Movies

Always struggle with naming my favourite directors as I can’t think of significant names where I’ve liked all their output. But, I always seek out movies by the following, as even their misfires are interesting: David Fincher, Danny Boyle, John Hughes, Jim Cameron.

I’m not a massive fan of any one directors work. I find most of the directors who have done decent films have also done some absolute shite. But I tend to enjoy most John Hughes, John Landis, Stephen Speilberg, Peter Jackson and Ridley Scott movies. Not always though.

As for favourite movies…you’ll get a different list every time you ask me. I’m obviously the huge Star Wars fan (since before it was called Episode IV: A New Hope)I wouldn’t say it is the best. Nor is it necessarily my favourite….but it is the one movie that has made the biggest impact on my life and me.

Also up there are Bladerunner, Alien, Scarface, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, King Kong….I could just go on listing movies here…

My favourite films are Back to the Future and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

That also tells you a lot about me, full stop.

Back To The Future is a good shout. Not a fan of the Rocky Horror movie though.

Directors:
Wong Kar-wai
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Joel/Ethan Coen
Pedro Almodovar
Ridley Scott
Hayao Miyazaki
Anthony Mingella
Guillermo del Toro
Ang Lee

Movies: we could be here all night

My favourite films are Back to the Future and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

That also tells you a lot about me, full stop.

You like turning the clock back in suspenders? With those hips?!

Oh yeah: Back to the Future, Fight Club, 12 Angry Men, Groundhog Day, T2, Shawshank, Muppet Christmas Carol, Dial M for Murder.

Y’see, I know I’m gonna get murdered here, but I’ve always found the Star Wars Films pretty dreadful outside of some of the visuals that are admittedly stunning. The reputation they still have by many completely passes me by.

Good calls on basically most things on this Thread though. ‘Specially Rocky Horror and Back to the Future.

>Y’see, I know I’m gonna get murdered here, but I’ve always found the Star Wars Films pretty dreadful

He’s trying to piss me off right?

I’m dead.

Not if I’m wearing this armour you won’t be…visibility and movement is next to zero. No wonder the Empire was destined to lose…

Favorite films in kind of roughly correct order maybe perhaps who cares:

10) Rope
9) Punch Drunk Love
8) The Great Muppet Caper (it’s brilliant fuck you)
7) Double Indemnity
6) Glengarry Glenn Ross
5) Vertigo
4) Dr. Strangelove
3) The Royal Tenenbaums
2) North By Northwest
1) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

I can name a pretty firm “top ten” fairly easily, although I’m buggered if you ask me to put them in any kind of order.

Back to the Future
Jurassic Park
The Hudsucker Proxy
Mallrats
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Trading Places
The Producers
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
The Truman Show

I always used to say Truman was my number one, if I was pushed to it. Nowadays I think BTTF edges it.

Top ten is quite hard for me, but here’s a go, again in no order.

Withnail & I (this is my all time favorite)
This Is Spinal Tap
Still Crazy
Blade Runner
The Third Man
Se7en
The Ladykillers (the original one)
The Talented Mr Ripley
Trading Places
It’s A Wonderful Life

I’d have put in a Hitchcock or two, but it’s really hard to single out just a couple. I do however really like Frenzy, which never gets talked about much. Oh, and the worst film i’ve ever seen is Crossroads, though Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes came pretty close.

Well done to Phil. Of your top ten I have seen Dr Strangelove…and that is it!! At least I can say I’ve seen most of everyone else’s lists.

>Back to the Future (I’m not just copying, honestly)

I would never accuse anyone who said BTTF was one of their favourite films of copying. I’d only accuse them of having utterly impeccable taste.

It’s the little touches to BTTF that I love. The change of the Twin Pines Shopping Mall to the Lone Pine Shopping Mall afetr Marty runs one of Peabody’s pine tree’s over is my favourite.

Well done to Phil. Of your top ten I have seen Dr Strangelove…and that is it!! At least I can say I’ve seen most of everyone else’s lists.

Wow, you really ought to get Double Indemnity, Glengarry Glenn Ross and a Hitchcock boxset. Classics.

Thats nothing. I haven’t seen any of the Avenger’s set up movies except the first Iron Man and I’m yet to see The Godfather.

