favourite films

we may have done this one before, but i can't remember.

boogie nights to kill a mockingbird citizen kane the godfather lost in translation suicide club the princess bride fargo star wars the age of innocence

A bit broad a topic dontcha think? I could go on for days...

that being said....

The Jerk It Happened One Night Planes, Trains, & Automobiles Band of Brothers Gladiator Conan the Barbarian The Natural Pink Floyds The Wall A Clockwork Orange Happy Gilmore The Mouse and His Child Curious George Citezen Kane Clerks The Wind and the Lion You Only Live Twice Star Wars Episode III and Empire Strikes Back Shawshank Redemption Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Hero Dumbo Goonies

etc.......

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the breakfast club fight club ghostbusters vertigo grosse pointe blank

star wars should be on some separate 'goes without saying' list.

Ally wrote:

bloodynora wrote: star wars should be on some separate 'goes without saying' list.

Aye but not the prequels - what god awful shite they are.

A sampler of my faves would be:

Trainspotting - of all time? Plus it's set in Edinburgh

disagree with star wars - overrated tosh if you ask me, only held in such high regard because of when it came out - i loved it at the time, when i was 9, but not now.

trainspotting may have been set in edinburgh, but 90% odd was filmed in glasgow did you know Danny Boyle credits the Spike Jonze-directed video "Sabotage" by the Beasties as a major influence on the opening sequence of the film.

anyway some of my faves

cyrano de bergerac (jean-paul rappeneau version) jean de florette/ manon des sources harvey the princess bride the godfather part ii memento la confidential it's a wonderful life blade runner the hustler blue velvet & a load of others

Never seen any of the Star Wars films nor will i ever...

Rocky Rocky III Rocky Balboa Rocky II The Godfather The Godfather Part II Holy Grail Life of Brian Shawshank Redemption Hidden Agenda Falling Down Ferris Bueller Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story The Goonies Back to the Future Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part III

I'm not really a big film person.

You can shove star wars up your arse and fuck off while you're doing it. It's utter bollocks. American bollocks at that.

Saying that, I enjoyed Spun as much as anything I've seen in recent years.

When I really love a film I suspect it's got something to do with something that happened the first time I saw it…

Withnail and I Vanilla Sky The 1996 Monaco Grand Prix Dead Man's Shoes

...are examples off the top of my head. I just have very good memories of the first time I saw them.

Raging Bull The Crying Game The Piano Bad Lieutnant Reservoir Dogs Dr. Strangelove Donnie Darko Pulp Fiction High and Low The Burmese Harp Rushmore Fargo Monty Python and the Holy Grail Napoleon Dynamite Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile 12 Angry Men Better Luck Tomorrow Mean Streets The Last Temptation of Christ Fingers

etc.

Almost forgot Life of Brian

Best Monty Python movie ever

FOLLOW THE GOURD!!!

Yeah LIFE OF BRIAN ANCHORMAN SOUTH PARK THE MOVIE TRAINSPOTTING 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE ALIEN ALIENS CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND THE ABYSS (special edition,not the twee ending) STAR WARS all of em really STAR TREK movies LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy BLADE RUNNER CARLITO'S WAY SCENT OF A WOMAN HEAT THE MATRIX trilogy RING (original) THE EYE (original) FIGHT CLUB ROBOCOP TOTAL RECALL SEVEN BLAIR WITCH PROJECT SAW

there's loads I've missed off,but these I always feel like I want to watch every few months

Uncle Liam wrote: Never seen any of the Star Wars films nor will i ever...

WOW. when i taught international relations, a lot of my students had never seen star wars, so when we studied the cold war we watched the film and discussed how it was analogous to the cold war.

almost everyone loved it!

Nope. Cold War or not, I flat out refuse to watch any of that space craft bullshit. Unless its red Dwarf.

I mean really, who could really give two fucks who is Vaders son?

Anyway, watche Die Hard tonight. Proper old school film, lots of violence, comic acting, minimal storyline.

I cant believe I missed Die Hard With a Vengeance of my list. that film kicks arse.

No in order

Control 24 Hour Party People Trainspotting Vanilla Sky The Beach 28 days later Back to the Future

bloodynora wrote: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the breakfast club fight club ghostbusters vertigo grosse pointe blank

star wars should be on some separate 'goes without saying' list.

mostly UTTER TOSH!

