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Hey guys. i'm always looking for a good film to watch and sometimes a movie i never heard of is recomended. so what are your 10 favorite films?

mine are..(in no particular order)

1. Blade runner - dir - Ridley Scott. 1982(not the directors cut/original is hard to get ahold of)
the scifi movie that everyone has tried to top and failed until Matrix.

2. live flesh - dir - Almodovar
great director who includes you in the story and characters faster than most.
his earlier films may be a little too dramatic for my taste.

3. shawshank redemption - dir - Frank Darabont
not much to say. great film, actors, director, script.

4. lawrence of arabia - dir David Lean. 1962
shot on 70mm with unbelievable photography. one of those films i watch every
couple of years. a masterpiece in filmmaking.

5. day of the jackal - Fred Zinneman. 1973
Might be a bit slow for some, but the way that this film is told and filmed is great.

6. Gattaca - dir - Andrew Niccol. 1992
for some reason this film always comes to mind. its got a great mood and amasing
art direction. and ofc photography. a bit slow, but worth every minute.

7. one flew over the cuckoo's nest - dir - Milos Forman. 1975
amazing movie. No wonder jack turned into who he is today.

8. platoon - dir - Oliver Stone. 1986
another one of those movies i pick up every coupe of years. just a great movie

9. being there - dir - Hal Ashby. 1979
unbelievably great movie. Peter Sellers last movie before he died. a must see

10. gladiator - dir - Ridley Scott. 2000
for some reason, i can see this movie any time.

shit i should have done a top 50! :)

looking forward to what ya'll have up your sleeves

proud to be z][t-Rampage

1.) War Games starring Broderick with 19 - 20 years. Made 1982/83!???

2.) D-Day, black and white war movie made in the 60ies!? 3 hours long.

3.) Komm süßer Tod starring Josef Hader. Austria 2000!?

4.) Raus aus Amal(Escape from Amal!?), Denmark

5.) Forest Gump ;-)

6.) Billy Elliot - I wanna dance

7.) Mord in der Mittersommernacht, Denmark 2001!?

8.) Tödliche Falle, 1998, Clemens Mautner Markhof (my first movie)

9.) Twelce Monkeys with Bruce Willis

10.) Battle Royal 1, Japanese with english subtitles

Sorry for the uncomplete info, but I'm too lazy to look for it. However I'm sure there are many movies you have never heard about.

Bye,

Mauti

1. Orange County (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273923/)

2. Welcome to Collinwood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271259/)

3. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339291/)

4. Smala Sussie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323998/)

5. Any M. Night Shyamalan movie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796117/) (Well most of them)

6. Memento (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/)

7. Snatch (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208092/)

8. Four rooms (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113101/)

9. Framom Främsta Linjen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377935/)

10. Dodgeball (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364725/)

It's hard to rank how much you like a movie and which ones you like more, those on my list are from recent memory, and would probably change if I really sat down and thought about it. But yea ramp, would be nice to find new movies through someones recommendation. So if someone has a similar taste to the above mentioned, feel free to share :)

1. The longest Day(mautis D-day movie), Brilliant
2. Being John Malkowitch
3. The Great Escape
4. Yellowbeard, By Terry Cooke and Graham Chapman(if you don't know who these two are, go away)
5. This is Spinal Tap
6. Ran by Akira Kurosawa
7. The seven samurais by Akira Kurosawa
8. Gettysburgh, Another long war epic(4 hours)
9. Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail. NI!!!
10. Life of Brian

"Usual Suspects", "Saving Private Ryan" and "Goonies" would be in my top 10 list.

I have no problem making top ten movies lists for each year, but ever...that is a tricky proposition.

