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Shea All The President's Men:
A big, whopping cliché for a journalist, I know. Like
many budding reporters of my generation, Woodward and Bernstein
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Anne of the Thousand Days: Ms. Yeager showed us this in Western Civ freshman year. Besides her vast knowledge of all things Henry the VIII and of that time period, this movie introduced me to one of the most fascinating time periods in history. "Anne" was the first movie that I viewed, then went on to learn more ... on my own. The Muppet Movie: In the opening scene, Kermit the Frog sits on his lilly pad, strumming a banjo, singing the Rainbow song. One of my earliest memories of my childhood is my dad and I singing that song together. |
Annie Hall: I viewed this one by accident. Never a big Woody Allen fan, I watched this one to use up a free movie pass at Blockbuster. I identify with Annie - her unconventional, naive side that seems to strangely, yet naturally, coexist with her sophisticated, exploratory side. I think it is one of the few relationship movies that clearly uncovers the happy and mundane, as well as every day problems that people in love encounter, and the baggage they bring to every relationship. In the end, you don't get this feeling that either regret the relationship or each other -- more than anything, you get a sense of realism. Sort of a "this is life" and it's not all drama and climax. |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Arlington Road The Blues Brothers Star Wars |
The Lion in Winter West Side Story The Parent Trap (1961) Ben-Hur How the West Was Won |
American Beauty American History X Clerks Fight Club The Usual Suspects |
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Shadowlands A Time To Kill Amistad Perfect Harmony Schindler's List In the Name of the Father |
I don't really have any particular order, but here they are: Rebel Without A Cause Dead Poets Society Reality Bites The Breakfast Club Romeo and Juliet |
The Shining Stripes Roger & Me Sixteen Candles Clueless I'm concerned about all those teeny-bopper movies...but not concerned enough to take them out and replace them with a Louis Malle film. |
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Dr. Strangelove South Pacific Ben-Hur Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure All the Star Wars |
Lawrence of Arabia 2001: A Space Odyssey Doctor Zhivago The Ten Commandments Big Wednesday |
The Best Man Ben-Hur Interview With A Vampire Selena The Patriot |
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Taxi Driver A Clockwork Orange Requiem for a Dream Clerks Pulp Fiction |
Mansfield Park Moulin Rouge! Young at Heart White Christmas On Golden Pond |
Cruel Intentions The American President Coyote Ugly Dead Poets Society Never Been Kissed |
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Fight Club Pi American Beauty A Clockwork Orange Stigmata A Night at the Roxbury TommyBoy Billy Madison The Big Lebowski Caddyshack What can I say? I like funny movies. |
Fight Club : "you are not your car you are not your bank account you are not the contents of your wallet you are not your grande latte you are not your khakis" American History X : powerful, real The Crow ..."making the wrong things right..." Tombstone : "i'm your huckleberry" American Beauty |
1.) Pulp Fiction 2.) Clueless 3.) Meet the Parents 4.) Armageddon 5.) Titanic Braveheart Lion King A Christmas Story Legends of the Fall The Patriot |
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Gone With The Wind North by Northwest Citizen Kane Sunset Boulevard and don't laugh Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert |
(update 2002) The Graduate Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Annie Hall Shine Frantic |
Gone in Sixty Seconds Road Trip Big Daddy Tommy Boy Saving Private Ryan |
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(no order) Gone With The Wind The Patriot Dr. Zhivago The Brave Little Toaster Flight of the Navigator |
The Star Wars Trilogy The Deer Hunter The Godfather The Goodbye Girl Casablanca |
Even Dwarfs Started Small Freaks (Tod Browning) Gummo Vernon Florida The Forbidden Zone Can't go wrong with midgets or old folks from Florida. |
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Scent of a Woman Dead Poets Society The Godfather Caddyshack As Good As It Gets 1) Sixteen Candles 2) Rudy 3) Dumb and Dumber 4) The Wedding Singer 5) Spartacus 1) Moonstruck 2) Scent of a Woman 3) The Witches of Eastwick 4) The Graduate 5) The Shining The Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore Princess Mononoke Goodfellas Pulp Fiction Spirited Away Shaun of the Dead The Thing Menace II Society This is Spinal Tap Snatch |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Rio Bravo Gone In Sixty Seconds Moulin Rouge! Caddyshack The Star Wars Trilogy Blade Runner The Godfather Blues Brothers Lord of the Rings Behind Enemy Lines Tommy Boy Big Daddy The Sandlot Con Air 1. The Usual Suspects 2. Braveheart 3. Dead Poets Society 4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 5. Animal House 1. The Princess Bride...nothing is better than a movie with things called ROUS, or with a man named Inigo Montoya. Can recite every line. 2. Fifth Element...just great...every bit of it, but especially Bruce Willis. 3. Dark Crystal...A twisted Muppets movie...only that because Henson did the puppets. 4. A League of Their Own...I've heard "There's no crying in baseball" many times. 5. Rocky Horror Picture Show...so cheesy and awful that it's good. But truly the best in a theater with a bunch of people screaming at the screen. |
1) My Fair Lady (what girl does not want this to be her life?-plus I know all the songs) 2) Pretty Woman (Essentially the same movie as #1 but how can you not love both?) 3) The Little Mermaid (I've always wished I was Ariel) 4) Il Postino (New Favorite from Fr. Bob's class) 5) Bridget Jones's Diary(Excellent movie and book) Harold and Maude Moonstruck Rushmore Young Frankenstein Raising Arizona (who just couldn't keep it to five) It's A Wonderful Life The Philadelphia Story Mr. Smith Goes to Washington You Can't Take It With You Vertigo North by Northwest Minority Report Goodfellas Moulin Rouge |