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think perhaps i may have felt the same margaret if i,d had your old job? enough reality in that i think. i to have an ordinary life but i dont regard it as mundane- i love it, but to each his own. ive had enough entertainment in my working life been lucky that way so i love reality/history etc.

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2001 a Space Odessy - came out at the time when I was deep into Sci-Fi reading & watching - I actually understood it - although it baffled all my mates

I agree Sodier Blue !! gutwrenching but honest

Breaking Glass with Hazel O'Connor

Alien ! for the effects

and how come no-ones mentioned Lassie

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When I was a kid I really liked the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weismueller, as well as Zulu and Bridge Over the River Kwai.

More recently really like Braveheart, Glory, Gettysburg, The Patriot, and the Waterboy.

Petrified of Horror movies (even the commercials can freak me out!)

BEA

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I never understood 2001. Perhaps you can explain it for us?

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Turns out I've already answered this thread on page 1 so ignore this post.

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for me it would have to be stand by me,what a fantastic film,my second fave is a toss up between the green mile and see no evil hear no evil

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rocky 6

serioulsy thought it was going to be a pile of dung but surprisingly better than the rest of them apart from rocky 1

watched it xmas day after dinner with friends and the whole room was up cheering and realy getting into the fight :Banane33:

mind you most of rockys fight have that effect i remember going to teh cinema to see rocky 4 and everyone was stood up cheering rocky on when he started to smack teh russian guy about lol

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I sat and watched Memoirs Of A Geisha the other night. Really enjoyed it.

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Me and my sis and her partner were sat down waiting for tea to cook and i'd flicked through sky and came across White Christmas near enough at the end but we still sat and watched it. Sisters partner said he'd never seen White Christmas he'd watched Holiday Inn. So she is now going to borrow mum's dvd of White Christmas to educate him we were sat there singing along with all the songs we've seen it so many times it was one of mums favourite films because it had bing in. She said it isnt a patch though on a wonderful life i said i've never seen it my sister then told me off and so last night she sat me down after turkey curry and we watched A wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart etc. Never watched it before ive read about it but never seen it so i knew about Clarence etc. Anway watched it drinking a baileys and another baileys and thought it was ok will probably see it again. And by the time we'd finished watching it sis wasnt able to bring me home so had to get a taxi!

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Amazing that the DVD/Video is available so soon , since its still playing in the movie houses, must be that you have different copyright laws in the UK :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek:

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My personal selections by genre:

"Westerns" -- listed alphabetically accompanied by selected reviews:

Dances with Wolves:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/

Lonesome Dove:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...maculate-books

Soldier Blue:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...eviews_rssfeed

Son of the Morning Star:
http://www.destgulch.com/movies/sms/

The Wild Bunch:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/

Ulzana's Raid:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069436/

I grew up (in Burnley) on a dose of Saturday morning matinee "Oaters" -- Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy "B" picture serials, followed in later years by John Ford/John Wayne epics, etc. They were great fun but, I came to realize, not very accurate reflections of real American Western history.

I am, in a modest way, a Western Historian and the above personal movie selection list contains what to me are the real gems of historically correct western movies -- attitudes, prejudices, speech idioms, equipment, dress ..... and so on.

James

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oh its a toss up between cry baby and dirty dancing and stand by me i cant choose just one

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My personal selections by genre:

WW2 movies (no particular order of preference):

The life and death of Colonel Blimp

Yanks

Battleground

The Longest Day

Flags of our Father's

Mrs. Miniver

Saving Private Ryan

Hope and Glory

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Patton