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Bad Acronym

climber
Little Death Hollow
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 17, 2010 - 03:22am PT
Are any of you film buffs? Care to share some of your favorites? I'll start:

Chopper
The Killing
Pontypool
The Cars that Ate Paris
Withnail & I
Deliverance
No Country for Old Men
Glengarry Glenross
The Hit
There Will Be Blood
Gerry
The Road Warrior
The Proposition
Man Bites Dog
deepnet

Boulder climber
CA
Jul 17, 2010 - 03:37am PT
kc

Trad climber
lg, ca
Jul 17, 2010 - 10:19am PT
Hoosiers. Hands down.
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Jul 17, 2010 - 11:08am PT
Touching the Void is now available on Netflix's streaming service. Had only seen the censored version on PBS before.
nita

Social climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
Jul 17, 2010 - 11:53am PT
Harold & Maude.
Dog fight.

To Kill a Mocking Bird***

Wizard of Oz. .
The Last picture show.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure..
Stop making sense.







oops gotta go...
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Jul 17, 2010 - 12:11pm PT
Bottleshock!
MisterE

Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
Jul 17, 2010 - 12:17pm PT
The Big Lebowski
The Endurance
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Evil Dead 2
Blues Brothers
Being John Malkovich
Zoolander
Pulp Fiction
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Pollock
My Life as a Dog
Seven Samurai
The Illusionist
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Name of the Rose
The Matrix series
Jack Burns

climber
Jul 17, 2010 - 01:46pm PT
MisterE, if you liked the Illusionist, definitely check out The Prestige if you already haven't.
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Jul 17, 2010 - 01:48pm PT
Little Big Man.
Fat Dad

Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 17, 2010 - 03:35pm PT
Chariots of Fire
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Godfather (parts I and II)
Seven Samurai
Rashoman
Dances with Wolves
Room with a View
Breaking Away
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
Jul 17, 2010 - 03:56pm PT
Thank You For Smoking
American Beauty
Wild Things
pissed

Trad climber
Lake Placid NY and Scranton PA
Jul 17, 2010 - 04:19pm PT
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
sac

Trad climber
spuzzum
Jul 17, 2010 - 04:29pm PT
Aguirre The Wrath of God.

Awesome "adventure" film by W. Herzog.

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3D0h4xCro
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Jul 17, 2010 - 05:47pm PT
The Innocents
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Becket
Vertigo
Death at a Funeral (origional)
for starters....
pc

climber
Jul 17, 2010 - 05:54pm PT
Star Wars.
Melissa

Gym climber
berkeley, ca
Jul 17, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Better Off Dead
The English Patient
The Boxer
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Fiddler on the Roof
Babette's Feast
Brokeback Mountain


Those come to mind right now...There are so many. I love the movies.
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Jul 17, 2010 - 11:51pm PT
Showgirls
Ashcroft

Trad climber
Washington, DC
Jul 18, 2010 - 01:57am PT
Sad that I'm posting about movies instead of climbing. Anyway, a few gems (for various reasons):
Amores Perros
7-up, 14-up, etc. series
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Rashomon
Capturing the Friedmans (documentary)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Korean)
Mister Smith Goes to Washington
Requiem for a Dream (pretty bleak)
Aguirre (Herzog)
Grizzly Man (More Herzog)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Korean)
Talk to Her (Almodovar)
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Jul 18, 2010 - 02:06am PT
Down by Law. Jim Jarmusch. (sp.?)
Ihateplastic

Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
Jul 18, 2010 - 07:02pm PT
Love Actually. I have watched that film 20+ times and could put it on again right now and laugh. Great cast, great intertwined stories, great music.
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Jul 18, 2010 - 08:07pm PT
Some favorites.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/davidlynchemne/videos/4/
Largo

Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
Jul 18, 2010 - 09:17pm PT



goatboy smellz

climber
Nederland
Jul 18, 2010 - 09:35pm PT
thousands, too many to list, currently playing KICK ASS is on the list.



and Deep Water.