Ok Top 10 Films.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Toy Story
Spirited Away
Goodfellas
The Truman Show
2001: A Space Odyssey
Back To The Future
Trading Places
Ghostbusters
The Goonies

I’m a bit of a nostalgia/animation nut, so yeah, they’re my 10.

I’m slightly ashamed to say I’ve not seen enough of these films on the other lists here. The list of films I should really have seen (and should have seen by now) is uncomfortably long…

I thought I liked some of the Japanese animated stuff after discovering the Manga video’s in my teens. I still (and always will) love Akira…but I rapidly went off the rest. Especially after Urotsukidoji. I loved the film, but I feel like a perv if I watch it!! What’s all that about?

Tried to get back into it recently after being repeatedly told how good Grave Of The Firefly was….the bastards!! The sobs I tried to quell wrenched my throat! What a fucking horrible movie! Whilst also being simultaneously amazing! I now don’t know where I am with Japanese anime…Love it or loath it…I can’t tell!

You like turning the clock back in suspenders? With those hips?!

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*gets coat*

My list of 10 films… in no particular order:

It’s a Wonderful Life
The Blues Brothers
The Breakfast Club
BTTF
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Clueless
Léon
The Addams Family

I actually found it difficult to choose only 10! Happy with my list though :)

I’m finding it ridiculously difficult to think of my ten top movies.

BTTF.
Rocky Horror.
Blazing Saddles.
Flight of the Navigator.
Hot Fuzz.
The Jerk.

…

No. I’ll get back to you.

In no particular order…

It’s A Wonderful Life
Wayne’s World
Back To The Future
Alien
Pulp Fiction
Shaun of the Dead
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Reservoir Dogs
Hot Fuzz
This is Spinal Tap

Oh, go on then. This is very rough, but:

* Back to the Future
* Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
* Mary Poppins (shut up)
* Labyrinth (only watched this on the odd occasion in adulthood, but every single time it utterly stuns me)
* The Dark Knight
* Alien
* South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
* Little Shop of Horrors
* Airplane
* Life of Brian

Mary Poppins (shut up)

I’m saying nothing. Wizard Of Oz got shunted off the end by the Goonies.

> Wizard Of Oz got shunted off the end by the Goonies.

!

Happy to see a lot of love for “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Just got it on Blu Ray today and can’t wait until I get some time to sit down and watch it. Has anyone watched the colour version? It comes on the Blu Ray and is on some of the more recent DVD editions and I wonder what people’s thoughts are on it.

I’m also amazed at how easy a lot of you are finding it to put together a list. Might try sometime soon.

>Has anyone watched the colour version?

NO.

>It comes on the Blu Ray and is on some of the more recent DVD editions and I wonder what people’s thoughts are on it.

My thoughts are: FUCK OFF COLOURISED VERSION!

I have the Bluray, and have never even been remotely tempted to watch the colourised version.

Having seen Cappsy’s list, I realised I completely forgot about South Park, Airplane and the Python films. Bah.

>Having seen Cappsy’s list, I realised I completely forgot about South Park, Airplane and the Python films. Bah.

Labyrinth FFS! How could I forget that?!

You all know you want to put Mary Poppins on your lists.

>You all know you want to put Mary Poppins on your lists.

I’ve never heard it called that before!

Happy to see a lot of love for “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Just got it on Blu Ray today and can’t wait until I get some time to sit down and watch it. Has anyone watched the colour version? It comes on the Blu Ray and is on some of the more recent DVD editions and I wonder what people’s thoughts are on it.

I would like to see every copy of the colour version destroyed and those behind it hung after it has been explained to them, in great detail, why all their efforts were pointless. Not that it bothers me or anything.

From the top of my head (therefore not neccessarily spot on….) and in no order:

Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Groundhog Day
The Negotiator
The Shining
The Wedding Singer
The Naked Gun
The Shawshank Redemption
The Butterfly Effect
Office Space
Pulp Fiction
Old School
My Cousin Vinny
Memento
Goodfellas
As Good As It Gets
Back to the Future Trilogy

Yeah more thsn 10, sue me, I’m pissed… and not exhaustive either…

*sigh*
Back to the Future
Jurassic Park
Bill and Ted
Highlander
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Infernal Affairs
The first three Indiana Jones movies and a fair chunk of Crystal Skull
All of Star Wars, I’m afraid. Indy 4 > Phantom Menace though.
Life of Brian
Akira
House of Flying Daggers
Hero
Alien/Aliens/Alien 3
Escape from New York/LA
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
GoldenEye/Casino Royale

More a list of films I like a lot that spring to mind (excluding the couple that presented themselves after reading the thread), can’t really play favourites.

