I mean movies you can watch time & time again.
Two of mine are both Hugh Grant movies.
About a Boy I love because of the totally useless but amusing lifestyle  he carries on. Dividing his day into units of time: so many units for getting his hair carefully dishevelled, so many for buying CDs, so many for going after young females until he finds his sources drying up.
The other one is Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen) which not only has Grant but the adorable Kate Winslett and the marvellous actress Emma Thompson.
But wait, there's more. Notting Hill I forgot. OMG . .Julia Roberts.
Actually I think this is THE favourite.

There you have it . . . .bogarde exposed.

Alien: Had moments of 'Real' acting, like when that actress 'really' freaked out when a penis-like critter emerged from William Hurt's stomach. The actors didn't know what was going to happen and she slipped in the fake blood and recieved an Academy Award for her performance throughout the movie (forget her name). Sigourney Weaver kept acting although she didn't know her co-actress was going to slap her hard in the face. Then there was the original Alien that was ushered into the minds of everyone forever by the use of "less is best" by Ridley Scott ...that lurking precence in the back of everyone's mind.
>>Alien Prelude & Alien Zero coming soon

Apocalypse Now: Best movie to watch 'stoned', alas I haven't smoked in since my youth and thus have never re-watched the movie again, because lets face it - 'you can only watch it stoned'. I love the scene where Robert Duvall's character doesn't even 'flinch' when a bomb goes off next to him "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning."

LOTR: First movie with no 'Token Black Man' in it, which really pissed Americans off, especially when it had Blonde Aryan looking 'males' in it instead. No wonder The Hobbit was nearly sabotaged by the USA. Great Story (rare these days) too.

Tron: Great original visuals that ushered in all Work-Safety High-Viz around the world.
Avatar: Great visuals as well. Shame the pathetic Hurt Locker was awarded the top Academy due to 'propoganda reasons'.

Always: with Richard Dreyfuss & Holly Hunter. My "feel good" movie about the winning American theme of 'flying' .

The Right Stuff: One of the most 'American' films of all and if you've read the autobiography of Chuck Yeager, then you'll realise the backing behind such a great film about a great 'Aviation' Nation.

Gallipoli: Peter Weirs 'dreamlike' movie of the Anzacs. Made me cry in front of my father when I got home. The senseless stupidity of men and War. Especially 'white men' who seem to die the most at the hand of the the 'projectile' weapon. Don't the Europeans realise that what was once a Sword is now a Scalpel ...not a Gun. ::)

2001: A Space Odyssey: Well reading the Books by Arthur C.Clarke does help. But the 'patient' style of Kubicks film works wonders to really absorb a viewer. Its a style that has been used successfully in other movies. Good story, if you wanna read more into it - kinda spot on in a way.

Saving Private Ryan: Possibly the first movie to show the real 'reality' of War by effect. Of how my entire audience was in shock at seeing those soldiers mowed down by maching gun. People were literally crying.


and finally BRAINSTORM with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
Because lets face it, this Film literally sums up the entire Film and Special FX Industry in a nutshell, or is that a head-gear.
I recommend EVERYONE to watch this Film and to LEARN from it, the ultimate lesson that is apparent.
...and yes, Natalie Wood died during the filming of the movie.

Hmm, where to start.  In no particular order.

Das Boot.  The best submarine movie of all time and one of the best (anti) war movies ever.

Star Wars All of them. Brilliant escapism.

Lord Of The Rings As a huge Tolkien fan I was very concerned that the movies would not do the book justice but apart from a few minor niggles I reckon the look and feel are almost exactly as I imagined.

The Quiet Man John Wayne showing he is more than just a cowboy actor in a brilliant comedy/drama.

There are lots more, Gallipoli,  Apocalypse Now and saving Private Ryan get honourable mentions along with the Indiana Jones series.

