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Please tell me that's only because of the Jessica Biel bikini
Hmph, guess I'll have to go rent it. Not that I've got a thing for Jessica Biel per se.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Kingdom of Heaven
Lord of the Rings series
Full Metal Jacket
Braveheart
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Office Space
Saving Pvt Ryan
Uncle Buck (I'm a big John Candy fan)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Tigerland
(I have a few more, can't remember them at the moment.)
I LOVE Office Space. I would not say it is my favorite, but in the top ten. Also in my top ten are the Matrix series, Boiler Room, Willy Wonka (the original, but especially the new one), and Devil's Advocate. I also cannot remember others right now.
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."-Sholem Asch
"I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."-Earl Warren
"I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."-Nancy Reagan, when asked a political question at a "Just Say No" rally
"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules."-Earl Butz, on the Pope's attitude toward birth control
Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World
The Empire Strikes Back
The Beast
Das Boot
X-Men and X-Men 2
Dances With Wolves
The Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
Aliens
The Abyss
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Tonight I watched 'Beavis and Butthead do America' with some friends. I smashed my self away by laughing. "I am Conjulio!" It remineded me at the good old times in school, when everybody imitated Beavis and Butthead. :) The South Park movie was also great. Cartman is unbeaten.
But I also like more sophisticated films like 'Clockwork Orange'. Maybe that's my favourit movie at all.
What I don't like are Hollywood comedies and fantasie movies. That includes 'Lord of the rings', 'Star Wars'. And what I really, really heat are action movies with exception of all 'Rambo' movies. I role on the floor and can't stop laughing when I see them....they are so extrem ridiculous.
"Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality." ~ George William Russell
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Hero (with Jet Li not Dustin Hoffman)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
A Bridge Too Far
Waking Ned Devine
Local Hero
The Waterboy
The more I think about it, ol' Billy was right.
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight.
- The Eagles
Started my obession with all things military!
About the only Tom Clancy novel which did not disappoint in the film version!
Your family has excellent taste in movies sir!
Another military themed movie (though actually mini-series) I loved (and so will you if it has English sub titles) was this
Three Pakistan Army officers and their experiences. Not to mention love triangle (with the Corp Commanders daughter no less.)
Great dialouge
"You know, Fawaz, PARA is an acronym, it stands for Pakistan Army Retards Association".
"Errr no, Highly Experienced Farm Girls are not a requisionable item".
"Its a very detailed plan, but the gist of it is; we are going to get shot."
"I am just the company commander, want to know about it that badly, go ask the senior JCO (warrent officer.)"
"Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality." ~ George William Russell
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