Rudder

Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
Oct 20, 2010 - 02:27pm PT
Rudder's top 100 movies (rough draft)

1 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
2 Apocalypse Now (1979)
3 On the Waterfront (1954)
4 Aliens (1986)
5 The Godfather (1972)
6 Gone with the Wind (1939)
7 Splendor in the Grass (1961)
8 GoodFellas (1990)
9 Schindler's List (1993)
10 Idiot (2003)
11 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12 To Have and Have Not (1944)
13 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
14 Casablanca (1942)
15 28 Up (1985)
16 Braveheart (1995)
17 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
18 A History of God (2001)
19 Unforgiven (1992)
20 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
21 The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
22 Alien (1979)
23 No Country for Old Men (2007)
24 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
25 East of Eden (1955)
26 Taxi Driver (1976)
27 The Hustler (1961)
28 A Place in the Sun (1951)
29 Pulp Fiction (1994)
30 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
31 Hud (1963)
32 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
33 Out of the Past (1947)
34 The Verdict (1982)
35 Life Is Beautiful (1997)
36 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
37 Million Dollar Baby (2004)
38 Léon: The Professional (1994)
39 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
40 Hearts of Darkness (1991)
41 Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
42 Blade Runner (1982)
43 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
44 Being There (1979)
45 The Ten Commandments (1956)
46 Fight Club (1999)
47 As Good as It Gets (1997)
48 Rocky (1976)
49 American Graffiti (1973)
50 Caddyshack (1980)
51 Carnal Knowledge (1971)
52 The Deer Hunter (1978)
53 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
54 Forrest Gump (1994)
55 Anna Karenina (1977)
56 Goldfinger (1964)
57 The Graduate (1967)
58 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
59 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
60 Papillon (1973)
61 Raising Arizona (1987)
62 Stripes (1981)
63 Moulin Rouge (2001)
64 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
65 The Princess Bride (1987)
66 Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
67 Rain Man (1988)
68 Peyton Place (1957)
69 Raging Bull (1980)
70 The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
71 Riding Giants (2004)
72 Room at the Top (1959)
73 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
74 Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
75 Unforgivable Blackness (2004)
76 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
77 The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
78 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
79 The African Queen (1951)
80 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
81 Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
82 Bad Lieutenant (1992)
83 The Family Man (2000)
84 Body Heat
85 Blazing Saddles
86 Boogie Nights
87 Deliverance (1972)
88 The Grifters (1990)
89 Fargo (1996)
90 From Here to Eternity (1953)
91 Kill Bill: Vol. 1
92 Kill Bill: Vol. 2
93 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
94 Lord of the Flies (1963)
95 The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
96 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
97 Scandal (1989)
98 Brick (2005)
99 Dave (1993)
100 Shallow Hal
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:05pm PT
^^^
That's a good list!

The Best Years of our Lives is good.
Gal

Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:06pm PT
City of God
Scarface
The Basketball Diaries
Happy Accidents
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
True Romance
Goodfellows
Amadeus
The Color Purple
American Beauty
The Butterfly Effect
Beetlejuice (hell ya!)
Platoon
Leaving Las Vegas
Slumdog Millionaire
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:29pm PT
Not necessarily in order:

Lawrence of Arabia
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
Joyeux Noël
Out of Africa
Memphis Belle (not a great movie but it's personal)
Everything by Werner Herzog with "Rescue Dawn" and "Little Dieter" lately
King of Hearts
The Man in the Glass Booth (best actor performance ever?)
Beaufort (Israeli anti-war movie)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
In Bruges
La Vie en Rose
Dersu Uzala
March of the Penguins
Microcosmos (greatest nature documentary ever?)
Any 3 Stooges
Any Marx Bros
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Indochine
Daughter of Keltoum
Blues Brothers
El Topo (weirdest movie ever?)
Like Water For Chocolate
Manon des Sources
Angel-A (very good but men might sprain an eyeball!)
The Wicker Man
Black Book (WWII Dutch underground)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Vitus (fabulous)

