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Favourite Film?

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by YouRecluse

For me, it's either Dead Man's shoes or the green mile.
what is everyone else's favourite?

YouRecluse | 15 Aug '07, 14:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i don't have one specific one

as i like different films when i'm in different moods.

it's like asking what your favourite song is.


what's your favourite song?

mine's Boom shake shake the room by jazzy jeff and the fresh prince. It reminds me of a simpler time.


Mine is What is Love

by Haddaway. For similar reasons. It's still being played quite widely in Belgium I found this weekend.


manos: the hands of fate

and, harold and maude.


i STILL haven't watched Manos

i remember you telling me it was on youtube well over a year ago :(


FOOL!

you should watch it, it's brilliant.


Ghostbusters

I'm still a child inside which means my girlfriend is a peadophile


^5

It's very ace.
Can't watch this clip though cos they ba fun stuff like this at work.


it was the video of 'pretend to be nice'

with the lyrics so you can sing along!

i actually have the sountrack to josie and the pussycats. it's truly a great film and i can never get bored of watching it.


Good stuff

I picked up the soundtrack a few months ago. great pop numbers. It's definitely underrated.


varies

probably either Blade Runner, Big Lebowski, Empire Strikes Back, Royal Tenenbaums, Spinal Tap or Requiem for a Dream.

all films i could watch again and again


^20


To the lady with big boobs

we are ready to do you now


it used to be chungking express

but i've decided it's in the mood for love now.

basically, wong kar wai is king.


not seen that

any good?


aceness


It's a revolving line-up, but headliner is usually

Dazed and Confused or Wayne's World.


Dead Man's Shoes is fantastic but I couldn't really choose one film

Old Boy, Sin City, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Duel and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) would be up there too


Nah, s'easy.

Films suck.


It was Scum when I was about 14

I haven't reevaluated since then.


it changes but at the moment

ghost in the shell. not a fan of anime but that film is so fucking good


Withnail and I

Sherry? Sherry. Sherry!


Battle of Britain

Truman Show
Downfall and
Goodfellas


and

Man on the Moon


In Battle of Britain were of the Luftwaffe

says in German "Do you speak English? SPITFIRE!"


kids in the hall:brain candy

the funniest film ever made and a grower that gets better each time OR Hedwig and the Angry Inch because it is sad, funny and uplifting OR disneys beauty and the beast for it is the greatest love story ever told


Bring It On


Dude Where's My Car

or Mysterious Skin or the Karate Kid or Robocop or Happiness or American Movie


...

Football Factory
The Business
ID
Green Street


Seeing as absolutely no one was asking for this, here's my top 100:

Seven Samurai
Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Raiders of the lost ark
Chungking Express
Kingdom
The Killing
Alligator
Barton Fink
Big Lebowski
North By Northwest
Fargo
Vertigo
Brighton Rock
Matter of Life and Death
The Killer
Das Boot
Delicatessen
Les Diaboliques
Pan's Labyrinth
The Hustler
Planet of the apes
Black Narcissus
Tokyo Story
Godfather (pts I and II)
Dr Strangelove
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
High Noon
Wild Bunch
L'Atalante
Once upon a time in the west
Great Expectations
Goodfellas
Mean Streets
The Warriors
Salvador
Terminator
The Apartment
Die Hard
White Heat
The General
Cabinet of Dr Caligari
M Yojimbo
Stalker
The Man in the white suit
Ladykillers
Lavender Hill Mob
Reservoir Dogs
City of God
Ghostbusters
Don't Look Now
Beavis and Butthead do America
Blade Runner
Alien
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
Bridge on the river kwai
Out of the past
Night of the hunter
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
This is Spinal Tap
Paris, Texas
Alphaville
A bout de Souffle
Bad Education
Bad Day at black rock
Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion
Evil Dead II
Dawn of the dead (original)
Night of the living dead
Millers Crossing
Fitzcarraldo
It's a wonderful life
Eraserhead
Brazil
Withnail and I
Belle de jour
Stand by me
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Citizen Kane
Throne of Blood
Night at the opera
Blue Velvet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Short Cuts
Touch of Evil
Dekalog
Happiness
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
Videodrome
Scanners
Dark Star
Assault on Precinct 13 (original)
Naked Gun
The Third Man
Raise the red lantern


But...how do you remember what happens in that many films?!

I can barely remember the plot of two.


Oh yeah, work...

Bad Education? I didn't mean that, surely. 8/10 film at best. I suck. Replace it with back to the future. Thanks.


8/10 at best??

9/10 easily.


Different ranking system.

Probably only about 3 of my list would get 10/10.


It's my favourite Almodovar

That, and you know, Gael Garcia Bernal....


