Right, we're on our way to a comedians' profile. I'll have to pick the bones out of that and make a dull graph up. Question is, what are your favourite films? I'll go first: 1. Godfather (original - book was fantastic too). 2. Fellowship of the Ring (yes I am slightly geeky). 3. The Hustler (makes me play better pool after seeing it). 4. Usual Suspects - my stock film when I'm ill and I never get tired of it. 5. Primer - watched it many times. Still don't completely get it but am happy to keep watching it until I do. Lots of near misses but I'll cope. Thoughts people? PS. Sorry if I come across as slightly tipsy.
Top 5 in no particular order It's a wonderful life, all of the Lord of the rings (I count that as 1 film in 3 parts), The Italian Job ( Michael Caine version), Zulu, Field of Dreams
Hard to choose my top 5 but after looking through my DVD collection this is best I've found 1/ Battle Royale 2/ Trainspotting 3/ Come And See 4/ The Long Good Friday 5/ Blow Also Going to watch a Chinese film soon about the massacre at Nanking called ' City Of Life And Death' that I think will be pretty powerful and will make the top 5
In no particular order: Night of the Demon Midnight Cowboy Blues Brothers Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile
Dr Strangelove ( I was ill a few years ago and watched it twice a week for about 2 months...still got something new out of it everytime) Zulu (Cry whem Ivor Emmanual sings Men of Harlech, half Welsh you see) Toy Story 3 Howl's Moving Castle (best animated film ever) Shawshank Redemption Very close miss Clockwork Orange,Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, Path of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut and 2001 (OK any film by Stanley Kubrick....except the one about Barry)
Zulu Once upon a time in America The good the Bad and the Ugly Lord of the Flies I'ts a Wonderfull Life
The Godfather Once Upon a Time in America Shawshank Redemption Miller's Crossing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Beth, surely Toy Story 2 is better than 3?
[/QUOTE]and Beth, surely Toy Story 2 is better than 3?[/QUOTE] NO WAY.... the fiery furnace scene, had me hiding behind the sofa (well actually there was no sofa in the cinema, I just sort of hid my eyes). And when Andy drives away...........actually tears are welling up now just thinking about it (thats the problem with having a girl hang around a macho football forum....far too much emotional nonsense)
I think that the crossing the road scene under the traffic cones in 2 is better, and the homage to Jurassic Park when Rex is chasing the toy car in the store is brilliant.
1 - Monty Python Trilogy [see what I did there] 2 - The Great Escape 3 - Any James Bond Film 4 - Raging Bull =5 - Elf =5 - Miracle on 34th Street [1994]
I was in that prison. Out of all the De Niro ones I think Casino is the best. Him and Pesci are great together.
The problem with loving films is very subjective and indicative of time and age. For instance, watching a film back in the eighties as a teenager and loving it at the time, your perception of it changes watching it again as a forty year old twenty odd years later. So my selection here is a kind of regression as to how I enjoyed them at the time, although that may not apply if I watched them for the first time now. I'll put one film per decade that I've existed. 70's ... Grease ( I was eleven.) Close second was The Exorcist. I shat myself. 80's... Die Hard 90's... The Usual Suspects ( Probably my most significant and the best decade for films, as I was in my twenties through thirties.) Could well of chosen Se7en, Heat, Scent of A Woman or Fight Club or even The Sixth Sense. 00's.... Sexy Beast ( Closely followed by Munich. ) 10's ... The Four Year Plan
Debbie does Dallas Trillogy.. College Co-ed's go wild Spring break in the dorms.... A very long night in.........HOLD ON - SORRY.............Looking at the wrong collection........Let me get back to you.......