American Beauty is my favorite movie ever, after that these in no particular order are some of my favorites.
12 Angry Men (classic jury deliberation movie with Henry Fonda)
Bend It Like Beckham
Donnie Darko
Fucking Amal (Show Me Love is English title)-it is a very interesting Swedish lesbian film
Garden State
High Strung (one of the funniest comedies ever)
Saved! (satire of conservative religion)
Chasing Amy and Dogma
Aladdin and The Lion King
The Matrix (original, not sequels, though Animatrix is good tooo)
Ran and Kurosawa's Dreams
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Waking Life (interesting live action animated over, all about discussing philosophy and such)

God, there are so many other great movies, I guess I'll restrict myself to these 16 or so.

Fucking Amal is the movie I meant with "Raus aus Amal" and after a short check it's made in sweden and denmark.

Oceans 11 (all the James Bond movies)  and the original star wars movies would all be in my top list,  and spaceballs (god I love that movie)  Last but not least, I think all of mod would agree on Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Id be including some and including:

El Postino, Rain Dogs, Usual Suspects, Crouching Tiger hidden Dragon, The seven samurai (original),  O Brother where Art Thou, Delicatessen, Shooting the Past, Stalker,  ... and crap i can't think of any others of the top of my head

1.) Band of Brothers.

2.) Saving Private Ryan

3.) The Dirty Dozen

4.) Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail

5.) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad world.

6.) Goldeneye

7.) Clear and Present Danger

8.) Twins

9.) Full Metal Jacket

10.) The Great Escape

Top 10, in no particular order:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Moulin Rouge!
Collateral
The Lion King
Garden State
Requiem for a Dream
Big Fish
The Incredibles

" tastes and colors cant be discussed" as we say in french.

1 Once upon a time in America
2 Scarface (...say hello to my little friend   ::uzi::)

3 Full Metal Jacket

4 City of the lost children (la sité des enfants perdues)

5 Le Dobberman (excellent french action flick)

6 The shining

7 Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (no-one beats the doctor)

8 A bridge to far

9 La Haine (jusqu'ici tout va bien)

10 C'est arrivé prés de chez vous (man bites dog)

I could name a few more but hey ... it's a top ten

1. Fight Club - Wow... wow... wow... wow... wow... wow... wow...
2. The Matrix - Self-explanatory
3. The Boondock Saints - See my signature. For anyone that has not seen this movie... get it today. You will be amazed. I promise.
4. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino is a god among men.
5. Saving Private Ryan - The single greatest war movie ever created.
6. The Usual Suspects - This movie is in the running with Fight Club for best ending.
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Excellent choice, Rampage. This is one of my favorites, too.
8. Analyze This - One of the best comedies ever. "You broke my heart, Jelly. You broke my heart."
9. Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal trilogy - Very impressive.
10. Forrest Gump - This movie changed my outlook on life when I first saw it... and I was only 7 years old.



Honorable Mentions: Apollo 13, Reservoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket, Star Wars, E.T., Schindler's List, To Kill a Mockingbird, Goldeneye, The Rock.


As with everyone else, I could go on for hours.

Can't realy list a top ten, will just give some of my favorite movies. (keep in mind that I haven't seen alot of movies.

Casablanca
Battle Royale
Resevoir Dogs
Donnie Brasco
Kill Bill (1+2)
Fargo
Holy Grail
Full Metal Jacket
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
The Shining
The 7 Samurai
... the list goes on

and Grease is hilarious :D

- The Green Mile
- Lord of the rings trilogy
- the matrix n° 1
- Saving Private Ryan
- Vidocq
- The silence of the lambs
- se7en
- the Dreamcatcher
- American History X
- K-pax

hmm yummie....

1. The Matrix
2. Zatoichi
3. The Graduate
4. The Audition
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. Blow up
7. Seven Samurai
8. Kill Bill 1/2 (little cheat)
9. Fight Club
10. life of Brain

shit lost alot of fine movies on the road...

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. Band of Brothers
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Interview With The Vampire
5. This Is Spinal Tap
6. Beetlejuice
7. Jaws
8. Wyatt Earp (not sure why, just always loved that movie)
9. Ghettysburg
10. Every semi-crappy, black and white WW2 movie ever made.

