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Planet 24
04-03-05, 04:40 PM
Ok
So presuming you have been lucky/unlucky enough to be marooned on a desert
island, and presuming you have the complimentary dvd/video player.
What 10 films would you have with you - remember you are going to be watching these guys for a long long time- some of you might not want to go home ;)
So here is my list:
1 Clockwork Orange
2 Dead of Night
3 The Ruling Class
4 Of Mice and Men (old version)
5 Brighton Rock
6 Full Metal Jacket
7 Christie Malry's Own Double Entry ( not a porno - honest)
8 Brief Encounter
9 Quadrophenia
10 Battleship Potempkin
Now Ive done the list - I want to go do it again........
Originally posted by Planet 24@4th March 2005 - 5:40 PM
4** Of Mice and Men (old version)
98816
I had to read and watch Of Mice and Men in English at school and rewrite the ending but the original was really sad. :(
hollygolightly
05-03-05, 12:06 AM
Originally posted by Big Miss moby@4th March 2005 - 9:36 PM
I had to read and watch Of Mice and Men in English at school and rewrite the ending but the original was really sad.** :(
98833
I got dragged from Yorkshire to London to watch this in the theatre :rolleyes: when I was at school. :lol:
1) LOTR 1
2) LOTR 2
3) LOTR 3
4) Thelma & Louise
5) Dead Man Walking
6) Green Mile
7) Shawshank Redemption
8) Pirates of the Caribbean
9) Tipping the Velvet
10) Moulin Rouge
:D
Gosh a difficult one ;)
The Breakfast Club
Shawshank Redemption
The original Star Wars trilogy (so that is 3 then :lol: )
Alive
The Fifth Element
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
A time to Kill
Gone in 60 seconds
Mr Ribbit
05-03-05, 07:30 AM
Oooh, this is seiously dificult. Let's see, I think my 10 would be
Groundhog Day
Spider man
Seven Samurai
LOTR Trilogy (I'm counting this as one :P :lol: )
Johhny Stechino
Amelie
Pillow Talk
Now, Voyager
Wyrd Sisters
Blade Runner
This is hard. All mine would be oldies though!
1. Brief Encounter
2 It's a Wonderful Life
3 Send Me No Flowers [Doris Day]
4.Boxed set of Ealing Comedies [can I count that as one?]
5 Camelot
6 Wuthering Heights
7 Great Expectations
9 The Road To..... [Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Can I have the whole set?]
10 Rebecca
Oh my, I could do the list again with lovely old films. :thumbs:
Righty ho... here's my selection:
Mr. Skeffington (Bette Davis)
Raise the Red Lantern
Groundhog Day
Sense & Sensibility
Le Diner De Cons
84 Charing Cross Road
North by Northwest (Cary Grant)
The Shop around the Corner (James Stewart :thumbs: )
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Peter Cushing :wub: )
Mr Vampire
Ribbit :thumbs:
Hi.........
love these kind of threads.............
1.Shawshank redemption........( all time favourite for the last few years now )
2.The Green Mile
3.The Bridges of madison county
4.Pulp Fiction
5. Tootsie
6. From dusk til dawn
7.Groundhog day
8.Rocky horror picture show...( sorry, its a blast from my teenage past)
9.Trading Places
10.Working girl..
bazranz
06-03-05, 10:22 PM
Where would we get the power from to run the dvd player? :P :D
My choice, on a seagull power belt driven dvd player would be,
High Noon
Brief encounter
The Gay After Tomorrow :bigeyes: ? Sorry, The Day : :blush:
Whatever Happened To baby Jane
Rosemary's Baby
12 Angry Men
Ryans Daughter
Zulu
Monty Python and The Holy grail
Something Wicked This Way Comes (My daughter's just been in a production of that)
Planet 24
07-03-05, 07:13 AM
Power to drive DvD Player - NFH on a treadmill with headphones playing hawaiian music 24 hours a day -make em suffer i say!!
(no offence to those who prefer a littel lei lei music)
I think the ten i would pick today are....
1)Leon
2)The Third Man
3)Donnie Brasco
4)The Thin Read Line
5)The life aquatic with steve zissou
6)Crouchin tiger hidden dragon
7)Before sunrise/sunet - virtually one film :P
8)Jean de florette/manon des sources - ditto
9)Manhatten
10)Shine
repeatedly watchables :thumbs:
Hi Vernon
Watched ' Leon' last night for the first time in ages....it's an incredible film, just love Gary Oldman and Jean Reno and Natalie Portman.... You can watch a film a couple of times and not see it again for ages... see it again and you see a bigger picture!!!............
jj
Just to agree with Vernon:-
Jean de Florette,
Manon de Sources
FANTASTIC films, we love them.
Leon - FANTASTIC
Am trying to think of the others, but just wanted to say great choices there!
sunny :D
heh thanks :thumbs:
theres quite a few films in this thread i don't know about that i should watch one day.... i'd take recommendations from ppl rather that critic reviews any day, although critics are ppl too...kinda :P
Leons just not like any other film, but its hard to describe, its just good :D
Lofty13
03-04-05, 02:20 PM
Planet24.....Great idea!!! :thumbs: :thumbs:
Mine would be:
African Queen
Arsenic & Old Lace
Star Wars trilogy
LOTR trilogy
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Toy Story 1&2 Boxset
The Iron Giant (grossly underrated)
Leon
Goodfellas
Ealing Comedy Boxset
Ice Cold In Alex
I know this is 12, but I'm greedy.
