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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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The Brain

I'd prefer a good Kleist movie.
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Duque de Bragança

Quote from: celedhring on June 16, 2020, 03:08:11 PM
My Top 10. Ordered by "I would watch this over and over" criteria:

1- Mission Impossible
2- The Sting
3- Inception
4- Ronin
5- The Italian Job (the 1960s original, the remake is fun though)
6- Inside Man
7- The Bank Job
8- Rififi
9- Snatch or Lock&Stock, which are essentially the same movie  :lol:
10- Heat

Then there's stuff like The Town and Hell or High Water, which are serious dramas with big heists in them. They're quite good (Hell or High Water is a masterpiece, imho), but don't quite belong to the "heist movie" genre.

I haven't watched Logan Lucky, which looks to be even sillier and funnier than the Ocean films (which I enjoy despite not making the list). I refuse to watch any of the Fast & Furious movies.

List is missing le Cercle Rouge, though the movie is more than a heist movie.  :P

Valmy

Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2020, 03:40:43 PM
I'd prefer a good Kleist movie.

The part where Frederick the Great runs away and then the Prussians win was a fun twist.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Brain

Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2020, 03:43:11 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2020, 03:40:43 PM
I'd prefer a good Kleist movie.

The part where Frederick the Great runs away and then the Prussians win was a fun twist.

Frederick was such a fun guy. :)
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celedhring

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 16, 2020, 03:38:23 PM
The Sting at #2??  :mad:

Should be #1 maybe? That movie's deliriously fun. :D

The Brain

Where's Del by the way?
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Syt

Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2020, 03:40:43 PM
I'd prefer a good Kleist movie.

There are some based on 18th century writer Heinrich von Kleist's works. :)
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The Brain

Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 03:51:56 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2020, 03:40:43 PM
I'd prefer a good Kleist movie.

There are some based on 18th century writer Heinrich von Kleist's works. :)

BOOOORING
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: celedhring on June 16, 2020, 03:50:18 PM
Should be #1 maybe? That movie's deliriously fun. :D

It's a perfect movie.  And the heistiest a movie can be.

The Larch


The Minsky Moment

Does Dog Day Afternoon count as a heist movie?
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KRonn

Quote from: Sheilbh on June 16, 2020, 02:36:12 PM
If you like a heist movie - watch Widows.

I saw that one, a pretty good movie. I enjoyed it.

Malthus

Criterion is coming out with a new restoration of *Come and See*, which I am considering getting.

https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see
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Valmy

Now that is a movie you never watch twice  :ph34r:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Syt

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 16, 2020, 07:26:10 PM
Does Dog Day Afternoon count as a heist movie?

If it is then so is Killing Zoe.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.