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Name your TOP FIVE Movies

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

1. Lord of the Rings

2. Star Wars : Eps 4,5,6

3. Shawshank Redemption

4. Entropy

5. Office Space

Honorable Mentions: Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Gremlins, Never Ending Story, Four Rooms

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X'ero Ascaris
Swordsman/Weaponsmith
Section 4
Deputy Director

"Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!" ~Olorin

5. Seven

4. Pulp Fiction

3. Requiem for a Dream

2. Star Wars (pick one except 1/2)

1. The Usual Suspects

The Shawshank Redemption and Office Space would be on there except for the fact that I've seen them about 75 times. Also, this will change because I love movies, but these are always up there.

Notables: Waking Life, Apocalypse Now, Half Baked, Pi, etc. etc. etc.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

1. Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
2. Blues Brothers
3. The Last Unicorn
4. The Life of Brian
5. The Princess Bride

Edward

1. Star Wars (originals)
2. Gladiator
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Forrest Gump
5. Braveheart

Number 5 was hard for me, because there are quite a few notables: The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Hunt for the Red October, Kathy Ireland's Extreme Workout. All very great, very Epic films.

The Matrix would have been as high as number 4 on my list if they hadn't soured my taste for it with the second movie.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

man i dont know if i can bring this one down to top 5 lol there are so many

but here goes


1. The Matrix
2. Mallrats
3. Office Space
4. Hackers
5. Oceans 11


So many honerable mentions

Matrix Trilogy
Star Wars Movies
Lord of the Rings Movies
X-men Movies
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Rounders
Spiderman
Harry Potter Movies

Alphabetically...

8 1/2 (Fellini)
M (Lang)
Metropolis (Lang)
Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
The Third Man (Reed)

Honorable Mentions...
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The 39 Steps (first version) (Hitchcock)
The Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Good Morning (Ozu)
L' Avventura (Antonioni)
The Godfather 2 (Coppola)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Blues Brothers (Landis)

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

I'm stealing that one for my honorable mention list!

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

1. Bladerunner
2. LOTR
3. Gladiator
4. Memento
5. Fight Club

Ask me again tomorrow, the list could be a little bit different.

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Retired Weaponsmith

In order of bell-shaped curve title length:

8 1/2
Amelie
Attack the Gas Station
Tokyo Drifter
Brazil

Annie Hall sucks and you know it Bossman

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ARCHITECH (Peace to GG)

I think it's a regional thing. Holla at some taste

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

Someone had better mention the Wrath of Khan. That's a damned good movie.

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

In no particular order:

The Princess Bride
Star Wars: A new Hope (ESB was probably better, but I feel like a 9 year kid when I watch ANH)
Die Hard (not the sequels)
The Usual Suspects
Stripes

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Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

Bladerunner was...well odd. It is supposed to be one of the greatest movies of all time, but I just didn't get it. Yea to Braveheart and Mallrats, both of those are in my top 10.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

1.) Godfather 1
2.) LOTR (both of them)
3.) Holy Grail
4.) Princess Bride
5.) Star Wars (not 1 or 2) well 2 is on the fence, maybe the last half of 2

And to Bladerunner I thought it was an Ok movie, the only reason why I saw it was because I had played the game; I think the game was better than the movie.

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Former Section 7 Director

I foolishly left "Lord of the Rings" off of my honorable mentions list -- I would probably at least put "Fellowship" there.

Although no Star Wars films are in my personal pantheon, I'd definitely pick "A New Hope" as the best one.

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

For those of you who haven't read the books and thought Two Towers was good, you are going to be awe struck with Return of the King.

For those of you who have read the books..... You know what I'm talking about.

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X'ero Ascaris
Swordsman/Weaponsmith
Section 4
Deputy Director

"Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!" ~Olorin

I read the books twice, and STILL thought the movies were fantastic. I didn't expect a word for word diatribe.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

1. The Matrix
2. Gladiator
3. LOTR - Two Towers
4. Cruel intentions
5. Star Wars - ESB

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Avian Technology & Trade

Wermas Tanares
-Master Weaponsmith-
-Master Pistoleer-

TC Char
Nawa

Talon wrote:


I absolutely agree Talon. I didn't expect exact replication of the books. What I was trying to convey was that Return of the King is the best book out of the three, hence I believe it will be the best movie also.

