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Sarah Barratt's avatar

It is very hard for me to rank films, and I suspect that I will have forgotten the names of several I would want to nominate. Anyway, here goes: 'Bringing Up Baby'; 'The Big Sleep'; 'Some Like it Hot'; 'Spirited Away'; 'The Commitments'. Thank you for all your updates and I am looking forward to the results of your survey.

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Sarah Barratt's avatar

I have just remembered a film I wanted to include - 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' ( 'Ignatz Ratskywatsky' must be my favourite name of all time!) You can knock off the last one of the above list and substitute this.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks for your nominations, Sarah😁

And thanks for your support throughout the year

Dusty

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Jeremy Wickins's avatar

Hi, Dusty! Great update as ever,and I have nothing sensible to add. However, my five favourite films would include:

The Fifth Element

Fury

Singin' in the Rain

A Song is Born

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Make of that what you will! 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks for the nominations, Jeremy.

'A Song Is Born'!! A new one on me! Interesting!!!

Dusty

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Petal's avatar

I’m not great on fillums dusty , I prefer to read

But can I suggest diehard - yippee kayee motherfuckers

I’m turning over a new leaf for 2025 and I’m going to shut my pus ……

Bets are closed already 😂

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks for the nomination of a film , Petal.

I think we definitely want you NOT to shut your pus😄

Find a different new year resolution!!😃

Dusty

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Is that Die Hard 1, Petal?

Dusty

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Petal's avatar

I think so ,whichever one he says yippee kayee motherfuckers

Failing that one making the grade I like Elf 😂

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

I think he said that in more than one of them, Petal😃

I'm going with Die Hard 1 - I think that's the best one😁

Dusty

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Petal's avatar

That’s probably the only one I’ve ever watched !

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

I'm afraid that that only has one vote at the moment unless there are some late voters coming in. Anyway there are so many good films nominated plus some I have never heard of that I am going to feature them in turn during 2025 so, at some stage, this substack will feature Die Hard 1😃

I was disappointed that nobody nominated PulpFiction - Bruce Willis is great in that as well! Here's a clip for you

https://www.google.com/search?q=clip+of+bruce+willis+in+pulp+fiction&oq=clip+of+bruce+willis+in+pulp+fiction&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRifBTIHCAMQIRifBTIHCAQQIRifBTIHCAUQIRifBTIHCAYQIRifBTIHCAcQIRifBTIHCAgQIRifBTIHCAkQIRifBdIBCTExNTM3ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:b89db65b,vid:PnggTh7EHro,st:0

Dusty

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Tenaciously Terfin's avatar

I agree with Dusty Petal 😁 My resolution is to not make resolutions.

Thanks as ever Dusty. Great look back at your top pieces. You could almost rerun them all from the beginning; there’s so much good stuff and it might be interesting to see whether we really have made progress.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

You're welcome, TT.

Hmm interesting idea. I may do the occasional re-post ( or perhaps part of a previous post) so that readers can look back on what was happening then and, as you say, assess whether we have progressed from there.

Dusty

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