Movies, what are Your favourites ? ? ? ? ?

reading Ians recent post "Music.....wot r u in 2?" has made Me think to start this thread
hope it takes off as I am a big Movie Head...

so what are Your favourite Movies of all time or what decent Movies have seen recently ?

I'll get the ball rolling

It's going to be blatantly obvious that De Niro would have to be My favourite Actor but there are many more out there that I am very fond of in Movies like Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino, Robert DuVall,
Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Gary Sinise,
Richard Harris, Paul Newman, Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Denzel Washington, Sean Connery,
Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Daniel Day Lewis,
Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Voight, Gerard Depardieu, James Caan, Kevin Spacey,
Willem Dafoe, Viggo Mortensen, Jodi Foster, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Julianne Moore, Helen Mirren,
Annette Bening, Susan Sarandon, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Connelly, Charlize Theron, Keira Knightley,
Marisa Tomei, Naomi Watts to name but a few

I'm sure I'll add more as they enter My mind but off the top of My head:

the Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
The Mission
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather
Serpico
The Panic in Needle Park
Scarface
Scent of a Woman
Donnie Brasco
Schindler's list
there will be Blood
Heat
the Painted Veil
the Usual Suspects
Goodfellas
Casino
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Immortal Beloved
the Bridges of Maddison County
Sleepers
Raging Bull
Once Upon a Time in America
A Bronx Tale
This Boy's Life
the Basketball diaries
Cop Land
the worlds fastest Indian
the silence of the Lambs
Ronin
The Score
15 minutes
Se7en
the Shining
City of God

I know there are Tonnes more greats out there but this will do for a start

Movies I've seen recently and thought where good:

Mother and Child
www.imdb.com/title/tt1121977/

Clean Skin
www.imdb.com/title/tt1598873/


Des

some excellent stuff there des i wont rename any youve put up so here are a couple more
shawshank redemption
the green mile
forest gump
happy gilmore
iknow this is a strange one ut i love this film evan almighty
john

Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Wild Hogs are up there with the best of them!

Stephen.

Des I notice we have similar taste in films and actors as well as music(and fish I guess too!),but I'm well impressed you like The World's Fastest Indian. A movie not many have seen,but WELL worth a watch.

I have dozens,if not hundreds,so will put up a list when a bit more time is to hand(doing wc's in shed at mo).

lord of the rings are by far my fav films ever, gladiator, micheal collins, master and commander and pretty much any war/historical movie. john wayne would be one of my fav actors, hondo is a great movie.
anything with adam sandler(with the exception of a few of his latest movies, total crap)
mark wahlberg being another actor i like.
spy/assassin movies are another genre i love, movies like hitman, the tournament, the international.
black comedies are deadly, can't beat them.
why all these topics about favs? i can't remember them all i'm rackin my brain here but there's too many to list!!! lol

Great thread Des.

There are certainly more turkeys than there are half decent films.

For globals.....I love budget films with a good script (that includes many great British and Irish films, as well as gritty European and Aussie films).

There are so many films that I watched on BBC2, but never knew their name.

For special effects.....the original King Kong and Jason and the Argonauts.

For camera angles (OK....I'm a nerd)....Citizen Kane.

Horror......James Whale's films were ground-breaking (and he was a local hero from Dudley) eg Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein.
Night of the Demon.

Classic Musicals (I hate musicals), but West Side Story is pure brill.

The Shining.

For having the hottest woman ever on the silver screen:
Cleopatra;
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (for a hot woman in a great film);
Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf for one of the best films ever made (and Liz Taylor not only delivered one of the best ever performances, she also looked great).

A number of Ken Russell films: Devils; Women in Love....and see below....Tommy.

And linked to Ken Russell Films...... Oliver Reed has starred in 3 of them films (coincidence?..no, Oliver Reed was great).

For shear Brilliance and music: The Wall (and in a similar vein, Tommy comes in a close second).

And here is a final installment (for the moment) is pure genius, gripping, and somewhat odd film: WALKABOUT.

ian

JohnH wrote:

"And here is a final installment (for the moment) is pure genius, gripping, and somewhat odd film: WALKABOUT".

Nothing to do with the lead actress - no, of course not.
I found it a most disturbing film, as was one of her later films - Equus (stone me, I can't even manage to remember how the name was spelled!!!).

John

Ithink we've had this chat before(?),was it a young Jenny Agutter by memory?

john wrote:

...so here are a couple more
shawshank redemption
the green mile
forest gump
happy gilmore
iknow this is a strange one ut i love this film evan almighty
john

cheers John
yeah, I liked shawshank n' forest gump, thaught the green mile was good up until the end...

