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There was once a dude here at our Nightly message boards who asked for our 158 fave movies. And we gave it to him. Sure it took some work but we were eager to share our opinions. Heck, even the Jeopardy record-setting champion has a list of his 2000 fave ones on the ''Net' somewhere. But I won't go that far.
Or would I??
Some notes: -Frailty (2001 - directed by and starring Bill Paxton) didn't make the list yet. But probably will. -The African Queen (1951 - with Humphrey Bogart) didn't make the list because I couldn't get Katherine Hepburn yelling for Mr. All-Nut out of my head. -And just to let you know, # 78 was The Fugitive. -Spoilers are likely to be present.
And now, my 77 fave movies of all-time.
And in countdown order no less, for added suspense.
# 77. The Mask Of Zorro This 1998 action film stars Antonio Banderas - one of my faves - as the title character, and also Anthony Hopkins as such. The flick was regarded as being one for boys and that said enough, but even if that were true, I'd still like it. I'm not one to bend my opinion of what some critics might say. The female lead goes to the beautiful Catherine Zeta-Jones.
# 76. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Who could forget the memorable Ennio Morricone theme in this, one of a three part trilogy that also included Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More. This Clint Eastwood western (directed by Sergio Leonne) was one of the first several movies I ever saw and then gained a new-found appreciation for it when I saw it agains years later - let's just say it was faster paced than I remembered it. The 1966 film also stars Lee Van Cleef.
# 75. Some Like It Hot Noted to be one of the best comedies in history, this 1959 movie is a great example of how older movies were that much better. It's supposed to be a comedy, and while it is, there are also many other elements within its storyline. The movie employs three people who were household faves in the ...... Primbud household - Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe. The former two are loser musicians in frigid Chicago in the gangster (not gangsta) era and while looking for work, witness a mob hit. So they take a job to Florida ...... with an all-girl band. How'd they get it? By dressing up as women of course. The Marilyn Monroe character of Sugar Cane is part of this group and teases the audience with her voluptuous singing. The mobsters eventually track down the boys, uh, girls, and more fun ensues.
# 74. Late For Dinner Part of my 'It's So Bad It's Good' collection, this 1991 sci-fi drama was an emotional movie for me. It's about two guys (who I thought were brothers - I haven't seen it in years) who get cryogenically frozen for about 30 years so they could get paid for it. Then some comedy starts as slight side-effects begin, such as green urine. The fellas are obviously amazed and shocked at the changes in the world, and their families, in the last three decades. It finished awkwardly but that might have been expected.
# 73. Judge Dredd I can't believe people didn't like this Sylvester Stallone sci-fi flick. I mean it's supposed to be a cheasy adaptation of a comic book coming to life. What did people expect? That's just what it was. In fact, the crime story was worthy of a better film. The colourful 1995 flick also stars Jurgen Prochnow (underrated IMO), Diane Lane (female lead), Armande Assante (who I never thought fulfilled his potential) as the antagonist 'relative' Rico, and Rob Schneider as the classic comic relief. There were some great campy sci-fi moments in this Danny Cannon movie, including the idea that the population of many large cities has been crammed, so they took the landmarks too (i.e. Statue of Liberty for New York), turning Aspen, Colorado (a noted ski resort) into a penal colony, and a giant warrior robot. Since I love drawing such stuff, it was terrific fodder.
# 72. 12 Monkeys An underrated sci-fi drama from 1995 that stars Bruce Willis during his better years in the lead role. There were also some memorable performances from Madelein Stowe (whom I always liked) and Brad Pitt. What I truly loved about this movie was that it did not have a happy ending, which is rare. It just seems to have a better feel for a snowed New York City than say The Day After Tomorrow.
# 71. Adams Rib This 1949 comedy stars that old duo of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn as family feuding lawyers caught in and out of court on opposide sides of the battle of sexes. It has some cute moments, such as when their friends visit with that male piano player, and the ending. But it also has a wierd scene with a female circus performer, performing in court. It was directed by George Cukor.
# 70. X2 X-Men United I thought Famke Janssen gave a nice performance (I lover her delivery of the He's a teleporter line), as did Hugh Jackman in this sequel to 2000s X-Men, which I'm sure many people around here are aware of. The 2003 sci-fi action flick was directed by Bryan Singer, who also directed the first, but it has been reported that he won't be directing the third installment in the series. He has soem nice names on his short directorial resume though, including The Usual Suspects and Apt Pupil. The film also has a powerful opening and better performances from the villanious Brian Cox and the needed Ian McKellen.
# 69. Gaslight Although this 1944 drama was a remake of a 1940 film, it is done very well. For some reason I thought it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, but it was George Cukor instead. It stars Ingrid Bergman as the helpless wife of a jewel thief played in turn by Charles Boyer. It is a great classic film run almost entirely on Bergmans sensitivity. Joseph Cotton plays a part-time police worker who latches on to the plan of her husband. It also stars Angela Lansbury in her debut performance.
# 68. Notorious This 1946 Alfred Hitchcock classic is a great one combining the talents of Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Bergman plays the daughter of a spy who's recruited by Grant to spy on an Alexander Sebastian in South America, who's suspected of being in cahoots with the Nazi party. Their 'relationship' evolves as Bergmans character is asked to be married by this man, Alex, played by Claude Rains. The movie starts a bit slowly but is just setting the pace, and Bergman keeps you watching; the best parts are at the dinner party the newlywed couple hold. This movie had the longest kiss scene up until this point, nearly two minutes worth, and has a nerverackingly scary finish IMHO.
# 67. The Cannonball Run A slew of big-time names are cast in this funny Hal Needham 1981 work. It's just a silly comedy movie but I'm a sucker for a groupd of crazed people running after a goal (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the recent ripoff, uh, remake Rat Race and the like); in this case, it is an illegal crosscountry race. The movie - which stars Burt Reynolds, Sammy Davis Jr., Farah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Roger Moore, Adrienne Barbeau, Terry Bradshaw, Jackie Chan, Peter Fonda, Joe Klecko, and Dom DeLuise (in a dual role) among others - was made at the right time.
