Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films

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43. Rush Hour (1998)

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Director: Brett Ratner
Genre: Action/Comedy/Thriller
Cast: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker
Box Office: $160 mil worldwide
Random fact: When Lee and Carter are driving in the Corvette listening to the Beach Boys - there is a brief shot of the steering column and there are no keys in the ignition.
Cool quotes:-

*Sang: The drop will be made tonight. The amount will be $50,000,000.
Carter: Fifty million dollars?! Man who you think you kidnapped? Chelsea Clinton?!

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Carter: Never touch the Black man's radio

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Agent Warren Russ: Carter, we're impressed with the great job you did yesterday, so when you get back there's gonna be an FBI badge waiting for you.

Carter: You serious? I don't know what to say. It's like a dream come true. I got an idea though, I got an idea. Why don't y'all take that badge and shove it up your ass. All up in your ass. I'm LAPD.

[Walks towards the plane]

Agent Whitney: Bitch. *

i love this movie because it's one of the few action comedies that succeeds at being both things - Jackie Chan is the man and Chris Tucker is funny as hell and together they make an extremely entertaining team - The sequel was also cool too.

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42. The Matrix (1999)

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Director: Andy & Larry Wachowski
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller/Action
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
Box Office: Over $500 million in Box Office and rentals, worldwide
Random fact: Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in order to film Wild Wild West. Later on, his wife starred in the Matrix sequels which she said he asked to star in but was rejected.

Cool quotes:-

*Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?
[Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor.]
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry--
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?

Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

Neo: There's no spoon*

i don't think i need to tell anybody just how big The Matrix phenomenon was - Being imitated in more than 30 movies since it was released in 1999 - The Matrix was a huge success - gaining a cult following and spawning two sequels.

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Re: Talha’s Top 50 All-Time Films

Yaar give him a break !

The movie is at lowest number 45 out of 50, not like this is his fav movie !

Carry on Talha :k:

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Re: Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films

The Matrix no. 42????????????????????????

what the flip?

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Re: Talha’s Top 50 All-Time Films

The crapfest that it is, it is lucky to be at number 42. I wouldn’t even count it in my top 100, let alone 50.

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41. Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995)

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Director: John McTiernan
Genre: Action
Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons
Box Office: $100 mil in the U.S.
Random fact: The sandwich board that Bruce Willis wore while filming in Harlem said "I hate everyone" rather than the more racist version (I hate n*****s) that appears in the film. The sign was changed with CGI in postproduction.

*Cool quotes:- *

John McClane: I'll tell you what your problem is, you don't like me because you're a racist!
Zeus: What?
John McClane: You're a racist! You don't like me because I'm white!
Zeus: I don't like you because you're going to get me *killed!

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Zeus: Morning.
John McClane: Good morning.
Zeus: You having a nice day, sir? You feeling alright? Not to get too personal, but a white man standing in the middle of Harlem wearing a sign that says "I hate n*****s" has either got some serious personal issues, or not all his dogs are barking.
[McClane yawns]
Zeus: Hey! I'm talking to you! Now you've got about ten seconds before those guys see you, and when they do they will kill you do you understand? You're about to have a very bad day.
John McClane: Tell me about it. *

I love a good ol' action movie - and the Die Hard Trilogy is a brilliant action series!! In this third installment Bruce Willis is joined by Samuel L. Jackson and both are fantastic in their roles - has all the explosions, thrill and excitement of an A-Grade thriller with a good story and great dialogue.

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*40. The Neverending Story (1984) *

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Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Thomas Hill, Tami Stronach
Box Office: $100 mil worldwide, on a budget of only 2.7 mil.
Random fact: The author of the book (Michael Ende) was so unhappy with this film version - he refused to have his named featured in the opening credits.

*Cool quotes:- *

*Engywook: Next is the Magic Mirror Gate. Atreyu will have to look his true self in the face.
Falcor: So? That shouldn't be so hard.
Engywook: Oh, that's what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men find out that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away, screaming!

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Mr. Koreander: The video arcade is down the street. Here we just sell small rectangular objects. They're called books. They require a little effort on your part, and make no bee-bee-bee-bee-beeps. On your way please. *

This for me - is my ultimate childhood fantasy film - It's basically, a kid-aged masterpiece. Spectacular scenery and special effects - the most incredible make-up and made-up fictional characters, an amazing, inspiring and moving story, great acting, brilliantly directed... ooh - and the theme song is cool, too! This film still brings out the imaginative lil kid in me... I love it! Pity abut the lacklustre sequel and god-awful 3rd installment!

