>My 10 favorite movies
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>It's a Wonderful Life
>Christmas Story
>White Christmas
>Casablanca
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Blues Brothers
>League of Their Own
>Glory Road
>The Majestic
>Dogma
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>Honorable mention: Animal House and the original M*A*S*H movie
Okay, to play contrarian :
I find Xmas Story, Wonderful Life, White Christmas and Mockingbird cloying krap. <s>
Liked League of their Own and Dogma.
Blues Brothers was genius.
Casablanca always requires an asterisk for me as "compared to the other Hollywood dreck of its time" Never really bought Bogart as a tough guy. They should *never* have put him on camera in a wife-beater. (not Casablanca - maybe To have and to have not) Bacall on the other hand is hot in any time-frame ( whereas Marilyn Monroe today couldn't get a job in porn ) I just have trouble with pretty much the entire acting style that was predominant in studio movies prior to about 1967. Like 50s television it now just seems so dated I can't rewatch any of it.
Wonderful Life has me throwing things at the TV throughout the holiday season ( kind of tradition <s> Every time I hit the TV an angel gets his wings !)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
