> > What was the best movie of all time? And don't
> > say citizen kane, please.
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> Well, I don't really know from the best movie of all time... I've not seen all the movies, so I canna really judge that. But I can give you a list of my personal favourites.
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> Mr. Holland's Opus (I had a music teacher in high school who had a profound influence on me)
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> Shakespeare In Love (I'm a big fan of Slick Willy, and this is Willy at his slickest. Gotta love Tom Stoppard)
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Well, this seems to be a 'favorite movies' list. I haven't watched many, to be sure, especially compared with a lot of the others here at the forum, but my completely biased fav is Waking Ned Divine. Stupid gags [the scene where Jackie O'Shea and Michael O'Sullivan are messing with Ned Divine's corpse... intestines... the denture thing... tacky is good] and dry humor. *contented sigh* There were other good points-- seeing part Pig Finn's farm, the whole story there-- but none so much as setting. Yes, setting. Isle of Man. Great soundtrack (most of it) . Those were really what won me over. There's also, for us USers, a very odd ending. (I hear it's somewhat less so for Europeans, but not from the most reliable of all sources). The actors all had the cool accent thing going. I watched it a record number of times (for me)-- three.
I also get a bit of exercise during it. There's a long scene (for the poor deprived readers who haven't seen it) where the camera flashes from a fairly good view of the countryside (it follows a car, but you can see hills and such) to a really old guy riding a motorcycle naked. *shudder* The exercise comes from leaning like a plant towards sunlight to the screen during the countryside parts and jerking back from the motorcycle. Sweet music, though, as I recall.

Chr"like I said, tacky is good"is