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 11:55am:

Alien: Had moments of 'Real' acting, like when that actress 'really' freaked out when a penis-like critter emerged from William Hurt's stomach. The actors didn't know what was going to happen and she slipped in the fake blood and recieved an Academy Award for her performance throughout the movie (forget her name). Sigourney Weaver kept acting although she didn't know her co-actress was going to slap her hard in the face. Then there was the original Alien that was ushered into the minds of everyone forever by the use of "less is best" by Ridley Scott ...that lurking precence in the back of everyone's mind. >>Alien Prelude & Alien Zero coming soon Apocalypse Now: Best movie to watch 'stoned', alas I haven't smoked in since my youth and thus have never re-watched the movie again, because lets face it - 'you can only watch it stoned'. I love the scene where Robert Duvall's character doesn't even 'flinch' when a bomb goes off next to him "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning." LOTR: First movie with no 'Token Black Man' in it, which really pissed Americans off, especially when it had Blonde Aryan looking 'males' in it instead. No wonder The Hobbit was nearly sabotaged by the USA. Great Story (rare these days) too. Tron: Great original visuals that ushered in all Work-Safety High-Viz around the world. Avatar: Great visuals as well. Shame the pathetic Hurt Locker was awarded the top Academy due to 'propoganda reasons'. Always: with Richard Dreyfuss & Holly Hunter. My "feel good" movie about the winning American theme of 'flying' . The Right Stuff: One of the most 'American' films of all and if you've read the autobiography of Chuck Yeager, then you'll realise the backing behind such a great film about a great 'Aviation' Nation. Gallipoli: Peter Weirs 'dreamlike' movie of the Anzacs. Made me cry in front of my father when I got home. The senseless stupidity of men and War. Especially 'white men' who seem to die the most at the hand of the the 'projectile' weapon. Don't the Europeans realise that what was once a Sword is now a Scalpel ...not a Gun. ::) 2001: A Space Odyssey: Well reading the Books by Arthur C.Clarke does help. But the 'patient' style of Kubicks film works wonders to really absorb a viewer. Its a style that has been used successfully in other movies. Good story, if you wanna read more into it - kinda spot on in a way. Saving Private Ryan: Possibly the first movie to show the real 'reality' of War by effect. Of how my entire audience was in shock at seeing those soldiers mowed down by maching gun. People were literally crying. and finally BRAINSTORM with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood. Because lets face it, this Film literally sums up the entire Film and Special FX Industry in a nutshell, or is that a head-gear. I recommend EVERYONE to watch this Film and to LEARN from it, the ultimate lesson that is apparent. ...and yes, Natalie Wood died during the filming of the movie.

Not a bad list Jasign....I haven't seen "Saving Private Ryan"...

Although I think the best movie to watch stoned was 'Altered States'...

And Belgarion, Have you seen John Wayne in "North to Alaska"????

Elizabeth - Cate B
Millers Crossing
Basic Instinct
Zulu [1964]
Hard Candy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Bourne Identity trilogy
Flight of the Navigator
Robin Hood [Flynn 1938]
Star Wars
LOTR trilogy
Saving Private Ryan
Alien - series
The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951]
A history of Violence
Get Shorty
About a Boy
Notting Hill
The Day After Tomorrow
The Jane Austin Book Club

more....
Starship Troopers
Good Will Hunting
The Last of the Mohicans [1992]
Unforgiven
The Tamarind Seed

Enemy at the Gates directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud is one favourite movie I dont mind watching often.

Ah yes, Altered States - definately a Stoner, though I can't remember if I watched it stoned ...maybe i did, but just can't remember :-/

Das Boot was good, just like the German version of Adolph Hitler (nailed it to a tee!!!).

Enemy at the Gates was superb.

But I forgot to add that my most watched movie is THE BIG BLUE.

My most watched TV series is MASH: I never get tired of seeing Frank Burns getting plastered.

@Yadda (Zulu): You should read "The Washing of the Spears." ;)

Jesus Yadda, you watch ALL these movies time & time again?
When do you eat?

I've seen Das Boot (The Boat). It was OK but very slow and very long.

Sorry Yadda, but I think Starship Troopers would be on my 'top 5 films that got stuffed up by the director' list....

Fairly close to the 1980 movie "Raise the Titanic"....

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 2:02pm:

Jesus Yadda, you watch ALL these movies time & time again? When do you eat? I've seen Das Boot (The Boat). It was OK but very slow and very long.

???

Not even one movie a week, over a 12 month period.

Anyway, no time to watch any of those movies at the moment,
I bought the 1st 4 seasons of Bones.

Busy working my way through them atm.     ;)

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jasignature wrote Alien: Had moments of 'Real' acting, like when that actress 'really' freaked out when a penis-like critter emerged from William Hurt's stomach. The actors didn't know what was going to happen and she slipped in the fake blood and recieved an Academy Award for her performance throughout the movie (forget her name). Sigourney Weaver kept acting although she didn't know her co-actress was going to slap her hard in the face. Then there was the original Alien that was ushered into the minds of everyone forever by the use of "less is best" by Ridley Scott ...that lurking precence in the back of everyone's mind. >>Alien Prelude & Alien Zero coming soon

Excellent movie. The actress' name was Veronica Cartwright. I didn't know she got an academy award. Are you sure?