# 66. Psycho Perhaps Alfred Hitchcocks most wellknown work, this 1960 thriller made full use of Hitchcocks want to push the envelope. Released at an opportune time, it stars Anthony Perkins as mad Norman Bates who runs the Bates Motel, an out of the way place where Marion Crane, played by Janet Leigh (mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and wife of Tony Curtis) seeks shelter after a torrential downpour in the southwestern american desert. She has taken money from her bank job but meets her demise at the hands of Normans deceased mother. Rumour had it that Hitchcock wanted no music during the classic slasher scene but composer Bernard Herrmann and others talked him into it. The rest has become classic cinema history. Personally I thought the psychological mumbojumbo near the finish was, albeit necessary, best left-out, especially for modern audiences.
# 65. Dark Passage I love saying 'Humphrey Bogart is in this movie, but he's not in this movie' about this Lauren Bacall 1947 thriller about an escaped convict who wants to get plastic surgery to get out of hock.
# 64. Malcolm X Malcolm 10, uh, X, was a 1992 Spike Lee drama which spoke highest to the black Muslim communities of america. Denzel Washington plays the title character in this biopic about the influential yet sometimes controversial leader. Malcolm X sees the light on his journey to Arabia and is thus appalled at the miserable isms of the modern media-sensationalized world. Unfortunately, he is assassinated by his own kind.
# 63. The Thief Of Baghdad This 1940 fantasy is still one of the greatest. I personally liked it because I love the Arabian Nights. It stars Conrad Veidt who goes through the fairytale trials that are taken straight out of the aforementioned Nights.
# 62. Heat This legendary crime drama directed by Michael Mann has a great cast that includes Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Ashley Judd, Natalie Portman, and a memorable performance by Robert De Niro. Pacino plays a police lieutenant who's hot on the trail of a group of bank robbers. It shows bits and pieces of family problems in the lives of these people too which is one reason the movie is great. And De Niro and Pacino finally meet face to face. Or do they??
# 61. Cannonball Run 2 Even worse than the original, this 1984 sequel has another crosscountry race being backed up by the seemingly eternal wealth of an Arabian sheik, who of course has a tag-along slave with blond hair and blue eyes. It once again has a great cast, this time adding the talents of Tony Danza, Telly Savalas, Marilu Henner, Sid Caesar, Joe Theismann, and Shirley MacLaine, as well as Frank Sinatra. The fight scene near the end and the Jaws and Jackie Chan water car ride were a bit too much.
# 60. Cleopatra I'd pay double just to see her enter that city with the Egyptian statue of the big screen - what a meaningful and grand entrance. Elizabeth Taylor is the title character in this 1963 epic. Richard Burton is Marc Antony and Rex Harrison is Julius Caesar. This four-hour masterpiece that required more costume changes than any other film in history was dubbed a dud for many years but what other films of this magnitude have there been since then?
# 59. The Matrix An out pitch for Generation X, this 1999 sci-fi flick set about a hundred years in the future - even the characters are unaware of the exact time - prompted two sequels. Keanu Reeves plays Thomas Anderson, a computer hacker, who in this computer world is known as Neo, or later an anagram for the one. He is contacted by Trinity, played by Carrie-Anne Moss and meets up with z lejendaree Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne, who explain to him about the seriousness as well as the fabrication of the world. Neo makes the decision to learn the truth, nothing more, and leaves behind the world we all seem to live in for the real world. It's this explanation coupled with the special effects that makes this trendsetter, which also stars Joe Pantoliano and Hugo Weaving. Understand all this?? Still confused? Well I'm sorry but no one can be told what the matrix is - you have to see it for yourself.
# 58. Lost Horizon This Frank Capra fantasy from 1937 is about the legendary Shangri-La, the place itself based on a town in Northern Pakistan where people normally live to be a hundred years old. In this case, it Is in the Himalayas, secluded from the outside world, a true utopia, or so it seems. A planeful of westerners leaves Shanghai but crashlands in the snowy mountains and thus 'stumbles' upon Shangri-La. Unfortunately, the hidden place should have stayed hidden, because paradise on earth eventually comes crumbling down. Based on the James Hilton classic.
# 57. Key Largo Another Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall vehicle, this one also stars Edward G. Robinson. This 1948 classic was directed by John Huston but I haven't seen it in years.
# 56. City Lights This 1931 Charlie Chaplin classic is a silent movie but an endearing one at that. The pace is slightly confusing in the first half an hour but the story picks up in no time. And has one of the saddest and most meaningful endings ever - it's about the Tramp character falling in love with a blind flower girl but who is not blind throughout the film, and is truly able to 'see the light' at the end.
# 55. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 The Smell Of Fear Sequel to The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, this Leslie Nielsen 1991 comedy has him returning as bumbling Frank Drebin, who this time is after the real ecoterrorists. His wanted girlfriend, played by Priscilla Presley, has a shady boyfriend of her own in Robert Goulets character. O. J. Simpson returns as Nordberg, asking for drugs in this Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker flick.
# 54. The X-Files the Movie Fight the Future The X-Files made it to the big screen in this 1998 elongated episode, which I was hoping it was going to be. David Duchovny is Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson is Dana Scully, FBI agents, on the trail of one of the biggest conspiracies of all-time. It also stars Martin Landau and Terry O'Quinn and show members Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis.
# 53. Dial M For Murder One of my favourite Alfred Hitchcock films, this 1954 thriller stars Grace Kelly as the wife of a London ex-tennis player who wants her killed. The climax does come early when a lamp separates two men.
# 52. Modern Times My favourite Charlie Chaplin film, which although silent, has Chaplin singing!! Just the title and when it was made is a funny fact. The 1936 film caused me to get a caugh at night and thus lose sleep because I laughed so hard. Now that I've built it up, it's time to move on to my next film ...
