Top Ten and Desert Island flicks...

[Sweder]

Groundhog Day . . . wow, that is an astonishingly good film.
I love Bill Murray (another SNL alumni) and he's rarely been better on screen than at the moment when he greets his former classmate Ned several times in a row, finally punching the guy before he can utter his line. It's a masterpiece and I never realised it . . .

Woke up just now (still in Istanbul) with the ancestors of all hangovers (major Raki fallout) . . . wearing my sunglasses.

That's a first.

[glaconman]

I'd forgetton about Sexy Beast. That's a contender.

A few more beauties:

Lantana (best Aussie film?)
Paris, Texas (best Soundtrack?)
Volver
Los Lunes al sol (best Spanish Film?)
Rififi (Pacino remake in Production)

Andy: I thought your favorite film was Field Of Dreams?

[glaconman]

Volver (best cleavage?)

probably worthy of it's own thread

[glaconman]

Sweder;

Not a good for watching Midnight Express then?

[Sweder]

Sexy Beast is a good shout.
As for Aussie films (or films made in Aus) what about Prescilla Queen Of The Desert?
We have to go genre folks, it's the only way. Might flush a few more gems out that way. Suggested topics:

Musical
Gangster
Thriller/ Action
True Story
Comedy
Horror/ Sci Fi
Sport
War
Brit
Foreign Language*
Black & White

Sub categories might include
By (Director)
Starring (Actor/ Actress)

Maybe not top tens for all those, perhaps top threes?
Fell free to add any I've missed . . . still horribly hung over

[SIZE="1"]* apologies to Ana and SP for assuming English is your first language[/SIZE]

[El Gordo]

Not 10 of each though, please.

Perhaps 3?

Will think about it.

[El Gordo]

I'd forgetton about Sexy Beast. That's a contender.

A few more beauties:

Lantana (best Aussie film?)
Paris, Texas (best Soundtrack?)
Volver
Los Lunes al sol (best Spanish Film?)
Rififi (Pacino remake in Production)

Andy: I thought your favorite film was Field Of Dreams?

Yes, Lantana is a great film, and I had Paris Texas in my first list but then discarded it reluctantly.

Field of Dreams is a great film but I seem to have seen it in a number of different languages now in foreign hotel rooms, and I'm getting kinda bored with it. I need to forget about it for a few years then chance upon it when I'm in the old people's home, so that I can expire in a flood of tears but with a smile on my face. What a way to go.

[suzieq]

Ok, difficult as it is, here are 10 of my favourites:

Life is Beautiful
Shrek (all of them)
Toy Story
The Incredibles
Team America
Star Wars (mainly the first one)
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Lord of the Rings (all of them)
The Princess Bride

It does change and I'm probably forgetting some great movies that I love...but this will do for now.

Suzie

[Sweder]

Not 10 of each though, please.
Perhaps 3?

I think we're in agreement - look at the last couple of lines of my post again

Suzie, is The Princess Bride the one with Billy Crystal, the Giant and the brilliant swordplay?
If it is that's another gem you've reminded me of; I must show that to Phoebe, she'd love it.
Definately in my Top ten comedies.

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Titanic yet...



...which makes you all a pretty switched-on bunch by my reckoning.

[Moyleman]

Sweder's task of categorization. Hmmm

Too many in one and not enough in another. So far -

Sport - Rocky, Raging Bull, Million dollar baby, Chariots of Fire, Loneliness of the long distance runner. - Oops strayed into running !

Gangster - Goodfellas, Godfather, Untouchables, Casino, Gangs of New York - that's a lot of Scorcese.

Thriller/Action - Usual suspects, Memento, Bound, Pulp Fiction, Seven.

War - Where eagle's dare, Saving Private Ryan, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Platoon.

Sci-fi - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Terminator, Blade runner, Total recall.
Not a big fan of Star Wars.

Horror - Psycho, Jaws, Sixth sense?, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street

Foreign Language - Jean de florette etc., Betty Blue, The big blue, Nikita, Kung-fu Hustle.

Brit - Sexy Beast, Lock stock &.., Dead Man's shoes, Four Wedding's, Ali G indahouse

Musicals - Wizard of Oz, Bugsy Malone, King and I, Sound of Music, Singin' in the rain

Comedy - Some like it hot, Uncle buck, Blues Brothers, Borat, Spinal Tap

Black and White - Citizen Kane, Casablanca?, Maltese Falcon, Third Man, Schindler's list

? True story ?

[Sweder]

One more category that may be more fun and generate more debate . . . films that often feature in top lusts but in your opinion should not be there . . . and why. No 'list' required, just a bloody good slagging for the one celebrated flick that really gets your goat.