Alright I did a little search on the great Austrian movie Komm süßer Tod and found it here!!! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271029/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTUwMHx0dD1vbnxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1Db21lIFN3ZWV0IERlYXRofGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=20
)

The international title is "Come Sweet Death". If you have ever the chance to see it, do so. It's great fun and if you understand german get the original version. Austria as we live, hehe.

Night,

Mauti

I have so many but i'll do action, thriller, and war movies.

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Band of Brothers
6. Golden Eye (the best one)
7. Snatch
8. Scar-face
9. Godfather
10. Saw

Heh... scary isn't it, Ghostsniper.

1.  Legend of the Fall
2.  A River Runs Through It
3.  Braveheart
4.  Saving Private Ryan
5.  Meet the Parents
6.  Gladiator
7.  Remember the Titans
8.  Finding Forrester
9.  The Alamo
10. Gods and Generals

I forgot about Taxi Driver and Fight Club. ahh. Love those movies.

my mother wouldnt let me see that when it came out, stupid bitch, I was also 7

15 Minutes
A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
This Is Spinal Tap
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou

have a foggy brain right now, that's all i can think of, besides countless music dvds. i know most of you are going to hate me for this, but i'll say it anyway: Kill Bill did not impress...at all. actually, it was a full blown let down after i'd heard all the preaching and the hype.

I LOVE Il Postino.  Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it  :'(

And yes, Dark was right when he said that all :MoD: loves Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Icky icky icky ptang zoo!

1. Happy Gilmore
2. Office Space
3. Commando
4. Predator
5. Assault on Precint 13 (new not old)
6. Red Dawn (hooah GS)
7. Happy Gilmore
8. Billy Madison
9. Alien 1
10. My video of myself pitching that was sent to colleges around FL

is this the top 10 films ever made, top 10 movies you've ever seen?

why arn't people mentioning films like North by Northwest, or the Birds, films like Cinema paradiso , the godfather, Citizen Kane, Apocalypse Now, Rear window, All quiet on the Western Front, dances with wolves one flew over the cuckoo's nest, Das Boot, Se7en, Leon blade runner, duck soup, three colors red, brazil twelve monkeys   or more modern films like big fish and lost in translation.

and why the hell are films such as Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Jackie Brown (jacky brown is one of the worst films ive sat through in a long long time)  being listed? not meaning to start a war here (actually maybe i am) but they couldn't stand in the same queue as some of the quality of other films that have been mentioned. tlak about a divide of class when you compare  lets say Saving Private Ryan (since several folk mentioned it) with a film like dances with wolves or Apocalypse now, or citizen kane. There is no comparison, there is no competition at all!!

Actually, I mentioned All Quiet On The Western Front, and If I was sonber at the time, or right now, I woulda have mentioend Das Boot and the Godfather. Also liked Dances WIth Wolves. It's very hgard to remember good movies, cuz all the really good ones pop into your head later on after you've posted.

very true mellow very true, i missed those :)   ... but snipe i gotta ask... forrest gump??

Actually, I did list Apocalypse Now as one of my 10.  If there is one thing I know, it's if a war movie is good or not.  I listed Red Dawn, too.[/size]  ;D

I forgot about Dances with Wolves, yes thats a great movie BFG.

dances with wolves : if i had a top 10 worst movie list, it would be on my number one spot....
jeezus, corny, bad cameo, bad acting, (kevind costner is playing like the tin man), bad casting, plot is ridiculus etc....

Citizen Cane should be number 1 on everyone top ten list, u right on that. :)

And Blade runner is soooo good, i mean it has been the inspiration of every modern Science fiction film, the decors are sublime !

Jackie brown, the intro alone, must be one of the longest shots i know in a movie , (besides massive attack music clip) ever in a movie, !