G_Gnome

Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:31pm PT
A couple that have been missed so far:

Sometimes a Great Notion - Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick.
Monty Python - The Meaning of Life
Rudder

Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:40pm PT
Sometimes a Great Notion... maybe unknown because it was just too real.
Rudder

Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:41pm PT
Yes, The Best Years of our Lives, and maybe gotta fit "The Hustler" in my top 100...
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Oct 20, 2010 - 03:44pm PT
Lives of Others
The Graduate
There will be blood
Rear Window
2001 A Space Odyssey
La Strada
The Big Lebowsky
blackbird

Trad climber
the flat water trails...
Oct 20, 2010 - 11:01pm PT
Mona Lisa Smile
Dead Poets Society
Princess Bride
The Big Lebowski
Pollyanna (come on... You could'a guessed that one would be on my list!)

bb
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Oct 20, 2010 - 11:39pm PT
hey there say, blackbird.... ahhh, wow, the grandkids are watching polyanna, each weekend here.... :)


i will be back with my list, later, got to get off linel to free up the
phone now... will be backkkkkkkkk....

fun to see list of boks, songs, movies, shows, etc...
thanks all...
:)
sac

Trad climber
spuzzum
Oct 20, 2010 - 11:53pm PT
My 2 boys alltime fave 'o the month... in the world...

I was also, very happy to watch it...


Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Oct 21, 2010 - 04:41pm PT
I heard it through the grapevine that our resident particle physicist didn't really like, Repoman.
Can this be true?

Weld-It!'s list would be interesting/
FinnMaCoul

Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
Oct 21, 2010 - 04:42pm PT
Because they haven't been mentioned:

The Magnificent Seven
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robin Hood (w/ Errol Flynn)
Evel

Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
Oct 21, 2010 - 04:50pm PT
Up and Coming directors cut

Repoman
Bridge over the river Kwai
Deer hunter
Beer Fest
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Oct 21, 2010 - 06:08pm PT
Seventh seal
casablanca
The Battleship Potemkin
Diva
Eraserhead

and of course,

Cat Ballou!- filmed in Wolf City Wyoming!
TripL7

Trad climber
san diego
Oct 21, 2010 - 07:46pm PT
The Passion of the Christ
The Third Man
The Thirty Nine Steps
Some Like It Hot
The Misfits
China Town
Ben Hur
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Psycho
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Mystic River
Dogtown and Z-Boyz
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Endless Summer
High Noon
In Cold Blood
DanaB

climber
Philadelphia
Oct 21, 2010 - 07:59pm PT
Boys don't cry.
Natural born killers.
The sound of music.
Sid and Nancy.
The Deerhunter.
The trip to Bountiful.
Cape Fear.
The Shootist.
The misfits.
Lonely are the brave.
The seven year itch.
The glass menagerie.
The way the West was won.
The unforgiven.
Juno.
Fargo.
Dead man.
North by Northwest.
The treasure of Sierra Madre.
The Hustler.
Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
Public enemy.
Yankee Doodle Dandy.



go-B

climber
Matthew 25:40
Oct 21, 2010 - 08:28pm PT
It's not my fav, but it's about being stuck on a chairlift way off the deck and the ski mountain is closed for a week!

http://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Blu-ray-Shawn-Ashmore/dp/B003L1ZWG2/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1287706398&sr=1-2
AndyG

climber
San Diego, CA
Oct 21, 2010 - 08:32pm PT
Lotta good ones listed here. But I gotta add

Once Upon a Time in the West
Legends of the Fall

and I second (third, fourth?) The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men

I am really looking forward to the Coen brothers western that is coming out soon - True Grit. Love westerns and love the Coen brothers.

Andy

Bad Climber

climber
Oct 21, 2010 - 08:43pm PT
Wow, so many great ones listed.

I never "got" The Big Lobowski, but Torturo was the BOMB! Love everything he's done.

+1 for Run, Lola, Run -- huge fun, smart, etc.

