Your Favourite Films!

[ImNotThere9]

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[R4VEN]

bittermoon, thanks for reminding me of The Killing Fields - it never fails to affect me.

Also:
Truly, Madly Deeply (with Alan Rickman & Juliet Stevenson; worth seeing just to see them working together)
The Piano
Dances With Wolves
Lantana
Gallipoli (the best anti-war film of them all)
Donnie Darko
and 3 Danish films I can never see often enough:
The Green Butchers
Flickering Lights
Murk
- all featuring the brilliant Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

[Kuntuzangmo]

Bridge Over the River Quai
Guess Who's coming To Dinner
Blackboard Jungle
TO SIR WITH LOVE
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
All Marx Brothers
Butch Cassidy and the SUndance Kid
The Sting
Jaws

[Lightworker]

I love all films way too many to list all, so will do a few in no particular order.


Meet the parents
Field of dreams
Hero
The breakfast club
50 first dates
Pulp fiction
Space balls
Seven years in tibet
Its a wonderful life
Dumb and dumber
Enter the dragon
Duck soup
Trainspotting
The bourne identity films
Young frankenstein
Bad boys
The departed
Little nicky
Sleepers
Reservouir dogs
Me, myself and irene
Catch me if u can
Monty python life of brian
Waterboy
Green mile
Crash
Meet joe black
Happy gilmore
City of angels
Point break
The mummy films
The curious case of benjamin buttton
Pursuit of happyness
I am legend

i could go on and on

[piercethevale]

"The Horses Mouth" with Sir Alec Guiness
"The Razors Edge"...the original with Tyrone Power...not that mess of a re-make...and read the novel...most excellent!
"The Wild Bunch" Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece
"The African Queen"...in fact, just about anything with Humphrey Bogart in it...
"Being There"...Peter Sellers
"Dr. Strangelove"...another Peter Sellers masterpiece...
"Friends" the Elton John produced box office disaster that can no longer be seen as Elton canned it for all time...but Ooooohhhh that soundtrack!!!!!
"Slaughterhouse Five"...because "Nobody F***s With Paul Lazzaro"!

...and most recently:
"From Paris With Love"...Travolta has still got IT!!!
...and do see "Kick ***"...it's a rollicking good flick... [Kick A$$...there, that'll get by the censorship police]

[moonpie]

Fun Topic!

It's too hard to narrow it down! Below are a few that I will always adore, and/or that have left a lasting impression. They are lifelong favorites.

In no particular order, as my preference could change by the moment:

1) Millions

2) Hotel Rwanda

3) The Age of Innocence

4) Orlando

5) Like Water for Chocolate

6) The English Patient

7) Big Fish

8) The Mission

9) Amelie

10) Rushmore

Bonus Film and guilty pleasure:

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Now after I post this, I'll be chewing my gum over the ones I left off. Oh well!

Wait...one more (Ha), Hope and Glory

There. That's my list.

[piercethevale]

...yeah afterthoughts..."Groundhog Day"...such a wonderful film....

[piercethevale]

Originally Posted by templeton

Me favorite films

Charlotte's Web
Willard
Secrets of NIMH
An American Tail
Flushed Away
The Tale of Despereaux
Ratatouille



What the hell Dave. No wonder you know Jesus' birth chart. You're so old you went to high school with him.

...it has been said that I did know him...but He was the teacher...

[R4VEN]

Originally Posted by templeton

What the hell Dave. No wonder you know Jesus' birth chart. You're so old you went to high school with him.

Sheesh, rat

And here was I about to congratulate Dave on his impeccable taste in films ........................

and to also mention another favourite of mine (which Dave - with his impeccable taste, and advanced years - will probably have seen):

Drowning By Numbers

[ImNotThere9]

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[AquariusT]

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[piercethevale]

Originally Posted by AquariusT

Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Canterville Ghost
Murder He Says
The Public Enemy
Little Caesar
The Women
They Died with Their Boots On
Speedy
Safety Last (any Harold Lloyd really)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Mildred Pierce
Hans Christian Anderson
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Sea Hawk
Captain Blood (any Errol movie, really)
The Clock
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946
The Bells of St. Mary's
White Christmas
42nd Street
Kiss of Death 1947
Monkey Business
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935
Rebecca
Terror by Night
Babes in Toyland
The Importance of Being Earnest 1952
The Gorilla
They Made Me a Criminal
Modern Times
The Horn Blows at Midnight
The Trouble with Angels
Topper Returns
The Bellboy
Cinderfella
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Family Jewels (any Jerry Lewis)
The Enchanted Cottage
The Times of Their Lives (Abbott and Costello)
Blithe Spirit
Hard Day's Night
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Sixteen Candles
To Sir with Love
What About Bob?
Arthur
Hocus Pocus
New Moon

...and I get accused of 'Old' taste in movies!!!

...nice selection though....solid.

