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Darnell
Big Wall climber
Chicago
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Oct 10, 2005 - 07:32pm PT
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Clockwork orange is good
Hombre, forgot about that one, very dry movie, not a whole lot of laughing.
"Mr. your as hard as tree bark"
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 10:56pm PT
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Boy am I glad nobody said Zachariah.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 10:58pm PT
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Ok thats 100 posts.
For the sake of those with dial up I'm starting part deux............
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Darnell
Big Wall climber
Chicago
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Oct 10, 2005 - 10:59pm PT
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you ever hear of a Missouri boat ride?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 11:29pm PT
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Hey c'mon gang switch to part deux, or pretty soon I won't be able to continue (dial up).
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Huge Balls
Big Wall climber
Darkside of the Moon
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Oct 11, 2005 - 12:29am PT
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How about mine
Blow
Spun
Trainspotting
Go
Bad Leutinet
Requiem for a dream
The Doors
Fear and Loathing
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2008 - 09:55pm PT
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Bittersweet.
TCM just played Paths Of Glory again and after watching it I searched it here and came up with this blast from the (pre-twenty-post-page) past.
Not so long really, but two of the people I last watched it with are gone now.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Nov 15, 2008 - 10:13pm PT
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PIT OF DESPAIR PART I & II (1967),
THE TERRIBLE DRUG (1951),
DRUG ADDICTION (1951), and
DRUGS IN OUR CULTURE (1970).
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DanaB
climber
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Nov 15, 2008 - 10:40pm PT
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Natural Born Killers
North by Northwest
Treaure of Sierra Madre
Sid and Nancy
Rosemary's Baby
Shane
Dracula
There Will be Blood
Fargo
The Misfits
The Hustler
King Kong
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john hansen
climber
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Nov 15, 2008 - 10:48pm PT
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I think most of these changed the standard for what we expect in a movie in some way.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
Jaws
Saving Private Ryan
LOTR trilogy
Dances With Wolves
Boys in the Hood
Blue's Brothers
Deliverence
Some other favorites...
Apollo 13
Spinal Tap
And ,, A Mighty Wind was pretty pretty damn funny.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Nov 15, 2008 - 10:56pm PT
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So, an interesting question - what films influenced me the most, not what I thought were the best, or most enjoyable. Here's a shot, in no particular order:
Rashomon
Star Wars
Chariots of Fire
Big Wednesday
Schindler's List
Gallipoli
Blade Runner
Paths of Glory
Jeremiah Johnson
The Bicycle Thief
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Nov 15, 2008 - 11:35pm PT
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Godfather
Citizen Kane
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Star Wars
Airplane
A Room with a View
...and for us young girls (Cinderella)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Nov 16, 2008 - 01:10am PT
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre
True Grit and or High Plains Drifter
Mary Poppins
Sound of Music
Blazing Saddles
The Emerald Forest
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Taboo 2
Basquiat
Sicko
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 16, 2008 - 01:20am PT
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The Innocents
Hearts of the West
Enchanted April
The Postman
It's a Wonderful Life
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Casablanca
The Best Years of Our Lives
Lost Horizons
2001
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Max V02
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Nov 16, 2008 - 02:18am PT
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Lot's of great films mentioned here.
Hmmm... as someone with 400 plus films in my Netflix queue and many more rated, I will try to stick with influential as a theme, but I don't like being boxed in by rules so I'll modify to suit my needs. I simply can't easily pick the top ten most influential overall. There are too many. So I'll group it by category as to how these influence me (some overlaps of course):
Love and Romance
Before Sunrise (this is amazingly similar to the story of how I met my wife!)
Casablanca (Rick... a real man who really "does the right thing")
The English Patient (caused my wife and I to get married in Italy... we found the "bombed out" monastery near Pienza)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Andie McDowall, duh!)
To Have and Have Not (Bacall is on FIRE!)
The Thomas Crowne Affaire (James Bond without the PG-13 rating as it should be!)
The Object of Beauty (hmmm... more Andie McDowall... but it's a wonderful story about what's of lasting value)
Pret a Porter (must have an Altman film here. So many good ones. This has Paris where my wife and I somehow ended up when we first met).
Sense of humor
Night on Earth (minimally for the Benigni episode)
The Big Lebowski ("No, I'm the Dude!")
Ferris Bueuller's Day Off (Do I even need to comment?)
Repo Man (The repo man code...)
Diner (a great ensemble cast at a time before most of them were famous... the irreplaceable camaraderie of college friends)
Adventure
Once Upon a Time in the West (a classic homage to every western ever made up to that time... a cinema history lesson in addition to an iconic film).
Jeremiah Johnson (I wanted to go hang out in mountains after this one)
LOTR trilogy (friendship, compassion, loyalty, and perseverance and about a trillion other things)
The Eiger Sanction (no comment necessary)
Touching the Void (pretty much as gripping as the book)
Kelly's Heroes
The Quick and the Dead (surreal with a compassionate Russell Crowe killer)
Silverado
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond in love, rated PG)
High Plains Drifter (another surreal fable of justice)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Casino Royale (Daniel Craig version)
The Bourne Identity (guaranteed to get you to work out now!)
Miscellaneous
The Graduate (bucking the system to find your true passion)
The Killing Fields (compassion and the strength of the human spirit)
Fletch
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DanaB
climber
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Nov 16, 2008 - 10:50am PT
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Harvey
The Trip to Bountiful
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samg
Trad climber
SLC
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Nov 17, 2008 - 01:04am PT
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Persona
Annie Hall (or Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan)
The Decalogue
The Battle of Algiers
The Trial (Welles)
Weekend (Godard)
Un Flic
The Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Something like that.
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