What films do you go back to again and again? And why?
What films do you go back to again and again? And why?
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This is a toughy i may have to ponder this over lager .....
fuck your fucking framing
Everybody is preparing their list ! I can't do this on iPhone
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
Caddyshack
Vacation
Better Off Dead
Smokey And The Bandit
Any of Warf's karaoke videos
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
That was called Braindead here.Originally Posted by Never was
Every time I would put it on everyone else hated it.
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
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.
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.
I suppose I should work on my own list, seen as I started the thread....................
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'.
Great list there Binnie. I just watched The Sting the other day for the first time.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
'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 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.
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.
'I mean to have you, even if it has to be burglary!' Uncle Monty
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!
'These are the kinds of windows faces look in through!'
Full of great lines.
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.
Hey Bridge, enough with the kangaroo references, ok?
Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Directed by Mr. Gilliam (Fisher King, not Withnail)
Last edited by ashstralia; 02-08-2014 at 05:26 PM.
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
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 .
Weirdly fisher king is greAt but it's no Brasil
I've never been able to get into the Aliens franchise.....don't know why
They are mostly pants but one is scary and two was action pact
Last edited by vandeleur; 02-08-2014 at 06:36 PM.
I saw the first Alien at the cinema aged 12. Shat meself. The shining is my fave horror flick.
Ever see his movie "Meet the Feebles"?That was called Braindead here.
Every time I would put it on everyone else hated it.
The Shining is flawlessly terrifying. Saw it when we got HBO when I was 11. I too, shat myself.
Yeah, shinning is a shit scary movie
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
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.
Fuck Scott Weiland. Fucking asshole. I get trashed all the time and still go to work. And my job sucks ass. -ODShowtime
I'm not sure but I find it hard to believe that it was censored...
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.
I ain't seen it but I used to have a copy of brain dead .... Great fun
My memory of it is .. I kick ass for The Lord and the lawnmower at the end
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.Weirdly fisher king is greAt but it's no Brasil
Really ..... Very very clever . On lots of levels . Intelligent film making that's funny . What's not to like .
No one's mentioned Shawshank yet? We've probably all seen it 20 times, but it's still a great movie.
Ash fuck off , all your doing is mentioning flicks I missed off my list
Well I've had time to think about it vandy, innit?
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