Burt Reynolds wrote:

bloodynora wrote: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the breakfast club fight club ghostbusters vertigo grosse pointe blank

star wars should be on some separate 'goes without saying' list.

mostly UTTER TOSH!

Agreed.

I've been to the cinema five times this millenium, one of them was to watch Fight Club. I walked out.

Amelie Beijing Bicycle Blade Runner Breaking Away Casablanca Cyrano de Bergerac Dances With Wolves Enemy at the Gates Fearless The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Great Escape Hero Hidalgo House of Flying Daggers Il Postino Iron Monkey It's a Wonderful life Last of the Mohicans Matewan My Dinner with Andre The Road Warrior Sanjuro Seven Samurai Shane Tombstone Waterworld Wyatt Earp Yojimbo

God where to start.Impossible

But the first one that comes into me head is Bad Boy Bubby.A classic!

Uncle Liam wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

bloodynora wrote: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the breakfast club fight club ghostbusters vertigo grosse pointe blank

star wars should be on some separate 'goes without saying' list.

mostly UTTER TOSH!

Agreed.

I've been to the cinema five times this millenium, one of them was to watch Fight Club. I walked out.

disagreed eternal sunshine, vertigo & grosse point blank can be added to mine. all top films & fight club was rather good too.

also realised i left off sexy beast. was reminded last night during conversation.

Uncle Liam wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

bloodynora wrote: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the breakfast club fight club ghostbusters vertigo grosse pointe blank

star wars should be on some separate 'goes without saying' list.

mostly UTTER TOSH!

Agreed.

I've been to the cinema five times this millenium, one of them was to watch Fight Club. I walked out.

someone who has back to the future II and III on their list should frankly be barred from having any opinion. on anything. ever.

myabe if you went to the cinema a bit more often you'd have a better appreciation of the art form ;)

and where's your list, burt?! unavailable for public scrutiny? butch lesbian and the lapdance kid?

i will concede the inclusion of breakfast club and ghostbusters owe more to their impact on me at the time of viewing than an ongoing conviction of their brilliance.

bloodynora wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote:

Agreed.

I've been to the cinema five times this millenium, one of them was to watch Fight Club. I walked out.

someone who has back to the future II and III on their list should frankly be barred from having any opinion. on anything. ever.

myabe if you went to the cinema a bit more often you'd have a better appreciation of the art form ;)

there have been way more than 5 excellent films this millenium so you're certainly missing out liam

do feel however that you need to have seen a film before you can dismiss it. even if it's just on telly, when you don;t really see it properly.

North By North West Dark City Gattaca Logan's Run The Last Seduction Betty Blue To Kill a Mockingbird Blade Runner The Lake House

Just a start there and hum there seems to be a large representation of S F there but there you go. It will probably be additions to once I go through my pile of new DVDs.

Loads of people here have also listed films I like, but I don't feel like doubling up too much tonight.

Don't forget the B movies. That's where the action and adult themes are. ;) My way of picking them is when they have at least one actor who made it and I half way like.

Uncle Liam wrote: Never seen any of the Star Wars films nor will i ever...

how silly. the original is a hugely influential and culturally significant piece of work.

next time you're tempted to go and see that bloke from 'i am kloot' in scunny, pop round mine instead. i'll let you watch the video and give you a glass of squash.

bloodynora wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote: Never seen any of the Star Wars films nor will i ever...

how silly. the original is a hugely influential and culturally significant piece of work.

As is The Hidden Fortress. ;)

Bringing up Baby (1938) The Road to Morocco (1942) Notorious (1946) Rope (1948) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Royal Wedding (1951) Roman Holiday (1953) Rear Window (1954) High Society (1956) Funny Face (1957) Vertigo (1958) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Lolita (1962) Charade (1963) My Fair Lady (1964) The Italian Job (1969) Murder by Death (1976) Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983) My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Back to the Future (1985) Philadelphia (1993) The Ref (1994) Trainspotting (1996) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) The Full Monty (1997) Le Placard (The Closet) (2001) Chicago (2002) Beyond the Sea (2004) Kinsey (2004) Kinky Boots (2005)

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

bloodynora wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote: Never seen any of the Star Wars films nor will i ever...

how silly. the original is a hugely influential and culturally significant piece of work.

