Topic: What is your favourite movies,or good ones watched lately

[asbean]

The English Patient - for sheer impatience at such impossibly inadequate people
Brassed off - for the band music and fortitude of the miners
Cinema Paradiso (the long version) - for lost love and what might have been

[pye]

The Third Man, could watch this a thousand times and not get bored

Philadelphia Story, why don't they make films like this any more? In fact, anything with Cary Grant in, but especially I Was a Male War Bride or His Girl Friday

Great Expectations, David Lean version of course

Withnail and I/Spinal Tap, I still quote chunks of these like a sad student. Spinal Tap once made me laugh so much I was sick.

Eat Drink Man Woman, a perfect portrayal of a father/daughter relationship, plus, oh my god, the food

Spirited Away. An amazing, beautiful film, blows me away

Fargo, those Coen brothers are just too clever


Jeannine. Is Westward the Women the film where a bunch of tough women cross Injun territory in wagons to get to their new husbands? If this is the same film then yes, I love it! Was sure it was b&w tho.

[Deb P]

So, so difficult to choose..........

Blade Runner

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Carry on /Regardless/Cabby/Constable

The Return of Martin Guerre (original)

Birdy

Arsenic and old lace

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Mouse that Roared

The Great Race

and loads more...... ;D

[Jeannine]

Pye,Yes you have it right it is the one with the women and it was in black and white but they did a colourised version later,like they do, somehow dubbed the colur on. I love it,............... do you remember after the injuns had killed all the men but two and the wagon train leader said he was turning back and one by one the women shouted " not  me"  just leave us a map!!!

Oh how I would have adored to be there. I taped it from the TV in Canada years and yeras ago.


Rh. Thrasher. 2001 Space Oddyesey rank as the worst movie I have ever seen along wiith The Night of the Iguana. I have never even come close with anhything I disliked as much'

I am partial to the old Robert Newton Treasure Island but only cos I was in it, parts of it were filled near my aunts place and as  she boarded their horses,  they gave me  a bit part.

David Lean is my personal fave film director, there are very few of his I don't have.

By thw way has anyone got a copy of Wee Geordie, the Scot who went to the Olympics.

We have all the Carry ons, and the Trinians,

Tonight we watched Peter  Paul an Mary singing with children, super video.

[cambourne7]

HI Guys,

I love film and have a lot of time on my hands so sorry about the long list!!

Number One film has to be a toss up with Lord of the Rings
& Dune, David Lynch version although i have at least 4 different 'cuts' of this so i like to watch them all and pick out the differences.

Then i would have to say that my fav films are
-House of Flying Daggers
-Everything is illuminated
-Interview with a vampire
-Shindlers List (still not watched it though in one go or without crying)
-Terminal
-Paint your Wagon\Whisky Galore ( tie up between 2)
-Manga - Dominion: Tank Police and anything by Hayao Miyazaki.
-Most Doris day, bing crosby, dean martin and monty python films
-Seven Samurai
-Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
-Das Boot
-Green Mile
-Mother India
-Sleeper
-The perfect storm
-O brother where art thou
-shoes of the fisherman
-Personal Services
-Bugsy Malone(where the actors are all played by kids)
-Invasion of the body snatchers (original)
-Twelve Monkeys
-Day of the Dead (the one where there stuck in the shopping mall)
-28 days later
-Tootsie
-As good as it gets
-The Bourne Trilogy
-Clockwise (not only because its funny but it was filmed in OH school and his shoulder can been seen ;D)

I find most bond, matrix and star trek films are quite watchable

All of these have been in the DVD machine in the last month.

Cambourne7

[OliveOil]

Ooo I love The Piano - Jane Campion, Best In Show - Hilarious, Muriels Wedding - hilarious, Priscilla Queen of the Desert - hilarious,Strictly Ballroom,  Picnic at Hanging Rock, Archer, Phar Lap.... oh just realised they are all aussie films.

French Kiss - romantic comedy, makes you wanna meet and fall in love with a frenchman (i did but it was nothing like the film unfortunately!)

 Alfred Hitchcock films

Whatever happened to Baby Jane

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Biscombe]

How could I forget 12 monkeys, a corker!! or Withnail and I!
Great thread Jeannie

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Jeannine, I saw 2001 in a fleapit in Aberdeen when I was about 12. You can imagine it knocked my socks off. Narrowly avoided getting thumped for being English on the way home. It's still amazing though annoyingly obscure. I suppose that's why the Vatican thought it was theologically sound

some great films cambourne7. I love Day of the Dead and Das Boot. Also 12 Monkeys

What about The Fisher King?

[Jeannine]

mmm, Rhubarb, I must ask my Aberdeen born husband why they would want to thump you, I never notived they could ne mean when I got married there in 59 LOL XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

Oh Cambourne, Shoes of the Fisherman is another of my could not part with, we just watched that one last night, smashing.

Another love story set in France,,,who knows Until Sptember,, oh you could drown in his eyes.

Also last noght we waqtched a smasher. It was the concert of Peter,Paul and Mary.. the  one called and Mommy too.  Full of kids, grans, mums and dads.1993 so not so old, but you jsu had to sing a long.

XX Jeannine

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

it was after North Sea Oil was discovered. People seemed to go all Nationalistic. It didn't help that I went to Robert Gordon's School (For Boys) which was posh, and IMHO as close to Hell on Earth as makes no difference

[norfolklass]

films I watch over and over and over again:

Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House, with the very debonair Cary Grant
Some Like It Hot
The Money Pit, which is a bit of a re-make of Mr Blandings... with Tom Hanks
High Society, the musical – just love Frank, Bing and Satchmo!
A Room With A View
Raiders of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, and the third one (can't remember what it's called... ::))
Jaws ;D

[wilko]

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Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version) is a close second.
  :o
have to disagree there.....BBC's version far superior   :D     

OK I fancy Colin Firth more  ;D

[Paulines7]

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Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version) is a close second.
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have to disagree there.....BBC's version far superior   :D     

OK I fancy Colin Firth more  ;D

Why are you disagreeing Wilko? 
Are you saying that the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice is far superior to the English Patient or to the awful film version of P&P?  Perhaps you haven't read my post properly and jumped in with both feet.   ;D ;D   lol

[froglets]

Ahhh but with P & P, it's not the "jumping in", it's the "exiting from" that makes it memorable - Colin Firth fan here too.


and I forgot to mention Men in Black - watched it so many times I can dliver most of the dialogue along with Will & Tommy.

[ACE]

That'll be the day. Filmed near me and I was an extra.


Waking Ned. I cannot stop laughing every time I watch it.

[robkb]

Hi all,

Fave ever movie is Blade Runner (esp. the director's cut without the voiceover).

Others that get regularly re-watched include:

Life of Brian
Moulin Rouge
Star Wars (first 3, not the rubbish new ones)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Matrix trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pan's Labyrinth
Akira

Think there may be a bit of a sci-fi/fantasy theme emerging here...

But my current most-played DVD is probably Richard Thompson's 1000 Years of Popular Music - not a film at all!

Cheers,
Rob ;)

[norfolklass]

ooh, and Local Hero!

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've watched 'I Claudius' many times, but the more recent 'Rome' is even better. Apart from that, I like Dune, Lord of the Rings and the Sharpe films.

[Deb P]

Read all the 'Sharpe' books, love 'em, but OH still sneers when he see Sean Bean in his greenjacket......not like the book; not supposed to be blonde, Sheffield accent etc etc.......personally I see nothing wrong with a bloke in a nice pair of tight breeches (be still my heart...) ;D ;D ;D