# 51. Home Alone This 1990 family comedy made Macaulay Culkin famous. Directed by Chris Columbus, it's the story of an eight year old boy who's left alone at his suburban Chicago home when his family treks to Paris. Thieves played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern hound the neighbourhood and decide to steal from this home despite the kid being present. The hilarity really begins when the child defends his home. It spawned at least two sequels, none that were as good as the original - why does that sound familiar??
# 50. Police Academy 4 Citizens on Patrol I'll say I learned to speak English from the Police Academy movies too. This 1987 version returns Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith, the late David Graf, and Leslie Easterbrook as funyn cops. They have to now train normal people to act like police officers, and that's the fun is at its best. The laugh-out-loud corny comedy also stars GW Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, George Gaynes, Marion Ramsey, and Sharon Stone who thought she'd be getting a leg up on Hollywood after the success of the previous Police Academy movie.
# 49. G. I. Joe the Movie Not released in the theaters, this is the culmination IMO of G. I. Joe, one of the most memorable cartoons in television history. It returns the usual cast of characters from the good guys - who get an added amount of muscle with Sgt. Slaughter (playing himself) - to the bad guys of Cobra (who in turn get an overhaul because of a greater, deeper version of Cobra-La) - the story of Cobra-La is intriguing to say the least in this 1987 animated feature. Unlike its counterpart (sort of speak) Transformers, this film had no major good guy killed. Aw, fiddlestix.
# 48. Police Academy 3 Back In Training Those goofy coppers are back. As with any early Police Academy movie, the first half is better. This 1986 version of the Police Academy movies pits one police academy against another as the city they're in (whatever it is) can only afford to keep one. This was my fave Police Academy movie, possibly because of Tim Kazurinsky.
# 47. Event Horizon This 1997 sci-fi/horror film was just another one of those mid-to-late-90s sci-fi features but I liked it the best. It stars Sam Neill as the inventor of a special spaceship that disappears on its voyage into a black hole. It has however resurfaced, sort of speak, several years later and the team led by Laurence Fishburnes character heads out to check it. As Neill puts it I built this ship to go to the farthest reaches of the universe. It went much further, in other words, hell.
# 46. The Saint Remember Roger Moore?? No?? Forget you then. Val Kilmer takes on the title role here, changing identities, but always from one saint name to another. Elisabeth Shue stars as the scientist-friend who discovers Simon Templar (saint) in this 1997 espionage action flick. Russian aristocrats want her formula for cold fusion and Simons zeal for money and possibly love, or better yet, lust, feuls the fun on the run.
# 45. Predator Another great Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle that is almost completely set in the jungles of South America, not in outer space, where it begins. An alien has landed on the aforementioned continent, and Ahnulds team is sent out to do something about this phantom menace. The film is filled with great macho moments and sequences and stars Bill Duke, Carl Weathers, Sonny Landham, and another american governor in Jesse Ventura.
# 44. Airpane 2 The Sequel They said Airplane 3 would be coming out at the end of this sequel. Oh well. This 1982 comedy is about the scared-to-fly character of Ted StrikeHer, uh, Striker, now taking over for the pilot on a space shuttle in the future - problem this time is that the on-board computer ROC has set a course for the sun. We thus must blow ROC. Eventually, they do get the shuttle turned around and head straight for the moonbase run by one William Shatner.
# 43. Superman This 1978 sci-fi/action/fantasy flick to me is most remembered for it sawe-inspiring opening credits. Richard Donner directed this story of a super man. A planet explodes but an infant is sent out into space just before the end, and later lands on Earth. The atmospheric conditions on our planet cause this baby to have extraordinary powers. So he leaves his aptly named town of Smallville as he grows up for the big city of Metropolis becoming a mild-mannered reporter for the large newspaper. There he meets Lois Lane. His other identity doesn't utilize the powers to rule the world with an iron fist but instead fights for truth and justice.
# 42. Batman This fantasy/action franchise went downhill after this 1989 Tim Burton flick which kicked off the new-aged bat. Michael Keaton is Bruce Wayne, bats secret identity, and it's nearly made known to Vicki Vale. Stop the presses - who is That? It's Kim Basinger. And Jack Nicholson - who got paid a whopping 60 million dollars to laugh and destory Gotham city (which is celebrating an important anniversary) - is the Joker. I think the movie could have been better if they gave a more in-depth backstory for characters such as police commissioner Gordon and DA Harvey Dent (perhaps in a sequel if possible). Danny Elfman was snubbed for his legendary theme. Michael Gough is Alfred, the paternal butler.
# 41. The Time Machine The 1960 one with Rod Taylor one not the early 21st century one, although that wasn't bad either. No, the earlier adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic sci-fi story (before there was such a thing as sci-fi) takes Victorian time traveller George (supposedly H. G. Wells himself) on a trip to the future in a time machine he invented himself, finishing it just before the turn of the century. The scientific jargon at the beginning of the movie really drew me in as a youngster. The time traveller is disenchanted with comtemporary life and hopes to find a more civilized future. But instead he finds a World War, Waorld War 2, an atomic war, the fury of nature rising up in upheaval as man had too, and eventually presses on to 800,000 years ahead where all seems peaceful (and where he meets Weena), but where he finds that the world has turned into two types of people, the Eloi, a simple breed of peaceful uncaring sundwellers, and the cannibalistic and monstrous underground Morlox. It's a good parable for the simpler life as opposed to the technologically advanced one IMO.
# 40. The Godfather Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the 1972 family crime drama stars Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in the memorable role of Don Vito Corleone, head of the Corleone crime family. Nearly three hours long, the legendary film takes us through the everyday lives of the family and its troubles.
# 39. Beverly Hills Cop This 1984 action comedy was originally slated to be a Sylvester Stallone vehicle. Instead, Eddie Murphy became a hit as a down-to-earth Detroit cop who goes out to fancy Beverly Hills to track down the reason for the killing of his friend who worked there and who had come to motor city to see him. There, he meets up with a former friend who work in an art gallery owned by a powerful affluent businessman. The fun starts as the by-the-book Beverly Hills detectives tail Murphys Axel Foley. Harold Faltermeyer did the memorable score and Martin Brest directed.