As is The Hidden Fortress. ;)

yeah yeah. see also 'metropolis', joseph campbell etc etc

i didn't say original ;)

Im Gonna Get You Sucker! Killer Clowns From Out of Space They Live Them Midnight Express

bloodynora wrote:

and where's your list, burt?! unavailable for public scrutiny? butch lesbian and the lapdance kid?

Ermmm... not really thought about it much, but off the top of me head (suitably trashy list to follow) I can go off a film like I go off a person (i.e. overnight)

Downfall Long Good Friday V for Vendetta Sin City The Omen (original) Wild at Heart Night of the Demon Paris, Texas North by Northwest Ronin Pulp Fiction Indiana Bones and the Riddle of the Sphincter

hibster wrote:

bloodynora wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote:

Agreed.

I've been to the cinema five times this millenium, one of them was to watch Fight Club. I walked out.

someone who has back to the future II and III on their list should frankly be barred from having any opinion. on anything. ever.

myabe if you went to the cinema a bit more often you'd have a better appreciation of the art form ;)

there have been way more than 5 excellent films this millenium so you're certainly missing out liam

do feel however that you need to have seen a film before you can dismiss it. even if it's just on telly, when you don;t really see it properly.

I'm not doubting there have been more than five excellent filsm this millenium, its just that I have very rarely had the time or the inclination to go to the cinema.

Its actually six times, I remembered I went to the Cornerhouse to see Control last year.

Josman wrote: No in order Control 24 Hour Party People Trainspotting Vanilla Sky The Beach 28 days later Back to the Future

Wow, I wouldn't throw anything from that list and actually I would add more in chronoligal order:

1. The Cabinet of Dr Kaligari
2. Raskolnikov (German)
3. Berlin: A Symphony of a Great City
4. The Blood of a Poet
5. M
6. L'Éternel Retour
7. Germania: Anno Zero
8. The Seventh Seal
9. Mon Oncle (French)
10. Fantomas (French)
11. Blow-Up
12. Gospel According to St. Matthew
13. Love is Colder Than Death (German)
14. Eraser Head
15. The Invisible Man (English TV series)
16. A Few Days in Life of Oblomov (Russian)
17. Cold Snacks (French)
18. Barefoot Gen (Japanese)
19. Heart of a Dog (Russian)
20. House of Doll (Canadian)
21. Quick Changes
22. Great Expectations English TV series)
23. Total Eclipse
24. Catch Me If You Can
25. Spiderman I
26. Snatch
27. Ring (Japanese)
28. Autofocus
29. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
30. Deuce Bigolo: European Gigolo
31. Anchorman
32. King Kong
33. The Last King of Scotland
34. Blood Diamond

Uncle Liam wrote:

I'm not doubting there have been more than five excellent filsm this millenium, its just that I have very rarely had the time or the inclination to go to the cinema.

But plenty of time and inclination to post bollucks though

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Very good films indeed...

Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red(Director Krysztof Kieslowski) -- both Blue and White films are top-notch

It Happened One Night

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Dancer in the Dark

Dear Frankie

The Painted Veil - amazing

The Lake House

The Shape of Things - that's one wicked film

Down with Love

[in no exact order whatsofreckin'ever]

All three Godfather movies. Sailormoon R/S/Super-S. 24 Hour Party People. The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Young Sherlock Holmes. The Shining. The Exorcist.

And four Disney movies-- Sleeping Beauty. Beauty and the Beast. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Finding Nemo.

keeping with today's theme..

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Oh...let's see

Star Wars Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Tombstone Anchorman

I knew I'd forgotten some...

I'd like to add

Fargo Full Metal Jacket Sling Blade

oh...and I also forgot

The Professional (aka Leon)

I remember reading an article about a decade ago when there was a special director's cut of "Leon" screened as a one-off in Paris with only Besson's friends family & the cream of France's cineaste community invited.

Apparently the extra hour or so of footage made it absolutely unambiguously clear that the killer and Natalie Portman's character were boning. People were walking out in disgust. French people.

PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Oh...let's see

Star Wars Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Tombstone Anchorman

I knew I'd forgotten some...

I'd like to add

Fargo Full Metal Jacket Sling Blade

oh...and I also forgot

The Professional (aka Leon)

I remember reading an article about a decade ago when there was a special director's cut of "Leon" screened as a one-off in Paris with only Besson's friends family & the cream of France's cineaste community invited.