There Will Be Blood

really liked

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

BAd
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Oct 21, 2010 - 09:02pm PT
Chinatown
O Brother, where art thou?
Fargo
Being there
The Searchers

and a shout out to Fire walk with Me and Touching the Void
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Oct 21, 2010 - 09:34pm PT
DanaB Wrote:
"Lonely are the brave."


I first saw this film 40 years ago.
One of Kirk Douglas' greatest roles IMO.
Great story.
Cole

Trad climber
los angeles
Oct 21, 2010 - 10:59pm PT
Can't believe I've never made a list of my faves. Off the top of my head right now:

Tombstone
The Big Lebowski
Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Psycho
LOTR Trilogy
Point Break
Seven Years in Tibet
The Sharp End
Masters of Stone 5
King of Kong
Pulp Fiction
Donnie Darko
Adaptation

Jackass 3D!!!!!!!1111111111
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Oct 21, 2010 - 11:32pm PT
Wow, I guess I'm the only fan of "Hurly Burly"

Papillon Rendre

climber
Oct 22, 2010 - 12:30am PT
Last of the Mohicans

Mister Roberts

Dances with Wolves

Gladiator

Braveheart

Doctor Zhivago

Guess who's coming to Dinner?

Splendor in the Grass

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Deerhunter

Some like it Hot

West Side Story

The Dirty Dozen

The Breakfast Club

Ferris Buellar's Day Off
Josh Nash

Social climber
riverbank ca
Oct 22, 2010 - 04:54am PT
You people have great taste in movies!

Star wars IV V VI before lucas went back and molested them...
Full Metal Jacket
Airplane
Big Lebowski
Patton
Red Dawn
Snatch
Inglorius Basterds
Heart break ridge
Gran Torino
Black Dynomite!
Fluoride

Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
Oct 22, 2010 - 05:15am PT
Repo-Man. Best movie ever.

The Sound of Music (I'm a known geek with love of that movie)

Raising Arizona. Can quote nearly every line.

Fargo. (Too close to home. My Mom taught Joel Cohen. in 4th grade in St. Louis Park, Minnesota)

No Country for Old Men

High Plains Drifter

Blades of Glory (shut up, I need my bad Will Ferell movie)

With special exceptiton to:

Cliffhanger

K2.

For the brilliant idiocy they brought me. Oh man, can't get enough of that crazy stuff.
Hendo1

Trad climber
Toronto
Oct 22, 2010 - 06:10am PT
Sullivan's Travels

and its offshoot O Brother Where Art Thou

spud

climber
Oct 22, 2010 - 10:48am PT
A Passage to India
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Oct 29, 2010 - 09:11pm PT
High altitude lovers, this one's good.
Process shots, impressive.

JOEY.F

Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
Apr 21, 2011 - 01:31am PT
Just cuz the weather is dreary, One of my faves.
How The West Was Won has been remastered, and no longer has those 2 seems from the Cinerama proscess. Epic, No CGI. Worth checking out.
S.Leeper

Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
Jul 5, 2011 - 07:09pm PT
this movie was pretty strange, and even drunk i didnt care for it.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/visioneers/
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Dec 13, 2011 - 03:19pm PT
There were some great films mentioned while the gang was at Sawmill last year, but I can't believe that here of all places nobody listed,....;







EL TOPO



d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
Dec 13, 2011 - 03:35pm PT
jodorowsky is
a genius.

as of late,
Delicatessen - jeunet & caro
Amarcord - federico fellini
beg! - robert golden
Moon - sam rockwell

hey piton,
whats your
favorite
war flick(s)?

edit: thanks hank!
bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Dec 13, 2011 - 04:08pm PT
boomin

Ice climber
vermont
Dec 13, 2011 - 07:03pm PT
-Bad Santa - Gotta get in the Spirit of the Season"
sac

Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
Dec 13, 2011 - 07:36pm PT
^^^ + 1


