MattM4 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Junior - I love all of Arnie's stupid comedy films. Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Junior, Last Action Hero... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 so. i'm new here, what are everybody's top 5 films? especially the film nazis here. i know who you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 The Prestige Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) i'm new here, what are everybody's top 5 films? You can pick any 5 you want from.... There Will Be Blood/Magnolia The Big Lebowski/Raising Arizona/Millers Crossing/O Brother Where Art Thou Amelie The Good, The Bad and The Ugly/Once Upon A Time In The West Raging Bull/The King of Comedy Pulp Fiction Dancer In The Dark/Dogville/Manderlay Irreversible The Life Of Brian Edited March 31, 2008 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I'd honestly struggle to get it down to 10. And even then I'd miss loads out I'd forgotten about / not seen for years. 'Withnail and I' would always be in there like. I sort of classify my favourites as ones I'd have no problem watching time and again so I don't think I'd have 'Irreversible' in there Class as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I'd honestly struggle to get it down to 10. And even then I'd miss loads out I'd forgotten about / not seen for years. 'Withnail and I' would always be in there like. I sort of classify my favourites as ones I'd have no problem watching time and again so I don't think I'd have 'Irreversible' in there Class as it is. Yeah, I never want to see it again, and pretty much the same with Dancer and that, but they completely blew me away like nothing else so they deserve a mention based on one viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I forgot 2001/Dr Strangelove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I've seen it twice but it isn't quite as bad when you know what's going to happen. Although the rape scene isn't any easier 2nd time round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1217 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I'll go with a top ten (I can do three or ten but five is too difficult; The Maltese Falcon TGTB&TU Star Wars Millers Crossing Paris Texas Mullholland Drive A Very Long Engagement Seven Pulp Fiction The Philidelphia Story Mind you other than that first three it would be a very different list tomorrow. I watched They Live the other night which is pretty fun but not as good as Carpenters best work. Roddy Piper is a fucking awfull actor too. And last night I watched the original 3.10 To Yuma which is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1217 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Glad I forgot about 2001 & Withnail & I because my top ten there would have been much more difficult to come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I don't think it's my top 5 of all time, but just my top 5 as I remember them affecting me at the time of first viewing. The Godfather Batman Begins Jurassic Park Crash (racist, not necrophilia) The Matrix At least two of those will probably not even feature in peoples top twenty, but it's more about the effects they had. Jurassic Park blew my mind, with the first genuine glimpse of what was possible with CGI in live action films. The same goes for the Matrix and it's bullet time and martial arts. The Godfather is a timeless classic. Batman Begins is there because it's one of the few "Comic book films" that has some degree of credibility/plausibility, the cast was exceptional and the movie worked well as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Withnail & I Goodfellas Apocalypse Now The Godfather I & II Some Like It Hot Oldboy When We Were Kings Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Casablanca The Ladykillers (the original one) Tremors The Sting The Big Lebowski The Hill Dog Day Afternoon Serpico The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Ice Cold In Alex For All Mankind Pusher City Of God La Haine Lovers Of The Artic Circle Sex and Lucia In The Mood For Love Chinatown etc, etc, etc..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 some lovely lists. good to see some wong kai war love in the above list. here's mine, in no order. Trois Couleurs: Bleu [Kystof Kieslowski - 1993] The Mirror [Andrei Tarkovsky - 1975] Winter Light [ingmar Bergman - 1961] Punch Drunk Love [Paul Thomas Anderson - 2002] Weekend [Jean Luc Godard - 1967] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? I was just going to say that. I've only seen the first one like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? i'm confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? i'm confused. Parky, who mainly posts on N-O but also posts on here is noted for (amongst other things) having somewhat rarefied tastes in cinema. In fact he likes films that are so obscure, sometimes he hasn't even seen them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? i'm confused. Our other high brow critic. He hasn't seen most of the films he's banging on about though , so I hope you're the real deal. Blue is quality, but I really liked white. I've yet to see The Decalogue but it's the only other Kieslowski I'm really drawn to. Would love some other recommendations of his stuff if you're into him. I think The Double Life of Veronica is the only other one of his I've seen and that was lush, though I never had a clue what was going on....which I guess was the point. I love PTA, but have to say There Will be Blood and Magnolia do far more for me than Punch Drunk Love. I've got Hard Eight on pre-order. Never seen the other three, but I've enjoyed what Bergman