Leaving Las vegas
Life of Brian

Sorry Time, she recieved a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and got an Academy Award 'nomination'.
Still, pretty good and pretty good from the whole cast.
Acting can be tough, just ask Ed Harris on the set of The Abyss.

I must say- I believe that Alien is a Top 10 All-Time Movie: originality, acting, art, Direction, Production, story, earnings, setting the scene for following other movies non-related, top scene (stomach eruption) and more i'm sure.
:)

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Saving Private Ryan: Possibly the first movie to show the real 'reality' of War by effect. Of how my entire audience was in shock at seeing those soldiers mowed down by maching gun. People were literally crying.

The first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan that depicts the Omaha landings is brilliant stuff, but everything after that is pretty much just a B grade 1950's war movie.

In my opinion, the best war movie is "Die Brücke" (The Bridge) - a German movie made in 1959 and based on a true story about a unit of Hitler Youth who were given the job of defending a bridge during the last days of the war. It sometimes gets an airing on SBS.

[quote author=gizmo_2655 link=1300411762/0#3] And Belgarion, Have you seen John Wayne in "North to Alaska"????[/quote]

Yes, another great one. Old fashioned escapism its best, where bar brawls leave no one hurt and the hero gets the girl in the end :)

Thanks, folks, for adding to my to watch list...

I am yet to see about half of the movies listed thus far...

In addition to several already mentioned, some of my all time favourites are: -

* The Big Chill

* Hearts & Souls (the bus one)

* The Breakfast Club

* Four Weddings & a Funeral

* Being There

* The Party

* A Fish Called Wanda

* Stand By Me

* To Sir With Love

* To Kill A Mockingbird

* Mississipi Burning

* Shrek

For a good belly-laugh, I'd happily watch Shanghai Knights & Shanghai Noon...

Another couple of old favourites are American Werewolf in London and Escape from New York...

Alas, I haven't seen a Jimmy Stewart movie for yonks...

American Werewolf in London was classic - I so had the hots for Jenny Agutter ...my first 'movie' love. :D

Done this before but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDNCkcC47eQ

The power of Christ compels you ;D

Or this classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqakCa-MysE

oops (Debbie does Dallas)

Or this mother sister fvcker ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE

Has anybody seen A Zed And Two Noughts?

Yep nemesis, I'd say I've watched these a few times too.

* Four Weddings & a Funeral

* Being There

* The Party

* To Sir With Love (for the theme tune if nothing else)

Being There is a weird movie - you can't figure out if he's a few sheep short of a paddock or a divine being . . .until the end that is.

Oh and can I add Casablanca, which was meant to be just a B movie when it was made, and the Maltese Falcon.

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 7:51pm:

American Werewolf in London was classic - I so had the hots for Jenny Agutter ...my first 'movie' love. :D

Mine too...but from 'Walkabout', not Werewolf..

And I just watched the 'new' Star Trek movie this morning (for about the 5th or 6th time)....

I'm also looking for 'A Boy and His Dog' with Don Johnson (1975), one of the weirdest Sci-Fi's I've ever seen...

Well for repeat viewing, I have to say, it is a toss up between Goodfellas, and Master and Commander, for me, I would have watched each of those at least a dozen times, and was a little disappointed that the new Peter Weir film "the Way Back", was not based on a more "actiony" (hey a new word) true story, walk to India, really hard, blah dee bloody blah, nothing like cannons and roaring seas, oh well.

If you want to almost wet yourself laughing though, then go and see Hall Pass, crude as buggery, but funny as hell.

Goodfellas and Master and Commander?? MY FAVS!!!

Watched As Good As It Gets starring Jack Nicholson last night. Another awesome (and funny) classic ..

Death at a Funeral .. is another hilarious and funny movie. I've seen it a few times now.

Lisa Jones wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 2:05pm:

Death at a Funeral .. is another hilarious and funny movie. I've seen it a few times now.

Agreed - I could definitely watch it again!

I mean movies you can watch time & time again.
Two of mine are both Hugh Grant movies.

