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This is Peckinpah's gentlest and I'd say my fourth favorite. The love between Robards and Stevens is so real and strong. It's all quite a funny and beautiful story. The best is the montage scene with the "Butterfly Mornings" song both the actors sing.

95 _83%

The Beastmaster (1982) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

This and Conan are the best of the genre. The score is beautiful, Singer makes a great hero, the animals are splendid, and Tanya Roberts is a wonderful slave princess. Any questions?

95 _83%

Planet of the Apes (1968) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

Haunting, beautiful, amazing. I just wish every advertisement and poster, including this site's pic for it, didn't spoil the ending!

72 _4%

You Only Live Twice (1967) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

You can tell Sean has grown tired of Bond in his fifth time round, even when he gets to say the words "Little Nellie" and ride it as well. Roald Dhal, of all people, bless his heart! wrote the screenplay. It's hilarious to hear Sean ooze out very Anglo pronunciations of his Japanese girlfriends, but there is a line where someone verifies with 007 that his drink of choice is "Vodka martini, stirred not shaken." That's dyslexic and blasphemous!

75 _12%

Our Man Flint (1966) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

Fun, but "In Like Flint" is so much better. Still, this is great 60's-ness complete with hilarious dialogue between Coburn and Cobb.

82 _20%

The Elephant Man (1980) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

I love David Lynch's work. This is one of his lesser surreal/bizarre films, but I think it's because the essence of the title character is outlandish enough. John Hurt (Midnight Express) is fantastic as the real-life John Merrick, and brings supple and pleasant humanity to a man who is treated often as an animal. Anthony Hopkins of all people is in this one too! By no means is this one of Lynch's lesser works, but I would recommend more "Blue Velvet" or "Lost Highway".

100 _95%

Midnight Express (1978) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

I was 19, renting film after film to culture myself cinematically, and my mom of all people recommended this to me. I didn't know how I would like it, and I had a feeling, by its cover and storyline, that it was going to be very difficult to watch. Folks, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen, and it was a measly laptop screen at that! This is my favorite film to date. The story is mind-blowing, the performances are heartbreaking and inspiring, the script is seething with passion, the dir

86 _29%

Rocky (1976) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

In Cinderella Man, I was just waiting for Russell Crowe to win the final match and the credits to roll. EVERYBODY knows what happens in Rocky, and yet you're always glued to your seat, wishing the best for Rocky and rooting him on. This is an extremely tender movie too, and I wish Hollywood took ol' Sly more seriously, for he truly had the makings of being a staple dramatic actor. It was up between Sly and Peter Finch in winning that Oscar, and though Finch's performance was terrific, I almos

90 _50%

Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

I think this was my first favorite horror film. Very scary and hardly dated today, and yet there are those precious corny moments that make the film all the better. Yet there is nothing corny about the famous zombie-girl hacking her mother to death with a spade scene. A hell of a lot of fun, and better than any of its sequels.

91 _62%

Fantastic Planet (1973) - Rated 13 Aug 2007

Total psychadelic wonder. Amazing score and harrowing situations, and highly original. Plus, our hero is voiced by Barry Bostwick, I mean c'mon!