# 38. El Mariachi It's still amazing that with an original budget of about 7000 dollars, it made over two million. Directed by Robert Rodriguez, this 1992 action movie is about a mariachi, a Mexican musician who gets misidentified as a killer who uses a similar guitar case for weapons which he uses on his victims. It helps to know other languages. This movie spawned at least two sequels.
# 37. GhostBusters The 1984 film which gave birth to the memorable cartoon is a mix of fantasy, science fiction, action, and comedy. It stars Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Dan Aykroyd as the title characters. At first, they're working of paranormal experiments but the fiscally responsible world doesn't care for such fantasy. Thus, they go into business on their own as capturers of those who haunt. Sigourney Weaver plays Dana Barrett who has some paranormal problems in her New York City highrise and Rick Moranis plays her nerdy accountant neighbour, based loosely on Woody Allen characters. Ernie Hudson becomes the fourth member of the title team.
# 36. Goldeneye The top James Bond movie on my list was Pierce Brosnans first as the legendary 007. Released in 1995, it's a globetrotting adventure that features Sean Bean as agent 006 who gets shot in the head at the onset of the film but returns (as a two-faced Janus would) as the antagonist. Famke Janssen gives a memorable performance as Xenia Onatopp. And Tina Turner performs the title song.
# 35. GhostBusters 2 A special movie to me, this 1989 sequel returns the paranormal scientists Peter (Bill Murray), Egon (Harold Ramis), Ray (Dan Aykroyd), and Winston (Ernie Hudson), this time to battle stress-related slime spewing out from underneath the talkative city of New York. Sigourney Weaver returns as one of the first victims of the aforementioned goo.
# 34. Casablanca One of the greatest movies of all-time, this 1942 classic stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick, owner of the Cafe Americaine in the title city of Morocco. Set around World War 2, it has refugees fleeing to this city as an embarking point to freedom. Memorable performances from Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Paul Henreid makes this an awesome film for sure. Ingrid Bergman is stellar as the lover of Rick from his Paris days, who in all the gin joints in all the world walks [back] into his. When I first saw this film, I was pleasantly surpised to find so many famous lines and situations that first were found in this feature. What's great about a lot of the more marvelous movies is that you really have to pay attention to every instance and each little nuance to truly enjoy. The supporting characters (even those that get very little air time) were memorable too. Dooley Wilson is Sam, as in play it again sam and Michael Curtiz directed.
# 33. Twins Action star Arnold Schwarzenegger tried his hand at comedy, and did so successfully in this 1988 Ivan Reitman feature. Paired with Danny DeVito as his brother, it takes the classic story of twins separated at birth, with one growing up in a tropical paradise while the other in the more coughcivilizedcough concrete jungle. The funniest part is when Schwarzeneggers Julius (his brothers name is Vincent - ring any bells?? if not, see # 9) pooh-poohs a muscular picture of Sylvester Stallone - a great in-joke for the 1980s!
# 32. Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope The original Star Wars! I just thought they got better with each passing one; I mean the original trilogy. Directed by George Lucas, the 1977 space opera opened up, for many, a whole new world, nay, universe! And it was in a galaxy far far away in a time long ago, where young Luke Skywalker (who speaks English of course) is tired of being a moisture farmer on his desert planet of Tatooine, named after the desert area in North Africa, and yearns to be a fighter pilot flying amongst the stars. After his guardians are killed, he comes across the classic old wise man in Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) who relates stories of a magnificent time and bestows upon the young lad a light-sabre, reminiscent of a laser sword, a weapon from a more civilized time as it is called. Meanwhile, an evil empire (for the Imperial forces that the USA was against for so much of its history) is building a giant, moonsized weapon to blow away planets. Young Skywalker is able to eventually join the rebellion and heroically is able to destroy this Death Star. Needless to say, real science is tossed out the space portal. Harrison Ford stars as the smuggler Han Solo, pilot of the memorable Millenium Falcon, and James Earl Jones does the voice of the evil Darth Vader.
# 31. Star Wars Episode 6 the Return of the Jedi The 1983 conclusion to the Star Wars trilogy sees the evil empires attempts at construction of a second Death Star. Mark Hamill returns as Luke Skywalker, now after the evil lord Darth Vader for more information regarding the shocking announcement at the end of the previous SW film, and Carrie Fisher as Leia, who turns out to be Lukes sister. Sebastian Shaw was the face of the aforementioned Darth Vader. Most of the action takes place on a forest moon as the resident ewoks are introduced. George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan helped write the feature while Richard Marquand directed.
# 30. The Sixth Sense The 1999 M. Night Shyamalan mystery has a terrific twist at the end and is about a boy (Haley Joel Osmont) who sees dead people and confides in his friend and psychologist Malcolm Crowe, played by Bruce Willis. The first time I saw this film, it was about 10 minutes away from finishing, and I was wondering where the twist was.
# 29. The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino has a field day as Satan himself. Or Lucifer. Or the devil. Call him Dad! Father to so many, but here, Keanu Reeves, who's a hot-shot lawyer from a small Floridian town and gets an offer to come to Babylon, uh, New York. Against the advices of his religious mother, he goes with his wife (played by Charlize Thieron) and indeed it is a dwelling place of demons.
# 28. Star Wars Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back This 1980 sequel to the original Star Wars has a twist of an ending where young Luke Skywalker, freedom fighter for the rebellion against Darth Vader and the evil galactic empire, learns of his father, something he's wanted to know for a long time. It turns out that Vader, the grand villian himself, is his father. The movie opens on an ice planet with the rebellion trying to escape the grasps of the Imperial forces. Billy Dee Williams in Lando Calrissian, George Lucas helped write, and Irvin Kershner directed.