- The OP



Yes! ANYTHING with Hugh Grant basically = an awesome movie IMO.

Oh and Rowan Atkinson too :)

The last Mr Bean movie was disappointing I thought - the one where he has a holiday in France.
Really he does better in a half hour comedy.

Belgarion wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 12:12pm:

Hmm, where to start.  In no particular order. Das Boot.  The best submarine movie of all time and one of the best (anti) war movies ever. Star Wars All of them. Brilliant escapism. Lord Of The Rings As a huge Tolkien fan I was very concerned that the movies would not do the book justice but apart from a few minor niggles I reckon the look and feel are almost exactly as I imagined. The Quiet Man John Wayne showing he is more than just a cowboy actor in a brilliant comedy/drama. There are lots more, Gallipoli,  Apocalypse Now and saving Private Ryan get honourable mentions along with the Indiana Jones series.

Gee, The Quiet Man,  that's an oldie,  I loved it too and a couple of years ago we found ourselves in Cong, the village in County Mayo in ireland where it was filmed.  The fact of the filming there is still the main tourist attraction.

http://www.museumsofmayo.com/quietman/quietman2.jpg


Quiet Man Cottage Museum
Circular Road, Cong, County Mayo, Ireland
The Quiet Man lives on
In 1951 John Ford's greatest movie "The Quiet Man" starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald was made. It was set in the beautiful west of Ireland with filming being centred in the village of Cong on the Mayo-Galway border.

Quiet Man Cottage Museum
Quiet Man Cottage Museum is a novel concept which will give the visitor a total Quiet Man experience as if they were actually 'on-set'. Located by the river at Circular Road, Cong, between actual locations used for the filming, the ground floor of the cottage has been designed as an exact replica of 'White-o-Mornin' Cottage.

Painstaking effort has ensured that all the furnishings, artifacts, costumes etc are authentic reproductions. The four poster bed and the tables and chairs which 'Mary Kate' cherished, the thatched roof, emerald green half door and white washed front combine to charm all those who visit it.

"Quiet Man Cottage Museum " is a must for any Quiet Man enthusiasts, or even those wishing to visit a typical Irish cottage of the 1920's.

Experience for yourself this unique journey into the past

Audio Visual Presentation
Souvenirs
Parking
Guide to Locations/Historical Sites
The Wayne Family visited "Quiet Man Cottage Museum " Cong, so can you!

Open Daily from 10am - 5pm

This was another favourite - Kids evacuated  from London in WWII find themselves billeted with  Lansbury who is studying witchcraft by correspondence -  it has shades of Dad's Army and  the best animated soccer match .



Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
   
An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defence of Britain.


Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars:Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson and Roddy McDowall

*  Wedding Crashers

*  Ghost

*  Pretty Woman

*  The Apartment

*  The King & I

Thanks nichy, We'll check that museum out one day. :)

Mona Lisa Smile <-- just finished watching it this afternoon.

It's about a free-thinking art professor ( played by Julia Roberts ) who teaches conservative 50's private Wellesley college girls to question their traditional societal roles.

I loved the way the "conservative vs progressive tension" theme was explored in the movie.

True Grit

The Cohen brothers remake.
Any cowboy movie is a good movie for me.
If there are horses and guns in it, it's a good movie.

All Fellini movies, esp Casanova, Amarcord and City of Women
Tsahal (Claude Lanzman)
1900
Too beautiful for you
Heart in winter
Vanya on 42 Street
Alice in Wonderland (1999 version)
Pinocchio with Roberto Benigni
Marx Brothers movies
Hitchcock movies
The Apartment
Depardieu movies
Rome (tv series)
Zefirelli's opera movies

This is great .. I love recommendations. I'm gonna try and get those.

Thanks guys :)

Soren, did you see Depardieu in Jean de Florette? Also there was a sequel, can't remember the title but I don't think he was in that.
Have you looked at his filmography . . .busy man.

Nichy, Bedknobs & Broomsticks is on my 5yr old grandson's list,
must be 8 - 10 times. I've watched it with him a couple of times.
David Tomlinson is a great actor, he was good in Mary Poppins too.

i like enola gay

LOTR sets have been removed as will be any Hobbit movie sets, etc.
This is so as to not 'conflict' or devalue the Maori Culture that has existed for a mere 400 years (not as long as most people thought).
In fact, there is speculation that Aborigines lived on the islands and were wiped out by the Maori.

