A bad memory – I saw it when it first came out in an old theater in Morgan City, LA. The last scenes were filmed right around MC and Franklin, LA and they used locals for those real local looking folks. I’d only been there for a few months and my wife just moved down from Manhattan Beach, CA. Thought I’d take her to the movies – she was going through culture shock. Well at the end of the movie the whole crowd stood up cheering and applauding, and we just shrunk down with this real cold sick “where the hell are we” feeling. Needless to say the marriage didn’t last to long and she went back to the “Beach”, but I lived there for the next seven years and learned to love the place.

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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

Gilly -

At first I thought you were thinking of The Deer Hunter (Walken, et. al.) another good Vietnam-era film.

And to add to my list-

Toy Story
Forrest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Glory

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In order:

Favorites:

All Clint Eastwood westerns, Forgiven is the best
The French Connection
Dr. Strangelove
Godfather I & II
The Seventh Seal
2001: A Space Odyssey
Midnight Cowboy
Pulp Fiction

Most disturbing:

Sophie's Choice
Taxi Driver
Cape Fear, old and new version
Night of the Hunter, original with Robert Mitchum

"Breaking Away" which was a stand out role for a young Dennis Quaid, a great performances by Paul Dooley and Barbra Barrie. It's only barrier to more Oscar success . . . Kramer vs. Kramer.

Yeah, that's it, and I think the other one I was thinking of is maybe called "The Outsiders"?

Gilly

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Just watched Laurel & Hardy in "Flying Dueces" last night. Whatever happened to good old fashioned humor? Clean, silly & fun.

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While not one of my all-time favorite movies, I sure enjoyed watching Miracle on Ice, about the U.S. men's Olympic Hockey teach training and then winning the gold in the 1980-whatever olympics.

It's one of the few movies I've seen more than one time.

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I was watching Green Acres the other night and wondering the same thing. That show is completely wacked, but funny as hell. On the other hand, I like sick, perverted humor, too. The problem with much of the schlock being put out today is that they use profanity to try to cover up their lack of funny material.

Usually it's called "a Pixar Presentation"

Every now and then, I annoy the younger generation by "forcing" them to watch a Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin "silent" . . . a Marx Brothers romp . . . or a Peter Sellers oldie, like the original "Lady Killers." Somehow they manage to survive.

A few more;

The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Shining
Brazil
Little Big Man
Fail Safe
Rumble Fish
Blue Velvet
Ironweed
Robin and Mariam
Crying Game
Pappion
2001
Oh Brother Where Art Thow

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Favorites in no order

The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
The Crockadile Dundee movies
It's a wonderful life
Rocky Horrer Picture Show
Shreck
Lilo and Stich


As a side note I actually watched Pulp Fiction on a VHS tape in my living room 2 weeks before it was released in theaters...it had what looked like Asian subtitles but the sound was in english.

I drank White Russians for about a year after I saw that flick, I think I'm gonna mix one up and give bother you

What did you do after seeing the movie "Blow"?? :p

Breaking Away
American Flyers
Tin Cup
Caddyshack I (not 2, it sucked)
Victory (with Sylvester Stallone)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Filmed in my home town in the old country!!!!)

Sound of Music
Stand up and Deliver
Forest Gump
Heaven can Wait


I forgot the name of the movie but it starred Timothy Bottoms (maybe) who played a runner with cancer and he coaches a bunch of kids to be runners. He dies in the end. Can anyone think of the name?

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"A Shining Season".

A remake of an old b/w white movie entitled "The John Baker Story".

Based on the life of University of New Mexico distance runner John Baker.

The story covers the life of a talented runner who is stricken by cancer at the height of his running career, and sets his focus on elementary school children and their track club, called the Duke City Dashers.

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