Apparently the extra hour or so of footage made it absolutely unambiguously clear that the killer and Natalie Portman's character were boning. People were walking out in disgust. French people.

I've got the International version.The great bits which should have made it into the Cinema release,are when Leon takes Matilda on for some "hits",not just the one on the rooftop you see. The ambiguous bit is,no they don't screw,but Leon's only misgiving about them being together,is...erm that he's had his heart broken before. It's still a good film despite that;more offensive is ICHI THE KILLER's view that if a girl is raped,she loves a bit of it after

Au Revoir Les Infants

Withnail & I

Local Hero

Night Of The Hunter

Goodfellas

Devil's Backbone

Zulu

Big Lebowski

Chinatown

400 Blows

Trainspotting

Do The Right Thing

Animal House

The MST3K skewering of Daddy-O

Wings Of Desire/Faraway, So Close!

Notorious

Made in Britain Robocop Dirty Harry Get Carter The Long Good Friday The General (1998) JFK Resurrection Man Insomnia Blade Runner

off the top of my head in no particular order

An american werewolf in london cinema paradiso nine queens the devils backbone 24 hour party people Once were warriors white heat (Escape to)Victory El Bola Trainspotting The Warriors Joy Division (saw it last night it was awesome!) shaolin V. Lama Kill bill vol 1 & 2

I'm not really a big fan of movies... and 95% of my movie video collection are comedies. Anyway, here's my short list (not in order):

Rebel Without a Cause Airheads Trainspotting Young Guns Young Guns II Rock 'n' Roll High School Edward Scissorhands Nick of Time Detroit Rock City So I Maried an Axe Murderer

...and some others I can't remember at the moment...

Indeed!

godfather 1 + 2 scarface forrest gump ferris bueller's day off what's eating gilbert grape rain man the departed sabrina

...to name a few.

In no order (I'm not that OCD)

Leon

Back to the Future (1,2,3)

The Jacket

The Machinist

Memento

Jacob's Ladder

Event Horizon

The Village

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Saw

The Shining

Ferris Bueller

Little Nicky

American Pyscho

Beetlejuice

the Burbs

Schindlers List

Seven

candleshoe fuck slut twins weekend at bernies rocky5 oral olympics howard the duck condorman

fuck slut twins 8

eldorado wrote: fuck slut twins 8

sorry, i meant 9, 8 was shite

So many... (choosing a few)

Brazil Blues Brothers The Frighteners Re-Animator (all three) Adventures of Münchhausen (T. Gilliam) Barton Fink Big Lebowski Donnie Darko Evil Dead 2 Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot Aristocats The comedy of terrors Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow The Pink Panther Strikes Again The Fearless Vampire Killers / Dance of the Vampires From Dusk till Dawn A fish called Wanda . . .

The Beach Good Will Hunting

Ooh Mr Shadrack - one of my favourite films of all time.

A Chump At Oxford City Of God American History X Alpha Dog Blade Runner Block Heads Convict 99 Oh, Mr Porter! Drowning By Numbers Natasha Cloverfield

CITY OF GOD is excellent! Little Zee's a little bastard.

Goodfellas Casino Breakfast Club Donnie Darko Star Wars Rear View North by NorthWest Pulp Fiction True Romance Resevoir Dogs Apocalypse Now (Redux) Blade Runner Das Boot Cape Fear Quadrophenia Fargo Once upon a Time in America The Deer Hunter American Grafitti The Matrix The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Told you I'd miss a few..

APOCALYPSE NOW (not that arsed about the Redux version) RAINING STONES CONTACT DONNIE DARKO

Italian Job Zulu Truman Show French Connection Rocky Schindlers List Ferris Bueller Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz Control Blade Runner City of God Amelie Shawshank Redemption Trainspotting Pulp Fiction & all Clint Eastwood's Westerns Bourne Trilogy Batman Begins

Quite a few to mention, but here goes with a few:

Gladiator The Matrix (yup, only the first one) The Fifth Element Predator (reckon it was Arnie's best outing, outside the Terminator role) Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

I will add more as soon as I know of the rest

Biginmikitchen wrote:

The 1996 Monaco Grand Prix

That's the one Penis won by tanking it and only stopping for slicks when the time came is it not? Also, I believe, the one where Irv got walled trying to wall someone else, beat the Marshalls off his car, hauled it off the wall, got back in, bump started it on the way down from The Station Hairpin (or Lowes if you like), and drove half a lap back to the pits with no belts on (that's why he had to pit, to get someone to strap him back in). Mental case. Was remarking earler this very morning that we are WAYYYYYY overdue a wet monaco. No faith in these current numpties in the wet, it'll be a bloodbath.