# 27. Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace The long-awaited reprise of the Star Wars franchise came in 1999 with this George Lucas feature. Plunked for immaturity, the 'beginning of the saga' shows young Ani Skywalker as a slave (with his mother), on the desert planet of Tatooine. He excels at fixing things and as a Jedi warrior Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) stops by the planet for parts to a ship, is used (the young child is played by Jake Lloyd) to win them in a speedy 'pod-race'. Terence Stamp is Chancellor Valorum and Ian McDiarmid is Senator Palpatine. Ray Park was the popular villian Darth Maul who kills QGJ but is then killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Ewan McGregor.
# 26. Jurassic Park An event 65 million years in the making, this 1993 Steven Spielberg feature based on the Michael Crichton screenplay stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern as scientists who study dinosaurs but the real star of the film is the dinosaur itself, brought back to life by workers of Richard Attenboroughs John Hammond. Jeff Goldblum provides more than comic relief as Speilberg goes the length in another man versus nature struggle. The dinosaurs of course run amok. The funniest part was when a Tyrannosaurus is chasing a jeep and it can be easily seen in a mirror; it states 'objects in the mirror are closer than they appear'.
# 25. The Fifth Element It's so bad, it's good gets the royal treatment. The original story was dreamt of when the filmmaker was in the ninth grade. Directed by Luc Besson, this 1997 sci-fi fantasy begins in the year 1914 in Egypt and flashfowards ahead some 300+ years where the rest of the film takes place. Bruce Willis plays a cabbie who is hired to save the world and events turn up where Milla Jovovichs Leeloo lands, literally, in his cab. She is the title character. The fun space flick also stars Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr., Gary Oldman as the villian, Ian Holm as the priest, and Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod! Luke Perry has a small role. International music is used well.
# 24. Jaws The first official summer blockbuster, this 1975 Steve Spielberg feature stars Roy Scheider as a New Yorker in New England as a police chief in the small coastal town of Amity. Peter Benchleys novel adaptation is a man versus nature struggle where man of course comes out on top, and one in which the audience members really got scared of going into the water. A shark terrorizes the watergoers and Robert Shaw (Quint) teams with the aforementioned chief and oceanographer Matt Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss) go after it.
# 23. Kindergarten Cop Arnold Schwarzenegger tackles comedy again, and does so successfully again, in this 1990 film where he plays cop John Kimble who goes undercover for his sick partner (played by Pamela Reed) as a kindergarten teacher. He soon learns that his skills dealing with criminals are no match for a class of little kids. He is trying to find the mother (Penelope Ann Miller) of a criminal (Richard Tyson) he's trying to nail as she has a child in the school and can testify against the criminal. But enjoy this movie for what it is, and just remember: boys have a penis; girls have, a vagina.
# 22. The Terminator Now a classic sci-fi/action thriller, it was originally dubbed a horror flick. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the title role, a cybernetic organism sent from the future to kill a Los Angeles woman, a waitress at the time, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), sent by a defense computer of the future called SkyNet which will wage a war against all humanity and since it's losing, wants to destroy his opponents leader John Connor before he's even born, in 1984; sort of a retroactive abortion. The human resistance in the future sends Kyle Reese (played by Michael Biehn, to be the father of John Connor) to try and stop the cyborg; but, alas, has no 'ray gun'! Paul Winfield and Lance Henriksen played Los Angeles police officers, Earl Boen a psychologist, and Bill Paxton has a short role in the memorable James Cameron feature as a punk leader.
# 21. Back to the Future part 3 The third and final installment of the memorable Back to the Future trilogy mostly takes place in the Old West (1885), where Doc (Christopher Lloyd) ended up and where Marty (Michael J. Fox) goes to get him back to the present 1985. Playing on its prequels, the Robert Zemeckis 1990 feature introduces Mary Steenburgen while reprising the antagonistic role of a Tannen family member for Thomas F. Wilson. The Delorean time machine needs to be sped up to the necessary 88 miles per hour speed, but that proves rather difficult with broken parts and no gas station in sight. Marty meets some of his ancestors along the way, Doc falls in love (and dances too!), and a steam engine train is brought into play (not as a hijack, but as a science experiment) to help push along the car to the necessary speed.
# 20. Back to the Future part 2 The sequel to Back to the Future, this Robert Zemeckis 1989 feature, coproduced by Steven Spielberg, blasts into the future (2015) to prevent Marty McFlys family from being disgraced. Doc, however, has his time machine stolen in the future by the old Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) who takes it back to 1955 and gives a sports almanac (with results) to himself so that history may change and he may become rich and powerful; he does and it does. So Marty and Doc must set things right. Lea Thompson is the mother and Elisabeth Shue is the girlfriend in the movie that promised a futuristic future for the audience of the 1980s, filled with flying cars, hovering skateboards, autmotic dog-walkers, and knobless doors, where a Pepsi might cost 50 dollars and a regular cab ride nearly 200, and where a pizza maybe made in under five seconds. Casey Siemaszko, Flea, Jame Tolkan, and Billy Zane also star.
# 19. Die Hard With A Vengeance The third and final installment of the Die Hard trilogy is my favourite. It's a terrific action flick directed my John McTiernan from 1995. It once again stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, a New York cop, who befriends (sort of) Harlem electrician Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson) to find a terrorist (Simon (half-brother of Hans Gruber from the original Die Hard ('88) played by Jeremy Irons), decipher his riddles (only 1 is going to St. Ives, the man without his seven wives), and disarm bombs. When Johnny Comes Marching Home is used well.
# 18. Jaws 4 The Revenge I don't care what anybody says, I liked the final Jaws installment. Released in 1987, it once again stars Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody and she has a family leader against family leader battle with the shark at the end. Her son Michael (played by Lance Guest) is an oceaniographer in the Caribbean with his partner Jake (played by Mario Van Peebles) and is going to be haunted by the title 'character'. Michael Caine also stars in this Joseph Sargent family thriller.
# 17. Contact Based on the Carl Sagan story, Robert Zemeckis directs a 1997 feature about a gritty yearning-to-be-independent astronomer Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) lookig for signals from afar for proof of extraterrestrial life. The government of course could care less, unless it meets their causes. Angela Bassett and James Woods make sure of that while Tom Skerritt wraps up the bureaucratic fools around his little finger. Matthew McConaughey is present as the spiritual presence for Ellie as the film attempts to tackle some ultimate issues, while simultaneously showcasing the obstacles to truth and honesty.