Personally, I don't care if you were the first or are the last - you're both 'equal'.

Somebody mentioned Goodfellas before... Excellent choice.

I realised just the other day that I've watched Jackie Brown a fair few times (helps to have a bit of a background on blaxploitation cinema, but really entertaining nonetheless).

In Bruges, The Godfather (1 & 2), From Russia With Love, Superfly, Fist of Fury. It's a pretty endless list.

Midnight Run
Casino - what a cracker that one is!
Cracker (TV series)

Scorsese's Casino? Because yes, that is a cracker.

Equitist wrote on Mar 20^th, 2011 at 4:06pm:

*  Wedding Crashers *  Ghost *  Pretty Woman *  The Apartment *  The King & I

(you're a girl! I thought you were a bloke!)

I also really like the Apartment.

And La Lectrice with Miu Miu (yum!).  Actually it's one of my very top movies. Used to know lines from it by heart.

Seven Samurai/ Yojimbo/ Sanjuro

Hara Kiri (Tatsuya Nakadai)

Kill Bill

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Matrix

Galaxy Quest

Long Kiss Goodnight

Tombstone (Val Kilmer)

Indian Runner (deserved an oscar, wasn't even mentioned)

Blue Velvet

LOTR

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Donnie Darko

Little Big Soldier (大兵小将) with Jackie Chan was one I saw recently. Some good life lessons in that, plus an insight into the history of Ancient China.


真好了!  - zhen hao le - You'll find that phrase in the movie a lot. Just being alive - zhen hao le  (It's marvellous)

muso wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 3:23pm:

Little Big Soldier (大兵小将) with Jackie Chan was one I saw recently. Some good life lessons in that, plus an insight into the history of Ancient China. 真好了!  - zhen hao le - You'll find that phrase in the movie a lot. Just being alive - zhen hao le  (It's marvellous)

I can watch any Jackie Chan movie - seen Gorgeous?

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 3:26pm:

The last Mr Bean movie was disappointing I thought - the one where he has a holiday in France. Really he does better in a half hour comedy.

Yes, but the ending was gold. Mr Bean and the cast singing a choral version of "La Mer" while prancing along the beach at Cannes, and Emma de Caunes (Sabine) is hot as.

Please delete wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 3:25pm:

muso wrote on Mar 23rd, 2011 at 3:23pm: Little Big Soldier (大兵小将) with Jackie Chan was one I saw recently. Some good life lessons in that, plus an insight into the history of Ancient China. 真好了!  - zhen hao le - You'll find that phrase in the movie a lot. Just being alive - zhen hao le  (It's marvellous) I can watch any Jackie Chan movie - seen Gorgeous?

Yeah - I preferred his earlier movies. He's a bit too old and fat now, especially in The Spy next Door  :)

I like the movie - Excalibur.

Please delete wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 3:08pm:

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Yes. "I am thinking how happy I am."
Breaks my heart.

Soren wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 3:47pm:

Please delete wrote on Mar 23rd, 2011 at 3:08pm: Unbearable Lightness of Being Yes. "I am thinking how happy I am." Breaks my heart.

One of the great book to movie transitions.

I actually think that this is the only case I know of, where the movie was far superior to the book in every way.
The movie is, and has been one of my favourites since it was first released, and I have watched it many times.
I saw the movie before reading the book, and was so disappointed in the pathetic misogymistic attitude of the author, whose traditional, sexist eastern European male attitude, where women were collected like notches on the bed head, was the exact opposite to the wonderful celebration of the love of women that was expressed by the film.

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, also delivered one of the most honest portrayals of joyful sexual behaviour I had seen on film, at the time.
I loved how the joy and laughter and sheer exuberance of a zesty sex life, were displayed as a normal part of the lovemaking, and not just a continuous stream of grunts and groans, as was, and mostly still is, the more usual way sex is portrayed.

The acting from Daniel Day Lewis, and Juliet Binoche, in particular, was as brilliant as they almost always are.

If you really want to enjoy this story, forget the book, and watch the film, it is a modern day classic.


Coincidentally Ernie, I looked at your list, and I re-watched Tombstone four days ago, and The Seven Samurai two days ago, talk about coincidence.lol.

mozzaok wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 4:30pm:

I actually think that this is the only case I know of, where the movie was far superior to the book in every way.

