[iainoco]

Originally Posted by Slingo

4. Magnum Force

I was torn between this and Dirty Harry but went with the original since I watched it most recently. Love David Soul in Magnum Force, he had star written all over him

[Slingo]

David Soul was very cool in the movie. Love the one liners from Eastwood in all the Dirty Harry movies.

[MarkusThatch]

1. The Third Man
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Taxi Driver
4. Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Vertigo
6. Battle of Algiers
7. Empire Strikes Back
8. Sunset Boulevard
9. Aliens
10. Jaws

Not in any particular order and the list changes like the wind!

[Mr_Wistles]

1. Once Upon a time in America
2. Goodfellas
3. Superbad
4. Goonies
5. Jaws
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Explorers
8. Godfather
9. American Pie
10. Karate Kid

[vokeyuk]

1. casablanca
2. hero (the chinese one rather than the dustin hoffman)
3. v for vendetta
4. red cliff
5. saving private ryan
6. layer cake
7. its a wonderful life
8. godfather part 2
9. life is beautiful
10. kingdom of heaven

[Pecker]

Originally Posted by vokeyuk

1. casablanca
2. hero (the chinese one rather than the dustin hoffman)
3. v for vendetta
4. red cliff
5. saving private ryan
6. layer cake
7. its a wonderful life
8. godfather part 2
9. life is beautiful
10. kingdom of heaven

That's a very interesting list indeed.



Steve W

[MarkusThatch]

How about films to make you feel at home when you're on that desert island?

1. Hell in the pacific
2. Ice cold in alex
3. Lawrence of arabia
4. Flight of the phoenix
5. Flight of the phoenix (remake)
6. Dune
7. Castaway
8. Swiss Family Robinson
9. Lord of the flies
10. Blue Lagoon

[Sonic67]

Blue Lagoon? Not seen that for a loooooong time.

[KiLLiNG-TiME]

Originally Posted by MarkusThatch

How about films to make you feel at home when you're on that desert island?

1. Hell in the pacific
2. Ice cold in alex
3. Lawrence of arabia
4. Flight of the phoenix
5. Flight of the phoenix (remake)
6. Dune
7. Castaway
8. Swiss Family Robinson
9. Lord of the flies
10. Blue Lagoon

Brilliant

[vokeyuk]

Originally Posted by Pecker

That's a very interesting list indeed.



Steve W

Aye, big of an odd mixed bag

[TheRobotman]

downfall
blade runner
amelie
pulp fiction
life is beautiful
pans labyrinth
exit through the giftshop
pink floyd - the wall
star wars - the empire strikes back
full metal jacket
howl's moving castle

i'll likely edit this, but for now i think it covers everything.

[Schreck]

10 favs: (subject to change!)

Bicycle Thieves
Rain Man
The Machinist
Dead Man's Shoes
American History X
Shutter Island
The Shawshank Redemption
Truman Show
Psycho
Gran Torino

[Mr Quint]

Jaws
Runaway Train (1985)
Temple Of Doom
Return Of The Jedi
For Your Eyes Only
Licence To Kill
A View To A Kill
Last Man Standing
Saving Private Ryan
Finding Nemo (3D when it arrives)

[KuroKiller]

-The Deer Hunter
-2001 A Space Odissey
-North by Northwest
-Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
-The Godfather I-II
-The Boys Next Door
-Once Upon a Time in The West
-Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
-The Circus
-Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)

"Alternative" list

-Wild Strawberries
-Stroszek (Herzog)
-Apocalypse Now (original version,not the "redux" one)
-Taxi Driver
-The Third Man
-Unforgiven
-Amadeus (director's cut)
-A Clockwork Orange - Barry Lyndon -The Shining -Paths Of Glory (Kubrick)
-Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
-Gold Rush
-Star Wars episode IV-VI
-Lord Of The Rings trilogy
-Ivan The Terrible
-From Russia with Love
-The Birds
-Raging Bull
-The General
-Brazil
-A few Dollars More -The Good The Bad and The Ugly- Duck, You Sucker!-Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)

[cruiser27]

LOTR trilogy
Aliens
American Beauty
Shallow Hal
escape form new york
terminator 2
the office 1 and 2 (sorry bit indulgent )
one flew over the cuckoos nest
bad lieutenant (1992)
wall.e


honestly i would want so many more, very hard :o

[Pecker]

Originally Posted by cruiser27

LOTR trilogy
Aliens
American Beauty
Shallow Hal
escape form new york
terminator 2
the office 1 and 2 (sorry bit indulgent )
one flew over the cuckoos nest
bad lieutenant (1992)
wall.e


honestly i would want so many more, very hard :o

None of those are in my Top10 (though One Flew... very easily could be).

