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If you were going to spend a year someplace far away and you wanted to take a collection of great movies with you, what would you take?

What are your favorites? I mostly watch documentaries and war movies but for this list, I don't want to be limited to those. I'm interested in movies new and old, so long as they're great.

Ideally, I'm looking for stuff that can be rented from Netflix. Post a YouTube trailer if you feel like it.
 
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FoCo, Colorado
The Hunt for Red October
It Might Get Loud (Documentary)
Smokey & the Bandit
Deliverance
Full Metal Jacket
Ronin
Dumb & Dumber
A River Runs Through It
Old School

..... could go on forever, but those come to mind right now.

Thought I would add a trailer for It Might Get Loud, if you're into music/rock its a fun one to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YvNVqf2at0
 
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chris snell said:
If you were going to spend a year someplace far away and you wanted to take a collection of great movies with you, what would you take?
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Wow, that's a tough one. I could list pages of good movies. But if one has internet, I think if I could have access to only one movie website it would be TCM.
 
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group captain mandrake said:
Wow, that's a tough one. I could list pages of good movies. But if one has internet, I think if I could have access to only one movie website it would be TCM.
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Difficulty: no Internet.
 
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All Hannibal Lecter movies
The Battleship Potempkin
The Big Lebowski
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Gone With the Wind
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Breaking the Waves
Repo Man
Telefon (the old one)
2001; a Space Oddessy
Inframan
Eraserhead
The Shining
The Mothman Prophecies
For the Love of the Game
12 Monkeys
Brazil
V For Vendetta
The Manchurian Candidate (the old one)
Slam Dance
Seven Days in May
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Lucky Numbers
all Monty Python movies
Cloverfield
District 9
Christmas Vacation
Great Expectations
and of course, Dr. Strangelove

Just a few suggestions. So many good movies out there. Hard to select a few favorites.
 
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The all time personal favorite: Snatch. Could watch it over and over, and it never gets old.
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Ya like dags?

On another note, you should watch that show "my big fat gypsy wedding" it's more about about pikies and Irish travelin folk and their way of life more so than weddings but it reminded me of snatch. Those people are weird, but it's a glimpse into a culture you never see.
 
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Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Italian Job
Airplane
Office Space
Big Lebowski
The Great Race
....
and completely off the track -
Chasing Butterflies
Amelie
Amarcord
etc.
 
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walsnart said:
Smokey & the Bandit
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You got me thinking of some car movies and I added these to the list:

Cannonball Run I and II (III was terrible)
Stroker Ace

I wanted to add "Six Pack" starring Kenny Rodgers but Netflix doesn't have it on DVD yet.

They weren't "great" movies but if you watched HBO as a kid in the 80's, you probably remember them.
 
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Thanks guys, keep them coming. Here are a couple of my personal favorites that I will be ripping for the stash:

Coming to America
SLC Punk!
Casino
Spies Like Us
Man on Wire
The Conscientious Objector (this, along with "Man on Wire", are my favorite documentaries)
Goodfellas
Ghengis Blues
The Office (US version, all seasons, if I have time to get them and rip them all)
 
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I have a pretty short list:
The Star Wars saga
The Resident Evil series
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Sugar N Spice
Heathers
 
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Here a few 'classics'....

2001
Citizen Kane - arguably, the best American film ever
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Bridge over the River Kwai
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
M*A*S*H
Dances with Wolves
Fargo
Patton
Raising Arizona
 
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