[El Gordo]

One more category that may be more fun and generate more debate . . . films that often feature in top lusts but in your opinion should not be there . . . and why. No 'list' required, just a bloody good slagging for the one celebrated flick that really gets your goat.

Top "lusts"?

Hmm, that's certainly another category worth pondering...

[Nick]

Top "lusts"?

Hmm, that's certainly another category worth pondering...

Big naturals IV ?

It was only a matter of time!

[Ana]

And of course, no one's mentioned Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane was one of my first 10s. I have even a teddy-bear called Rosebud!

Regarding MLCM's suggestion about Titanic: not, please, never.....

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Regarding MLCM's suggestion about Titanic: not, please, never.....

Makes me want to list my most hated movies:

Titanic
Star Wars (all of them)
Lord of the Rings (ditto)
Harry Potter (ditto) ... a bit of a theme building here
Finding Nemo
Alien Resurrection (in stark contrast to the first three of the series)
Lion King II (God, noooooooo....)
Lion King III (Gaaaah!)

anything with Adam Sandler
anything with Ben Stiller

etc.!

[El Gordo]

Makes me want to list my most hated movies:

Titanic
Star Wars (all of them)
Lord of the Rings (ditto)
Harry Potter (ditto) ... a bit of a theme building here
Finding Nemo
Alien Resurrection (in stark contrast to the first three of the series)
Lion King II (God, noooooooo....)
Lion King III (Gaaaah!)

anything with Adam Sandler
anything with Ben Stiller

etc.!

I've always kept a healthy distance from 'grown-ups' who get shiny-eyed about Star Wars, the same way that, on the train, I would rather stand up than sit next to someone over the age of 15 reading a Harry Potter book.

I know that Potter-readers are 'making a statement' about what well-rounded people they perceive themselves to be, but it cuts no ice with me.

I read the first book (in the privacy of my own home) and thought it really very badly written. People tell me that they got better after that but well, there seemed to be better things to do with my reading time than to test that view. I saw the first 2 (or 3?) HP films and found myself admiring the technical skills but -- very much like the book -- was left utterly cold when it came to convincing me that this world was real, that these characters were real, and that any of them were worth bothering about.

As for Star Wars, I'm not a big sci-fi fan. Again, I can rarely suspend my disbelief that far. The one thing I'd say in favour of SW (I saw only the first film) was that it didn't seem to take itself too seriously. It all seemed a bit camp and tongue-in-cheek, unlike the Harry Potter industry.

Finding Nemo I thought was good for its genre. I enjoyed it.

Lord of the Rings? I read it when I should have been revising for my O'levels, so I'd have been 15. The perfect age to fall under the Tolkien spell. I thought it was brilliant then, and would prefer not to spoil my memories by re-reading it now. The films were OK I thought, getting better as they went on. I wouldn't bother seeing any of them a second time unless I had to, but they were entertaining, whereas the Potter films are just annoying.

My most hated movies? Hmm....

I'm not sure I have any. There are genres that I avoid, like teen flicks, most rom coms, most cine-sci-fi, most "must-see" blockbusters... most sports fims... but because I don't go to see them, I don't really hate them. Why should I hate a bunch of 16 year old girls going off to see a movie aimed at teenage girls? (Rhetorical question.)

I'd probably feel different if I had kids, and had to sit through some of these things.

[Ana]

Makes me want to list my most hated movies:

Titanic
Star Wars (all of them)

Stars Wars are very good films if you look them in their time and context. They are plenty of philosophy.

Music apart, it is also a very great idea! To say our WORST films!

With all my love:p , here my refined sellection:

-Titanic
-The bodyguard
-Any Eddy Murphy film
-Any Rocky, Chiki chan (how do you write this?, OK, Bruce Lee) or Bud Spencer/Terence Hill film. I do not give them any chance. As I see them on the screen, I change automatically of TV channel. This is perhaps because I am a girl.
-The Mummy
-All Cocodrilo Dandee series (excepting the first one)

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Not enough oldies here. So I'll add:

The Day The Earth Stood Still

for its ahead-of-its-time, brilliantly put, extremely blunt but poignant message to humanity.

Brilliant!

[Ana]

I know that Potter-readers are 'making a statement' about what well-rounded people they perceive themselves to be, but it cuts no ice with me.

I read the first book (in the privacy of my own home) and thought it really very badly written. People tell me that they got better after that but well, there seemed to be better things to do with my reading time than to test that view. I saw the first 2 (or 3?) HP films and found myself admiring the technical skills but -- very much like the book -- was left utterly cold when it came to convincing me that this world was real, that these characters were real, and that any of them were worth bothering about.

Be careful to your words Andy!

Look what Harry has made to MLCM when he has heard that he didn't love his films!