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Trying to get some ideas for great movies that I may have overlooked. What are five movies that are among your favorites?

For me:
-The Mission (The one with Robert De Niro. I think there is more than one movie named The Mission.)
-American Beauty
-Contact
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Gladiator

-Bonus: The Wizard of OZ (I really liked it when I was a kid, but don't know if I could sit thru the whole thing now. :D )
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Chinatown
Goodfellas
As Good as it Gets
Get Shorty
Bull Durham
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Glad to see 'Contact' getting some love. I think it's highly underrated. My top 5 are...

1. Vanilla Sky
2. Carlito's Way
3. Rogue One
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley
5. Se7en
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Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
GoodFellas
Godfather I and II
Forest Gump

I also have to add Amadeus. Sorry that's 7 movies.

Waking Ned Devine - this was a great movie and easy to overlook.
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Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Halloween (1978)
The Color Purple (1985)
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Brazil (1985)
Children of Men (2006)
The Fall (2006)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Game Night (2018)
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My top 5 underappreciated films:

1) Pacific Rim
2) The Descent
3) Pan's Labyrinth
4) Equilibrium
5) I also like the one where Liam Neeson fights a bunch of wolves
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Top 5

Rushmore (1998)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Oldboy (2003)
Amores Perros (2000)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Honorable mentions
The Lives of Others (2006)
Amelie (2001)
Ikiru (1952)
Vertigo (1958)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Adaptation
Ex Machina
No Country For Old Men
Superbad
The Election
Bottle Rocket
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The Prestige
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Truman Show
The Fisher King
12 Monkeys
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Hero (2002)
The English Patient (1996)
Death on the Nile (1978)
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The first four are perennial favorites...the fifth changes on whim.

The Holiday
Begin Again
The Pleasure Of His Company
Love Actually (make sure you turn on subtitles to catch all the dialogue )
Some Like It Hot
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I have my list, but reading other people's list makes me question myself :-).

I love "The Fifth Element". Just gonzo and weird and silly and committed.
I love "The Incredibles". When they started working their powers together I was just giggling.
I loved "Blade Runner" from the first time I saw it in the 80's, and "Blade Runner 2049" is a worthy follow-up.
I really enjoy superhero movies in general, but they're mostly popcorn movies. "Logan" was just full of wow for me.
And I have a soft spot for "2001: A Space Odyssey". It stands up pretty well, still, but when you realize it was released BEFORE the moon landing, it's just amazing. One weekend we picked out a couple movies from that era, and I recall that we got partway through "Andromeda Strain" and decided we couldn't watch any more, it was just so ponderous. "2001" was ahead of its time.

OK. And Wall-E. Pixar is generally good, but for that one I remember sitting in the theatre like 15 minutes thinking "Are they really doing this? How are they even doing this?"

"The Iron Giant" is just perfect, too. I don't know if it's great or not, but it captures a certain Rockwellian moment in a snowglobe and lets you admire it. It somehow manages to be of a historical moment while also nodding to more-modern times while not pandering about it, and IMHO it's just a neat threading of the needle.

EDIT: And "12 Monkeys"! I mean the movie. Terry Gilliam is amazing, if you can handle it.

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IMHO, it can also be worthwhile to do arcs with thematic relations. Like "Seven Samurais", "The Magnificent Seven", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Kill Bill", and "A Bug's Life" might work nicely. Or, of course, Shakespearean movies (there are so many King Lear or Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet variants). There are movie tropes so deep that sometimes directors don't even know they're remaking them, and it is sometimes interesting to get to where you can see what's going on. [Sometimes it just ruins the enjoyment of the movie, though, when it's a poorly-done retread but perfectly adequate eye candy.]
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Eraserhead
El Mariachi
The Evil Dead
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Spaceballs
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Post 1978:

Apocalypse Now
The Lives of Others
Shoplifters
Coco
Tootsie

Pre-1978:

Casablanca
Singin' in the Rain
Modern Times
Sullivan's Travels
Children of Paradise
Pather Panchali
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anonenigma wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:41 am Post 1978:

Apocalypse Now
The Lives of Others
Shoplifters
Coco
Tootsie

Pre-1978:

Casablanca
Modern Times
Sullivan's Travels
Children of Paradise
Pather Panchali
I’m going to copy your year cutoff!

