Published on 12, July, 2020
Here are some of mine, in no particular order (+ I haven't watched a film in years):
Ex Machina
Betty Blue
The Double Life of Veronique
Mona Lisa
Psycho
Don't Look Now
Elizabeth
The Three Colours Trilogy
Paris, Texas
Five Easy Pieces
Doctor Zhivago
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Breakfast at Tiffany's
I like Jurassic Park films too - Dinosaurs! What's not to love?
When I was very small I quite fancied being a dinosaur when I grew up!
Star Wars franchise.
Jim Carrey films.
Jurassic Park films.
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I don't know if I can swear on here? But if I can I say MONTY YOU TERRIBLE ***
Favourite films, here are some that I like -
- The Concert
- Unforgiven
- LOTR trilogy
- The Princess Bride
- Metropolis
- Blade Runner
Sure there are more. I also like groups of films that are different interpretations of the same story, so like different film versions of a novel for example.
I know it and have always loved it, it's excellent. I haven't seen it for years either!
My favourite film is Withnail and I - many people don't know it, it is a British cult classic. Very dark British humour which I suspect other countries wouldn't understand. But that's in part why I love it.
I haven't watched it in years, but I remember every word. It is my comfort.
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Thank you for this discussion Debbie
I am not big on watching movies.. :/
The last one I watched was called The Cathedral which was about a person who spent all his life building a cathedral without a budget nor knowledge in construction. It stands in Madrid now. I like documentaries and anime. Would planet earth count??. But I still remember few movies that I watched long time ago and were nice
Nocturnal animals
Triangle of sadness
Mad Max fury road (it's visually sooo beautiful to look at and the music is just so cool!)
Her
Taxidermia
The platform
I can't remember the rest
The number plates of the 3 Mini Coopers all have links to the film!
Michael Caine got his stage surname from a billboard across the road from his agent. It was a Humphrey Boggart film called, The Caine Mutiny. Sorry for being an anorak!
Forest Gump, I’ve watched over and over, it was only recently, I realised he is autistic. Tom Hanks met a travelling salesman, he noticed that the person over emphasised all words ending with the letter G. I was running -G.
If I’m allowed more,
The Cornetto Trilogy , On Golden Pond and the two Grumpy Old Men Films. I could go into the history of Burgess Meredith from latter films, brilliant as The Penguin and Micky in the Rocky films.
Will keep it to 10 or I'll go on forever!
1. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (I know, it's awful but I've seen it 750 times and can't leave it out!)
2. Kick-ass
3. Juno
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Fargo
6. Evil Dead 2
7. Total Recall (the 80's one of course!)
8. Toy Story
9. Forest Gump
10. Seven
The ones I go back to watch again and again are:
1 - The Matrix (less so the sequels)
2 - The Lord of The Rings trilogy
3 - Startship Troopers (mainly because I studied about what it meant behind the cartoonish style - it was a scathing piece of political commentary
4 - 300 (incredibly stylish way of making an action film)
There are pleny more I like, but these I like to watch every few years.
Thank you everyone.
Interesting lists, sometimes seemingly random, sometimes a theme running through ...
A few of these I've read the book, but not seen the film.
The Italian Job ('you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off') may be the most recurring
The best are X-Men 2, First Class, Days of Futurepast, and Logan.
For me in no particular order it's
Blade Runner
2001 Slace Odyssey
Alien
Quaternass and the Pit
The Witch
The Woman in Black 1989 version
Clockwork Orange
The Wickerman
Dracula, the very first
The Lost Boys
The Sixth Sense
Flatliners
The Devil's Backbone
Moon
The Babadook
The Others
Get Out
Their House
The Shining
The Godfather
St Maud
A Dark Song
- Beautiful mind.
- Sherlock Holmes.
- Shutter island.
- Conan Movies.