Favourite Films
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LOL@Kwis, 'to boldly go where no man has gone before'
My kids and I often discuss our best movies, but there are just so many and getting the order of merit right depends day to day on what one feels like watching. We decided to do it in categories like Sci-fi, Historical Epics, Psychological thrillers, etc. This way movies that deserve a mention like 'Gladiator', 'Space odyssey 2001' and 'Silence of the lambs' get honored.
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Tombstone
Shawshank Redemption
Grosse Pointe Blank
Lion King
Legens of the Fall
High Fidelity
Happy Gilmore
Caddyshack
Office Space -
Zulu
Schindler's List
Dersu Uzala
The Godfather I & II
Goodfellas
Gattaca
Les Quatre Cents Coups
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Brazil
Bladerunner
Finding Nemo
Aguirre: the Wrath of God
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
LOTR...complete
Lawrence of Arabia
The Searchers
Once Upon a Time in the West
Das Boot
The Producers -
Thi is turning out to be quite a nice collection, altohugh im not sure aobut the lion king, i think i developed a hatred for it after watching it a million times when i was a kid
Looks liek i'll have to watch shawshank again, though, havent seen it in quite a while.
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@cheffey said:
Back to the Future as the Greatest Trilolgy of all time.... are you at the pub Pav?
i wish.
go on then, find a better one. i dare you!
he he
pav
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Pav,
ok you win... I too want the Nike Air McFly's 2015! -
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Star wars
LOTR
Harry potter (mainly IV and V)
spidermanand a lot of other films which i don't remember now.
i also recently watched two fantastic english TV series: Hornblower and Sharpe. Do you know 'em?
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katsuhiro otomo's "Steam boy". best. anime. ever.
im actualy not that into anime/manga (there is a difference btw); but, as some of you may know, im a complete steampunk fanatic. while i cant explain steampunk in a nutshell here, just look it up on wikipedia. its really cool.
i'll try to get the youtube preview to work here.
ok, aparantly i cant, but here is the link.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0eAk6oNBSMU
it doesnt look that impresive from the preview, but trust me. its totally awsome to see the full thing. oh, and dont pay attention to the desctiption on the left of the video, thats not waht the movie's really about. -
Ok - lot's from my list already here - Alan's list knocked off quite a few. While I am not a violent person, I have a love for war movies. WW II especially
"Where Eagles Dare" - Clint Eastwwod / Dirty Harry
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" - William Holden / Alec Guinness
"Saving Private Ryan" - Tom Hanks / Tom Sizemore
and the episodal TV mini-series "Band of Brothers" - too many characters to list a foavorite. This one still captures me if it is on the TV - I usually stop and watch.
My other war fav's are;
"Letters from Iwo Jima" - never saw the american counterpart, maybe never will!
"Platoon" - Willem Dafoe / Charly Sheen
" Full Metal Jacket" - Matthew Modine / R. Lee Ermey (the first 15 min. still blow me away)
And of course - my all-time favorite; "Apocalypse Now" - Martin Sheen / Robert Duval / Marlon Brando
Bytor
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Little test. Which movie was filmed here?
This is Mapledurham on the outskirts of Reading, just west of London. It has an old church, backed by a manor house; and top left there is a watermill and mill pond. From the shadows, you can see there are some high stone walls...and it's nowhere near any salt marshes.
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Must be "The Eagle has Landed". Michael Caine did not make a very convincing Nazi. Although Donald Sutherland was great as amoral Irishman. Even better was he in "Eye of the Needle".
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Got it in one, Paul. Actually, I didn't think Donald Sutherland's Oirish accent was all that hot either...but then he never sounds anything other than Canadian.
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Forgot a few great foreign films:
Akira Kurosowa's "Seven Samuarai"
Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan The Terrible", parts 1 and 2under the category of stupid but hilarious:
unrated version of "Eurotrip"
"Young Frankenstein" -
My list of greats in no particular order.
Deer Hunter (the dueling banjos still creep me out)
Seven (The ending was a shocker)
Trainspotting (just strange but riveting)
Forrest Gump (fantastic story)
Casino Royal ( all the Bonds were great but this one was the best)
The illusionist (Just awesome)
Time machine (Perfectly executed story)
Band of Brothers (best mini series IMO)
Empire of the sun (brilliant story)
The Party (Birdie num-num!) -
I thought the duelling banjos where from deliverance? perhaps im thinking of a different duelling banjos...
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Way too many to list them all, but:
Five Easy Pieces
My Dinner with Andre (all talk, but very moving at the end)
Defending your Life (Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn)
Meet Me in St. Louis
Princess Mononoke (not quite sure to this day that I understood it, but stunning)
Shadow of a Doubt (favorite Hitchcock)
Pretty Poison (Tuesday Weld - incomparable bad girl) -
You are right Remus, I got my movies mixed up...
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Good choice of film none the less, i reckon its worth watching just for the banjos, personally.
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Musn't forget The Usual Suspects. One of the best endings in any movie...as all the pieces fall into place. A bit like the end of The Illusionist in a way.
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