Favorite Xmas movie for us... we watch it every Xmas
... in the spirit of tradition.
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Dec 13, 2011 - 08:52pm PT
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
School of Rock
African Queen
True Grit (both)
Ground Hog Day
Little Big Man
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Misfits
Tremors
To Have and Have Not
The Lord of the Rings (all 3)
Stagecoach (1st version)
On the Waterfront
Charley (Charlie?)
West Side Story
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mr. Roberts
The Caine Mutiny
The Ox Bow Incident
The Great Escape
Stalag 17
Cool Hand Luke
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Fact.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Gone With the Wind


That's just a start, I could go on and on.
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Dec 13, 2011 - 09:02pm PT
Cinema Paradiso

остров (the island)
ng

Trad climber
southwest
Dec 14, 2011 - 01:48am PT
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
....(which is best followed with the other two parts of the trilogy by Godfrey Reggio)

Requiem for a Dream
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
May 24, 2014 - 06:04pm PT
It's not going to be my favorite movie but I watched THE HARD RIDE last night. A guy comes back from Vietnam to organize a funeral for a buddy that was killed there. There are gang fights, love scenes...... There is also a lengthy enough scene cruising through Yosemite Valley. It's 1971 movie. And to think I almost didn't watch it!
whitemeat

Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
May 24, 2014 - 06:15pm PT
reel rock...!


all of them!
Rudder

Trad climber
Costa Mesa, CA
Jul 30, 2014 - 11:16pm PT
I'm watching Out of the Past for the fourth time. I like it more every time!
KabalaArch

Trad climber
Starlite, California
Jul 31, 2014 - 12:29am PT
The movie was called "Never Give A Inch". And yes, its an outstanding movie. And very real.

Thanks for that beta – loved Kesey's character development, particularly from the underdog's POV.

Otherwise, it looks like all of us are 2 thumbs up – at least, those of us who still have thumbs instead of oppositional stumps.

2 missing....

Lolita (1962 – have not reviewed the 1997 remake, but the trailer looks lame)

A Clockwork Orange
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 31, 2014 - 08:21am PT
Saw "Bride Flight", a dutch film set in New Zealand. After WWII many Dutch emigrated there.
It follows three young women who did so. IMDB only gave it 3.7. I gave it 4.5 - I had some
issues with the editing in the early part but it got much better.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 31, 2014 - 11:44am PT

The three I appreciate most of all:
 Ballad of Narayama - Kinoshita
 Idi I Smotri (Come and See) - Klimov
 You, The Living - Roy Andersson

But also:
 A Clockwork Orange
 Amarcord
 Apocalypse Now
 City of God
 Dr. Strangelove
 Kagemusha
 La Haine
 Leon. The Professional.
 Life Is Beautiful
 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
 Once Upon A Time In The West
 Pan's Labyrinth
 Pulp Fiction
 Ran
 Remains of the Day
 Talvisota (The Winter War)
 The Godfather
 The Winter Guest
 This Is England
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 31, 2014 - 11:51am PT
Dood, you omitted the two greatest movies of all time:
"El Topo" and "The Blues Brothers"!
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 31, 2014 - 11:54am PT

I know Reilly.

I've seen El Topo once and The Blues Brothers a couple of times, but this is my "I like most" list and the two of them are not there. I know that's stoooped... ^^^^

"Dr. Akagi" and "Gate of Flesh" should have been there... "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf" and "Patton" could have been there.
The Call Of K2 Lou

Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
Jul 31, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
Gotta go with Lawrence of Arabia. I'm a big fan of the David Lean epics.

The Deer Hunter and American History X pulled me in more than any other movies I've seen.

Oh, and Vertical Limit.
Dtails

climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Jul 31, 2014 - 12:43pm PT
Not one listing for "SOLO"? How many folks started climbing because of that film?
clode

Trad climber
portland, or
Jul 31, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
I can't believe it. All this and not one mention of Eiger Sanction (and it's climbing-related no less)!

Also,
Being There
Back to School
Phenomenon
Trading Places
The Call Of K2 Lou

Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
Jul 31, 2014 - 02:01pm PT
All this and not one mention of Eiger Sanction



No backpack full of nitro? Booorrring.




Well, at least he cut the rope.
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