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General Discussion
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List your favorite 5 (five) all time movies here !

Surf related or not.

A chance to get your Warhoul ,and state your reasons…

I’ve always had a list of the top 5 or 10 all time movies.

Because, I probably won’t ever get them seen anywhere else …here’s my top 5 and why…

  1. Seven Samurai = (a ultimate classic which many movies have been based on including the, “MAGNIFICANT SEVEN”.)

  2. The Harp of Burma (the Burmese harp) = ( Introduced to me by my mother when I was 3 yrs.of age, at the buddist temple in S.D.,Cal.)

  3. The Green Mile = John Coffey and myself share a common affliction.

  4. Big Wednesday = A Classic…need I say more.

  5. Dogtown and Z-Boyz = In alot of respects…My life in a nutshell.

Even though the top 2 on my list swap places from time to time…The top two on my list have stayed the top two for as long as I can remember…Both Japanese productions with several awards …Thanks Mom !

Number 3 is the closest to my person…It’s harder to heal , than it is to kill…My father gave me both gifts in this life…a curse…and a blessing.

Number 4 is the most classic surf movie of all time…and I believe it will remain the King as long as this world is here.

Number 5 is sooo close it hurts…skated ans surfed with most or all those guys…Some things aren’t straight,but thumbs up for a great effort to Stacy(now can the media stay out of my hometown I.B. please).

That’s it for me…

Whatz yours…list it here and get your 15 minutes.

H

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1, Bull Durham . Susan Sarrandon is hot, one sexxy milf

2,The odd angry shot. Australian SAS in Vietnam , serious comedy

3,The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Musical, Susan Sarrandon is one hot milf

4, Litmus, changed my life, rates up with big wednesday liked litmus better because of real people . however still rate Matt Johnson as top surfer.

5, Pulp fiction ,enough said

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Waiting to exhale

grease

Steel Magnolias

My Best friend wedding

When a man loves a woman…Homo says what?

Now can we get back to surfing…Herb, you’ve been on a roll lately? What’s making you come out swinging?

???Resinhead???

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  1. Lawrence of Arabia,

    Arabia was one hell of a big beach but the man stood alone, rallied his believers, conquered his foes and died on a motorcycle.

  2. Field of Dreams,

because the man stood alone, conquered his fears, ignored his detractors and lived to see his dream realised.

  1. A Perfect World,

Because a man needs to stand for what he believes in, come what may, and because sometimes it takes a few bullets in the chest to remind him that its NOT a perfect world.

  1. Blazing Saddles,

because it was so far ahead of its time and I’d never seen men collectively fart before.

  1. Spice Girls,

because if more people saw this movie then we wouldnt be subjected to their current return to prominence.

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debbie does dallas

i dream of jenna

meet the f**ker$

darkside

sprout

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Never Cry Wolf

True Grit

Shane

Blade Runner

Breaker Morant

Not necessarily in that order.

7

Citizen Cane

12 Angry Men

The Usual Suspects

Shawshank Redemption

Good Fellas

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  1. VIVA ZAPATA…Brando, and Quinn, powerful character studies.

  2. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA…‘‘The secret is not minding that it hurts.’’

  3. ONE EYED JACKS… ‘‘He didn’t give me no selection.’’

  4. TREASURE ISLAND…Robert Newton at his BEST, as Long John Silver.

  5. BIG WEDNESDAY…This film was so close to the reality I experienced, that I was moved to tears, when I

                                 first saw it.

Honorable Mention…20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

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Hard to lay down my best five but here is one for ya Herb, It is a Japanese classic called “Tampopo”

A spaghetti western : If you haven’t seen it might wanna check it out.

Other than that I liked C Grant, The one where he is a painter and visits his Granma on a greek Island. North by Northwest was pretty cool too.

The grand blue about deep open water free~diving.

the rest might be surf flicks, not Gidget though, sorry guys.

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RH,

A pair of motley crew dogs named Koa and Maddi.

I have my muse back…good to be back.

H

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I forgot one…Moonstruck.

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  1. Master of The Flying Guillotine

The man burns his own house down before leaving on his mission of revenge. That is real commitment.

  1. The Matrix

I was so amped watching this in the theater that I broke out into a sweat.

  1. Star Wars

I know, I know, and I agree with you, but I was 10 years old, and when the Imperial battlecruiser went overhead chasing the rebel ship in the early going, it re-wired my brain on the spot.