# 16. Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones From 2002, this George Lucas feature is the most recent addition to my list. Young Anakin Skywalker (played by Hayden Christensen) is growing up and coming into disobedience with his master Obi-Wab Kenobi (played by Ewan McGregor) and lusts for Padme Amidala (played by Natalie Portman). He is strong as told him by Palpatine. A defected Jedi (Christopher Lee) has apparently commissioned bounty hunter Jango Fett (played by Temuera Morrison) to assassinate Senator Padme. Anakin protects her but winds up following his dreams to save his mother (Pernilla August), who dies in his arms. Ahmed Best as the voice of Jar-Jar Binks has a smaller role than the previous SW film, while Samuel L. Jackson has an expanded role as Mace Windu, and Frank Oz returns to voice Yoda. Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker are C-3PO and R2-D2 respectively.
# 15. Independence Day Taking a hint, but not too many, from earlier science fiction works, Roland Emmerich brings the grand idea of aliens attacking earth in their humungous spaceships in this 1996 blockbuster. It was Will Smiths first major role and also starred Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quiad, Jeff Goldblum, and Brent Spiner. The first half of the film is truly memorable as it is the weekend of USAs independence day and city-sized ships are coming into the atmosphere from the moon and starting to hover over the major cities of the world. And then they do attack. Eventually, the USA (which brings together the rejects, uh, people of the world) is able to send two people (Smith and Goldblum) up to the mothership around earth orbit and drop off a weapon of destruction that saves the day.
# 14. Assassins A 1995 action thriller starring Sylvester Stallone as a hit man on his way out and Antonio Banderas as a hitman on his way in. Stallones Robert Rath got the position held quietly by doing away with the previous top hitman years ago, right outside a bank; and Banderas' Miguel Bain wants to brashly do the same. Julianne Moores Electra interjects in Seattle and three end up a bit more to the south, right outside a bank reminiscent of how Rath got his position.
# 13. Desperado Another 1995 Antonio Banderas flick, it's supposedly the sequel to El Mariachi (see # 38 above), where Banderas' Mariachi is on a quest to get Bucho (played by Joaquim de Almeida) as revenge for what occurred in the previous film. Steve Buscemi plays his sidekick and Salma Hayek has a memorable role in Robert Rodriguezs third big screen feature. Things that connect Robert Rodriguez-associated films can bee noticed here too. Cheech Marin is the bartender and Quentin Tarantino has a role too. Plus it helps to know other languages. Carlos Gallardo from the first movie is back as one of Mariachis cohorts Campa.
# 12. Titanic I was moved by this detail-oriented new age epic starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson) and Kate Winslet (Rose) as well as Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, and Kathy Bates. Directed by James Cameron, this 1997 feature has made nearly two billion dollars worldwide and other than Ben-Hur in 1959 and the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring in 2003, is the only film to gross 11 Academy awards. Based on A Night To Remember from 1958, it solidifies Cameron as a premier filmmaker, as he also had a part in the making of The Terminator, T2, The Abyss, Aliens, and True Lies. Rose is a rich girl whos is sick and tired of the fancy upper-class life, so she leaves her arrogant fiance Cal to be with rogue Jack. Unfortunately, they cannot enjoy the pleasures of life beyond what they accomplished on the unsinkable ship as the 1912 disaster takes place with great special effects and craftwork. The story is being told by Rose at 101 who takes us back to the post-Victorian times. I find it amazing how many great movies do not either happen in contemporary times or have someone regaling. And a note to people who make top movies lists, do not be swayed by the opinions of others, as I could care less about what people think knowing this movie is so high on my list.
# 11. Mission: Impossible I had been waiting for this one. Our family was a fan of Mission Impossible shows and the 1996 Brian De Palma espionage thriller didn't disappoint; in fact, I was ready to walk out of the theatre after the opening Lalo Schifrin theme satisfied. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt, a member of the spy team of Jim Phelps (played by Jon Voight), who has almost his entire team (except for Claire, Phelps' wife) killed as part of an internal mole hunt. When his superior (Henry Czerny) informs him of this reason for the killings, Hunt defects. It turns out the mole hunt was justified, and furthermore, that it was his trusted leader Phelps that was the mole. This bit ticked off original cast members of the Mission Impossible shows, and also the fact that parts weren't readily made available to them. Hunt scopes out disavowed members and finds a couple he can use; they're played by Jean Reno and Ving Rhames. Hunt does get involved with Claire, who obviously thinks her husband has died, even though Hunt later discovers he hasn't. The story can be a bit confusing at first glance. The score is used well.
# 10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Regardless of the facts that even those involved in the making of this 1984 Indiana Jones prequel didn't think it was up to par with the other Indiana Jones films, I still think it was much better than the junk put out by studios, especially in recent memory. It begins with Jones trying to complete a deal in Shanghai in 1935 with a Chinese man named Lou-Che. The deal goes awry and Jones just escapes with lounge singer Willie Scott (played by director Steven Spielbergs future wife Kate Capshaw) and his sidekick Short Round (played by Ke [Johnathan] Huy [Ke] Quan but instead wind up in a plane owned by Lao-Che. Both Steven Spielberg and Dan Aykroyd can be seen in this scene. In a scene reminiscent of Lost Horizon (see # 58 above), the plane goes over the Great Wall of China and as the pilots bail out, crash lands in te Himalayan mountains. Thus the threesome come across a village in India that has been stripped of its fruitfulness and thus they set out to a Pankot palace to recover a magical stone that would bring life back to that poor village and also to get back the kidnapped children of the village people, who have been kidnapped for slave labour. Indy discovers an ancient cult called the Thuggees still operating in the catacombs of the palace (in an idea also seen near the end of From Dusk Till Dawn). Believing in human sacrifice, they capture the threesome. Scenes here prompted the PG-13 Rating seen in movies all the time now. Amresh Puri is the bloodthirsty villian Mola Ram. After returning from a magical dark spell, archeologist Jones (Harrison Ford) saves the kids, prevails in a dangerous mine cart chase, and upends the villians in a harrowing broken bridge ending. And it helps to know other languages.