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Re: Talha’s Top 50 All-Time Films

** #42 ** that one has to be on # 100 in my list .. :-p ..

post 10 films per day plz .. :halo: .. waiting for number 1 :stuck_out_tongue:

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Re: Talha’s Top 50 All-Time Films

are there going to be any porn flicks in this countdown of urs?

if so please pm me when you list it. :jhanda:

shukran,
lussi

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Re: Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films

Make it fast dude, you don't wanna take too much time in completing the list, for all you know, this might become a never ending process, as in you might reach the mid 20s by the next decade when you won't even remember what "Bedazzled" was and then you will work on editing the list, which will take another 3 to 4 decades.. by then you won't be capable of recalling your own name let alone a movie you watched 10 minutes back.

What's with Matrix and Bedazzled being in the same vicinity?

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ok, now im willing to carry on with this

*The Neverending Story (1984) *

i love this movie!!

hurry up and get no. 1 already, it best be one of the GodFather movies!

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lussi bhai - have you been checking out my girl in profile? :hehe:

CB - it ain’t going to take decade(s) - can’t you guys have a lil bit of patience?

ghazal kisi ke - 10 films a day? lolz - people won’t even remember each film’s cast, story line and might skip it just reading the name of it - i think i will try to close out the gap between this and my other list of video games - so that i can have both of them completed together. :slight_smile:

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*39. Billy Madison (1995) *

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Director: Tamra Davis
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Adam Sandler, Bridgette Wilson
Box Office: $25.5 mil in the U.S.
Random fact: All of the names on Dan McGraff's People To Kill List except for Billy Madison, are those of the crew, directors, or producers of the movie

Cool quotes:-
*Principal: Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Frank: Who would you rather bone, Meg Ryan or Jack Nicholson?
Billy Madison: Jack Nicholson now, or 1974?
Frank: 1974.
Billy Madison: Meg Ryan. *

A hilarious comedy starring comedic genius Adam Sandler - the plot is basically that Adam Sandler is the son of a wealthy hotel owner and in order to gain his inheritance he has to pass Grades 1 to 12. Comedy ensues. Yeah. Tori Spelling says it's one of her favourites..

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38. Speed (1994)

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Director: Jan de Bont
Genre: Action, thriller drama
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels
Box Office: $283.2 million worldwide
Random fact: Before Keanu got the part, Jeff Bridges, William Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks were all offered the part. Before Sandra got the part, Halle Berry had turned down the role, which was originally written with Ellen DeGeneres in mind.

Cool quotes:-

*[After the subway train derails.]
Jack: I have to warn you, I've heard relationships based on intense experiences never work.
Annie: OK. We'll have to base it on sex then.

Jack: You're crazy! You're f----n' crazy!
Howard Payne: NO! Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric. *

Speed was one of the biggest action blockbusters of the 90's - and made superstars out of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock (though he claims "it made her famous - i already was famous."). The plot is that there's a bomb attached to a bus - if the bus reaches 50 miles the bomb is set off - and if it then drops below 50 miles it detonates - It's such a fun movie, with brilliant acting, good action sequences and some good lines!

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37. My Girl (1991)

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Director: Howard Zieff
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Cast: Dan Akroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky
Box Office: Nearly $90 million in U.S. Box Office and rentals.
Random fact: Vada's house in the film is now used as Bed & Breakfast in Florida.
Cool quotes:-

*Vada: I was born jaundiced. Once I sat on a toilet seat at a truck stop and caught hemorrhoids. And I've learned to live with this chicken bone that's been lodged in my throat for the past three years. So I knew Dad would be devastated when he learned of my latest affliction.

[to father]

Vada: Dad, I don't want to upset you, but my left breast is developing at a significantly faster rate that my right. It can only mean one thing. Cancer. I'm dying.
Harry: Okay, Sweetie, hand me the mayonnaise out of the fridge.

Vada: I'm gonna marry Mr. Bixler.
Thomas J. Sennett: You can't marry a teacher, it's against the law.
Vada: It is not.
Thomas J. Sennett: Yes it is, 'cause then he'll give you all A's, and it won't be fair.*

OK, it's a good dammit - one of the first movies i ever remember watching in a cinema - Good performances all around - and a good story line..... a bit sad, but not overly dramatic.

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36. Erin Brockovich (1999)

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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Drama
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney
Box Office: $125.5 million in the U.S.
Random fact: Erin Brokovich is right-handed while Julia Roberts is not, so Roberts had to make an effort to sign for things with her right hand.

Cool quotes:-

Theresa Dallavale: Okay, look, I think we got off on the wrong foot here --
Erin Brockovich: That's all you got, lady. Two wrong feet in f**ing ugly shoes.

Kurt Potter: Wha... how did you do this?
Erin Brockovich: Well, um, seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise, and Ed here was losing all faith in the system, am I right?
Ed Masry: Oh, yeah, completely. No faith, no faith...
Erin Brockovich: I just went out there and performed sexual favors. Six hundred and thirty-four blow jobs in five days... I'm really quite tired. *

Being that i was never a big fan of Julia Roberts - i wasn't really interested in seeing this, but i happened to catch some of it while flicking through the channels. It looked pretty good - So i watched the whole thing right through and it's brilliant. Julia as Erin Brockovich is amazing. Surely the best film Julia's ever done!! She's the trash-talking, skimpy-clothes-wearing underdog who comes out on top - and it's interesting to see.