Saving private ryan does deserves his place i think, but only for it's music and sound work, the story ain't worth much i think :)

Anway, to many good movies jump in my mind now who should be mentioned 2 =)

We'll have to agree to disagree with Dances with wolves ;)


Go and watch "Stalker" By Andri Tarkovsky  -- there is a single shot that is aprox 17 minutes long i think.

OOOPS - Or you could go and watch "Russian Ark" (and amazing film) the entire film is taken in a single shot - if not for the story etc just watch it to marvel at how they managed to do such a complex and vast film in one single take!

lol BFG :)

no, the purpose of the top ten list was to see what peoples favorites where and to see if there are any new movies that i or other havent seen. so it comes down to personal taste. i think that a thread on the greatest movies ever made would become a heated debate, being that peoples tastes are different from oneanother. but man! are there alot of movies i gotta rent after the lists that have been posted here.

*runs to the video store

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damnit! you posted while i was posting. another cool thing too -  is that there is a variety of ages that visit these forums. its always fun to recomend a movie that a generation might not have seen. but it seems that most people here are movie buffs

*whispers - dr shivago

Awh i was looking forward to battling my way through the debate whether to put Saving Private ryan in the top 10 (or 100) films ever made ;)

** runs to go and get Dr. Shivago from the shop


oh oh oh how could i forget " Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead" - probaby not to everyones tastes but the little assides with the invention of the burger, the discovery of gravity etc were rib crackers :)

in no order really

1, Hunt for the Red October

2, Last of the Mohicans

3, Matrix 1,2,3

6, Snatch

7, Great Escape

8, Braveheart

9, Finding Nemo

10, Monsters Inc

9 and 10 just because i love watching them with my daughter  :)

Theres probably a few others that i like watching, but you could go on and on.

Onwig tell me you love the little Pixar short before Monstors inc called "the birds"  ... u know the one with the lil birds on the telephone wire and the big bird and the feathers... jeeze its one of the best bits of CGI, let alone one of the best shorts ive ever seen... plus i laughed my head off more during that short than the entire film heh

Oh, now for the top 10 that I watch with my daughter:

1.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (great old movie with Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes)

2.  Mary Poppins

3.  The Sound of Music

4.  Finding Nemo

5.  Aladdin

6.  Monsters, Inc

7.  Toy Story 1 & 2

8.  A Bug's Life

9.  Ice Age (cute animated movie about animals set in the Ice Age)

10.  Any of the Herbie The Love Bug movies (you know, the cute little VW Bug with a heart)

Also, although not really movies, we bought the first season of the TV show KnightRider on DVD and my 5-year-old daughter can't get enough of it.  And since I loved it as a kid, I don't mind watching it with her.  KITT is awesome!  Maybe I just have a thing for cars with a soul...my daughter says David Hasselhoff is handsome...lol.[/size]

LOL

man, the day she grows old enough and you tell her that she thought Hasselhoff was a hottie lol(get a puke bag)

but on the other hand. how can a whole country be wrong(germany!) Hey Civic? didn't you go to all his concerts?

I probably could have fit that into my top ten... good call Maniac

Yes good call maniac ;)

Oh crap we forgot The Italian Job !!   (no not the american remake, your only meant to blow the bloody doors off!)

Well, you all have to see more Austrian movies... there are some quite good ones.

E.g. Komm Süßer Tod (Come Sweet Death) (http://imdb.com/title/tt0271029/), Silentium (http://imdb.com/title/tt0386038/) (well, seems there is no english dub at the moment).

One very nice german movie was Goodbye Lenin (http://imdb.com/title/tt0301357/).

Another one I can recommend is the swedish movie Kopps (http://imdb.com/title/tt0339230/), which had me laughing for hours.

A few weeks ago, I also saw the original War of the Worlds (http://imdb.com/title/tt0046534/) from 1953, whose special effects left me speechless.


Strange... I can't think of any recent movie which has captured my attention for long...

Hehe its quite somthing isn't it ;) Especially when you look at those effects and then see just how they have developed when u look at the matrix or LotR.  Can't say i was captivated by the film though!