Pre-1978:
Seven Samurai (1954)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Wake in Fright (1971)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

1978 and later:
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Das Boot (1981)
Schindler's List (1993)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Waking Life (2001)
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When ranking like this, it is difficult for me to pick clear criteria and stick to them. Next time someone asks, I will have changed my mind.

1) The Princess Bride - An incredible mix of story-telling, wit, class, and charm
2) Casablanca - Wit, class, intrigue, and regrets overcome.
3) Lawrence of Arabia - It is pretty much the epitome of the epic genre.
4) All Quiet on the Western Front - I think this film deserves more attention than it gets. It does a compelling job of telling a story with a difficult message that isn't the one we like to hear, and it did that in 1930, at a time when Steamboat Willie was cutting edge.
5) Jurassic Park - It brought things to life in a way nothing prior to it had come close to.


1, 2, and 5 primarily have deep personal appeal to me, and have maintained it consistently for years. 3 and 4 stand out to me as exemplary from across the history of film making.
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With so many good TV series these days (The Americans, Bosch, The Crown, etc.), with substantial character development, I tend to prefer them for drama.

But for movies ... Top Gun :)
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Zombieland
Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Stranger than Fiction
Groundhog Day

HM:
Day the Earth Stood Still (1950s)
Memento
Rogue One (Star Wars)
Raising Arizona
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (really awesome)

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Why try to actively pick favourites as an uninformed retail moviegover when you can let the invisible hand of the market decide? A more principled and disciplined approach is to construct a portfolio of favourite movies that is passively managed, including the full universe of watchable movies, weighted by their box office capitalisation.

My passively-managed top five movies, by box office cap:
1 Avatar $2,847,246,203 2009
2 Avengers: Endgame $2,797,501,328 2019
3 Titanic $2,201,647,264 1997
4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $2,069,521,700 2015
5 Avengers: Infinity War $2,048,359,754 2018
I have watched 1/5.
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Mary Poppins.

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My top 5

Apocolypse Now
Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Memento
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Braveheart
African Queen
Gladiator
The Inside Man
Italian Job

Honorable Mentions-
The Abys
Original Poseidon Adventure

Sure this list is more screwed up as I cant think right now! :?
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Rxwolf wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:45 am Zombieland
Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Stranger than Fiction
Groundhog Day

:oops: I completely forgot about the Shawshank Redemption. That's one of my favorites too.
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countmein wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:35 pm Adaptation
Ex Machina
No Country For Old Men
Superbad
The Election
Bottle Rocket
These lists are jogging my memory. I definitely should have included No Country For Old Men. Also, Super Bad is super hilarious. Reminds me of my junior high and high school years. Fast times at Ridgemont High is another one like that. :D
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snowox wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:41 am Braveheart
African Queen
Gladiator
The Inside Man
Italian Job

Honorable Mentions-
The Abys
Original Poseidon Adventure

Sure this list is more screwed up as I cant think right now! :?
It was difficult for me as well. I've been around awhile, and have seen a bunch of movies.
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DSInvestor wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:33 pm Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
GoodFellas
Godfather I and II
Forest Gump

I also have to add Amadeus. Sorry that's 7 movies.

Waking Ned Devine - this was a great movie and easy to overlook.
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pseudoiterative wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:55 am Why try to actively pick favourites as an uninformed retail moviegover when you can let the invisible hand of the market decide? A more principled and disciplined approach is to construct a portfolio of favourite movies that is passively managed, including the full universe of watchable movies, weighted by their box office capitalisation.