I have seen. Never even started on Godard or Tarkovsky though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Magnolia is brilliant but I still struggle to get away with Tom Cruise in it. Good despite him imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? i'm confused. Our other high brow critic. He hasn't seen most of the films he's banging on about though , so I hope you're the real deal. ha. well i've seen all the films i bang on about. i'm a film student and i'm really into european / non-classical cinema and i think my taste reflects this. that being said, i've not seen everything and i'm open to anything. yeah I agree White is wonderful, but it didn't leave such a last impression on me as Blue did, i love the sensory moments in Blue (scraping knuckles/the glacial movement of the chandlier), something which I feel is missing in the other work I've seen of Kieslowski's (a few of the Dekalogue's and the other Three Colours movies). Tarkovsky, I'm just getting into but Mirror is utterly sublime. easily the most moving piece of cinema I've ever seen. Solaris is excellent as well, but is nowhere near the levels that Mirror hits. i can't really explain why Mirror is so brilliant, because on paper it sounds awful, but it just has to be seen (and believe me, i hate when people say that). i can't wait to see his other films. Bergman is Bergman. you either love him or hate him. Winter Light is Bergman at his most nihilistic and despairing, and that's why I love it but equally it's so damning of the human condition that some may be put off by it. his classic films (Persona, Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal, Summer With Monika, Fanny & Alexander) are all fabulous but Winter Light definitely had the greatest effect on me. and as for Punch Drunk Love, i think it's P.T. Anderson's best movie because it's easily his most concise. Magnolia is brilliant in moments but at times it feels incoherent and a little rambling, and i was quite unengaged with the Cop's storyline but when it's good, it's spectacular, the Tom Cruise monologue particuarly comes to mind. the same goes, more or less, for Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood, probably more for the former than the latter. There Will Be Blood is my favourite I've seen this year. anyway. enough typing! also, Crimes & Misdemeanors narrowly missed out on that Top 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's getting a bit Parky isn't it? i'm confused. Our other high brow critic. He hasn't seen most of the films he's banging on about though , so I hope you're the real deal. ha. well i've seen all the films i bang on about. i'm a film student and i'm really into european / non-classical cinema and i think my taste reflects this. that being said, i've not seen everything and i'm open to anything. yeah I agree White is wonderful, but it didn't leave such a last impression on me as Blue did, i love the sensory moments in Blue (scraping knuckles/the glacial movement of the chandlier), something which I feel is missing in the other work I've seen of Kieslowski's (a few of the Dekalogue's and the other Three Colours movies). Tarkovsky, I'm just getting into but Mirror is utterly sublime. easily the most moving piece of cinema I've ever seen. Solaris is excellent as well, but is nowhere near the levels that Mirror hits. i can't really explain why Mirror is so brilliant, because on paper it sounds awful, but it just has to be seen (and believe me, i hate when people say that). i can't wait to see his other films. Bergman is Bergman. you either love him or hate him. Winter Light is Bergman at his most nihilistic and despairing, and that's why I love it but equally it's so damning of the human condition that some may be put off by it. his classic films (Persona, Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal, Summer With Monika, Fanny & Alexander) are all fabulous but Winter Light definitely had the greatest effect on me. and as for Punch Drunk Love, i think it's P.T. Anderson's best movie because it's easily his most concise. Magnolia is brilliant in moments but at times it feels incoherent and a little rambling, and i was quite unengaged with the Cop's storyline but when it's good, it's spectacular, the Tom Cruise monologue particuarly comes to mind. the same goes, more or less, for Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood, probably more for the former than the latter. There Will Be Blood is my favourite I've seen this year. anyway. enough typing! also, Crimes & Misdemeanors narrowly missed out on that Top 5. Yeah, I've watched all those Bergman ones with variable responses. Wild Strawberries is probably my favourite. I think I was put off Tarkovsky by Soderberg's remake of Solaris. Shouldn't really tar him with that brush but it was dull as an Allardyce team sent out to defend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 i've not seen the Soderberg adaption but i know it's considerably shorter than Tarkovsky's so maybe that didn't help evoke the original's themes and style (which is slow but aesthetically engaging and involving). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 A top 10: Back to the Future Vanilla Sky Groundhog Day L'Auberge Espagnole The Natural The Departed American Pie Cast Away Blair Witch Project Training Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Death Rides A Horse. Classic Spaghetti Western starring Van Cleef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 The Matrix Matrix Reloaded Matrix Revolutions the latter suffer for their hype and the success of the former. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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