Interesting to see it on your fave movies list, though I do feel somewhat simillar about Spa 98 and obviously Australia 99.

Don't even know if I already posted my faves, but 2010 wins by at least 12 AU's Others would include.... Meet the Feebles Bad Taste Grand Prix (though the "onboard" stuff ruins it as much of it was shot from a GT40, or a cobra or some other Le-Mans-tastic sports car, a fast car, but still a tractor compared to an F1 car. The words of the actors are paraphrases of things the drivers said when interviewed (many of them, including Graham Hill are in the movie), I love the line about sitting in a tiny coffin full of petrol, and of course....."There is no terrible way to win, there is only winning".

("Le Mans" particularly the first 20 mins, and "Winning" are also good racing movies).

Princess Bride is hilarious so that's in. 24HPP too, laughed my balls off beginning to end.

Battle of Britain Battle of the River Plate Sink the Bismarck Operation Crossbow Conspiracy

They Live The Time Machine (there is only one version, directed by George Pal and starring Rod Taylor, anything else you may belive is just a mental anomoly)

Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbird 6

Pulp Fiction (never been into the whole cool factor of movies like this, but it's wandering nature kinda appealed to me).

Italian Job Passport to Pimlico The Titfield Thunderbolt Whiskey/Rockets Galore

And to go full circle....2001 which although visually breathtaking and still totally unsurpassed, the fact that Kubrick, despite being involved from day ONE, managed to forget to include the storyline, makes it always the inferior to 2010 in my eyes (and 2001 didn't have Roy Scheider natch).

Don't watch a lot of movies, there's some fundamental conflict caused by, my microscopic attention span[1], the prediliction all movies have for being one of Harlan Ellion's "8 stories", and the fact that pace seems to be a real issue in cinema, a harder target to hit than in TV.

As for Star Wars.......... Didn't like it much as a kid, or now. Preferred and prefer the True Master.....as someone once said "george lucas? Hmmmmmppfff, everything he did, Gerry Anderson did first, and better". Got asked (told) to leave a screening (albeit in a house) of Ep3 (I think), because after not very long, I leapt to my feet, screeched "oh FOR FUCK'S FUCKING SAKE.........." and went into a 2 minute, almost one breath, monolgue about just how much fetid sheep spunk we'd all just watched. I think the scene that did it for me, was when a ship, supposedly in orbit was damaged. Not only did it begin to go nose down like a plane or boat or something...which I could JUST deal with as a possible result of weapon impact.....but people began sliding to the front along the corridors. Honestly I nearly wept it was so bad. NOTE: if you are wondering why, don't ask, you will not like the answers.

(can you tell.....I'm back at work, and I've just got home, and OH LOOOOOK, a huge ever growing pulsating post that rules from the centre of the steveverse)

[1]actually, like all geeks I have a huge attention span, providing the subject is continually interesting and there are no more compelling distractions around me.

Doctor? wrote: NOTE: if you are wondering why, don't ask, you will not like the answers.

why?

bloodynora wrote:

Doctor? wrote: NOTE: if you are wondering why, don't ask, you will not like the answers.

why?

Do you REALLY want to know, or are you just asking for badness?

Newton, dear girl, Sir Isaac Newton.

That's the short, family viewing, version.

I think it was 96 when Schumacher slid off into a rediculously small runoff area, executed a perfect little donut and rejoined the track with about as much cool as I've seen anyone do anything.

But, as I was wittering on about, it was what was happening whilst I was watching it that made it most memorable.

Biginmikitchen wrote: I think it was 96 when Schumacher slid off into a rediculously small runoff area, executed a perfect little donut and rejoined the track with about as much cool as I've seen anyone do anything.

But, as I was wittering on about, it was what was happening whilst I was watching it that made it most memorable.

Ahh, I never let females interfere with me during a race you see

Twas a really spectacularly casual off, spin, and resume that one. Think it was Mirabeau, the "escape road" there is basically a single car parking space.

Just got a pressie from my step-kids today......CLOVERFIELD.

In my new top 5 films of all time.Just watched it,and I want to watch it again!!!