[BobZemco]

Electraglide in Blue
Being There
Day of the Dolphin
Heaven Can Wait (original w/ Don Ameche and remake w/Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and James Mason)
Dr. Strangelove
Ordinary People
Planet of the Apes (the real one)
Holy Grail
Thunder Heart
Life of Brian
Kelly's Heroes
All That Jazz
Chorus Line
Hunt for Red October
12 Monkeys
Fiddler on the Roof
Day the Earth Stood Still (the real one)
Von Ryan's Express
Warriors
Wild Geese
Taking of Pelham 123 (the real one)
Manchurian Candidate (the real one)
Sound of Music
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (I usually watch that with Mary Poppins)
Angel Heart
The 7-Ups
Soylent Green
Omega Man
Willy Wonka (the real one)
Edward Scissorhands
Brazil
Breakfast Club
Wizard of Oz
Shawshank Redemption
Star Trek III/IV
Catch-22
The Out-of-Towners
Three Days of the Condor
The Parallax View
The Man Who Would Be King
Love & Death

I have all those on video and watch regularly. I'm a tough critic.

[Kuntuzangmo]

Good list Bob,
Thanks for reminding me:

Heaven Can Wait
All That Jazz
Cabaret

[R4VEN]

To Kill A Mockingbird.......

The book was better than the film, but the film was excellent also.

[Kuntuzangmo]

Duh, of course Raven!

So many great ones....too many to recall.

To Kill a Mockingbird
All About Eve
Miracle on 34th St.

[piercethevale]

Drowning By Numbers...?...no, I haven't seen it and I don't recall hearing of it...I'll have to look it up.....
...another one has come to mind.... my roomie and I just watched it for the 2nd time...it came out in '95 Tim Roth in 'Four Rooms'...Hill-Larry-OOus!!!!

...and that's the first time I've been described with the phrase.... 'Advanced Years'...ouch!

[R4VEN]

Originally Posted by piercethevale

...and that's the first time I've been described with the phrase.... 'Advanced Years'...ouch!

Sorry, PTV - was explaining to the rat.

Look at it this way - Advanced Years = >30

[piercethevale]

Originally Posted by R4VEN

Sorry, PTV - was explaining to the rat.

Look at it this way - Advanced Years = >30

...OUCH!!! [you're only making it worse...but thanks for trying to be sensitive...]

btw...just watched 'Iron Man II'...it was the one Marvel Comic I read growing up...in fact I bought and read them regularly until I was 34 or 35... I thought there were too many 'Iron Suits' in this flick...it was kinda overload on the senses...I think it would have been a better story had they left 'Iron Man' more singularly unique...I thought the recent movie 'Kick A**' was more entertaining ...and that story was very original.
...also saw 'Up In Air' a couple of night s ago...it stars George Clooney...a very good flick ...it's very existential and it's about relationships...all kinds of relationships...I recommend it [it includes a rather cute cameo of Sam Elliot in another role almost like that of "The Big Lebowski"....which I should have included in my top picks].

[multiple]

I saw cinema paradiso yesterday for the first time and it's now one of my favourites

here are some others I enjoy:
shutter island
raising arizona
dead mans shoes
the departed
the shining
after hours
taxi -(french version)
le grand bleu
clerks
mallrats
fargo
prince of darkness
breakfast club
blair witch project
the andromeda strain
lost boys
flight of the navigator
akira
a lot of the films from studio ghibli
memento
the running man
2001 space odyssey
pulp fiction
black hawk down
the ringer
alien
terminator
weird science

also some other that I like :
boyz in the hood
castaway
style wars
donnie brasco
gladiator
the big lebowski
twin peaks
a scanner darkly
this waking life
la story
they live
the edukators
casino
communion
king pin
fist of the north star
old boy
a clockwork orange
matrix
the machinist

I think i'll stop there

[Kuntuzangmo]

The Black Stallion

[R4VEN]

The Remains Of The Day

Superb film, excellent book.

The film was very true to the book, due in large part to the work of adaptive screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Worth seeing just to see Emma Thompson & Anthony Hopkins working together.

[Yennefer]

Wel, in no order:

Indiana Jones films
Bourne trilogy
Good Will Hunting
Eyes Wide Shut
Donnie Darko
Monty Python´s Life of Brian
Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Big Fish
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
My Fair Lady
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
and many more I will add as soon as I remember them:-)

[piercethevale]

...Has anyone said 'Fight Club'?...I dunno how I could overlook it...it's a piece of genius in my eyes and mind...and it appeased the anarchist the lives in me [...he's not a 'firebomber' sort...but rather 'one who loves to see a rebuilding process doing things the right way'...just to set the record straight in case 'Homeland Security' is still reading all my internet transmissions...

[R4VEN]

Originally Posted by piercethevale

...Has anyone said 'Fight Club'?...

Gee pierce, I thought that the first rule of Fight Club was that we should never talk about Fight Club

And yes, I agree that it's a piece of genius.