask.

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Sci-Fi

 

Metropolis (1927 Fritz Lang)

 

The Alien franchise

 

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 Stanley Kubrick)

 

Blade Runner { Or do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep} (1982 Ridley Scott)

 

Back to the Future franchise

 

Star Wars franchise

 

Bride of Frankenstein (1935 James Whale)

 

V for Vendetta (2005 James McTeigue)

 

Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951 Robert Wise)

 

Frankenstein (1931 James Whale)

 

Fail-Safe (1964 Sidney Lumet)

 

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 Don Siegel)

 

Hauru no ugoku shiro {aka Howl's Moving Castle} (2004 Hayao Miyazaki)

 

Planet of the Apes (1968 Franklin J. Schaffner)

 

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta {aka Castle in the Sky}(1986 Hayao Miyazaki)

 

The Invisible Man (1933 James Whale)

 

Serenity (2005 Joss Whedon)

 

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982 Steven Spielberg) Went to see it a second time with my older brother (his first time seeing it) and he started pounding me in my arm and said "You son of a Bitch, You didn't tell me he died!" I was 17, he was 19 at the time.

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 Steven Spielberg)

 

The Terminator franchise

 

The Abyss (1989 James Cameron )

 

Independence Day (1996 Roland Emmerich)

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Comedy

 

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 Stanley Kubrick)

 

Any Charlie Chaplin film

 

Any Buster Keaton film (The Great Stone Face)

 

Any Marx Brothers film

 

Silent Movie (1976 Mel Brooks)

 

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995 Mel Brooks)

 

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993 Mel Brooks)

 

History of the World: Part I (1981 Mel Brooks)

 

High Anxiety (1977 Mel Brooks)

 

Silent Movie (1976 Mel Brooks)

 

Young Frankenstein (1974 Mel Brooks)

 

Blazing Saddles (1974 Mel Brooks)

 

The Twelve Chairs (1970 Mel Brooks)

 

Operation Petticoat (1959 Blake Edwards)

 

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948 H.C. Potter)

 

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944 Frank Capra)

 

Harvey (1950 Henry Koster)

 

Princess Bride, The (1987 Rob Reiner)

 

Singin' in the Rain (1952 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

 

 

I will add more to my list tomorrow.

 

I think I need a break, time to play Sacred for a little while.

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*locks up lord* .... they said movies , not catalogues of movies ....

 

:) Use the power of the head kick Mom! :bye:

 

P.S.: Lord the list would be shorter if you dont post the same movies twice over. :)

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Ahhh, armagedon... loved the movie. I think so much about it was incredible. I especially loved the "menace" they gave to the asteroid as it was hurtling towards earth. It almost looked alive. I also enjoyed the performances from the ensemble cast. hmmm, maybe I'll watch it again this weekend ^^

 

:D

 

gogo

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Serenity, oh don't get me started. It was a disappointment for me, not that the movie sucks, but that it is a rip-off of a second season.

 

What's up with the I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar. And then you know what happened next. Poetic? Omen?

 

Not to mention the Buffy the vamp slayer scene, I was like this IS familiar. :lol:

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Serenity, oh don't get me started. It was a disappointment for me, not that the movie sucks, but that it is a rip-off of a second season.

 

What's up with the I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar. And then you know what happened next. Poetic? Omen?

 

oH MY GOD.... whY DID thEY do THAt!! I felt like I'd been impaled myself. Did NOT see that coming

 

:lol:

 

gogo

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not really in any order but I loved

Memento

Donnie Darko

Usual Suspect

fight club

the prestige

batman begins and the dark knight

Sunshine

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

the truman show

28weeks later

battleroyal

pulp fiction

leon

V for vendetta

 

cant seem to think of any other right now...

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My fav movie would have to be Jeepers creepers. I dont find it scary I just love the story I could watch it over and over!

 

Another one of my favorite movies would have to be clash of the titians ( the new one) I really enjoyed it!

 

Finally of course I love all the lord of the rings and harry potter movies :bow:

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I adored jeepers!

 

the end of the story completely made my heart twinge. It was the first of a series of horror movies I think which took american horror into creative painsmanship.

 

He deserved to get away, and he didn't...I felt like someone had pulled out my heart and stepped on it

 

:bow:

 

gogo

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Some of my favourites:

(not in order)

 

Das Boot

Dune

Bladerunner

Lawrence of Arabia

The Thing

Jaws

Alien / Aliens

Predator

Mad Max 1 & 2

Salem's Lot (The old one)

Scarface

 

I'm sure I left someone out.

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Das Boot

 

 

Still haven't seen that yet

 

 

Dune

 

 

One of the best series ever written. Herbert was a genius, his writing has still not dated.

 

Bladerunner

 

 

One of my top ten as well

 

 

Lawrence of Arabia

 

Don't remember it all that well, maybe this a reminder to visit it again

 

The Thing

 

 

Original black and or white or Carpenter's remake?

