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1 - Jimmy Stewart ... He was so versatile. He could fit in any genre.
2 - Cary Grant ... He made me laugh.
3 - Gary Cooper ... He could play the every man with such diversity.
4 - Spencer Tracy ... I have to put him at the bottom because I only saw a couple of his films.
Favorite Rogers & Hammerstein movie?
For my own question, I'd put
1. Cary Grant -- Because even when he's playing a chump who's totally out to sea, he still exudes cool.
2. Jimmy Stewart -- I personally find him intensely annoying, but he's played a lot of different roles in a lot of different stuff, so I have to give him props.
3. Gary Cooper -- He's pretty much always just Gary Cooper, but that's not necessarily a bad thing -- like John Wayne always being John Wayne (although Wayne was way awesome-er, IMHO).
4. Spenser Tracy -- Meh. I mean, he's alright, but I still watch Inheret the Wind mostly for Gene Kelly, who is made of win in everything.
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To the ratings of the great actors:
1. Jimmy Stewart - great versatility and put a lot of emotion into his roles
2. Cary Grant - he's close to #1 just for Gone with the Wind
3. Spencer Tracy - plenty of great roles, but he doesn't stick out quite as much as the guys above.
4. Gary Cooper - I don't think I've ever seen one of his movies, amazingly enough.
Favorite R&H movie: The Disney 1997 TV movie version of "Cinderella" - it's actually really good, in a quirky kind of way.
Favorite movie in which someone gets their head cut off?
2. Cary Grant - he's close to #1 just for Gone with the Wind
Boo!
Favorite movie in which someone gets their head cut off?
Gonna disappoint the goblin and not pick a French Revolution themed one, but instead go for The Two Towers, where plenty of Uruk-hai end up a head shorter.
Favourite movie in which someone has a hand cut off?
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1 - Jimmy Stewart - Rear Windows and Vertigo alone would put him at the top of my list. But then there is Harvey and the Cheyenne Social Club. So many truly great roles.
1 - Cary Grant - Yes! It is a tie with Jimmy Stewart. North by Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, from Topper to Father Goose, he may be the quintessential leading man.
3 - Gary Cooper - Just as Kirth said, he is just like John Wayne, but just not as great.
4 - Spencer Tracy - Sorry! I never saw the appeal.
Q: Favorite movie in which someone gets their head cut off?
A: Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring). The classic scene when Aragorn beheads the Uruk Hai Lurtz. Very cool!
Edit: I got Ninja'd on this one.
Go with Kajehase's question.
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Favorite movie in which someone gets their head cut off?
Gonna disappoint the goblin and not pick a French Revolution themed one, but instead go for The Two Towers, where plenty of Uruk-hai end up a head shorter.
Favourite movie in which someone has a hand cut off?
No Doubt about it: The Empire Strikes Back.
Favorite Christopher Lee movie not LOTR?
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Favorite Christopher Lee movie (other than LotR): For overall movie, I liked Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, but I didn't really like his role in it.
On balance, though, I'll go with The Last Unicorn, though I remember enjoying Airport '77 and The Skull scared the pants off of me when I was a kid and saw it on TV.
Favorite Ian McKellen movie that is not LotR or X-Men-related?
Loved, loved Chris Lee in the old Hammer Pictures Dracula movies.
His minutes on screen during Star Wars II are my favorite of probably the whole six.
Oddly enough, didn't care for him in LotR, though.
He was the best in the original Wicker Man, though!
Favorite Ian McKellen movie that is not LotR or X-Men-related?
Loved him in Richard III.
Favorite screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play?
Favourite screen adaptation of a Shakespear play?
Richard III - the one with Ian McKellen.
Favourite re-telling of a Shakespeare play as a different story? (Like Kurosawa's Ran [King Lear] or Throne of Blood [Macbeth], for instance).
Favourite screen adaptation of a Shakespear play?
Richard III - the one with Ian McKellen.
Favourite re-telling of a Shakespeare play as a different story? (Like Kurosawa's Ran [King Lear] or Throne of Blood [Macbeth], for instance).
Not for nothing, but isn't the Richard III you are referencing a "re-telling" of the original story?
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I really enjoyed Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (and yeah, I think it counts as a pretty different story), but if you think that's too close then I'll go with the substantially Hamlet-inspired The Lion King.
Favorite three talking animals from the movies (animated or otherwise)?
Favorite three talking animals from the movies (animated or otherwise)?
The fly, the heroin addict crocodile and the bunny who thinks he has aids, all from "Meet the Feebles".
Q: Movie that you saw as a child then re-watched as an adult and disliked/were disappointed/realized it didn't age well/etc?
(Mine would be the original animated Lion Witch and Wardrobe. I remember the animation much better than it actually was.)
Q: Movie that you saw as a child then re-watched as an adult and disliked/were disappointed/realized it didn't age well/etc?
