>>>>>>>I do believe this is the best movie ever made. There have been lots of great movies but every time I watch it it has the aura of greatness. Anytime, anywhere....
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>>>>>>Looking to open a Pandora's Box are we? Trying to start the longest thread the UT has ever seen?
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>>>>>No Pandora's box, and no illusions of starting the longest UT thread ever. It's the oddball threads that go on forever.
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>>>>>I think the longest one I can remember was from the Compuserve FoxForum -- "Lisa Has a Dirty Mind".
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>>>>>What is your favorite movie?
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>>>>Subsequent to my previous post, I just remembered - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Robert Ito, and in a deleted prologue (unless you get the DVD), Jamie Lee Curtis. I mean, what more could anyone ask?
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>>>>And how about 'Brazil' by Gilliam, Stoppard, and McKeown.
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>>>That's ab fab
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>>>>I just don't see how anybody can pick either a 'favourite' or a 'best' movie.
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>>>One of my most enjoyed films was ... Prdator.
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>>>I love "Spartacus" (one of my most watched films), along with "A matter of life and death" (seen so many times too), "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
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>>I often find that movies I enjoy watching are most definitely not the movies that would be classified as great movies by most of the world. I love those movies that are so bad that they are actually good (think Plan 9 From Outer Space).
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>Which is god-awful and only regarded as "good" because some kids in the 80s started watching it, the sheep followed (usually after a night at the pub) and it got cult status - but it's crap through-and-through!

Yes it is. But it's so bad that it's a real hoot to watch. All that business with Bela Lugosi keeping his cape up over his face? That's because it wasn't him. He died during the filming, so they got somebody else to play the parts he hadn't yet filmed. I love it.

I guess you wouldn't care for The Invasion of the Star Creatures either. Too bad. They're the kind of film where you talk back to the screen. Great fun.

>So I can't agree with you there. Surely a film is great because people love to watch it - not cos it's designated a "classic". I can't bare Citizen Kane, or many Awful Wells films, for that matter.

Ah, in this context, I take it that 'people' means 'Terry McDonnell'? I think Citizen Kane is a remarkable achievement. So, does 'people' include me? And why, pray tell, do you think it got designated a 'classic' if nobody likes it?

>>This does not include movies that are simply bad, but not bad enough to be enjoyable.