Braveheart <3
half baked
butterfly effect
slc punk
basketball diaries
fast times at ridgemont high
dazed and confused
Terminator 2
TMNT Secret of the Ooze
Mighty Ducks
Cool Runnings


some of my alltime favorites lol  ::applause::

godfather I & II
Rudy
Saving Private Ryan
Pay it Forward
Good Will Hunting
Heat
Black Hawk Down
Training Day
Groundhog Day
Rocky IV

Well there are a lot of great movies:

Movies I have seen very often - Terminator 2(a true classic), The Rock(excellent action), Black Hawk Down(reminded me on my army time and the urban warfare training village Quantiz we had to conquer a few times).

Another movie I have seen more than dozen times is Eiskalte Engel(Cruel Intentions) - I still love this movie.

And also every older James Bond title is just very entertaining.

bye,

Mauti

If you liked that one you would love Smala Sussie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323998/)  :D

OH MY GOD NOMAD, ROCKY IV IS THE WORST!!!
it's such a blatant money maker, they tried to squeeze in anything that'd attract an audience:

robots=money   in the beginning, right off the bat, rocky has a fucking robot in his house that starts talking to people and serving them, trying to rip off johnny 5 or some shit. god the 80s really ruined films for a while.

american beating russian=money
picking on the fat guy=money

man, i just saw this a few days ago and i have already put most of it out of my mind, but still, the robot part right in the beginning was enough.

also, with practically every fight sequence in the rocky films, the sound effects are just too rediculous, they have little explosions every time someone gets hit. and in real boxing, if you can hit anyone that clean just once in a fight, you probably win right there 9/10 times. don't they know how to put their fists up? they abandon defense totally. GOD.

and i might add that any movie with a number over 2 in its title ought to be crappy.

So Lord of The Rings sucks?

well lord of the rings two towers isn't a sequel, it's part of a whole.

Ult, I didnt realize you were a stoner...Dazed and Confused is a great modern classic.

1. Apocalypse Now

2. Red Dawn

3. Godfather (all)

4. Tommy Boy

5. Indiana Jones (all)

6. City of God

7. Meet the Parents

8. Taxi Driver

9. Scarface

10. The Secret of NIHM

looks like i have to pick up a copy of red dawn. havent seen that movie for ever

hot stuff from Iceland: 101 Reykjavik (http://imdb.com/title/tt0237993/)

haha nice plot line "Plot Summary: A 30 year old man still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net..."

Movies that I can pass time with:

Le Femme Nikita (The French version)
Casino (Can't believe no one has mentioned this)
Goodfellas
Godfather I & II (GF III sucks)
L.A. Confidential (Can't believe no one has mentioned this either)
Usual Suspects
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
Bourne Identity

As you can tell, I think highly of organized crime movies. Also, Band of Brothers was a HBO miniseries, not a movie.

1. The Great Escape
2. The last of the mohicans
3. Gangs Of NY
4. Seven
5. American Beauty
6. Usual Suspect
7. Forrest Gump

i'll have to think about the last 3.

In no particular order and Im only thinking of 10 here Probly others better than these but I cant think of them (remember this is all my opinion)

1 Forest Gum
2 Blazing Saddles
3 The Three Amigos
4 Star Wars Trilogy
5 James Bond (all)
6 Tommy Boy
7 12 Angry Men (12 right?)
8 The Bourne Movies
9 Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
10 (Gotta throw this one in there to spark discussion) Napoleon Dynamite
11 (sorry) Spies Like Us

wow la femme nikita, totally forgot that movie. early luc besson film. gotta have that in my dvd collection. forrest gump is chokolating his way in there too.

if you guys like bourne identity films, althought much slower - check out day of the jackal :)

Jesus christ you guys have shitty taste.

