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[lukethedrifter]

Both excellent choices. Horsefeathers would be a good one to watch once football season starts up.

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[Richie Allen]

3. As far as movies I have left on the top 100...oh, that would probably be about 70 of them, especially the older stuff. I'll just start with the top ones I haven't seen, and you can offer your shame and judgment:

Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, Singin' in the Rain, Sunset Blvd, Bridge on the River Kwai, Some Like It Hot, All About Eve, African Queen, Psycho, Grapes of Wrath, Maltese Falcon, raging bull, Bonne and Clyde, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Yep, those are just the movies in the top 30 I haven't seen.

I've probably read every book in the top 50 lists, but I have a big blank on movies, and I'm trying to fill it.

These are absolute must-sees. And to, possibly, a slightly lesser extent, depending on your tastes, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, African Queen and Mr Smith Goes to Washington shouldn't be missed either. Others would put Raging Bull at the top of that list. There are times I'd prefer Singin' In The Rain. They're all worth watching. Just trying to help you prioritize. I suppose, ultimately, it'll depend on your tastes.

[Arthur Dent]

I love the HAL 9000 storyline. It's a concept that makes even more sense today than it did 42 years ago: What if we create a computer so sophisticated that it becomes a threat to us because it realizes that we are a threat to it? That's something we're only really approaching now, technologically. It's a testament to Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick's vision that they hit the head of a nail that wouldn't even really exist for another 30+ years.

That's not really an original storyline at all. The idea that technology will rise up as a threat to its human creators is a well worn theme in science fiction. Issac Asimov was so sick of it that he created the novel concept of the Three Laws of Robotics whereby robots are actually benevolent servants of mankind in 1942. Here's Asimov:

...one of the stock plots of science fiction was... robots were created and destroyed by their creator. Knowledge has its dangers, yes, but is the response to be a retreat from knowledge? Or is knowledge to be used as itself a barrier to the dangers it brings? With all this in mind I began, in 1940, to write robot stories of my own – but robot stories of a new variety. Never, never, was one of my robots to turn stupidly on his creator for no purpose but to demonstrate, for one more weary time, the crime and punishment of Faust. — Isaac Asimov, 1964
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

[lukethedrifter]

Do you people watch these movies by yourself or do you have someone you normally watch with?

[InvincibleCakeEater]

OK, I was hesitant when I saw the first previews, but this clip from Comic Con has locked me into going to watch it.

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[ghostrunner]

Do you people watch these movies by yourself or do you have someone you normally watch with?

Why do you ask? Except for the bigger movies that my wife also wants to see, I watch most stuff by myself these days. Though I don't get around to it as much as I would like.

[vinsanity]

Do you people watch these movies by yourself or do you have someone you normally watch with?

That seems like an odd question. Does it matter? Except for the bigger movies that my wife also wants to see, I watch most stuff by myself these days. Though I don't get around to it as much as I would like.

I hate going to the theater by myself. I can't remember the last time I did.

[cards2468]

Do you people watch these movies by yourself or do you have someone you normally watch with?

That seems like an odd question. Does it matter? Except for the bigger movies that my wife also wants to see, I watch most stuff by myself these days. Though I don't get around to it as much as I would like.

I hate going to the theater by myself. I can't remember the last time I did.

don't think I ever have, but many times have I watched a movie at home by myself

[ghostrunner]

I changed the wording cause I thought it sounded jerky, but goldurnit, you guys quoted me.

I used to go to movies by myself all the time and loved it.

[JL21]

Watching a movie is one of the few things you can do on your own without feeling socially awkward. Not only are you not socializing when you do it; socializing is actually discouraged. Nobody wants to sit in a theater and listen to people discussing the action on the screen.

I'd say that I prefer watching by myself.