Reply With QuoteExcellent - I have that on DVD somewhere. We watched it one evening after dinner and probably most of a bottle of wine - it felt like sleep-walking through a coma.Originally Posted by craggie
Betty Blue.....
Excellent - I have that on DVD somewhere. We watched it one evening after dinner and probably most of a bottle of wine - it felt like sleep-walking through a coma.
Another fantastic movie and one of my favourites together with Deer Hunter.
Same here, only film I've ever bought on VHS, DVD and Blu Ray :)BLADE RUNNER
Perfection, and feeds the imagination
would have to be shawshank, with the godfather a close second
Brazil - made me laugh, made me angry, Gilliam at his best.
Anyone seen 'once were warriors" Absolutely incredible.
Really sounding up my own passage here I know, but Kenneth Branagh playing Henry does it for me. First saw it in an arty cinema in a hick town in upstate New York, and I swear that those rednecks would have eaten the first Frenchman they saw after leaving the cinema. Once more unto the breach!
Casino
1.Schindler's List
and
2.Mou gaan dou
Fight Club was a profound experience the first time around.
Love it!
Midnight Express: The first 'Adult' film I ever saw at the Cinema left me in a state of awe, an enthralling story and a great cast.
Goodfellas for me, the music, the clothes and the attitude stuck with me. My favourite film ever.
Good film but you have to put up with Russell Crowe, who is up there with Bono at the top of the utter knob league.
Schindlers List
Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
Bladerunner gets my vote too.
Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The movie impress me much more than any other ever.
The Branagh Henry V (featuring a very young Christian Bale) is most excellent.
"We few, we happy few..." Classic. And always brings a tear to my eye.
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Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The French Connection
The Usual Suspects
Good Will Hunting
Marathon Man
To name but a few.
Lost In Translation.
I was with a (now ex) girlfriend and we were in the last stage of our relationship, a torrid and emotionally draining time. We were both stuck, both wished for excitment and both wished for some romance and happy times - we should have split some time before but neither of us had the guts. We watched the film on DVD with some friends and a couple of bottles of wine, I was hooked within minutes though it seemed as though I was the only one. When the film had finished and people had left for home or gone to bed I opened another red and watched it again, this time in silence and uninterrupted, start to finish. Never has a film drawn me in so much; such stunning cinematography, the subtlety of the acting and script, the oh so gentle humour and humility.
That was 11 years ago and, apart from a few YouTube clips, I haven't seen the film since - I want to, but I daren't.
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The shining.
I've not seen either of these films, I am completely ashamed of myself :(
Films that I really liked were;
Bangkok Dangerous (original Thai version by the Pang Brothers not the shocking remake with Nicholas Cage).
Jean De Florette
Leon
Dead Poets Society
A Clockwork Orange
Seven Samurai
It is essential to the plot and understanding the depth of...........pah she's got mega norks :))))))Anything to do with the first couple mins, Si?
Cheers
Simon
Ralph Waldo Emerson: We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Fantastic, thank you so much for that Dude. I'm going to see it on the big screen tomorrow - happy as a clamOh yeah and it's the best one ever pour moi
try landing in London /or any busy airport/ at night listening to soundtrack 15.30 onwards OMG!
Superman: The Movie - I was 7 years old when I saw this at the cinema. The music score is just so powerfully uplifting. Makes me want to be a better person every time I hear it. Christopher Reeve was just awesome.
Sunset Boulevard for me, Gloria Swanson is fantastic.
wook
I think Crowe is an excellent actor, only things I know about him are some of his performances. Your comment makes me glad I don't follow celebrity news at all.
Rita, Sue, & Bob too
SexLifes Of The Potatomen
RIAC
Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead
Just thinking, another Australian not mainstream;
TheSum of us
Romper Stomper........Russell Crowe Pre fame
Also Mad Max one and two before they got really commercial
Aus TV Rake is good value
Impossible to pick one, and this thread would generate a great list of must see films. Shawshank and Pulp Fiction would be up there for me. Have to include the first Lethal Weapon too as it was a defining film of my youth.
NZ
The Piano
Once Were Warriors
Pulp Fiction does it for me....Good old Quentin
Same as Easyrider.....Great soundtracks.......i have them both
W
Pretty good films mentioned in here, I rate most of them very highly.
A Man for All Seasons.
Seven Samurai.
Ran.
The Third Man.
Bladerunner.
Best wishes,
Bob
Wages of Fear (1953) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Railway Children (1970) directed by Lionel Jeffries
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I'll agree with those with the exception that for me it's Yul Brynner's version of the Seven Samurai - The Magnificent Seven.
The Lady Killers
Nosferatu as well. That showed audiences what cinema was all about.
Blimey - choices!
Saddest =The Green Mile
Scary = The Shining
Action = Mad Max I/II
Funny = Life of Brian (double bill with Airplane - I ached that night!)
General = Shawshank
Have you read the book? I'm not going to get into a book vs film debate because the film is in my top 3 and the book is in my top 3. They both tell the story brilliantly but differently.
My top three varies day to day but Bladerunner will almost always be in it.
Along with The Shootist and BettyBlue.
Favourite 'good' movies:
The Right Stuff
On The Waterfront
The Hustler
Apocalypse Now
Godfather Part 2
The Third Man
Absolute defining film of all time:
Bad Taste
Defining film?
Top Gun.
I think you've just outed yourself :-)
Good Fellas
Casino
...and for war films try this for size:Tae Guk Gi - The Brotherhood of War
https://youtu.be/vqiAKGPUN7c
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Can't possibly get it down to a single film, but one for each genre is a little easier...
Tear-Jerker: It's A Wonderful Life
Classic: Shawshank Redemption
Action: The Last Boy Scout
Sci-Fi: The Matrix
Horror: Christine
Funny: Animal House (amazed this hasn't had a vote until now).
Guilty Pleasure/Chick Flick: Notting Hill
Honourable Mentions: Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, Stripes, Blazing Saddles, 12 Angry Men, Lock Stock, Pulp Fiction, Four Weddings, Forrest Gump, Devil's Advocate, etc etc
Mike
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For me 'defining' film is different from favorite film so I think about films from when I was younger that truly effected me in some way.
Original Star Wars because they made fall in love with movies
Rocky 1-3 - I was obsessed with Rocky when I was a young lad, I remember my parents getting Rocky 3 on video and having a party for their friends to come over and watch it and I wasn't allowed to watch it until the morning. Honestly cant remember ever being that excited about a movie and just loved it (even for the third time in a row that day!)
The Exorcist - Again watched this on video when I was young and my parents were out one day and scared the life out of me, didn't sleep for days!
Blazing Saddles - remember almost being sick I laughed so hard watching this movie, still love it today!
Blade Runner - Just the most breathtaking film I can ever remember watching from the cinematography to the score and the emotional aspects, all just floored me. Again still a masterpiece to this day!
I am sure their are load more but that's what I remember now!
So shoot me!
It's not the best film I've seen, or my favourite film but that's not the definition of "defining"
I was 12 the first time I saw top gun, and it was the first consciously "cool" movie I'd ever seen, with exciting cinematography and call signs like "viper" and "jester", action, humour, love, loss, failure, success.........
For at least 6 months I wanted to be a pilot....
Did you mean Animal House?
Is there a funny film of the George Orwell book, or is it that "specialist adult film" which is funny:)
Groundhog Day... I could watch that again and again and again and again and again and...
Again?
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