What are your favourite films?

[binnie]

What films do you go back to again and again? And why?

[vandeleur]

This is a toughy i may have to ponder this over lager .....

[Mushroom]

Everybody is preparing their list ! I can't do this on iPhone:yo:

[Never was]

Big Lebowski - I easily watch this way too much, just so well written

Clerks - captures a time in my life and a lot of characters I can equate to friends growing up

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - reminds me of a time period in my life from 83-87 when I was out of control and treated the world as an escape fantasy playground, was stoned every day with peyote tea being a favorite and rarely not in my hands, fucked up to relate to this movie but I get it, really messed up since my son is nearing that age now and I realize just how insane my reality was at that age

Dead Alive - a Peter Jackson film made pre Hobbit etc..., you have to be damaged to enjoy it and it is gross but makes me laugh and incredible use of music in a humorous way

[DONNIEP]

Caddyshack
Vacation
Better Off Dead
Smokey And The Bandit
Any of Warf's karaoke videos

[Seshmeister]

Dead Alive - a Peter Jackson film made pre Hobbit etc..., you have to be damaged to enjoy it and it is gross but makes me laugh and incredible use of music in a humorous way

That was called Braindead here.

Every time I would put it on everyone else hated it. :)

[Never was]

Wasn't Braindead a rated version however?

I love the way the movie is made on a $5 budget. Yeah Sesh I know what you mean about people hating it, it is a strikeout or home run movie not one for the mainstream

[DLR Bridge]

The Shining. Goodfellas. Jaws. The first Die Hard.

Probably about 20 or so others, but I'm battling a hangover at the moment. I like independent films, but nothing's coming to mind just yet.

[binnie]

Big Lebowski - I easily watch this way too much, just so well written

Clerks - captures a time in my life and a lot of characters I can equate to friends growing up

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - reminds me of a time period in my life from 83-87 when I was out of control and treated the world as an escape fantasy playground, was stoned every day with peyote tea being a favorite and rarely not in my hands, fucked up to relate to this movie but I get it, really messed up since my son is nearing that age now and I realize just how insane my reality was at that age

Dead Alive - a Peter Jackson film made pre Hobbit etc..., you have to be damaged to enjoy it and it is gross but makes me laugh and incredible use of music in a humorous way

Cool list. I know loads of people that are obsessed with 'Fear & Loathing', but it's always baffled me.

Never seen 'Dead Alive', but I'll look it up! Cheers.

[binnie]

I suppose I should work on my own list, seen as I started the thread....................

[binnie]

Here we go.

Some 'obvious' ones:

'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' - a film that makes me feel so very many conflicting emotions whenever I watch it.
'Goodfellas' - has there ever been a more chilling gangster performance than De Niro here?
'Apocalypse Now'
'Lawrence of Arabia' - beautiful and powerful
'The Sting' - the best heist movie ever. The hype about a certain heist film this year made me laugh when I think about The Sting
'Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid' - action, intrigue and buddies. Perfect.
'Taxi Driver'
'Raging Bull' - as good as acting can be.
'Heat'
'Enter The Dragon' - yeah, it's a flawed film, but it reminds me of being a kid.
'Sunset Boulevard'
'North By Northwest'
'Leon'
'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'


Some less obvious choices:

'As Good As It Gets' - probably my favourite film, the cast is superb.
'Goodbye Lenin'
'Oldboy' - if you like gangster films, watch this.
'Gommorah' - ditto Oldboy
'Tell No One' - beautiful French drama
'Lethal Weapon' - easily my favourite action franchise: the Glover/Gibson chemistry is perfect
'The Lives Of Others' - stasi drama, very touching
'Stuart: a life backwards' - Tom Hardy is one of the best actors in the world now, right? Watch him at his absolute best.
'The Look in their Eyes'.

[Nitro Express]

Great list there Binnie. I just watched The Sting the other day for the first time.

[ashstralia]

'Withnail and I' a cult classic. Richard E Grant in his prime. A look at the decline of swinging 60's Britain. Lecherous uncle Monty is a highlight.

'The Fisher King' easily Robin Williams' best fillum. He and Jeff bridges turn what should've been just another maudlin movie into a memorable experience.

[ashstralia]

I also really enjoyed 'the lovely bones', and all these years later, T2 still stands in my top 5. Made in 1991, it's still a great movie. Liquid metal cop is still as freaky as all get out.

[DLR Bridge]

You enjoyed the lovely bones?? Really?? That movie made me want to develop a kangaroo like pouch to put my girls in 'til they turn 30.

[binnie]

'Withnail and I' a cult classic. Richard E Grant in his prime. A look at the decline of swinging 60's Britain. Lecherous uncle Monty is a highlight.

'The Fisher King' easily Robin Williams' best fillum. He and Jeff bridges turn what should've been just another maudlin movie into a memorable experience.

'I mean to have you, even if it has to be burglary!' Uncle Monty :D

I've always thought that Robin Williams' best films were 'One Hour Photo', 'Good Will Hunting' or 'Toys', but I'll have to revist 'Fisher King'.