I wouldn't be a big Comedy Movie Fan Bar a few...
tends to be the more serious Flix that stick with Me
although I did like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, Groundhog Day, Withnail and I, A Family Thing, the super and I can't think of any more right now...

Bill Murray is a Legend (actually that's a name I forgot from the original list)

Clive Owen, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Benicio del Toro, Joe Pesci, Daniel Craig, James Woods, Russel Crowe,
Michelle Pfeiffer...


More Movies:

Videodrome
Straw Dogs (Original Version)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Original Version)
Apocalypse Now
Tender Mercies
Colors (great movie, Duvall, Penn)
Falling Down
A Family Thing (hilarious)
The Apostle (great acting by Duvall in this movie)
Assassination Tango
We Own the Night (great movie)
Crazy Heart
Get Low
Sea of Love
The Godfather Part III
Carlito's Way
The Insider
Insomnia
You Don't Know Jack (great true story about Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Pacino)
Cat's eye
Bad Boys (83, Penn)
Dead Man Walking (great Movie, Penn, Sarandon)
She's So Lovely
the Game
Being John Malkovich
Sweet and Lowdown (one of My favourite Movies, hilarious)
I Am Sam (great movie)
Mystic River (great movie)
21 Grams
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (I loved it, Penn, great soundtrack too)
Fair Game
The Crossing Guard (great movie)
The Bounty (Hopkins)
Red Dragon
The Human Stain (great movie, Hopkins)
Legends of the Fall
Spotswood
Quiz Show
Oscar and Lucinda
Sunshine (99, great Movie, Fiennes)
Onegin
The End of the Affair
Spider (love Cronenbergs movies for some reason, ever since Videodrome...)
The Constant Gardener
The White Countess
Bernard and Doris (Loved it...)
In Bruges
The Duchess (very good)
The Reader (loved it...)
The Firm (89, Oldman)
The Backwoods
Léon: The Professional

think that's it for the minute, I'll add more later
let Me know if I'm wrecking heads but I'm on a mission to find a good Film to watch that I've missed, something on a par with maybe "the Mission" or "We own the Night" or so on...


Des

Hicker12 wrote:

Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Wild Hogs are up there with the best of them!

Stephen.

...wouldn't be My kind of Movies although I do like "the King of Queens"...


Des

JohnH wrote:

I think - due to past associations - one of my most favourite film has to be Oliver! - No kidding.
There are a few others, but I'm not really into movies - the last film I saw in the cinema was Flash - and that was really only for the soundtrack.
I thought the adaptation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was excellent - especially Gollum.
John

the Lord of the Rings where fairly cool alright...



Des

igmillichip wrote:

...There are certainly more turkeys than there are half decent films.

erm, Turkeys, is that good or bad ?

must check out "walkabout"

also agree with You, Oliver Reed was a Legend and a great character in real life...



Des

maggy88 wrote:

...micheal collins, master and commander, the international

three great movies


Des

Acara wrote:

Des I notice we have similar taste in films and actors as well as music(and fish I guess too!),but I'm well impressed you like The World's Fastest Indian. A movie not many have seen,but WELL worth a watch.

I have dozens,if not hundreds,so will put up a list when a bit more time is to hand(doing wc's in shed at mo).

cool, look forward to seeing the list (just thaught of another one, Romper Stomper, Crowe)
I've a ridiculous amount of Movies collected at this stage but I need more...

Acara wrote:

...similar taste in music

Do You like Autechre ?


Des

few more i forgot to mention would be:

we are marshall
defiance
red tails
shooter
top gun
hidalgo
robin hood(1991)
into the west
blade trilogy
the perfect storm
the general
da vinci code
angels and demons
almost famous
the boat that rocked
cinderella man
rounders
the pacific/band of brothers(i know they were both 10 part mini-series but still awesome)
men of honour
schindlers list
gone in 60 seconds
into the wild
red dog
snatch
hotel rwanda
blood diamond

Was going to name a few films from des' original list as well, plus Shawshank Redemption and The green mile. Des mentioned earlier that didn't liked the end of The green mile and incidentally I read a few minuted ago that Michael Clarke Duncan who played John Coffey (like the drink, only not spelled the same) died . RIP

ok some great films so far but i have a few i enjoy everytime i watch them

The Crow
Lord of the rings trilogy
the Bourne Ultimatum
the original lord of the rings film
big man on campus
underworld trilogy
the bucket list
tuesdays with morrie
leon
ronin
the inbetweeners - but not as good as the series
gladiator
high fidelity
grosse pointe blank
say anything
the breakfast club
serendipity
must love dogs
beetlejuice
x-men
big trouble in little china
hard boiled
assassins
sniper
knowing
lord of war
8mm - the only film in a long time to have left me feeling really uneasy after watching it
leaving las vegas

and i'm sure there are more i cant remember

@Des....a turkey is a bad film.