Try "The Bridges of Madison County"

The novel was, apparently, a STINKER (in the Mills & Boon genre)

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 4:47pm:

mozzaok wrote on Mar 23rd, 2011 at 4:30pm: I actually think that this is the only case I know of, where the movie was far superior to the book in every way. Try "The Bridges of Madison County" The novel was, apparently, a STINKER (in the Mills & Boon genre)

Well I could certainly believe that buzz, even the acting chops of Meryl Streep, and Clint Eastwood could not raise that story above a rating of "turgid borefest", for me, so I would hate to see how bad the book was.
They could probably get it banned under the Geneva convention as Cruel and Unusual Punishment. ;D ;D ;D

Excalibur! Ah yes Bobby, now that is still a uniquely done film that still stands out and isn't in the least 'dated'. I like how the men "shout" at one another when they communicate - tough days indeed.
Unbearable Lightness of Being. Good film indeed Mozza! A very good  movie of superb acting, story and a rare lifting of sex to a higher standard that hardly any movie with sex in it has managed to achieve.

I love Clint Eastwood: All round pound for pound shining star from Acting to Directing. Definately a Top 10 contributor to the Glory of Hollywood. Should get an Academy Award for being an Absolute Legend! :)

Question to everyone:

Is it me, or has Hollywood lost its 'quality'? I mean, rarely are there movies about the USA itself anymore - I mean, based on true stories or about the general/typical/everyday America.
Instead, its all about Special FX, Marvel Superheroes (the USA version of Greek/Roman Gods) or plagerising foreign films, let alone 'hiring' Aussie/NZ actors/directers/etc. Maybe they do this for 'security reasons'?

Has Hollywood lost its American Soul?
:-?

Dirty Dancing (can't resist)

The Lovely Bones

Little Miss Sunshine

The Black Balloon

mozzaok wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 4:30pm:

I actually think that this is the only case I know of, where the movie was far superior to the book in every way. The movie is, and has been one of my favourites since it was first released, and I have watched it many times. I saw the movie before reading the book, and was so disappointed in the pathetic misogymistic attitude of the author, whose traditional, sexist eastern European male attitude, where women were collected like notches on the bed head, was the exact opposite to the wonderful celebration of the love of women that was expressed by the film. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, also delivered one of the most honest portrayals of joyful sexual behaviour I had seen on film, at the time. I loved how the joy and laughter and sheer exuberance of a zesty sex life, were displayed as a normal part of the lovemaking, and not just a continuous stream of grunts and groans, as was, and mostly still is, the more usual way sex is portrayed. The acting from Daniel Day Lewis, and Juliet Binoche, in particular, was as brilliant as they almost always are. If you really want to enjoy this story, forget the book, and watch the film, it is a modern day classic. Coincidentally Ernie, I looked at your list, and I re-watched Tombstone four days ago, and The Seven Samurai two days ago, talk about coincidence.lol.

Mozz

The afternoon I watched ULoB, I came out and had to ring someone/anyone to share that feeling that the world had changed.

Tombstone's great, isn't it? Val Kilmer was superb - something to remember compared to now.

"Not me, I'm in my prime".

See if you can find "Hara Kiri"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeM9n_ihDsk

What dreams may come

Dark city

Alien

Somewhere in time

2001

13th floor

Matrix

What ever happened to baby Jane

Farscape - “Peacekeeper Wars”

Alien Zero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkfHnUMd6FE&feature=related

and Alien Prequel - now Prometheus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMnuKgD35Eg

Why Alien was used as a foundation for SURVIVOR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUaK4ebLbko&NR=1

Miss Potter. Watched that sveral times & never fails to raise a tear.
Love Zellwegger to bits.

Cinderella Man - Crowe and Zelweiger
Shine  - Geoffrey Rush, Chris Haywood
Anything with Whoopi Goldberg
Mrs Doubtfire  and Awakenings - Robyn Williams
The Bucket List
My Fair Lady

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 18^th, 2011 at 11:29am:

I mean movies you can watch time & time again. Two of mine are both Hugh Grant movies. About a Boy I love because of the totally useless but amusing lifestyle  he carries on. Dividing his day into units of time: so many units for getting his hair carefully dishevelled, so many for buying CDs, so many for going after young females until he finds his sources drying up. The other one is Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen) which not only has Grant but the adorable Kate Winslett and the marvellous actress Emma Thompson. But wait, there's more. Notting Hill I forgot. OMG . .Julia Roberts. Actually I think this is THE favourite. There you have it . . . .bogarde exposed.