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35. Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood (1996)

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Director: Keenan Ivory Wayans
Genre: Comedy, satire
Cast: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones
Box Office: Just under $60 mill worldwide.
Random fact: Loc Dog warns Ashtray about how promiscuous Dashiki is, and does so by saying, "She got more kids than Ms. Wayans." That is a joke in which Marlon Wayans (Loc Dog) is actually referring to his real-life mother who has ten children, which include him and Shawn Wayans (Ashtray).

Cool quotes:-

*Dashiki: Now kids, what do we say to a man that Mommy just met?
Kids: Are you my daddy?

Ashtray's Mother: Tray, I don't want you hangin' out in the streets. I want you to finish school, 'cause without an education the only kind of work you're gonna get is sellin' drugs, pimpin' women, or workin' security for Eddie Murphy. *

this Wayans Bros. comedy spoofs all the gangsta movies of the early 1990's - Juice, Boyz 'N The Hood, Poetic Justice, South Central, Menace 2 Society - and it's pretty damn hilarious - Plenty of sight gags, in-jokes and subtle humour with Marlon Wayans easily stealing every scene he's in - also has a great soundtrack which features Joe's "All The Things (Your Man Won't Do)".

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Hey I liked that movie 'My Girl'

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*34. Training Day (2001) *

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Director: Antoine Fuqua
Genre: Drama, thriller, action
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Cliff Curtis, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Eva Mendas
Box Office: $76.3 million, in the U.S.
Random fact: This film marks the first time LA street gangs allowed cameras to be brought into the Imperial Courts neighborhood.

Cool quotes:-

*Alonzo Harris: You got a kid, right?
Jake Hoyt: Yeah, I got a little girl.
Alonzo Harris: I've got five. All boys. You ever need a son, you let me know. I'll hook your old lady up. I can't miss.
Jake Hoyt: Can we not talk about my family?

Alonzo Harris: That's cool, I respect that. I remember what it was to have a pretty young bride. You probably still F her face to face, don't you?

[Hoyt just smoked some weed]

Alonzo Harris: When was the last time you smoked weed?
Jake Hoyt: High school... We were...
Alonzo Harris: Smoking weed. laughs
Jake Hoyt: Right.
Alonzo Harris: Right.

Alonzo Harris: You know what you get for shooting an officer, Jake? The gas chamber. You know what the gas chamber smells like? Pine oil. I'm gonna send you to a pine oil heaven.*

Denzel deservedly won the Oscar for his role in Training Day - this is a very well-constructed film with interesting characters - a great plot and extremely strong acting. Everyone involved did an amazing job.

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*33. Se7en (1995) *

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Director: David Fincher
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Action
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey
Box Office: $100 million in the U.S.
Random fact - SPOILER: The producers intended that Kevin Spacey should receive top billing at the start of the movie but he insisted that his name not appear in the opening credits, so as to surprise the audience with the identity of the killer. To compensate, he is listed first in the closing credits.

*Cool quotes:- *

*David Mills: I've been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading "Guns and Ammo", masturbating in your own faeces, do you just stop and go, "Wow! It is amazing how f---ing crazy I really am!"? Yeah. Do you guys do that?

John Doe: Realize detective, the only reason that I'm here right now is that I wanted to be.
David Mills: No, no, we would have got you eventually.
John Doe: Oh really? So, what were you doing? Biding your time? Toying with me? Allowing five innocent people to die until you felt like springing your trap? Tell me, what was the indisputable evidence you were going to use on me right before I walked up to you and put my hands in the air?

[picks up the phone]

David Mills: Hello?
John Doe: I admire you. I don't know how you found me, but imagine my surprise. I respect you law enforcement agents more everyday.
David Mills: Well, I appreciate that... John. I tell you...
John Doe: No, no, you listen, all right? I'll be readjusting my schedule in light of today's little... setback. I just had to call and express my admiration. Sorry I had to hurt... one of you, but I really didn't have a choice, did I?
David Mills: Hmm.
John Doe: You will accept my apology, won't you? I feel like saying more, but I don't want to ruin the surprise.

[hangs up]

David Mills: C'mon, he's insane. Look. Right now he's probably dancing around in his grandma's panties, yeah, rubbing himself in peanut butter. *

This is arguably one of the best thriller's of the 1990's - Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are excellent in this film - and Kevin Spacey as the freakshow killer is amazing. The death scenes were imaginative and the storyline provoking, intriguing and unique. Great script, great twists and great casting make Se7en an awesome thriller movie.