Lofty13
Great choice Lofty
Love Toy story 1 and 2 And the iron giant and Ice cold in Alex and the green mile............
Who started this thread???????? it should be 20 desert island films not 10 LOL :hihi:
JJ
Only 10 :bigeyes:
ok
1. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. Gone With The Wind
3. Casablanca
4. Bridget Jones Diary
5. About A Boy
6. Calander Girls
7. Moulin Rouge
8. Monty Python's Life of Brian
9. Shawshank Redemption
10. LOTR trilogy (ok so I cheated and counted that as one :lol: )
Rosie Q
04-04-05, 02:06 PM
1. Green Card
2. Priscilla Queen of the Desert
3. Muriel's Wedding
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Analyse This
6. The 12 Monkeys
7. Coming to America
8. The Cell
9. Fried Green Tomatoes
10. The Serpent and the Rainbow
heheh.coming to america...thats the "the royal HmmHmm is clean" rite?
The silence of the lambs was really chilling its very well made, maybe too good the psychological scary gets me much more than seeing monsters.
I have to admit to liking jodie foster too though ;)
"manhunter" the 80's one was really good, underseen film!
and LOTR trilogy thats a good one to choose! :D can we have more than 10 if we are bad at counting :?)
Planet 24
20-04-05, 08:18 PM
Ok you win - lets do the 10 again!
Right ok.............another ten...me is thinking for more now!!!!!
LOL
JJ
Lofty13
22-04-05, 10:36 PM
Ok, here we go......
Bear in mind i had 12 last time as I'm greedy, so i'm having 12 this time as well. Feel free to do the same.
Open Range :yes:
The Searchers
The Cowboys
Sierra madre
League of Gentlemen (B&W, ex-soldiers commit a robbery)
The Enemy Within
Road To Perdition
Frequency
Only the Lonely
It's A Wonderful Life :crybaby:
Unfogiven
Pale Rider
Hmmmm, must be in a western mood. :double:
There are others, but this will do for now. This could run and run..... :thumbs: :thumbs:
Lofty13
- three colours trlogy
- la reine margot - as a dessert island is prolly the only way i'll watch that film
- whale rider
- donnie darko
- monty python and the holy grail
- the crow
- ray mears boxset - could think of being in a rural setting
- mulholland drive - would keep the mind active
- lawn dogs
- bringing up baby
- a room with a view
ok some more.........
Of Mice and Men....( I had to study it for o level 20 years ago and the original film is wonderful)
It's a wonderful life......Jimmy Stewart.......star!!
Castaway........Tom Hanks.......I want to marry him!!
Heat.........anything with Paccino and De Niro in does it for me!!!
Monsters inc....keeps my girls amused...and me for that matter
Alien
The Exorcist
Unforgiven....
Philadelphia
Training day
Sea of Love
True Romance
Kill Bill 1 and 2
I could go on and on!!!
JJ
Cassablanca - Greatest film of all time ( life, love, loss)
Rear Window - Voyeur always
Raging Bull - Classic
blade Runner - One day I will get it :D
Love Actually - Makes me cry like a girl
Schindlers List - Ditto
Citizen Kane - Clever and cool
The Shawshank Redemption - Fantasticly great film
Rocky Series - Only cos when we got to Bosnia, its all we had for the machine :D
A video of my girls and wife! - Because they are the only things I couldnt live without!
S
some good films there!!
tortoise
06-06-05, 09:43 AM
1. Carry on Don't Lose Your Head
2. Dusk till Dawn - George Clooney :wub:
3. Notting Hill
4. Rear Window
5. About A Boy
6. Life Of Brian
7. Michael Palin Collection
8. Any DVD with Billy Connolly :thumbs:
9. Mary Poppins
10. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
I like these type of threads :)
1) Castaway :)
2) Green Mile :D
3) Aeroplane :lol:
4) The Burbs :lol:
5) Jaws :bigeyes:
6) Fire in the Sky :bigeyes:
7) Predator :rolleyes:
8) Woman in Black :bigeyes:
9) Stir Crazy :lol:
10) Whos Harry Crumb :lol:
Planet 24
16-07-05, 04:20 PM
THe Saw - Who's in it - I dohope ita about what I think - I could have fantasies about using a saw!!!!
1. Maltese Falcon (I'll tell you straight out, I like talking to a man who likes to talk)
2. Singin' in the Rain (Dignity, always dignity!)
3. Princess Bride (My name is Inigo Montoya..........)
4. Melody (Will you love me that long?)
5. Double Indemnity (That's a peach of a bracelet......)
6. Lady Eve (I'm telling you it's the same dame!)
7. L.A. Confidential (Your talents lie in a different direction)
8. Sunset Boulevard (You know the quote!)
9. Summerfield (You've come the wrong way)
10.Sweet Smell of Success (Come here Sidney, I wish to chastise you)
However on no 1 any line will do. The stuff that dreams are made of.........
Danny