# 9. Pulp Fiction Not for the kiddies, this 1994 Quentin Tarantino (who als starred) modern masterpiece is told out of chronological order so watcher beware. It still is a great mix of music and dialogue and brings some marvelous performances from the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, James Woods, and Harvey Keitel.
# 8. Airplane! Chosen as the funniest movie ever when it came out in 1980, the comedy trio of Zucker Abrahams Zucker brings you a great film from beginning to end. Surely you like movies about gladiators! Stars Robert Hays in the lead as Julie Hagerty as the female lead. Also has a noteworthy cast of Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (I mean Roger Murdock), and Robert Stack. Rated PG.
# 7. Back to the Future The first BTTF from 1985 is a nice mix of science fiction, comedy, action, and story as young Marty McFly takes his mad scientist Docs Delroean time machine back 30 years and meets his parent, before they even met each other. His future mother falls for him instead of his future father and he has to set things straight or he might never be born. Boy this is heavy! But rest assured, the heaviness has nothing to do with the Earths gravitational pull. Was produced by Steven Spielberg, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and also stars Crispin Glover.
# 6. Raiders of the Lost Ark Admittedly the best Indiana Jones movie, this 1981 adventure introduced us to the eminent archeologist Jones. Coming across his nemesis Rene Belloq (Paul Freeman) who takes an idol he pursued and got from a South American temple in 1936, Jones is met by his compatriot Marcus (Denholm Elliott) and some government agents who want his help in obtaining the ark of the covenant, which held the original 10 commandments, before Adolf Hitlers Nazi goons get at it. So Jones goes to Nepal to seek out former flame Marion (Karen Allen) whose father worked on the find. She joins him to Cairo - city of the living, paradise on earth - where he meets with Sallah (John Rhys-Davies), an expert digger in the region, but also eventually comes across Belloq, who is now spearheading the Nazi excavation. Indy is able to decipher the location of the Ark and gets it only to have it taken away by the antagonists. Eventually, all involved witness the power of the ark, or do they?? Directed by Steven Spielberg so he wouldn't have to make a James Bond film (on the advice of producer George Lucas), the globetrotting adventure still ranks among the greatest action-adventure films ever. Also stars Alfred Molina, Ronald Lacey, and Wolf Kahler.
# 5. True Lies Moved down in my listing due to the negative stereotypes it issues, it nevertheless is an excellent mesh of action and comedy. The 1995 James Cameron hit also does an acceptable job of twisting together the two main storylines. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a spy for 17 years who has not told his wife (played by Jamie Lee Curtis who transforms from a gawky legal secretary) of 15 years that his one. Filled with tremendoes action sequences, it also stars Tom Arnold - as the comic relief, the daring antagonist terrorist (played aptly by Art Malik), and the sensual Tia Carrera as a link; also stars Eliza Dushku, Grant Heslov, and Bill Paxton. Rated R.
# 4. Transformers the Movie This 1986 animated feature beat out G. I. Joe the Movie to the theaters and made my list as the top animated movie. Filled with great music from the time and a great cast that included Orson Welles, Transformers the Movie attempts now to bridge the gap between Generations 1 and the rest for contemporary cartoons. The voices and the animation combine to make it a stellar production IMHO. Set in 2005 - some 20 years after G1 concluded - it takes off with the evil Decepticons having conquered the home planet of Cybertron and the valiant Autobots preparing a comeback. But they're attacked on their way to Earth and Autobot City there is nearly destroyed. So the remaining Autobots take off in two shuttles for space with scenes and lines reminiscent of other great works, such as Star Wars and later Independence Day. Directed by Nelson Shin, it also stars Eric Idle, Leonard Nimoy, Scatman Crothers, Peter Cullen, Casey Kasem, Judd Nelson, Lionel Stander, and Robert Stack.
# 3. Speed Some movies allow you to sit back and breathe a sigh of relief after an action sequence, allowing the viewer to possibly exclaim Wow, that was a great action scene - IMO this 1994 movie doesn't allow you to do that, keeping you on the edge of your seat throughout. Based on other works such as an unproduced Akira Kurosawa piece and the 1985 film Runaway Train, Speed made Keanu Reeves (Jack) and Sandra Bullock (Annie) household names for casual moviegoers. Jack is a Los Angeles police officer who, with his partner, foils a hostage situation in a highrise elevator bombing attempt. But the terrorist escapes and returns to plant a bomb on a city bus which is armed when the bus reaches a certain speed and will detonate if the bus drops below that determined speed of 50 miles per hour. Implausible as it may be, director Jan De Bont puts his skills and experience to work here. The action piece also ends in a sped-up Subway ride. Stars Joe Morton, Dennis Hopper, and Jeff Daniels.
# 2. Terminator 2 Judgement Day Would be my top movie if I wasn't a fan of no.1. Quiet possibly Arnold Schwarzeneggers biggest role (and confirmed as such in his 1993 movie Last Action Hero), T2 was the first movie in history to cost over $100million. And it paid off nearly immediately as it had the highest opening weekend gross of any R rated movie until 2003. The CyberDyne Systems Model 101 T800 is here to protect future human resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong), now a young lad in foster care, from an advanced prototype T1000, played by Robert Patrick. Young John orders the terminator to get his mother (Linda Hamilton in a more activ-ist role) from a mental institution where she's being held for her stories about judgment day. The action spills in and out of Los Angeles and uses the science fiction to alter the story into a feel-good family movie - and I believe it works - although it's rated R. Government officials from the USA admitted this event as having some of the most realistic visions of a nuclear weapon of mass-destruction than any fictional piece ever. Sometimes we forget how great movies 'not new' were until we watch them again. Directed by James Cameron, it also stars Joe Morton and Earl Boen.
