Movies

Hi Maria

Maybe when the DVD5 is finally available we will get a Film Room forum.

What are your favourite movies ?


Nana

hi,
my favorites are sience fiction and action.

maria

Totally agree with Tom and am having a think about others, recently saw Collateral, I love Michael Mann. Check out Heat if you haven’t seen it. Also Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen is a genius as is Jacque Tati. Diva and Subway are great also.
Martin

Just had a thought, a film room would be good idea. Thought the Naim DVD was here BTW?

- American Graffiti.
- Ingmar Bergman:s, The Seventh Seal. But certainly nothing else by him!
- Barry Lyndon. So beautifully made.

And probably countless others.

JohanR

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Star Wars
LOTR
Alien(s)
Blues Brothers
Indiana Jones
Dune
Cleopatra
Ben Hur

All for now

Howard

Just a handfull of favourites

Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Near Dark
Shrek
The Rock


Nana

1. Bladerunner
2. 12 monkeys
3. Matrix 1
4. Alien 1
5. Touching the void
6. Mad Max 2
7. On any Sunday
8. Where eagles dare
9. Pitch Black
10. Carry on Doctor (patient: "Doctor it's my.... you know what" doctor: "Rectum?" patient: "Well it didn't do em any good")

OK I put that last one in because I couldn't think of a 10th favourite of mine.

Fargo (I know all the words now)
The English Patient
The Big Blue
The Deer Hunter
Crouching Tiger:Hidden Dragon
Its a Wonderful Life
Lost In Translation

That will do for now.

(and Tom, thanks for reminding me about Repo Man!)

Bruce

My top 10 sci-fi flick

• The day the earth stood still
• Forbiden planet
• Invasion of the body snatchers ( pod people )
• Dead of night
• Andromeda Strain
• The thing ( original )
• This island earth
• T2
• Alien
• the man from planet X

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Originally posted by Patrick Dixon:
Get Shorty.

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Like 'Wise guys'?

• Pay It Forward
• Bi-Centennial Man
• Leon
• Shawshank Redemption

Just a few more.......

10 really good films:

- Come And See

- Mean Streets

- Solaris (Tarkovsky's version, although the remake wasn't completely terrible)

- Apocalypse Now

- The Big Lebowski

- The Jerk

- The Idiots

- The 400 Blows

- Naked

- Sonatine

Here are some of my favourites:

It's a Wonderful Life
Casablanca
Field of Dreams
Together with You (aka Together)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
The Road Home
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dolls
Red Beard
The Straight Story
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
Spirited Away
The Castle of Cagliostro
Run Lola Run...

A lot of what have been listed already plus...here's ten more

True Romance
Reservoir Dogs
Gattaca
Good Will Hunting
Silence of the Lambs
A Beautiful Mind
Mystic River
Grosse pointe Blank
Gladiator
Momento

"Just trying to make a NAIM for myself"

Tom,

Manchurian Candidate isn't exactly a scifi is it??!

It's a good film, tho. It was way ahead of its time and for a long time, it was banned in the US.

A few favourites:
Gattaca
Nosferatu
The dead trilogy by Romero (there's another one coming: Land of the dead)
Henry,portrait of a serial killer
Mystic river
Festen
2001, a space oddisey
Dark water
Le Flic
Blade runner
Alien

Rob.

Not necessarily the best of all time but bear repeated viewing;

The Ipcress File
Get Carter
Manhunter
Patton
The Day of the Jackal
Sexy Beast
Goldfinger
Gregory's Girl
Goodfellas

regards
Richard S

My top two list of those films that everyone thinks are great nowbut in 50 years time will either be forgotten, seen as a joke, or as something introducing crappiness in various ways:

1. All Star Wars films
2. All Lord of the Rings films.

Anyone seen either Oldboy or Birth? Great films both.

Tim

01. Pulp Fiction.
02. Ferris Bullers day off.
03. Young Guns.
04. Leon (The Professional)
05. Fith Element.
06. Fargo.
07. Forrest Gump.
08. Snatch.
09. Hero (Ying xiong).
10. LORT + Star Wars IV, V, VI.........

too many good films...................

[This message was edited by SimonJ on Sun 14 November 2004 at 0:11.]

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Originally posted by Tim Jones:
My top two list of those films that everyone thinks are great _now_but in 50 years time will either be forgotten, seen as a joke, or as something introducing crappiness in various ways:

1. All Star Wars films
2. All Lord of the Rings films.

Anyone seen either Oldboy or Birth? Great films both.

Tim

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In 50 years' time, Tim? Some of us already think they're a joke and responsible for introducing a good deal of crappiness in very many ways...

Here's an unashamedly elitist list. Sorry for being elist and appearing a snob, but there you go. No Star Wars or LOTR because they're infantile crap for sad cases who hang around Games Workshop or toy emporiums when they're old enough to know better. The really hopeless cases build replicas of Middle Earth out of plaster of Paris and buy Elvish dictionaries.
In no particular order (apart from the Renoirs, which are tops, obviously):

1. La Regle Du Jeu (J. Renoir 1939)
2. La Grand Illusion (J. Renoir 1937)
3. Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (S. Paradjanov 1965)
4. Ordet (C. Dreyer 1954)
5. 20th Century (H. Hawks 1934)
6. Citizen Kane (O. Welles 1941)
7. This Is Spinal Tap (R. Reiner 1983)
8. The Colour Of Pomegranates (S. Paradjanov 1972)
9. Apocalypse Now (F. Coppola 1979)
10. King Of Comedy (M. Scorsese 1983)
11. Magnificent Ambersons (O. Welles 1942)
12. A Matter Of Life & Death (M. Powell/E. Pressberger 1946)
13. Pulp Fiction (Q. Tarantino 1994)
14. North By Northwest (A. Hitchcock 1958)
15. Badlands (T. Malick 1973)

Kevin (808 State: K Narcosa)

Tim - saw Oldboy the other day, not bad at all. Birth I haven't experienced yet...

