Your Best NYC Movies

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g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,252
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Continuing my fascination with NYC (not really, just kidding) I once lived in Brooklyn and it was great fun so what's your favorite Movies made or about NYC?

Here's Mine...

1. The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3

2. A Bronx Tale

3. The Godfather I and II

4. Analyze This

5. Midnight Run

6. Saturday Night Fever

7. Shaft

8. 3 Days of the Condor

9. Taxi Driver

10. Escape From New York

11. Wall Street

12. West Side Story

All right give yours, please? :)

Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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  • Allie
    Allie Posts: 2,908
    good list
    I don't know if I have favorites but what comes to mind, Bronx Tale for sure,
    Do the Right Thing and Crooklyn
    actually I'm going to have to put the Sex and the City movie on the list after seeing it

    wait let me think about this and come back

    good question....

    edit: (with help from Wikipedia!)
    Big (is that the moview where Tom Hanks is in FAO Schwarz tap dancing on the keyboard?)
    Splash
    Desperately Seeking Susan
    OMG, Kids. Kids is sick.

    Serendipity! Oh what a great movie. Super sappy and romantic but I loved it...

    The Devil Wears Prada is a good movie, too.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Sexxx and the City
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    I really like In America


    And I was surprised by how much I enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    taxi driver
    a bronx tale
    ghostbusters
    i am legend
    die hard w/ a vengeance
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    g under p wrote:
    5. Midnight Run

    huh? :confused:

    the movie spent all of 2 scenes in ny and started in la and is a road picture about getting back to la....:)
  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    cutback wrote:
    huh? :confused:

    the movie spent all of 2 scenes in ny and started in la and is a road picture about getting back to la....:)
    like that freakin movie The Strangers. The whole damn thing takes place in the house and the front and back yard!!! :mad:
    ~~~~~~ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME~~~~~~
    Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
    EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!

    "Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95

    It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    10. Escape From New York


    Classic!!!
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,252
    cutback wrote:
    huh? :confused:

    the movie spent all of 2 scenes in ny and started in la and is a road picture about getting back to la....:)

    Yes I know but it was Deniro and I flat out love the movie as it was and so I put it in there.

    Besides I wanted to see if anybody was going to make any beef about that. Good job.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    g under p wrote:
    Yes I know but it was Deniro and I flat out love the movie as it was and so I put it in there.

    Besides I wanted to see if anybody was going to make any beef about that. Good job.

    Peace


    hehehe....yea i couldn't help myself....call me a movie geek :D


    and it is one of my favorite movies....in fact it was on last night!! :D
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    I always liked 25th Hour a lot.
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  • Lukin2Not4You
    Lukin2Not4You Posts: 94
    some not mentioned

    Gangs of New York
    New York Story
    Annie Hall
    100 Cigarettes
    Midnight Cowboy
    King Kong
    The Naked City
    On the Waterfront
    The Manchurian Candidate
    The Godfather
    The Warriors
    Ghostbusters
    The Professional
    The Usual Suspects
    The Terminal


    and I actually liked Cloverfield, but my favorite has to be Predator 2
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    Lukin2Not4You wrote:
    some not mentioned

    Gangs of New York
    New York Story
    Annie Hall
    100 Cigarettes
    Midnight Cowboy
    King Kong
    The Naked City
    On the Waterfront
    The Manchurian Candidate
    The Godfather
    The Warriors
    Ghostbusters
    The Professional
    The Usual Suspects
    The Terminal


    and I actually liked Cloverfield, but my favorite has to be Predator 2

    I'd say 'On the Waterfront' for sure, but it's more of a Jersey movie..on the docks of Hoboken etc..

    So I'll go with 'Gangs of New York.'

    Also, 'Frankie and Johnny' makes me think of New York City, and I'm not even sure if it took place here..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • sarah ve
    sarah ve Posts: 43
    Breakfast at Tiffany's, and there is one other old movie I can't for the life of me remember the name it was written by neil simon and had jack lemmon in it and he and his wife were staying at the waldorf astoria. It was really silly and cute.
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    gangs of new york,,because im from the 5 points

    and donnie brasco because lefty lived in my building (well i lived in his building)

    (p.s. he dressed nothing like they made it seem in the movie)
  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    10. Escape From New York


    Classic!!!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfotQ1YQrvk
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  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    The best isn't mentioned yet?
    Manhattan by Woody Allen!
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Lukin2Not4You wrote:
    some not mentioned

    The Warriors

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u05Qot_yh9c&feature=related
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    smithnic wrote:
    The best isn't mentioned yet?
    Manhattan by Woody Allen!

    That guy can go fuck himself..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    The Champ wrote:
    That guy can go fuck himself..

    don't you mean his kids?
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,252
    Lukin2Not4You wrote:
    some not mentioned

    Gangs of New York
    New York Story
    Annie Hall
    100 Cigarettes
    Midnight Cowboy
    King Kong
    The Naked City
    On the Waterfront
    The Manchurian Candidate
    The Godfather
    The Warriors
    Ghostbusters
    The Professional
    The Usual Suspects
    The Terminal


    and I actually liked Cloverfield, but my favorite has to be Predator 2

    While I was making my list I knew I was leaving out a classic *The Professinal* Man, what a swing and a MISS!

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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