I watched all Nicholas Cage movies and some of my top 10 movies that I always watched are:

1. The Core
2. Powder
3. Harry Potter (All of the series)
4. Forest Gump
5. Terminator
6. The Fast & Furious (All of the series)
7. The Italian Job
8. The King Speech
9. 50 1st Date
10. Dejavu

The King's Speech was brilliant. I wonder did he find it hard to give up stuttering after that part.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Ah this is the thread I wanted to revisit.

I think I missed mentioning:

The Third Man (very old but great)
The Shipping News

Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3. 4 wasn't as good.

I thought I had recently posted something in this thread, but it turned out I was thinking of something I posted on another forum:


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Too many to think of at one time, so I might just mention some and come back another time to post a few more names: Amelie Roman de Gare The Thirty Nine Steps (the 1935 version) Hobson's Choice Oh Mr Porter! Pane, Amore e Fantasia Newsfront Hindle Wakes (the 1931 version) Shall We Dance (the original Japanese version) Mrs Henderson Presents The Black Camel and so on.....

Hobson's Choice! You mean the original with John Mills? My god Frances, you must be older than me. I saw that as a kid with my parents.

Yes, the John Mills one.  And five of the other films I mentioned are older, with two from 1931.  But I didn't claim to have seen them the first time around....

Superman the Movie
Star-trek 2 The wrath of Khan
Porkys
Greace
Revenge of the Nerds
Encino Man
Bill & Teds Bogus Adventure
The Toxic Avenger
The Day of The Dead
State Fair
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
Risky business
:) :)

Prevailing wrote on Sep 20^th, 2012 at 12:04am:

Superman the Movie Star-trek 2 The wrath of Khan Porkys Greece Revenge of the Nerds Encino Man Bill & Teds Bogus Adventure The Toxic Avenger The Day of The Dead State Fair Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes Risky business :) :)

You mean the one with John Travoltopolous and Olympia Newton-John?

rabbitoh07 wrote on Sep 20^th, 2012 at 12:41am:

Prevailing wrote on Sep 20th, 2012 at 12:04am: Superman the Movie Star-trek 2 The wrath of Khan Porkys Greace Revenge of the Nerds Encino Man Bill & Teds Bogus Adventure The Toxic Avenger The Day of The Dead State Fair Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes Risky business :) :) You mean the one with John Travoltopolous and Olympia Newton-John?

Its Greace Lightning... :) :)

Here are a few old movies, not necessarily all of any particular artistic merit, that I keep coming back to (with the exception of The Cocoanuts, which is from 1929, they are all from the 1930s)

Monte Carlo, with Jack Buchanan  and Jeannette MacDonald

Road House, with Violet Lorraine and Gordon Harker

The Cocoanuts, with the Marx Brothers

Stormy Weather, with Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare

The Penguin Pool Murder, with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason

Smash and Grab, with Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph

Third Time Lucky, with Bobby Howes and Gordon Harker

Crackerjack, with Tom Walls and Lilli Palmer

The Lucky Number, with Clifford Mollison and Joan Wyndham

Love Parade, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald

Here are some non pretentious and non elitist moves that will actually entertain people...

City Slickers
My Cousin Vinny
Police Academy
Wise Guys
48 Hours
Lethal Weapon
Beverly Hills Cop
Iron Man
Die Hard
Anaconda
Final Destination
Poison Ivy

:) :)

You're not trying to say, in a roundabout way, that the movies I like are pretentious or elitist by any chance?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre...starring Humphrey Bogart the greatest movie ever written about man's fallibility.

It begins in South America where Charlie Dobbs, a prospector down on his luck wins a minor lottery, enough to give him a stake to go prospecting for gold.

The story is breathtaking and watchable time and time again.

Do yourself a hug favour and order it on Amazon,  I guarantee you will be spellbound.

They are not making movies like they used to . . .a year or two ago.
The only movie I have seen in that time and have since watched a couple of times on DVD (thus fulfilling the criterion I set out in the OP) is "Jane Eyre".
There has literally been nothing else in that time I have wanted to go & see at the movies.
It must be me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

Fantastic Planet 1973 directed by René Laloux.

Waterloo, Rod Steiger 1970. Must have cost a fortune to make.
I watched it again for the umpteenth time last night. But I only watched it up till I thought Napoleon might win this time, but then the Prussians turned up as usual. Bastards.