My passively-managed top five movies, by box office cap:
1 Avatar $2,847,246,203 2009
2 Avengers: Endgame $2,797,501,328 2019
3 Titanic $2,201,647,264 1997
4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $2,069,521,700 2015
5 Avengers: Infinity War $2,048,359,754 2018
I have watched 1/5.
That's interesting because I've only seen three of those, and probably wouldn't rank any in my top 25.
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Top Five (as of this coffee-less moment):

Wings of Desire
Brazil
Ikuru
Russian Ark
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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JoMoney wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:14 am Eraserhead
El Mariachi
The Evil Dead
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Spaceballs
Yes Monty Python and the Holy Grail is something completely different and hilarious. The same troop is in a movie called Something Completely Different.
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1. Deliverance
2. Midnight Cowboy
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Easy Rider
5. The Godfather (most of them, anyway!)
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OpenMinded1 wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:35 am
pseudoiterative wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:55 am Why try to actively pick favourites as an uninformed retail moviegover when you can let the invisible hand of the market decide? A more principled and disciplined approach is to construct a portfolio of favourite movies that is passively managed, including the full universe of watchable movies, weighted by their box office capitalisation.

My passively-managed top five movies, by box office cap:
1 Avatar $2,847,246,203 2009
2 Avengers: Endgame $2,797,501,328 2019
3 Titanic $2,201,647,264 1997
4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $2,069,521,700 2015
5 Avengers: Infinity War $2,048,359,754 2018
I have watched 1/5.
That's interesting because I've only seen three of those, and probably wouldn't rank any in my top 25.
Yuck. I want to “buy the haystack” of equities, but not the haystack of films, music, books, art, etc. I’ve seen 1 of those 5, and it was not a win. I find the film haystack depressing.
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This thread is a stand-alone topic from: What Movie Have You Recently Watched?

(It was merged into that thread, now it's back.)
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TomatoTomahto wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:14 am
OpenMinded1 wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:35 am
pseudoiterative wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:55 am Why try to actively pick favourites as an uninformed retail moviegover when you can let the invisible hand of the market decide? A more principled and disciplined approach is to construct a portfolio of favourite movies that is passively managed, including the full universe of watchable movies, weighted by their box office capitalisation.

My passively-managed top five movies, by box office cap:
1 Avatar $2,847,246,203 2009
2 Avengers: Endgame $2,797,501,328 2019
3 Titanic $2,201,647,264 1997
4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $2,069,521,700 2015
5 Avengers: Infinity War $2,048,359,754 2018
I have watched 1/5.
That's interesting because I've only seen three of those, and probably wouldn't rank any in my top 25.
Yuck. I want to “buy the haystack” of equities, but not the haystack of films, music, books, art, etc. I’ve seen 1 of those 5, and it was not a win. I find the film haystack depressing.
I've, unfortunately, wasted ~12hrs watching all 5. Terrible movies, every one.
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I have a lot but these are a few I recently caught on either cable or Netflix and ended up rewatching start to finish.

The Prestige
The Usual Suspects
Spotlight
Notting Hill
The Social Network
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Sing Street
Howl's Moving Castle
There's Something About Mary
The Wedding Singer
The Man From Nowhere
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stoptothink wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:42 am
TomatoTomahto wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:14 am
OpenMinded1 wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:35 am
pseudoiterative wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:55 am Why try to actively pick favourites as an uninformed retail moviegover when you can let the invisible hand of the market decide? A more principled and disciplined approach is to construct a portfolio of favourite movies that is passively managed, including the full universe of watchable movies, weighted by their box office capitalisation.

My passively-managed top five movies, by box office cap:
1 Avatar $2,847,246,203 2009
2 Avengers: Endgame $2,797,501,328 2019
3 Titanic $2,201,647,264 1997
4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $2,069,521,700 2015
5 Avengers: Infinity War $2,048,359,754 2018
I have watched 1/5.
That's interesting because I've only seen three of those, and probably wouldn't rank any in my top 25.
Yuck. I want to “buy the haystack” of equities, but not the haystack of films, music, books, art, etc. I’ve seen 1 of those 5, and it was not a win. I find the film haystack depressing.
I've, unfortunately, wasted ~12hrs watching all 5. Terrible movies, every one.
I've seen 1 and 3. And even even though I'm a huge comic book reader and fan...I'm in no hurry to see 2 and 5.

I'm unlikely to ever see 4...I'd rather watch something again than see that.

