Favourite Films
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After just reading (and replying to) Paul Watson's thread about Moulin Rouge it got me set wondering what you folks' favourite films are? I've recently been to the 'flicks to see AI which I thought was rather slow but still quite good. I did, however, get the privellage to see American Beauty on DVD and thought it was a fantastically scripted, scored and filmed piece of cinematography. I tend to like a wide variety of films and genres but I have to say the originallity of this film caught my eye. I also surprised myself by liking the X-Men film, which I expected to hate. 'Live and learn' is the saying? Can't wait to see American Pie 2 over here... -- Andrew.
In no particular order, Casablanca American Beauty The Empire Strikes Back The Lavender Hill Mob Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Die Hard Shakespeare in Love Toy Story A Bug's Life It's A Wonderful Life Michael :-)
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Actually, I was just trying to come up with films that it was ok for real men to cry at. (Except for Tremors and Mars Attacks. My kids and I watch those everytime they come on and just laugh our asses off :-D ) "War is hell" William Tecumseh Sherman.
lol, ok ok jeeesh I get the point! :-D I have to say though that Ol Yeller did nothing for me, must be an American thing... regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
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Braveheart Gladiator The Searchers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch Terminator Tremors Mars Attacks Die Hard Ol' Yeller "War is hell" William Tecumseh Sherman.
The Colour Purple Unbreakable Mother India (we're not limited to Hollywood films are we?) The Seven Samurai Fight Club
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After just reading (and replying to) Paul Watson's thread about Moulin Rouge it got me set wondering what you folks' favourite films are? I've recently been to the 'flicks to see AI which I thought was rather slow but still quite good. I did, however, get the privellage to see American Beauty on DVD and thought it was a fantastically scripted, scored and filmed piece of cinematography. I tend to like a wide variety of films and genres but I have to say the originallity of this film caught my eye. I also surprised myself by liking the X-Men film, which I expected to hate. 'Live and learn' is the saying? Can't wait to see American Pie 2 over here... -- Andrew.
My favourite director is Pedro Almodovar. All his movies are great, hard to tell which I like most. Maybe it's 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'. Anything by Kar-wai Wong - 'Chungking Express', 'Fallen Angels', 'In the Mood for Love' 'Run Lola Run' by Tom Tykwer is fantastic - a visual blitzkrieg. 'Snatch' by Guy Ritchie - if you want to learn about stealing diamonds, watch this movie. Hollywood doesn't impress me much these times. Old timers like 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Blade Runner' still hold on. 'Fight Club' was pretty good. And I have to admit that I like to watch Indian movies, with a frequency of one per year. Anybody seen 'BAADSHAH' with Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan? Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
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After just reading (and replying to) Paul Watson's thread about Moulin Rouge it got me set wondering what you folks' favourite films are? I've recently been to the 'flicks to see AI which I thought was rather slow but still quite good. I did, however, get the privellage to see American Beauty on DVD and thought it was a fantastically scripted, scored and filmed piece of cinematography. I tend to like a wide variety of films and genres but I have to say the originallity of this film caught my eye. I also surprised myself by liking the X-Men film, which I expected to hate. 'Live and learn' is the saying? Can't wait to see American Pie 2 over here... -- Andrew.
Battleship Galactica (1978) Great Movie! Along came a spider (Good) Enterprise (the best of them all) spinof from Star trek /Jarek "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." -Albert Einstein
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After just reading (and replying to) Paul Watson's thread about Moulin Rouge it got me set wondering what you folks' favourite films are? I've recently been to the 'flicks to see AI which I thought was rather slow but still quite good. I did, however, get the privellage to see American Beauty on DVD and thought it was a fantastically scripted, scored and filmed piece of cinematography. I tend to like a wide variety of films and genres but I have to say the originallity of this film caught my eye. I also surprised myself by liking the X-Men film, which I expected to hate. 'Live and learn' is the saying? Can't wait to see American Pie 2 over here... -- Andrew.
I prefer to watch R rated movies at the theater. No sense in spending the extra cash to see something already on TV. Here are my favorites. Assume all versions of the movie unless othersiwe specified: - The Matrix - Back to the Future - Terminator - Superman I and II - Star Wars - X-Men - Diehard - Weird Science - Star Trek II and IV (haven't seen above IV) - Space Balls - Airplane - Independence Day - Jaws I and II - The Hunt for Red October - James Bond - Indiana Jones - Mission Impossible - The Godfather - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - All of Me - E.T. - Pulp Fiction - Roxanne - Casablanca - The Lost Boys - Natural Born Killers - When Harry Met Sally - Raising Arizona - Mary Poppins - Aladdin - A Christmas Story - The Mask - The Great Muppet Caper
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After just reading (and replying to) Paul Watson's thread about Moulin Rouge it got me set wondering what you folks' favourite films are? I've recently been to the 'flicks to see AI which I thought was rather slow but still quite good. I did, however, get the privellage to see American Beauty on DVD and thought it was a fantastically scripted, scored and filmed piece of cinematography. I tend to like a wide variety of films and genres but I have to say the originallity of this film caught my eye. I also surprised myself by liking the X-Men film, which I expected to hate. 'Live and learn' is the saying? Can't wait to see American Pie 2 over here... -- Andrew.
Haven't seen these on anybody's list, but these are some of better movies I've seen: Ran(Akira Kurasawa -- awesome) Thin Red Line Full Metal Jacket Chocolat (not! X|) -Wes Girls == Time * Money Time == Money Girls == Money * Money Girls == pow(Money, 2) Money == sqrt(Evil); Girls == pow(sqrt(Evil),2) Girls == Evil
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American Beauty is definitley one of the better films around, it was a bit over-hyped but I still came away impressed. X-Men was great, but mainly because I grew up with images of Wolverine, Storm and the gange charging around saving the world from the bad mutants. However what I thought was surprising was that they did not overdo the film and turn it into a relentless laser-beam-surprise flick. Rogue was fantastic :-D Oh dear... American Pie? *grimace* I have to say those American teenage toliet-humour flicks are the bottom of the cinematic barrel. I did like Scary Movie though, but only because it was taking the piss out of all the teen horror movies and it did not take itself seriously. Other films that I will always remember: - Lawrence of Arabia (epic) - Gladiator (epic) - Moulin Rouge (weird but sublime) - 2001 A Space Odyssey (strange and confused but amazing) - Saving Private Ryan (I thought being a soldier was cool until I watched this film) - James Bond 007 (almost all of them, Sean Connery was the best) - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (beautiful) - Star Wars (only organised religion I ever want to be a part of ;) ) - Star Trek (corny at times but damnit! engage!) - The English Patient (the book is better though) - Contact (the book is far better) - The Mexican (strange but alluring) - Austin Powers (both of them, hilarious rubbish) - Shakespeare In Love - Wag The Dog (could so be true) - Indiana Jones (Temple of Doom was the best) damn, there are so many others... I have wide and varied tastes. I definitley want to watch AI. I hear though it is one of those films that you have to be really interested in the subject matter to enjoy. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
Wag the dog :) - like your style. 2001 A Space Odyssey was done by Stanley Kubrick (or howeever you spell it) who also came up with the idea for AI (and Rouge City - which is fantastic). It's quite a deep film in that you have to open yourself up to it otherwise you won't get anything out of it. I can't believe I forgot about the Fifth Element, as Christian said earlier. And American Pie is great - although it's possibly the only 'teenage toilet-humour flick' that I like but I think it's hilarious. -- Andrew.