That would be every movie I loved as a kid and then enthusiastically tried to share with Mrs. Gersen, only to stare in horror at the screen and at her annoyed reaction to the farce thereon.
But that's not one movie, so the question remains.
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Fantastic Voyage; Mother, Jugs, and Speed; and I'll have to say Legally Blonde.
3 favorite movies starring people who were primarily comedians (not just people who started out doing standup and left it behind, like Tom Hanks or Billy Crystal, but who are more famous as comedians than as actors) who were not playing themselves?
(P.S. To add to the degree of difficulty, no one who was ever a Saturday Night Live cast member!)
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Toy Story 2 could maybe count, since Robert Goulet provides the singing voice of Wheezy the Penguin, but that seems like stretching it (as would Bing Crosby as the narrator of Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), so how about...
James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, and Cab Calloway in The Blues Brothers
Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce Knowles in Dreamgirls
Whitney Houston in The Preacher's Wife
3 favorite war-related comedies?
Good Morning Vietnam
Soldat Bom
Stripes
Favourite movie by Ivan or Jason Reitman?
3 favorite war-related comedies?
1. Kelly's Heroes
Favorite 3 movies with Carl Reiner involved, whether acting or directing?
The Jerk
Summer School (Directed & played the principal)It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (he's the tower controller)
Favorite Mark Harmon role?
Actually, he was a teacher. Mr. Bite in the Ass was the principal.
Which tells me that I desperately need to see that movie again.
Mark Harmon plays a great villain opposite Tom Selleck in Crossfire Trail, and underrated TV movie.
Can't stand Sean Connery outside the first 3 or so James Bond movies, so I'll take a pass on that one. I like the spoofs of him on SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy," though!
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Mark Harmon plays a great villain opposite Tom Selleck in Crossfire Trail, and underrated TV movie.
Never saw it. I need to look it up. He had some steamy scenes with Mimi Rogers in something called Basic Deception.
Btw- You don't have to like Sean Connery to like some of the good movies he was in.
Cheers,
Mazra
Btw- You don't have to like Sean Connery to like some of the good movies he was in.
OK, you got me.
I liked:1. Dr. No
2. The Man Who Would Be King
3. The Great Train Robbery
4. The Molly Maguires -- International Socialist Workers' Revolution!
5. Highlander
I did it!
Rate the Highlander movies in order of OK-ness.
Mine:
(1) was original; (2) was fun and didn't take itself too seriously, and pisses of the fanbois which I find endlessly amusing; (3) sucked balls; and (4) I had no idea who any of the people or organizations were, or what was going on, so I can't even rate it.
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4. The Molly Maguires -- International Socialist Workers' Revolution!
F&%#in' a right!
[in Scottish brogue trying to pass itself off as Irish brogue]
"Tell me, what was your mother's maiden name? I've f!&$ed a lot of whores in my time."
Hee hee!
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Rank the Highlanders eh?
1. Highlander
-infinity. Highlander 2: The Quickening
still -infinity. Highlander 2: The Quickening (Director's Cut)
Never saw it: 3, 4, or the TV show
Top 3 best and Top 3 worst (in your opinion, and only rank them if you've actually seen them) James Bond movies?
BEST:
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Tie: Dr. No and Goldfinger
4. Casino Royale reboot.
WORST:
Best 3 action-spy movies that are more or less James Bond movies, but with different characters?
-infinity. Highlander 2: The Quickening still -infinity.
(2) was fun and didn't take itself too seriously, and pisses of the fanbois which I find endlessly amusing
Sorry, man!
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Best 3 action-spy movies that are more or less James Bond movies, but with different characters?
Norwegian Ninja
Patriot GamesConfessions of a Dangerous Mind
Not so honorable mentions
Bourne series
Taken and its sequel Taken again
Something with Jackie chan and owen wilson.
Top 3 post apocalypse movies?
The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars (A New Hope)
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
Attack of the Clones
the 1st prequel, which I can't recall the name of right now, on account of being really, really tired.[/i]
Favourite Liam Neeson role?
Favorite Rob Reiner film?
1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Princess Bride3. Stand By Me
4. The Sure Thing
Favorite Christopher Guest role NOT in a Rob Reiner film?
First one I can think of off the top of my head:
It was all right.
He makes a good legend, but irl he was a racist sociopath scumbag. Or so I've read.
Favorite western about a real life historical personage?
Well, my favorite movie with a scene in the Civil War is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but it's probably stretching it to say it's about the Civil War.
Favorite Denzel movie other than the above?
EDIT--Wow, did they really need Orff for that trailer? A bit over the top, I thought.
Favorite Denzel movie other than the above?
Not a big Denzel fan, but Training Day was quite good, I thought.
Favorite 3 Scott Glenn roles?