Yeah, it's my favourite Almodovar too.

But we're talking top 100 films here! I've got to be cruel.

Your prescence has reminded me I haven't put Pather Panchali in there. That's all manner of wrong.


VERY wrong


Lots of good stuff

but I have to express surprise at Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Also, no Stop or my Mom will Shoot?


Yeah, but it still makes me laugh.

And feel good about the world at Christmas. See also: 'It's a wonderful life'. But this has the added advantage of John Candy turning into a devil!

I'm just a big softy at heart.


is that in order?

I watched Seven Samurai for the first time a couple of nights ago, and I'd be inclined to agree.


Not in that order,

but seven samurai is my favourite, yep.


My brother won a big Kurosawa

box set at his uni. I'm so excited to work my way through them all.

Also - good that it's not in order, Blue Velvet should be much, much higher...


Kurosawa is pretty much

my favourite director. His non-samurai films are very underappreciated. And he's come up with the two best movie adaptations of Shakespeare plays.


Just a shame you saw the best one first!

But the following are all incredible in their own way:

Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Throne of Blood
Ran
Stray Dog
The Hidden Fortress
Rashomon
Red Beard

Enjoy!


Tokyo Story

That is probably my favourite film


...especially if he does one of his funny voices!!

brilliant stuff, just brilliant!


actually though.

Happy Gilmore is a classic


the Wedding Singer is the only

one of his films i haven't hated


well at least you didnt say the standard punch drunk love

although good I hate it when people only like that film of his because its just a more serious version of the rest of his films


big daddy is great

i love adam sandler


I'd say

Mulholland Drive
Goodfellas
City Of God
Requiem For A Dream
Dead Man's Shoes


well if everyone else is listing films...

Rear Window
The Goonies
Wayne's World
Evil Dead 2/3
LOTR trilogy
Harvey
Fargo
Grosse Point Blank


YES

Someone choosing Army of Darkness! I don't get why everyone seems to hate it.


Oldboy

It's got everything, violence, Oedipus style incest, vengeance, kidnap, etc. etc.


I think this is 50 - and in no order at all

Cinema Paradiso
Midnight Cowboy
The Edukators
Seven Samurai
A Bout de Souffle
The Bicycle Thief
Un Chien Andalou
L'Age d'or
Before Sunset
Before Sunrise
Wild Strawberries
Spirited Away
A Short Film About Love
The Godfather
Bad Education
All About My Mother
Cries & Whispers
Fanny & Alexander
Armacord
Central Station
Seventh Seal
Amores Perros
Pather Panchali
Goodfellas
Fargo
North By Northwest
Brokeback Mountain
Goodbye Lenin
Talk To Her
Princess Mononoke
Adrei Rublev
The Usual Suspects
A Short Film About Killing
Amelie
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
The Departed
Pan's Labyrinth
Three Colours: Red
Three Colours: Blue
The Big Lebowski
Donnie Darko
Memento
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Tarnation
The Pianist
Bringing Up Baby
Yi Yi (A One and a Two)
Saving Private Ryan

I'm sure I've missed so much.


Of course you have, so did I.

I STILL haven't seen Bringing up baby.

I neaarly put Amores Perros, Midnight Cowboy and Three Colours Blue in mine.

Also, I cheated by counting Dekalog as one film instead of ten!


Are they the same versions in Dekalog?

The films are expanded aren't they?


expanded by about 20 minutes i think

on the two they redid.

dekalog isnt really a film though...


shhh!

Neither's the version of Das Boot I've got.


what version of das boot do you have thats not a film?

is it actually the same thing? i always thought it was some kind of spin off


that doesnt make sense

sorry.

do you mean the TV SERIES and not the film?


Indeed I do.

On vhs. It will be a sad day when they expire.


ive never actually seen das boot

the thought of having to sit throught it always puts me off, maybe i should relax such prejudicial judgements...


Only A short film about killing

and a short film about love.

The others are the same, I think.

And you get the expanded versions in the artifical eye releases anyway.


You really do need to see Bringing Up Baby

Cary Grant at his not-gay-thank-you-very-much best.


'Because I just went GAY

all of a sudden!'


And

for my money, Cary's at his best in His Girl Friday, which would be one of my favourites. Along with Chinatown, Vertigo, Magnolia and Dead Ringers.


Ha, I love that bit

I still refuse to believe he was gay though. See, when I build a time machine I have to go back and marry him.


*Andrei Rublev

That bothers me far too much.


spinal tap

yo


I like films that kind of fit together neatly, like a jigsaw with a picture of something really amaz

Memento
Pan's Labyrinth
LA Confidential
Dead Man's Shoes
Festen

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