Shawshank Redemption

Post by **_Sethbag** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:46 am

dartagnan wrote:Some of my favorites would include:

Snatch
Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels
Big Lebowski
Anything DeNiro
Anything Tarantino
Old School
Sea Biscuit
Superbad
Unforgiven

Snatch is also in my top 10. Believe it or not I haven't seen Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels yet. I also love The Big Lebowski. I really dig Pulp Fiction, but wasn't as enamored of Reservoir Dogs. I haven't seen Superbad yet, and Unforgiven was awesome.

I'm guessing you're a fan of Ronin then. I dig that movie too. It's part of a pile of movies I watch over and over while I'm sitting at my workbench working on a violin or some other instrument project.

I'm actually way into British stuff too, as in Charles Dickens, Jane Austin, and the like. It's all light stuff, but I like watching things like An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest as well while doing my wood projects. It's stuff I can just listen to while paying attention to the project. Add to that things like Wives and Daughters, Our Mutual Friend, the Horatio Hornblower videos, Master and Commander, and a handfull of others, and you're talking about movies I've watched over and over again while doing my projects. I've also watched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in extended edition a few times this way.

Probably the last five movies that I watched, in the last week or two (I spend a lot of time working in my office/workshop) would be The Shawshank Redemption, The Importance of Being Earnest, Michael Clayton, Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), and Much Ado About Nothing.

Post by **_dartagnan** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:14 am

OMG, if you liked Snatch you'd absolutely love Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels, which is another Guy Ritchie film using the same characters. Don't think, just go rent it now and thank me later.

Ronin was the first DVD I ever owned, and I watched it all the time. DeNiro was phenomenal in that film.

Sean Bean: "You know, you think too much!"

DeNiro: "No one ever told me that before."

Post by **_dartagnan** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:17 am

How could I have forgotten "American Beauty"?!

Oh yea, I love that one too. But it wasn't one I could watch over and over.

Another comedy that I really loved was As Good as it Gets with an OCD ridden Jack Nicholson.

"I think people who speak in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch."

One of my favorite lines of all time. But ya gotta see the context to appreciate it.

Post by **_Scottie** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:21 am

dartagnan wrote:
How could I have forgotten "American Beauty"?!

Oh yea, I love that one too. But it wasn't one I could watch over and over.

Another comedy that I really loved was As Good as it Gets with an OCD ridden Jack Nicholson.

"I think people who speak in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch."

One of my favorite lines of all time. But ya gotta see the context to appreciate it.

I thought the best line from that movie was:

(Dumb blond girl): "How do you write women so well?"
Melvin: "I think of a man and take away reason and accountability."

Post by **_Sethbag** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:22 am

dartagnan wrote:OMG, if you liked Snatch you'd absolutely love Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels, which is another Guy Ritchie film using the same characters. Don't think, just go rent it now and thank me later.

Ronin was the first DVD I ever owned, and I watched it all the time. DeNiro was phenomenal in that film.

Sean Bean: "You know, you think too much!"

DeNiro: "No one ever told me that before."

Sean Bean: You ever kill anyone?
DeNiro: I hurt a guy's feelings once.