"Favorite movies" to me means I could watch the film multiple times and still get enjoyment from it every time. Films like

Shawshank Redemption, Avatar and Titanic...while good and worth of viewing if I were to compose a list of say 100 movie to sees... they don't move me to see over and over again. Favorites do that for me.
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Lots of good movies already listed which I like a lot, so I’ll just add some more to the list that I think should be considered.

Let the Right One In
Snatch
Full Metal Jacket
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aliens
Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
L.A. Confidential
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Italian Job (1969)
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In no particular order:
Blood Simple
Run Lola Run
Memento
Das Boot
Godfather
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The Passion of the Christ
Patton
Tootsie
Starwars (the original)
A Touch of Evil

Others
Diva (French movie)
Vertigo
Casablanca
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nothing to say, really.
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Fiddler on the Roof
Lord of the Rings
Young Frankenstein
Cool Hand Luke
Airplane (or any of those Leslie Nielsen romps)
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Bladerunner 2049 (2017)
The Matrix (1999)
Lord of the rings trillogy (2001-2003)
Intersteller (2014)
Batman Begins (2005)
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - The movie that I've most enjoyed over my life
Ruthless People (1986) - The movie I think I laughed hardest at
Seven Samurai ((1954) - A engrossing movie and it makes me sound more erudite picking a Kurosawa movie
Howl's Moving Castle (2004) - While the story is incoherent, I love the music and the visuals
My Fair Lady (1964) - Had to throw in a musical. I love a lot of them, but I think this is my favorite.

But on a different day, I'd probably pick many different movies. Princess Bride, In-Laws, It's a Wonderful Life, a lot of Disney movies, almost anything by Kurosawa (except the Hidden Castle, which I didn't really like), most Miyazaki movies, Thief of Bagdad, North by Northwest, lot's of classic Disney and Pixar movies...so many good options that are very close to the 5 that I chose today.

I'd be more interested in people's views of the most overrated movies. Citizen Kane because few people actually enjoy it or The Lord of the Rings movies (not bad, but not much like the books which were so much better)
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The Princess Bride
The Hangover (#1)
There's Something About Mary
Saving Private Ryan
Good Will Hunting
Hell or High Water (tied for 5th)
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Sorry, but I can't limit myself to only five. :(

First I'll second these made by previous posters:
Casablanca (1942)
All About Eve (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
North by Northwest (1959)

My Fair Lady (1964)
Deliverance (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Airplane (1980)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

And here are others of my favorites that I didn't see listed. Some I didn't expect to see, but many I'm surprised no one else named:
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Goodby Mister Chips (1939)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)

His Girl Friday (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Random Harvest (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Winslow Boy (1948)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Big Country (1958)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Fugitive (1993)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Edited 7:20 AM 6/19/21 to add the following. (Didn't realize I had so many favorite movies!)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Gunga Din (1939)

Ball of Fire (1941)
Laura (1944)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Third Man (1949)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The Court Jester (1955)
Rififi (1955)
The Killing (1956)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Charade (1963)
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Sting (1973)

The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Fargo (1996)

Edited 6/20/2021 6:25 AM to add four more. (This has got to end!)
The Killers (1946)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Train (1964)

Edited 7/11/2021 9:40 AM to add twelve more. (Recollections may never end!)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) [Just re-watched this morning!]
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Family Plot (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
Black Sunday (1977)

Witness (1985)
Die Hard (1988)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Air Force One (1997)
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#Cruncher wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:39 am
And here are others of my favorites that I didn't see listed. Some I didn't expect to see, but many I'm surprised no one else named:
Because they like movies filmed in color! ROTFL
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The Martian - Good mostly realistic sci-fi movie, and the book is even better
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - True Classic, and the books are even better as well
Where Eagles Dare - WWII action movie with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood
Cutting Edge - DB Sweeny as a washed up hokey player who turns to figure skating
Running Scared - Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines as '80s Chicago cops
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Re: Favorite Movies - Name Five

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Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
American Graffiti (1973)
Animal House (1978)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young (2002)
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My favorite all time movie is:

The Graduate
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How is Back to the Future not on any of these lists?

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