Excellent point about T2, btw. I'm gonna watch that now!

[ashstralia]

'These are the kinds of windows faces look in through!'
Full of great lines.

[binnie]

Yeah, that should have been on my list. I lost count of the number of times we watched that at Uni whilst getting royally smashed.

[ashstralia]

Hey Bridge, enough with the kangaroo references, ok? :D

[Satan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGOVbXF7Iog

[ashstralia]

Yeah, that should have been on my list. I lost count of the number of times we watched that at Uni whilst getting royally smashed.

Directed by Mr. Gilliam (Fisher King, not Withnail)

[vandeleur]

Mmmm ok

Casablanca ... It fucking rocks

Dawn of the dead .... Very clever and even now in shopping malls I work out how to take them down while shopping with the boss :D

Goodfellas ....what's not to like .

Duck soup ... Funny every time .

Am a Kev smith freak so , clerks amy dogma pick one .

Aliens ...... My token fav action movie .

[vandeleur]

Weirdly fisher king is greAt but it's no Brasil :)

[binnie]

I've never been able to get into the Aliens franchise.....don't know why

[vandeleur]

They are mostly pants but one is scary and two was action pact

[ashstralia]

I saw the first Alien at the cinema aged 12. Shat meself. The shining is my fave horror flick.

[High Life Man]

That was called Braindead here.

Every time I would put it on everyone else hated it. :)

Ever see his movie "Meet the Feebles"?

[DLR Bridge]

I saw the first Alien at the cinema aged 12. Shat meself. The shining is my fave horror flick.

The Shining is flawlessly terrifying. Saw it when we got HBO when I was 11. I too, shat myself.

[vandeleur]

Yeah, shinning is a shit scary movie

[VetteLS5]

In no particular order:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Casino
Goodfellas
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List (dark, I know, but an amazing movie)
Almost Famous
Jeremiah Johnson
The Mountain Men
Caddyshack
Christmas Vacation
Top Secret!
Airplane
Airplane 2
Arthur (the original with Dudley Moore)
Star Wars
The Hunt for Red October
Dazed and Confused

[DlocRoth]

Ever see his movie "Meet the Feebles"?

Now we're talking!

That movie is IMPOSSIBLE to find, but I found a shitty asian boot of it about 20 years ago.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more fucked up film.

[Seshmeister]

Wasn't Braindead a rated version however?



I'm not sure but I find it hard to believe that it was censored... :)

[Seshmeister]

Ever see his movie "Meet the Feebles"?

Of course... :)




It's funny that he went on to become the most mainstream director in Hollywood.

I think I only saw MTF once, some bits were a bit eeeewww as I remember. :)

[vandeleur]

I ain't seen it but I used to have a copy of brain dead .... Great fun

[vandeleur]

My memory of it is .. I kick ass for The Lord and the lawnmower at the end

[Seshmeister]

Weirdly fisher king is greAt but it's no Brasil :)

I've still never seen Brazil. I've been looking out for it for the last year but considering how often it makes these top 10 lists, it's not on TV very often.

[vandeleur]

Really ..... Very very clever . On lots of levels . Intelligent film making that's funny . What's not to like .

[ashstralia]

No one's mentioned Shawshank yet? We've probably all seen it 20 times, but it's still a great movie.

[vandeleur]

Ash fuck off , all your doing is mentioning flicks I missed off my list :biggrin:

[ashstralia]

Well I've had time to think about it vandy, innit? :bigwink:

[vandeleur]

well I guess it comes down to a simple choice really , get busy living or get busy dying :D

[ashstralia]

Another legendary Stephen King story.

[vandeleur]

Yeah when I read the book it didn't stand out like the movie did .
Where as the shinning the book is scary as fuck and you knew it would make a good movie , throw in jack and your golden .

[ashstralia]

One of my FB mates has pennywise from It as his profile pic. Still creeps me out.

[vandeleur]

oops .. am tired lol

Yeah penny wise was scary as fuck ... There is a bit in the book where the kid gets dragged down a storm drain , proper put the shits up me.

[vandeleur]

Am sure there is a medical condition that has people scared of clowns, that book and movie must have fucked people up :D

[ashstralia]

Coulrophobia. Kramer's got it! :)

[vandeleur]

ya trainspotter :biggrin:

[ashstralia]

An anorak where you're from? ;)

[ashstralia]

Woade, tossing his orb about.

[vandeleur]

Withnail :)

[ODShowtime]

Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke is probably it for me. There are many parts that I can watch over and over again. The part where Chong's parents lecture him in the beginning is one of the funniest things that ever happened. I check that out on Youtube regularly.

Trading Places is another one. I don't watch a lot of films these days.

[Seshmeister]

No one's mentioned Shawshank yet? We've probably all seen it 20 times, but it's still a great movie.

Only realized today that the evil prison warder Captain Hadley was The Kurgen from The Highlander!

How did I miss that all these years??!!