37.2° le matin

Blade Runner

2001: A Space Odyssey

Casablanca

Brazil

Some like it hot

Day the Earth Caught Fire

Mystery Science Theater 3000 : The Movie

The Fisher King

Trois couleurs: Bleu

Trois couleurs: Rouge

Trois couleurs: Blanc

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Originally posted by Tom Alves:
Having seen most of the films listed below I would say that at best they are worth seeing but hardly ground breaking or exceptional.

1. La Regle Du Jeu (J. Renoir 1939)
2. La Grand Illusion (J. Renoir 1937)
3. Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (S. Paradjanov 1965)
4. Ordet (C. Dreyer 1954)
5. 20th Century (H. Hawks 1934)
6. Citizen Kane (O. Welles 1941)
7. This Is Spinal Tap (R. Reiner 1983)
8. The Colour Of Pomegranates (S. Paradjanov 1972)
9. Apocalypse Now (F. Coppola 1979)
10. King Of Comedy (M. Scorsese 1983)
11. Magnificent Ambersons (O. Welles 1942)
12. A Matter Of Life & Death (M. Powell/E. Pressberger 1946)
13. Pulp Fiction (Q. Tarantino 1994)
14. North By Northwest (A. Hitchcock 1958)
15. Badlands (T. Malick 1973)

All this goes to prove is everyone's tastes are different and the more one is in a minority the more one wishes to be seen as outside the crowd and intellectually superior. All it really does is come across a ill informed snobbery.

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Eh? Renoir or Dreyer's "Ordet" not groundbreaking or exceptional? Perhaps there are two versions of "La Regle Du Jeu' or "Badlands" out there and we've been watching different movies with the same title.

Out of interest Tom, how many of the 15 listed movies have you actually seen? Actually, really? Or are you just being provocative? I note that the some of movies you listed aren't that much to write home about, to be frank.

As for being ill-informed, well, I've been an obsessive movie buff since age of about 10 or 11, when my mum took me to "Gone With the Wind" at the pictures and fell in love with medium. I've seen a lot of films in my time, and continue to do so. I also studied at the Slade Film School (a not entirely useless institution) under a disciple of Nicholas Ray for a while, so I'm reasonably confident I know what I'm talking about.

I also find your attitudes slightly puzzling and not a little philistine. What is so good about LoTR that iit is above criticism? Have I touched a raw nerve?

What are you afraid of?

Kevin (Grateful Dead: The Eleven)

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Of the two you slag for being popularist, Star Wars was groundbreaking in its day according to most sources. It may not be a great Art movie but it certainly made an impression and had great influence on everything after. As well as remaining popular thirty years on. LotR is likewise a blockbuster of epic proportions. I'm not claiming that it's GREAT ART but a film that the vast majority think is good and above all enjoyable. Surely the point of cinema or shouldn't entertainment be counted for anything? FWIW the IMDB a resource used by the film industry and film buffs alike rate LotR & SW in the "top ten films of all time" which suggests they have some value. Or does only your highbrow opinion count?

Unfortunately you don't. The thing is you are in a very, very small minority and as such what you think is of little consequence.

Tom

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What's happening here (and it seems to happen a lot these days) is the fact that lots of people go to see something or vote for it in polls gives it some kind of value.

Phrases likes 'a blockbuster of epic proportions' are just PR pap. Recycling them says nothing whatsoever about the value (entertainment or otherwise) of the films involved - except that lots of people have beent to see them because they've been so heavily promoted.

You're quite right to say that Star Wars was very influential. It showed how plot, dialogue, and direction could take second place to special effects - something that had a profound effect on American movies for years after. It's actually a nasty, overblown remake of...er...a Kurosawa film called 'Hidden Fortress'.

LotR continues this great tradition of hiking up the budget, concentrating on spectacle, and the script can go hang. The effect of films like these is to whittle away the audiences critical faculties - to leave the senses stunned with bigger bangs and brighter flashes.

I'm not 'denigrating anyone's opinion'. Nor is anyone suggesting that entertainment and art can't go hand in hand. I'm just suggesting that the fact that lots of people like something doesn't necessarily make it any good.

Tim

Wooh. Good argument! I'll keep out of it though thanks.

Back on topic.

Fitzcarraldo

Aguirre Wrath of God

The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgioese

Alphaville

Metropolis

Dune

Eraserhead

Paton Lust for Glory

2001 A space Odyssey

The Birds

The Fifth Element

Duck Soup

Goodfellas

Blazing Saddles

Airplane

The Man with two brains /XRay eyes/The golden arm/etc

All recently watched. Or soon to be.

P

[This message was edited by P on Sun 14 November 2004 at 21:11.]