  1. Casablanca

I don’t want to hear any guff about this one.

  1. The Lord of The Rings

If I were 10 years old again, this would have been my Star Wars.

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  1. The Cell

  2. The Matrix

  3. The Shawshank Redemption

  4. ?

  5. ?

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  1. Cool hand Luke…just something about the way they made that movie that hasnt been duplicated.

  2. STARWARS 1 though 6 all great movies with a timeless story line of tradition and change.

  3. Getaway Stockholm 1…whats cooler than a guy in a blackout porsche ditching the cops in the early morning hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbtTYHix8ck

  1. Back to the Future trilogy…m.j. fox rules

  2. full metal jacket…“get the f…k down off of my obstical!”

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Spinal Tap

Zulu

Lawrence (one of my rellies led 10000 men to their death0

2001 A Space Oddesy

Jaws 1 (my mate and I had seen it so many times and we used to scream from the back of the theatre just before the shark bites, hours of fun)

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  1. Apocalypse Now. Original version not the lame and confusing Redux. Greatest surf film of all time, daylight second. Too many classic lines. Everything with Kilgore in it is just too good for words. Milius finest hour.

  2. Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman eating 50 eggs is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed.

  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Music , pacing, breadth of vision. Life still sometimes comes down to apes fighting over a waterhole.

  4. Five Easy Pieces. Jack Nicholson as a roughneck giving it to a waitress in a diner is phucking hilarious.

  5. Easyrider. As important as On the Road.

  6. Yeah Big Wednesday for Bill Hamilton’s surfing at Big Sunset. Perfect.

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five movies?

not enough.

I like all of em

for diffrent reasons

some cause they were soooooo bad.

you guys left out some

Iron monkey for one

thet maori whale rider girl

how bout that joey brown one

and thet greenenough guy

and throw away big wednes day II

I wanna see the severson big wednesday

tarzan and his mate 1934

that maureen o sullivan chick was hot and wrastling thet aligator

go weismuller

and the wake of the red witch

john waynes best dive

then that one where the guy eats crackers and gets drunk in the cell

and charlie ruggles and ben turpin and

come on 5 movies?

what about seagull the martial arts debacle

or johnathan livingston seagull

I mean even the bad ones

whaddabout beneath the twelve mile reef?

gilbert roland whadda guy…

…ambrose…

wednesday 2 … glory days…

when they co-opt-corrupt memories

and the memories become blurry and the

morph becomes reality…?hmmmmmm.

It Was just like that?

like a dictionary isn’t language

it’s just a book report

language is like us talking

without a teacher

marking everything with a red pen.

millius cant own your memories

unless you buy his screenplay interpretation

then you can owe him

for recolecting…

pee wee said it

I dont need to watch it

I LIVED IT.

but as I remember it it was thursday through saturday.

thanks to humphrey bogart

and sydney greenstreet

and peter lorre

and cary grant

and alfred hitchcock

and terry thomas

and peter sellers

and elke sommer

and kathrine hepburn

it just cant stop at 5

or the battlling SEA BEES

I MEAN>>>>>

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  1. Oh Brother where art thou? What a sound track. Every time I see it there is something I’ve missed. A classic.

  2. The Delicatessan. Dark and strange with some great humour. Beautifully filmed.

  3. Little Shop of Horrors. I hate musicals of every sort but this really is different.

  4. Diva. Typical French style, beauty, quirky, music and a thriller to boot.

  5. The Blues Brothers. Ackroyd and Belushi, just makes you smile.

There are so many more but that is my offering.

Rik

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  1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (We have kept saying for years -my best friend and I- that there is no definitive proof that they die at the end of the film: sure enough they run out of cover just to be slashed to pieces by billions of bolivian bullets but then the film abruptly stops and the picture turns to sepia. You don’t see them actually die. So there’s a good chance that they made it out. One of these days, I’m gonna shoot “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid II”…)

  2. The Graduate (Katharine Ross played in both “Butch” and this one… There might be a clue as to why I love both films…)

  3. The life of Brian. (I’m pretty sure that Chip will list that one amongst his 5, too…)

  4. Free and easy. (The first surfing film ever that I saw.)

  5. The long riders. (Best western ever made, IMHO)

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o brother where art thou

life aquatic

emily

graveyard of the fireflys

rocky

shit theres so many others