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X'ero Ascaris
Swordsman/Weaponsmith
Section 4
Deputy Director

"Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!" ~Olorin

Ah yes, one of the great cinematic masterpieces of our time...Cruel Intentions.

Quick, get this man some Kubrick, stat!

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

1. The Godfather Series
2. LOTR Series
3. Matrix (Not so much the Series)
4. Star Wars Series (Original Trilogy)
5. Indiana Jones SeriesStar

Honourables:

"Fletch" Movies
Blues Brother - Awesome music
Fight Club
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Alien Series
Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Anything by Monty Python (well ok lump in Time Bandits too, well and for you Onto Brazil)
Blazing Saddles
History of the World Part I
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Terminator
Monsters Inc.
Grease (My wife would kill me if I left this out)
Schindler's List
Rocky I (and only I, ok maybe II, but thats it)
Ghostbusters
Dead Poet's Society

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Section 2 - (Former) Director
What am I playing now?: The waiting game

Ah, Crouching Tiger, I think I was trying to think of that when I made my list. Thanks for the props on Brazil. I wish I had seen the alternate happy ending version so I could say if I liked that better
Whoa, Bossman, remember when Sarah what's-her-face left like 5 minutes before the end of that movie? Holla.

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ARCHITECH (Peace to GG)

Didn't you want to like go out with her at the time? It's a good thing Doug stopped you.

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

Yeah, I think I still would. Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

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She's supposedly really annoying though -- everyone thinks so: Emma, Anjolie, Tara, etc. No one really knows why Christina decided to room with her.

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Bossman Intrepid
Director, Section 2
Future President, Corellia Tiki-Style Tavern Embellishments
Golga Bolg for mayor!

/trout the threadjackers




Oh yeah.... Sarah M. Gellar uttering those 6 sacred words... "I'll let you put it anywhere." LOL.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Wow, I can't believe I forgot Donnie Darko!

Definitely number 6, if not squeeking past Seven.

What a fantastic movie.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

Just a quick note...

Lots of Donnie Dark was filmed at my high school.

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X'ero Ascaris
Swordsman/Weaponsmith
Section 4
Deputy Director

"Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!" ~Olorin

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Avian Technology & Trade

Wermas Tanares
-Master Weaponsmith-
-Master Pistoleer-

TC Char
Nawa

1. Shindler's List
2. Appocalypse Now
3. North By Northwest
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Lost in Translation (I hate to put a new movie in the list, but damn that was the best movie I have seen in a long time. Don't know if my opinion will hold up over time)
5b. A Few Good Men

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1. LOTRSWMATRIX
2. Real Genius
3. Rosencratz and Guildenstern are dead
4. Much Ado about Nothing
5. Indiana Jones III

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--The Hermit

Wait, isn't that the 80s movie with Val Kilmer? Where they use that stupid heat ray to blow up popcorn and flood the mean guys house? That movie made my eyes bleed!

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

Obviously, it's because you missed the delicious and underlying juxtaposition of fact, fantasy, and fraternity fun.

Yes, yes I did.

Once my head imploded, I didn't get much.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

LOL.... now if we're talking classic Val Kilmer, how about Top Secret? Now THERE's a classic!

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Okay...now that is at least a funny movie.

Speaking of bad movies however: last night, right before bed, my roommate and I were watching this horrifically bad movie with Ice T about a group of hunters who take a bum and put him in Alaska, and then hunt him down. It was in my top 5 worst movies ever. Night went to day in about 30 seconds, Ice T had a broken leg and a gunshot wound and was still fighting like a rabid dog...it was excrutiating. But, we didn't get the title of the movie. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I just want to know what I can say stole an hour of my life.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

OH MAN!! That's a great movie! It's based on a classic work of literature called "The Most Dangerous Game." The name of that movie is "Surviving the Game." Haven't seen it since I was a teenager, so maybe it's worse than I thought.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

1) Road to Perdition

2) Full Metal Jacket

3) Shawshank Redemption

4) Gladiator

5) Airplane (Elaine: A hospital--what is it? Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.)


RotK's gotta fit in there somewhere, but I need to see it again before I decide which of the above it'll unseat.

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.