1) The Graduate - Micheal Nichols(sp?) (1967)
2) The Bicycle Theif - Vittorio De Sica (1948)
3) Dr Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb - Stanley Kubrick (1964)
4) 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957)
5) Apocalypse Now (none of that redux bullshit)- Francis Ford Coppolla (1979)
6) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill (1969)
7) Casablanca - Micheal Curitz (1942)
8 ) Resevoir Dogs - Quentin Tarintino (1992)
9) Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick (1987)
10) The Star Wars Trilogy  (none of that prequal bullshit)- George Lucas (1977)

Honorable Mentions: A Clockwork Orange, Terminator 2, Ghost in the Shell

I cant believe no one mentioned the graduate or doctor strangelove. 
And by the way the Lord of the Rings trilogy sucked.  It's was cheesy, predictable (even people i knew who didnt read the books knew that gandalf was comming back), the acting sucked, and the ending was the most long winded pretentious piece of crap I've ever seen .  All the movie had going for it was the kick ass action (which was thoroughly kick ass mind you) and a pretty cool story.

Great film :)

Lo$emoney.... Clockwork orange yes, Bicycle thief yes, graduate yesish, star wars trilogy no, resevoir dogs no, Dr. Stangelove, hell yes!


Lord of the Rings, well yes i agree that the ending blew bubbles out my ass, talk about pretentious and long winded... but to say it was all cheesy, predictable and sucky acting i can't agree with.

Fair enough BFG,maybe i shouldve have said that the LOTR doesnt belong in the top 10.  I mean it was entertaining but thats about it.  And I forgot to add the Blues Brothers in the honorable mention, when i was a little kid i could watch that movie all day, and probably still can.

In no particular order...

Empire Strikes Back
American Beauty
City of God
Brazil
Mulholland Drive
The Shawshank Redemption
Taxi Driver
Sixteen Candles
North by Northwest
Citizen Kane

The Third Man, The Princess Bride, and 28 Days Later receive honorable mentions.

and i LOVE wes anderson movies.

Pretty sure I mentioned Dr. Strangelove. I had to of! If not, I apologize. (edit: I didn't. God I hate myself) OMG and The Blues Brothers! Yes! That movie corrupted me when I was like 3 years old. lol. Probably watched it 100 times before I was like 10. haha.

Your women! I want to buy your women! ...The little girl...your daughters. Sell them to me...SELL ME YOUR CHILDRENS!

God I love that movie.

Yes definatly not a top 10 films ever made candidate, hell not even a top 10 films ive ever seen candidate.
We're getting into the "best ever  made" or "best ive seen in my opinion" mode again...

I play bass guitar for a band and theres no way better to perform then to be blazed.  ::applause::

Ultiho, I didn't know you were a bassist! Rock on, my friend. Lots of bass players on the *DAMN forum. Most of them are in *NADS I think! Therefore, you should join *NADS...yes.

oh sqwerd oh sqwerd. we need a *nads jam band. ulti lives near me too. i will get it together to chill one day soon.

Hmm...if we all had GarageBand we could pass around a file and like. create sexy *NADS music.

lay down some bass and a beat and then i'll see if i can record a guitar track. you pick the genre, i'll try not to suck.

I have yet to figure out why people love Citizen Kane so much.

I watched it in a Film Analysis class this year... and I had to fight to stay awake. What an absolutely horrendous movie.

Also: One I completely forgot about when I made my top 10 list: True Lies. That'd be way up there near the top. Awesome movie... and with Ahhhnold!

... The third Man. That without question is a freaking awesome film for the cinematography alone.

Coach Carter would make my top 20

You've probably only seen 20 films if coach carter is among the top.

Bronto, its a difference of opinion, I had to stop myself flaming here.  But Bronto you went to see coach carter high, and how many times have you played basketball for your school?  Ive played for 2 years.  Anyway  its a difference of opinion and you have already expressed your feelings about coach carter in "what movies have you seen recently?" so why keep bringing it up?  This topic is 10 best: so my adding coach carter to my top 20 isnt off topic but you bashing it is.

one time i saw coach carter jerking off a cheetah