But that's a very good list. I'm not big on Shallow Hal or Bad Lieutenant, but I could live with the others on my desert island.

I think I'd watch The Office whenever being away from 'the real world' got to me a bit, just to remind me that said society is full of prats.

Steve W

Steve W

[cruiser27]

Originally Posted by Pecker

None of those are in my Top10 (though One Flew... very easily could be).

But that's a very good list. I'm not big on Shallow Hal or Bad Lieutenant, but I could live with the others on my desert island.

I think I'd watch The Office whenever being away from 'the real world' got to me a bit, just to remind me that said society is full of prats.

Steve W

Steve W

actually i forgot all about Gattaca. i'll need to replace one of them, probably wall.e

ah, SHallow hal just makes me laugh every time. jason alexander is sooo good. bad lieutenant is a classic for me, it is an OTT film. i've got a lot of peeps to appreciate it. i bought a bad lieutenant tshirt years ago and my girlfriend at the time made me send it back

[Bonessi]

Surprised this thread isn't still alive!

La Haine
Happy Gilmore (it just makes me laugh everytime)
Back to the Future I-II-III (I if trilogies don't count)
Bladerunner
Butch Cassidy and the Sunshine Kid
Once Upon a Time in the West
Goodfellas
The Prestige
The Hustler
The Godfather I-II (I if 2 aren't allowed)

These haven't changed for some time, Prestige (2006) being the most recent addition.

[bosque]

Fritz Lang's "M", that is all you'd need and hope you weren't rescued for a very long time.

[kbfern]

Ben Hur
Lawrence of Arabia
Batman TDK
Bruce Springsteen "London calling" live in Hyde Park
Band of Brothers
Jaws
Big Lebowski
Casino Royale
Alien
The Blue Planet

All blurays only please

[JUST ROCK]

Hi, my Top Ten Movies would have to be -
1. Carlitos Way
2. Heat
3. The Bourne Identity
4. Taken
5. Blood Diamond
6. Payback
7. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
8. No Country For Old Men
9. Gran Torino
10. Casino Royale

[Duncanc]

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Apocalypse Now
Sexy Beast
The Thing
2001
Blue Velvet
Get Carter
Highlander (only the 1st one!)
Breaking Bad (boxset)
Bladerunner
and a cheeky 11, 12, 13 & 14: The Breakfast Club, They Live, The Hitcher & Dune
and because i just can't not add these: The Pink Panther & James Bond boxsets....

Damn, this is tough !

[Pecker]

Thanks - I'd forgotten about this thread.

Sexy Beast, great choice!

The family has a caravan. It belongs to Me Julie's aunt and uncle, but other visitors include their sons (my mates) Phil and Stephen.

I've provided a media player and HDDs and have ripped everyone's top tens. They've been put through the same ringer as you all.

As a brief aside, as well as their top ten, for each film they chose I provided an alternative. It was good fun.

Steve W

[cruiser27]

Originally Posted by Duncanc

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Apocalypse Now
Sexy Beast
The Thing
2001
Blue Velvet
Get Carter
Highlander (only the 1st one!)
Breaking Bad (boxset)
Bladerunner
and a cheeky 11, 12, 13 & 14: The Breakfast Club, They Live, The Hitcher & Dune
and because i just can't not add these: The Pink Panther & James Bond boxsets....

Damn, this is tough !

nice choices
they live, i've watched it a brave few times excellent

[Duncanc]

Thanks, Sexy Beast is perfection!

The dialogue turns expletives into poetry, with one of the best, most menacing performances ever by Ben Kingsley. Hell, it even showed the world that Lovejoy had talent and the fantastic series Deadwood, and McShane's character Swearengen, owes much to Sexy Beast. It's unfathomable that Director Jonathan Glazer can barely raise a budget now

They Live (speaking of budget issues) is a real lost gem.