Ah, I didn’t do ten. Add Toy Story 2 and The Matrix to my pile. And add Christopher Nolan to my favourite directors list. I’m not sure how I forget him as I don’t think he’s had a single duff film (and that includes Insomnia which doesn’t get enough respect).

>You all know you want to put Mary Poppins on your lists

It would definitely make my Top 25. Labyrinth would make my top 20.

>Has anyone watched the colour version? It comes on the Blu Ray and is on some of the more recent DVD editions and I wonder what people’s thoughts are on it.

(Raises Hand). I watch ITAWL just before Christmas every year and gave the colour version a whirl a couple of years ago. It’s like a moving painting and quite distracting. While a lot of the colours aren’t too bad, the skin-tones are awful.

> My thoughts are: FUCK OFF COLOURISED VERSION!

Well this had been my line of thinking since seeing them advertised on TV but now I actually have it I’m kind of curious. Nothing can replace the black and white version and it’s definitely the one I’ll be watching when I get the chance but I might watch the colour one at some point in the future just out of curiosity.

> It’s like a moving painting and quite distracting. While a lot of the colours aren’t too bad, the skin-tones are awful.

Oh wait. Maybe not.

We watch It’s a Wonderful Life every year on Xmas Eve. It’s a classic, I love it, it was lit and shot to be seen in black and white, whoever coloured it in like an over excited 5 year old is a fucking idiot. What was the thought process? I imagine something like this: “Hey! This film is great and really popular. But you know what would make it better? Let’s colour it in! Because who wants to watch black and white films nowadays?!” Then I like to imagine that I walk in and punch the fuckwit repeatedly in the face.

I feel quite strongly about this, you might have noticed…

I only watched It’s A Wonderful Life as a direct result of being a Red Dwarf fan. Not seen it for a few years, and managed to get hold of a recording last christmas. My Mum and my Nan hated it! Meanwhile my sister and I were sat lapping it up. Then I found a tape yesterday labelled ‘Christmas 2000’ and it’s on there, too. With ‘Big Brother Night’.

Lovin’ some of the choices here.
Also fucking adoring the fact someone included Labyrinth. That and Watership Down are pretty much the best Kid’s Films ever made. The As The World Falls Down sequence is amazing.

The other creepy nightmare Film Mary Poppins can piss off though.

Can’t believe I forgot about Jurassic Park!

And Mary Poppins is brilliant, shut up.

I prefer Mrs Featherbottom.

I’d rate The Plague Dogs above Watership Down though. Also, I’m a little bit of a zombie flick fan and have to mention [REC] which is my all time favourite horror movie. Certainly in my top 5….maybe.

Alien
Deconstructing Harry
Being John Malkovich/Adaptation
Punch Drunk Love
The Station Agent
Serenity
A Cock And Bull Story
Stranger Than Fiction
Son Of Rambow
Moon
The Living Daylights
Papillon
Empire Of The Sun
Harvey

I’ve been watching and writing about my favourite films (and TV, Books etc), year by year here:
http://davewrotethis.blogspot.com/search/label/These%20Are%20A%20Few%20O...

Okay. Empire Records and Clue. They’re on my list, too.

> I’d rate The Plague Dogs above Watership Down though.

A Film I’ve been meaning to see for about a Year. Gonna get the DVD soon enough, very interested in it after all the acclaim I’ve heard.
Oh, and I forgot to mention my other favourite Kid’s Film, the incredible Time Bandits.

My Mum and my Nan hated it!

Your mum and nan are fucking idiots.

Then I found a tape yesterday labelled ‘Christmas 2000’ and it’s on there, too. With ‘Big Brother Night’.

Ooh. What did that consist of?

My Nan may well be a fucking idiot, but she’d still twat you given half a chance.

Big Brother Night? Well, bearing in mind this was year one, it consisted of:
A) ‘How was it for you?’
B) ‘What happened to The Housemates?’ (It was only six months later!!)
C) ‘Big Brother Highlights’
D) ‘The Nation’s Favourite Episode’ (No, I don’t know which one won. Year one? Probably everyone turning on Nick.)

