Famous films you HAVE watched...

[Jake_Sully]

Errr I was referring to shawshank. somehow the 2nd arrow didn't take. Let me see if I can edit it. Big Lebowski can't put anyone to sleep if they've got a pulse.

[Lefty]

(PigDogg @ Oct. 19 2010,22:31)        

While Tim Robbins was a perfect the Andy, the role has Tom Hanks written all over it.

Glad Costner turned down the part.

Since, as you say, Tim Robbins was perfect as Andy, I'd say the role had Tim Robbins written all over it,

[Jake_Sully]

DT its weird though I agree and like those movies you named except for Shawshank.

[ALASKAN BEAR]

the movie ( them ) giant ants 1954.

[deepthroat]

I just realized I never actually compiled a list in this thread of films I HAVE seen, and re-watch regularly.

Here goes:

Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill(s)
Jackie Brown
Blade Runner
The Natural
The Great Escape
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Bond films - the Connery years
Almost Famous
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Moulin Rouge
The Sound of Music
Excalibur
The Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lobowski
Gladiator
Toy Story
The Killing Fields

[Jake_Sully]

Interestingly, here's mine:

Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Batman Forever
The Lord of the Rings (x3)
Troy
The Professional
Gladiator
The Godfather & The Godfather Part II
El Dorado
Hatari
Where Eagles Dare
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Dirty Harry
Gran Torino
Unforgiven
Dances With Wolves
Swordfish
Pulp Fiction
Heat
The Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
Scarface
A Bronx Tale
The Matrix
Terminator 2 and Salvation (I didn't like the original or the 3rd)
Conan The Destroyer & Barbarian
Alexander
Spartacus
The American President
Dave
The Silence of the Lambs
Red Dragon
Dawn of the Dead
28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later
2001 A Space Odyssey & 2010: The Year We Make Contact
All Star Wars Movies
Pitch Black & Chronicles of Riddick
First Blood
Cliffhanger
Rocky 1 & 2
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Crying Game
Four Weddings & A Funeral
Love Actually
Nine Months
The Night of the Generals
The Towering Inferno
The Magnificent Seven
The Getaway (with Steve McQueen & Ali McGraw)
Death Wish
Assassination
Under Siege
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghost
Zapped
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Puppet Masters
Bloodsport
Double Impact
Timecop
Bladerunner
Nighthawks
Escape from Sobibor
Guns of Navarone
Dog Day Afternoon
Se7en
The Deceivers
Vantage Point
Stargate
Independence Day
Bat21
The French Connection
Judgment at Nuremberg
Lawrence of Arabia
Kramer Vs. Kramer
Outbreak
The Departed
48 Hrs.
Apollo 13
The Green Mile
Philadelphia

[rossco]

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean at his best. Great story and brilliant cinematography.

Even more intriguing today when the film explains how the West divided the Middle East having abused their position - the seeds of many of todays problems in the region.

[deepthroat]

Woops, I forgot a few:

The Right Stuff
Lawrence of Arabia
The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather 1 & 2
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
Horror of Dracula (Hammer - Christopher Lee)
The Man Who Would Be King
2001: A Space Odyssey

[seanbeag7]

Well done guys for putting up excellent films on your lists.

but what about:

Schindler list
M A S H movie
Dog day afternoon
Tie me up, tie me down ( very funny bath scene)
101 Reykjavik
between your legs
french twist ( these 4 films all star Victoria Abril - excellent actress)
bound
Defiance
Public enemies
Green Zone
it's a wonderful life
french connection 1+2
The killing of sister George
Boys don't cry
Aimee and Jaguar
The black book
shortbus
9 songs
The hunger

Etc............ i need to review my collection

[deepthroat]

I should have added Jackass, Jackass 2, and Jackass 3D.

Disgusting at times (I actually retched in the theater this weekend during one scene in Jackass 3D!) but one of the most consistently funny, laugh-out-loud hilarious comedy series of all time.

[Jake_Sully]

I think Scary Movie 3 is pretty funny too.   But like most comedies, its hard to laugh at the same joke again unless its a part of a bigger plan.

[Torurot]

Apocalypse now! Amazing how much detail is in a 70mm negative

Apocalypse Now gets anamorphic 2.35:1 Blu Ray release
by EOSHD Published on 17-10-2010 02:25 PM

Above: Anamorphic frame of Apocalypse Now in 2.35:1 HD on Blu Ray

Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is to be released on Blu Ray in the original anamorphic format with which it was shot.

Shot with anamorphic lenses and transferred to 70mm for the theatrical release then came the heart breaking decision to severely crop the film for the standard 4:3 TV and video cassettes of the time, loosing 40% of the original careful framing and 40% of how the film was intended to look.

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http://www.eoshd.com/content....release

[ALASKAN BEAR]

here is my list some the same.

M.A.S.H. the movie

AvP
them
thing from another planet and the remake
alien
aliens
predator x2
giant mantis
deep star six
sound of music
gone with the wind
airplane x2
pulp fiction
stargate and all the tv series
star trek 1-2-3-6-7-8-9-10
star trek the remake
all the star wars
black hawk down
we where soldiers
band of brothers
sands of iwo jima
big red one
kellys hero's
pearl harbor
midway
the longest day
in harms way
flying tigers
flying leathernecks
true grit
rio lobo
Rio Grande
battle of the bulge
blood sport
timecop
transformers both movies and the cartoon movie
Halloween 1&2
dawn of the dead
night of the living dead
28 days later & 28 weeks
30 days of night . i do live in alaska
north to alaska
The Towering Inferno
Slap Shot
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
bat 21
The Hustler
The Last Castle
The Electric Horseman
The Sting
The Natural
Fighting Seabees
Fort Apache
The Horse Soldiers
Sons of Katie Elder
Green Berets
The Hellfighters
The Shootist
Space Cowboys
The Rookie
Magnum Force
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Gauntlet
Firefox
Heartbreak Ridge

and many you guys have already put down.

[Jake_Sully]

Thank you AB:

I forgot a few:

The Lost Boys
Night of the Living Dead
Disclosure
The Untouchables
Battle of the Bulge
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Firefox
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Shootist
Black Hawk Down
Kelly's Heroes
Alien & Aliens
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset

and a very underrated yet cult movie of "Beyond The Law" with Charlie Sheen.

[deepthroat]

(Torurot @ Oct. 21 2010,16:02) Apocalypse now!   Amazing how much detail is in a 70mm negative

That's a bit of a misconception.

To the best of my knowledge, there were NO American films shot on 70mm film stock between "Ryan's Daughter" (1970) and "Far and Away" (1992) other than a couple of 70mm Cinerama productions (Song of Norway and The Last Valley) that were never theatrically presented in 70mm.

Plenty of films were shot on 35mm and then "blown up" to 70mm for presentation, including "Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind", "Star Wars", "Blade Runner" and of course "Apocalypse Now".

But to really get the impact and benefit of 70mm, it had to have been shot on this format. It's about the amount of RESOLUTION and if you're working with a low-res format (as 35mm would be in comparison to 70mm - half the amount of photographic image) then you can only get so much improvement by blowing it up larger.

Hope that makes sense, I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining. But bottom line, the film was not shot with a 70mm negative, it was enlarged from 35mm.