Favourite movie

[michiel]

So we have had the favourite bands. How about favourite movies?

I watch movies a lot. I go to the movies every week.

If I have to write down my favourites (at the moment), then this is the list:

Godfather trilogy,
Lucky number Slevin,
Die hard 1-4
The Boondock Saints (you have to see this one!)
Dumb and Dumber (some hate it, some love it )
A clockwork orange
Full Metal Jacket
Trainspotting,
Requiem for a Dream,
Braveheart
And last, but not least!!!!: HOOLIGANS

So what are your favourites?

Michiel

 

[fred gordon]

For my money it has to be 'The Big Sky' with Kirk Douglas. Black and white but stuffed with Bushcraft, canoeing, scenery etc. can't beat it!

 

[Greg]

Here's My Top Ten but not necessarily in this order.
These films I could watch over and over again,

Heartbreak Ridge
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
Terminator
Lord of the Rings(Trilogy)
Highlander
Troy
Top Gun
American Pie

 

[Tourist]

Heartbreak Ridge.............."Wha'd'you think Gunny"? "Well Sir, its a cluster*&^%"
Heat
Ronin.............................."If there's a doubt, there is no doubt"
Blade Runner...................."I've seen things,........
Scarface
Godfather I, II & III
Robin Hood....................The one with Alan Rickman, "I'll cut his heart out,...with a spoon"
Lethal Weapon
Tobruk
Morecambe and Wise Trilogy


For people who are ostensibly into natural things, d'ya notice a pattern emerging here?

 

[commandocal]

Godfather trilogy
bravo two zero
the one that got away
where eagles dare
scarface
troy
gladiator
ccasino royale
battle royale 1+2
matrix 1

all i can think of at the minute, im a movie holic though!

 

[Lee_shanahan]

Goodfellas
Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels
Twin town
Snatch
Casino
The Edge
This is England
Leon
Full Metal Jacket
Pulp Fiction
American history X

These are to name just a few of my favourites, I generally like a good gangster hard hitting film.

 

[G.M. Merrill]

How about "The Quest for Fire"?

 

[crazyclimber]

proof of life
top gun
shrek series,
ice age series
the rock
black hawk down

 

[Mungo]

My favourite film of all time is Withnail and I - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094336/

I highly recommend it!

Cheers,

Mungo

 

[Mike Ameling]

Just a few that speak to me:

Ride with the Devil
13th Warrior
Braveheart
Cool Hand Luke
Beowulf and Grendel
Black Robe
The Ballad of Cable Hougue
Gladiator
The Shootist
The Fountainhead
Red Dawn
Man in the Wilderness
Open Range

Each has its good points, and concepts/ideas to be gleamed. We learn where we can.

And then there's movies just for the pure fun of it - entertainment. Like

Animal House
Back to School
Time Bandits
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Star Trek
and even Quest for Fire and One Million BC

Mikey - yee ol' grumpy German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[Yonderer]

Kelly's Heroes
Secondhand Lions
Last Of The Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis version)
Open Range
Mountain Man
Jeremiah Johnson
A Man Called Horse
Eddie And The Cruisers
True Grit
The Bridge On The River Kwai

 

[JonnyP]

LOTR, certainly not the book, but wow, what a film...
Gladiator, classic...
Braveheart, that bit with the little girl and the flower does it for me, oh, and that rather yummy French lady.....
Back to the future 1, so love to pick holes in it...
The blues brothers, just superb...Dana nana nana nana.....
Monty pythons holy grail, never laughed so much as when I first saw it...
Cat Ballou, mmmmmm Jane Fonda...
The supergrass...Channel 4 comic strip film, very funny...
may add more later...

 

[SOAR]

the boondock saint is a cracking film. I like
Big fish
true romance
Mash
Heat
Apocalypto
Donnie darco
Fith Element

 

[Greg]

A bridge too far.
Reach for the skies
Wild Geese
The hunt for Red October
The Rock
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Lost Boys
Silence of the lambs (and the follow up films)
American Werewolf in London
Dog Soldiers
Lethal Weapon (1-4)
FireFox

 

[Jodie]

A cruel thread as I will want to keep adding to it....

The Apartment - won 1960 best picture something or other; Jack Lemmon and
Shirley Maclaine

The Odd Couple - Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon; Neil Simon at his finest

Jurassic Park - it's the music at the beginning that does it for me and the sheer
magnitude of it. I desperately wanted to be a palaeontologist when I was little.

The Dish - funny, touching and full of great shots of a bloomin' big dish.

Night of the Hunter - perfect cult movie. Directed by Charles Laughton, with Robert
Mitchum and Lilian Gish. The music is sublime - try this from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFzTBPy7nl8
Allow yourself an uninterrupted 9 minutes and 48 seconds to be transported to another
era with menacing lullabies in the background. There's wildlife and a river journey so it
is even a wee bit bushcrafty.

Shakespeare in Love - popcorn fluff, yes - but a brilliant re-edit of Shakespeare's stuff.

Amelie - sweet, and suffused with wonderful colours in each scene.

Excalibur - an early outing for Charlie Boorman and introduced me to Wagner!

The Wicker Man - with Gently Johnny still in it, but I shan't post the YouTube link as I
suppose it might be parental advisory lyrics hehe.

O Brother where art thou - it's very funny of course, but I am entranced by the music.

... and quite a few of yours as well (LOTR - there are no words to describe its brilliance )

 

[leon-b]

Just to name a few
Braveheart
Dragonheart
Oceans 11,12,13
Green street
Dances with wolves

Leon

 

[Snufkin]

Jeremiah Johnson
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Little Miss Sunshine
Dazed and Confused
Almost Famous
School for Scoundrels (the original)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
My Life as a Dog
The Family Stone. Actually just for one scene that is the definition of contentment (And Clare Danes ).
The Big Chill
The Electric Horseman
The General
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Gregorys Girl

 

[gorilla]

hmmm.....
scent of a woman
dead poets society
dead mans shoes (classic shane meadows film - do an imdb search if you've never heard of it)
bourne trilogy
muppets christmas carol (i know....)
the great escape
simpsons movie
forrest gump
300
sin city

 

[Greg]

A cruel thread as I will want to keep adding to it....
)

Well why not...

Red Dawn,
By dawn's early light,
Interview with a vampire
Zulu,
A town called Alice,
Grease...
Oliver,
One flew over the cuckoos nest,
Roxanne...Steve Martin is just !
Indiana Jones Trilogy.....The films that got me interested in Ancient History as a kid.
The Shawshank redemption
Shindler's list
The green mile
Spiderman Trilogy

 

[michiel]

It's obvious I forgot a lot of movies in my list.

Love monty Python, Tarantino, Ken Loach, Shindler's list, Sin City

I really like Bruce Willis. He's got the best oneliners EVER! -> The Last boyscout.

Michiel