# 1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade My personal fave Indiana Jones movie because in the Indiana Jones universe, the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark already took place, and quite possibly for the paternal role. Begins in 1912 in Utah as a young Indiana Jones (played by the late River Phoenix who thought he as doing his rendition of actor Harrison Ford - who once again returns as the title character - instead of the Jones character itself - they also worked together in The Mosquito Coast) who comes across some diggers getting the Cross of Coronado as a member of the Boy Scouts. This must have been a nice moment for director Steven Spielberg who was one himself in his youth. Ever the budding archeologist, young Jones thinks it belongs in a museum and manages to take it and run off. When he gets home, we see a glimpse of his father working on a diary chock full of data about the holy grail, crosses, and other Christian and nonChristian works, as well as the family dog, whom we later learn 'Indiana' was named after. Unfortunately, those diggers had a legal right to excavate and take back the cross, and uglily hand it over to a collector. The leader of the diggers places his hat on Indys head and we flash ahead to 1938 where Jones and grown up but is still after that cross. From the movies beginning, we learn where Indy learned to brandish hi whip, why Harrison Ford has a scar on his chin, where Jones' fear of snakes emanates from, and where he got his trademark fedora. Indy is able to escape with the cross and in scenes reminiscent of the aforementioned Raiders of the Lost Ark, compatriot Marcus Brody tends to Indy near the conclusion of a college course. Indy mentions in class how X never marks the spot but he'll eat those words later. Meanwhile, Indy receives a diary in the mail from Venice. He is able to sidestep his responsibilities but then is approached by a trio of men working for a collector (Julian Glover playign Walter Donovan) who introduces our hero to a tablet unearthed in Turkish lands. It mention the location of The Holy Grail and thus events are put into motion for the capture of this fabled artifact. Donovan wants him to pick up the 'trail of the grail' where the previous project leader left off as that man has vanished. Since his father was more interested in this, Indy suggests that Donovan try contacting the elder Jones. Indy is downed to discover that it the project leader and his father were one and the same person. The mail Indy received from Venice, Italy was his fathers grail diary. So off to Venice they go. There they meet his fathers colleague, Dr. Elsa Schneider (Allison Doody) and find more clue and eventually are able to rescue 'dad' from a castle (which in secrecy in a Nazi stronghold) on the Austrian border. Speilberg used an age-old storytelling technique here (also used in his previous film Jaws) where a major character is not shown fully until an hour or so into the movie. And we find that the elder Jones is played by none other than Sean Connery, an in-joke as Speilberg always wanted to to a James Bond film (and Connery played a definitive Bond earlier) - in fact, in the late '70s, Spielberg had discussed a Bond work with producer George Lucas and Lucas exclaimed he had something better than Bond, and thus Indiana Jones was born sort of speak. The chemistry between father and son from this point of the movie onwards is magnificent, what with such great talent at the filmmakers disposal. The Jones boys escape, retrieve the diary, and take off for the desert and the grail temple (which is actually in Jordan) and then it is time to ask oneself what they believe. This is certainly the most comedic film of the series and rumour has it that a fourth Indiana Jones film is in the works.
If you haven't noticed, what I like to call repeated watchability plays a role in the listing. I'd say that #s 4 (TF: TM) and 39 (BHC) have the highest of this factor.
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Primbud, you kick, man. Fight the Future. Ooh yeah!
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I failed to see Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Raising Arizona or The Wizard of Oz on that list, therefore I can only surmise that you have not seen these films. Please procur them from your local video store and re-evaluate your list after viewing. Thank you.
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Now that's a list. My #1 would be Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
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Though I don't agree with most of it, I congratulate you on picking your favorites rather than a generic reproduction of most consensus picks.
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quote:Originally posted by Obi-Wan Cannoli: How did the kangaroos get back to Australia when the flood was over? Did they swim? How did they reach the Middle East in the first place?
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77's a good number. I'll chip in with mine in no particular order. Descriptions coming soon...Maybe.
#1-Kill Bill (1 & 2) #2-2001:A Space Odyssey #3-Yojimbo #4-The Godfather #5-The Empire Strikes Back #6-From Russia With Love #7-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74) #8-The Color Purple #9-Brazil #10-Pulp Fiction #11-Mad Max 2:The Road Warrior #12-Dr Strangelove #13-The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly #14-Taxi Driver #15-Night of the Living Dead ('68) #16-Monty Python and the Holy Grail #17-The Third Man #18-Jaws #19-Scarface ('83) #20-Eraserhead #21-Battle Royale #22-The Jungle Book ('67) #23-Angel Heart #24-Enter The Dragon #26-Toy Story #27-Die Hard #28-Love and Basketball #29-Ninja Scroll #30-A Christmas Story #31-Do The Right Thing #32-Ghostbusters #33-One flew over the cuckoo's nest #34-Psycho ('60) #35-Terminator 2 #36-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('32) #37-X2 #38-Platoon #39-Dawn of the Dead ('78) #40-A Clockwork Orange #41-Once Upon a Time in The West #42-The Elephant Man #43-Boyz N The Hood #44-Satyricon #45-The Killer ('89) #46-Raging Bull #47-An American werewolf in London #48-The Great Silence #49-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory #50-Irreversible #51-Seven Samurai #52-JFK #53-The Fly ('86) #54-Treasure of the Sierra Madre #55-Nosferatu ('22) #56-Pee Wee's Big Adventure #57-Duck, you Sucker! (aka Fistful of Dynamite) #58-Born on the fourth of July #59-EL Topo #60-Westworld #61-Dead or Alive 2:Birds #62-The Warriors #63-The Seventh Seal #64-Ben Hur ('59) #65-Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring #66-Malèna #67-Ed Wood #68-Stangers on a Train #69-The Wizard of Oz #70-The Thing ('82) #71-The Wild Bunch #72-Stand By Me #73-Midnight Cowboy #74-Casino #75-Lone Wolf and Cub 2:Babycart to Hades #76-Repo Man #77-Ichi The Killer
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