The tape also includes a Scrapheap special and Celebrity Robot Wars. My 21-year old self had a cracking taste in TV Shows.

Oh man, great thread. Doubt I could do a top ten, but much love for
Both Bill and Teds, Breakfast Club, BTTF and Rocky I and VI

If you’ve not seen it, Still Crazy is a total grower.

Finest movie of the last 10 years I’d call as Let the Right One In. Favourite cinema experience of the last 12 months has to be Drive. Spellbinding.

I’ve started going to the BFI and intend to start going to places like the Prince Charles Cinema to catch 35m showings of classics in the next few months. So feel free to tag along.

I saw the theatrical release of Aliens on film last year. People cheered on the “Get away from her you bitch line”.

Still not seen Still Crazy, although some loon left me a load of old videos, and that was amongst them.

Have found 108 films in my flat. I think I’ve mentioned 8 so far, so I’ll stick The Money Pit in there, and a Bill and Ted - probably Excellent Adventure over Bogus Journey, I think.

Still not seen Still Crazy, although some loon left me a load of old videos, and that was amongst them.

In some ways, as a film about what it’s like to be in a band, I prefer it to Spinal Tap. The soundtrack is rather good too, but when you see who the musicians involved were to soon see why.

Just seen the new Muppets film. It’s lovely and it’s hilarious.

Forgot to add Four Lions. That film is amazing.

It’s really hard to think of a definite top 10 list - like ori-STUDFARM said earlier, the list would probably change every time you’d ask me. But I am going to see the new Muppet film tomorrow, which I’m really excited about. I’m a big Muppet fan and Jim Henson fan in general so I would add the previous 6 movies to my list (even Muppets From Space which, despite some of it’s flaws, I still find enjoyable). 1 or 2 of the TV films (if made for TV movies count) I probably wouldn’t add though.

> Withnail & I (this is my all time favorite)

Picked up the Blu Ray of this for £3 the other day.
Felt like I’d achieved a great accomplishment on that day.
FELT is the key word here.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favourites. Kate Winslet couldn’t be any more perfect than she is in this… and it’s in Jim Carrey’s top 3 performances, for me (the others being A Christmas Carol (yes) and…Ace Ventura ;))

It makes me cry…..

Couldn’t agree more with you there. Love that film too and I also love the soundtrack! :o)

Carrey is pretty awesome in The Truman Show too. But Eternal Sunshine is superb all round.

Carrey’s best performance is definetely Eternal Sunshine.
But my personal favourite has to be in The Mask. Perfect casting. Can watch that film again and again. And usually I hate his OTT performances.

I think his best performance is Man on the Moon. The best film he’s in (and the one in which he’s most perfectly cast, given the context of the time) is The Truman Show. But his most surprisingly brilliant performance, given how understated and uncharacteristic it is, is Eternal Sunshine. Which is another film that would definitely edge close to my favourites list.

Oh, and his best comedy is Dumb and Dumber. Which, now that I think of it, should probably be in my list somewhere.

> Directors: Wong Kar-wai

‘In the Mood for Love’ is utterly beautiful.

Didn’t get on with Eternal Sunshine at all. Had heard such great things, but came away disappointed.

Dumb and Dumber is also great. Not too optimistic about this proposed sequel though.

> But his most surprisingly brilliant performance, given how understated and uncharacteristic it is, is Eternal Sunshine

Agree totally, but he puts in another surprising turn in The Number 23 which doesn’t tend to get a lot of love, but I thought was pretty good. Unusual role for Mr C.

The Number 23 is amazing.

Amazingly bad. Ha. Do you see?

It does suffer from including “unexpected twist ending #1 2000-2010” but I thought his performance was great, the story is decent and the fantasy sequences with Carrey as Fingerling were very good too. Hmm, it has a bad rap, and it shouldn’t!

Back to the Future
Spider-Man 2
Inception
Almost Famous
Dumb and Dumber
Wayne’s World
West Side Story
The Princess Bride
Clerks
Serenity
Harold & Kumar
Shawshank
Toy Story 2
etc.

Labyrinth
The Prince Charles Cinema
Sunday, February 19th

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Man alive, I wish the Sea was more flexible to people walking on it…