John Carpenter was on a run, having made some of the best movies of the late 70s to mid 80s, for some reason couldn't scratch together a decent budget for this highly anti-establishment critic of the U.S. at that time; Reaganism increasing the gulf between rich and poor, creating social, slave like underclass (there's a great commentary on the DVD by Carpenter), so little wonder the studio execs didn't want to shell out.

But it's easy to imagine just how epic this movie could've been and it still stands as a highly potent hotbed of politically incendiary ideas - all within Carpenter's cool-as-hell veneer. When Piper first dons the glasses it's one of the greatest reveals of all time, with an epic sci-fi plot coming straight at you out of nowhere (well, straight at you from the reliable pages of the great Philip K. Dick to be precise). As if that's not enough, it throws into the ring the best screen fight of all time. It's all there, just on a small canvas. Sadly it was Carpenter's last truly great movie

I can't get this thread out of my head now - keep thinking of more movies to add, like Where Eagles Dare (if only for Burton and the Theme tune by Ron Goodman). I defy anyone to listen to it and not need to storm a Nazi castle right now this instant!!!

Then there's The Last Temptation of Christ...Now that movie really screws with your head upon first viewing. No spoilers here, just know it's superb. Scorsese originally wanted the apostles to have New York accents, obviously with DeNiro as Christ. Sometimes it's a good thing when you don't get what you want - to paraphrase the Stones Scorsesegot what he needed instead, since Defoe et al could not be bettered.

Keep'em coming.....

[lucasisking]

Originally Posted by Pecker

Thanks - I'd forgotten about this thread.

Steve W

So had I. And looking back at my entry (post 211), my choices haven't really changed except for two movies: Drive (which now goes high on my list- possibly near the top) and This Is Spinal Tap. I'd gladly edge out the likes of Star Wars for those.

Bubbling under: Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, No Country for Old Men, Mullholland Drive, Minority Report.

[Duncanc]

Originally Posted by lucasisking

So had I. And looking back at my entry (post 211), my choices haven't really changed except for two movies: Drive (which now goes high on my list- possibly near the top)

Great choice, i love that movie - has the best score in many years. You should check Director Nicholas Winding Refn's other great movies Valhalla Rising and in particular Bronson with Tom Hardy.

I'm looking forward to his next one Only God Forgives (with Ryan Goslin again).

[Zebedee]

ok, I'll throw my hat into the ring ... in no particular order and with the disclaimer: subject to change ...

Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset (probably the best dialogue between a boy & girl in a movie - can't wait for the final part of the trilogy - Before Midnight. Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy - you feel like you are eavesdropping on a real couple who are perfect for each other)
Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources (a French classic with a young Emmanuel Beart getting her revenge)
Sunshine (retina-burning SFX and a score to die for from John Murphy & Underworld)
Annie Hall(The scene where Woody Allen's thoughts are subtitled when he's with Diane Keaton is priceless!)
Carlito's Way (Many things I love about this film; Pacino's character desperate to reform, Sean Penn is almost unrecognisable as his lawyer, Brian de Palma's 'single shot effect' finale, Joe Cocker's 'You are so Beautiful' melody.)
Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum is the genuinely terrifying wolf in sheep's clothing)
Election (Mathew Broderick's finest role along with a young Reese Witherspoon; very well written and very very funny, not widely shown on TV, sadly)
Alien (I know a lot of peole prefer Aliens but I find that I can watch this film again and again. The sets & sfx don't date this film at all considering it came out in 1979).
Exorcist (first film that genuinely scared the sh*t out of me (to be fair I was younger then). I had to walk home from a friend's house after watching it on video. It was the dead of winter, not particularly late but very dark)
School of Rock (one of those rare occasions where the film looks like it was 'made' for the actor; Jack Black. No one else could play it better)


There's tons more I could choose, some of which have been listed above. I may add to it at some other time.

[bosque]

Originally Posted by Zebedee

ok, I'll throw my hat into the ring ... in no particular order and with the disclaimer: subject to change ...

That's a pretty good selection !