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| Montgomery |
Posted - 01/24/2007 : 20:48:38
Not sure if someone has asked this before. If so, then just ignore me. But I thought it would be fun to ponder.
You are going to be on a deserted island. Although, magically, (Think Gilligan's Island) you will have a DVD player that works and you can take 10 movies that will sustain your entertainment needs for until you get rescued. What are the films you'd want on your deserted island?
Here are mine:
Cinema Paradiso
It's a Wonderful Life
Pride & Prejudice (with Colin Firth)
Sixteen Candles (gotta get my John Hughes fix)
Gone With the Wind (Yes, I give a damn!)
City of God (Excellent pic.)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks!)
Heathers
Persuasion (With Ciaran Hinds)
Reality Bites (Not a great movie, but Ethan Hawke's very cute)
EM :) |
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| randall |
Posted - 02/11/2007 : 19:54:05
I've even described them as "desert island" movies in this accolade, but they are:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
CASABLANCA
CITIZEN KANE
THE GODFATHER*
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY*
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING*
M*A*S*H
PATTON
PSYCHO
*--These represent series, all of which I recommend highly, but you
asked for specific movies, and these are my favorites among those series. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 11:11:08
Ooo this is so hard [as the actress said to the bishop]
In no particular order:
* Ivan the Terrible, parts I and II - I'm counting this as ONE film so there!
* La Grande Illusion
* Mars Attacks! - always makes me laugh out loud.
* Streetcar Named Desire - Brando's just SO hot and the source material so great.
* South Park, the Movie - 'cause I'm that kind of girl.
* Platinum Blonde - some of the wittiest dialogue ever to grace the silver screen and performances which never age.
* Pierrot Le Fou - arguably Godard's greatest from his great period.
* 2001, A Space Odyssey - a masterpiece from the master.
* Mean Streets - to remind me of my salad days.
* Kagemusha - one of Kurosawa's finest.
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| Koli |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 07:17:13
I'll try not to be too predictable. Here goes.
 It's a Wonderful Life - uplifting and heartwarming
 Alien - the first and the best
Back to the Future - a perfectly constructed movie
 Y Tu Mama Tambien - exotic and sexy
 A Streetcar Named Desire - I'd like to see it again, 30 years on
 Pulp Fiction - great script, Samuel L Jackson
South Pacific (1958 version) - I'd learn all the songs
Walk the Line - ditto, Reese Witherspoon
 Choses Secretes - a man gets kinda lonely
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - unbearable tension, exquisitely comic moments
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| Montgomery |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 21:22:46
What's he got against Three Days Of The Condor?
I don't have to ask why he didn't pick Three Amigos!
EM :) |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 15:00:35
quote:
Originally posted by turrell
Maybe the new film 23?
I think he's already using the mentality of that film because he's got 12 = 1+2 = 3. |
| turrell |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 14:52:01
quote:
Originally posted by Beanmimo
1 night in Paris
2 Days in the valley
12 monkeys
Four Musketeers
Five (1951)
Six Million dollar man
Seven
Eight Million ways to die
Nine 1/2 weeks
Ten Little Indians
ok I'm kind of messing, maybe I should just start another thread?
Maybe the new film 23? |
| Beanmimo |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 14:28:33
1 night in Paris
2 Days in the valley
12 monkeys
Four Musketeers
Five (1951)
Six Million dollar man
Seven
Eight Million ways to die
Nine 1/2 weeks
Ten Little Indians
ok I'm kind of messing, maybe I should just start another thread? |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 02/04/2007 : 16:25:43
The films I'd take are close to my guilty pleasures:
Armageddon (1998)
Dogma (1999)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Se7en (1995)
Signs (2002)
The Replacements (2000)
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| turrell |
Posted - 02/02/2007 : 21:53:28
In no particular order:
Casablanca (1942) Since so many films borrow from it, its like 10 movies.
Pulp Fiction (1994) Love this film - never tire of it
Schindler's List (1993) Most beautiful and horrible film ever made
American Beauty (1999) This would make me feel like I could survive
Out of Sight (1998) My favorite romantic / action film - great Clooney-JLo chemistry
The Sixth Sense (1999) Would love to pick out every little clue available
Desperado (1995) Great action film, Salma Hayek and the director commentary would almost make the list on its own
Fight Club (1999) Another great film to pick apart upon several viewings
Amadeus (1984) The music is fantastic, the story is brilliant - good change of pace movie
Barcelona (1994) Could be Metropolitan too - but need an endless supply of witty dialogue - this is it.
Really I'd like to put a few more on the list and if you asked me a month from now likely half of these might change - but this is the best I can come up with for now. |
| mampers11 |
Posted - 02/02/2007 : 21:33:23
http://mampers.wordpress.com/?p=5
Just check out the blog and you will see what movies I would take to a desert island.
Mampers
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| ragingfluff |
Posted - 02/01/2007 : 19:12:39
Where Eagles Dare
The Great Escape
Jaws
King Kong (the original)
Annie Hall
The Philadelphia Story
Top Hat
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
The Thirty Nine Steps (Hitchcock version)
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| Stalean |
Posted - 01/27/2007 : 03:57:56
My top ten deserted island films:
1. The Godfather
2. Raise the Red Lantern
3. The Unforgiven
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Some Like It Hot
7. Roman Holiday
8. Gone With the Wind
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Beau Geste or High Noon |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 16:38:52
Brokeback Mountain (Frankly, I could manage with just this, but I could also manage without it since I could just play it in my head.)
I assume since Monty includes Pride and Prejudice that we are allowed television series:
Six Feet Under
This Life
Castaway 2000 (if it were available on D.V.D., which sadly it is not)
Withnail and I
Amelie
Star Wars
Swiss Family Robinson (Seriously - I think it would inspire me.)
Maybe Wonder Boys
Maybe The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (because I haven't seen it)
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| Cheese_Ed |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 13:01:58
Let's see...
Amadeus
Amelie
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Cruise, The
Forrest Gump
Napoleon Dynamite
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Shawshank Redemption, The
When Harry Met Sally...
Lord of the Rings (I know it's cheating, but I want all three and I don't have the slots... all extended editions, BTW)
That was painful, very tough to cut the list of 5-stars. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 08:10:04
Hmmm... not easy, this. Let's see what I can come up with.
All That Jazz
Philadelphia Story
Amadeus
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Court Jester
Holiday Inn
Lion in Winter (Hepburn/O'Toole)
The Red Violin
Some Like it Hot
MASH
That's what I'm choosing today.
(But I'd need to be in swimming distance from EM so I can borrow her Pride & Prejudice, Cinema Paradiso, It's a Wonderful Life and Gone with the Wind.)
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