Favourite movie

[Scots_Charles_River]

Last of the Dogmen
13th Warrior
Southern Comfort
Call of the Wild
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Darren

Yes,all good films.

Nick

 

[mazeman]

I have not yet met anyone who has seen "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and not loved it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pTPWg_wUw

 

[dibble]

First Blood
The Hunted
Chopper
Collateral
The Bourne Triolgy
Man on Fire
Airplane

 

[Nat]

Ah well here goes.

Apocalypse now - any version
Southern Comfort
Full Metal Jacket
9th Company
R-Point
Hard Boiled
The Killer
(ok anything with Chow Yun fat or Andy Lau in)
Deliverance
Jeremiah Johnson
Manhunter - especially for Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida"
Batman Begins
Matrix 1
Platoon
The Brotherhood
Goodfellas
Godfather trilogy
LOTR trilogy
Princess Bride
Spiderman Trilogy
Bourne Trilogy although the books are better, the films pull it off
Rambo - Yes the book was a million times better especially the end
Catch 22 - Help him help him!
Straw Dogs
13th Warrior
Dog Soldiers
Wilderness
Lucky Number Slevin
Die Hard
Robin Hood the proper version with Patrick Bergen and Owen neale although Rickman had a good 20 minutes removed from Kevin Cost-a-lot for upstaging him
Collateral
Man on Fire
Death Hunt is fantastic
Seraphim Falls - very good, as good as Death Hunt in my opinion
The Proposition
Saving Private Ryan if only for the begining to show the true horror
Blade Runner
Trainspotting
and the list goes on and on and on

 

[malcolmc]

I’m not sure I have favourite films as such but here’s 3 that changed my life:-

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 USA) Dir. Lewis Milestone
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/
12 Angry Men (1957 USA) Dir. Sidney Lumet
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 UK/USA) Dir. Stanley Kubrick
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/

An actor I have a lot of respect for is Louise Brooks; in the late 1920’s, when a lot of European actors were heading for Hollywood, Brooks told the studios where they could put their ‘system’ and came to Europe were, arguably, she gave her best performances. In 1991 OMD wrote a song about her which was a modest hit in the UK, video here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIP-BPzuI6I
Fan site for further info: http://www.pandorasbox.com
enjoy.

 

[Wayland]

Lots of close seconds but my all time favourite is Local Hero.

A great commentary on modern life.

 

[twisted firestarter]

at the moment two films come to mind

'Napoleon Dynamite'
and
'Water Walker' - Bill Mason

 

[John Fenna]

Lots of close seconds but my all time favourite is Local Hero.

A great commentary on modern life.

Good movie - the theme tune by Dire Straights on Alchemy Live is awsome!

 

[mr dazzler]

"The incident" where walter matthau is a lawyer in WW2 redneck town forced (against his better judgement and social peer pressure) to defend a nazi prisoner in a murder trial while his son is getting killed in europe
koyanisqatsi
will hay comedy's
hobsons choice
pelican brief
Laurel and hardy comedy fim's
spartacus
caseys shadow walter matthau comedy
private ryan
dr zhivago superb visually alomost total cold grey soviet gloom with ocasional odd touches of color

 

[Doc]

Silent Running

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_running

 

[Minotaur]

Has anyone seen 'The Hunted' with Benico del Toro. It's a great action movie and is supposed to be roughly based on Tom Brown's experiences with the armed forces. The extras have a great bit with Tom Brown showing everyone some tracking skills. Not to be missed.!

Not that good a film, big shame. One of the big problems is Tom Brown's sponsership in the film, if they had been left to get on with it, would have been a much better film.

Anything with Brad Pitt. (Not because he's great looking, he's just been in some brilliant films - fight club, Troy, 12 Monkeys, Seven). OK, maybe because he's good looking as well!

Troy has my favorite battle scene of all time, at the start when Brad Pitt just takes out the other champion. It fails the good film test though, because I can only watch it once, and am then to busy muttering about reworking Homer to watch it again.

For me one glaring omission in an otherwise pretty good list is "The Committments" - surely one of the best "musical" movies ever made - rivals the Blues Brothers for me.

Love this film. Scene in the video shop is so funny.

The Last Samurai was surprisingly good too

Best explaination of Mind/NoMind ever.

Alltime best action? Well most of the Eastwood ones are great - any of "the man with no name" movies but "Pale Rider" perhaps or "High Plains Drifter", but if you want the best ever "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" - just a great shoot em up!

I cannot belive no one has mentioned it yet! Best western ever made, The Outlaw Josey Wales. Love that film.

Ong Bak - Best Martial arts film, ever. It is what they should be, not posing just do the job, a lot like the Bourne films, but so much better.

D13 - May be the worst dubbed film ever but the scenes of free running, and the casino fight almost make up for it.

 

[Venturer]

Dog Soldiers - just for the line "... if you see Red Riding Hood armed with a bazooka, I want you to chin the bitch"
By Dawn's Early Light
Kagamusha
Seven Samurai
Indiana Jones Trilogy (because we ALL wanted to be him when we were younger)
Heartbreak Ridge
Breakfast Club
Practical Magic (Young Sandra Bullock!)
Deliverance (even earlier Charlie Boorman)
Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes 4-6)

 

[Beer Monster]

The English Patient
Out of Africa
Grosse Point Blank
Blood Diamond
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Gallipoli
Sahara - got a slating in the press but surprisingly good
13th Warrior
Last of the Mohicans
Alive
Anchorman - can watch this 100 times and still laugh out loud
The Power of One
The Ghost and the Darkness – shockingly bad accents and some shoddy acting in parts but a good watch overall
Oceans 11
The Thomas Crown Affair

 

[addo]

The Edge is great

Other favourites

13 Warrior
Highlander
Conan the Barbarian
Where eagles dare
Hunt for red october
Firefox
Das boot
Once upon a time in the west

And of course... First blood, you know its cool, especially when your 11 years old just seen it, building a den and ya mate gets out his Rambo knife for the first time, compass and all

 

[demographic]

Papillon.
One flew over the cuckoos nest.
Bladerunner.
The Andromeda Strain.
Pans Labyrinth.

There will be loads more but they were all I could think of, Papillons the best though.