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What’s the greatest American film of all time? Can’t decide? Well then, what’s your favorite movie? Do you love the classics, or ignore anything before 1980? Comedies, courtroom dramas, casts of thousands – we have them all at Great American Things.
Goodfellas
Why, you might ask, has it taken me so long to include this obviously well-made movie among the list of Great American Films? Because...
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Sunset Boulevard
The great actors always make it look so effortless. Maybe that’s why William Holden has never quite received the level of respect his...
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Amadeus
You wouldn’t think the rivalry between two 19th century composers would make a movie of interest to anyone, save some highbrow...
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King Kong
Construction of the Empire State Building had only recently been completed when Hollywood realized how to romanticize it —...
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Finding Nemo
Pixar has never made a bad movie. (Brave and Ratatouille are forgettable, but not bad.) And when the studio is on top of its game, no...
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Back to the Future
Rev up your DeLorean time machine, take it up to exactly 88 miles per hour, kick in the 1.21 gigawatts of plutonium power, and let’s...
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Sure, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is something of a period piece now. Yes, we watch and shake our heads at how things used to be....
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The Princess Bride
It’s a comedy. It’s a romance. It’s an adventure. It’s a fantasy. It’s a rocomadfa. No…a comrofanad....
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The wonky title refers to a scale of alien contact developed by ufologist (wrote the bloggerologist) J. Allen Hynek. The book, published a...
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