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Your Favourite Film Of All Time

 
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:17 pm    Post subject: Your Favourite Film Of All Time Reply with quote

I love watching those classic movies. War films - Where Eagles Dare and The Great Escape. Comedies - Laural and Hardy and you can't beat the old Carry Ons. I also like The Wizard Of Oz..

So what are your all time classic movies?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love Where Eagles Dare-I have watched that film more times than any other.

Other classics which are my favourites include Zulu, Bridge over the River Kwai, Jaws, Planet of The Apes (original), The 49 Steps, A Bridge Too far.

I must go and have a look at my video/DVD collection which is boxed up following a house move a few months ago.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blade Runner is another one starring Harrison Ford.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My favourites are ET and Brazil, but after that it's a long list of films I love!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In no particular order and off the top of my head:

The Thing (1982 remake)
Leon
Some Like It Hot
Benny and Joon
Aliens
Heat
Cross of Iron
Taxi (the original French movie)
Jamon Jamon
Delicatessen

And there's ten to be getting on with....
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In no particular order, and discounting musicals

The Last Picture Show
On Golden Pond
Frankie and Johnny
Roxanne
Blues Brothers
The Guns of Navarone
Duck Soup
War of the Roses
The Sting
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a toss up between
Dumb and Dumber and the Blues Brothers for my favourite movie

other movies I've liked.

Perfect World
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Robin Hood (Disney version)
Independence Day
Men in Black ( but not the sequels)
What lies Beneath
Indiana Jones ( all of them)


I watched a movie called Seven when it first came out. It put me into shock, I had to go for counselling. Not been to the cinema since.

I don't trust movie makers or the certification body ( BBFC) any more.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel wrote:
I watched a movie called Seven when it first came out. It put me into shock, I had to go for counselling. Not been to the cinema since.

I don't trust movie makers or the certification body ( BBFC) any more.

Why? It was a certificate 18 and the content should have been clear from the promotion. Plus, not all films in the cinema are like that!

(I think Se7en is brilliant and saw it twice in the cinema, plus bought on VHS and DVD).
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This Island Earth

When Worlds Colide

Day the Earth Stood Still

(50 sci-fi, very corny but in a cosy way!)

Stir Crazy

Kelly's Heroes

Rio Bravo

28 days later (not really a Zombie fest fan but I loved the atmosphere of this film, society broken down, London deserted....great)

Vertigo

Rear Window (seen loads ofd times but still gives me butterflies in the stomach when the man realises he is being watched)
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:
Rachel wrote:
I watched a movie called Seven when it first came out. It put me into shock, I had to go for counselling. Not been to the cinema since.

I don't trust movie makers or the certification body ( BBFC) any more.

Why? It was a certificate 18 and the content should have been clear from the promotion. Plus, not all films in the cinema are like that!

(I think Se7en is brilliant and saw it twice in the cinema, plus bought on VHS and DVD).

It was sick. I didn't really know what it was about before I watched it, just turned up at the cinema and thought I'll give that a go. Afterwards I was unable to speak for 5 days.

Other 18 cert movies I'd seen prior to that didn't have that effect.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fair enough. It is a bit intense. I was just wondering 'cos I also really like the rest of the films on your list and found it weird we're so different over that one!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still watch movies .. just watch em at home on DVD... hubby vets them for me Smile No phyco stuff....

I love cartoons, comedy and happy endings... Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't mind the odd horror or violence that's obviously OTT (hence The War of the Roses in my list) but psycho stuff and stalking/hostage type films are upsetting (I can't even watch EastEnders these days).

I also left out family/childrens films from my list. Just about every Disney animation, up to Toy Story 2, would have appeared on it. More recent ones seem to have been almost too clever, in terms of effects, dialogue and execution, for their own good.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Casablanca' and most of Humphrey Bogart's other films!
'The Searchers' with John Wayne and Jeffery Hunter
'North by Northwest' with Cary Grant, James Mason and Eva Marie Saint
'Vertigo' with James Stewart and Kim Novak
'High Noon' with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. It was Lee Van Cleef's first film!
'Gunfight at OK Corral' with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and Lee Van Cleef again.
'Shane' with Alan Ladd, Jack Palance and Van Heflin
'2001' with the great musical score by Strauss and others
'The Godfather' series, Brando, Pacino, Caan etc.
'Paths of Glory' with Kirk Douglas, George Macready and Adolphe Menjou
'Gilda' with Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth
'The girl can't help it' with Edmond O'Brien, Tom Ewell and Jayne Mansfield

Andy, as regards Science Fiction, 'Rio Bravo' and Hitchcock films we have a lot of favourites in common, sir!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RockitRon wrote:
I don't mind the odd horror or violence that's obviously OTT (hence The War of the Roses in my list) but psycho stuff and stalking/hostage type films are upsetting (I can't even watch EastEnders these days).

I also left out family/childrens films from my list. Just about every Disney animation, up to Toy Story 2, would have appeared on it. More recent ones seem to have been almost too clever, in terms of effects, dialogue and execution, for their own good.



oh!! Toy Story, I forgot about that .... Great movie.. love it

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Lazer envy

It's not a lazer it's a little light that blinks!!

also Muppets Christmas Carol.....

One leg Jim ... count em, one

Oh I forgot Trains, Planes and Automobiles too!

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No, I have two dollars and this Casio... Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AndyAndy2 wrote:

Kelly's Heroes


How could I have forgot this? Very Happy Used to be the highlight of my Christmases when I was younger. "Stop hitting me with those negative waves!" The production staff had even tried to make the Tigers look like Tigers, which is more than could be said for the likes of "Castle Keep", etc.

If we're also talking about 50s B-movies, then I'll have to add "Forbidden Planet" to the list - simply for the firefight with the invisible monster that leaves huge indentations on the stairs to the C-57D.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do like the Die Hard Movies. Batman old, and new. Can't wait for the next one out in summer 2008.
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