Re: Talha’s Top 50 All-Time Films
He is proly waiting for the Oscar Sunday. You know… dramatic impact. I’d say the choice of movies is a bit blah, but full marks for presentation. :k:
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Well then, he better have Ray as his #1.
I cant believe how good Jamie Foxx was in the movie. You really ahve to see it to believe it.
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Faisal, try to see it before Sunday nights Oscars. Its available for rent on DVD already.
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3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Director: Frank Darabont
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
Box Office: Made $28 mil in the U.S. -- though a modest hit it became the highest rental gross movie of all time.
Random fact: Stephen King sold the rights to the movie very cheaply out of his friendship with Frank Darabont. They had originally become friends when Darabont adapted a short story of King's called "The Woman in the Room" (King has a policy stating that any aspiring filmmaker can adapt his short stories for a buck) and King was thoroughly impressed. They maintained a pen pal relationship and didn't actually meet until Darabont optioned Shawshank.
Cool quotes:-
*[Red places his bet on Andy]
Red: That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
[on Red's harmonica playing]
Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget. Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone. That there's a - there's a - there's something inside that's yours, that they can't touch.
Captain Hadley: What the Christ is this happy horsesh*t?
Prisoner: Hey, he took the Lord's name in vain! I'm tellin' the warden!
Captain Hadley: You'll be tellin' the warden about my baton up your ass!
[Playing checkers]
Red: King me.
Andy Dufresne: Chess. Now there's a game of kings.
Red: What?
Andy Dufresne: Civilized. Strategic...
Red: ...and a total ****in' mystery. I hate it.
[watching Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)]
Red: I love when she does that sh*t with her hair.
Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying*
A Timeless Classic!
Most people forget that the book was written by Stephen King under the name of Richard Bachman. Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins are brilliant in this - it won 7 Academy Award nominations - The story is touching, clever and compact, and if you haven't yet seen it I'm not sure what you're waiting for. No matter how many times i have seen it -- every time it's on television its like I have to watch it. This should have won best picture, but alas it was up against another great film "Forrest Gump" which won instead.
Frank Darabont's masterpiece is a quiet, unassuming drama that is so understated, you have to see it a few times to truly appreciate how great it is -- and just when you think this is just a simple character study, the story takes an unexpected turn that provides a wonderful payoff for all the time you've invested in these characters -- the ending is magical, it always makes me teary eyed, and it is one of the top five movie endings of all time.
..2. Taxi Driver (1976)
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Drama
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Diahnne Abbott
Box Office: Made over $ 12 million in rentals (USA)
Random fact: Due to her age Jodie Foster could not do some of the more explicit scenes. Instead her older sister Connie Foster was used as a double.
Cool quotes:-
*Iris: God, you're square.
Travis Bickle: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. Your full of sh*t, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those ****in' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for peanuts? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one that's square, man. I don't go screwing F with bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?
Travis Bickle: The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.
Travis Bickle: June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.
Travis Bickle: ****... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.
..and lastly, maybe the best quote of all time in cinematic history.
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[into a mirror]
Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who do the F do you think you're talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok. Huh?*
Travis Bickle will go on the list of great characters -- He is just so creepy, but interesting. This film is so disturbing that it's almost stomach turing, but in a good way. The best Robert De Niro film is probably this one. He consructed a sort of sadistic character that i thought was great -- It was a nice touch to his role. I don't know any other actor that could do that. It was ingenious to me. I thought that the violence at the end was nessacary. The violence was yes very bloody and brutal but nessacary. It was a great and classic ending
This movie is not for the squimish or very young. You have been warned....
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Hallelujah!
There ya go. All sins are forgiven, way to redeem yourself! Now bring on Godfather. 
Re: Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films
if Godfather isnt No.1 i demand Talha be banned from Gupshup :p
and Ghost No.6???? what kind of a guy are you??????
Re: Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films
and he doesnt have Scarface in his list. What kinda guy is he :p
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he even has Muriel's Wedding **and City of Angels!! **
these are the worst chick flicks ever!!
if you wanted chick flicks, Grease, Dirty Dancing...
wheres The Green Mile? and ET?
edit
ok, i found ET...No.21??? and then Sister Act...not even my mum liked that movie...
where do you live man?
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he lives in the romantic state of california.
hey i liked City of Angels too man, whatchu talkin bout
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your all a bunch of girls man...
im gona have to make Talha an offer he can't refuse :p
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^
lol, city of angels was a nice movie mm, :p
Re: Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films
lol!
Muriel's wedding, apparently some Australian flick, only talha knows about it, no surprises there.
List of Quality movies missing in Talha's top 50.
1)LOTR1-3
2)Memento
3)Schindler's list
4)Green Mile
5)One flew over cukoo's nest
6)Usual suspects(?)
7)Finding Nemo
8)Saving private ryan
9)Braveheart
10)Donnie Darko
11)Scarface
12)Terminator-2 Judgement day
13)Terminator
14)Psycho(old)
15)Ray
16)Fight Club
17)Requiem for a dream
18)Silence of the lambs
19)Rain Man
20)Platoon...
....and many more.
But like he said, thinking of your favorite movies from the top of your head is rather difficult, you manage to overlook a lot of your REAL favorites.
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Talha, if you dont have Scarface as your #1 movie then you better listen to this quote. This is for you man
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paa jee i havent seen this movie, but heard kafi kuj eeday baray vich may be assi kal wekhain gay .
Re: Talha's Top 50 All-Time Films
How many war movies does he have? Man he gives me inspiration to come up with my top 50 :p