Acara wrote:

JohnH wrote:

"And here is a final installment (for the moment) is pure genius, gripping, and somewhat odd film: WALKABOUT".

Nothing to do with the lead actress - no, of course not.
I found it a most disturbing film, as was one of her later films - Equus (stone me, I can't even manage to remember how the name was spelled!!!).

John

Ithink we've had this chat before(?),was it a young Jenny Agutter by memory?

@JohnH....nothing to do with the lead actress really.
I find Jenny Agutter a bit scrawny really, and she seemed to be like a wannabe Diana Rigg.


Now, what about Titanic? nope not for me.
But I look at the 1950s Kenneth Moore film "A Night to Remember"....... an airfix model in a basin and a few ice cubes: that is a classic film by comparison to its expensive remake.

igmillichip wrote:

@Des....a turkey is a bad film.

Yeah, I agree, it's getting tough to find a decent flic in this day and age


there's a film I saw recently called "trust" that was pretty decent (Clive Owen)
or I thaught "We need to talk about Kevin" was very good, very dark (Tilda Swinton)

Des

My list is huge. I love the old classic war and western films,so won't list too many of them. I have a lot of b&w ones from the 40s and 50s,love them.
Anything with John Wayne and Clint Eastwood I love,have plenty of them,so won't list any. Charles Bronson is another I'm a big fan of.
List,in no particular order,and not exhaustive but more indicative of what I like.

The Castle(the Aussie comedy)
Leon
Death Wish 1-5
ANZACS (Paul Hogan)
All Quiet on The Western Front (the original 1930 effort)
The Lighthorsemen
Battle of Britain
The Longest Day
Night of the Generals
Heat
Battle of the Bulge
Force 10 from Navarone
Uprising
Convoy
Zulu
71 into the Fire
Come and See
The Pianist
The Last Waltz(The Band)
12 O'clock High
Escape From Sobibor
The Eagle Has Landed
Geronimo
The Guard
Wyatt Earp
Tombstone
Rob Roy
Braveheart
The Great Escape
Bad Blood
Bad Taste (Des,you'd like this! Peter Jacksons 1st film)
The Bridge at Remagen
A Bridge Too Far
Beast of War
Memphis Belle
The Doors
Chiefs
Two men went to War
Breaker Morant
Chunuk Bair
Forrest Gump
Shrek 1-4
Goodbye Pork Pie
Footrot Flats,a dogs tale
Out of the Blue
Fortress of War
La Bamba
Colors
Gorky Park
Young Guns 1&2
The Blue Max
Downfall
Army of Crime
Max Manus,Man of War
Flame and Citron
Stalingrad
Das Boot
The Admiral
Rambo 1-4

That's all off top of my head,thats only looking at the shelf,and not the hundreds in a disc folder,or on hard drives. As I said,havn't really listed many,like Outlaw Josey Wales,etc,etc. There's a good few Chinese and Korean war films over the last few years that were exceptional.

Bit of a war mongerer you may think!

acara, if you love war films check out "beneath hill 60"
it's about a group of aussie miners who are enrolled in the army to dig trenches below the german camps. i really enjoyed it because it's a bit different than the normal ww movies.

wayne

Another good war movie I watched again recently is
The Iron Cross by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn

A good western film by Sam Peckinpah is The Wild Bunch

Greg

Some good films being noted above. Zulu and the Iron Cross (to name a few named above) are great.

Bad Taste? oh yes, that is also pretty mad....but great from a shoe-string film-makers point of view.

Just Cause, Scent Of A Woman, McKenna's Gold, Time Bandits, Master And Commander, 12 Angry Men, Philidephia, Weekend At Bernies 1 % 2, Look Who's Come To Dinner, The Sting, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Hoosiers, Once & Bullitt to Name but a few.

Kev.

Iron Cross was the 1st dvd I got,love it. I also liked the sequel,Breakthrough,as a youngster,starring Richard Burton,but havn't yet found it on dvd.

Yep,have Beneath Hill 60,a great film. There's been some good Aussie films over the years.

I watched Beowulf last night....now, it wouldn't come into my top list of films by a long shot.......but I must admit I found it quite a nice film to relax to.