"Can you hear the drums Fernando" (wrong song I know but it should be the right one)

~ The Piano
~ No Country for Old Men
~ Most Kristin Scott Thomas films

I've never seen The Piano.
If there is one person who gives me the creepy yips it is Kristin Scott Thomas.

You should. It's beautiful.

And pfft. Kristin Scott Thomas is lovely.

women who look that good at her age give ya the creeps?

The 39 steps (Robert Donut)
The Quiet Man
Casablanca (any Bogart)
The Godfather (1 and 2)
The Great Escape
A Day at the Races (all Marx Bros)
All Harold Lloyd
A Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Papillon
The Life of Brian
:) :) :) ;D

red baron wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2012 at 7:59pm:

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre...starring Humphrey Bogart the greatest movie ever written about man's fallibility. It begins in South America where Charlie Dobbs, a prospector down on his luck wins a minor lottery, enough to give him a stake to go prospecting for gold. The story is breathtaking and watchable time and time again. Do yourself a hug favour and order it on Amazon,  I guarantee you will be spellbound.

Anything with Bogie in is worth watching, but my favourite movie is Inherit the Wind. The story of the Tennessee monkey trial and the battle betweeen the God botherers of the South and the liberals of the East.

Superb performances from Tracy and Frederic March and an interesting appearance from Gene Kelly, who neither sings nor dances in his role as a cynical reporter. Look out for Mash's Colonel Potter as the bemused judge........and Dan York (from Bewitched) as the teacher. Some great scenes and hilarious lines.

Others:

Casablanca
The African Queen
Mississippi Burning
Romeo and Juliet (the De Caprio version)
White Heat
Little Caesar
The Birdcage
Sergeant York
North by North West
Its a Beautiful Life

Oh, and any of the Thin Man series. William Powell and Myrna Loy solve murders in between downing martinis.

I started to watch It's a Beautiful Life but couldn't finish it. Neither could I ever watch Schindler's List.
Nixon with Anthony Hopkins is worth watching, pretty long though. Hopkins is a brilliant actor imo, also recommend him in Remains of the Day.

hadrian_now wrote on Nov 28^th, 2012 at 1:34pm:

I started to watch It's a Beautiful Life but couldn't finish it. Neither could I ever watch Schindler's List. Nixon with Anthony Hopkins is worth watching, pretty long though. Hopkins is a brilliant actor imo, also recommend him in Remains of the Day.

To me, Beautiful Life is a tribute to the indominatable nature of the human spirit.

Peter Freedman wrote on Nov 28^th, 2012 at 1:26pm:

Oh, and any of the Thin Man series. William Powell and Myrna Loy solve murders in between downing martinis.

I've got a boxed set of all of them.....

To me, Beautiful Life is a tribute to the indominatable nature of the human spirit.

I've no doubt it is, but I grew up consuming a heavy diet of concentration camps & gas chambers and I just can't take any more.

what_katy_did wrote on Mar 24^th, 2011 at 6:16am:

Dirty Dancing (can't resist) The Lovely Bones Little Miss Sunshine The Black Balloon

Agree about Miss Sunshine, but reckon Peter Jackson's only decent movie was his first, Heavenly Creatures. The Lovely Bones was a great story, but like most Jackson movies just went on and on and on.....could have been told in half the time.

hadrian_now wrote on Dec 5^th, 2012 at 10:51am:

To me, Beautiful Life is a tribute to the indominatable nature of the human spirit. I've no doubt it is, but I grew up consuming a heavy diet of concentration camps & gas chambers and I just can't take any more.

This is set in an Italian camp, no gas chambers just the lovely story of a man who loves his son and tries to keep the truth from him by making life a game. It is beautifully done and worth persevering with.

It's a Beautiful Life is a rather different film from Life is Beautiful.  Which one are we supposed to be talking about?

Not sure, but then I'm old and easily confused. Who cares anyway?

Two others I've seen recently and worth a look are The Honey Pot, with Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward and Maggie Smith, and Boy on a Dolphin with Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd.

Love Maggie S, Travels with my Aunt is hilarious. Loren is just gorgeous, what a woman!

For the record the movie we are talking about is Life Is Beautiful. My mistake.

Elmer Gantry, which I've just got on DVD but have seen a couple of times on TV.
I like anything, except westerns, with Burt Lancaster.
The Rainmaker was good too. He's just so intense.

just saw "Les Miserables"

Very good