 

 

Jaws

 

 

Spielberg's big huge debut, suntan lotion took a huge dip in sales after this movie

 

Alien / Aliens

 

 

My favorite movie series of all time

 

Predator

 

WOW. I love being surprised. Arnold in all his glory, in a very well written sci fi drama that I think Dark Horse comics ran off with? I was never let down in this movie, every moment was delicious serendipity, and kept me hanging to my seat. I'll never forget the scene where they all got spooked in the jungle and started firing into the trees. Steaming mess of charred husks... and predator nowhere to be seen.

Come on good writers... bring us more like this!

 

 

Mad Max 1 & 2

 

 

Saw the first, now that we know Gibson today...think he would have gone back and made that movie in retrospect?

 

Salem's Lot (The old one)

 

 

The test of faith...the crucifix that crumbles. A chilling moment. I'm still haunted.

 

Scarface

 

 

Dang...I keep wanting to watch this... thank you for this mnemonic!

 

 

I'm sure I left someone out.

 

 

I loved your post

Welcome to DarkMatters

 

:)

 

gogo

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Das Boot

Really good one.

 

4 different versions:

Movie

Movie-Directors Cut (digital remastered, subwoofer sound)

TV-Series (The Movie was just a cut down of the series)

TV-Series DVD-version (digital remastered) - I like this one the best.

 

The u-boat captain from the book the movie is based on is Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. In 1959 as a captain of a freighter he rescued 60 person from a burning brasilian freighter, riscing his own ship. He commanded also the first and only german nuclear powered freighter, the Otto Hahn.

Buchheim the author of the book was as a war correspondent on U96 and became a friend of the captain. The book is the first in a series of 3, the last playing on the Otto Hahn.

In the book the driving away from sailors in the sea is far more detailed and knowing that he rescued sailors after the war adds to feel the emotions he must had.

 

The actor playing the war correspondent is Herbert Grönemeyer. He is germany's best selling singer and songwriter nowadays.

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in (almost) no particular order, thei're all my 'favorite' ones:

 

first of all, I LOVE all austrian productions or co-productions of austria and others.. in short - 'austrian movies' unfortunately sometimes they're underrated, and there're never enough of them, imho :Just_Cuz_21:

 

they in some cases are very critical/cynical, sometimes very humorous, well that kind of 'black humour' or just 'strange' humour we austrians are (also) capable of..

 

Der Knochenmann

Komm, Süßer Tod

Silentium

Indien

Poppitz

Ravioli

Muttertag

Hinterholz 8

Wanted

We feed the world

Die Fälscher

Freispiel

Das weiße Band

Der Fall des Lemming

Plastic Planet

Let's make money

(and many many many others movies/tv-series)

 

other films:

 

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Reservoir Dogs

Snatch

Revolver

RocknRolla

LoTR:Trilogy

Pulp Fiction

Kill Bill 1

Sin City

Crank 1

The Mothman Prophecy

Donny [D.a.r.k]o

The Godfather I-III

Terminator I+II

Blade

Scarface

Donnie Brasco

The Usual Suspects

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Event Horizon

Easy Rider

Mad Max

Back to the Future

Spaceballs

Hot Shots!

Les Rivières pourpres (crimson rivers)

Léon (The Professional)

Nikita

Run Lola Run

 

..and a lot more, like almost all genres,

 

except for Manga , Romance , Sport I don't bother..

 

and I can't stand Splatter (because without 'depth') -

also dislike Comedy like American Pie or Scary Movie, those are just dull.

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My fav movie would have to be Jeepers creepers. I dont find it scary I just love the story I could watch it over and over!

 

I'm really wondering why this one is your favourite... I'm tempted to watch it... but want to know more.

 

Can you tell me more (characters, dialogue, camera work, twisted plot lines, complicated, simple and pulse pounding action that never stops, etc... what is it that makes you want to repeat?)

 

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I highlighted the ones on your list that I've seen and enjoyed too:

 

other films:

 

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ^^

Reservoir Dogs ^

Snatch ^^

Revolver

RocknRolla

LoTR:Trilogy ^^^

Pulp Fiction ^^^

Kill Bill 1

Sin City

Crank 1 ^^

The Mothman Prophecy

Donny [D.a.r.k]o ^^

The Godfather I-III

Terminator I+II ^^ 2 only (1 just wasn't as good for me)

Blade

Scarface

Donnie Brasco

The Usual Suspects

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Event Horizon

Easy Rider

Mad Max

Back to the Future ^^

Spaceballs

Hot Shots!

Les Rivières pourpres (crimson rivers)

Léon (The Professional)

Nikita

Run Lola Run

 

..and a lot more, like almost all genres,

 

except for Manga , Romance , Sport I don't bother..

 

and I can't stand Splatter (because without 'depth') -

also dislike Comedy like American Pie or Scary Movie, those are just dull.

 

I really like American Pie --the humour of 'uncomfortableness' and 'embaressment {that is waaay over the top}' I find very amusing.

In real life any of these things would mortify me, but in movies, it's ok, and even funny at times. Just like real life violence makes me sick,

but movie violence just gets me excited.

 

Your list reminded me of

 

XXX (not porn, the action movie with Vin Diesel. I really like movies that are rollercoaster action action action)

The new James Bond movie (1 back now) was like that too. Daniel Craig's first James Bond movie... imdb save me now: Casino Royal

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